Chapter 226 Fateful Ensemble
A few days later, outside the Konoha Village, a group of injured Konoha ninjas were running from a distance, supporting each other.
They were a team of wounded soldiers who were rotated back to the village from the north to rest.
They encouraged each other as they marched.
"Hold on a little longer, we'll be back to the village soon."
"Finally home!"
Although the intensity of the war in the north has decreased compared to before, as long as the war continues, there will always be unlucky people who will be injured and sacrificed.
A speck of dust from the times is like a mountain for every ninja.
When this team of wounded soldiers saw the gate of Konoha from afar, there was a clear expression of excitement and relief on everyone's face.
However, at this moment, a black vortex suddenly appeared beside them.
The next moment, a strange man in a black robe with a strange spiral mask on his face emerged from the whirlpool and grabbed the leading ninja by the neck.
"Who? Who?!"
"You dare to ambush at the gate of Konoha, you are seeking death!"
At this time, Gang Zitie, who was guarding the gate of Konoha, had already noticed the movement here from afar.
Unfortunately it was too late.
The shuriken thrown by the injured ninja went straight through the body of the masked and black-robed man, just like a stone skimming across the water, leaving only a few ripples before passing through.
But the next moment, the chains of the mysterious man in black robe easily captured them all, and then brought them into the black hole together, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Two seconds later, Konoha's gate god Gang Zi Tie hurried over, but he caught nothing.
"Damn it!"
Gang Zitie punched the ground hard, but it didn't help.
Not long after, in a remote forest, several kidnapped Konoha wounded soldiers were kicked out of the Kamui space by Obito.
Then he asked coldly.
"I ask, you answer. Don't say anything extra. I don't want to hear it. How much do you know about Konoha's Wood Release experiment? Who is in charge? When did it start?"
There were a total of four injured ninjas captured, three of them were confused at this moment.
"Wood Release Experiment? Is there such a thing in our village?"
Obito reached out without hesitation.
"Wood Release: Cutting Technique!"
The extended wooden stick was like a javelin, and it pierced the head of the person who said the stupid thing in an instant.
"If not, then what is this that you are seeing now?"
At that moment, all the remaining survivors widened their eyes in horror.
"Wood Release?! Really?!"
In the ninja world, information is often not transparent.
Especially some important information, the lower-level ninjas are not qualified and have no chance to know it.
In addition, during the war, several battlefields naturally divided Konoha's ninjas into several groups.
Therefore, even though a large number of White Zetsu had been exposed in the coastal battlefield not long ago, for most of the grassroots ninjas of Konoha in the north, much of the information that Obito now possessed was still something they had never heard of.
This may be the most fundamental sadness of the ninja group - they suffer greatly from the war, but most of them never know the truth of the war until they die. They are like puppets, always being manipulated into fighting.
The more he explored, the deeper Obito's disgust for ninjas, ninja villages, and even the ninja world became.
The dream of becoming a Hokage has now been extinguished like a candle in the wind.
"Don't just scream and stare blankly, tell me what you know!"
After a lot of torture and interrogation, only one person was left in this team of wounded Konoha. The dying special jonin captain finally told Obito.
"A long time ago, I did hear about the Wood Release experiment, but I didn't know who was leading it.
I guess it was either the Root's doing, or... Orochimaru."
After saying this, the old special jonin captain breathed his last.
Obito stood there, not coming to his senses for a long time, with one hand clenched into a fist.
After the war on the coast ended, he had been hunting down those white monsters, wanting to avenge Lin.
But he was just a small-time Genin in the past, and knew very little information.
As a result, after waiting for a while, rumors gradually spread in the ninja world, a rumor that was enough to drive Obito further into madness.
Rumor has it that those mysterious spies that are wreaking havoc in Kirigakure are all the work of Konoha!
It is normal to have such speculation, because who can blame White Zetsu for mastering Wood Release?
Moreover, this was also caused by the secret instigation of Shiba Kiyokawa and the instigation of Biwa Juzo.
Putting the blame on Konoha and creating an external enemy will help Biwa Juuzou divert conflicts within the village and secure his position as Mizukage as soon as possible.
At the same time, he can also take the opportunity to cause trouble during the negotiation and extort more benefits from Konoha.
In any case, Shiba Kiyokawa had long seen through the weak nature of Konoha's top leaders.
But this time, the Konoha high-ranking officials would never have imagined in their dreams that their habitual retreat and compromise would bring such a great catastrophe upon themselves in the future.
It was precisely because of Konoha's compromise that the negotiations were successfully advanced, but at the same time, the rumors outside the village were further confirmed.
Now, Uchiha Obito, who was still wandering in the Ninja World, completely collapsed mentally!
If Konoha is really the mastermind behind those things, how should he face the death of Nohara Rin?
He once dreamed of becoming a Hokage, so does that mean he once dreamed of becoming an accomplice in the murder of Lin? !
He can't accept this fact!
Therefore, in recent weeks, he has been secretly hunting down those lone Konoha ninja teams.
However, his past killings did not bring him any useful information except for venting his anger.
until today!
The words of this special jonin captain before his death completely shattered Obito's last bit of luck and made his heart slide further into the abyss.
“It turns out that the warm village I used to see actually had so much darkness and filth in it!
What does Lin's death mean to the village? What does the sacrifice of the ninja mean to the village?
Haha, haha! Hahahaha!"
Obito, who obtained the information through torture, was not happy about it. Instead, he pressed the mask on his face, raised his head, and let out a crazy and unbridled laugh, which was the iconic laugh of the Uchiha clan.
At the same time, at the same time, in a different space, in Konoha Village—
When Minato Namikaze returned home, he opened the door and unexpectedly caught his wife who flew into his arms.
"What's wrong, Kushina? Hiss—"
He is still a wounded soldier. Although he no longer needs to use a wheelchair after returning from negotiations on the coastal battlefield, some of his injuries have not yet healed.
Kushina heard the cry of pain and quickly apologized.
"Sorry, sorry, Minato, I got so excited, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, what are you so excited about?" Minato waved his hand good-naturedly.
"Minato! Ah, no, it's husband!" Kushina called out affectionately, looking at Minato with burning eyes.
"I am pregnant!"
At that moment, Minato Namikaze excitedly picked up Kushina and spun around happily.
"Really? That's great, hahaha!"
His hearty laughter echoed throughout the house.
Thousands of miles away, the sound of Obito's crazy laughter in the woods echoed with it, like a fateful ensemble.
(End of this chapter)
