At the top of a cliff three kilometers away, Neji had just reacquired the strange masked man through his scope.
His finger was already resting on the trigger.
But just as he prepared to take another shot, the rocky ground beneath his feet abruptly turned into something like a swamp without any warning.
A pallid hand suddenly thrust up from underground and clamped around his ankle like an iron vise!
"What?!"
Neji's heart jolted, and he immediately tried to break free, but that hand possessed astonishing strength.
Then, a white humanoid monster with an upper body resembling a pitcher plant burst from the softened ground with a sinister grin, its vine-like body tightly winding around Neji.
"Found you, naughty child."
Forced to abandon his sniping position, Neji engaged the relentlessly entangling monster with Gentle Fist.
He had to devote all his attention to dealing with this troublesome enemy.
Through the communicator, he sent out one last message as quickly as possible.
"Reporting to the Commissar, unknown enemy encountered at the coordinates. Unable to continue providing fire support! I repeat, unable to provide support!"
Inside the secret chamber.
The moment the transmission arrived, Naruto's crimson vertical pupils contracted slightly.
The sniper could no longer provide support for the time being.
This was the most important part of the plan. Without precise long-range strikes, they could no longer pose a lethal threat to Obito and his spatial ability.
But his mind did not panic in the slightest.
Without even looking at Hozuki Mangetsu and Mei Terumi, he calmly issued clear instructions.
"Mei Terumi, use your Lava Release and Boil Release to blanket that masked man indiscriminately! Test the limits of his physical immunity!"
"Hozuki Mangetsu, use your ninja swords and Water Clones to continuously harass him from every possible angle. Don't stop!"