"We can't go to Hushan Camp."
Amid the crowd's silence, one person spoke.
His voice was muffled, as if something were covering his mouth.
And that was indeed the case. The speaker was tall and broad, with a red bamboo hat on his head, red armor on his body, and a red mask over his mouth.
It was precisely this mask that made his voice sound so unusually muffled.
And this man was no one else. He was the leader of this seven-man squad, an elite jonin of Iwagakure, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki known as the "Steam Ninja"—Han.
Hearing Han's words, one person in the squad echoed, "We really can't go to Hushan Camp.
"Putting aside the fact that it's already been occupied by the Konoha shinobi, and that if we go there, we'll easily expose our whereabouts and cause unnecessary trouble, that destination alone was just a guess by the people at Command Headquarters.
"If those Konoha shinobi didn't go there, wouldn't we be wasting our time for nothing?"
"In that case, we'll intercept them on the road directly. Their direction of travel has already been confirmed anyway. We can take a shortcut and stop them ahead of time," another person said.
Hearing this, the others thought it over, and in the end, they all nodded, expressing their agreement.
"Also."
However, one person added, "We need to notify those search teams immediately and have them converge on our side as quickly as possible. With just the few of us, we won't be able to stop everyone."
Hearing his words, the Rock Ninja who had checked the intelligence earlier nodded and said, "Shanhui, you're right. We need to get them over here as soon as possible!"
As he spoke, he took a small slip of paper from his chest, quickly wrote