Chapter 215: Infiltration Mission—Hidden Underground!
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"Hehe…" The Sky Shinobi chuckled, rubbing his hands together. In the past few months, Kumogakure and Konoha had launched joint operations in the Land of Hot Water, establishing relief stations to receive refugees from the Land of Water. What a show of power!
The Sky Shinobi were keeping watch over the warehouse all day, afraid that Konoha Shinobi might notice something. Even the underground smuggling and transportation of chakra metal had to be suspended.
Now, it seemed, the good days were finally coming!
"Sir, I'll go back to the material warehouse first and keep watch."
"Mm, go~" The Shūei Corporation president waved his hand dismissively, then lowered his head to begin the company's legitimate business.
As the two talked, teams of Konoha Shinobi had already crossed the sea and were rapidly approaching the Sky Shinobi base in the Land of Hot Water.
Crossing the sea, climbing mountains, and passing through a dense forest…
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Within the Konoha Shinobi squad personally led by Gojo Kaigetsu, a Hyuga clan Shinobi stopped, his gaze focused in one direction, and he reported quickly, "Gojo-sama! At twelve o'clock, I've discovered a hidden outpost. All the Shinobi inside the outpost are wearing Sky Shinobi Village forehead protectors!"
Gojo Kaigetsu nodded knowingly.
The Six Eyes surpassed the Byakugan in terms of chakra insight and precise control, but it did not possess the ability to observe at ultra-long distances. A qualified Byakugan could observe things a kilometer away or even farther.
"Infiltration!"
"Relay Gojo-sama's order, infiltrate!"
Gojo Kaigetsu's command was quickly relayed to each squad. The Konoha Shinobi squads swiftly took action.
As everyone knows, true infiltration is to kill all witnesses, so that there is no risk of exposure.
The Sky Shinobi Village were like a huge piece of meat on a chopping board. Under the siege of the wolf-like Konoha Shinobi, they couldn't even send an alarm to their companions further away before they died.
Among them, the most outstanding in the infiltration operation were the Aburame clan, which made Gojo Kaigetsu look on repeatedly.
The Aburame clan signed a contract with the insect clan. They contributed their chakra to the insects, and the insects fought for them. This kind of combat method, which relied on external objects, was probably unique in the Shinobi world.
"Secret Technique: Kikaichū - Insect Deception Technique!"
Aburame Shibi clapped his hands, and a massive amount of Kikaichū were summoned, emitting a blue chakra like seawater, instantly engulfing the Sky Shinobi on the outskirts of the outpost.
They couldn't even scream. Their original plump flesh, along with their chakra, was devoured by the Kikaichū, leaving only clothes, forehead protectors… things that even the Kikaichū were unwilling to eat.
It was horrifying to watch.
Gojo Kaigetsu couldn't help but sigh. The current Shinobi world was still simple.
The fighting methods of the Shinobi clans were varied, and battles between Shinobi were mostly based on intelligence and strategy.
By the time Pain made his appearance, the Shinobi world began to evolve from comparing mechanisms to comparing numbers, and battles also became boring… Whoever had the bigger numbers could just crush the other side!
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"Infiltration, complete!" Aburame Shibi pushed up his sunglasses and said bitterly.
The outskirts of the outpost were quickly taken over by the Konoha Shinobi.
After passing through another dense mountain forest, the Sky Shinobi's defenses became significantly denser. Among them were strangely shaped Shinobi tools, like wings and surfboards…
Inside the outpost, there seemed to be a warehouse.
Mountains of supplies were piled up there, and many people dressed in Sky Shinobi uniforms, but without forehead protectors, were carrying boxes of supplies into the warehouse, seeming to want to transfer all these supplies to the warehouse for centralized storage.
"It's chakra metal ore, a lot of it," the Hyūga Shinobi reminded.
"Hmph, it will be Konoha's for free… Eliminate all the Shinobi. Be careful not to damage the flying Shinobi tools."
"Yes!"
When the busy Sky Shinobi carrying the chakra metal realized what was happening, it was already too late.
