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All White Zetsu are the same, yet to Yūshin, White Zetsu are different.
Through gaining water-nature chakra transformation ability from White Zetsu this time, he realized White Zetsu might bring rich and diverse possibilities.
Since he could accidentally obtain water nature from White Zetsu, what about wind nature, lightning nature, or even...
Just as he successfully ambushed White Zetsu, somewhere very far from the incident location, a White Zetsu moving toward the main body suddenly stopped.
"A comrade's signal disappeared—what happened?"
Obviously, this White Zetsu serving as communicator or "minor leader" differed from ordinary White Zetsu. It could perceive distant comrades' "signals"—barely qualifying as a rare individual with certain information processing capabilities.
You should know White Zetsu don't die easily. Someone got killed right after the meeting? Completely unreasonable no matter how you think about it.
However, before this White Zetsu could contemplate what it had discovered, another "White Zetsu" signal also vanished... This was Yūshin exiting "White Zetsu-ization."
"The second one also died!"
Two White Zetsu died almost simultaneously, their pre-death signal directions consistent. The White Zetsu minor leader quickly deduced which two had died.
Other White Zetsu were all acting individually; only the two dispatched to Area 037 for surveillance missions moved together. Therefore, the two who died together could only be them.
The situation's severity exceeded the White Zetsu minor leader's imagination. It hesitated no longer, immediately turning toward the signal disappearance direction in pursuit, needing to clarify what exactly happened there.
White Zetsu are creatures that cannot survive without darkness and feel uncomfortable without conspiracy. Losing two White Zetsu wasn't significant, but the minor leader worried the two dead White Zetsu suffered targeted strikes.
Since targeted strike possibilities existed, it meant White Zetsu's existence might be exposed. As hidden hands in the ninja world for millennia, once discovered, could they continue being hidden hands?
Since the White Zetsu minor leader only knew vague directions while worrying about becoming the next strike target, it acted overly cautious during movement. After dawdling for seven or eight days, it finally found the battle location.
After such long time, effective information remaining at the battle site was mostly destroyed. The ground burned by Yūshin's Fire Release had begun regrowing grass—what could be discerned?
The White Zetsu minor leader only concluded the battle occurred very briefly—confrontation was intense but not prolonged—correct but insufficiently detailed intelligence. With such limited information, determining whether someone was targeting White Zetsu or those two White Zetsu accidentally got involved in shinobi battles was very difficult.
Don't consider the White Zetsu minor leader's thinking insufficiently cautious. They'd lived too long, experiencing even the most unlucky death methods. There were even White Zetsu walking peacefully who suddenly got killed by falling meteorites.
Comparatively, being suddenly burned to death by Fire Release wasn't noteworthy.
The only problem was their deaths were too clean. The White Zetsu minor leader searched extensively without finding those two White Zetsu's corpses. This basically confirmed its suspicions.
It hadn't considered someone could impersonate White Zetsu, only thinking someone detected White Zetsu's existence and conveniently eliminated two.
Regardless, the minor leader decided to report everything happening here in detail to the main body.
...
Yūshin knew his actions would very likely attract White Zetsu investigation, therefore he retreated extremely timely.
Causing White Zetsu alertness was unavoidable, but "someone detected White Zetsu's existence" and "someone can impersonate White Zetsu"—these two pieces of information could trigger completely different attention levels within the White Zetsu group.
The former basically wouldn't produce adverse effects on Yūshin. If White Zetsu suspected anyone, they'd first suspect those with heavy suspicions.
Like red-eye disease patients, Sage Body inheritors, exceptional sealing shinobi, and so forth—anyway, suspicion wouldn't fall on Yūshin.
Yūshin didn't know the White Zetsu minor leader's investigation would be so sluggish. After leaving the assassination incident location, he didn't immediately return to camp.
His previous words to companions about scouting battlefield environments and seeking supplies weren't false. Therefore, during return, his movement route hugged town edges and some frequently war-torn area peripheries.
Small and medium ninja clans have their warfare methods; powerful major ninja clans also have their combat approaches. Yūshin wanted to determine the ninja world's main battlefield ranges as much as possible, avoiding future accidental injury by powerful individuals.
The ninja world's grand stage—come if you dare. Current Yūshin belonged to the self-aware category.
After inquiring about information in several towns, obtained intelligence left Yūshin somewhat speechless...
Small and medium ninja clan battlefields "bloomed centrally"—basically everywhere. Major ninja clan battlefields "exploded peripherally"—actually concentrated near future Land of Fire border areas.
Yūshin's camp was currently hidden in the Land of Fire's northern primitive forests. Truly calculating, it wasn't far from some ninja world main battlefields.
Although intelligence he gathered mostly came from ordinary people with insufficient accuracy, this intelligence still verified one viewpoint—the ninja world had no safe places whatsoever.
Yūshin also faced an extremely realistic predicament: being broke, therefore unable to supplement supplies in towns.
He could only focus on battlefields, seeing whether kind-hearted shinobi would leave useful supplies in not-too-dangerous battlefields.
Food, medicine, ninja tools—his camp lacked everything. If kind-hearted delivery shinobi conducted friendly mass distribution now, he definitely wouldn't disappoint their good deeds.
Don't mention it—three days after leaving towns, Yūshin actually witnessed two groups of shinobi fighting.
Since he observed from beginning to end how they encountered each other and started fighting, Yūshin even figured out why they were scuffling... competing for supplies.
There were supplies!
Yūshin, originally planning only to watch the show, carefully avoided their chaotic battle while extremely cautiously approaching the battlefield.
These warring sides were evenly matched in numbers, each having over ten shinobi. One side called themselves the Ishikawa Clan—Yūshin hadn't heard of them, didn't recognize their family crest either, yet he knew this was definitely a major ninja clan.
Because they were the side implementing robbery, while the robbed side—Yūshin recognized their forehead protectors.
The robbed shinobi wore distinctive forehead protectors on their heads. One shinobi carried a massive supply scroll on his back, containing large quantities of supplies urgently needed by clan members sealed inside.
Both that scroll and their forehead protectors bore extremely prominent patterns—this pattern consisted of five circles and some lines.
Five circles didn't represent them coming from the Olympic Clan. In fact, these shinobi were renowned. They came from...
The Sarutobi Clan.
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