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Chapter 1442: Initial Discoveries in the New World! (Two-in-One)
The biting cold wind swept the flying snow across the white earth.
This made the distant mountain silhouette of layered peaks even more blurred and indistinct.
In the far north, there was a huge volcano, constantly spewing rolling black smoke towards the sky.
This added a few shades of darkness and oppression to the already dull, grey dark clouds and sky.
The entire heaven and earth was filled with snow, smoke, clouds, and continuous mountain ranges.
It looked like a magnificent landscape painting with profound artistic conception.
But when you looked at it for a moment longer, you would inexplicably feel sad and melancholic.
[Caw! Caw! Caw!]
Four slender figures, braving the wind and snow blowing in their faces, walked in a line with difficulty through the steep snow mountain.
When the bone-chilling cold wind howled, mixed with a few strange bird sounds, the team that had remained silent finally had someone speak.
"It's crows?"
The figure walking second said with doubt: "Strange, how can there be crows in 'Alphonse'?"
The leading figure walked at the very front, leaving footprints in the smooth snowfield with every step.
Hearing the voice behind her, she answered casually without a care: "Perhaps a new species has appeared that can adapt to the cold environment."
"Alright, concentrate. The target is halfway up this mountain. Although they are defective miscellaneous troops eliminated after the Northern War seven years ago, don't let your guard down."
"Then, can I ask, why are we here in this uninhabited northern land to hunt Awakened Users when we haven't received any request from anyone?"
At this moment, perhaps feeling the atmosphere had lightened, or perhaps wanting to integrate into the group.
The figure walking last asked nervously.
However, compared to the three thinly dressed figures ahead, she wore a thick cape that covered her entire body.
Moreover, her short hair color was the most unique among the four, a brownish-beige.
The first and second figures who had spoken earlier ignored her.
Fortunately, the third figure spoke up and answered her question.
"Since the 'Northern War' seven years ago, the Organization has changed its policy."
"Before that, Awakened Users didn't like to live in groups and were always scattered everywhere. They were no different from demons who caused trouble at will."
"But seven years ago in this place, Awakened Users suddenly acted in groups, taking the lives of twenty-four warriors who were resisting them at the time."
"Since then, the Organization no longer equates demons and Awakened Users, adopting a policy of actively dispatching teams to hunt them down as soon as their whereabouts are known."
Clarice, who was walking last, nodded thoughtfully after listening, and murmured in a low voice: "So that's how it is, no wonder..."
She was thinking, no wonder these few were cold to her.
Their mission this time was also to hunt down Awakened Users.
The strength of Awakened Users is said to far exceed that of demons, so the stronger the partners, the better.
And she was not only a warrior ranked last, but also a defective whose hair retained pigment, couldn't regulate body temperature, and couldn't adapt to the cold climate.
Not long after.
The four arrived at the halfway point of the mountain that Captain Nina mentioned. The wind and snow here were even more violent than below.
But the biggest danger had already appeared as a black shadow from the white snow mist.
This was an Awakened User with a huge body size, an appearance leaning towards an ant, with a pair of feelers and two pairs of sharp tentacles.
As soon as the two sides encountered each other, without any dialogue, they immediately launched a fierce battle.
The Awakened User was the first to swing its front limb tentacles. Its attack speed was terrifyingly fast, and the tentacles instantly turned into blurry afterimages in the wind and snow.
The three members of Nina's team quickly dodged, but their formation was also scattered by the exploding soil and snow.
However, Clarice, who was positioned further back, reacted slightly slower.
Although she dodged the attack, she was sent flying far away by the strong wind, crashing heavily onto a hard stone on the frozen earth and falling into a coma.
"Captain! No. 47, she!"
The female team member who had ignored Clarice before couldn't help but shout when she saw this scene.
Unexpectedly, Captain Nina stopped her from trying to help: "Don't mind her! She can't help anyway!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Captain Nina rose with a whistling sound, instantly leaping high into the air.
Her sharp silver eyes looked down at the Awakened User's back, raising the silver-white long sword in her right hand that gleamed with cold light.
"Secret Sword: Shadow Pursuit"
The next second, Captain Nina's figure turned into an afterimage and suddenly slashed downwards.
[Boom!]
She instantly shattered the frozen ground on the spot, whose hardness was comparable to iron, but this was not the result she had hoped for.
