By the time Orochimaru and the Root's Shinobi arrived, the battle had already ended long ago, and there were only ten Root's Shinobi's corpses left on the ground, they are in a terrible state of death, as if they were all crushed by a huge rock.
Apart from this, there should be the corpses of the Akatsuki's Shinobi, but the corpses were all taken away, leaving only a large amount of blood on the scene.
"Interesting…"
Orochimaru squinted and circled around the Root's Shinobi's corpses, as if trying to find out what Ninjutsu killed them, but after a while, he still couldn't find any clue.
Orochimaru then said: "Bring all these corpses back."
"Yes!"
...
Under the dark night.
In a small forest dozens of miles away from Kikyō Pass.
"Do you really want to go?"
Nagato lowered his head and looked at Konan, who of was sitting on the ground and refine Chakra. "We were chased by Konoha's Anbu as soon as we came out of Konoha's camp. Sunagakure may also do the same thing."
"I know it's very difficult to achieve peace through discussions, but this is our original intention when we founded the Akatsuki, isn't it?" Konan's orange-yellow pupils are filled with regret, "Nagato, don't use those eyes next time. Every time you use them, it will consume your vitality."
"I understand." Nagato replied in a low voice, but it sounded insincere.
Half an hour later, Konan and Nagato got out of the small forest and headed towards Kikyō Pass.
Unfortunately, since Orochimaru came to Kikyō Pass to say hello, the mountain has been full of turmoil. The security is extremely strict, and a lot of traps have been set up in various places!
As soon as Konan and Nagato approached, they stepped into Explosive Tags trap, and immediately, a series of explosions rumbled continuously.
The sound of the explosion woke the Sunagakure's Shinobi, and the Puppet Brigade immediately rushed over.
Konan and Nagato finally got out of the Explosive Tags trap, but they were immediately surrounded by the Puppet Brigade. They resisted and said that they are from the Land of Rain's Akatsuki, and they want to talk to the Sunagakure's Shinobi, and asked them to let them meet Chiyo and Ebizō.
The Sunagakure's Shinobi saw that the other side was indeed wearing Amegakure's forehead protector, but because of their leader, Hanzō of the Salamander, every Amegakure's Shinobi would have wear gas masks. This is Amegakure's iconic equipment, but these two people didn't wear it!
'Hmph, pretending to be Amegakure's Shinobi, but are too unprofessional!'
The Sunagakure's Shinobi is full of suspicion, and then ignored the Akatsuki from their mouth, and launched an offensive madly.
Soon, Konan and Nagato couldn't resist the Puppet Brigade's offensive. Konan's arm was even scratched by a puppet, which contained poison, and Konan's face turned blue at that time.
When Nagato saw this, he immediately threw away what he had promised to Konan before, activated the Rinnegan and slaughtered the Puppet Brigade, and then quickly walked away with Konan in his arms.
When Chiyo and Ebizō arrived, there was no one alive at the scene!
"That damned Orochimaru!" Chiyo threw the blame on Orochimaru's head with a livid expression.
...
To the left of Konoha's main camp.
At this time, Kanpū is walking in the dark while working on his part-time patrol mission.
He looked up at the dim starry sky from time to time, thinking of Nagato and Konan in his heart, 'I wonder if Orochimaru had gone to find them. If his main body went there, will Nagato's Rinnegan berserk be able kill Orochimaru directly, or will Orochimaru be able to capture Nagato with the power of science? If the later happened, will Uchiha Madara popped out from the ground to talk to Orochimaru affectionately?'
Thinking of such happiness, a smile couldn't help but appeared at the corner of Kanpū's mouth.
'Huh?'
Suddenly, Kanpū felt a little discomfort in his body.
'This feeling… Am I being watched?'
It is now at the end of January of Konoha Year 46, and winter has not yet passed, so Kanpū wears a thick coat and wide sleeves. As he walks, he quietly folds his hands together, and his sleeves are joined together, and covered Kanpū's hands.
Under the sleeves, Kanpū's hands moved, and he used Sensor Ninjutsu.
