The early morning of Konoha in autumn should have brought with it the playfulness of Konohamaru, the smell of Ichiraku Ramen opening the door, and the sound of the morning exercise ninja running across the street. But on this day, Konoha has been wrapped in a layer of tension that cannot be resolved since the early morning.
More than a month has passed since Jiraiya was killed in battle. The threat of Akatsuki is like a knife hanging above his head, which has stretched the entire Konoha's combat readiness to the extreme. The sentry at the entrance of the village has been tripled. Manpower, Barrier Team, worked in shifts 24 hours a day to stare at the global monitoring screen of the village protection barrier. Sensory Headquarters, led by Inoichi Yamanaka, had been running continuously for more than thirty days, and the global sensing array did not dare to shut down for a moment.
In the underground hall of Sensory Headquarters, the lights stayed on all night, and there was a faint smell of refreshing herbs in the air, as well as the smell of fur on Ninja Dog's body. The sensory light screen on the wall covered the entire wall, with dancing on it. The Chakra fluctuations in every place within Konoha, the green ones are registered ninjas, the blue ones are civilians, and the white ones are the normal fluctuations of Natural Energy, everything is within the normal threshold.
"Captain Inoichi, there is a slight fluctuation in the sensing nodes on the southwest border. The amplitude is very small, like a large bird passing through." The young sensing ninja responsible for tracking rubbed his red eyes and pointed his fingertips at a corner of the light screen with a hint of uncertainty in his tone. He had been on duty for eight consecutive hours, and his eyes were full of red bloodshot eyes. Similar fluctuations had been reported three times that night, and they were all confirmed to be beasts in the mountains and forests.
Inoichi Yamanaka is sitting on the main seat, with his fingertips pressing his temples. The blue and black under his eyes are heavier than those of young people. Jiraiya brought back too little information. He only knows that Pain owns Rinnegan and can control six corpses. In addition, the opponent's ability, invasion The method and the specific number of people were all blank. For more than a month, he took Sensory Division to scan the fifty-mile area around Konoha countless times, not even missing a mouse Chakra, but the other party seemed to have disappeared from the world, without any trace.
"Enlarge the waveform and compare it with the Chakra maps of past wild animals, Hana Inuzuka, and let your Ninja Dog simultaneously track the breath of the southwest." Inoichi Yamanaka's voice was hoarse as if he had stayed up late, but he did not relax at all. The calmer the situation, the more uneasy he felt - Akatsuki would never fight an unprepared battle. The information Jiraiya exchanged his life for clearly stated that their next target was Nine-Tails Jinchuriki of Konoha. Naruto.
Hana Inuzuka responded immediately, patted the Ninja Dog beside him, and whispered a few words. The three Ninja Dog immediately raised their ears, their noses pressed against the sensing array on the ground, and they let out low whimpering sounds in their throats. Their claws scratched the ground uneasily.
"That's not right." Hana Inuzuka's expression changed instantly, "There is no breath of animals, and even the life fluctuations of living creatures are very weak, but Chakra fluctuations are still there, and there are more than one, and they are moving towards the village at a very fast speed!"
Almost at the same time, the fluctuations on the light screen suddenly changed. A few small dots that were originally weak and inconspicuous suddenly dispersed, like water droplets blending into the sea, and silently stuck to the edge of the village protection barrier. Chakra The fluctuations instantly dropped to the point where they were almost integrated with the environment, and even the perception array could hardly catch it.
"No! This is not a wild animal!" The young sensing ninja stood up instantly and hurriedly adjusted the sensing parameters, "Chakra has a very weird nature. It does not have the emotional fluctuations of a living person, nor does it have the Chakra cycle characteristics of a normal ninja. It is just like... like a controlled empty shell of Chakra!"
Inoichi Yamanaka stood up suddenly, walked a few steps to the light screen, pressed his hands on the array plate, and instantly stretched his perception ability to full capacity. Yamanaka Clan's mental perception ability was the best among Konoha. His consciousness followed the global perception array and instantly covered the entire Konoha border. The next second, his face completely darkened, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.
Not one share, but six shares.
Six abnormal Chakra were scattered in the east, south, west and north directions of Konoha, and two of them went around the mountain behind the village, perfectly avoiding the sentry on the surface, and even evading the sensory warning of the barrier to a certain extent. What made him even more frightened was that these Chakra has the same cold and domineering special aura, which is completely consistent with the Chakra aura on Black Receiver that Jiraiya sent back through Sage Fukasaku before his death.
"It's Pain!" Inoichi Yamanaka's voice tightened instantly and he shouted at the communication frog, "Notify Lord Hokage immediately! Pain of Akatsuki has entered the country! Six abnormal Chakra have arrived at the edge of the village protection barrier and are trying to infiltrate!"
The communication frog croaked and instantly disappeared in the smoke of Reverse Summoning Technique.
Almost at the same time, the red alarm light of Sensory Headquarters suddenly turned on, and the piercing alarm sound instantly penetrated the underground hall, and spread along the emergency broadcast system of Konoha to every corner of the village.
[Emergency alert! Emergency alert! Enemy ninja invasion! All ninjas gather at the designated location immediately! Non-combatants go to the nearest shelter immediately! Repeat! Enemy ninja invasion!]
Konoha, who was originally calm, was instantly broken by the piercing siren.