The ant-like Awakened User had, at some point, moved to Captain Nina's back with even greater speed.
"What a pity, don't look at me like this, my speed is above that of Awakened Users of the same level."
But before it could finish speaking, Captain Nina swung her right arm backwards.
The howling sound of the sword wind cutting through the air startled the Awakened User, and its huge body instinctively retreated rapidly.
But who knew that Captain Nina's figure would soar into the air again and chase it above its head.
"You... what's wrong with you? You can see me?"
The Awakened User had no choice but to take emergency evasive action, kicking off the ground with its feelers and leaping into the air, only to find that Captain Nina's sword edge was still in hot pursuit.
But what shocked it the most was that this woman had closed her eyes.
Yet the long sword in her hand could accurately stab towards its position.
It was currently moving at high speed!
"This... this is impossible!"
"It's useless. Once I swing my sword edge, it will absolutely not stop until it eliminates the target's demonic energy."
"What? You guy are tracking my demonic energy?"
The two sides exchanged words while fighting fiercely at high speed.
This also caused the Awakened User's attention to subconsciously focus on Nina.
"Then, I just need to make you lose your breath first!"
The Awakened User let out a roar, but just as it was about to strengthen its offensive.
The four sharp tentacles on its left and right sides were cut off by the swords of the other two female warriors.
"Our existence..."
"...is precisely to stop you from doing that."
The two were in mid-air, each speaking a sentence, then turned to the Awakened User behind them and said coldly.
"Aaaargh!----"
The intense pain caused the Awakened User to immediately let out a piercing scream.
"You can die now."
Captain Nina ignored its cries, having already appeared in front of the head like an ant's, her silver-white long sword about to slash down vertically to complete this somewhat unpleasant hunting mission.
But just in the nick of time.
A black shadow, with lightning speed, instantly pierced through Captain Nina's chest cavity.
"What?"
This attack came too fast, too fast. Nina widened her eyes, looking incredibly disbelieving.
"Captain!"
"Captain!"
The two female warriors exclaimed in unison.
They thought it was the Awakened User who did it and quickly leaped up, wanting to help Nina deal with it.
But who knew that more black shadows shot out from behind the Awakened User.
In an instant, the whooshing sounds were endless.
"Ah!"
"Hmph!"
Both of their bodies were pierced in mid-air and fell heavily back onto the snowy ground, unable to get up.
In the blink of an eye, all four of Nina's team lay on the ground, and an atmosphere of despair began to spread in the area.
Looking back at the Awakened User's rear.
Two similar-looking monsters, both terrifying, emerged from behind the snow-covered mountain.
"Tsk tsk tsk, we're not idiots either."
"Since the Organization has started to regard us as hunting targets, then we will also take corresponding countermeasures."
The Awakened User whose four tentacles were cut off sneered at the three members of Nina's team.
Then it turned around and complained to the other two Awakened Users: "Tch, you guys are so slow!"
"Sorry~, hehe, but you look really miserable."
One of the Awakened Users teased, while the other ignored them and turned its gaze towards Clarice, who was lying in the distance.
"Oh?"
"Look quickly, there's one with color!"
"I didn't expect the Organization to still have such defective existences?"
Its words attracted the attention of the first two Awakened Users.
"She's a bit far away, so she wasn't too badly injured..."
Another Awakened User who arrived later walked up and examined Clarice.
"Looks like she passed out from the pain, but her sleeping face is so cute!"
The Awakened User who walked up to Clarice laughed and said: "Isn't this perfect?"
"If she's a defective among warriors, her meat probably won't smell too bad."
"After we have some fun, it seems we can also taste some long-awaited fresh flesh and blood..."
But who knew that just as its words fell, its insect-like, demon-like head was horizontally slashed open by an invisible energy blade.
[Bang!]
Instantly, blood splattered everywhere, and the head was severed from the body.
The headless body fell heavily forward onto the ground, making a dull thud.
"Wha... what happened?!"
"Something is nearby! Be careful!"
"Is it their companion?"
"But I don't sense any demonic energy anywhere..."
Before it could finish speaking, the Awakened User with sharp spines all over its back was cut into several sections by an invisible energy blade.
A large amount of blood spurted from the wounds, which terrified the Awakened User whose four tentacles had been cut off.
Because from beginning to end, it hadn't seen which direction the attack came from, nor the position of the person who attacked.
