Danzo's conspiracy at the root was unknown to the outside world. At this time, Itachi had just completed the patrol of the security team and found an excuse to come to the corner of the village.
In a remote alley, Itachi, who had changed into a base outfit, saw Danzo wrapped in a bandage.
After being glanced at by Danzo's sharp eyes for a few times, Itachi bent down and said, "Lord Danzo!"
In order to win Danzo's trust, Itachi's attitude was extremely respectful, and his eyes also showed yearning and enthusiasm for Danzo, just like other root members.
Leaning on crutches, Danzo said in a low voice: "Itachi, are you still used to the feeling in the dark?"
Itachi nodded slightly and said, "Danzo-sama, my subordinates have adapted very well."
Itachi did not deceive Danzo in this regard. He had really adapted to the root environment. Even though he had only had a few missions, he still felt that he was more adaptable to staying in the darkness than in the idle guard career.
After these days of tasks, he also understood the responsibilities of the roots.
The roots are a group of anonymous people who destroy anything that threatens the ninja village in the darkness. They are the roots buried underground that nourish the leaves.
Itachi agrees with Root's philosophy, but does not agree with Danzo's methods and methods.
You can be insidious and ruthless when dealing with your enemies, but it would be too much to use these methods on your own people.
According to his understanding, the suicide of Konoha White Fang had a lot to do with Danzo, and during the Night of the Kyuubi, Danzo also tried to send root ninjas to prevent the security team from rescuing the villagers.
If the security force had really stood by and watched, the Uchiha of today would have encountered unimaginable criticism.
"Very good..." Looking at Itachi's reaction, Danzo threw out a scroll and continued: "This mission is a group mission. You and other members have to go outside the village to search Orochimaru's base."
"Orochimaru's base?" Itachi looked at Danzo with confusion on his face.
After a pause, Danzo explained: "There is Orochimaru's spy in the village, and he will be going out soon. You must take this opportunity to destroy Orochimaru's base near the village."
"Yes, Lord Danzo." Itachi seemed to understand something, turned around and disappeared down the alley.
Watching Itachi leave, a gleam flashed in Danzo's eyes. He would not attack Uchiha Itachi in the village, but he would not foolishly arrive outside the village to attack Itachi.
After Itachi's figure completely disappeared, Danzo also gradually disappeared into the darkness, and he was going to monitor Uchiha's movements.
Without returning to the clan, Uchiha Itachi arrived at the root leader immediately and met the root team.
Team Root glanced at Itachi's mask, and after Itachi informed him of his pseudonym, he hummed and said, "I've heard of you, the kid who became an official member the fastest, but the water in Root is deeper than you think."
Itachi glanced at Team Captain Nebe and didn't refute, which actually made the latter look at Itachi.
In the Kirigakure training method implemented by the Roots, when the official members are selected, they often have to kill their companions with their own hands. In this case, the Roots hierarchy becomes even more severe.
After explaining the mission objectives, several people disappeared and galloped through the woods outside the village.
In less than half a day, Itachi followed the team to the mission location, a dilapidated village. According to the situation, these were one of Orochimaru's bases.
Without alerting the enemy, after looking around, Itachi opened his Sharingan and discovered that these seemingly ordinary villagers were actually ninjas in disguise.
Looking at each other, the root team disappeared in a flash, and instantly eliminated the ninjas pretending to be villagers.
These most chuunin ninjas were no match at all. A few dazzling white lights flashed and the ninjas fell to the ground. Even the chunin, who seemed to be the leader, could not hold on for long.
Grabbing the chunin by the collar, Itachi opened his Sharingan, used genjutsu and asked: "Who are you? Where is this place? Orochimaru's purpose for letting you stay here."
Under the control of the genjutsu, the chuunin told a lot of things, and then his face changed, and his whole body was bitten by the phantom of a poisonous snake that came out of his body.
Itachi cut off the venomous snake's shadow with a sword, and looked at the chuunin who died from the poison with a solemn face.
According to the available intelligence, Danzo was not lying. This was indeed Orochimaru's base. These ninjas were also Orochimaru's subordinates. However, when they asked about Orochimaru's purpose, they were all bitten to death by the venomous snake shadow.
Those venomous snake shadows are the curse marks left by Orochimaru.
At this time, Captain Nebe came to Itachi and asked: "Did you find anything?"
Itachi informed him of the information obtained one by one. Captain Nebe nodded and said: "It seems that Orochimaru has been coveting the village..."
Itachi didn't answer and followed the team to the interior of the village to collect more information about Orochimaru.
Although Orochimaru's subordinates were destroying documents when they discovered their traces, a lot of useful information was still left behind.
Suddenly, a member of the team discovered a deep well, and there seemed to be something else inside.
Seeing the team members' greetings, Itachi and Captain Nebe rushed over one after another, looking at the deep and dark bottom of the well, hesitating whether to go in to find out.
After a moment of silence, Captain Genbu lit the torch and threw it into the well.
The moment the flames touched the well, a dazzling white light flashed in front of Itachi and the others. A strong sense of crisis flashed through the hearts of several people, and they quickly distanced themselves.
But it's too late.
Along with the flames that shot up into the sky, a terrifying explosion came from the well, and the flames filled the sky quickly ignited everything around them. Several people affected by the shock wave fell to the roots of the ground, and were climbed up by the flames and became burning people.
Captain Genbu frowned and shouted: "Water Escape·Water Formation Wall!"
In an instant, the water formation wall several meters high immediately blocked the spread of the flames, but was quickly evaporated by the flames, and the high-temperature steam formed gave a fatal blow to the root ninja on the ground.
A captured ninja looked at Itachi and Captain Nebe and mocked: "That deep well is where Orochimaru-sama stores natural gas. How dare you use fire escape!"
"Natural gas?" Itachi and Captain Nebe heard this term for the first time, but it did not prevent them from understanding the meaning of the captured ninja. They encountered the trap of this base.
Another burst of fire came, and the flames directly engulfed the prisoners.
Itachi and the team leader did not doubt his presence and fled toward the outskirts of the village. They were unable to extinguish the flames here.
Looking at the blazing flames and billowing smoke in the distance, Itachi stared at the team leader beside him, full of doubts in his heart.
He originally thought that this time was Danzo's conspiracy, and he was surrounded by root ninjas who were following and ready to strike at any time, but he didn't expect that this was really a base of Orochimaru.
Even some of the root members died.
The flames burned for several hours, but still did not stop. The two had no choice but to give up the idea of rescuing their companions and return towards the village.
At this time, in the thick smoke of the village, an inconspicuous little snake stared at their backs.
This chapter has been completed!