Through Anbu's underground secret passage, Harry was taken to a hidden rock room outside Konoha.

There were seven or eight people standing crowded together in front of the stone gate, a few doctors, two Anbu, Hirizhan, Danzo, and two members of the advisory group, all of them looked dignified.

Ignoring Danzo's substantial sizing and scrutiny, Harry bowed and saluted, "Master Hirazan."

Hirizhan nodded, and was about to speak when the stone door next to him was pushed open, and the brown-haired director of Konoha Hospital came out, turned around and closed the door, and shook his head heavily under the hopeful gaze of everyone.

So hope turned into despair, and death-like mourning filled the air. The two female doctors turned their backs, covered their faces with their sleeves, and sobbed softly.

"Ma'am," Hirizhan spoke with difficulty, and motioned to Kanako for Harry, "Take him in and have a look."

Kanako was a little surprised, and looked at Hirazan with confirmation.

Harry took the initiative to walk to her side, and found that she was much more haggard than the last time we met, her back was slightly bent, and the white hair between the brown buns was bright and glaring.

The worry of the boy who is already taller than herself is too obvious, Kanako smiled reassuringly, turned around and opened the door again: "Follow me."

Danzo frowned in disapproval: "Three generations..."

"I'll go in too." Knowing his concerns, Ri Zhan simply reassured him with one word, took off the Naruto robe, and handed it to the doctor at the door.

The inner room behind the door is arranged as a ward—in fact, the ward is a bit reluctant, the space is large but empty, with runes of unknown meaning drawn on the surrounding stone walls, floor and ceiling, and in the center of the formation, There was a hospital bed alone, and a person was lying on it, with his thin arms draped over the white quilt.

recuperate?Harry looked around critically.Probably not, this place is not suitable for recuperation at all, and even the people living there are not very healthy, there is no ventilation, and it is damp and cold.

This is more like a... prison than a ward?

A hoarse cough interrupted his thoughts: "Ja, Kanako-chan?"

"I'm here, Miss Mito." Kanako stepped forward quickly, grabbing the raised arm.The patient struggled to get up, but she couldn't help it, so she had to help him sit up, and carefully hugged the other person's shoulders.

The old man straightened his back, raised his head, and still cast his sharp eyes on the strange presence in the room: "Who is this?"

Harry, who saw the old man's face clearly, was shocked.

He had met this retired Mito-sama about ten years ago, when he first arrived in Konoha.At that time, Mito had gray hair, but his face did not look old, and he looked even younger than Kanako.

Ten years have passed, and Kanako has only aged a little bit, while Mito seems to have passed 50 years suddenly, with all white hair and a haggard appearance, deteriorating into a centenary old man.

He didn't know that the Yin Seal had its own beauty effect, and he didn't know that the chakra accumulated in the Yin Seal for decades had now been fully released to suppress the imminent Nine-Tails.

Kanako leaned close to Mito's ear and explained a few words in a low voice.

Mito relaxed a little, coughed twice, gasped and said intermittently: "Don't bother, I know my body myself, and it's time."

"Let him take a look, Miss Mito." Kanako persuaded softly.

"After all, we—we're not ready yet..." She choked up, "Losing your preparations."

Mito sighed long, lowered his eyes and acquiesced to Kanako's proposal.

"Little Hui, come." Kanako waved to Harry.

Harry quickly sorted out his complicated thoughts, stepped forward, and explained in a low voice: "Master Mito, my inspection method may be different from the common inspection method, please try not to resist..."

Mito nodded slowly.

Harry hooked her wrist and cast a few detection spells.

The lights are lit up in sequence, mainly red and yellow with less optimistic meanings.

Harry discerned carefully for a while, hesitatingly raised his hand to withdraw the spell, and shook his head: "Organ failure is a natural process that all elderly people cannot avoid, and I can't help it."

In fact, it is not completely impossible, as long as the wizards think, they can even extend the life of a dying person for another two or three hundred years.However, people who live like this can no longer be regarded as 'alive'.

Kanako's eyes turned red.

Those who were sentenced to death did not respond.She sat quietly, her eyes closed, as if she had fallen asleep.

Immediately afterwards, the half of her arm that wasn't leaning against Kanako began to overflow with orange-red translucent substance without warning, converging little by little, and finally shaped into the claws of a beast, like an oversized illusory glove.

The paw pulled her hand and slowly stretched towards her neck with bulging veins.

Harry heard two people take a deep breath at the same time - Kanako and Hirizhan at the door.