Until a cold light broke through the cold wind and flying snow along the way and rapidly struck its face.
"Wha... who are you..."
[Splish!]
The tall body was instantly split into two. Unfortunately, it didn't see the appearance of its killer until its death.
At the same time.
Behind the snow mountain five hundred meters away.
Four figures completely wrapped in thick white down coats were also communicating with each other.
One of them had his eyes tightly closed, his right hand placed on the forehead of another.
The latter, separated by the mountain, stared at the position where Captain Nina, Clarice, and the others were.
They were the shinobi of a squad from the Hidden Mist Unit who had come to this new world through a small stargate to perform a reconnaissance mission.
The former was Yamanaka Hiromi, a Chunin, and the latter was Hyuga Junpei, also a Chunin.
Yamanaka Hiromi was using the Clan Secret Technique 'Sensory Transmission' to share the vision he saw through Hyuga Junpei's Byakugan with the other two teammates.
As the captain and a Jonin, Aburame Shikuro, and Natsuhoshi, an Elite Chunin.
Thus, all four witnessed the entire process that happened over there.
"Did you record it?" Aburame Shikuro asked.
"Yes, the language is English, communication is fine, the keywords are 'demonic energy'."
"Those female warriors are suspected to be from the same Organization. In terms of strength, that captain's strength, speed, and martial arts level should be comparable to a major in the military, or our Chunin, but her methods are too limited."
Natsuhoshi answered softly, looking at the content she had just recorded in her notebook.
"Hmm, the three female swordsmen who just acted and instantly killed those monsters, their combat power should have reached colonel."
However, despite saying this, Aburame Shikuro's attitude remained very indifferent.
They had already seen the scene where the three women who appeared later, hidden in black robes, easily slaughtered the Awakened Users.
"Something is very strange. They should be a group, but why do the five people who appeared later seem unwilling to meet the four?"
Natsuhoshi doubtfully looked at the five black-robed figures who were leaving, using the shared Byakugan vision from a distance.
Then she silently observed the lip movements of the five people during their dialogue.
With unimpeded language, lip reading could naturally be useful.
"We have been suppressing our demonic energy for the past seven years, only then were we able to completely eliminate the leaked demonic energy..."
Natsuhoshi murmured the words spoken by one of the female warriors.
"And we can still sense the other party's demonic energy, so the other warriors of the Organization cannot find us..."
"So that's how it is. They might have betrayed the so-called Organization and are hiding in this cold snow mountain."
"And just now, out of goodwill, they saved warriors who were also from the Organization."
"In that case, their conflicts with the Organization are not with other members, but with the Organization's management?"
Natsuhoshi, who originated from Hoshi Village, made a deduction using the limited information.
"So, through them, we should be able to gather enough intelligence, especially about that Organization..." Aburame Shikuro said in a low voice.
"Captain, should we leave those five women?"
Yamanaka Hiromi asked in his mind using 'Mind Communication Technique'.
Aburame Shikuro hesitated slightly.
Logically, their Hidden Mist Unit was only responsible for intelligence gathering, or tracking key targets, and should not easily engage in combat with others.
But since there was a shinobi from the Yamanaka Clan in the team, the best way to gather intelligence was to capture a local person and read their memory.
This was actually why the Sea Ninja Village stipulated that Hidden Mist Squads performing New World Reconnaissance Missions must include members from the Yamanaka Clan and Hyuga Clan. As for the remaining two, they were arranged according to the situation.
Generally, they were shinobi from the Aburame Clan, Inuzuka Clan, Kamizuru Clan, Hozuki Clan, or shinobi with talent in sensory abilities.
However, recently due to the Demon War in the Ninja World, there was a severe shortage of shinobi from various clans.
It was quite difficult for their squad to be so complete.
Or rather, Fukurokuju of the Sea Ninja Village regarded them as an elite squad.
For this First Sea Kage from the World, the safety of the Ninja World was important, but the interests of the World Government were even more important.
As the Sea Ninja Village, they must take every mission from the World Government regarding the New Otherworld seriously.
So before Tengen Uzui, Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and others were about to go to the Ninja World, he stepped forward and proposed leaving some shinobi from the Hidden Mist Unit behind, ready to accept missions issued by the World Government at any time.
At that time, Tengen Uzui and the others thought that no new stargates would be opened within this year, as the Beast God World stargate had already been opened in the first half of the year.
