Chapter 205: Infiltration
Bai Ci sensed the contract chakra, formed hand seals with his short, thick double palms, and used Reverse Summoning Jutsu.
“Trouble you, Bai Ci, you go back first.”
Yoru quickly returned to the vicinity of his squad.
He gathered the four squad leaders and told them the intelligence he had obtained.
“The Hidden Stone Village’s stronghold fortress has a layout roughly similar.
At a distance of 200 meters from the fortress, there is an Earth Movement Barrier. Vibrations on the ground or underground will be transmitted to the Barrier Squad inside the fortress.
The fortress is mostly four stories. The top floor is the Captain’s Office and Meeting Room, the third floor is the most important Barrier Squad and observation room.
The first and second floors are the residential area for the garrison brigade.
I’m now teaching you a sealing curse mark I developed, Earth Movement Vibration Reduction Seal.
All Earth Release ninjas come learn it. You can use this curse mark to quickly approach the stronghold fortress.
All strong assaults are feints, do not engage in prolonged combat, create enough destruction and then retreat as soon as possible.”
Aries and the others were surprised in their hearts, not expecting the squad leader to have developed a sealing jutsu targeted at the Hidden Stone Village’s barriers.
With this sealing jutsu, they could smoothly pass through the barrier, set exploding tags under the fortress, and blast a gap in the fortress.
Ordinary Anbu members, when they first entered Anbu, did not know the mission contents and just executed orders, with no way to leak Anbu intelligence.
After staying in Anbu for a long time, slowly forming bonds with the Anbu captain and team members, they generally would not leak Anbu intelligence either.
Yoru and his team members had gone through several wars together.
They learned ninjutsu from Yoru. With a taijutsu and ninjutsu sparring teacher like Yoru, they became increasingly loyal to Anbu and to the captain.
After more than a year of continuous observation by Yoru, the Aries Squad and Flower Deer Squad were the most loyal to him.
Aries Squad’s Tian Ya, antelope, Brown Bear, Flower Deer Squad’s Yagura, Kurozaru, Horned Ox, all had deep comrade bonds with Yoru.
In this dangerous mission, as squad leader, Yoru taught them targeted sealing jutsu in advance. These team members understood Yoru’s intentions.
As for Hippopotamus and Yak Squad, as long as Yoru was still Kiiroinu’s man, there were no problems for the time being.
After teaching the Earth Movement Vibration Reduction Seal to the Earth Release ninjas in the squad, Yoru took Purple Cat and left the squad, heading to his target Fortress B.
When the agreed time arrived, Yoru waited for the Stone Ninja’s communication sparrow.
The feint attacks by the four squads had taken effect.
Two Stone Ninja squads left the fortress to support the neighboring fortress that was under attack.
“Purple Cat, wait here for me to bring out corpses of sufficient weight, then you read the intelligence from the corpses.”
Stone Ninja Jonin were very strong, hard to leave alive. Having Purple Cat’s Yamanaka Clan secret jutsu was convenient; he could bring out corpses.
Yoru quickly advanced, approaching the fortress.
When reaching 200 meters from the fortress, Yoru formed hand seals with both hands, and Earth Movement Vibration Reduction Seals appeared all over his body.
With the curse mark’s enhancement, he slowly sank into the ground and used Earth Style: Fish in Water Reflection Jutsu.
Vortex Yuka was a sealing jutsu genius girl who developed the Earth Movement Vibration Reduction Seal, with excellent effects.
He quickly infiltrated under the fortress wall, then infiltrated inside from the wall.
Having seen the fortress’s defense map in his previous life, he was clear on the internal layout.
Now with two squads gone, the internal defenses were even sparser.
He went up the stairs to the second floor, waiting at the stairwell entrance for five seconds.
Five seconds later, the two Stone Ninjas on the second floor happened to leave from the observation window at the end of the corridor, heading to the next observation point.
Yoru waited for the two to turn, perfectly missing them, and continued up to the third floor.
At the third floor stairwell, Yoru used Karma Seal of Retribution to lock two Stone Ninjas, then crushed their throats from behind.
Pacing in the empty corridor, Yoru stood outside the barrier room door.
