thefictionvixens Chapter 127 Garrison
Chapter 127 Garrison
Chapter 127 Garrison
As night fell, the bright moon illuminated the entire land, and the howling wind swept through the valleys, raising a cloud of dust.
Taiyi and Yangping lay in ambush behind the rocks on both sides of the road, their breathing almost blending into the environment.
Their patience finally paid off in the latter half of the night. From a distance, the sounds of exploding tags and booming ninjutsu could be clearly heard from the direction of the mining area.
Not long after, the commotion subsided, and then a moment later, the sound of hurried footsteps drifted back from afar.
"They're here!"
Taiichi's hands had already formed hand seals, and chakra surged and flowed through his meridians. Yohei's three-tomoe Sharingan glowed with a blood-red light in the shadows, his eyes fixed intently on the end of the road.
Eight ninjas were fleeing in panic, seemingly being chased by someone. The moment they stepped into the valley, Taiichi and Yangping, who had been lying in ambush, launched their attack.
Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation.
Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
Two fire-style attacks, one from the left and one from the right, swept across the entire valley, and the unsuspecting bounty hunters were instantly burned to death.
Among the bounty hunters, there were also some capable individuals. Taking advantage of the moment when their companions shielded them, a wall of water suddenly rose up to extinguish the flames on their bodies, followed by an earthen wall that rose up to block the flames.
Just when the bounty hunter thought he could block the fire jutsu, Taiichi suddenly exerted his power, his chakra output was violent, and the originally orange flames suddenly turned into bright gold.
Intense high-temperature radiation accompanied by blinding light, the fiery dragon overflowed the earthen wall like a river, evaporated the water curtain, and mercilessly swallowed everything in its path.
Those bounty hunters who were wailing in the flames and hiding behind the water curtain fell silent instantly, leaving only the sound of the raging flames in the world.
When Taiyi stopped using Fire Release, the bright golden flames returned to their normal orange-red color. As there was nothing left to burn, the flames gradually died down, leaving only dark red lava still glowing red in the valley.
The eight bounty hunters, however, were now completely gone, not even ashes remained.
On the other side of the valley, Yang Ping was also dumbfounded. He had thought that a close battle was about to begin when he saw that the fire jutsu was blocked by the other party. However, Taiyi suddenly exerted his strength, and then nothing happened.
Although I already knew that Taiichi's Fire Release was powerful, this was just too powerful. The Earth Release, which has strong defense, and the Water Release, which is effective against Fire Release, are completely useless in front of Taiichi's Fire Release.
At this moment, the captain had just entered the valley. The fire jutsu in the valley had been too violent, so he could only enter after it subsided.
Looking at everything in the valley, the idea of helping to clean up the battlefield vanished completely. There was nothing left to clean up.
Surprise flashed across his eyes. After saying goodbye to the two and telling them to hurry back, Captain Yamaguchi disappeared with a bang. It turned out that it was just a shadow clone.
Meanwhile, those eight bounty hunters were chased for their lives by a shadow clone until they ran to their deaths. I wonder what they will think when they learn the truth. I bet they will be so angry that they will die again!
On the seventh day, the failure of eight ninjas to return overnight had clearly alerted the enemy. So far in the mission, the enemy had lost 14 ninjas, though only junior-nin, it was still a significant loss.
Sure enough, the enemy was more cautious today. Not only were there more of them, but they were also more slippery. Taiyi and Yangping could no longer find an opportunity to wipe them out in one fell swoop as they had the first time.
Even so, over the next three days, they managed to eliminate seven more enemies.
But the Kawata family seemed determined, continuing to hire ninjas to harass them, and their actions precisely hit Team 8's weak spot.
The prolonged harassment has prevented the team from getting enough rest, and Yohei and Saori's condition has noticeably declined.
"Damn it, these people are like flies, they just won't stop." Yang Ping's eyes were red. At this moment, he wasn't in Sharingan mode; his eyes were just red from exhaustion.
"Since they have so many people, why don't they just swarm us and instead just keep stalling like this!" Saori didn't understand either. The other side clearly had the advantage in numbers, and there were also Sand Village ninjas who hadn't made a move yet, so why would they adopt this harassment tactic?
"Who knows? Maybe they're just having internal conflicts and don't like each other."
Taiyi was exhausted these past few days, and upon hearing this, he complained irritably about the ninjas.
"Even so, if they keep harassing us like this, we won't be able to hold out for long."
"Alright then." Looking at the three exhausted men, Yamaguchi Masasuke readjusted the personnel. "For the next few days, one of you will rest, and the other two will go out hunting in pairs. I will stay in the mining area by myself."
"And what about you, Captain?"
"You're not always out hunting, so I can rest when you return."
"Well, that's the only way to arrange it."
This stalemate continued until the 10th day.
That day, Taiyi finished his rest and went out to prepare for his shift with Yarn Weaving. As he brushed past a miner, he suddenly became alert. He quickly called out to the miner and carefully observed his expression.
His face was pale with an unnatural bluish-gray tinge, and his lips were slightly purple—clearly signs of poisoning.