But Fukurokuju insisted that no matter what, the village must have shinobi capable of dealing with unexpected situations.
Moreover, most of the shinobi in the Hidden Mist Unit were better at reconnaissance and were not of much help in combat against demons.
In any case, the Sea Ninja Village was the World Government's Sea Ninja Village, not the Ninja World's Sea Ninja Village!
Indeed.
The accident that Fukurokuju mentioned appeared. The World Government really opened a new stargate and needed a group of Hidden Mist shinobi to go in and gather intelligence.
This made him greatly rejoice. If the mission came down and the Sea Ninja Village had no one to dispatch, that would be a huge problem!
Putting everything else aside, Tengen Uzui, the Second Sea Shadow, would probably have to take off his Kage hat before long.
Unless he died directly in the Ninja World, perhaps the World Government would still give him some dignity and retain his identity as the Second Sea Shadow...
"Captain, the weakest woman has woken up!"
Just as Aburame Shikuro was about to issue an order, Natsuhoshi suddenly spoke up to remind him.
Looking at the other side.
Indeed, on the snowy ground covered in bloodstains and scattered body parts.
Clarice slowly opened her silver-white eyes and slowly got up, supporting herself with her hand in the cold wind.
"I... I'm still alive?"
"Where are the Awakened Users?"
"I remember several suddenly appeared, what exactly happened..."
At the same time, Aburame Shikuro said: "Chunin Hiromi, immediately dispatch your Kasugai Crow and White Zetsu to track those five black-robed women!"
"Yes!"
Yamanaka Hiromi didn't hesitate and immediately said: "Go, execute the order."
"Okay..."
The next second, clumps of white substance emerged from his neck.
Finally, they turned into human form and detached from his body, then sank and merged into the snowy ground, disappearing without a trace.
"Natsuhoshi, immediately share the direction they left in with the other squads, requiring the nearest team to be responsible for surveillance!"
"Yes, Captain."
Natsuhoshi took out a Den Den Mushi while asking: "Then should we go and capture those four female warriors?"
Aburame Shikuro immediately said: "No, we will wait for them all to wake up, and then follow them to see where the headquarters of that 'Organization' is!"
He believed that this was the most important target of this trip.
End of Chapter
The biting cold wind swept the flying snow across the white earth.
This made the distant mountain silhouette of layered peaks even more blurred and indistinct.
In the far north, there was a huge volcano, constantly spewing rolling black smoke towards the sky.
This added a few shades of darkness and oppression to the already dull, grey dark clouds and sky.
The entire heaven and earth was filled with snow, smoke, clouds, and continuous mountain ranges.
It looked like a magnificent landscape painting with profound artistic conception.
But when you looked at it for a moment longer, you would inexplicably feel sad and melancholic.
[Caw! Caw! Caw!]
Four slender figures, braving the wind and snow blowing in their faces, walked in a line with difficulty through the steep snow mountain.
When the bone-chilling cold wind howled, mixed with a few strange bird sounds, the team that had remained silent finally had someone speak.
"It's crows?"
The figure walking second said with doubt: "Strange, how can there be crows in 'Alphonse'?"
The leading figure walked at the very front, leaving footprints in the smooth snowfield with every step.
Hearing the voice behind her, she answered casually without a care: "Perhaps a new species has appeared that can adapt to the cold environment."
"Alright, concentrate. The target is halfway up this mountain. Although they are defective miscellaneous troops eliminated after the Northern War seven years ago, don't let your guard down."
"Then, can I ask, why are we here in this uninhabited northern land to hunt Awakened Users when we haven't received any request from anyone?"
At this moment, perhaps feeling the atmosphere had lightened, or perhaps wanting to integrate into the group.
The figure walking last asked nervously.
However, compared to the three thinly dressed figures ahead, she wore a thick cape that covered her entire body.
Moreover, her short hair color was the most unique among the four, a brownish-beige.
The first and second figures who had spoken earlier ignored her.
Fortunately, the third figure spoke up and answered her question.
"Since the 'Northern War' seven years ago, the Organization has changed its policy."
"Before that, Awakened Users didn't like to live in groups and were always scattered everywhere. They were no different from demons who caused trouble at will."
"But seven years ago in this place, Awakened Users suddenly acted in groups, taking the lives of twenty-four warriors who were resisting them at the time."
