The sky turned dark and cloudy at some point, and faint muffled thunder sounded intermittently.
After a fight, the rain ninjas left dozens of corpses behind.
Although Konoha has been planning for a long time, there are too many rain ninjas after all, and among the five rain ninja jounin there are also experts who are good at escaping, so in the end it is still not complete.
As for the Rain ninja, only one jounin and a dozen chuunin and genin escaped. Konoha, on the other hand, lost less than twenty or thirty people, but killed more than ninety enemies. It must be said that this was a great victory.
Although this victory was unfair to the six squads that existed as bait, because the people who lost were basically members of their squads. In just a few minutes of holding on, three squads were wiped out.
The remaining teams were also poorly staffed. One of the teams even lost a Jonin captain, which shows how dangerous this bait job really is.
But no one would be stupid to mention all this. Everyone was cheering at this moment, enjoying the joy of victory. Including the three members of the bait team who were lucky enough to survive, whether they really knew nothing or were aware of themselves.
No one will make a discordant sound at this time.
The battlefield gradually became calmer, and the Konoha ninjas who came for "support" clearly divided their work and inspected the scattered corpses. If they found any Yu nin who had not yet died, they would decisively stab them in the neck.
Lei Luo stepped over a corpse of a rain ninja that fell to the ground and looked at the battlefield where corpses were strewn across the field. He couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic. At this time, he wanted to light a cigarette, feel the smell of smoke and blood, and pay homage.
Look at your own past.
Iron, blood and cigarettes are always a man's romance.
Suddenly, Lei Luo saw a man and a woman sitting on the edge of the battlefield. After thinking about it for a while, he walked over.
"Hey, are you still alive?" Lei Luo walked up to Aomulus and Sakai Naoko, sat next to them, and greeted them casually.
Qing Mulian raised her head in silence and smiled reluctantly in response, but this smile was uglier than crying. There were still wet tears on Sakai Naoko's face. She looked at Lei Luo with confusion and confusion in her eyes.
Sadness, there are also some emotions that Lei Luo cannot understand. The only thing Lei Luo can know is that Naoko Sakai is in pain.
Lei Luo can probably guess what happened, but what does this have to do with him?
He didn't see Fujiwara Satoshi. The young man who was always very knowledgeable must have died. Lei Luo would express regret for this, but he would not regret taking the initiative to leave them.
No matter who dies, Lei Luo will not have any feelings.
After all, he only met them for the first time and had no obligation to be their nanny. When the first wave of rain ninjas came, he was able to patiently protect them for a while. In his opinion, he had done his best to benevolent and righteous.
Sakai Naoko suddenly said: "I'm so smart."
Satoshi? I should say Satoshi Fujiwara, right?
Sakai Naoko turned to look at Lei Luo, "Why did you abandon us then?"
Lei Luo said lightly: "It can only be said that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, right?"
You can't say that he wants to move the position under his butt, right? Well... He saved a jounin in this village, killed an enemy jounin on the spot, and assisted in killing an enemy jounin. This should be a big contribution, right?
Is it okay to be a Jonin? What reward will Hiruzen Sarutobi give? After thinking about it, Lei Luo actually had a little expectation.
Since listening to Yuko's suggestion, Lei Luo now wants to be "promoted" more and more.
"With great power comes great responsibility..." Qing Mulian murmured to himself. Thinking of the previous scene when Lei Luo fought against two enemy Jonin, he couldn't help but feel a little enlightened.
Sakai Naoko was not that easy to fool, or it could be said that women are more emotional. Her cold eyes stared at Lei Luo, "Because of this inexplicable reason, you don't care about our life and death? You are like this
What qualifications do you have to be our captain?"
The air seemed to freeze instantly.
Lei Luo was silent for a long time, then raised his head and sighed: "People... always instinctively find some self-righteous reasons to complain, get angry, and hate when they are in misfortune... This is a cowardly escape after all.
Or is it just incompetent anger?"
Sakai Naoko suddenly stood up and said with suppressed anger in her voice: "Bingzu Leiluo! What do you mean?"
Lei Luo did not raise his head, but Qing Muren and Zuoko Naoko could hear a hint of sarcasm in his tone: "Since you are on the battlefield, you should be aware of it. Whether you kill or be killed, this is what you choose for yourself.
Road. There is no truth to be said on the battlefield. The winner lives and the loser dies."
"Fujiwara Satoshi died because he was too weak. And you who can't protect the people you care about are undoubtedly incompetent."
