An hour and a half later.
The Anbu captain and the Anbu ninja codenamed Suzune finally arrived there.
The two looked at the scene of devastation and the corpses of their two teammates, and all their earlier composure was gone.
"Captain?"
Suzune wanted to say something, but the Anbu captain raised a hand and cut her off. He said, "Survey the scene first. See if you can find any trace of the target."
"Yes, Captain!"
Suzune answered, then joined the Anbu captain in carefully examining the scene.
After a long while, they gathered together again, and the looks beneath their masks were not good.
It was not that they had failed to discover the traces Qian had left behind.
On the contrary, they had discovered many.
But precisely because there were too many, they had no idea where to begin.
As Anbu, the two of them were by no means weak in this area, but compared to their two teammates who specialized in reconnaissance and tracking, the gap was vast.
However, they were now dead, leaving them unable to distinguish the real clues from the false ones in a short time.
In that case, they were bound to waste a considerable amount of time.
And by the time they sorted everything out, Qian would probably have long since fled far away.
Although he very much did not want to admit it, the Anbu captain understood that this time, they most likely would not be able to catch Qian.
Still, even if there was only a one-in-ten-thousand chance, he was unwilling to give up.
After thinking for a moment, the Anbu captain instructed Suzune, "Suzune, send word to the squads up ahead. Have them immediately seal off every road on this side that can lead to the Rain Country border."
That