Kuromaru circled a place, about thirty meters away from the center of the explosion.
"In addition to the skin tissue, there are also fibers from the Jonin's vest that fell off in this place. He must have fallen here for a while after being attacked, so the smell was left in such a wide range."
Then, Heimaru squatted down, twitched his nose and sniffed carefully, conducting a more precise screening.
"The person you are looking for must have suffered serious trauma, but the amount of bleeding was very small."
The implication is that the possibility of Uchiha Flame being alive is slightly greater.
Yiyong glanced at the ground, then turned back and cast his gaze to a row of broken, blackened tree trunks ahead.
"If Uchiha Yanhuo fell here, then these trees would not be burned down, but broken by his body..."
This can explain why the fracture surface of this row of trees is very different from the rest and looks a bit rough.
The end of this row of trees happens to be the starting point of the dried muddy river bed.
"The ninjutsu that drove Cui and Gan away was not used by the enemy, but by Uchiha Yanhuo to drive them away from the battlefield. After that, he was attacked there and broke a whole row of trees.
Fall here."
In this way, the connections between these battlefield elements will not be broken.
After detailed analysis, part of the scene that night seemed to have appeared in front of Yiyong.
"Indeed, Uchiha Yanhuo's earth escape level is not bad, and his chakra amount is indeed enough to release such a large-scale earth flow river."
Uchiha Shisui nodded.
"If this technique is his handiwork, then according to Cui, the time from the time when the fireball lit up to when they were washed away was less than ten seconds. In other words, less than ten seconds after the battle started, Uchiha
Yan Huo has concluded that the other party is an enemy that he cannot deal with."
Speaking of this, he and Inuzuka Puma exchanged a look with each other.
They probably already know what kind of character it is that can make a proud Uchiha jounin "give up resistance" within ten seconds.
At this time, there was another tight inhalation sound coming from Kuromaru's side.
"Hey, you discovered something again, don't hide it from others!"
Inuzukazuka thrust his head over and said roughly.
"here."
Kuromaru glanced at her silently with his one eye, then waved his right paw gently, an invisible breeze pushed away the surrounding ashes, revealing a gray-brown stone buried in the soil, and then buried its head again
.
"On the surface of this stone, there is powder from ground nails. It must have been scratched repeatedly.
"In addition, there is a faint smell of blood, which should come from underneath. I could smell it just after the ashes were cleaned..."
As he spoke, it wanted to dig out the stone with its claws.
"let me."
Uchiha Shisui handed out his ninja sword, and the sharp blade immediately pried into the gap between the stone and the ground, with almost no resistance.
"This stone was originally loose."
He frowned, "It should be that when Uchiha Yanhuo fell here, he did something to it, such as leaving some password or something..."
With a click, the flat stone, no bigger than the palm of your hand, rolled out.
Inuzukazhao squatted down, turned the stone over, and his hoarse voice suddenly rose, "There is blood on it!"
Everyone (dogs) looked intently.
On the bottom of the stone, someone used brown blood to draw an irregular, shaky circle. On the inside of the edge of the circle, there was also a dot.
exactly--
Giyuu and Shisui realized at the same time that the dot was actually a magatama with a faint little tail.
"Senior Claw."
Shisui immediately raised his head and said, "Thanks to you and Kuromaru, we have finally found the complete blood sample of Uchiha Enhuo. Please use this as a reference to search around this area to see if it is possible to find Uchiha."
More traces of fire."
"Huh? Could it be that what is written on this stone is your Uchiha's special code, so it cannot be known to me?"
Inuzuka's eyes narrowed slightly, but after seeing Shisui's apologetic expression, he waved his hand indifferently.
"You're kidding, kid! I'll go right away. But if I need your help in the future, don't refuse!"
"Don't worry."
Shisui put on a trustworthy smile.
"Then remember, I'm not the kind of person who just talks."
After Inuzukazuma finished speaking, he formed two shadow clones with a seal, "Everyone remembers the taste of blood! Kuromaru and I will go north and south, and you two will search east and west, with a range of twenty kilometers. If you find anything,
Release the clone immediately."
"good!"
After one dog and three people divided their work, they all put their feet on the ground at the same time and jumped quickly in different directions.
For a moment, Yiyong couldn't tell who was a human and who was a dog?
"Yan Huo is worthy of being an elite who has passed the Jonin exam."