Hirizhan said urgently: "Mito-sama—"

Not knowing if he heard his call, Mito suddenly opened his eyes, stared at his abnormal hand, and shouted: "Go back!"

The orange-red translucent substance dissipated into the air in the blink of an eye, and the unsupported arm fell back on her lap.She seemed to have exhausted her last strength, leaned limply towards Kanako, and said in a weaker voice: "As you all have seen, my strength has weakened greatly, and it is almost impossible to completely suppress Nine-Tails. It also understands this, every day They're all clamoring for freedom."

Harry bowed wisely and left. As he walked out, he heard Mito talking to Hizaru: "Uzushio Village sent me a letter and mentioned that they already have a perfect 'successor'. Hizuo, Hurry up and send someone to respond.”

"Physical exhaustion is much faster than I expected, and I'm worried that I won't be able to hold on to that child." The old man took a deep breath, "If it's too late, you must remember..."

Her voice lowered, she should be explaining something important.

Before closing the door, Harry heard Hirazan say again, "Don't worry, Mito-sama, at least we—we'll have extra time."

Harry finally knew the real reason why he was found.

Or rather—his use.

Harry's guess was right. After Sun Zhan came out of the room, he first asked him if he had any potions available, and after getting a negative answer, he began to inquire about his time-stop magic.

He was not sure what the other party wanted him to do, and tentatively said: "This technique I have mastered requires a special formation to assist. The formation has a fixed size and can only accommodate one person at most."

Ri Zhan thought about it for a while, and answered very straightforwardly: "No problem."

Following Harry's request, he ordered Anbu to make preparations in advance, and asked, "How long can this formation last?... Can two days be enough?"

The magic circle is one of the greatest inventions of the wizards. Compared with the magic spell, the magic power required to maintain the magic circle is not much. When Harry saved the uncle, he fainted from exhaustion, probably because he also used two time-stop magic .On the premise that no additional consumption is required, his magic power can supply the magic circle for a week or two without any problem.

But it was impossible for him to take the initiative to ask Ying to expose his hole cards, so he replied conservatively: "It should be possible... I will try."

Ri Zhan glanced at him, rather surprised.

Mito's physical condition deteriorated without warning, and Kyuubi, who had been dormant in her body for decades, also seemed to realize that the host's destiny was approaching, and began an unprecedented strong resistance.In order to suppress it, Mito has to double the consumption of chakra every day, which makes her already weak body worse.

Konoha had made an emergency plan for this unexpected situation in advance. Once Jinchuriki died, the tailed beast would be immediately transferred to the altar of the Land of Fire for sealing.But compared to the living, moving, and self-protecting Ninjuriki, it is obviously a bad idea to put the tailed beasts in a fixed altar. No one can guarantee that other countries will not send people to destroy them after they get the news. The seal releases Nine Tails, and uses Nine Tails' claws to wreak havoc.

Therefore, when Uzushio Village, who was born in Mito, sent a message that there was a child with excellent talent who could be used as a backup candidate for Jinchuriki, Konoha's senior management collectively breathed a sigh of relief.The problem I have to worry about now is that Konoha is a long way from the Uzumaki country, and adults need two or three days to go back and forth. If the child who is a candidate for Renzhuriki is still on the way and Mito can't hold it, it will be very embarrassing up.

Ri Zhan came to Harry, first because he thought that he might have some potion formula that could hang his life, and second because he thought that if it was impossible, he could forcefully delay it for a period of time by means of 'secret techniques'.

What he asked was two days, but the bottom line in his heart was actually one day or even half a day - in this case, one minute more is one minute.What they want to do is to steal time, which violates the laws of nature, and it is also an area that Tokaima-sensei has not been able to decipher until the end of his life. He dare not make too many extravagant hopes.

Unexpectedly, the young man nodded lightly and Qiaoqiao, and agreed directly.

You must know that three years ago, he only used this technique for one night, and then passed out due to exhaustion.After just three years, he is sure to quadruple the time?

How much has this child grown in an unknown corner?

Surprised by surprise, Ri Zhan quickly responded: "Then it's hard work for you."

Harry spent the next two days in the rock chamber.

On the morning of the third day, Anbe brought a girl.

The little girl was about five or six years old, with a fair face, long fiery red hair, tears in her eyes, looking up at the tall adults strangely and timidly, feeling at a loss.

She glanced around, trying to find anyone she was familiar with, but to no avail, sobbed, and protested weakly: "I want to go home..."