"Since then, the Organization no longer equates demons and Awakened Users, adopting a policy of actively dispatching teams to hunt them down as soon as their whereabouts are known."
Clarice, who was walking last, nodded thoughtfully after listening, and murmured in a low voice: "So that's how it is, no wonder..."
She was thinking, no wonder these few were cold to her.
Their mission this time was also to hunt down Awakened Users.
The strength of Awakened Users is said to far exceed that of demons, so the stronger the partners, the better.
And she was not only a warrior ranked last, but also a defective whose hair retained pigment, couldn't regulate body temperature, and couldn't adapt to the cold climate.
Not long after.
The four arrived at the halfway point of the mountain that Captain Nina mentioned. The wind and snow here were even more violent than below.
But the biggest danger had already appeared as a black shadow from the white snow mist.
This was an Awakened User with a huge body size, an appearance leaning towards an ant, with a pair of feelers and two pairs of sharp tentacles.
As soon as the two sides encountered each other, without any dialogue, they immediately launched a fierce battle.
The Awakened User was the first to swing its front limb tentacles. Its attack speed was terrifyingly fast, and the tentacles instantly turned into blurry afterimages in the wind and snow.
The three members of Nina's team quickly dodged, but their formation was also scattered by the exploding soil and snow.
However, Clarice, who was positioned further back, reacted slightly slower.
Although she dodged the attack, she was sent flying far away by the strong wind, crashing heavily onto a hard stone on the frozen earth and falling into a coma.
"Captain! No. 47, she!"
The female team member who had ignored Clarice before couldn't help but shout when she saw this scene.
Unexpectedly, Captain Nina stopped her from trying to help: "Don't mind her! She can't help anyway!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Captain Nina rose with a whistling sound, instantly leaping high into the air.
Her sharp silver eyes looked down at the Awakened User's back, raising the silver-white long sword in her right hand that gleamed with cold light.
"Secret Sword: Shadow Pursuit"
The next second, Captain Nina's figure turned into an afterimage and suddenly slashed downwards.
[Boom!]
She instantly shattered the frozen ground on the spot, whose hardness was comparable to iron, but this was not the result she had hoped for.
The ant-like Awakened User had, at some point, moved to Captain Nina's back with even greater speed.
"What a pity, don't look at me like this, my speed is above that of Awakened Users of the same level."
But before it could finish speaking, Captain Nina swung her right arm backwards.
The howling sound of the sword wind cutting through the air startled the Awakened User, and its huge body instinctively retreated rapidly.
But who knew that Captain Nina's figure would soar into the air again and chase it above its head.
"You... what's wrong with you? You can see me?"
The Awakened User had no choice but to take emergency evasive action, kicking off the ground with its feelers and leaping into the air, only to find that Captain Nina's sword edge was still in hot pursuit.
But what shocked it the most was that this woman had closed her eyes.
Yet the long sword in her hand could accurately stab towards its position.
It was currently moving at high speed!
"This... this is impossible!"
"It's useless. Once I swing my sword edge, it will absolutely not stop until it eliminates the target's demonic energy."
"What? You guy are tracking my demonic energy?"
The two sides exchanged words while fighting fiercely at high speed.
This also caused the Awakened User's attention to subconsciously focus on Nina.
"Then, I just need to make you lose your breath first!"
The Awakened User let out a roar, but just as it was about to strengthen its offensive.
The four sharp tentacles on its left and right sides were cut off by the swords of the other two female warriors.
"Our existence..."
"...is precisely to stop you from doing that."
The two were in mid-air, each speaking a sentence, then turned to the Awakened User behind them and said coldly.
"Aaaargh!----"
The intense pain caused the Awakened User to immediately let out a piercing scream.
"You can die now."
Captain Nina ignored its cries, having already appeared in front of the head like an ant's, her silver-white long sword about to slash down vertically to complete this somewhat unpleasant hunting mission.
But just in the nick of time.
A black shadow, with lightning speed, instantly pierced through Captain Nina's chest cavity.
"What?"
This attack came too fast, too fast. Nina widened her eyes, looking incredibly disbelieving.
"Captain!"
"Captain!"
The two female warriors exclaimed in unison.
They thought it was the Awakened User who did it and quickly leaped up, wanting to help Nina deal with it.
But who knew that more black shadows shot out from behind the Awakened User.
In an instant, the whooshing sounds were endless.
"Ah!"