His heart sank, and he immediately pulled the miner to the team leader and Tokugawa Seki, explaining the situation to them.
In just over ten minutes, all personnel in the mining area were gathered together. After Taiyi's rapid diagnosis, it was confirmed that six people, including Tokugawa Seki, had been poisoned. Although the symptoms were not yet apparent, if not treated in time, it could affect the normal operation of the mining area.
Taiyi and the others carefully examined several places that could be easily poisoned, and finally found the toxin in the kitchen water tank. Combining this with the source of the water, Taiyi quickly drew a conclusion.
"This is a neurotoxin extracted from sand lizards. The other party calculated the time and distance, and released the poison upstream when we went to the river to collect water. As long as the dosage is controlled, the toxin content in the water we collect can be guaranteed."
"Sand lizard, it seems the Sand Village has made its move." Captain Yamaguchi's expression was grave. He immediately ordered the sealing off of all water supply in the mining area and instructed Saori and Yohei to explain the situation to the unpoisoned miners.
After watching Captain Yamaguchi successfully arrange everything, Tokugawa Seki asked in a trembling voice, "Captain Yamaguchi, what about those of us who have been poisoned? Are we in danger?"
Captain Yamaguchi looked at Tokugawa Seki, whose face was filled with fear, and the five miners behind him who were already trembling with fear, and said in the calmest tone, "Don't worry, we have the best medical ninjas here, and your poison will be cured soon."
At this moment, Tokugawa Sekiya remembered Taiichi's miraculous detoxification method on the way here, and finally put his heart back down.
At this moment, Taiyi quickly took out the medicinal herbs he carried with him and, combined with the existing drug reserves in the mining area, prepared an antidote on the spot. Fortunately, this was just a standard poison from Sunagakure, and the six people had not been poisoned for long.
In less than half an hour, the six pills carefully prepared by Taiyi were successfully completed.
Seeing the antidote handed to him, Tokugawa Seki couldn't think of anything else. He eagerly picked up a pill and stuffed it into his mouth. The other five miners quickly followed suit, each picking up a pill and eating it.
Yang Ping looked at the impatient look on their faces and felt a smug look on his face.
Sure enough, after the first dry heave, a series of dry heaves followed. However, a warning that sounded like it came from hell rang in everyone's ears: "Don't vomit it up. The ingredients here can only make so many antidotes. Even if you vomit it up, you'll still have to eat it again."
Upon hearing this, the six people covered their mouths, which were dry heaving, and looked at Taiichi with tears in their eyes. Only then did Tokugawa Seki realize why Yohei had that expression when he took the medicine; it was simply because the medicine tasted so awful.
Not long after the poisoning incident was resolved, a sharp whistle rang out in the distance—a signal that the shadow clones had encountered the enemy! As the whistle continued to sound intermittently, Taichi and Captain Yamaguchi exchanged a glance, then joined Yohei and Saori and rushed out together.
This stalemate, with the poisoning by Sunagakure, is finally about to be broken.
When the Yamaguchi squad arrived at the attack site, Yohei and Captain Yamaguchi's shadow clones had just been destroyed by the enemy. Fortunately, they had also completed their mission and successfully kept the enemy out of the mining area.
Through the memories transmitted by the shadow clones, the two also learned about the enemy's basic situation: a Wind Release Jonin from Sunagakure, a Puppet Master Jonin, and three Chunin.
"Aren't these the Sand Village's Wind Wolf Jonin and Sand Kui Jonin? Are you all preparing to take action yourselves!" Captain Yamaguchi said, feigning surprise as he looked at the two leading ninjas. "Where are those bounty hunters? Aren't you going to attack together?"
"Sunagakure wouldn't stoop so low as to team up with bounty hunters. We're all you need to defeat you—" said the Jonin named Wind Wolf with disdain.
But before the Sand Village ninja could finish speaking, Taiichi, who was hiding behind, had already quickly completed the hand seals.
Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet. A raging, bright golden flame, like an exploding fire dragon, rushed straight towards the Sand Village ninja. Even before the flames arrived, the oppressive heat wave made it difficult for the Sand Village members to breathe.
Following closely behind Taiichi, Saori quickly completed her hand seals as well.
Lightning Release: Lightning Net – A lightning ball, launched later, struck the spot where the Sand Village members stood first. As the lightning ball exploded, a massive electric net suddenly unfolded.
Caught off guard, a Chunin from Sunagakure was a little slow to retreat and was paralyzed by the electric net, leaving him standing there frozen in place.
"Despicable! Is this how Konoha ninjas launch sneak attacks?" Wind Wolf roared repeatedly as he retreated, his hands forming hand seals at the same time.
Wind Release: Great Breakthrough - A howling hurricane bursts from the mouth of the wind wolf, attempting to hinder the fire dragon's attack. However, the bright golden fire dragon is as solid as a physical object, completely unaffected by the gale.
"Ah!" A piercing scream rang out, but Taiichi's Fire Release didn't give the Chunin a second chance to utter a sound. The bright golden flames took his life in an instant.