After Inuzuka Claw left, Uchiha Shisui held the stone with a smile on his face because he had found a breakthrough, "Even if we can't defeat the opponent, we still left important information to help us determine the opponent's identity."
"...There is only a circle and a magatama on this side. Is it really a secret code?"
Yiyong asked with some uncertainty.
To be honest, this is what Uchiha used to pay tribute to the deceased.
And from the twists and turns of the circle, we can guess that when Uchiha Yanhuo left this message, he probably couldn't control his fingers properly. Whether he was conscious or not is still unclear.
"Well, at least we know that magatama is synonymous with the Sharingan."
Shisui knew in his heart that his previous suspicion that the attacker had a Sharingan had been confirmed.
"As for the circle, it may refer to the murderer's face."
"If the circle represents the face, then the person who did it was Uchiha?"
Giyu suddenly remembered that the day before the news of the disappearance came, Uchiha Shisui said that the illusion he had set for Yan Huo was lifted, and his face suddenly darkened.
According to Shisui, except for the sealing master who is proficient in the change of the Yin attribute (refer to Minato's sealing technique to release Obito's control of the Nine-Tails), and the Uchiha who has the Sharingan of three magatama and above, others are not
It might be possible to unravel his illusion.
"I eliminated the clan members' suspicions as soon as possible before the news of their disappearance came."
Shisui shook his head, "The circle he drew is very big, but the magatama only occupies one side. Except for the possibility that Uchiha Enhuo was confused and made a mistake in drawing it, it may be telling us that the murderer may be a person with only one writing
Chakra-eye outsider.
"If that's the case, it can explain why the other party didn't leave the body behind, but just took the person away."
Yiyong's brows lowered slightly, "Is it for the eyes?"
"Um."
Shisui nodded, "Maybe there is only one Sharingan, which can no longer meet the opponent's needs. Judging from the fact that there are no traces of other ninjutsu released here, the opponent probably used taijutsu to knock down Uchiha Flame.
Here, these broken trees are a manifestation of its power.
"With such a powerful body, it is possible to be arrogant enough to think that you can use more than one three-magatama Sharingan and withstand that kind of consumption."
"..."
Giyuu threw out the image of Uchiha Yanhuo's eyes bleeding from his mind.
"What about Wen? Why was his body taken away? Is he just a magatama?"
"Either the other party's method of killing Wen may expose his identity. This shows that he is likely to be someone known to the Konoha ninja."
Shisui paused and then expressed his guess.
"Or, Wen has become a specimen for experiments. For some people, all the body tissues of the blood successor ninja are rare research materials."
[This kind of thing is really common in the ninja world. Even if Uchiha Enhuo's survival may be greater, but it has been two days, what should be done to him should have been done long ago...]
[Maybe, these things are his last words.]
In fact, more than half of the results of his reasoning are consistent with the facts. It's just that the reason why Uchiha Flame made the "last words" look like a clan-specific tribute and repeated the meaning of the masked man calling himself "the undead of Uchiha" is
in.
But this point has been ignored.
"Boom——"
Lead-black clouds condensed into several groups, rolling and rubbing against each other. Waves of golden light flashed behind the clouds accompanied by thunder, and then strong winds surged from the distant forest and passed between the two bodies.
, tearing apart shallow tracks from the ashes on the ground.
"It's time to change the season."
Shisui stretched out his hand, and his thumb was wet by the falling raindrops.
"Will the rain affect the Ninja Dog's search?"
Yiyong asked.
"Such a light rain should not happen for the time being."
"Then let's just wait here for a reply."
An hour later, Kuromaru and Inuzuka Claw came back at the same time.
"Hey, what are you two doing standing in the rain?"
The questioner was Kuromaru, who looked a little confused.
"They don't have fur, so it won't be a problem if they get wet. Why are you worrying so much?"
Inuzukazuma waved his hand, and then said to Shisui: "Boy, you should be lucky. If it had been another day later, the rain would have washed away everything, and I would not be able to find any traces."
"So, Senior Claw?"
Shisui took a step forward, "Have you found any trace of Uchiha Flame?"
The corners of Giyuu's eyebrows rose slightly, and he stared intently at Inuzuka Takashi's face, his heart suddenly beating like a drum.
"I found a drop of blood on a leaf 18 kilometers northwest. The smell is the same as the blood of the person you are looking for. It has dried."
"18 kilometers?"
Shisui was stunned. He didn't expect that Inuzuka Claw could really find the clue, and it was still so far away.
