Chapter seven hundred and eighty fourth lonely ghost
Hearing the inexplicable male voice, Ye Cang's eyes instantly turned alert. She raised her left hand and pointed her fingers in a seal, assuming a posture that could trigger the Burning Escape at any time.
Then, he looked towards the direction where the sound came from.
"Who's there? Come out!"
More than ten meters away, the grass under the big tree trembled slightly for a moment. The person in the dark had no intention of hiding. He quickly turned around and faced the two people, Ye Cang and Mariko, who had a look on their faces.
It was a middle-aged man wearing a white robe. His skin was darker, and his whole body was filled with an inexplicable inhuman quality. His appearance made Ye Cang feel vaguely familiar.
The atmosphere was silent for a while. When Ye Cang saw that the man opposite him looked calm and seemed to have no intention of doing anything, he opened his lips and was about to say something.
"First, the first Kazekage-sama?"
Unexpectedly, Mariko suddenly had a ghostly expression on her face and her voice broke a little. She staggered back half a step and was almost dragged down by Ye Cang.
"The first generation?"
Hearing this title suddenly, he raised his eyes again and finally remembered what the other person's appearance meant. Ye Cang's pupils shrank and his eyes became dull, and the so-called first generation Kazekage also spoke:
"Ye Cang, long time no see, I'm Scorpion."
The calm tone and familiar tone of voice caused Ye Cang's brain to fall into confusion instantly. She obviously couldn't figure out what the situation was.
A psycho who bore the appearance of the original Kazekage but claimed to be Scorpion appeared in front of her? Appeared in this inexplicable country of bears?
Wait a minute, Scorpion, a human puppet, can you say...
"As you can imagine, I made the first Kazekage-sama into a human puppet. For some reasons, my consciousness temporarily resides in this puppet's body."
Xie noticed the change in Ye Cang's expression and felt that the other party must have reacted, so he explained calmly.
After that, he opened the front of his shirt again, revealing the purple core embedded in the heart, and showed it to Ye Cang to prove his identity.
Since Ye Cang and Xie belong to different troops, Ye Cang doesn't know about the fighting puppets, but the relationship between the two in the village is pretty good.
Thanks to this, Ye Cang still knows some of the secrets of the scorpion puppet technique, including the core that exists on everyone's puppet chest.
After confirming Xie's identity, Ye Cang gently patted Mariko on the shoulder, causing the frightened latter to come back to her senses. The two of them walked up to Xie one after another and described each other's experiences during this period.
Until, ten minutes later.
"So... there is no Sunagakure anymore?"
Listening to Xie slowly finished talking about what happened in the past two weeks, including the process and results of the Battle of Sichuan Wind, the movements of the Fire Nation's National Defense Forces, the scene on the day the village fell, and the fierce sea of fire that filled the sky...
Ye Cang's expression gradually turned from anxious to nervous, then to sluggishness, and finally to dead silence. He could not utter a word, and his eyes also darkened, as if they could no longer retain any color.
Looking at Ye Cang's expression of grief and death, Xie also felt that his heart was extremely heavy. He did not participate in the battle of Sunagakure Village, because no matter whether he stood up or not, there would be no change in the outcome of Sunagakure.
All Kage-level warriors on our side, all jounin-level warriors who could be named, were either captured or killed after the Blitzkrieg and the Battle of Fengchuan.
The enemy still has more than 20,000 troops including Railuo, Uzumaki Makoto, Jiraiya, Uchiha Fugaku, and Tsunade, and more than 600 artillery pieces.
Facing an attack of this magnitude, the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled people in the village had no chance of holding on. The result was doomed from the moment the offensive was launched.
Even if he joined the battle at that time, it would only be able to delay the enemy's attack for a while, and it would not matter to the overall situation. Should Sunagakure perish, he would still perish.
If he takes action rashly, there is a high chance that he, including the body of the first Kazekage-sama, will fall into the hands of the enemy. Scorpion has already deserted once, so he doesn't mind doing it again.
"Brother Scorpion...what should we do next?"
A slightly trembling female voice sounded. Mariko's eyes were flashing with tears. She raised her hand to wipe the corners of her eyes and asked Xie in a choked voice.
After finally surviving from the hands of the enemy, he traveled across three countries and thousands of miles, just to finally return home safely.
But at this moment, when she heard that her hometown had been destroyed and that all that was left were endless enemies, the faith that supported Mariko's actions suddenly and silently shattered.
The little girl Sunagakure, who was only sixteen years old this year, cried out of frustration.
Xie looked at Mariko's tears that couldn't stop falling, and the sadness in her heart seemed to be aroused.
But as a human puppet, his tear glands could not secrete a drop of liquid, and only a look of pain appeared on his stiff face, his eyes.
"what to do……"
I muttered these three words to myself for a long time, but I didn't know how to continue.
Yes, the village is gone. Where should these Sunagakure ninjas go from now on and what should they do? Who can give an answer?
"We are already lonely ghosts now. In the days to come, can we only become rogue ninjas?"
Ye Cang seemed to have calmed down. She seemed to be talking to Xie and Mariko, but she did not look at the two of them. She asked questions to herself, expressing the confusion in her heart without any concealment.
Xie didn't speak, and Mariko didn't mean to answer. The atmosphere between the three of them suddenly fell into silence. Only the girl's cry could be heard from time to time, adding a bit of desolation to this quiet forest.
Maybe for a moment, or maybe forever...
It wasn't until the dry and hoarse voice came slowly that the three of them came back to their senses, and all focused on the grass not far away.
"If you want revenge, Kirigakure welcomes you."
A figure slowly rose from the flat soil, and its half-black and half-white cheeks were the first to catch the eyes of the three people. The one who just spoke was the black face.
"You are... Kirigakure's Zetsu."
Xie narrowed his eyes and quickly recognized the identity of the visitor. As a close associate of the Fourth Kazekage and the grandson of Elder Sunagakure, he knew a lot of confidential information.
In particular, the existence of Black and White Zetsu is no longer a secret to the senior leaders of the major ninja villages. Many exchanges of intelligence information are transmitted through Zetsu as a transfer station, which is safe, reliable, and highly efficient.
But, to be honest, Xia didn't have a good impression of this Kirigakure intelligence agent who seemed to be schizophrenic, just because Hing had never deliberately concealed Zetsu's origins.
Thanks to the existence of certain spies, all the top leaders of Ninja Village knew that it was definitely Uchiha Madara's legacy, and Uchiha Madara... Needless to say, no one likes him.