Chapter 62: Exposed (Edited)

The Fire Country, with its relatively flat and open terrain, was a country extremely rich in resources.

It is said that this vast expanse of forest was created thanks to Konoha's first Hokage, Senju Hashirama, with his Kekkei Genkai: Mokuton.

As time went by, the gap between the Fire Country and the other countries grew wider and wider.

The victory that the Country of Fire had in the Third Ninja World War was not only because they had Minato, the Yellow Flash, on their side, but also because of the resources and the amount of resources they had.

But the resources and the amount of information the Fire Country possessed were far greater than those of any other Great Ninja Village.

Naito and Duy continued to move further and further and, after leaving Konoha, most of the places they passed through were forests.

The scenery did not change until they gradually moved away from Konoha.

There were fewer trees.

However, there were still plenty of them.

Well, of course, these landscapes would always be better than the scenery of Iwagakure, in the Land of Earth, or Sunagakure, in the Land of Wind.

The mission Naito and Duy took was to track and investigate a suspicious caravan.

However, it was not possible to send a ninja squad to investigate the caravan, as a reconnaissance had to be conducted first to confirm the identity of the caravan's members.

Otherwise, if a ninja squad was sent out every time something was suspected, the Fire Country would have been plunged into chaos long ago.

Naito and Duy didn't need to fight, they just needed to investigate the matter.

Once a problem with the caravan was discovered, they could report it immediately.

However, although this mission does not require fighting, it was not up to Naito and Duy to decide whether or not a battle would take place.

If that caravan was really sent by an enemy village, hiding a large number of ninja inside, then Naito and Duy could be attacked at any time.

And because of this, Konoha classified this mission as special, after considering this case, it was still placed as a C-Rank mission, but the reward was comparable to a B-Rank mission.

Naito and Duy advanced all the way.

A few days later, they found themselves in a small town far from Konoha.

They both changed into civilian clothes and dressed like normal people.

The caravan, according to the latest information, was staying in this town.

When Naito and Duy arrived, the caravan was ready to leave.

The two naturally followed the caravan in silence.

At the same time, they secretly observed the situation of the caravan.

The caravan looked so ordinary, it had dozens of people, no one exposed strange actions, they seemed to be normal people.

But after a period of time, Naito discovered something.

"There is something wrong with this caravan," Naito whispered, his tone was quite confident.

"What did you find?", Duy said, a bit puzzled, as he didn't understand the reason after Naito was sure.

Might Duy was a very strong ninja, but in other areas, such as espionage, he was very weak.

This is also another reason for his failure in missions.

Naito's eyes scanned every part of the caravan and said, "Have you noticed that in this caravan there seems to be only civilians?"

"And what's wrong with that?", Duy didn't understand, "So what if they were civilians, is that a problem?"

Naito shook his head and said seriously, "No, this is instead what is not normal!"

"Nowadays, the ninja world is in chaos, there are wars everywhere? Under such circumstances, how is it possible that a caravan would not hire ninja to escort it?"

The caravan in front of them, with twenty or thirty people, was no longer any small caravan.

How could such a large caravan dare to act so boldly and on a whim in today's chaotic ninja world?

It was precisely because everyone seemed to be civilians that there was something wrong with this caravan!

Duy was no good at investigating, but he was no fool.

Hearing Naito speak, he immediately understood and said, "That's a good point..."

Naito was extremely confident and said, "Yes, since they look like that, then the fact should be exactly the opposite, there is no doubt, There are elite ninjas hiding among them!"

Because at that time, the route this caravan was taking was surprisingly not the main route, but the side roads.

Civilians would not dare to take these kinds of roads.

"A troop of ninja successfully sneaked into the Fire Country, this is a serious matter!", Duy's expression became extremely serious after taking a deep breath.

"Yes, we don't know their purpose, but just confirming their identity is enough," Naito nodded.

Duy scratched his head and said, "Well, our task is to investigate, our work is complete here, but handing over this information is the main problem... We can't let them disappear from our sight, if they happen to disappear or hide, it will become a big problem, they must be followed."

"How about this, Naito, how about you go back alone and pass the information to the village while I continue to follow the caravan."

However, upon hearing Duy's words, Naito suddenly shook his head.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he said, "It is no longer necessary."

Duy, confused, asked, "Why?"

Naito simply said, "They found us."

Duy, shocked, shouted, "W-What!? What did you say?"

Naito, for his part, shot him a helpless look.

Duy was really bad at tracking and spying, and he left many traces in the process of tracking.

Although Naito covered it up, they were still exposed.

However, this only meant that they were not ordinary ninja either.

At that moment, the caravan stopped and some of the people in the caravan looked towards where Naito and Duy were hiding.

Suddenly!!!

Several of them charged towards Naito and Duy with extraordinary speed.

That completely exposed the identity of this caravan.

There were more than thirty people in this caravan, in fact, there were some were civilians, but the number of ninja was at least about ten.

"What should we do!?", Duy looked at Naito as he watched those ninjas show their speed and rush towards his direction.

Judging by the speed of those ninja, they should at least be at the level of an Elite Chuunin!

And the leader of such a troop should be a Jounin.

Duy's eyes showed no fear, instead, he looked at Naito with slight concern and said, "Naito, I'll cover for you, you need to retreat."

He knew Naito was very good, but his knowledge was based on the moment before Naito will fight Samui.

When Naito opened the second gate, Duy started doing missions again, so he didn't know about Naito's increased strength.

"Don't bother, now that they are here, let's kill them all," Naito said that seriously while stretching his muscles.