Generally speaking, if the injured person who was kidnapped is bleeding, the traces should be found very close, and the distance should be even.
"This situation is indeed rare.
"Usually when this happens, it means that the other party has used a special method to preserve the injured person's body, and it is impossible to just hold it on his shoulders. Orochimaru once put the human body into the snake's belly and then released the channeling, and then returned to the place where he was.
Channeling the snake made us miserable.
"The reason why there were blood stains may be that he had the blood of the injured on his body, and then he stayed in that place for a short time."
Inuzuka Takashi analyzed, "But when I tried to use other scents left by the other party to track him there, I found that he didn't leave any clues around at all, and it was as if he disappeared out of thin air.
"I'm afraid he doesn't move like we do by running, but mostly by means of Earth Dragon Hidden Technique or even flying, so he can't be tracked by scent.
"But if it's from the ground or the sky, the Hyuga clan in the patrol will not miss him."
Shisui paused, feeling a little troubled.
"It sounds like this is a guy who can come and go without a trace, just like the Fourth Hokage..."
"With the time and space ninjutsu, it's not impossible. But it's far beyond my ability, kid."
Inuzukazuka touched Kuromaru's head and combed his fur with his sharp nails.
"But on the map, connect this place with the location where the second drop of blood was found in a straight line, and then extend it out. The other party's destination should be in the Kingdom of Rain."
【The Kingdom of Rain again?】
Shisui scratched his chin with his index finger knuckle.
[Could it be said that the other party’s purpose is really Itachi’s Sharingan? Or that his lair happens to be over there. 】
"I've finished my work. Do you two want to continue pursuing me?"
Inuzukazhao looked at the two people, "I heard that the Kingdom of Rain has been in a lot of chaos recently, and it has also disturbed several small countries around it."
Her eyes gradually moved downwards, her body became lower and lower, and she said as if to intimidate Yiyong: "Also, Yu Ren is famous for being narrow-minded. When he kills a child like you, he will not be soft at all.
Maybe we won’t even be able to keep the whole body.”
While staring at Yiyong's face, she wrinkled her nose, as if verifying something.
[Why does it look a bit like Tanjiro’s usual movements...]
Yiyong looked at her calmly.
A few seconds later, Inuzukazuma smiled appreciatively again, "You are really not afraid at all. You are more courageous than Kuromaru when he was a child."
As she spoke, she regained her position and pointed at Kuromaru's right eye, which was wearing an eyepatch, and his missing left ear.
"However, there is a price to be paid for being bold, and there is nothing wrong with being careful sometimes."
"Who do you think I was injured because of..."
Kuromaru responded with disgust, and then said impatiently: "Go back when the things are done, I'm going to starve to death."
"I have a son who is about your age. Remember to come to our house to play. If a ninja dog is born that day, according to my family's rules, I will give you one."
After Inuzukazuma warmly invited Giyuu, his expression when he looked at Shisui was not so friendly.
"And you, because you caused my mission to be interrupted this time, it will definitely be recorded in my ninja file. When it comes time to return the favor, don't refuse, otherwise I won't let you go!"
After she finished speaking, she didn't even wait for the two of them to reply. She straddled Kuromaru's back and disappeared as quickly as she came.
"I always feel like something big will happen next time we meet..."
Shisui scratched his head, "She seems to hate me, but she likes you very much, Giyuu."
"Let's go."
With gratitude in his eyes, Yiyong watched the man and the dog disappear into the rain, and then turned around and returned to his usual routine, "Let's go to the Country of Rain. If we follow the distance marked on the map and advance at full speed, we can get there tomorrow morning.
"
"good."
Shisui was also a little worried about Itachi's safety.
If the opponent is really aiming for the Sharingan and has the ability to defeat Uchiha Fire within ten seconds, then Itachi's situation will not be much better. I just hope that he can use his wisdom to delay it for a while.
Otherwise, he could only hope that the other party would be intimidated by the reputation of the demigod in the ninja world and not take action for the time being while Itachi was performing his mission in the Hidden Rain Village.
Of course, what he hoped for most was that someone in Konoha tipped off the guy that Uchiha Shisui was looking for him outside. He believed that his three Magatama Sharingan would definitely be more tempting than Itachi's...
"Shisui, can you give me Fum's shuriken?"
Giyuu thought of his former half-partner Haori, which represented the two most important people in his life, as well as the two most unforgettable regrets.
