CH 193

For the next two days, under Yui’s leadership, Kanpū and Shisui roamed left and right in the vast forest, all the way to the remote and dark corners of the jungle.

But only one kind of venomous insect that lives in the carcass of rotting animals has been found.

Yui kept this carrion insect in her insect pot, and as a result, the carrion insect died in less than half a day.

Kanpū’s group of three are very frustrated.

“Shikuro-sensei, what if we fail to complete the mission?” Kanpū asked curiously.

“Don’t be discouraged.”

Shikuro chuckled softly and said, “This forest is extremely vast, and there are hundreds of venomous insects inhabiting it. As long as you find the pattern, you will soon be able to gather ten types of venomous insects.”

“Pattern?” Kanpū looked towards Yui.

Yui then pondered and said: “It’s the living habits of the venomous insects, but… the living habits of each venomous insect are different.”

“So…”

Kanpū rubbed his chin thoughtfully, ‘The real purpose of this mission is not to capture ten kinds of venomous insects, but to let Yui master the life habits of various venomous insects?’

‘Shikuro-sensei is really well-intentioned.’

Looking at Yui who was in deep thought, Kanpū sighed silently. Venomous insect is not his field of expertise, so he can only shout 666 to give support to Yui.

…

Seven days later.

Kusagakure, Land of Grass.

The disguised Kakashi was carrying a sack as he worked in a carriage shop, collecting nearby information along the way.

The relationship between Kusagakure and Konoha has always been very good. They are in ally relationship, but during the war, anything can happen. In order to prevent Iwagakure from drawing Kusagakure to their side, so as to smoothly crossed Land of Grass to sneak attack on the Land of Fire, Konoha sent a lot of Shinobi spies in Kusagakure, so as to keep abreast of the movements here.

But not long ago, several of Konoha’s spies suddenly lost contact.

Hiruzen originally wanted Minato to investigate this matter, but Minato just got the Nidaime’s Flying Thunder God Technique research notes, and he may be in critical juncture in developing Flying Thunder God Technique, so in order not to disturb him, Hiruzen decided to put the mission in the mission center, and it was finally picked up by Kakashi.

Kakashi has been in undercover in Kusagakure for many days, working as a waiter in a tavern, helping in a barbeque restaurant, and cleaning people’s backs in the bathhouse. Today, he came to carry sacks again. Unfortunately, after so many days, he hasn’t found any information related to the disappearance of the spies.

Suddenly, out of the corner of Kakashi’s eyes, he noticed a merchant not far away and the two arrogant people behind him… ‘Shinobi?’

Both of them have ninja bags tied to their legs, but there is no forehead protector on their foreheads, ‘Are they missing-nin, or are they hiding their identities, or are they just ordinary bodyguards pretending to be Shinobi?’

Kakashi feels that the merchant and the two behind him are a bit suspicious and worth following.

“Hurry up and put my goods in. I’m leaving at noon, so hurry up!”

The merchant yelled at Kakashi and other workers. After a while, he seemed to be hungry, as he rubbed his stomach and then turned away.

The two Shinobi behind the merchant left without falling.

Kakashi’s eyes lit up upon seeing this, and immediately ran to the corner, and then formed the clone seal to create a shadow clone, and ordered him to follow after them quietly.

Then, Kakashi worked slowly until noon when the merchant and two Shinobi returned.

‘But… What about the shadow clone?’

Kakashi felt something is a little strange in his heart, and then quietly took the initiative to form a hand seal and disperse the shadow clone that he didn’t know where he had gone to.

In the next instant, a flash of memory flooded into Kakashi’s brain.

‘So… he’s lost?’

Kakashi frowned.

It turned out that the shadow clone just caught up with the merchant, and found that the two Shinobi behind the merchant suddenly disappeared. The shadow clone didn’t dare to be careless, and after finding the traces left by them when they left, he immediately chased after them. As a result, he chased farther and farther… Until Kakashi voluntarily dispersed it, there was still no trace of the two Shinobi.

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Kakashi stared at the two Shinobi behind the merchant, and was surprised, ‘Aren’t they right here?’

