Chapter 131: Dive
After landing, Flower Deer excitedly said:
“Squad Leader! The glider you made is too useful! We have flight ability in the desert’s strong winds, and the Sand Ninja can’t hit us or catch up at all!”
Yoru enjoyed the worship and praise.
Certain knowledge from his previous life helped him in weird ways.
Yoru said: “Flower Deer, you and Tian Ya should practice controlling the glider well. It’s the life-saving divine tool for this mission.”
The next day, Yoru returned to the Crescent Small Lake to check the poisoning effect.
The Anbu’s specially made poison contaminated the entire small lake.
The Sand Ninja Battalion retreated from the small lake.
It was just a pity that this small and beautiful oasis was destroyed just like that.
The water surface turned purple, with corpses of insects and small fish floating on it.
It would take who knows how long for the groundwater to dilute the poison and bring life back to this place.
Following the map to find the second oasis, Yoru used the same tactic, throwing the poison gourd into the oasis water source, then successfully escaping with the glider.
The third oasis was no longer smooth sailing.
The oasis was larger in area, surrounded by a large number of Sand Ninja.
Roughly looking, there were at least three Sand Ninja Battalions guarding here.
During the day, many transport squads entered the oasis, loaded up with freshwater, and sent it to the front line.
After observing for several days, Yoru discovered that this oasis was the Sand Ninja’s rotation oasis.
Sand Ninja Battalions withdrawn from the front line rested here, replenished personnel, trained, and then were sent back to the front line.
There were three to four Sand Ninja Battalions in the oasis, varying.
Yoru observed for several days but found no opportunity to strike.
In the dark night, Yoru lay far away from the oasis, burying himself with sand.
Very tricky.
Three Sand Ninja Battalions were not something he could strong-attack.
Yoru couldn’t think of a way, so he turned and lay on his back on the sandy ground.
The sand covering his body slid off.
In the night sky, moonlight shone on the floating clouds, turning the floating clouds grayish-white.
Such high clouds, such leisurely clouds, unlike Yoru, whose energy was being consumed by the mission.
Yoru suddenly had an idea.
Go for it!
He summoned the Flower Deer Squad and said: “Let’s go. We must complete the mission tonight!”
The Flower Deer Squad didn’t know what tactic their squad leader had, but they followed.
Far away from the oasis.
Yoru said: “Yagura, you’re a Wind Release ninja. You fly the glider and take me up.”
Flower Deer couldn’t help asking: “Squad Leader, what about Tian Ya and me?”
“You two reinforce us. If it goes smoothly, Yagura and I are enough to complete the mission.”
The glider took off, flying toward the high air.
“Yagura, fly as high as you can! We’ll take turns using Wind Release: Great Breakthrough to provide power for the glider.”
With the help of Wind Release, the glider flew higher and higher, until it was as high as the clouds.
At over a thousand meters high, people on the ground would see the glider like a big bird.
In his previous life, he had seen news of someone flying a glider to over eight thousand meters, seen by an airplane, and the pilot thought he was hallucinating.
The glider adjusted its direction and arrived above the target oasis.
Yoru turned his back to Yagura, closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he had the Sharingan.
Don’t underestimate the single tomoe.
He used Shadow Clone again, having the shadow clone hold the poison gourd.
At this time, the shadow clone also had the Sharingan open, just like Yoru.
Gripping the shadow clone’s shoulders tightly, Yoru threw the shadow clone downward.
Go! Shadow Clone!
The shadow clone held the poison gourd and fell straight down.
While mid-air, the shadow clone continuously used weak Wind Release to adjust its direction.
In the oasis, a Sand Ninja was leaning against a pillar, slacking off.
He gazed up at the moon, complaining in his heart about when the war would end and when he could return to the village.
Konoha’s ninjas were too terrifying.
Fire Release counters Wind Release; in the face of powerful fireballs, the airflow steams up, and Wind Release completely can’t maintain its power.
While gazing at the moonlight and spacing out, he saw a black dot appear in the night sky.
That black dot was falling rapidly.
At first, he thought it was a peregrine falcon diving with its wings tucked in. This peregrine falcon was interesting, heading straight for him.
Ten seconds later, he jumped up from beside the pillar, shouting sharply: “Enemy attack!”
The shout spread in the dark night.
Several on-duty squads quickly rushed out of the oasis and patrolled the surroundings.
The squad leaders all thought their reaction was fast, but after rushing outside the oasis, they saw no one.
“Up there!”
Only then did the squad leader realize that he had assumed an enemy attack meant searching nearby on the ground, not expecting the enemy to come from overhead.
Three captains walked out of their tents and looked up to see a black shadow rapidly falling mid-air.
“Intercept him!”
Ninjutsu, kunai, shuriken, puppets—all flew toward the high air one by one.
The shadow clone, with its twice-enhanced reaction ability and the Sharingan’s observation ability, kept turning in the air, dodging all attacks.
The three Stone Ninja Captains below used combination ninjutsu.
Three tornadoes moved over the oasis lake water; anything in the air above would be swept away by the tornadoes.
Yoru’s shadow clone opened the lid of the poison gourd, then turned the poison gourd and poked a hole in the back.
His mouth pressed against the hole in the poison gourd.
“Water Style: Water Severing Wave!”
The high-speed Water Severing Wave water beam, carrying the poison from the poison gourd, formed a high-speed poison stream, heading straight for the oasis.
The poison stream pierced through the turbulent air between the tornadoes.
The three Stone Ninja Captains watched wide-eyed as the poison shot into the lake.
That purple water line, under the moonlight, was like a death-bringing black laser.
“Kill him! We must kill him!”
The shadow clone continued falling and was only hit and exploded by the tornadoes after entering their attack range.
In the high air, Yoru received the memory transmitted back from the shadow clone.
For dangerous missions, shadow clones are really useful.
Success!
“Retreat! Don’t lower altitude! Keep flying!”
The Sand Ninja desperately searched on the ground, while Yagura found a few cloud layers and successfully used them to block line of sight, disappearing.
Yoru looked at the glider’s canopy; the canopy mainly consisted of the upper wing surface and lower wing surface, with different curvatures, providing lift during flight through differences in air flow speed.
The glider he had tested worked well.
The next morning at dawn, Yoru and Yagura finally landed.
They had gotten separated from Flower Deer and Tian Ya.
Yoru said:
“The oasis we sabotaged last night is extremely important. Heading to the Land of Rivers now, we’re likely to encounter furious manhunt troops. We’ll hide for a few days first and wait for Flower Deer and Tian Ya.”
Yagura asked: “Squad Leader, where do we hide?”
“The most dangerous place is the safest.” Yoru said:
“We’ll go by the first sabotaged Crescent Small Lake. The Sand Ninja would never think we’d appear by that useless small lake.
Leave a code on the road; maybe Flower Deer will see the code and catch up to us.”
Returning to the Crescent Small Lake, Yoru discovered there were actually people by the small lake.
Looking closely, he breathed a sigh of relief—it wasn’t Sand Ninja, but a few civilians: a girl with three children.
That girl had gradient-colored hair, blue at the roots and yellow at the tips.
In the next moment, Yoru tensed up; the girl and three children were actually carrying jars and water basins toward the Crescent Small Lake!
The small lake’s water had turned purple—couldn’t they see it?
Yoru had Yagura guard outside the oasis for reconnaissance, then put on desert traveler attire and hurried toward the small lake.
“Wait! That lake water can’t be drunk!”