"Hmph!"
Both of their bodies were pierced in mid-air and fell heavily back onto the snowy ground, unable to get up.
In the blink of an eye, all four of Nina's team lay on the ground, and an atmosphere of despair began to spread in the area.
Looking back at the Awakened User's rear.
Two similar-looking monsters, both terrifying, emerged from behind the snow-covered mountain.
"Tsk tsk tsk, we're not idiots either."
"Since the Organization has started to regard us as hunting targets, then we will also take corresponding countermeasures."
The Awakened User whose four tentacles were cut off sneered at the three members of Nina's team.
Then it turned around and complained to the other two Awakened Users: "Tch, you guys are so slow!"
"Sorry~, hehe, but you look really miserable."
One of the Awakened Users teased, while the other ignored them and turned its gaze towards Clarice, who was lying in the distance.
"Oh?"
"Look quickly, there's one with color!"
"I didn't expect the Organization to still have such defective existences?"
Its words attracted the attention of the first two Awakened Users.
"She's a bit far away, so she wasn't too badly injured..."
Another Awakened User who arrived later walked up and examined Clarice.
"Looks like she passed out from the pain, but her sleeping face is so cute!"
The Awakened User who walked up to Clarice laughed and said: "Isn't this perfect?"
"If she's a defective among warriors, her meat probably won't smell too bad."
"After we have some fun, it seems we can also taste some long-awaited fresh flesh and blood..."
But who knew that just as its words fell, its insect-like, demon-like head was horizontally slashed open by an invisible energy blade.
[Bang!]
Instantly, blood splattered everywhere, and the head was severed from the body.
The headless body fell heavily forward onto the ground, making a dull thud.
"Wha... what happened?!"
"Something is nearby! Be careful!"
"Is it their companion?"
"But I don't sense any demonic energy anywhere..."
Before it could finish speaking, the Awakened User with sharp spines all over its back was cut into several sections by an invisible energy blade.
A large amount of blood spurted from the wounds, which terrified the Awakened User whose four tentacles had been cut off.
Because from beginning to end, it hadn't seen which direction the attack came from, nor the position of the person who attacked.
Until a cold light broke through the cold wind and flying snow along the way and rapidly struck its face.
"Wha... who are you..."
[Splish!]
The tall body was instantly split into two. Unfortunately, it didn't see the appearance of its killer until its death.
At the same time.
Behind the snow mountain five hundred meters away.
Four figures completely wrapped in thick white down coats were also communicating with each other.
One of them had his eyes tightly closed, his right hand placed on the forehead of another.
The latter, separated by the mountain, stared at the position where Captain Nina, Clarice, and the others were.
They were the shinobi of a squad from the Hidden Mist Unit who had come to this new world through a small stargate to perform a reconnaissance mission.
The former was Yamanaka Hiromi, a Chunin, and the latter was Hyuga Junpei, also a Chunin.
Yamanaka Hiromi was using the Clan Secret Technique 'Sensory Transmission' to share the vision he saw through Hyuga Junpei's Byakugan with the other two teammates.
As the captain and a Jonin, Aburame Shikuro, and Natsuhoshi, an Elite Chunin.
Thus, all four witnessed the entire process that happened over there.
"Did you record it?" Aburame Shikuro asked.
"Yes, the language is English, communication is fine, the keywords are 'demonic energy'."
"Those female warriors are suspected to be from the same Organization. In terms of strength, that captain's strength, speed, and martial arts level should be comparable to a major in the military, or our Chunin, but her methods are too limited."
Natsuhoshi answered softly, looking at the content she had just recorded in her notebook.
"Hmm, the three female swordsmen who just acted and instantly killed those monsters, their combat power should have reached colonel."
However, despite saying this, Aburame Shikuro's attitude remained very indifferent.
They had already seen the scene where the three women who appeared later, hidden in black robes, easily slaughtered the Awakened Users.
"Something is very strange. They should be a group, but why do the five people who appeared later seem unwilling to meet the four?"
Natsuhoshi doubtfully looked at the five black-robed figures who were leaving, using the shared Byakugan vision from a distance.
Then she silently observed the lip movements of the five people during their dialogue.
With unimpeded language, lip reading could naturally be useful.
"We have been suppressing our demonic energy for the past seven years, only then were we able to completely eliminate the leaked demonic energy..."
Natsuhoshi murmured the words spoken by one of the female warriors.
