Chapter 76 Changes on the frontier, Orochimaru invades!
"Then we'll leave first! Grandpa Jiraiya! See you tomorrow!"
"See you tomorrow? Hey, let me spare my old bones. I want to rest for a few more days to relax."
Looking at the two little guys in front of him who were waving goodbye to him with a smile on his face, Jiraiya pretended to be a headache and teased him, he also raised his hand and waved it to signal.
"Be careful on the road and be careful about safety... Don't think about practicing in the past few days. Relax and rest at home for a while. Remember the principle of combining work and rest."
"Okay - we get it! Goodbye Grandpa Jiraiya!"
"...I understand? Haha, Naruto responds very quickly, but he definitely won't listen to it. He will probably be unable to help but arrange his own practice schedule tomorrow... Other children are just thinking about how to play at this age, but this child doesn't make noise or make trouble all day long... Judging from the relationship between these years, his essential personality is obviously not a type of bullying the weak. I really don't know why he value strength so much at a young age, and he is not afraid of getting tired of himself."
After standing there, waving his hand and watching Naruto and Sasuke gradually disappearing into the darkness, Jiraiya slowly lowered his palm, raised his lips slightly and murmured to himself, but his eyes were filled with a smile of pampering and comforting Naruto. After pausing a little, he turned around and quickly moved away in the opposite direction, while restraining his smile, his face turned into a complicated look of mixed joy and sorrow.
"Okay, the two little guys have already come home obediently. It's time to deal with the information that the teacher suddenly came..."
One of the reasons why Jiraiya suddenly decided to let Naruto and Sasuke finish the special training home in the evening was that the time was indeed almost the same as the scheduled special training plan, and even achieved the goal because of the excellent potential shown by Naruto and Sasuke. The other and the most important reason was that the third generation Naruto passed on to Jiraiya through the art of Shadow Clan.
Since Naruto fully demonstrated the special use of real-time dialogue with the help of Shadow Clusters in the eradication of Danzo, this plan has quietly become popular among the top leaders of Konoha Ninja Village. In terms of chakra alone, there may not be many Naruto in Konoha Ninja Village who are the Nine-Tail Kyuriki, but if only two or three Shadow Clusters are reserved for the intelligence room specially opened in the Naruto office building as an emergency communication method, although it is necessary to divert Chakra to maintain Shadow Clusters all day, which has more or less impact on strength, it is naturally effortless for the strong people who can enter the high class... And Jiraiya, one of the confidants of the three generations of Naruto, is certainly one of the members who voluntarily participated in this plan.
Because of this, Jiraiya, who originally intended to let Naruto Sasuke rest for one night as usual and then continue practicing the next day, was suddenly effective because the long-silent memory transmission between the shadow clone and the body reserved in the Naruto office building a year ago, unexpectedly received an urgent order from the third-generation Naruto 100,000, and changed his words and ended the special training ahead of time, allowing Naruto and Sasuke to return home first.
"Did the guards on the border suddenly lose contact collectively? If you remember correctly, the ninjas who are qualified to guard the border must at least have the level of a special ninja. It's okay to say one or two, but they are missing collectively... either because someone is instigating against him or planning to rebel, or... they are invaded by a powerful enemy and have died in battle on the border."
The more than a year of special training allowed Jiraiya to know the third outdoor survival training ground. She was familiar with the road and found the closest route to the location of the event. While she was like a ghost, she murmured and analyzed the information that the next three generations of Naruto conveyed to him through the shadow clone, and her expression became heavier and more serious.
"So that's it. No wonder the teacher would bother Naruto's special training arrangements... This is indeed a problem that cannot be underestimated. If it were the former, it would be fine, as long as the leader was solved, it would be basically done... But now there are basically not many villains in the village who are lip service. The probability of such a situation is not high. In other words, the reason for the change is more likely to be the latter."
"And it is possible to easily solve so many elite troops, besides the massive invasion of hostile forces, there is only the possibility that the ill-intentioned shadow-level powerful men were discovered by the guards when they tried to sneak into the village..."
Among these two possibilities, no matter which situation is, it is not something that ordinary support troops can deal with. Jiraiya, who happened to lead Naruto and Sasuke to conduct special training in the No. 3 outdoor survival training ground, is very close to the location of the incident. The special incident involving the safety of the village made the third generation of Naruto come to Jiraiya in advance for support when the special training was not over yet. It is precisely because the enemy was unclear and worried that he would not be distracted to take care of the safety of the two children, Jiraiya chose to end the special training in advance and arrange for the two to go home instead of waiting in place, so that he could let go and concentrate on the action to solve this unexpected incident.
"Tsk, after receiving this message, I always feel an ominous premonition in my heart... I hope I think more about it. Estimate the distance according to the location of the task given by the teacher. It should not be too far away. You have to speed up your pace. It is better to solve it earlier and be at ease."
While speaking, Jiraiya kept trying to calm down his unreasonable depression with deep breaths. After pausing for a while, he slightly identified the direction of his progress, while secretly speeding up his movements. Not long after, he fell lightly from the trunk of the towering branches to the clouds. With the help of the closer and closer bloody smell in the air, he slowly moved forward, and finally found a corpse wearing a tragic death in the Konoha Ninja Village standard ninja vest.
"Sure enough, are you still one step late... This should be one of the missing guards." Looking at the corpse that was still warm in front of him, Jiraiya frowned and squatted down and reached out to turn it over slowly. The smell of blood became more intense due to the loss of soil covering, and the expression on Jiraiya's face became more gloomy and blue. He couldn't help but grit his teeth and shouted angrily, "Damn it! He was so cruel! Who did this!"
After Jiraiya completely turned over the corpse that had obviously just died, he not only exposed the wound left by the deceased after suffering from inhuman torture before his death, but also was terrifyingly stripped off his entire face, leaving only a terrible face covered in mud, blood and flesh that was vague and unrecognizable!
"...These physical injuries are all external injuries. The fatal injuries are... found because of toxins injected into the body from the neck. The skin near the wound began to swell and rot."
After suppressing the anger, Jiraiya quickly found the cause of the poor deceased's death from the small purple foul bag that bulged between his neck, but then he remembered something like he squinted his eyes and looked at the wound carefully.
"Apart from these two small holes in the artery, there are no other types of wounds near the deadly wound... Well? Wait a minute, the distance between these two small holes is not large, and it looks like... bitten by the snake's fangs? Could it be...!"
Thinking of this, Jiraiya suddenly recalled the face of a former close friend in his mind. He was so upset that he stood up and planned to report information and his guesses to the third generation Naruto through his shadow clone, but he paused slightly due to the familiar chakra riot aura that came from afar.
"This is... Kyushu's chakra? Not good! Naruto and the others are in danger!"
The sudden activity of the Nine-tailed Chakra obviously means that Naruto's current situation is so dangerous that he has to use the tailed beast to fight! It also proves Jiraiya's worst guess!
"At the fastest time you'll have to... Damn it, is it too late!"
While his mood became anxious again, Jirai didn't care to continue to explore more information in depth. While using the shadow clone to pass on information to the third generation of Naruto to apply for support, he suddenly ejected from the spot at a faster rate than he did. His fists were clenched, and his eyes were roaring and roaring.
"Bastard! Orochimaru, I don't know what you want to do when you return to the village, but if you dare to hurt that child a little, I will never give you the chance to leave the village alive!"
Chapter completed!