Base.
In the conference room.
Seimei sat by the table, eyes slightly closed, seemingly resting, but his ears were already pricked up, listening carefully to the conversations of the people around him.
However, to his disappointment, these people didn't know more detailed information either.
Just as Seimei was shaking his head secretly, an Uchiha Jonin walked into the meeting room.
The person who came was none other than the commander-in-chief of the base, Uchiha Wakao.
As always, he was vigorous and resolute, without any nonsense. After entering, he sat directly on the first seat and began to describe the current situation.
In general, it was similar to what the Konoha Chunin said, but with some more details.
And it was these details that made Seimei confirm that Kirigakure's actions this time were definitely not a small fight.
He could see this, and so could the border command.
Therefore, Nara Shikamitsu did not dare to transfer ninjas from the central and southern defense lines on a large scale, for fear of falling into Kirigakure's trick of diverting the tiger away from the mountain.
However, the northern defense line cannot be left unguarded.
So, the pressure came to them, and the headquarters asked them to immediately dispatch some people to surround Kirigakure's surprise attack troops from the rear.
Hearing this order, a special Jonin from the Nara clan immediately said: "Transfer people from us? What if the enemy's purpose is this?"
Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, and then they all showed thoughtful expressions.
Indeed, since the headquarters is worried about the central and southern defense lines being lured away from the tiger, then by the same token, their place may also be the enemy's target.
Even, to some extent, their location is even more important.
"Jonin Nara is right. The enemy's ultimate goal may be our base. Don't forget what happened half a month ago. This matter needs to be discussed in the long run."
After a moment of silence, a Jonin said so.
Hearing this, another person echoed: "Indeed, this is possible."
"Indeed, we have to guard against it!"
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With someone taking the lead, everyone began to express their opinions.
Soon, the meeting room became noisy.
"Quiet!"
Suddenly, a loud shout rang out.
Uchiha Wakao glanced at everyone, and under his gaze, everyone closed their mouths.
Only then did Uchiha Wakao say: "The headquarters has also considered the things you are worried about, so this time we are only asked to dispatch a hundred people to support, and the remaining troops will be on full alert to guard against Kirigakure's surprise attack."
"One hundred people?"
A Konoha Jonin hesitated: "Is that enough?"
"According to the information from the headquarters, there are four to five hundred Kiri Shinobi attacking the northern defense line. Can this number of people block their retreat?"
"Cough~"
Hearing this, Uchiha Wakao coughed lightly, looked at Seimei and said, "Soldiers are more valuable than expensive. Seimei, the headquarters specifically asked you to lead the team this time, is there any problem?"
Hearing Uchiha Wakao's words, before Seimei could answer, someone took the lead and said: "If Jonin Seimei leads the team, then there should be no problem."
"That's right, everyone has seen Jonin Seimei's combat power, and it's not a problem to complete such a task." Another person echoed.
Hearing this, Seimei glanced at the two of them, a cold light flashed in the depths of his eyes.
Although he doesn't mind carrying out such a task, it doesn't mean that he likes to be put on the fire.
These two people sang together, making it seem like he was sorry to everyone if he didn't accept this task.
He didn't know if these two guys were simply fanning the flames, or someone was instigating them behind their backs, but in any case, they definitely didn't have any good intentions.
Looking at the others, most of them looked like they had nothing to do with themselves and were hanging high.
This made Seimei truly realize that the world he came to is a real world, everyone has their own thoughts, and the world does not revolve around one person.
All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind, Seimei looked at Uchiha Wakao, and said: "I can lead the team, but I need a few people to assist me."
"Say!"
Uchiha Wakao said.
Seeing this, Seimei was not polite, and directly ordered four Jonin, including the two who sang together just now.
"Captain!"
Seeing that Seimei wanted to go with him, the two quickly got up and were about to speak.
However, they had just said two words when Uchiha Wakao raised his hand to interrupt them.
He just heard him say to Seimei: "No problem, the four of them will go with you."
Uchiha Wakao naturally saw the faint targeting of Seimei by these two people, but he didn't care much.
In his view, Uchiha's genius must experience ups and downs, and a genius who grows up in a greenhouse is not a real genius.
Because of this, he didn't stop them when they spoke just now.
But in the same way, if Seimei chooses to fight back, then he will not give the two of them face. How can Seimei, a ninja of the Uchiha clan, be bullied at will?
Therefore, he directly arranged them into the support team according to Seimei's wishes.
The matter was settled, Seimei didn't waste any more time, after taking the mission scroll, he said goodbye and left.
The departure time was set half an hour later, and he planned to go back and take all the things that might be used with him.
Although there is no evidence, intuition tells Seimei that this trip will not be too easy.
...
After a while, half an hour passed.
South side of the forward base.
Dock area.
Seimei and other one hundred ninjas boarded two passenger ships, and then rushed to the northern defense line of the border of the Land of Fire under the starlight.
And not long after he left, a shark swam out of the sea.
Immediately afterwards, a figure emerged from the shark's mouth.
He was wearing a black robe and a mask, and there were four stripes on the mask that looked like water or mist, which was the symbol of Kirigakure Village.
Obviously, this person is an Anbu ninja from Kirigakure Village.
He looked in the direction Seimei was leaving, took out a scroll from his arms, quickly wrote a few lines of ciphertext, then formed seals with both hands, and summoned a slightly smaller shark again.
Then, he stuffed the scroll in his hand into the shark's mouth, patted its head, and let it go.
Afterwards, this Kirigakure Anbu observed for a while before getting back into the mouth of the first shark.
Then, the shark jumped up, then plunged down violently, splashing waves, and finally disappeared into the sea.
At this time, Seimei didn't know that the whereabouts of his group had fallen into the eyes of those who cared.
However, even if he knew, he wouldn't care too much.
Because in his opinion, the possibility of accidents in their trip is as high as 90%.
Let's not talk about the troubles that the two 'companions' on the boat, who don't know whether they have problems themselves or are instructed by someone behind them, may cause trouble. Kirigakure itself will not let them easily reach their destination.
Because no matter whether Kirigakure's attack on the northern defense line this time is a feint attack or a real attack, the four to five hundred people are real.
Once they are allowed to reach their destination, what awaits them will be a pincer attack from front and back.
At that time, those four to five hundred people were at risk of being wiped out.
And once these people are all dead, even if Kirigakure has any plans and succeeds in the end, it may not be able to make up for the loss.
So, they can't let their group reach their destination smoothly no matter what.
At that time, sniping is inevitable.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the other party let them go, and then ran away by themselves in advance.
In this way, there will be no loss.
Maybe, the headquarters also hopes that this kind of thing will happen!
Unfortunately, this possibility is not very big in Seimei's view.
However, the specifics depend on the development of subsequent events.
(End of this chapter)