"And we can still sense the other party's demonic energy, so the other warriors of the Organization cannot find us..."
"So that's how it is. They might have betrayed the so-called Organization and are hiding in this cold snow mountain."
"And just now, out of goodwill, they saved warriors who were also from the Organization."
"In that case, their conflicts with the Organization are not with other members, but with the Organization's management?"
Natsuhoshi, who originated from Hoshi Village, made a deduction using the limited information.
"So, through them, we should be able to gather enough intelligence, especially about that Organization..." Aburame Shikuro said in a low voice.
"Captain, should we leave those five women?"
Yamanaka Hiromi asked in his mind using 'Mind Communication Technique'.
Aburame Shikuro hesitated slightly.
Logically, their Hidden Mist Unit was only responsible for intelligence gathering, or tracking key targets, and should not easily engage in combat with others.
But since there was a shinobi from the Yamanaka Clan in the team, the best way to gather intelligence was to capture a local person and read their memory.
This was actually why the Sea Ninja Village stipulated that Hidden Mist Squads performing New World Reconnaissance Missions must include members from the Yamanaka Clan and Hyuga Clan. As for the remaining two, they were arranged according to the situation.
Generally, they were shinobi from the Aburame Clan, Inuzuka Clan, Kamizuru Clan, Hozuki Clan, or shinobi with talent in sensory abilities.
However, recently due to the Demon War in the Ninja World, there was a severe shortage of shinobi from various clans.
It was quite difficult for their squad to be so complete.
Or rather, Fukurokuju of the Sea Ninja Village regarded them as an elite squad.
For this First Sea Kage from the World, the safety of the Ninja World was important, but the interests of the World Government were even more important.
As the Sea Ninja Village, they must take every mission from the World Government regarding the New Otherworld seriously.
So before Tengen Uzui, Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and others were about to go to the Ninja World, he stepped forward and proposed leaving some shinobi from the Hidden Mist Unit behind, ready to accept missions issued by the World Government at any time.
At that time, Tengen Uzui and the others thought that no new stargates would be opened within this year, as the Beast God World stargate had already been opened in the first half of the year.
But Fukurokuju insisted that no matter what, the village must have shinobi capable of dealing with unexpected situations.
Moreover, most of the shinobi in the Hidden Mist Unit were better at reconnaissance and were not of much help in combat against demons.
In any case, the Sea Ninja Village was the World Government's Sea Ninja Village, not the Ninja World's Sea Ninja Village!
Indeed.
The accident that Fukurokuju mentioned appeared. The World Government really opened a new stargate and needed a group of Hidden Mist shinobi to go in and gather intelligence.
This made him greatly rejoice. If the mission came down and the Sea Ninja Village had no one to dispatch, that would be a huge problem!
Putting everything else aside, Tengen Uzui, the Second Sea Shadow, would probably have to take off his Kage hat before long.
Unless he died directly in the Ninja World, perhaps the World Government would still give him some dignity and retain his identity as the Second Sea Shadow...
"Captain, the weakest woman has woken up!"
Just as Aburame Shikuro was about to issue an order, Natsuhoshi suddenly spoke up to remind him.
Looking at the other side.
Indeed, on the snowy ground covered in bloodstains and scattered body parts.
Clarice slowly opened her silver-white eyes and slowly got up, supporting herself with her hand in the cold wind.
"I... I'm still alive?"
"Where are the Awakened Users?"
"I remember several suddenly appeared, what exactly happened..."
At the same time, Aburame Shikuro said: "Chunin Hiromi, immediately dispatch your Kasugai Crow and White Zetsu to track those five black-robed women!"
"Yes!"
Yamanaka Hiromi didn't hesitate and immediately said: "Go, execute the order."
"Okay..."
The next second, clumps of white substance emerged from his neck.
Finally, they turned into human form and detached from his body, then sank and merged into the snowy ground, disappearing without a trace.
"Natsuhoshi, immediately share the direction they left in with the other squads, requiring the nearest team to be responsible for surveillance!"
"Yes, Captain."
Natsuhoshi took out a Den Den Mushi while asking: "Then should we go and capture those four female warriors?"
Aburame Shikuro immediately said: "No, we will wait for them all to wake up, and then follow them to see where the headquarters of that 'Organization' is!"
He believed that this was the most important target of this trip.
End of Chapter
