Chapter 127 Behind the scenes

Chapter 127 Behind the scenes and behind the scenes

In the damp cave, surrounded by huge tangled trees, a figure sat motionless on a chair made of trees.

His eyes were open in the darkness, revealing a scarlet light.

Not long after, a pale humanoid creature with a Swirl face appeared in front of him.

It was White Zetsu named Tobi.

"How's it going?"

Madara stared at Tobi with his scarlet Sharingan, and asked how the situation was over there.

Tobi scratched his head, originally wanting Madara to praise him for repelling the enemy, but seeing Madara's stern expression, Tobi didn't dare to make fun of him at this time, so he seriously replied: "Although They are not a very powerful, but their ability to deal with is first-rate, so they accidentally ran away."

"Have you found out the details of the other party?"

Madara calmed down, and wanted to know which village's ninja was the one who attacked him.

He must figure out who actually discovered his existence.

"According to the available information, the other party doesn't seem to belong to the 5 great nations, and they are not human. One is a huge rock monster, and the other is a huge water snake. Compared with humans, they are more like the existence of Summoning beasts."

"In other words, does it mean that there is still a mastermind behind it?"

Madara fell into deep thought after saying this.

Tobi nodded silently. Although he didn't notice the existence of the mastermind behind the scenes, this possibility is very high.

"White Zetsu, you told me before that some ninjas from the Uchiha clan defected to Konoha, so there must be such a thing."

"Yes, Madara-sama."

White Zetsu came here and said.

"Prior to this, all the White Zetsu sent to Konoha were wiped out. After that, you all entered Konoha to investigate safely. This is also true."

White Zetsu nodded, it was indeed as Madara said.

All the White Zetsu who were sent to infiltrate the Uchiha Clan before mysteriously disappeared.

It wasn't until Uchiha defected that things turned around.

Madara raised the corners of his mouth slightly, showing a smile, and whispered: "It's really interesting. If it's a coincidence, I don't even believe it."

There are too many elements of coincidence, which cannot be explained clearly by coincidence.

The other party must have discovered his existence.

It's just that They haven't confirmed my identity yet.

"Master Madara, what do you mean?"

White Zetsu seems to understand Madara's intention.

"Although we can't be sure, the part of the ninja who defected from Konoha is the most likely the suspect."

"Do you want to go to Konoha to explore again?"

"No, Konoha has not made any news about such a big incident. It is obvious that Konoha wants to minimize the influence of this defection incident. The information of those people must be top secret, and only high-level officials can intervene. That kind of place is not something you can sneak in at will."

Madara shook his head and rejected White Zetsu's proposal.

Konoha's defense system is very clear to him.

The external perception barrier is only to prevent foreign enemies from invading, and to be able to formulate corresponding tactics in time to destroy the enemy.

However, the information room and the defense system, which can only be accessed by the intelligence department and Hokage senior officials, exist independently, which is very different from his past in Konoha.

It is not a big problem to sneak in with the abilities of White Zetsu and others, but how to get out is a problem.

Konoha Anbu is still fatal to White Zetsu.

If Konoha catches them, They will study White Zetsu's structure and it will reveal his secrets.

At such a critical moment, Madara doesn't want to cause extra complications.

"Then how do we do it? Create more White Zetsu and protect the surroundings?"

White Zetsu became distressed.

"Of course, I still have a lot of Zhujian's strength here. I plan to use the sacred tree and the flesh from Zhujian to create a few more special individuals. In the previous battle, the opponent may have come to find out about our strength. Once he figures out our strength, next time it will not be so easy to dismiss. Instead, he will give our side a fatal blow."

Madara has this strong premonition.

"No wonder they retreated after fighting." Tobi was a little disappointed.

"That's just one aspect, Tobi, your information has been leaked. Now both of us have exposed part of our cards, but neither of us knows what other cards the other party has."

"So that means, we also have an advantage here?"

White Zetsu really thinks so.

"No, our side is at a great disadvantage."