Captain Yamaguchi seized the opportunity and instantly engaged the retreating Wind Wolf.
Taiyi immediately engaged the puppeteer named Feng Kui.
Yangping and Saori each faced off against two Chunin.
The situation instantly changed from 5 against 4 to a 1 against 1 contest.
The puppeteer from Sunagakure was also an experienced Jonin. Before Taiichi could even reach him, the three puppets had already formed a three-man formation and were flanking him.
Having learned from his previous experience dealing with the puppeteer, Taiyi didn't stop moving as he watched the puppet charging towards him, while simultaneously forming hand seals with his hands.
Fire Release: Phoenix Fire.
Like a machine gun, Taiyi continuously unleashed a barrage of fireballs, the bright golden fireballs arranged in groups of three, forming an orderly array as they charged toward the attacking puppet.
Having just witnessed the terror of these flames, the puppeteer Sha Kui knew that the fireproofing on his puppets was completely inadequate against such high temperatures. He quickly pulled on the puppet strings to control the puppets and dodge the fireballs.
At the same time, Sha Kui glanced at his companion Feng Lang, hoping to exchange opponents with him, as the brat's fire style was too effective against his puppet.
But what he saw only made him angrier and more furious. Fenglang was completely suppressed by Konoha's Jonin. In fact, Fenglang was the one who needed help more than anyone else.
"Damn it, I knew this guy was arrogant and conceited, but I still believed his nonsense. I've ruined a great opportunity."
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His gaze then swept over the remaining two Chunin, and he found that their situation was even worse than that of the Jonin, Furou.
"Boom boom boom"
A barrage of Phoenix Fires rained down on the ground, and fireballs relentlessly bombarded the puppet's body, quickly shattering the encircling formation.
Taiyi seized the opportunity and used his Instant Transmission technique repeatedly, instantly appearing in front of Shaku in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, Sha Kui was slightly distracted by observing his teammates, and his reaction to Taiyi's sudden attack was a beat slower.
With a loud "bang," a powerful punch struck Sha Kui squarely in the chest, sending him flying backward.
However, Taiyi's expression changed immediately after he succeeded, and he left without thinking.
Sure enough, it was only a second too late.
"boom"
The sound of the explosive tag exploding echoed on the spot, and Shaqui, who had been hammered away, was scattered into pieces before he even landed. It turned out that this was a puppet decoy.
Having just regained his footing after dodging the explosion, Taiichi immediately released his chakra perception technique. Randomly, everything within a 500-meter radius slowly entered Taiichi's mind, from near to far.
In his perception, 50 meters to the southwest, a figure was slowly moving away from him, using the cover of the trees.
"Are they trying to escape?"
Taiyi didn't have time to think much. The puppet, having escaped the fireball attack, was already rushing towards Taiyi again. However, probably because the puppeteer was too far away, the puppet's speed was noticeably slower at this moment.
Taiyi gathered chakra in his hands again and instantly closed in on the charging puppets, smashing them away with a single punch each—puppetes that were clearly being used as cannon fodder.
As the puppet was damaged, the figure that had been slowly retreating in the distance immediately accelerated its retreat.
"They really did run away!"
Taiyi withdrew his senses and looked at the three battlefields at that moment.
Yangping had become very skilled at using his three-tomoe Sharingan, and his Chunin opponent was completely under his control, so there was no need to worry too much.
The Sharingan of the Uchiha clan truly lives up to its reputation as a top-tier bloodline limit; once the three tomoe are activated, one can quickly attain the strength of a Jonin.
Since Yangping awakened his Sharingan to the three-tomoe level, his strength has increased at a visible rate, and he now firmly possesses the strength of a Special Jonin.
Looking at Saori again, although her strength is not as good as Yohei's, she is now at the level of a Chunin. She was fighting the Sand Village Chunin to a standstill.
Saori has clearly made great progress in her sealing techniques during this time. She can now release sealing techniques like the One-Element Lantern Array with ease. Although this sealing technique has very little effect on Chunin, in this intense battle, even the slightest delay is a fatal flaw.
So in the short time that Taiichi observed, Saori was the first to defeat the enemy.
The two exchanged a knowing glance, and Taiichi immediately rushed towards the battlefield where the Jonin were fighting, while Saori went to provide support for Yohei.
At this moment, Fenglang was filled with regret. He had been too arrogant and underestimated these Konoha ninjas. If he had been able to join forces with those bounty hunters, this mission would have been a sure thing.
But there's no going back in life. To save face for Sunagakure, the bounty hunters weren't even notified about this mission.
As expected, with Taichi joining the battle, the Sand Village Jonin couldn't even last a minute before Captain Yamaguchi pierced his heart. His eyes, in his dying moments, were filled with regret.
With the Jonin's battle over, Yohei and Saori also dealt with the last remaining Chunin.
The four members of Class 4 reunited.
"The puppeteer I was fighting saw that things were going badly and had already fled. By the time I found out, it was too late," Taiyi admitted his mistake.