He picked up the octopus tentacle from the ground and stored it in a Sealing Scroll.
Zou Hyuga surveyed the nearby gorge with a displeased look, hoping to find Killer B. It was not Killer B's escape that annoyed him, but how much his own behavior resembled Uchiha Sasuke's.
Uchiha Sasuke was a practitioner of Pretentiousness Style, while Zou had always adhered to caution.
Leaning against the cold rock, Zou Hyuga thought for a moment and realized the flaw in his reasoning.
His Byakugan and sensory abilities could not have been mistaken, and the Ninja Hawk circling overhead was also keeping watch for him. There was no way Killer B could have escaped unless he had mastered Space-Time Ninjutsu.
That left only one possibility.
The Killer B stationed in the Valley of Clouds and Lightning had been a tentacle clone all along. His real body had long since left the valley and hidden somewhere in the Shinobi World. Given Killer B's personality, that was a very real possibility.
That would also explain why the strength Killer B had displayed seemed somewhat inconsistent with reality.
As a perfect Jinchuriki, Killer B unquestionably possessed Kage-level strength, yet he had only performed at the level of an Elite Jonin.
He had not used Lariat, Eight-Tails True Form, or any of his other techniques.
Soon, Zou Hyuga confirmed his suspicions. After he defeated Killer B's clone, all the Kumogakure squads near the Valley of Clouds and Lightning vanished, as though the vast valley were nothing more than a trap.
Perhaps the Fourth Raikage was already lying in ambush nearby with a large force of Cloud Ninja.
With that thought, Zou Hyuga left the Valley of Clouds and Lightning and headed deeper into the Land of Lightning, avoiding any possible encounter with Kumogakure's main force.