"Kumo Ninja? Candidate for the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki?"
Suddenly hearing these two extraordinary keywords, Namikaze Minato couldn't help but change his face slightly, and it was obvious that he was greatly shocked.
Looking at Namikaze Minato's seemingly surprised expression, Lei Luo felt slightly amused and asked immediately:
"What? From the look of you, has Kushina never told you her identity?"
Hearing this, Namikaze Minato's expression froze, and then he seemed to have thought of something. In a blink of an eye, his expression calmed down, and he just replied with a wry smile:
"Kushina and I are just ordinary classmates, and we haven't had much contact since graduation. It's not surprising that she doesn't tell me these things."
"Besides...she must have her own reasons for concealing her identity."
Namikaze Minato's reaction was so dull, which actually made Lei Luo a little surprised. He chased him hundreds of miles away for an ordinary classmate? Are you kidding me?
Thinking about it, Lei Luo showed a look of interest on his face, and he immediately planned to continue to explore the emotional history of the fourth generation Hokage in front of him.
Perhaps sensing something was slightly wrong with Lei Luo's mentality, Namikaze Minato quickly said: "Let's continue on our way, Lei Luo-senpai."
"Young people are just thin-skinned..." Hehehe smiled, Lei Luo was about to continue speaking, but unexpectedly, Namikaze Minato jumped a few times and disappeared in front of him.
Unintentionally grinning, Lei Luo didn't say much. Under the stimulation of double speed, he caught up with Namikaze Minato in an instant, then lowered his speed and followed the opponent.
After such an episode, especially when Lei Luo took the initiative to reveal secrets to him, Namikaze Minato became acutely aware that Lei Luo seemed to have a very friendly attitude toward him and seemed to have the intention of making good friends with him.
Maybe he also wanted to establish a friendly relationship with Lei Luo, whose identity was obviously not simple, or maybe he wanted to get some more information from Lei Luo.
In short, Namikaze Minato relaxed a little this time, and while walking forward, he took the initiative to talk to Lei Luo: "By the way, Lei Luo-senpai, your previous masked companion..."
"Why don't we wait for him?"
Knowing that Namikaze Minato was referring to Ucho's useless rookie, Lei Luo thought about the words quickly, and then pretended to be nonchalant and said:
"Time is pressing, and the top priority is to recover the Jinchuriki candidate. As for my companion... he is a bit slow, so let him run for a while."
There was nothing wrong with the reason Railo gave. Although Namikaze Minato thought it was rude, for the sake of Kushina, he didn't want to care too much at this time.
After the thought fell, a look of determination flashed in Namikaze Minato's eyes, and he sped up again. He took one step forward and faintly leapt twenty meters away, causing a burst of sound in the air.
Lei Luo looked at Namikaze Minato's back in surprise, and subconsciously compared the opponent's speed at this time with his normal speed...
'Not on the same level at all?'
Realizing that his normal speed was crushed by Namikaze Minato, Lei Luo was not surprised at all. All his strength was concentrated on the power of time and various escape techniques. His slight physical disadvantage was nothing at all.
However, thinking about it, Lei Luo still couldn't help but feel a sour taste in his heart: probably because he didn't seem to have any talent in physical skills. He had practiced the eight types of Dunjia for several months, but he still couldn't even open the first one.
As for physical training, he never stopped, but the benefits were still very small, completely incomparable to learning ninjutsu.
As time goes by, Lei Luo can only gradually spend more energy on the mastery and development of abilities and ninjutsu, and no longer expects to rely on his physical body to resist four times speed, five times speed, and unlimited death doors.
Anyway... since Tokiko was mastered, his ability has become extremely powerful. He only relies on his ability to fight. There are few people in the ninja world who can match him, let alone his various ninjutsu.
"It's no big deal to be strong in physical skills. When I get the Dust Escape in the future..."
After muttering something in a low voice, Lei Luo quickly calmed his mind and once again used double speed to rush to Namikaze Minato. In order not to be left behind by the opponent, Lei Luo continued to maintain this state.
Time flew by, Lei Luo and Namikaze Minato shuttled through the dense forest at high speed, they walked and stopped, the former was responsible for using his perception ability to search the surroundings, and the latter was constantly looking for clues left by Kushina.
In this way, around midnight, several chakra light spots finally appeared in Lei Luo's mind, located right in front of them.
"The target has appeared." After the brief words, Lei Luo reached out and patted Namikaze Minato on the shoulder, and suddenly stopped.
He glanced at Lei Luo in confusion. Although Namikaze Minato didn't understand why the other party was so determined, but the current situation was unclear, he still subconsciously decided to follow Lei Luo's arrangement and stopped himself.
Noticing that Namikaze Minato's eyes were full of questions when he looked at him, Lei Luo did not give an explanation for a moment, but turned on his perception ability again and concentrated his attention in his mind.
He silently sensed the light spot with extremely strong chakra fluctuations, and quickly analyzed it in his brain:
'Shadow level...and not just any ordinary film level.'
'Judging from the amount of chakra alone, this person is even more powerful than Kage-level ones like Hanzo and Sea Snake.'
'Who is the one?'
The more he thought about it, the weirder Lei Luo felt:
Just because in the original work, Minato Namikaze chased Kushina back, the former dispatched the group of cloud ninjas in three strokes, five divided by two, and no Kage-level masters appeared during this period.
Why did something unexpected happen to me?
Puzzled, Lei Luo's brows furrowed deeply unconsciously, and for a moment he just felt that things were a bit tricky.
Without the cloak on him, his concealment was undoubtedly reduced a lot. If he continued to move forward, there was no guarantee that he would not be discovered by the possible sentient ninjas among the cloud ninjas.
In a head-to-head encounter, he didn't know much about that Kage-level person with an extremely large amount of chakra. Without intelligence support and no first-mover advantage, he didn't know if he could gain the upper hand in the battle and kill the opponent in the end.
Facing an enemy of this level, Lei Luo thought to himself that he would have to use Time Delete.
But if the enemy failed to be killed after using Time Delete, and instead the enemy escaped, then the information about Time Delete would inevitably be leaked, which was not a result he could accept.
After all, the plan to assassinate the Third Mizukage was about to begin, and Lei Luo did not want Kirigakure Village to learn about this move too early and become prepared for it.
Even if Kirigakure and Kumogakure have no friendship, the possibility of his information being leaked to Kirigakure is extremely small, but as long as this possibility exists, Lei Luo must consider it.