In an instant, the sensory tentacles spread to the surrounding with Kanpū as the center, and dense human-shaped lines appeared within his sensing range. These all are the Konoha's Shinobi living in the camp. There are also scattered ones, which should be patrols, but… there are exceptions.
Kanpū sensed that a hundred meters behind him, there was a human-shaped line closely following him.
On this patrol route, there is only one Shinobi patrolling at the same time, so during this period of time, apart from Kanpū, there should be no more Shinobi on this patrol route!
Kanpū's thoughts started to revolve: 'It is impossible for outsiders to know about my patrol route, so the probability of Sunagakure's Shinobi and Amegakure's Shinobi can be directly ruled out.
'Then, there is only Root's Shinobi.'
Thinking of this, Kanpū's eyes lit up: 'It seems that Orochimaru has already finished his matter with Nagato and Konan.'
'Since Orochimaru sent Root's Shinobi to me, it means that he did not die under Rinnegan, which is a pity.'
'But he shouldn't get Nagato either, otherwise, he would have devoted his whole body and mind to Nagato's unfathomable body, or Rinnegan.'
Although the Shinobi World defines Rinnegan as Three Great Dōjutsu, which is the same level as Sharingan and Byakugan, as long as Orochimaru obtains Rinnegan, he wouldn't have time to take care of other matters.
Kanpū let his imagination run wild while continuing the patrol. He followed the established patrol route for more than an hour. At two o'clock in the morning, his patrol mission finally ended, and not long after, a Konoha's Shinobi appeared to take over his shift.
After handing in the shift, Kanpū returned to the earthen house.
There are two ordinary people in the earthen house. They are the personnel in the logistics department who were in charge of picking up corpses on the battlefield. Before Kanpū went on his patrol mission, he called them here to watch over the place.
"Gekkō-sama!"
"Gekkō-sama, you are back."
Both of these ordinary people are in their thirties, but when they see Kanpū, they have to call him respectfully.
Kanpū asked: "Are there any corpses sent here?"
"There's none, Gekkō-sama."
"Okay, I got it. You two can go back and rest." Kanpū waved his hand to send them away.
After that, Kanpū took out a stool and sat outside the earthen house to watch the stars.
The Root's Shinobi, who monitored him, never left and also didn't show up. Kanpū was too lazy to pay attention to him. He sat until 8 o'clock, when Tarō hurried over to change shift with him.
"Kanpū, you worked so hard last night. Even if you don't say it, I know what you want to say. There's no need to speak, you haven't slept all night, so you should go back to rest." Tarō didn't give Kanpū a chance to express himself, and hurriedly sent Kanpū away.
In the next few days, Kanpū went to work at 8 o'clock in the evening as usual, and went to bed at 8 o'clock in the morning.
The Root's Shinobi also clocked in and went to get off work with him, which made him seemed more punctual than Kanpū.
In this way, more than half a month passed. At this time, Kanpū has collected more than 40 Ninjutsu, but the more he collected, the more they overlap. But Kanpū liked to overlap. As there are more and more Five-Attributes Ninjutsu he now mastered, there are already more than sixty.
As the time passes, from who knows when, the Root's Shinobi that monitored him has disappeared. When Kanpū found out about this, he doesn't know when it happened.
In the evening, Kanpū was still sleeping in his tent. Suddenly, a warning sign is ringing from his heart. Kanpū opened his eyes abruptly and saw a Shinobi with no emotions standing at the entrance of the tent.
'Root's Shinobi?'
Kanpū stayed calm and collected, and asked: "Who are you?"
The Root's Shinobi took out a scroll and threw it to Kanpū, and said: "This is the order from Orochimaru-sama."
Kanpū opened the scroll, which turned out to be an order for him to enter the third assassination team!
"Why was I suddenly transferred to the third assassination team?" Kanpū was a little puzzled. The third assassination team was consisted of Gekkō Clan's Shinobi, and it didn't seem like they were deliberately trying to put him on difficult position.
"The third assassination team failed in their mission, and lost a few elites, so new people need to be added." The Root's Shinobi said with a blank face.
Kanpū's heart sank upon hearing this!