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Taking advantage of the cover of the night and the rain, which muffled their movements and sounds, the reconnaissance team, after carefully changing their infiltration point three times that night, finally successfully bypassed the Rain Country's border defenses and infiltrated the Amegakure.
They were a bit unlucky. The first two infiltration points had obvious signs of ninja activity.
Successfully infiltrating the Amegakure didn't mean that Team Haori's mission was complete. In fact, the difficult part of their mission was just beginning.
No matter how dangerous it was before, Team Haori was still within the borders of the Land of Fire. They had certain advantages in terms of environment and psychology. But now, they were completely in enemy territory. Everything around them, except for themselves and their teammates, was filled with malice.
What was even more serious was that the density and number of enemies here couldn't be compared to the Land of Fire. This was a complete reversal of roles. If Haori made even the slightest mistake, this small four-person reconnaissance team would be wiped out without a doubt.
So, after entering the Amegakure, Haori, as the team leader, took back the lead of the four-person team that was moving vertically.
Of course, they were extremely cautious. With Haori's perception ability, leading the way at the front was probably the best way to avoid unnecessary danger for the team.
If the mission requirement was just "infiltration," Haori could consider using summoning to infiltrate from the air. For a summoning beast the size of the Eight-legged Crow, it wouldn't be impossible to carry four ninjas together.
However, Team Haori's mission also included reconnaissance.
The reconnaissance mission included the deployment of Rain Country ninjas along the way. If the Leaf Village were to invade Amegakure, this information would be invaluable.
Therefore, Team Haori needed to try to learn about the enemy's ninja deployment along the way, and ideally, they could find the enemy's hidden reconnaissance points at key locations.
So, based on this reconnaissance requirement, in this rainy night, it was impossible to obtain detailed information along the way using aerial methods.
Even if the weather was sunny, in an environment like the Amegakure, where dense forests were everywhere, it would be impossible to see the details of the forest from the air.
After all, if you were flying in the sky, if you flew too high, your eyesight would be limited. None of these ninjas had the ability to see through things. But if you flew too low, the enemy wasn't blind. The Eight-legged Crow was such a big target... The infiltration would be immediately exposed.
So, Team Haori could only choose this most reliable and most dangerous reconnaissance infiltration method.
Along the way, they did encounter a few four-person Amegakure teams. But thanks to Haori's perception ability, they narrowly avoided them.
Not only that, from the frequency and area distribution of the enemy's appearances, Haori also summarized the enemy's activity patterns and the approximate activity range and time of each team.
With this pattern, Team Haori's avoidance of the enemy was more reliable.
In the night, somewhere in the Amegakure.
The four members of Team Haori huddled together in a circle… but they weren't huddling for warmth. They were recording the important information they had observed.
Haori pulled out a waterproof map from his pocket. This special map, made from a special kind of paper, couldn't be wet by ordinary rain.
Asuma and Yamanaka Aoba helped Haori unfold and secure the map.
With his incredible memory and reasoning abilities, even though he was moving in the dark, Haori could roughly confirm the team's current location.
And the error shouldn't be more than 200 meters.
Now, Haori was going to record the activity reconnaissance range of the few Amegakure teams they had encountered on the map.
Of course, Team Haori wouldn't use bright lights. After all, in this heavy rain and darkness, using illumination was a surefire way to get yourself killed.
Fortunately, he had a special tool.
Haori pulled out a fluorescent pen from his ninja tool pouch—this was his usual name for it. In fact, the only thing this pen had to do with fluorescence was that the tip had a slight glow.
If you were within 20 meters, it was the brightness of a firefly. If you were further away, you wouldn't see anything.
Haori's eyes were glued to the map. With just this slight glow, he had to mark the information he needed.
It was really tiring for his eyes.
After marking it, Yamanaka Aoba and Asuma carefully refolded the map and gave it back to Haori.
This kind of mission item was always kept in the captain's hands.
The four didn't even exchange a single word. This series of actions was completed silently. From the moment Haori took out the map to the moment he put it away, no sound was made.
Perhaps even if a team of ninjas had just passed by them, as long as they didn't have a ninja with special perception abilities, they wouldn't have been able to detect them with just their five senses of sight and hearing.
Team Haori's ultimate goal was a place 50 kilometers from the border between the two countries in Amegakure. It was a front-line base. According to previous Leaf Village intelligence, there were nearly four-digit ninjas stationed at the base.
And the main objective of Team Haori was to go to the base and confirm whether the number of enemy ninjas had increased or decreased.
The Amegakure was small, and 50 kilometers didn't seem far. Although it was called a "front-line base," it was basically a very deep location. You could even say it was the enemy's core control area. So, the danger level of the next mission was imaginable.
Therefore, even though they had a relatively accurate map, out of caution and because of the discomfort that the completely unfamiliar environment brought to the team, Haori and the others moved very slowly.
During this time, the weather had been consistently rainy. The daytime was also very dark, but it wasn't so dark that the enemy ninjas couldn't see an infiltration target like Team Haori. After considering everything, Haori decided that the team would hide during the day and advance at night.
They would start moving after nightfall. When it started to get light, they would find a suitable place to take turns resting, staying alert, and maintaining their stamina.
In enemy territory, food and water sources were out of the question. Team Haori's supplies could only sustain the minimum level of consumption.
During the mission, the team was unusually silent. And the only communication they had was through hand signals.
When they could avoid making a sound, they absolutely wouldn't make a sound.
In this way, after three days and four nights, they finally approached their most important reconnaissance target.
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