What the black-robed masked man was experiencing now was the same as what the black-robed masked man had just experienced. The walls were all sealed by the white paper, and he couldn't leave the tower area.
"Not good!"
After the black-masked man cut off his right arm, he felt an instinctive fear when he saw the paper.
He immediately took a step back.
His eyes stared at the magical wall in front of him through the eye hole of the mask.
"What is exactly happening here?"
A big question mark appeared in his head. His eyes were always staring at the paper wall in front of him, afraid that the paper would suddenly fly out.
Swish Swish...
As the saying goes, what you are afraid of comes.
Just as the black-robed masked man stared at the paper wall.
The paper wall instantly turned into pieces of paper and flew toward him.
He suddenly raised his left hand.
He prepared to form a hand seal with one hand.
Facing these pieces of paper, he instinctively thought of Fire Release Ninjutsu.
Whether it worked or not.
In the end, he had to struggle for a bit, and he could not just sit still and wait for death.
Tap!
At this moment, he suddenly felt his shoulder sink.
A hand actually patted his shoulder.
In a split second.
The expression behind his mask changed greatly.
Just now, he had focused all his attention on the changing paper wall. He had not expected that there were other figures behind him.
Hum!
The moment this hand patted his shoulder.
Black lines appeared on his body.
These lines were exactly the same as the ones he had encountered just now.
However, these lines were coming from this hand and not from the papers.
Immediately.
The black-robed masked man understood one thing.
The owner of this hand that was on his body was the owner of those papers.
"You should not have come to disturb my quiet life."
A faint voice rang out, clearly entering the ears of the black-robed masked man.
Just as he was speaking.
Black lines quickly appeared on the black-robed masked man's body and completely sealed his body.
This time, the black-robed masked man had no other choice.
His entire body was covered in sealing formula.
He couldn't kill himself!
The black-robed masked man was thinking in his heart. He wanted to know who this person was, but he only heard the voice and did not see the person's appearance.
Suddenly.
He felt a pair of hands brush past his cheeks.
It directly removed the mask on his face.
After that.
He felt his body become light, and he was casually lifted up by someone.
His companion also floated up beside him.
The two of them flew all the way to the third floor of the tower.
Throughout the entire process.
They could feel the existence of that person.
However, they could not see the appearance of that person at all.
This was an expert!
The two black-robed masked men were both aware of this matter, and they felt that this person's level of caution and anti-reconnaissance ability were above theirs.
Bang!
Bang!
The two of them were thrown to the ground like trash.
When they fell to the ground, they saw the person who carried them over.
It was just that...
That person was wearing a mask.
It was the mask that had just been taken off.
The two of them had a lot of questions in their hearts, but they could not even move their tongues now and were unable to speak at all.
As the two of them looked at each other in confusion.
This person stretched out his right hand, first touching the head of the black-robed person who had been taken off the mask, then touching the black-robed person wrapped in paper.
Then.
That person stood up and walked out of their line of sight.
"So it's the people from Root."
This indifferent voice sounded, and there seemed to be a hint of contemplation in its tone.
"If you don't come in, there won't be any problems. Now that I can't let you go, I can only use you as an experiment."
The voice sounded again, but the content of the words made the two people even more confused.
"You don't have to worry. You won't die for a while, but don't have any expectations. You definitely won't be able to walk out of this tower alive."
The owner of the voice.
It was Aoba, who was training in the tower.
Aoba had just released his shadow clone and was ready to learn the Ninjutsu in the Scroll of Water Release Ninjutsu. His imagination was infinitely beautiful.
However.
Before he could start.
These two Root ninjas broke into his tower.
There was no other way.
Since the tower was already exposed to the eyes of these two people, he could not let these two people return alive!
When Aoba touched the heads of the two people just now, two crisp electronic prompts sounded in his head, and he got two average-level ninjutsu.
Just by the level of ninjutsu, he could judge that these two Root ninjas were at best at Chunin.
It was not troublesome to solve it.
When Aoba dealt with the two of them, he tried to use the sealing technique from the book that Minato gave him, as well as Danzo's sealing technique obtained by reading the memories.
Plus a little trick.
He directly played the two of them in his palms.
He held them tightly!
"Go to sleep."
Aoba lightly spat out two words. Then, he waved his right hand. Two pieces of paper flew out from his hand and landed on their foreheads.
There was a circle on the paper.
The word "sleepy" was written in the middle of the circle.
It was the result of the sleepiness seal he learned from the book that Minato gave him.
In an instant.
The two Root ninjas closed their eyes, and the sleepiness invaded their brains, causing them to fall into a deep sleep.
As long as Aoba didn't remove the two paper tags, they would continue to sleep.