The villagers on the street panicked for a moment, but they were not completely in chaos. In the past month, Konoha had organized several wartime evacuation drills. Everyone subconsciously put down their things, supported the elderly and children, and moved quickly towards the nearest underground shelter. The shops facing the street closed their doors one after another. The ninjas who were doing morning exercises instantly tightened their grip on Kunai around their waists and rushed towards the assembly point.
In the Hokage building, Tsunade had just finished processing the hospital supplies report the previous day, and was holding the training report sent back from Mount Myōboku by Naruto. The moment she heard the siren, she stood up suddenly, and her office chair was slid back far away. Almost at the same time, the communication frog landed on her desk, bringing an urgent report from Inoichi Yamanaka.
"Pain... finally here." Tsunade's fists clenched instantly, her knuckles turned white, and the fatigue on her face instantly faded away, leaving only the sharpness and calmness of Hokage. She grabbed the Hokage bamboo hat by the table and shouted to the door.:"Shizune! Activate the highest wartime plan immediately! Inform Jonin Commander, Anbu, and Police Force to deploy defenses according to the predetermined plan! Let Barrier Team immediately activate the highest defense level of the village protection barrier and block all entrances and exits!"
"Yes!" Shizune hugged a thick medical plan and immediately turned around and ran out. While running, he gave instructions to the communicator. The entire Hokage building started to move in an instant. The ninjas who delivered the orders were running in the corridor, and the footsteps were as dense as raindrops.
Shikamaru rushed into Hokage's office almost at the same time as the sirens. He had just rushed from the Nara Clan's residence. There was still morning dew on his face, but his eyes were unusually calm. "Lady Tsunade, Inoichi Uncle, I received the information, six groups of Chakra, spread out and infiltrate, it should be the Six Paths of Pain that teacher Jiraiya said. What should we do now?"
"Secure the village first and find out the opponent's capabilities." Tsunade quickly walked to the window and looked at the ninja team quickly gathering downstairs, as well as the villagers moving towards the shelter, with a firm tone, "The opponent's target is Naruto, Naruto is still in Mount Myōboku, so they must not be allowed to wander around the village, especially the core areas of Hokage building, hospital, and Anbu headquarters, which must be defended."
"Over at Barrier Team, the village-protecting barrier and secondary defense configuration designed by Mr. Rinto have all been activated. The self-circulation system is running at full power, and the defense intensity is three times that of before." Shikamaru quickly added, "But the opponent has Rinnegan. I don't know if it can penetrate the space blockade of the barrier."
When Rinto was mentioned, Tsunade's brows moved. She was very clear about Rinto's temperament. This gentleman only saw his research, and he had made it clear before that he would not participate in the war. Now that the alarm had just sounded and the other party had just entered the country, disturbing him would only annoy him, and he might even disappear behind closed doors.
"Don't disturb Mr. Rinto yet." Tsunade was silent for two seconds before making a decision, "Let's deal with it first. Don't knock on his door unless it's absolutely necessary. He hates others interrupting his experiments because of the war the most. If it gets to the point where he can't stand it anymore, I'll go and tell him personally."
Shikamaru nodded, he thought so too. Rinto's temper was known to the entire Konoha High Command. If he was pushed into a hurry, he might not even be able to open the door, let alone help. The most important thing now is to first find out the details of the other party and stabilize the line of defense.
At this time, the first roar of the explosion was heard on the edge of the village.
Six Paths of Pain has broken through the outer sentry and is at war with the Police Force ninja of Konoha. The shock wave of the collision of Ninjutsu spread far along the air, and the already tense atmosphere was instantly ignited.
In Sensory Headquarters, cold sweat broke out on Inoichi Yamanaka's forehead. He stared at the six red dots dancing on the light screen, watching them penetrate into the village at an extremely fast speed. While quickly updating the other party's position, he passed the coordinates to the ninjas who were on guard in real time through the communicator.
"Animal Path is in the northwest, channeling a large number of psychic beasts! Asura Path went towards the Hokage building! Human Path rushed into the residential area!"
"The opponent's ability is very strange! Our ninja's Ninjutsu hit it, but was bounced away by an invisible force! The casualties were huge!"
"The perception of the barrier has been disturbed! Two red dots disappeared!"
Sirens, explosions, roars of orders, and the panicked footsteps of villagers were all intertwined, and the originally peaceful Konoha instantly turned into a battlefield.
The laboratory in the northwest corner of the village is still as quiet as another world.
The outer barrier blocked the alarms and noises outside, leaving only a slight hum. Rinto was sitting in the sterile operating room, holding the Black Receiver from Pain with his fingertips, under a high-magnification Chakra microscope, the Yin-Yang Release configuration inside Black Receiver was magnified countless times and projected on the opposite stone slab.
He didn't even raise his head, but frowned slightly, feeling that the noise outside was too noisy. He raised his hand and added a layer of sound insulation to the barrier, and the slight buzzing disappeared without a trace in an instant.
As for the alarm that sounded throughout the village and the coming war, he was not even interested in asking.
In his eyes, there are only the extremely exquisite Chakra transmission configuration in Black Receiver, and the vague, ultra-long-distance space link signal. People outside Whether he is dead or alive, whether Konoha will be breached, has nothing to do with him. The only thing he cares about is not to let these messy movements disturb his experiments, and not to let the flames of war affect his samples and data.