"Eh?"

"Idiot, being able to find this place proves that your past whereabouts have been known by the enemy. They also know about obito. Things are a little worse, Nagato may have exposed. I remember that a white Zee sent to monitor Nagato before it suddenly disappeared once."

Madara gave White Zetsu a cold look.

Hearing Madara say this, cold sweat broke out on White Zetsu's back.

It is completely unimaginable that so many important things have been exposed on my side.

It's okay to say Obito, because it is not a necessity, but Nagato is Madara's most important chess piece, and there must be no accidents there.

"Then... Madara-sama, what shall we do next?"

White Zetsu was completely flustered now. The reason why they were so calm before was because they were completely in the dark, and it was not easy to be noticed by others.

Once it is noticed, and part of the purpose is figured out, this is undoubtedly the worst.

If the other party plans to do something to those two sides, with the strength of White Zetsu and Tobi, it is difficult to take care of it.

Besides, pay attention to Madara's safety.

Although the other party has not figured out their situation yet, as long as they continue to test like this, sooner or later, they will be found out.

At that time... it will be really dangerous.

"Planned action."

"ah?"

"But put a few more smoke bombs."

"How many more?"

"Send White Zetsu to the rest of Ninja Village, pretending to search for information, conspiring or something. Confused their sight and attention."

"Is this okay?"

"If you can't do it, you have to do it. I need a period of time to cultivate a new White Zetsu. In addition, unless there is a big problem, don't hang around my side. Your actions will expose my whereabouts. You go to other places, forge a stronghold, and bury a lot of Explosive Tags there. If the enemy passes by, just explode it."

Madara gave the order coldly.

As for whether the exploded stronghold will endanger the lives of the White Zetsu, Madara doesn't care at all.

These guys are originally consumables like tools.

White Zetsu naturally has no objection. For them, if one White Zetsu falls, there will be thousands of White Zetsu. Life and death are not a problem at all.

"Master Madara, are you safe?"

"Afterwards, I will enter the interior of the Divine Tree and hide. When necessary, I will use the power of the Divine Tree to fight."

Although aggrieved, this is the only way Madara can think of at the moment.

"But then, your vitality..."

"There is a strong vitality in the meat between the pillars, and it can still be used."

This is also something that can't be helped.

Even if it was just in case, he didn't want to sit here and wait for death.

Though the situation is not good for him, it is not at the end of the rope.

As long as there is no problem with Nagato, he has nothing to worry about.

Next, it depends on the other party's reaction.

In this way, he can think of corresponding ways to deal with these people according to the reaction of the other party.

Seeing that Madara has made up his mind, White Zetsu knows that no matter what he says next, it will be impossible to pursue Madara to change his will.

"Tobi, you also act together, I don't need your protection here. Your protection is exposure to me."

Tobi nodded.

With the help of the cells between the pillars and the sacred tree, although Madara's strength will not recover to its heyday, and its vitality will decline, it will not be a problem to fight in a short period of time.

Even if it is a weak Madara, not everyone can tease Tiger Whiskers.

And what Madara said is also true, the white Zetsu are here to move around Madara, only to expose Madara's position, other than that, they can't do anything.

The other party's stealth and hiding abilities are obviously higher than White Zetsu's.

"Next, what will you do, guy with unknown origin..."

Madara's Sharingan stared deep into the darkness, sitting on a wooden chair and whispering.

•••

It will be a week before I return to Demon country.

It took Shiraishi a lot of time to master the arcane medical ninjutsu of Senjutsu and Life Regeneration..

Let the shadow dancer's shadow blade injure himself seriously, and then continue to experiment with the healing ability of this medical ninjutsu.

Although it is impossible to achieve Muji, Shiraishi believes that if he continues to become proficient, it will only be a matter of time before he can perform this medical ninjutsu.

The only problem is that performing this ninjutsu requires a lot of Sage Chakra.

After these years of growth, there is no need to worry about natural energy. You only need to absorb it casually, and you can absorb inexhaustible natural energy from nature.

