After setting all this up, Xia Yan quickly left the spot and began circling the laboratory.
To be honest, he still felt somewhat uneasy about this sort of thing. For instance, if this lizard were discovered, he might be exposed.
After all, Xia Yan himself was right above it, so he had to leave quickly.
He actually knew that running off for the time being would probably carry considerable danger too.
Given how those people in Root operated, even if they failed to catch anyone, leaving the lizard's corpse there would certainly not be a good thing.
Who in Konoha's Root, the Anbu, or Konoha's upper ranks did not know that he had a gigantic lizard?
If a Little Lizard were suddenly discovered inside Root's laboratory, it would only be natural for them to think of him.
Even if they had not caught him red-handed, what sort of place was Root?
They would not even try to reason with him. They would simply take action!
That sort of action was often the most frightening. If he resisted, he was doomed, because why would he resist if he was innocent?
And if he did not resist, they could simply kill him on the grounds that they had "slipped up," without needing any evidence.
Afterward, they would only need to issue an apology to the Anbu with keywords like "regret" and "mistake," then find a scapegoat, and that would more or less settle it.
Xia Yan did not even doubt that the so-called "scapegoat" would suffer no consequences whatsoever.
But Xia Yan was very lucky this time. What he feared ultimately did not turn into a tangible outcome that left him terrified.
Although, that very day, as he left and circled the laboratory at a distance of roughly three hundred meters, he