Chapter 130: Wind Release Paraglider
In the desert, every oasis is extremely precious.
Yoru led the Flower Deer Squad into the desert.
The Flower Deer Squad had sacrificed one person in the Land of Rivers, and now there were only three left.
Each of them carried a large gourd on their back, and the gourd contained poison capable of destroying a small oasis.
Carrying a large gourd was a fairly common attire in the Land of Wind; long journeys required freshwater.
They circled far around the direction of the main battlefield, and the group traveled dozens of kilometers in the desert.
“Captain! There are corpses over there!”
A pair of feet from a corpse appeared behind the sand dune.
Yoru and the others went around to check, and one corpse after another was revealed; there were actually more than twenty mummified corpses behind the sand dune.
The more than twenty mummified corpses seemed to come from about three families, with both old and young.
The old ones were in their sixties or seventies, with white beards.
The young ones were still children, shriveled and wrinkled after being dried by the sun, just as ugly as when they were just born.
Hanashika crouched down to examine the mummified corpses and reported to Yoru:
“Captain, these people are civilians from the Land of Wind. For some reason, they migrated as a family but didn’t bring enough water, and they died of thirst in the desert.”
The hot wind whipped up sand, stinging a bit when it hit people’s faces. When it hit the mummified corpses, it made a rustling sound.
Yagura found a map on the body of an old man among the mummified corpses.
The map marked an oasis, labeled with ‘home’.
Yoru said: “Let’s go, head to the oasis on the map first and take a look.”
As he just turned his head, a piece of cloth swept by.
Yoru stopped and walked toward that piece of cloth.
The others all looked toward the squad leader.
This was originally leather covering a female corpse, and it looked extremely tough.
The leather swayed in the dry strong wind, making flapping sounds.
Yoru touched the leather and discovered that this kind of leather was particularly wind-resistant.
A thought suddenly arose in his mind, and he said to Hanashika: “Hanashika, collect this kind of leather. I want to make something for our escape.”
Hanashika picked up the leather, not understanding why this leather could help them escape.
Yoru believed that the key to this mission was not poisoning; poisoning wasn’t difficult—risking their lives, there would always be an opportunity to throw the poison gourd into the oasis.
The difficult part was how to escape.
This was the Sand Ninja’s home turf; they couldn’t outrun the Sand Ninja in the desert.
After collecting some leather, Yoru sewed it into the shape of a glider based on memories from his previous life and tested it himself.
The wind was very strong, making takeoff easy.
He then trained the Flower Deer Squad members on how to control the glider.
The ninjas’ body coordination was excellent, and after simple training, the Flower Deer Squad quickly mastered controlling the glider.
Flight ability was a rare ability in the ninja world; if they could fly, the Sand Ninja wouldn’t be able to catch up.
The squad continued forward, searching for the oasis on the map.
A few days later.
Yoru was buried entirely in the sand, exposing only a single-tube telescoping telescope, watching the distant Crescent Small Lake.
A crescent-shaped lake shimmered under the moonlight.
A very beautiful small lake.
In the night, the small lake sparkled like a jewel; it should have been the freshwater source for more than ten households to survive on.
But at this time, the area around Crescent Small Lake was full of Sand Ninja.
By visual estimate, there were about 50 Sand Ninja, including quite a few wounded.
They were probably wounded soldiers withdrawn after a battle on the front line; the freshwater in this small lake wasn’t enough, so the Sand Ninja drove away the villagers in the small oasis.
Those villagers fled in panic without bringing enough freshwater.
It’s also possible the Sand Ninja gave them just enough freshwater to reach the next oasis, but the villagers encountered a sandstorm and were baked into mummies.
Yoru had been in this world for quite some time, and by his general sense, killing all the ninjas might wrongly accuse good people. Killing two out of three would absolutely avoid any wrongful convictions.
The Sand Ninja had twice the manpower of Konoha, but they were fighting so arduously, and now they were even driving away the oasis farmers.
After reconnaissance and obtaining the news, Yoru retreated to prepare for tonight’s action.
