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"We encountered a ninja attack. With this level of illusion, the strength of the attacker should not be underestimated."

Kurama Yan adjusted his glasses and thought thoughtfully: "At this juncture, it should be aimed at the Shiji Silver Mirror. However, with Orochimaru here, it shouldn't be my turn to take action."

At this time, Orochimaru, even if he was not the weird being who was skilled in spitting out snakes, snakes spitting out people, and people spitting out swords like in Shippuden, his strength was still second only to the top master at the level of Kage.

If several enemy Murajōnin hadn't attacked together, Orochimaru should have been able to easily handle it.

but……

Kurama Yan looked around at his teammates and ordinary people in the team who had fallen to the ground, and felt a little headache.

With his ability, he can naturally wake up these people easily, but except for Naoki and Mikoto, these ordinary people have no ability to protect themselves.

If they were all awakened, these people would have to fight with the enemy ninjas to protect their master.

Ordinary people in front of ninjas are the same as ninjas in front of him. They have no ability to resist and can only be massacred one-sidedly.

Thinking of this, it is better to let them sleep in the illusion. According to the principles of ninja, they will not kill civilians at will unless the mission is necessary.

Let alone the complicated thoughts in Kurama Yan's mind.

Orochimaru on the side is also a precision ninja who is sensitive to subtle changes in chakra in the body. Naturally, he can't help the [Nirvana Abode Technique], an illusion that focuses on large-scale hypnosis.

At this time, Orochimaru saw his subordinates and ordinary people in the convoy falling down one by one and falling asleep, so he made a decisive decision. After biting his finger, he quickly formed a few seals and slapped his palm to the ground.

"Psychic. The art of rock wall and snake den!"

As he shouted, the ground shook. Immediately, a huge and ugly earth-yellow stone snake head slowly rose from the surface. The snake's mouth opened wide, and it was dark inside, like a cave.

"Hiko-kun, are you going to hide in or fight with me?" Orochimaru asked Kurama Hiko while performing the technique.

"Hide in?" Kurama Yan was stunned.

Orochimaru did not pause at all. At the moment when Kurama Yan was stunned, everyone who fell in the convoy, even the wooden carts, horses, and even the grass on the ground, were sucked into the strange snake head in a whirlpool shape. .

"Boom..."

With such a soft sound, the smoke rose and the stone snake head disappeared instantly.

"Since you asked me, you should at least listen to my reply." Seeing this, Kurama Yan was speechless for a while.

He had indeed never seen this strange technique similar to the ninjutsu derived from Jiraiya's toad series, so he was briefly stunned. He didn't expect that Orochimaru would not give him a chance.

To put it bluntly, Kurama Yan actually wanted to go in and take refuge instead of staying here and fighting those ninjas.

After the summoned snake head disappeared, Orochimaru had the time to glance at the only conscious disciple present.

"If the child is not unconscious, it will be difficult to deal with. The rock wall snake hole technique cannot force a conscious person like him to be sucked directly into it. It will take time to explain to him to give up resistance. But the enemy's first wave of attacks You don’t know when it will suddenly appear, and it’s already too late.”

Orochimaru secretly blamed himself. Since the mission was within the Land of Fire and it was only a B-level mission, he relaxed his vigilance a little.

I didn't expect the attack to come so suddenly.

Fortunately, Kurama Yan was the one who was awake, so it didn't matter if the kid stayed to face the enemy.If it was a rope tree, he would have to move the rope tree away even if it was blocked.

Such thoughts quickly passed through his mind, and then Orochimaru reminded Kuramahiko who was standing not far away in a daze: "Hiko-kun, please be more vigilant. The illusion is only tentative. I'm afraid the next wave of attacks will come soon." It will come."

"Yes." Kurama Yan nodded hurriedly in response, reaching behind him and preparing to pull out the kunai from the ninja bag.

"Huh..."

The sound of breaking through the air came from his side.

Turning his head slightly, what caught Kurama Yan's eyes was a broad, thick sword, coming through the air.When he reacted, he was already several meters in front of him.

"Time to stop!"

Looking at the sword that was stuck in mid-air, Kurama Yan's head was covered in cold sweat. If he had reacted a little slower, his head might have been cut in half.

Even now, he uses "Five Senses Control" to confuse his sense of time and puts himself in a state of "sensory time-stop", but this does not mean that the crisis has been resolved.

If he couldn't avoid the attack in real time, he would still die on the spot.

"It's too dangerous. Is this an encounter between ninjas? If you are not careful, you will fall into a place of no return."

In the stopped state, Kurama Yan himself could not move, and could only silently think about the way out: "It will definitely be too late to expect Orochimaru to come to the rescue. In this case, try to avoid the head first as much as possible, and lower the shoulders slightly. A few, and they probably won’t be shot.”

Thinking of this, he felt a little regretful: "Damn it, there is only one teleportation technique that I have mastered now, and it can only be used by forming a seal. In this case, there is no time to use it. If I had known better, I should have found a way to learn a few more teleportation techniques. .”

"Forget it, it's useless to think so much. I'm ready to exit the time-stop state. Next, let's enter the ten-fold slow-time state and adjust the position of the head to the maximum extent."

In the ten-fold slow-down state, the 10 seconds in Kuramahiko's perception actually only pass 1 second in reality, which is equivalent to a bullet shot in a movie.

In this state, he was able to make full use of every moment and avoid the flying swords as much as possible.

Generally, only ninjas with superb reflexes can adjust their movements just right in an instant, but Kurama Yan is able to do it more perfectly than them.

As Kurama Yan thought, everything in his eyes began to move again.

The powerful and heavy sword in mid-air slowly approached, and Kurama Yan began to tilt his head and shoulders as much as possible, and shifted his body to the side.

Not far away, Orochimaru cast a regretful look. He was too late to rescue him: "I'm afraid it will be difficult for this child to survive, but there is nothing we can do. This is the fate of ninjas. Geniuses may not have the chance to survive. It’s the time to fully grow up.”

The reflection of the blade became larger and larger on the surface of Kurama Yan's pupils. As the blade of the sword kept getting closer, he could even clearly smell the bloody rust on the blade.

However, at this time, Kurama Yan showed a smile that would survive the disaster.

"Fortunately, it's probably not too late."

With such thoughts flashing through his mind, he closed his eyes, turned off the slow sense of time, and his whole body rolled on the ground with inertia.

At the same time, the big knife grazed the hair on the side of his face and flew straight to a thick tree behind him. With a clang, it was inserted diagonally into the trunk of the tree, the blade of the knife constantly trembling.