Hiruzen of Konoha is my father

"I said, in such a big wind and sand, can Ranmaru's nose really work?" Asuma gently lifted a little of the yellow gauze covering his face, and it was immediately filled with sand and gravel. Mouth, caught off guard, Asuma immediately turned his back and spit out the sand in his mouth, then looked at Shota Inuzuka, who was helpless in front of him.

"Of course, Zangmaru's nose is the most sensitive. No matter what the scene or interference is, it can't stop us, right Zangmaru?" Inuzuka Shouta said confidently before looking at his feet and smelling them. After some busy work, the latter raised his head and looked at Shota helplessly. Shota's expression slowly stiffened, and then he squatted on the sand in dejection.

"In a place like the Kingdom of Wind, the Byakugan should be more effective. Why not send someone from the Hyuga clan to help us?" Long asked a little strangely to Sakumo who looked helpless.

"The Hyuga clan currently has just enough personnel to guard the border. The extra people have long been transferred to the Kumogakure and Iwagakure battlefields where the battlefield is more dangerous. Shota is the last sentient ninja who has emerged from Byakugan."

"Isn't this a joke? We have no direction, so we are wandering around in the desert and wasting our precious time counting sands here." Shisui said to Sakumo in a somewhat frustrated tone.

"There's nothing we can do about it. This mission is more of an investigation than a punishment. Because someone acted privately and failed to report it, the Hokage-sama was dissatisfied." Sakumo said, intentionally or unintentionally looking at him. He glanced in Long's direction a few times, but Long seemed completely unaware of it, feeding the half-tongued Suan Wan with the not-so-sufficient water in the kettle.

After gulping down some water and gargling her mouth, Asma finally rewrapped the gauze on her face, walked to the crowd and said, "There's nothing we can do if we wait here, and we have to do it at night." Find a place to spend the night, and move in one direction first."

After everyone listened to Asuma's words, they poured some water into their mouths to relieve the dehydration, and then moved in a deeper direction under the weak finger of Zangwan.

On the way, the five people walked from the morning sun to the scorching sun at noon. Because they could no longer walk on the hot sand, under Sakumo's instructions, Long quickly built several small huts in the shade of a boulder. A small stool, and by the way, I dug a small hole, and spit out water on it.

"Okay, come here if you want to rehydrate, I'll start first." After saying that, Long took the water bottle and poured it into the water he had just spit out. The others looked at the water that looked very cool and touched it. He touched the kettle in his hand but made no move.

"What's wrong, don't you want to replenish water? If you don't go, the water will seep into the soil later." Long asked strangely, looking at the others who looked eager but did not take action.

"It's not you. You just used water to escape. Why do you have to spit it out in small sips? It looks like you spit it out. Who dares to drink it?" Asma helplessly took off the water bottle from his waist. , squatting next to the puddle and filling the water, he said, maybe he is the only one who doesn’t mind this.

Long rolled his eyes helplessly and walked to a secluded shadow to rest. After the five of them spent the hottest period of time at noon together, they moved slowly amidst Sakumo's urging.

"Woo... ow" When Suan Wan was on the road, he suddenly turned away from his previous weakness and looked at a place with vigilance. The fangs in his mouth were exposed and he let out a low roar from his throat.

"Zangmaru said there was a smell of blood over there." After hearing Shota's report, the five people immediately became alert, and then formed a swastika defensive formation around Long. Long held the seal of the child with both hands and glanced at it. After discovering the bloody direction, he closed his eyes silently.

"The Art of Spiritualization"

After a few breaths, Long opened his eyes suddenly. Shuomao, who had been paying attention to Long, saw Long coming back. After making a gesture to release the defense, he immediately stepped forward to ask about the situation.

"They are the corpses of several Sunagakure assassination troops. The corpses don't look rotten, but the wounds have purple blood. They must have been poisoned." After listening to Long's report, Sakumo frowned, but still said hello. Everyone stepped forward to inspect the bodies of those few sand gakureuses.

After carefully checking whether there were any traps, Long, who had medical experience, took the lead in approaching a corpse with an extremely distorted face. He found that the body was covered with penetrating wounds of the same size all over the body, and the most fatal ones were on the abdomen. The hideous wound looked like it had been sawed in half by saw teeth. Blood and internal organs were shattered on the ground, dried by the scorching sun, and exuded the smell of burnt barbecue.

"It was the puppet master who did it. It seems to be the defected ninja from Sunagakure." Sakumo looked around briefly. He knew the puppet master's techniques very well and recognized it immediately. Long Zai confirmed a few words about the body. After seeing the wounds caused by many different sharp weapons, he confirmed Sakumo's answer.

"It seems that the puppet master who is still being messed around in the Kingdom of Wind at this time is not an ordinary person. We'd better hide away. After all, if we confront such a weird guy, we will either be hacked to death or poisoned. , the end will not be much better." Shota glanced at the broken corpses around him and said calmly. After Sakumo roughly judged the puppet master's approximate strength, he nodded in agreement.