‘What should I do?’

Although it is impossible to determine whether the disappearance of the spies is related to them, he feels that they are really suspicious!

‘It’s never wrong to investigate.’

But remembering the way the shadow clone was being played around by them, Kakashi realized that if he wanted to follow them, he can’t rely on shadow clone, only the main body could do it in person!

But as soon as this idea came out, Kakashi felt that something was wrong.

It’s just that the merchant’s goods are ready at this time, and he left here in a hurry.

Kakashi didn’t have time to think about it. In the end, mission came first, so he followed them quickly.

Soon, they left Kusagakure one after the other and headed south, toward the direction of Land of Rain.

After silently following them for a day, Kakashi didn’t find anything unusual, but he felt more and more uncomfortable in his heart.

He squatted among the branches and leaves of the dense forest, closing his eyes to recall what had happened before.

The suspicious Shinobi appear, the shadow clone followed but lost them, the suspicious Shinobi appeared again, the main body tracked…

‘Then… disappeared?’

Kakashi’s eyelids twitched, he seemed to understand why the spies are missing!

At the next moment, Kakashi’s whole figure instantly runs wildly in the direction of Land of Fire like an arrow from the string.

“He found out?”

In the caravan ahead, the two Shinobi behind the merchant look at each other a little surprised.

“Looking at the Chakra’s aura, he should be just Chunin. I didn’t expect him to respond so quickly.”

“However, it is still too late.”

…

“Ouch~~”

The Land of Grass, deep in the vast jungle.

Gekkō Kanpū, the son of Gekkō Clan’s Clan head and the future pillar of Gekkō Clan, is holding onto a tree trunk and vomiting.

Not far away, a black snake nailed to a tree by kunai was twisting its body madly, so that the wound caused by the kunai expanded rapidly, exposing the flesh and blood inside and… countless moving linear insects.

This kind of insect is yellow and white, with a long knuckle, but very thin. It was densely packed in the naked snake body, which is extremely hideous and disgusting.

Kanpū glanced at it from the distance and felt that his body was hollowed out, and it was impossible to hold onto the tree.

Shisui stood further to the back, covering his mouth and squinting, constantly looking left and right, trying to divert his attention.

“Yui, are you okay?”

Kanpū wants to leave this damned place quickly.

“Just a moment!”

Yui didn’t notice their discomfort, wrapped her fingers with Chakra, and caught a dozen nematodes from the thousands of armies, and then put them into her insect pot.

Then, she pulled out the kunai that had pinned the black snake, and the next moment, the black snake twisted its body and quickly climbed to the top of the tree and disappeared.

“The eighth type!”

Yui said with a smile.

After so many days, Yui’s efficiency in finding venomous insects is getting higher and higher. If it weren’t for a few venomous insects that died during the period, they should have gone back yesterday!

“Yui, you wouldn’t be wanting to keep that kind of poison insect in your body, right?” Kanpū thought of the insects under the black snake’s, and he couldn’t help but shudder, and thought that he had to greet Yui with the highest respect.

“Kanpū, are you afraid?”

Yui looked at Kanpū with a puzzled expression.

Kanpū also looked at her with a puzzled expression: “Isn’t it scary?”

Yui thought for a while, and then shook her head in confusion: “I don’t think so.”

The muscles at the corners of Kanpū’s mouth twitched slightly, and he said: “Hehe, of course I am not afraid, I mainly…have a phobia of intensiveness, cough, yes, it is a phobia of intensiveness!”

“Caw caw…”

At this moment, there was a strange cry of the crows not far away.

“Shisui, your bird called.” Kanpū hurriedly changed the subject, as he really didn’t want to discuss bugs with Yui.

Shisui stood in place and ignored Kanpū. He seemed to be listening to the crow’s cry. Soon, Shisui’s face changed: “There are enemies!!”

Kanpū’s complexion changed, but soon after, he felt that meeting enemy is just a usual thing.

‘Right, unlucky star?’

Kanpū turned his head to look around, but Shikuro is missing…