"What on earth happened to make Root chase a person so far?"
Aoba was originally not curious about them. If they left directly, then they would let them leave.
Now, they had already delivered themselves to the door.
He also read the memories of these two people.
Moreover.
Aoba also wanted to see what kind of state Hari was in through the memories of these two Root ninjas.
Thinking of this.
Aoba directly sat cross-legged.
He sat on the floor of the third floor of the tower.
He slowly closed his eyes.
He pressed his hands on his temples.
He began to read the memories of these two people.
In a split second.
Scenes after scenes appeared in Aoba's mind.
The first person that Aoba flipped through was the Root ninja that he sealed first.
This Root ninja was not old.
Now, he was only sixteen years old.
Well...
Strictly speaking, he was one year older than him.
"The so-called Root people have no name, no feelings, no past, no future, only a mission in their heart..."
Aoba had seen such brainwashing words more than once in this person's memory. This kind of feeling was like this person had mistakenly entered the pyramid scheme.
In the beginning, he still maintained some of his own consciousness and felt that the Root was a group of people with abnormal brains.
Over time.
His brain also became abnormal.
However.
He was still relatively late.
He still retained a trace of his nature.
After completing the task, he became very curious about the surrounding environment and strange things.
Reality proved.
It was precisely because of this curiosity.
It ruined this person's Root career.
In the future, he would no longer appear in the form of a normal person.
When Aoba was reading this person's memories, he saw the mission they had just carried out.
This was an assassination mission.
The target of the mission was a young girl named Fujieda Yoshino.
According to the results of the mission.
They had successfully killed Fujieda Yoshino and dissolved her corpse with Corpse Dissolving Water.
Fujieda Yoshino was a member of Konohagakure's private organization.
This was a small group of ninjas.
There were a total of six people.
All of them were Chunin.
They liked to investigate some special things outside of their missions.
About half a year ago.
Konohagakure had a missing people case.
Later, the river drifting corpse case happened one after another.
These cases attracted the attention of their organization. They wanted to investigate what had happened here through their means.
After a period of perseverance.
They found a little clue.
These clues pointed to Konohagakure's Shimura Danzo!
This made them realize that there seemed to be some secret hidden in the missing people case.
But...
Not long after.
Tetsu, the organization's leader of the remnant of the old era, was caught.
In the end, the missing people case and the river drifting corpse case all fell on Tetsu.
For the people of Konohagakure.
This was the case closed.
As long as Konohagakure regained peace and order, then there was nothing to say.
But for their small organization...
This matter was not over at all.
They discovered a big secret that no one else knew about.
That was...
The human experiment laboratory that Orochimaru had set up in Konohagakure!
This discovery allowed them to find the decisive evidence to testify against Danzo!
They silently guarded the side of Orochimaru's laboratory while carefully hiding. After several months of secret observation, they discovered the figure of Danzo coming and going to Orochimaru's laboratory.
There were also many dead bodies resulting from failed experiments.
Those dead bodies were all piled up together by the Root ninjas wearing masks and then used Corpse Dissolving Water to dispose of them.
This way, there would not be any traces left.
As the leader of their organization, Fujieda Yoshino decided to report this discovery to the Third Hokage.
Half a month ago.
After summarizing everything she had seen, she took advantage of Third Hokage's free time to go to the Hokage Building and tell Third Hokage about this matter.
Only...
What she did not expect was that.
From that moment on.
Shimura Danzo's nightmare did not come, but they fell into it and never woke up.
From her companions to herself.
In just half a month.
Not a single one was left.
They were all assassinated.
Until the moment Fujieda Yoshino died, she did not know how Shimura Danzo knew about them. She only told the Third Hokage of the results of their investigation.
"Interesting."
Aoba silently sighed. These specific details were all found in the memory of this young Root ninja.
Normally speaking.
The mission that Danzo gave him was to assassinate Fujieda Yoshino.
There was no reason for any assassination!
If it were any of the other Roots, they would not ask for a reason or the process.
They would just need to complete the mission.
There was no need to ask anything else.
But...
Because of curiosity, this Root ninja conducted an investigation on Fujieda Yoshino.
He found some information about Fujieda Yoshino from the scroll records of Root.
He gradually understood that Fujieda Yoshino had been assassinated because she report Danzo.
Because of this.
He wondered if there would be an accomplice of Fujieda Yoshino in the tower.
"Curiosity will kill the cat!"
Aoba said with double meanings. His words were not only for Fujieda Yoshino but also for this young Root ninja.
If Fujieda Yoshino was not so curious and as long as she did her duty. Such an accident would not happen.
Not only did she kill herself, but she also killed her friends.
Of course.
Aoba did not think that their heart of justice was wrong.
