The first Sealing Ship did not head straight for shore after entering Turbulent Current.
It released four chains, attempting to link the Seven Stone Islands into fixed coordinates.
Once their positions in space stopped shifting with the tides, the Containment Box could drag away the White Vessel along with the Stone Cocoon.
The Land of Rivers' rescue ship issued a warning.
The other ship did not respond.
Seven and a half minutes later, three more sets of chakra signals appeared from different directions.
A speedboat flying a civilian Research Flag approached from the Land of Fire's coast.
From the direction of the Land of Wind came puppets capable of walking across the sea.
An unmarked Stealth Unit hid within the Land of Water's bank of mist.
The Land of Lightning's ship never came into view.
High above, however, a Ninja Hawk circled continuously, carrying a Positioning Scroll in its talons.
The public representatives of the Five Great Nations all claimed they had sent no one to compete for the vessel.
Yet five separate forces were converging on the same ruins.
Some were acting on official secret orders.
Some had accepted unofficial commissions from a department within their village.
Others had simply concluded that another nation was about to succeed and decided on their own to secure the object for their side first.
Their justifications were nearly identical.
The unknown vessel could cause a disaster.
Their own nation possessed more reliable sealing methods.
Once they had secured it for safekeeping, they would permit a joint investigation.
Not a single team was willing to hand its Containment Box over to anyone else for inspection first.
Black Zetsu did not need to command the five teams.
He merely altered a small portion of each separate intelligence stream.
The intelligence received by the Land