"Our current goal is to find Sunagakure's tactical target, which is completely different from the target of defecting ninjas. If we encounter it, just hide away." Long, Shisui, and Asuma all nodded. After making it clear, the five people cleared up. After checking the traces, he continued to move towards one place, this time the direction pointed by Sakumo.

After walking for almost an hour, the exhausted five people were warned by Suan Wan again. This time Suan Wan was different from the previous ones. He grinned and growled while the hair on his body exploded, as if he had encountered a natural enemy, and then he looked ferocious. But his legs were trembling.

"Zangmaru said that it smelled the same as the previous Sunagakure assassination troops, and it also had a stronger smell of blood than before." Shouta said and glanced at Sakumo. For some reason, he Suddenly I started to doubt Sakumo.

"The whole desert is so big, but we just walked in the same direction with the puppet master. Teacher Shuomao, you still said that you are not a traitor." Long looked at the stunned Shuomao with a righteous face, while the others who were infected Three people and one dog immediately stood behind Long, looking at Sakumo suspiciously. Finding an enemy you least want to encounter in the vast desert is as difficult as using a sudden violent hammer to blow off the head of the Third Raikage.

Sakumo opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to explain the magical scene. Helpless, he quickly called on everyone to take action, and followed the same steps as before, asking Long to use the technique of flexibility to investigate.

The Long Spirit Body, which had just closed its eyes, had just emerged from the body. In the blink of an eye, it found the puppet master who was packing up the puppets and preparing to leave, as well as dozens of corpses lying on the ground that were even more tragic than before. However, this puppet master seemed to A little weird, he took out a few scrolls and preserved several corpses with no external injuries, and carefully placed them in the scroll tube in the brown vest in his arms.

Just when Long was about to get closer to see the face of the puppet master with his head lowered, the puppet master suddenly raised his head and fixed his eyes in a certain direction. At the same time, a figure wearing a big turtle The hedgehog-headed puppet suddenly emerged from the ground and slashed hard at the empty area with the circular saw on its hand.

"Yeah." But beyond the puppet master's expectation, the puppet's attack hit the air, cutting through the air directly without any hindrance, and the gaze that had been staring at him disappeared.

After being stunned for a moment, the puppet master quickly packed up the corpse in front of him and stood up. The bright red hair on his head shone under the scorching sun, and he had a rare and handsome face to match. The youthful and slightly gloomy aura on his face complements the fiery red hair, and the puppet wearing a big turtle next to him has turned into green leaves, which perfectly sets off the man's handsomeness.

"You guys wait for me here, I'll be back as soon as I go."

"Hey, what are you doing over there? That guy looks dangerous."

"I have something to do with him"

Shuomao looked at the back of Long who refused to listen and insisted on going his own way. He suddenly remembered the previous scene where Long was so persistent in trying to save Ye Cang, and he sighed helplessly.

"The Scorpion of Red Sand, right?"

Xie raised his head and looked at the short figure standing on the sand dune in the distance. After adding the slightly childish voice that just came from his ears, Xie immediately imagined that he was like those people in the village who came here for fame. The child who had sent himself to death smiled disdainfully and turned around to leave. Fortunately, he thought it was the guy who just peeped at him who had sneaked over.

"Do you want to just leave with that puppet made by the Third Kazekage? Don't you want to hear what I'm going to say next?"

Xie frowned and looked back at the child whose appearance was unclear with the sun behind him. The index finger of his right hand was shaking slightly. The puppet beside him slowly spit out fine iron sand from under his feet, slowly mixing it with the yellow sand. Slowly approached the man's feet.

"If I tell you that I will get a very powerful puppet position in the future, I wonder if you can do a few things for me."

"Hmph, you should come before me alive first." Xie sneered, and then hooked two fingers of his right hand. The puppet immediately closed his hands, and a sand-iron thorn shot up from Long's feet in an instant, killing Long. The whole person was strung together and hung high in the air.

"Come in front of you? In that case, the difficulty is a bit low. Do you want to consider raising the difficulty again?" At this time, before Xiao could make the next move, the voice just now sounded from behind Xiao, exciting. Xie immediately moved away from the place. At this time, he finally saw Long's appearance clearly, and quietly speculated on Long's identity.

"From your tone, you seem to be looking for me."

"Of course it is. I originally thought that it would not be easy to find you in this huge country of wind, but I didn't expect that under someone's guidance, I would meet you so quickly, but it was too frustrating for me. I'm so happy." The sound of the blade being unsheathed added a lot of chill to Long's voice, and made Xie really pay attention to Long's opponent. Judging from his appearance, he would not let him go if he didn't take action today. .

"Then, I will assume that you have accepted my conditions."

"If you beat me, everything will be easy."