However, he felt that she should have acted according to what she could do.
If she forcefully dragged herself and her friends into a storm that she could not withstand because she did not have enough strength...
That was not justice.
That was stupidity!
The same...
Suppose this young Root ninja was not so curious to investigate the matter of Fujieda Yoshino and was not curious about what was inside the tower after completing the mission. He would not have fallen into the situation of being caught by Aoba with his companions.
All of this.
Was because they could not control their curiosity.
Thus, they fell into a desperate situation.
After simply going through the memory of this young Root ninja, Aoba began to go through the memory of the Root ninja with the broken arm.
He planned to take a simple look first.
Aoba opened the memory of the Root ninja with the broken arm.
This person's memory was far more abundant than the young Root ninja.
Not only was he older, but he had also done more things in Root.
In a split second.
Scenes of memories flashed through his mind
Half an hour later.
Aoba slowly opened his eyes and silently exhaled.
"This is too interesting."
Aoba did not expect that these two Root ninjas who belong to the same group and often went on missions together. Both sides were not too clear about what the other had done.
Was this indifference to each other?
The young Root ninja had investigated Fujieda Yoshino's past in detail during this period of time. He had even seen Fujieda Yoshino's scroll report about Danzo in Root.
Through this point.
Due to his curiosity.
He could faintly guess that Danzo was working with the Third Hokage.
The things he investigated, that Root ninja with the broken arm did not know.
If he knew.
He would definitely stop him.
This was playing with fire!
As for the Root ninja with the broken arm, it was precisely the Root ninja that Fujieda Yoshinoi's organization had seen while observing Orochimaru's laboratory.
This person's memory had opened up a lot of information that Aoba had not known about before.
It was a segment of cooperation between Danzo and Orochimaru.
After Orochimaru failed his human experiments again and again.
He was the one responsible for helping Orochimaru deal with the corpse.
In the beginning.
The corpses belonged to Konohagakure.
Later on, after the missing people case completely broke out and the blame was given to Tetsu.
They began to kidnap some of the villagers from other villages outside of Konohagakure.
This Root ninja with the broken arm was not in charge of catching people but was in charge of dealing with the corpses that had failed the research.
The tools to deal with those corpses.
It was Corpse Dissolving Water.
The thing that Aoba was thinking about.
"Orochimaru personally concocted the original Corpse Dissolving Water. No wonder only Root has it, but no other place."
Aoba found important information about Corpse Dissolving Water on the Root ninja with the broken arm.
The purpose of Corpse Dissolving Water's birth was not to help Root destroy the evidence but to deal with the abandoned corpses that died after the failed experiment.
In order to ensure that the corpses would not be piled up in one place for too long and give off an unpleasant smell, Orochimaru personally invented the Corpse Dissolving Water, which could completely dissolve the corpses.
After Corpse Dissolving Water was researched.
Danzo found that this thing was very helpful to Root's assassination mission.
From then on...
When the Root ninjas carried out assassinations, they would bring along Corpse Dissolving Water.
This also contributed to many of Konohagakure's pending cases.
During the time when the Third Hokage was in charge.
Occasionally, some ninjas would suddenly disappear.
No one know if they were alive or dead.
It was as if he had vanished into thin air.
Based on this situation.
In the end, the village judged him as missing or betrayed the village.
In short.
He did not suspect Danzo at all.
It could be said that he had dealt with a lot of difficult things for the Third Hokage.
For example, those who opposed the opinions of the Third Hokage at the beginning and refused to change, caused the Third Hokage to have obstacles.
Maybe they disappeared on a dark and windy night and never appeared again.
"It's a pity... They only have Corpse Dissolving Water, but they don't have Corpse Dissolving Water's formula. This makes me unable to make it myself."
Aoba slowly shook his head. He squatted down and searched the two ninja's ninja pouches.
One bottle.
Two bottles.
Three bottles.
Aoba found three bottles of Corpse Dissolving Water on them and put them all in his pocket.
"It's enough for a period of time."
Aoba roughly estimated that the people he had dealt with earlier had used up almost a bottle of Corpse Dissolving Water.
Now, these three bottles of Corpse Dissolving Water could dissolve more people.
It had to be said.
This thing was really a good thing for killing and robbing!
"The problem now is..."
Aoba frowned slightly behind the mask. He took off the Root ninja mask and took a closer look.
"These two people are not high level enough. They don't know anything about Hari, but they didn't go back to report. Also, Orochimaru would have a missing Corpse Disposal Man. Danzo will definitely investigate this area... "
Aoba pinched his chin, his eyes flashing with thoughts.
"How can I not make them suspect the tower?"
Aoba did not want to move out of this secret base that he had just moved into so easily.