After waiting for about half an hour, once everyone had arrived, a Leaf Village Jonin stepped forward.
Uchiha Qian knew this man. He was Tanigawa Masaki, the proctor for the second round of their Chunin Exams a month ago.
He was the captain for this trip, leading them back to the Rain Country Battlefield.
Clap, clap, clap—
Tanigawa Masaki clapped his hands.
After drawing everyone's attention, he said, "Some of you have come down from the Rain Country Battlefield, and some of you are heading to the Rain Country Battlefield for the first time. But..."
At this point, his gaze swept over the entire group, and his voice abruptly turned extremely stern. "But whether you are the former or the latter, I hope that over the next few days, you will absolutely obey my orders."
"Do you understand?"
Everyone looked at one another, then answered in unison, "Understood!"
On this trip, aside from Tanigawa Masaki, a true Jonin, the only high-end combat strength in the team consisted of three Special Jonin. The rest were either Chunin or Genin.
Since he was demanding that they follow his orders, naturally no one would jump out to object.
Moreover, he was the captain appointed by the village to begin with. They were supposed to obey him.
Even so, Qian inexplicably felt that something was off.
It seemed something he did not know about had happened in secret, causing Konoha to become somewhat wary. Otherwise, Tanigawa Masaki would not have been this serious.
In fact, that was exactly the case.
Over the past half month, teams departing from Konoha for the various battlefields had already suffered several ambushes and attacks.
Normally, when something like this happened, the village should have assigned more personnel or temporarily delayed reinforcements, then resumed only after the hidden danger