A Relay Across Twenty Years
Chapter 364: A "Physical Relay" Across Twenty Years
Kabuto Yakushi stood upon Mukade's heap of deformed scrap, spinning a test tube filled with purple liquid between his fingertips.
Inside the tube, that viscous catalyst beat against the glass walls like some living thing, emitting a nauseating frequency.
Mortals struggling, no matter how many times it is repeated, appear so pale in the face of data.
Kabuto pushed up his glasses, the lenses reflecting the chaotic purple light around him. "Senior Hiruzen, your countermeasure is indeed interesting, but you seem to have forgotten that Chaos itself is born to break the rules."
He waved a hand casually.
Out of the shadows, dozens of liquid metal puppets flowed like mercury.
These puppets had no fixed form; in the gravity-distorted midair, they sometimes turned into barbed whips and sometimes gathered into saw-toothed discs, radiating murderous intent.
"Protect the Hokage!"
Several Konoha ANBU gritted their teeth and charged forward.
Yet the next second, the lead ANBU let out a muffled groan. The fine-steel longsword in his hand was directly adsorbed and shredded the instant it touched the liquid metal, and a strange force sent his entire body violently flying backward.
Gaara's gaze turned cold, his fingertips pulling with force.
The remaining mineral-sand ropes roared outward, attempting to lock down the joints of these puppets.
"Useless." Kabuto spoke coldly.
The moment the liquid metal puppets contacted the mineral sand, their forms instantly transformed into countless tiny spikes that drilled frantically along the gaps in the ropes, violently blowing the high-density mineral sand apart.
"Tch, what a pain."
Colonel Ka cringed behind the tank wreckage, looking at his own arm that resembled both a chicken foot and a meat grub, on the verge of tears.
"This wave is a huge loss;