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Kisame understood why Yahiko and Konan appeared in this caravan.

First of all, he guessed right, this caravan is indeed the "wandering tribe", the descendants of the remnants of the glorious empire from the past. For hundreds of years, they have been wandering around in the ninja world. Although they have no fixed place, they can be regarded as living a peaceful and prosperous life.

But recently, this calm has been shattered.

It turned out that another part of the remnants of the empire, that chose to travel across the ocean, established a new country on another continent, and developed a civilization completely different from the ninja world.

However, those people have not forgotten the rich continent of the Ninja World, and they have been accumulating strength with ambition, and not long ago, they finally returned across the sea with a strong ship and a cannon.

After they returned to the ninja world, the first target was their former compatriots. They sent a team to find the wandering caravan headed by Kahiko and others, and asked these wandering tribe to serve them.

As the leader of the caravan, Kahiko rejected their rude request on the spot, which turned into an armed conflict, causing heavy losses to the caravan.

After leading the caravan members to escape, Kahiko immediately thought of asking Amegakure for help, trying to seek shelter from "Son of Prophecy" Nagato.

So, at Nagato's suggestion, Yahiko and Konan took over the rescue mission of the caravan, and came to this mountain forest with Kahiko and others.

According to Kahiko, the base camp of those people is hidden in the depths of this rolling mountain.

"Respected ninjas, I'm not doubting your strength, it's just that the number of enemies is at least a few hundred, and their power is overwhelming. If there is a real fight at that time..."

In the carriage, Kahiko acted carefully and didn't finish his sentence, but they could hear that he was very worried.

"Senior Kahiko, don't worry, even if the number of enemies increases tenfold, they are not our opponents."

Konan said in a cold voice. Her resurrection was very successful, but if you look closely, you can still find that there are some faint cracks on her body, like broken porcelain—

That is the trace of the Impure reincarnation.

The reason why she is so confident is because those reincarnated by this jutsu has infinite chakra and super resilience, and it is impossible for them to be killed again.

They are almost invincible.

"Konan is right, Akatsuki is not afraid of any enemy."

Yahiko, who was sitting on the side, said the same and added, "Although it is far away from Amegakure, even if an unexpected situation occurs, we can call in reinforcements from Amegakure as soon as possible."

'Oh?'

Outside the carriage, Kisame, who was hiding in the dark, frowned slightly when he heard this.

From Yahiko's confident tone, he can basically infer that the reinforcement the other party said... is Nagato himself.

Yahiko and Konan should have a method similar to the "reverse summoning jutsu", which can instantly summon Nagato from thousands of miles away.

In that case, Kisame has to be careful.

He doesn't want to expose Kunpeng's existence right now. If he only relies on this clone, he probably won't be Nagato's opponent. So he has to find a way to grab the Gelel's Stone vein from the Akatsuki organization.

The good news is that from the conversation of the three people in the carriage, Kisame found that Kahiko did not disclose any information about the Gelel Stone to the two of them.

And according to his speculation, the reason why the enemies from the other continent came to this caravan was probably because of the Gelel Stone—perhaps the caravan held crucial clues.

That is to say, in this matter, Kahiko deliberately deceived Yahiko and Konan, and did not want the other party to know the existence of the Gelel Stone.

So the question is, what is the key clue in Kahiko's hands?

Just as Kisame was in deep thought, the door of the carriage was pushed open, and Kahiko got off the carriage.

"Whoo~"

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he was indeed hiding something from the two of Yahiko.

But at this moment-

"Squeak."

A little brown guy suddenly ran out of Kahiko's sleeve, fell to the ground, and ran towards the bushes in front.

It was a ferret with black fur on its limbs, and it looked very special, like a rare breed.

In fact, it is the royal pet of the ancient empire, and it lived much longer than Kahiko.

This ferret seemed to have been in his sleeve for too long and was about to die of suffocation, so as soon as it landed, it jumped and ran forward.

However, that direction it ran is Kisame's hiding place.

"Nerugui, come back quickly, don't run around!"

Kahiko hurriedly shouted, and went to chase the ferret in shock, for fear that something might happen to the latter accidentally.

'Swish.'

Negurui ran into the bushes and soon became silent.

When Kahiko caught up, he opened the bushes and searched repeatedly for a long time, but he couldn't find any trace of the ferret.

"What's the matter? Negurui, where did you go..."