Three barrier ninjas were intently staring at the barrier light ring.
“Who do you think attacked the neighboring fortress?”
“Cloud Village signed a ceasefire agreement with us, it wouldn’t be a delaying tactic, right?”
“Possible, Cloud Ninjas are all muscle-brained martial faction.”
As the three were talking, they discovered they could not move.
Karma Seal of Retribution locked the three, and after three muffled sounds of throat tubes shattering, the Barrier Squad was killed by Yoru.
Among the three barrier ninjas, one was wearing a mask. Yoru changed into his clothes and disguised as a Stone Ninja.
He looked up at the ceiling and stood directly under the Stone Ninja Captain’s desk.
At this time, the Stone Ninja Captain must be handling the follow-up work for the neighboring fortress’s attack.
Inside the office, the Stone Ninja Captain was writing a scroll with his head down.
An anomaly appeared under his feet!
A black shadow emerged from under the desk and fiercely grabbed at his throat.
The Stone Ninja Captain smoothly pressed his thumb against the end of the pen, using the pen as a weapon to stab under the desk.
The pen abruptly stopped a few centimeters from that arm!
Sealing runes appeared on his own arm.
Someone used powerful sealing jutsu to lock his body?
Yoru frowned slightly.
This Stone Ninja Jonin was very strong. Under intense resistance, the Karma Seal of Retribution showed an unstable condition.
The drawback of Karma Seal of Retribution was that it could not be maintained for long in same-level combat.
But Yoru’s hand had already gripped the Stone Ninja Captain’s throat.
Crack!
Yoru twisted the Stone Ninja Captain’s throat, killing him.
Up to now, everything had proceeded in silence; the fortress still did not know of Yoru’s infiltration.
Yoru emerged from under the desk and stood behind the Stone Ninja Captain.
He wrapped a bandage around the Stone Ninja Captain’s neck to cover the wound and put on sunglasses.
After disguising, he stood behind the Stone Ninja Captain.
Shadow Imitation Jutsu!
This was the first time he used this secret jutsu.
Back then in the Land of Wind, he had drawn this secret jutsu from Nara Baika but had not used it.
Yoru’s shadow connected to the shadow of the Stone Ninja Captain’s corpse.
The corpse moved, performing exactly the same actions as Yoru.
With the captain’s corpse in front and Yoru disguised as a Stone Ninja behind, they walked toward the door.
Opening the door, the two entered the corridor one after the other.
An assistant happened to be walking in the corridor.
The assistant said, “Captain! A communication sparrow delivered a new scroll!”
The Stone Ninja Captain waved his hand, signaling the assistant to deliver the scroll to the office.
The assistant walked toward the office, somewhat confused. Why was the Barrier Squad captain following the captain? Had something abnormal happened to the barrier?
The captain went down the stairs all the way, nodding to Stone Ninjas who greeted him without replying.
Until reaching the first floor entrance.
The captain waved his hand, signaling the guard ninjas to open the gate.
The guard ninjas hurriedly opened the gate.
The guard ninjas thought, the captain and barrier captain going out together must mean something was wrong with the barrier.
After exiting the door, the two first walked slowly, then quickly, then jogged, with speed increasing.
A guard ninja looking at their backs said, “The barrier must have a big problem. Look how anxious the captain is.”
“Yeah, but the barrier captain is really a sycophant, mimicking the captain’s actions exactly even at a time like this?”
“That’s why he got promoted to squad leader. It’s all about effort, learn well.”
A few minutes later, the two exchanged a glance and saw confusion in each other’s eyes.
How did the captain and barrier captain directly leave the barrier range and run toward the distant mountain gully?
“What to do?”
“Is something off?”
“It should be a bit off, but I can’t quite say.”
“Where is the captain going? Will he come back?”
“He won’t come back?”
Five minutes later, the captain’s assistant rushed down and saw the open gate.
“You two idiots! Where is the captain!”
The two said, “The captain and barrier squad leader left together, maybe some urgent mission.”
“The captain and barrier squad leader are missing! Four people inside the fortress were killed!
You two idiots, two idiots who could go into the Hidden Stone Village museum!