Harry was squatting beside him and eating breakfast quietly. Seeing this scene, he threw away the dry food in his hand and stood up after a while.

He was not polite at all, turned his head and asked Ri Zhan: "What experiment are you going to do again?"

"Presumptuous!" Danzo's anger that had been suppressed for a few days finally erupted. He was always annoyed at the contrast between Harry's insignificance when he was under his command, and his brilliance in Anbu. When he just showed some extraordinary talents, he poached him away. He couldn't get angry with Hiraku who is Hokage, so he could only beat around the bush, pointing fingers and scolding Huai, "There are no rules at all! Who allowed you to talk to Hokage-sama like this!"

He said this very skillfully, although he was insinuating that Ri Zhan was not good at disciplining his subordinates, but on the surface he was reprimanding Harry for his 'improperness'.The two members of the advisory team didn't hear his overtones, felt that he was right to stop, and immediately raised their hands to send someone to drive Harry out.

Originally, Harry's mission had already been completed, and with his authority, he had no way of knowing how things would develop afterwards.

But he turned against Ri Zhan once in secret, and Ri Zhan knew that he could do the thing of running away from the village at any time, so even if he was bullied, he didn't get angry, instead he raised his hand to stop Anbu who wanted to drive people out: "It's okay , let him stay."

After finishing speaking, he added an additional explanation: "This child came here because she has a mission that must be fulfilled. We have no intention of hurting her."

To be honest, Harry didn't quite believe Hizun's words—whether it was the word "candidate" that Mito used when referring to this girl, or the performance of the person concerned shrinking back, it showed that what Konoha planned to do to her would not be what a good thing.

Jinjuriki, he knew the word.

A few years ago, Sand Hidden released a tail, trying to use it as a weapon, but it turned back to itself.Afterwards, the second generation of Kazekage studied for several years, sealed one tail into the body of a monk, and made it into a weapon with the power of a tailed beast and human thinking.

According to information, Mito is also an Inchuriki, and the strongest tailed beast Nine Tails is sealed inside his body.Her destiny is imminent, and in order to prevent Kyuubi from returning to the state of an uncontrolled beast, Konoha must find another successor.

This red-haired girl must be the next Jinjuriki to be chosen.

Harry despises this kind of behavior: the girl is still too young to fight for her own destiny. At this time, pulling someone in as a pillar of strength is a hard way to push the duck to the shelf.

However, Ri Zhan had clearly stated that he would not hurt her, and if he refused to let her go, it would only make him more unreasonable, so he did not express his position in a hurry, and planned to see the situation before making a decision.

The girl was sent into the room, and Harry surrounded the door with the others, listening to the movement in the room, always ready to go in and grab someone if something bad happened, and run away.

There was silence at first, then the old man began to speak slowly and softly, and eventually the child responded.

They talked about the fate of being chosen as Injurik without choice, about the past and future, about responsibility, burden, and love.

"Son, you have to know that we are indeed 'vessels'. But," said Mito at the end, "even if we want to live as Hinjuriki, we don't need to worry too much. We also have a way to be happy."

"The way is—first, fill as many 'vessels' as you can with as much love as you can find."

……

In the following week, Konoha entered a state of high alert.

All the Anbu's vacant manpower was urgently mobilized and scattered around the village to guard and guard, even the intelligence brigade was no exception.

On the way Harry went to join his two teammates, he ran into Zixiao and Kong.

Zi Xiao sneered at him as usual, while Kong talked to him enthusiastically.

"It is said that Nine-Tails will be transferred to the Fire Nation Altar?" Sora said, "With all due respect, the whole village is mobilized and there is such a big battle, as if we are afraid that others will not know that we are going to transfer the Tailed Beast."

Harry, who knew the truth behind it, nodded in agreement and echoed.

That's right, Konoha wished that others would not know, after all, the transfer was just a cover, the real tailed beast already had a new renju power.

I only feel sorry for the little girl named Uzumaki Kushina, who has to shoulder such a difficult burden at such a young age...

"Senior Brother." A call interrupted Harry's thoughts.

The orange water fell lightly onto the branch next to him, and he asked, "Have you seen the crow falcon?"

Harry replied: "No, isn't he with you?"

"He said he didn't see you for a long time, maybe it was delayed by something, and he wanted to pick you up." Cheng Shui said.

The two looked at each other in blank dismay, seeing the solemnity in each other's eyes.

Yihe almost never breaks away from the team to act without authorization. He left Orange Shui and didn't find Harry, which obviously means——

He ran into trouble on the way.

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