And the amount of chakra has always been Shiraishi's shortcoming.

He just reached the average level of Jonin Chakra, maybe even slightly lower.

His ninjutsu is basically used at critical moments. The ninjutsu he uses are basically auxiliary ninjutsu with low consumption and high practicability.

In addition to continuously creating avatars, there is no need to improve his own strength, as long as the ability of avatars is improved, and it will automatically increase his strength.

Even if fused with the shadow dancer, you can borrow chakra from the shadow dancer, but you can't perform the medical ninjutsu of immortality and life regeneration multiple times.

Take the wounded in the dying state as an example, about three to four times is the limit.

So, how to improve chakra and integrate with natural energy to produce more sage chakra is the next problem that Shiraishi will solve.

"Katsuyu, do you know how to greatly increase a ninja's chakra?"

As Katsuyu who witnessed the existence of history, she must know many secrets in the ninja world that Shiraishi does not know.

For example, treasures and methods to enhance Chakra.

The one who followed Shiraishi to the Kingdom of Demons was a small doppelgänger of Katsuyu, about the size of an ordinary domestic cat, lying softly on Shiraishi's shoulder.

Hearing Shiraishi's question, Katsuyu replied: "The refinement of Chakra is related to personal physical fitness and natural aptitude. Bloodline Limit Ninjas, because of their excellent bloodlines, are generally much higher than ordinary ninjas in terms of Chakra. Shiraishi-sama is not a ninja with Bloodline Limit, so he can only start with foreign objects." ( Bloodline Limit = kekkei-genkai)

"Foreign object?"

"Existences such as tailed beasts become jinchuriki. As far as I know, if the tailed beast can be honest with the host humans, then it will become a perfect jinchuriki, and humans can control the chakra of the tailed beast level at will."

"Tail beasts are an important force held by the five major powers to deter other countries. It will be very troublesome to move those existences."

It's not impossible, but the follow-up processing is very troublesome.

The ninja villages of the five major countries are too powerful. No matter how much they fight each other, it is their internal affairs. Outsiders will never be allowed to intervene in their division of interests.

With the current level of technology, there are only a few available resources. The five major countries naturally need the best, the neutral countries are next, and the worst are those small countries.

Especially for small countries like the Country of Grass and the Country of Rain, which are sandwiched between big countries, the situation is even more worrying.

"It's not that there are tailed beasts only in the Five Great Nations. During the first Five Kages Conference, Senju Hashirama distributed a tailed beast to Takigakure Village, the country of Taki that is not part of the Five Great Nations."

"Is that village hidden by the waterfall? I have heard of it, because the geographical environment is remote, and it is rarely affected by the ninja wars of the five major powers. The domestic situation is relatively stable."

It is also one of the best ninja villages under the five major countries, and its strength should not be underestimated.

"Yes. In addition to the tail beast, this ninja village also has something called hero water. After the ninja takes it, it can greatly increase the chakra."

"There is such a magical object."

Shiraishi pondered.

Takigakure Village has tailed beasts, he knows it, but this is the first time he has heard of the Water of Heroes.

"I don't recommend Shiraishi-sama to use this. The boosting ability of the Hero's Water is indeed very strong, but it will devour the user's vitality. Although the boosting ability is strong, the side effects are also extremely obvious."

The words of Katsuyu gradually reduced Shiraishi's enthusiasm for the hero's water.

But the interest still exists. Find an opportunity to get in touch with the ninjas in Takigakure Village, and it is completely feasible to exchange some valuables for some heroic water and come back to study.

"Besides this, is there any way to increase Chakra?"

"The power of Rōran's dragon veins."

"Rōran? I remember that place is in the Kingdom of Wind, known as the country within a country, but I heard that it seems to have fallen."

( Roran is shown in Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Lost Tower )

Shiraishi fell into deep thought.

