With that thought, Yechen immediately activated his Sharingan to study his opponent and the people behind him.
Seeing this, Ghost ordered the people behind him to attack, whether out of unease or for some other reason.
Yechen did not move. His six subordinates struck first, while he quietly observed the enemies' movements.
To his surprise, Konoha's side fell onto the defensive as soon as the two sides clashed.
These six were elite Chunin; otherwise, they would never have been sent on this mission. Yet their opponents had caught them off guard in their very first exchange.
The reason was strange indeed. Even Yechen was genuinely surprised-he had only seen something like this once before.
It had been during his last fight with the Root Ninja, when they used the Blood-Binding Demon-Eater Barrier. The Demon-Eaters inside it had been much like these people.
These people had no fear of injury and launched suicidal attacks at the Konoha Ninja.
The Konoha Ninja had never faced anything like this and were immediately caught off guard.
After studying them closely for a while, Yechen could confirm that these people shared one trait with those Demon-Eaters: they could not be killed.
The only difference was that the Root Ninja had achieved that effect through the Blood Bind barrier. What was going on with these people?
Could their current bodies all be false, controlled by some kind of ninjutsu?
Yechen could not help marveling that such a peculiar ninjutsu existed in the Shinobi World. The world was vast, and nothing was impossible.
"I just wonder whether they have any other abilities."
While Yechen was thinking, one Konoha Ninja found an opening and drove a kunai into an opponent's eye, piercing straight through the back of his head.
But before the Konoha Ninja could celebrate, his opponent