Talking up to here, the Third Tsuchikage suddenly asked: "Still no whereabouts of Shinji Uchiha?"
Tsunade shook her head, looking worried: "Ever since he led the team out to hunt down Orochimaru, there has been no news of him during this period."
Jiraiya frowned: "Still too impulsive!"
Orochimaru broke through Konoha and killed the Third Hokage, already recognized by the Five Kage as one of the most dangerous wanted criminals in the Ninja World.
Plus there was Yakushi Kabuto, a top expert, and Jugo, Guren, Tayuya, these subordinates with decent strength around Orochimaru.
Shinji actually only took those few from the Konoha Military Police Force to hunt them down. In everyone's eyes, he was undoubtedly overly confident.
The Five Kage actually also suspected that Itachi Uchiha left some message in Kakashi or Sasuke's mind world.
It was just that without Shinji, even if they suspected, they had no way to verify. Because Kakashi and Sasuke who coincidentally fell for it were the only ones on the Ninja Village Alliance side possessing Mangekyo Sharingan. And one of them was still in a coma, the other had heavily damaged pupil power, simply unable to verify.
While chatting, the situation on the field changed.
Gaara, not favored by the Five Kage, performed far better than Darui. Although losing the One-Tail and no longer being a Jinchuriki, this seemed not to be a complete weakening for Gaara.
Without the interference of the One-Tail, his control over chakra was more precise. At the same time, his physical condition, mental state, etc., also returned to the peak with the disappearance of the One-Tail. So in the situation, he actually didn't lose too much to Naruto.
Of course, everyone present knew that Naruto didn't use full strength, at least Menma hidden in Naruto's body didn't take action.
Sky Ninja Village's aerial flying fortress.
Shinji strolled inside, visiting this aerial flying fortress representing the highest technological crystallization of the Sky Ninja Village back then.
Haku aside guided the direction for Shinji: "Ahead is the core power room!"
"Mhm!" Nodding lightly, Shinji asked: "On the way, 'Zero-Tails' didn't pull any tricks, right?"
The 'Zero-Tails' in his mouth was naturally Shinno escorted by Haku to find the aerial flying fortress.
Haku said: "He tried to transmit messages to the outside several times, but was stopped by me."
"Indeed dishonest!"
Shinji snorted lightly.
Actually he didn't expect Zero-Tails to be loyal to him. After all, a spy like Zero-Tails who maneuvered among various forces all year round probably lost the ability of loyalty long ago.
But this was also good. He didn't need to worry too much when dealing with Zero-Tails.
A moment later, accompanied by Haku, Shinji arrived at the core power room of the aerial fortress.
Because of being idle for a long time, the core power furnace in the power room had been abandoned, decayed beyond recognition of its original appearance.
And Zero-Tails was busy at this time, seemingly repairing the power furnace.
Shinji asked casually: "Can it still be repaired?"
Zero-Tails smiled: "Repairing equipment is not difficult. The trouble is energy supply. Before, our Sky Ninja Village would organize an energy squad of up to a hundred people to rotate transporting chakra to the power furnace to drive the aerial fortress."
Shinji said indifferently: "I can't find hundreds of people to form an energy squad. Any other way?"
Zero-Tails shook his head, then his eyes lit up: "Or find a Tailed Beast to serve as the energy source for the power furnace. If a Tailed Beast helps supply energy, then the aerial fortress can completely get rid of energy constraints."
Shinji looked at Zero-Tails with interest: "You want to incite me to fight for Tailed Beasts with Nagato?"
Zero-Tails smiled awkwardly, saying repeatedly: "Dare not dare not!"
Obviously.
He knew his situation was bad, so he tried to provoke conflict between Shinji and Nagato. At that time, as long as the two Akatsuki organizations fought fiercely, whether he took the opportunity to escape or waited for the highest bid between two Akatsuki organizations, he would be much more composed than now.
After all, in his view, with the artificial Tailed Beast technology in his hands, as well as powerful dark medical ninjutsu and cell activation secret techniques, 'A' should need him.
Shinji wasted no more words. After Zero-Tails repaired the power furnace, he directly used 'Tsukuyomi' on Zero-Tails.
In the Tsukuyomi world.
Looking at the crimson world in front of him, Zero-Tails knew he was hit.
However, relying on being a Jinchuriki, the artificial Tailed Beast in his body would help him escape from Genjutsu after detecting his abnormal state, so he was not too flustered. Instead, he looked at the Tsukuyomi world with interest and shouted: "Leader-sama, you should know Genjutsu is useless against me!"
Shinji's figure appeared in front of Zero-Tails at this time: "If you are counting on that artificial Tailed Beast to wake you up, you might as well try!"
Zero-Tails looked stern: "Leader-sama, I have pledged loyalty to you, why drive me to extinction? Besides, without me, you have no way to control the aerial fortress!"
Shinji said indifferently: "Aren't you a Tailed Beast? Throwing you into the power furnace is enough!"
After speaking, Shinji disappeared in front of Zero-Tails.
Zero-Tails turned pale with fright instantly, shouting to the surroundings: "Leader-sama, I sincerely pledge loyalty to you, please give me a chance!"
However, no matter how he shouted, there was no response around.
Outside the Tsukuyomi world.
Seeing Shinji take action, Haku asked: "You want to finish him?"
Shinji shook his head: "Killing him is too wasteful. Didn't he incite us to capture a Tailed Beast? Then I'll just use him to make up the number!"
Although the artificial Tailed Beast couldn't be mentioned in the same breath as real Tailed Beasts, just being responsible for providing power to the aerial fortress was more than enough. So Shinji sealed Zero-Tails in the power furnace of the aerial fortress with sealing jutsu.
Obtaining energy, the aerial fortress started smoothly and slowly rose into the air.
Watching the huge fortress fly into the air, Shinji, Haku, and Yakumo accompanying them clicked their tongues in wonder.
After trying various functions of the aerial fortress, Shinji didn't let the aerial fortress fly to the Land of Rain immediately.
After all, this fortress had been buried deep underground for decades, and many areas needed renovation and refurbishment. So Shinji left Haku in the fortress, letting him recruit a group of workers in the Ninja World to refurbish the fortress inside and out.
And with Shinji's current pupil power, sealing memories of ordinary people was easy, so no need to worry about workers leaking secrets.
As for Zero-Tails sealed in the power furnace, Shinji decided to let the opponent wear down his will in 'Tsukuyomi' first. After the opponent's spirit approached collapse and mental defense relaxed, he would use Genjutsu to extract various high-end technologies mastered in the opponent's brain one by one, lest the opponent fob him off with fake technologies.
Because when it comes to technology, a tiny miss is as good as a mile, so he had to be cautious...