"Yes. The power of Rōran's dragon veins is actually the veins of the earth. It is a special chakra formed by the gathering and alienation of the natural energy of the earth. Based on Shiraishi-sama's understanding of natural energy, it should not be difficult to tame the special chakra of the dragon veins."

Katsuyu said so.

"What is the sum of the energy?"

"Although the power of the dragon's veins has dried up a lot compared to ancient times, it should be easy to reach the tail beast level."

Katsuyu continued to provide information to Shiraishi.

Shiraishi nodded, the tailed beast's Chakra is enough for him to squander all kinds of sage arts, and in many cases, the lack of Chakra will not lead to disadvantages in battle.

The most important thing is that the Hidden Sand Village in the Land of Winds is now fighting with Konoha, and the domestic defense level will increase, but the overall strength of staying in the Land of Winds will decrease.

At this time, it is indeed a good time to sneak into the Kingdom of Wind to take away the power of the dragon veins.

After all, Shiraishi still attaches great importance to the chakra of the tailed beast level.

With a Chakra of this magnitude, the fighting power of the avatar will also rise to a higher level.

Therefore, Shiraishi immediately made a decision to go to the country of Rōran to find the power of the dragon vein mentioned in the mouth of Katsuyu and use it.

Shiraishi walked to the window and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly saw the scene outside the window and was taken aback for a moment.

"What's the matter, Shiraishi-sama?"

Katsuyu saw Shiraishi frozen in place, so he asked suspiciously.

She looked in the direction Shiraishi was looking at, and found nothing strange.

At this moment, an intelligence officer in a black windbreaker with an aster flower logo embroidered on the back knocked on the door and came in.

"Shiraishi-sama, this is the latest information compiled by the intelligence department, please have a look."

When he put down the materials and was about to leave, Shiraishi immediately asked the staff member: "What happened in the past few days after I left, I remember that there was a mountain in that direction, why is the mountain suddenly gone now?"

Shiraishi pointed to a mountain range that could be seen from the window, and one of the mountains disappeared as if a piece had been gouged out.

Shiraishi remembered very clearly that before he left, the top of this mountain was still there. Why did it suddenly disappear after he went out?

He probably didn't ask the construction team to start work there.

The staff stiffened for a moment, and stammered: "It's better for Shiraishi-sama to ask Ruri-sama and Ayane-sama."

I'm just a messenger, I don't want to be involved in such a dangerous incident. The staff was nervous.

It is too dangerous to intervene in the family affairs of these people at will.

After speaking, the staff quickly fled the office, not daring to stay here any longer.

"..."

Are you so scared? Shiraishi was puzzled in his heart.

But what's the matter with Ruri and Ayane?

Shiraishi walked to the desk, picked up all kinds of information handed over by the staff, and began to read.

One of the pieces of information caught Shiraishi's attention.

"White guy who knows Wood Style?"

Shiraishi murmured.

The source of this information was identified by General Earth and his water clone, Water Dragon God.

Followed the lair of those white creatures, and came across a whirl-faced white creature that could use a powerful wooden style.

Describes in detail the course of the battle, as well as the power and abilities displayed by the enemy.

Finally came to the conclusion that the swirl-faced creature was a very dangerous enemy.

In regular team encounters, the main thing is to run away directly, and you can't fight.

Finally, pictures of the Swirl face and other white creatures are attached.

"Shiraishi-sama, these guys are..."

Katsuyu clings to Shiraishi's shoulder, and naturally also saw this information. After seeing the picture of the Swirl face and the white creature, its tone was full of surprise.

"It's a member of a mysterious force I care about. This force is very concerned about Konoha and Uchiha. I want to find out what their purpose is. What, Katsuyu, do you know about these strange creatures?"

Shiraishi asked.

"It's not a matter of knowing or not, Shiraishi-sama, is this information really true?"

Katsuyu asked.

The seriousness revealed in her tone made Shiraishi slightly startled.

Knowing each other for so many days, it was the first time he felt the seriousness of Katsuyu.

"It's true, there are still several corpse samples in my laboratory."