Sakai Naoko was shaking with anger, "You... what about you? Don't you have any responsibility for Fujiwara Satoshi's death?"
Lei Luo's tone suddenly turned calm, "I have what I should do, and the shelter I gave you at the beginning was just due to my kindness. But make no mistake, I am not your nanny, and I have no obligation to protect you all the time."
"If I hadn't taken action, one of our Jonin would have died. Do you know the more serious consequences? Let me tell you, more Fujiwara Satoshi will die, and then more Sakai Naoko will come over.
He asked me self-righteously: You are so strong, why don't you protect us?"
Lei Luo spread his hands and said helplessly: "Look, save one person or save ten people, you tell me the answer. Oh, from your position, you will definitely tell me: Save us, the lives of other people have nothing to do with us.
Why? Even if they are all Konoha ninjas and have their own families..."
"That's enough!" Sakai Naoko fell to the ground slumped, her voice getting weaker and weaker, "I said, that's enough..."
Ren Aokuro gently patted Naoko Sakai's shoulder and comforted her in a low voice: "Naoko, it's all over. I don't think Tomoya wants to see you so sad."
Seeing that Sakai Naoko's mood had stabilized, Aokiren turned to look at Lei Luo, hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "Captain Lei Luo, although I don't know whether I should ask...but I still want to know, this time
Mission...what the hell is going on?"
Lei Luo looked at Qingmu Lian with deep meaning, "Xiao Lian, are you sure you can bear the answer to this question?"
Qing Mulian hesitated again, and after a while she raised her head, "I, I want to know..."
"Forget it." Lei Luo waved his hand indifferently, "It is not a good thing for you to know the answer too early. You are still young and you shouldn't pay attention to these unimportant questions, right?"
In the final analysis, it is just the sacrifice of a few people in exchange for the victory of the many people. But is what is gained through sacrifice really that valuable?
"Hey!" Lei Luo smiled mockingly, stood up and walked forward. "When did I become so sentimental? It's really ridiculous." He muttered, and his figure gradually disappeared from the eyes of Aokiren and Zuoko Naoko.
Lei Luo wanted to talk to the leader Jonin to see what the next steps of this mission were. The supplies on the carriage were not damaged much, and the "reinforcements" from the camp also came over to accept the work. So are they
Now that the mission has been completed, can I return to the village?
While walking, Lei Luo suddenly stopped and squinted his eyes and looked aside.
It was a slender figure, hidden in the dense shadows under the leaves. The man wore a ninja vest, folded his hands, and leaned casually on the tree trunk behind him. He didn't seem to care about Lei Luo's glance.
, instead looked at Lei Luo with great interest.
This is a man with a face as pale as paper, about twenty years old, with long black hair draped softly on his shoulders. His eyes are dark gold, with dark purple eyeshadow at the corners, and his pupils are vertical like wild beasts.
Lei Luo looked at him for a few seconds, and then slowly said: "Orochimaru Jonin? What's the matter?"
Lei Luo didn't turn on his perception ability before passing by here, so he didn't know that Orochimaru was hiding here. If this guy hadn't actively leaked a breath, Lei Luo might not have noticed his existence from beginning to end.
'This is Orochimaru... I couldn't detect him just now based on my intuition. Looking at it this way, his strength should be much stronger than mine under normal conditions.' Lei Luo secretly analyzed the strength gap between the two sides, and at the same time also expressed his feelings towards Orochimaru.
It feels strange to be here.
"Lei Luo Chuunin, you have a very keen intuition." Orochimaru's voice was very hoarse, giving the impression that he was suffering from a long-term illness. "You can deal with two Jonin with your own strength, Rai Luo-kun, you are a Chunin."
It’s not easy to endure.”
When Lei Luo heard this, he realized that Orochimaru knew what happened on the battlefield before, and he humbly said: "Where... If it weren't for the help of another jounin, I might have died."
Orochimaru shook his head and walked slowly to a position one meter away from Lei Luo, his eyes showing interest, "I believe that after returning to the village, Sarutobi-sensei will raise your rank to Jonin, right?"
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"Maybe." Lei Luo was noncommittal about this, but looked at Orochimaru with questioning eyes, waiting for the other party's next words.
"I heard that Railuo-kun was promoted to chuunin a year ago, and in just one year... he has grown to where he is now." Orochimaru licked his lips, "Leiluo-kun, don't you think you are suspicious?
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Lei Luo shrugged and said, "Maybe I am a late bloomer?"
"Really?" Orochimaru smiled coldly and asked, "I think you are more likely to be a spy from another village?"