Dense swarms of insects surrounded them. The shadows under their feet seemed to be given life, turning against their masters and controlling them. Approaching them were shuriken enhanced with the Shadow Clone technique…
Swish swish—
One by one, Sky Shinobi corpses fell. Some of them managed to break free of the restraints, but under Gojo Kaigetsu's gravitational control, they were dragged, along with their flying Shinobi tools, preventing them from taking off. The next second, they were devoured by the swarms of insects behind them.
Similar scenes were still happening in various places in the Land of Hot Water. The Sky Shinobi strongholds were being uprooted without any resistance.
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"Advisor!" The squad members put away their weapons. It was a basic rule not to show weapons in front of the advisor.
Gojo Kaigetsu took out a map. "Hmm… This is it, Ancor Vantian."
"Here?" The Konoha Shinobi looked around. "This seems to be just a dilapidated ruin."
The Shinobi's imagination of an aerial fortress was of the kind that was parked on an open plain, surrounded by a large number of Shinobi for protection, ready to take off at any time.
"That's right~" Gojo Kaigetsu stepped on the ground, pointing to a dilapidated ruin in the distance. "That's the entrance. The Ancor Vantian on the ground is just a dilapidated ruin used to cover people's eyes. The real fortress body is hidden underground."
"Let's go, let's go in."
Gojo Kaigetsu led the way, and soon, following the entrance to the ruins, they passed through the complex rock wall tunnel and arrived at a vast underground space.
Chakra metal that had not yet been made into flying Shinobi tools was piled up like mountains. A group of ordinary people who looked like coolies, dressed in rags, were urged on by Sky Shinobi supervisors holding long whips, constantly repeating mechanical movements.
Finally, the movement of Konoha Shinobi entering still attracted attention.
"Who is it?!"
With a swift movement, a head fell to the ground.
The liberators from Konoha quickly took over this aerial fortress hidden underground.
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Under the control of the Yamanaka clan Shinobi, the person in charge of the aerial fortress led Gojo Kaigetsu to Ancor Vantian's power room.
The heavy door slowly opened under mechanical operation, revealing the interior of the long-sealed power room.
The walls of the power room were engraved with dense sealing formulas.
Although they were old and many were damaged, Gojo Kaigetsu could easily judge that the main function of these sealing formulas was to gather chakra, and transform the gathered chakra into the power that made Ancor Vantian take off.
In the center of the power room, in a transparent glass cover, was a monster with a serpentine body and a mask with the kanji "Zero" engraved on its forehead. An abnormal chakra was emanating from the Zero-Tails.
"Interesting… The main function of these sealing formulas is not only to absorb conventional chakra, but also to absorb the darkness, hatred, and other negative emotions in people's hearts for the Zero-Tails, to accelerate the speed of the Zero-Tails transforming dark chakra, and to provide power for this aerial fortress."
Uchiha Fugaku followed Gojo Kaigetsu into this power room and let out a sigh of admiration for the ingenious arrangement. "Although an enemy, the Sky Shinobi Village is quite good."
Gojo Kaigetsu sighed. This time, he had really struck gold.
The Sky Shinobi—under Shinnō's leadership—had hoarded savings for decades, all of which were now going to Konoha.
"There is a problem is… the dark chakra contained within the Zero-Tails needs to feed on the pain, anger, hatred… these negative emotions in people's hearts. That is to say, if the Shinobi world is too peaceful, the Zero-Tails will be useless and unable to provide enough power for this aerial fortress."
"Relying on these sealing formulas to gather energy is too slow. Although the current chakra reserves are enough, for the sake of insurance, we still need to catch a Tailed Beast as a new power source to avoid running out of energy! This, you see, is called hybrid power…"
As he spoke, Gojo Kaigetsu's gaze turned strangely towards Fugaku.
In fact, he always believed that the most suitable person to be the Zero-Tails Jinchuriki was a Shinobi from the Uchiha clan.
Feeding on negative emotions, they could not only obtain the dark chakra that enhanced the body, but they could also use those negative emotions to stimulate the Sharingan to evolve!
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