Shiraishi told Katsuyu the answer accurately.

"I didn't expect that there are still remnants of this era."

"this era?"

Listening to the meaning of Katsuyu, it seems that this kind of creature is not a product of this era.

"Shiraishi-sama, I told you about the sacred tree before."

"Ah, you tell me that the sacred tree used to absorb the natural energy of nature and transform it into chakra."

Shiraishi nodded.

"These white creatures are humans from ancient times."

"Humanity?"

Shiraishi showed surprise.

He has dissected this white creature many times, and he has mastered the internal physiological system. Not to mention human beings, among the species known in the ninja world today, there is no matching existence at all.

"This white creature is collectively called White Zetsu. It is a living soldier created by the sacred tree using ancient humans. After a series of twists and turns, these guys gradually disappeared. I thought they had all been wiped out by humans. I didn't expect them to appear in this era."

A living soldier forged from a sacred tree? Shiraishi was surprised.

I always feel that the secrets of the ancient times are more exciting than I imagined.

"The white creatures I captured before were very weak. This time, this Swirl-faced guy can easily suppress the sage form of my two avatars by himself. It seems that there are also very powerful individuals in it."

"The power of the ten tails of the sacred tree is unpredictable, that is the origin of ninja chakra."

Katsuyu said solemnly.

"Then, Katsuyu, what do you think is the reason for these living soldiers called White Zetsu to wake up in this era?"

Shiraishi wanted to know the connection.

"I don't know very well. The one who suppressed the sacred tree was the Sage of the Six Paths. I didn't participate in that battle. The person in Mount Myōboku may know a little bit. He has a life-and-death relationship with the Sage of the Six Paths. But I don't recommend Shiraishi-sama to go to Mount Myōboku to find the answer now."

Shiraishi nodded slightly.

Judging from Mount Myōboku's series of actions in support of Konoha, as well as the admonitions from Maitreya, the witch, it seems that there is a natural conflict between myself and this place.

I can get the support of Katsuyu because Katsuyu sees everything in the world in a state of indifference.

Worldly power, wealth, and power are not attractive to it.

On the contrary, Mount Myōboku, which is also a holy place, has been interfering excessively in the human world, and has unfathomable prophecy abilities.

High above determine the fate of mankind.

This kind of aloof attitude with the established destiny interferes with the law of the development of all things, which makes Shiraishi feel extremely unhappy, and has an inexplicable urge to crush it.

"Now that the matter has surfaced, all we need to do is follow the roots."

"Shiraishi-sama is better to be careful. There must be a mastermind behind the scenes. Once the sacred tree wakes up, the world is likely to perish. Before that, the people behind the scenes will definitely go to collect the tail beasts."

It's not that Katsuyu doesn't believe in Shiraishi's ability, but that the existence of the sacred tree is too dangerous, so it is necessary to remind, so as not to carelessly underestimate the enemy when the time comes.

Just when Katsuyu reminded Shiraishi, the door of the office suddenly opened.

There was no knock on the door.

Two people pushed open the door and went inside.

"Shiraishi-sama, I am seriously reminding you, please don't act like you don't care. Maybe the world will really be in chaos."

Katsuyu saw that Shiraishi didn't listen to her at all, and her tone became helpless.

"..."

Shiraishi is not unaware of the seriousness of what Katsuyu said.

Instead, he saw Ruri with a cold face and Ayane with a smirk on her face. When the two came in, Shiraishi realized the tension and depression in the atmosphere.

The temperature of the air drops instantly.

It's like winter at the end of January, it's bitingly cold.

Whether the world will be in chaos or not, Shiraishi doesn't know. Before that, if he didn't handle the family affairs well, he might be crushed by these two people today.

During the days he was gone, what happened to these two people?

Thinking of the strange disappearance of a mountain that he saw just now, and the gesture of the staff hesitating and not daring to explain, Shiraishi suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

The disappearance of the mountain, could it not be the two of them?

(end of this chapter)