Chapter 49: Reinforcements From The Future
A sand dune outside Rōran city.
Shiratori pulled off his mask, revealing a head full of messy hair and a depressed look on his face.
Apart from Minato Namikaze, Shibi and Choza's appearance is not much better.
In their impression, aren't puppets something that uses all kinds of strange weapons, spit out a few nails from their mouths, and release some poison?
As soon as the puppet here raise their arms, they fire a bunch of lasers, and when they have a disagreement, they start with another bunch of lasers… What the hell?
Shiratori was also still frightened.
Although he had expected this, he still underestimated the lethality of the puppets here.
Hot weapons are more powerful than cold weapons!
If the three thighs beside him were not strong enough, he felt that he would most likely die in the city.
"Everyone, tell me what you think about what we should do next." Minato distributed the Military ration pills to the three people and said softly.
Shibi spoke first: "The situation in Rōran is worse than expected. No living people have been found in the city so far. I think… Rōran's top leaders may be planning some shocking conspiracy."
"And puppetry." Choza continued: "Just talking about the puppet design, it seems to be something beyond this era… Perhaps only the missing strongest puppeteer, Sasori of the Red Sand, can compare to it."
"And controlling so many puppets at the same time…"
Minato looked around at the three of them and said slowly: "The only thing I can think of is the Hidden Jutsu in the rumors at the Village Hidden in the Sand… Performance of a Hundred Puppets!"
"It shouldn't be the Performance of a Hundred Puppets."
Shiratori, who had been playing the role of a nobody, interjected at the right time: "From the observation of the Sharingan, the ends of all the Chakra lines that control the puppets are those mysterious pipes throughout Rōran, not the puppeteer himself. I guess… These pipes should be related to the Source of the Ryūmyaku."
"Very good, very careful observation." Minato gave Shiratori an encouraging smile.
"Even so… It is an indisputable fact that the mysterious puppeteer can control dozens, hundreds, or even more puppets at the same time, no matter what means he uses. For us, this is almost no different from facing the jutsu of Performance of a Hundred Puppets. We can't destroy all of Rōran's Chakra channels in a short period of time unless…"
Shibi suddenly looked at Minato.
"Unless we can find the puppeteer's real body." Minato nodded: "I now have a plan."
Minato's plan was simple. He would attract the puppet army first, while the other three would go straight to the palace with the Flying Thunder God Kunai.
After finding the puppeteer and sending a signal, Minato would be able to teleport to their side through the Flying Thunder God Technique…
As long as Minato could get close… No, even if he could only see the puppeteer, then whether to kill, capture, or negotiate would be entirely up to them.
In fact, there is no way around it. After all, Rōran's puppet army has indeed touched Minato's blind spot.
If the enemy was not a puppet but a living person, Minato could just push forward, killing every one of them with his sword, and kill through the city without breaking a sweat, forcing the other party to be peace-loving from today on. Unfortunately…
Looking at that boundless, tall figure, without any vital points, and able to reconnect at any time after being dismembered… Minato was also helpless!
After the plan was drawn up, several people began to perfect the details, but they didn't expect that the action would be basically over before it even started because…
Boom!
Boom!
Two loud noises came almost at the same time. Several people turned their heads and looked at the black smoke in Rōran city before staring at each other in confusion for a moment.
"We… Have reinforcements?"
Choza scratched his head, looking silly.
Shiratori said that your guess was accurate. If nothing unexpected happened, it was indeed reinforcements from Konoha, and they came from many years later…
… … …
I know who I am, and I know what I'm going to do, but… Where the hell is this?
At this moment, Naruto only had this one sentence in his mind.
Oh my god! Where did I go? Is this still the Shinobi World?
Team 7 was strolling around Rōran happily, but somehow, they were led by the guide to the underground, where the Source of the Ryūmyaku was. They didn't expect that the target of their mission, Mukade, the missing-nin, was doing something sneaky there, and it seemed that he had no idea where to start…
Mukade was also confused.
Not to mention why he encountered Konoha ninjas so strangely, just the Source of the Ryūmyaku…
Shouldn't it be in an epic relic, with an ancient altar representing the Source of the Ryūmyaku and the seal of the fourth Hokage on it?
The seal of the fourth Hokage was not in sight, but he was overwhelmed by the room full of sophisticated instruments, and there were also many strange tubes inserted into the altar.
He considered leaving first to make a long-term plan, but those Konoha ninjas who looked malicious blocked the only exit, and besides…
He's here now… Right!
So he picked a tube at random and pulled it out.
The Source of the Ryūmyaku was also very considerate and immediately burst out with brilliant light, swallowing up Mukade and team 7 together!
After the light faded, Naruto appeared in Rōran eighteen years ago with two patrolling puppets beside him.
Then…
The puppets attacked, Naruto fought back, more puppets appeared, Naruto ran for his life, the puppets raised their arms and started shooting lasers…
Boom!
"What on earth is this thing?!"
Boom!
"Sasuke! Sakura! Kakashi-sensei! Where are you?!"
Boom!
The windows that reflected the evening sunlight were shattered by the laser cannons.
The puppets didn't seem to care about the destruction of the city at all and launched an all-out hunt for Naruto.
Dodging the lasers and the falling rubble, Naruto jumped back and forth between the towers, occasionally kicking away the puppets that were approaching him. However, as he saw more and more puppets behind him, Naruto felt like crying but shed no tears.
His mind was in a mess! He had no idea what was going on, let alone why these puppets were chasing him!
Suddenly…
"Use your Chakra Blade and find an opportunity to cut the string behind the puppet. This will save you some effort."
"Who?"
Naruto was startled and looked around subconsciously, but he was knocked away by the puppet behind him!
"Not good!"
He tried hard to steady his body in the air, intending to land on the corridor between the two tall towers, but the puppet army seemed to have noticed his intention. Countless lasers flashed and blew up the corridor without hesitation!
"I-"
Looking at the ground getting closer and closer, Naruto had no choice but to choose to withstand this impact, but at this moment… He felt his arm being grabbed.
A short figure jumped from the ground into the air and appeared next to Naruto, who was free-falling!
"Be prepared." A slightly childish voice came from under the mask.
This voice…
It's the person who reminded him before!
Only…
What are we preparing for? Oh my gosh!
Shiratori tried hard to turn around in mid-air. He had already activated the Senju Hidden Jutsu and relied on the incredible strength of his waist and abdomen to throw Naruto in his hand directly back!
Looking at Naruto, who had smashed the flying puppets into pieces along the way, Shiratori, who had fallen heavily to the ground, breathed a sigh of relief and then shouted to the sky: "Choza-sensei!"
"Leave it to me!"
A thunder-like sound exploded in the air!
Naruto was dizzy in the air and found himself being held by a huge hand. He tried to look up and saw a burly giant taller than the tower!
"Ding!"
Boom!!!
The giant's body slammed heavily into a tall tower, and the collapsed tower directly submerged the pursuing puppet troops!
When the smoke and dust cleared, the puppets that came to reinforce only saw the remains of their companions buried in the ruins, while the figures of Shiratori and the others had long disappeared…