In the latter half of the night, Yoru walked ahead, with Yagura carrying the gourd behind.
The two disguised themselves as thirsty desert travelers, stumbling toward Moonlight Small Lake.
The Sand Ninja on duty quickly spotted the two, and one Sand Ninja shouted from afar: “Don’t come closer! This oasis has been requisitioned by Hidden Sand Village!”
The Sand Ninja’s warning had no effect; he only saw two people on the verge of dying of thirst desperately running toward Crescent Small Lake.
The two were flailing their arms while running, their eyes fixed only on water, ignoring any warnings.
The Sand Ninja cursed his bad luck inwardly for encountering two people about to die of thirst.
He saw their lips cracked and peeling, but still, they couldn’t drink the Sand Ninja’s water.
The Sand Ninja drew a kunai and threw it toward their feet.
The kunai still didn’t stop the two; they were now only a hundred meters from Crescent Small Lake.
The Sand Ninja pulled another kunai from his ninja tool bag, preparing to kill the two.
These two idiots must not alert the captain inside the oasis.
He approached the two, and when he was about ten meters away, a kunai suddenly flew over, striking the Sand Ninja’s throat.
Such fast speed—how could someone on the verge of dying of thirst have such strong strength?
Before collapsing forward, the Sand Ninja looked on in terror and clearly saw that the two in front of him were Anbu!
Above the mask was the four-water-wave emblem of the Mist Ninja.
Poisoning was a bit disgraceful, so they put on a bit of a show to avoid being so brutally direct.
Many Sand Ninja rushed out from the surrounding tents, and Yoru immediately shouted: “Action!”
Yoru formed hand seals, first creating a shadow clone.
He and the shadow clone simultaneously formed hand seals, using two Water Wall Jutsu.
The two Water Wall Jutsu formed like two high walls, sandwiching Yoru and Yagura in the middle and blocking the Sand Ninja’s counterattacks.
The two Water Wall Jutsu rushed straight toward Crescent Small Lake, constructing a passage in front of Yagura.
Yagura grabbed the gourd and threw it forward forcefully.
After throwing, he still formed hand seals and used ninjutsu.
“Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!”
The strong wind fiercely pushed the gourd, rapidly propelling it toward Crescent Small Lake.
When the Water Wall Jutsu fell, the Sand Ninja discovered a gourd had landed by Crescent Small Lake.
The gourd cracked open, and black poison flowed out from inside.
The Sand Ninja shouted: “Oh no! Someone is poisoning the oasis!”
Yoru and Yagura turned and ran.
Yoru continuously used Water Wall Jutsu to cover their retreat, blocking the Sand Ninja’s kunai, exploding tags, puppets, and more with his Water Wall Jutsu.
“This Water Style is at least jonin level! It’s an elite from Hidden Mist Village!”
Yagura looked up, constantly searching the sky.
Here they come!
Two black dots rapidly descended, flying toward Yagura and the squad leader.
“Captain!”
After releasing the last Water Wall Jutsu, Yoru turned and ran to the top of the sand dune, leaping up.
Hanashika controlled the glider and clamped Yoru’s leg with their legs.
Yoru hung upside down in the air, releasing Water Wall Jutsu from midair.
The Sand Ninja’s various attacks were still blocked by the Water Wall Jutsu.
Hanashika was delighted inwardly; the squad leader’s ninjutsu was very strong, with airtight defense.
On the ground, the Sand Ninja Captain roared in anger: “Don’t use Wind Release! Idiots!”
Yoru had chosen the attack timing precisely when the desert winds were strong; the Sand Ninja’s Wind Release would only make the glider speed up and gain altitude faster.
The Sand Ninja chased below, while the two gliders flew in the sky.
Yoru and Yagura occasionally used Wind Release: Great Breakthrough to accelerate the gliders.
The Sand Ninja were helpless.
After chasing for a long time—at least two hours—the Sand Ninja finally couldn’t keep up and watched helplessly as the gliders disappeared into the night.
