Now let's turn the camera to where Hideki is.
In the light from the flashlight, Hideki could be seen sitting cross-legged in a cave about ten meters underground, with his fingers dancing in the air as if he was playing a piece of music.
At the same time, the tip of each finger released a chakra line that extended upward, controlling the corpse puppet on the ground to continue fighting with the opponent.
Yes, that somewhat bizarre corpse puppet on the ground is indeed Hideki's masterpiece.
With the ability of radar perception, he naturally discovered early on that someone was following him.
So just in case, while exploring the Valley of the End, he found an opportunity to hide underground and let a specially made dummy puppet replace himself.
And it turned out that his caution was not in vain.
When the enemy mistook his super-realistic human puppet for him and launched a sneak attack, the huge intelligence gap made the outcome obvious.
The reason why the enemy has not been able to find any traces of Hideki's chakra lines is because they are directly connected to the footsteps of the dummy puppet from underground!
However, Hideki was able to play with the enemy in the palm of his hand, relying on a ninjutsu with a learning difficulty of only C level:
Earth escape technique: Earth Dragon Hide technique.
This technique can transform the soil into tiny grains of sand through earth escape chakra, allowing the practitioner to move freely underground like an earth dragon.
Because he wanted to focus most of his energy on puppetry, Hideki did not dabble much in ninjutsu.
And this Earth Dragon Hidden Technique is one of the few ninjutsu that Hideki has specially spent a lot of time and energy to practice.
In addition to the fact that Hideki's natural chakra attribute is earth, the more important reason is that this ninjutsu is really suitable for running away...
Xiu Shu, who has always cherished his life, would certainly not miss this life-saving skill.
He also used the power of the Brain Storm Technique to improve this technique.
So now he can not only transform soil into sand, but also compress it into small rocks, thereby creating underground caves like the one he is in as temporary shelters, making it convenient for him to perform puppetry or hide from enemies.
If an emergency occurs, Xiu Shu can even live underground for more than half a year with the food, water, and oxygen tanks that have been prepared in the storage scroll...
However, this Earth Dragon Hiding Technique is not perfect.
Its most criticized shortcoming is that when you are underground, it is difficult to clearly know the situation on the ground.
Although the ninjutsu scroll of this technique also comes with a set of skills to roughly judge the position and number of enemies based on vibrations, which can be used to make up for the shortcomings of this technique.
But this can only be used for escape or infiltration. If one wants to precisely control the puppets on the ground through chakra lines underground, this set of skills is obviously not enough.
Otherwise, it would not be Hideki's turn to invent this tactic.
And Nakamura would not have completely ignored the possibility that Hideki was hiding underground.
In fact, this problem has troubled Xiu Shu for a long time.
In other words, how to control a puppet without observing it with the naked eye has always been a difficult problem that puppeteers have been trying to solve tirelessly.
Because the puppeteer himself is the biggest weakness of the puppetry system.
If the limitation of relying on the naked eye can be eliminated, then the puppeteer can hide farther and more secretly, instead of having to hide near the battlefield and worrying all day whether he will be affected by the AOE ninjutsu of both sides...
Although Xiu Shu originally had a radar perception technique, he could easily sense the situation around him.
It's a pity that the principle of this technique is to perceive the surrounding environment by analyzing the chakra reflection waves, so there is a certain delay.
There is nothing wrong with using it to understand the terrain or find people or objects, but it is not enough for the fast-paced ninja battles.
Fortunately, the radar perception technique still gave Xiu Shu some inspiration.
However, this inspiration had to wait until recently, when Hideki's chakra control ability was improved to a higher level before it officially blossomed and bore fruit:
In fact, the content of this inspiration is very simple.
In Hideki's previous life, radar seemed to have been invented with reference to bats' ability to locate objects by sound.
This time, Hideki was referring to a creature that can also know its surroundings to a certain extent without using eyes - the spider.
Spiders can easily determine whether prey has fallen into the web and accurately locate it by slight vibrations on the web.
Hideki borrowed this principle and created a technique called Chakra Net.
As the name suggests, Hideki uses his powerful chakra control to release a large number of thin chakra lines in all directions with the puppet as the center.
These chakra lines will connect to the surrounding environment and objects, forming a three-dimensional network that crisscrosses vertically and horizontally.
Although they have no strength and will even break at the slightest touch, they are like spider silk. Once someone passes by, the vibration will quickly pass through the puppet and eventually be transmitted to Hideki.
Based on the information received, Hideki simulates the scene around the puppet in his mind, and then controls the puppet to fight based on this.
Although it sounds complicated, in fact, the touch, vibration, transmission, analysis, and operation will all be completed in the blink of an eye without much delay.
Of course, with Hideki's current mental strength and chakra control, he still can't perfectly restore the situation on the scene in his mind.
Therefore, when using this technique, his puppet control level is only about 30% of the normal level, and needs to be further improved in the future.
Another unexpected surprise is that the original intention of inventing this technique was to remotely control puppets.
But Hideki soon discovered that this ninjutsu could also be used on himself, allowing him to be more sensitive to and avoid enemy attacks in close combat.
Therefore, this ninjutsu was named by Hideki: Spider Sense Technique.
"It should be about time."
Xiushu glanced at the pocket watch that he had placed on the ground and saw that almost ten minutes had passed, so he murmured in his heart.
Just as Nakamura thought, Hideki was indeed stalling for time.
A wounded beast becomes more dangerous.
Although Hideki is 99% sure that he can defeat his opponent without any injury, it is better to be careful in this ninja world with all kinds of strange abilities.
That's why he stayed leisurely underground, waiting for the other party to commit suicide.
Of course, what Hideki was waiting for was not the opponent falling to the ground due to excessive blood loss, but an event that would take effect more quickly.
Just now, Nakamura was able to make the most correct judgment in a short period of time and directly cut off the calf, which really made Hideki admire it.
If it is a toxin that is spread only through the blood, doing so may be enough to prevent it from spreading throughout the body.
However, what Nakamura didn't know was that Hideki's method of poisoning him was not only the poison needle, but also a chakra line that penetrated deep into his body along the poison needle...
Before he made up his mind to cut off his calf, Hideki's chakra lines had already penetrated deep into his body with the poison.
Although Nakamura did temporarily suppress the spread of the toxin after taking a lot of antidotes, he still could not completely detoxify it.
Because the poison used by Hideki is not a common one found everywhere, but a collection of highly poisonous plants that he accidentally collected while searching for materials in various places in the ninja world.
Even Hideki himself doesn't have a corresponding antidote.
So no matter how effective the antidote made by Chiyo is, when faced with a variety of toxins that have never been studied, it can only raise its hands and surrender...
It can be said that the moment the enemy is poisoned, the outcome has already been decided...
Sure enough, not long after, Hideki used the spider-sensing technique to sense that the enemy had fallen to the ground, and at the same time, the enemy's puppet also became motionless.
The winner has been decided.
Although Hideki had no idea what his opponent was named, what his trump card was, or even what he looked like.
But he had indeed defeated his opponent.
This is how Hideki has always fought, plain and boring as always...