Kahiko murmured, anxious like an ant on a hot pan. The loss of the ferret was like losing his life to him.

"Senior Kahiko, what's wrong, do you need our help?"

At this moment, Konan's voice came from behind Kahiko. She heard the movement outside and stepped out of the carriage to inquire about the situation.

"It's nothing, I just lost a ferret, it's... my wife's pet, so it's important to me."

Kahiko temporarily made up a reason to try to cover up Negurui's true identity.

In the end, the caravan's people searched all over the area, but could not find Negurui.

It seems to have abandoned the caravan and fled deep into the forest, never to return. Or maybe it was preyed on by something like a poisonous snake, and unfortunately it became food in the belly of other beasts.

But the truth of the matter is that Negurui fell into Kisame's hands.

At midnight, the light in the forest is getting darker. Kahiko and others searched for Negurui to no avail. They could only go back to the camp to sleep and rest, and then they would continue their search when they got up tomorrow.

The caravan's camp gradually quieted down.

Halfway up the mountain, Kisame was sitting on the branch of a big tree, looking at the campsite with lights flashing at the foot of the mountain not far away.

"Squeak."

With a cry, a small figure emerged from his sleeve and stood on the back of his hand very obediently.

It's the ferret, Negurui, that all the members of caravan are searching for.

If Kahiko was here, he would be very surprised to see this scene, because Negurui was timid and afraid of others, and usually he was only close to the members of the caravan, but was hostile to strangers.

The reason is actually quite simple.

Kisame lowered his head and looked at the little guy on the back of his hand. The latter's pair of pupils had somehow changed into the shape of a Sharingan.

He controlled Nerugui with genjutsu.

"A mere pet ferret can make the caravan leader, Kahiko, be in a hurry and make the entire caravan to look around, which shows that it has a bigger role to play than being a pet..."

Kisame murmured to himself. Combined with the identity that this ferret is a royal pet, a bold guess emerged in his heart.

It may be the key to finding the Gelel Stone vein.

However, only Kahiko seems to know how to use this ferret to find the ore vein.

Therefore, Kisame's next plan is to kidnap the old man named Kahiko while Yahiko and Konan are not paying attention.

The next day.

Early in the morning, Kahiko, who had not slept his eyes all night, rushed out of the tent with bloodshot eyes and searched the surrounding woods again.

Still nothing was found.

Kahiko was still not reconciled, and vowed to get Negurui back no matter what. However, just when he ordered the caravan and prepared to further expand the search area, the enemy's attack came unexpectedly.

'Bang bang bang.'

In the surrounding woods, burly enemies in full-body armor with metallic luster, with giant hammers and iron swords in their hands, appeared infront of them. They surrounded the panicked caravan crowd and quickly attacked them with greater numbers.

'What?'

Kisame hid in the distance to watch the fight, and found that these people were dressed like the western medieval knights in his past life memory.

The fighting style of these knights is also completely different from that of ninjas. Although they do not use ninjutsu and chakra, they can also cause huge lethality with their tall and strong bodies, sturdy armor and sharp weapons.

"Have they finally appeared?"

At this time, Yahiko and Konan came out of the carriage, looked at each other, and rushed towards the enemy respectively.

'Shhhhhh.'

Konan flipped her hands and threw paper shuriken at the enemy constantly. Those shurikens were actually transformed from detonating talismans. After sticking to the enemy's armor, they exploded violently.

'Rumble.'

With the sound of explosions, a series of fire suddenly devoured more than a dozen enemies, causing them to collapse.

On the other side, Yahiko faced the siege of dozens of knights. He quickly made a series of hand seals and pressed his palms to the ground. Accompanied by violent vibration on the ground, a large number of trees rose from the ground.

'Cree.'

The trees spiraled up under his control and strangled the enemies in front of him one by one in an instant, and even the steel armor could not resist the power of the trees.

Mokuton.

Obviously, when Nagato used the Impure reincarnation to resurrect Yahiko and Konan, he chose a good sacrifice, so that the strength of the two after the resurrection was far greater than before.

Since the reincarnated body has unlimited chakra, the two can unscrupulously perform large-scale ninjutsu, and in a short time, they will destroy more than half of the enemy.

"Owwww!"

At this time, a wolf howl sounded. It turned out that the enemy leader seeing that the situation was not good, howled at the sky as his body quickly swelled into a beast and turned into a huge werewolf with a height of five meters.

'Swish.'