Leaf Ninja Life

Chapter 51 Clues
Nothing unexpected happened along the way.In the middle of the night, Xiuyi decided to rest for six hours, and chose a semi-open place.

Out of prudent considerations, Xiuyi set up many traps on the side with more trees, and at the same time channeled a few snakes lurking in the dark corners.

The night of the first day was quite difficult, although the ninja school taught how to rest in a state of vigilance, and usually trained many times.

But the first actual experience made Xiuyi very unaccustomed, and he changed shifts with Orochimaru halfway through the night vigil, and the quality of sleep was inevitably a bit poor.

At sunrise the next day, relying on the system's passive recovery skills, he still adjusted his state.

Under the condition of ensuring that their combat effectiveness would not be affected, the two-person team rushed straight to the scene of the incident with all their strength, and arrived near the village where the incident occurred on the border of the Land of Fire that afternoon.

The location of the village is not on the plain, because it is not far from the junction of many countries, so it is relatively difficult to find under normal circumstances.

When approaching the Land of Rain, the terrain began to become complicated.

The road from Konoha to the Land of Rain is relatively narrow, with only a few winding roads between the mountains.

Perhaps this is why it rains all year round in the Land of Rain. The climate of the Land of Rain located in the mountains is completely different from that of the Land of Fire.

Relying on the mission information in their hands, Xiuyi and Orochimaru found the village after bypassing several small hills.

"Why did this group attack such a remote village?" Before they approached, Xiuyi was puzzled.

Generally speaking, this kind of village is relatively poor.There is no large area of ​​farmland around, only layered cultivated land on the hillside.

According to Xiuyi's calculations, this piece of arable land cannot feed the entire village, and they should regularly trade with the outside world to replenish their supplies.

Although it seemed that there was no one there, Xiuyi was still very vigilant.He took out a handful of kunai from his hand and slowly walked into the village with Dashewan.

The road in the village was full of potholes, and from time to time, some bloodstains and traces left by battles could be seen, similar to the pits where heavy weapons hit the ground.

There are more or less signs of destruction at the door of each house, as if they have been violently searched.

No corpse was seen in the village. The Konoha ninja team who took this mission last time cleaned up the corpse and wrote the content in the mission report.

The village is not big, so Xiuyi quickly searched the whole village.Nothing was found. If there were any more conspicuous clues, a team of Konoha ninjas should have discovered it long ago.

"Then it's very likely that something valuable appeared in the village, and thus was targeted by this group of people? These things are worth their risky actions when they know they will offend Konoha." Xiuyi guessed the cause and effect in his heart.

Thinking of this, Xiuyi decided to explore the surrounding areas of the village first, "Teacher, now let's investigate the usual activity areas of the original villagers according to the distribution of footprints on the edge of the village, and see what we find. Is there any problem?"

After discussing with Orochimaru to search for clues in one direction alone, Xiuyi came to the end of the village by himself, carefully observed the footprints nearby, and then walked in a densely distributed direction.

After walking for a short distance, Xiuyi has already entered a small bamboo forest.There were two forks in front of him, so Xiuyi first went to the place that looked relatively open.

When we reached a water pool, the road ahead was cut off.This water pool is surrounded by hills. At present, there is still a thin stream of water flowing down from the hill.

"This should be the source of water for this village." This was an obvious conclusion, Xiu put her chakra on her feet, and observed around the edge of the pool.

Next, Xiuyi searched the area behind the village, but found nothing, all traces of normal activities of the villagers.

When Xiuyi returned, Orochimaru, who was exploring the other side, seemed to have discovered something and was waiting for him. "Fortunately, there happens to be a place that should provide some information."

"Oh? Let's go and have a look together." Xiuyi was a little overjoyed, and hurriedly followed Dashemaru to see if there were any useful clues before the sun set.

After walking two big circles along a small hill with a shallow road, a small dark cave appeared before Xiuyi's eyes.

There are a lot of broken stones scattered on the ground at the entrance of the cave. Judging from these traces, the original villagers here have been active near this cave.

Although he felt that there was no danger nearby, Xiuyi still sent a shadow clone to look inside the cave just to be on the safe side.

After the shadow clone was removed, Xiuyi outside felt a little happy, and found a lot of man-made traces.

"There is no danger."

Taking out the flashlight from the backpack, Shuichi and Orochimaru walked in together.Along the way, many torch-like wooden sticks fell on the ground, and occasionally burnt oil lamps could be seen.

It didn't take long to reach the end of the cave. Looking around, it seemed to be ordinary.

Xiuyi leaned close to the wall, looking at and touching something along the edge.

All the way to the bottom of the other side, compared with ordinary rocks, the color of the stones in this place is dark gray. If you don't observe carefully, it is very easy to miss the past.

"Teacher, you have more experience than me, can you help me find out what this is?" Xiuyi had a rough guess in his heart, and wanted to confirm it with Orochimaru.

Orochimaru came over to observe carefully, the corner of his mouth slightly raised and said, "It seems that the key has been found, this is iron ore."

"Although the quality of the iron ore here is relatively poor, we don't know the quality of the ore dug by the villagers here. This mine has been mined very deep, and it is not impossible to produce high-quality ore."

Combined with Xiuyi's previous conjecture, the whole matter suddenly became clear. Sure enough, there were valuable things in the village that were discovered by outsiders.

After leaving the cave, in the afterglow of the evening, Xiuyi took out the mission information and the map given by Orochimaru and carefully read it.

Less than half a month ago, a standard Konoha team received a request for a C-level escort mission, and the mission issuer should be someone from this village.

When they arrived at the village, they found that about a dozen people had almost killed all the villagers in this place, and some seemed to be looking for something in the hut.

Seeing Konoha Ninja coming, the two sides quickly fought.

Konoha is a configuration of one zhongnin and three genin. Facing a few genin and most ordinary people, he quickly gained the upper hand and killed nearly half of the enemies in a short while.

At this time, a renegade of the zhongnin level secretly attacked the captain of the Konoha team. According to the subsequent intelligence, it was discovered that it was the defected zhongnin Amaru of the sand ninja.

Although Konoha's Chunin did not die on the spot, he was also injured, and the situation immediately became unfavorable.

(End of this chapter)