Chapter 267: Artificial Humans
Seeing Pain's action in mid-air, the attackers prepared themselves. However, the high-powered ninjutsu they had anticipated did not appear.
But just as they relaxed their guard a little, an invisible and intangible massive repulsive force was already upon them. The ten-man squad was sent flying backwards.
However, this Almighty Push from Nagato did not seem to cause much effective damage. As the squad was sent flying, the armor on their bodies bloomed with a dazzling light, seemingly triggering some kind of defensive mechanism within.
Therefore, although this squad of attackers looked battered, after getting back on their feet, they quickly reorganized their formation, aimed their guns and cannons at Pain in the air, and pulled the triggers.
At the same time, the captain who had previously fought with Jiraiya also held his lightsaber and pressed a button on his armor. The back of this strangely shaped armor transformed, and after a burst of steam, this person actually took to the air, intending to attack Pain with the strange lightsaber in his hand.
Pain in the air raised his hand towards the other party, and five black receivers instantly condensed by his hand, shooting straight at the opponent.
The person who flew into the sky, confident in his armor's protection, did not even dodge. He just pressed a button on his armor, and a pale blue mini force field was instantly generated, protecting him securely within.
However, the black receivers summoned by Pain directly penetrated the opponent's force field. After hitting the opponent, they directly brought him crashing to the ground. Four black receivers pinned his four limbs to the ground, immobilizing him.
At this time, with Pain holding the front line, Naruto and the Nine-Tails, who had ample time to form a Tailed Beast Ball, had also finished condensing it. Although the jet-black Tailed Beast Ball was no different in size from before, from the space that was slowly beginning to distort next to the Tailed Beast Ball, one could see how much energy the two had condensed into it this time.
"Roar!" The Nine-Tails let out a roar, carrying the anger of being suppressed by means that it considered to be for ants. The Tailed Beast Ball whistled and flew towards the opponent.
The other squad, seeing this, could only give up on attacking Pain and at the same time took out grenades that could create a defensive force field.
They threw out the force field grenades in their hands alternately. The Nine-Tails' angry blow had most of its power consumed by this continuous creation of force fields with almost no gaps in between. The remaining energy only managed to blow off a layer of soil on the ground in front of the few of them.
"This kind of coordination..." Jiraiya's pupils shrank. This wave after wave of force field coordination with almost no gaps in between, even a ninja squad that had cooperated for many years would have difficulty achieving such rapport. This level of coordination could be said to be something only the major families of a great ninja village could cultivate, like the former Sarutobi clan's private army. However, the taijutsu proficiency displayed by the opponent's leader just now did not seem to be something that a force capable of cultivating such a squad would cultivate.
"Damn it! How can such power be mastered by humans!" the Nine-Tails roared. Subsequently, the Nine-Tails once again turned back to look at Shukaku and cursed, "Stupid tanuki, how much longer are you going to take?"
"What are you rushing for! Stinking fox! This move was originally prepared for you!" Shukaku cursed back at the Nine-Tails, then slammed its two large hands heavily on the ground. Various jet-black spell runes extended from the ground towards the opponent. The moment the spell runes reached the opponent's feet, they scattered in all directions.
With the opponent's position as the center, an area with a radius of a hundred meters was instantly enveloped by a barrier with black spell runes, and then, the barrier instantly contracted.
The attackers wanted to use that special power from the Ten-Tails to forcibly break open this barrier. However, every time a bit of this barrier made of sealing jutsu was destroyed, it would repair itself.
"Pain! Now!" Jiraiya shouted a reminder upon seeing this.
Pain in the air nodded, raised his hand to condense a black receiver, then clenched his fist with one hand. One black receiver after another flew rapidly towards the opponent. Each black receiver accurately found an attacker, pinning them and their armor to their original spot.
"Pain, leave one set of armor!" Jiraiya hurriedly reminded.
Pain nodded and controlled the last black receiver to only take the target's head, while his armor was kept intact.
"Stinking fox, those eyes..." After the dust of the battle settled, Shukaku and the Nine-Tails finally had the time to observe the battlefield. However, after seeing Pain's eyes, both Tailed Beasts were stunned on the spot.
"What a day of seeing ghosts!" inside the Tailed Beast space, the Nine-Tails spoke up. "First, the power of that thing, and then the old man's eyes!"
"Big Brother Kurama, what are you talking about?" Below the Nine-Tails, Naruto raised his head, a look of confusion on his face.
"Brat, after this is over, you have to make a trip to the place where Chōmei and the others are," the Nine-Tails lowered its head and said seriously to Naruto.
"Eh? Go to the Tailed Beast Nature Preserve?" Naruto was first stunned upon hearing this, then he nodded. "Then let's make a trip. It just so happens that I haven't seen Sister Fū for a while."
While the two Tailed Beasts were talking, Pain also came to Jiraiya's side. After forming a hand seal, Nagato in his wheelchair and Konan pushing the wheelchair were summoned here.
"Jiraiya-sensei, and..." After greeting Jiraiya, Nagato then turned to look at Naruto.
Although he knew that this yellow-haired boy before him was the current clan head of the Uzumaki clan in the ninja world, Nagato was already over thirty. To ask him to call a boy in his early teens "clan head," he really couldn't bring himself to say it.
"Just call me Naruto," Naruto showed Nagato a bright smile. "This is Gaara."
"Hello," Gaara, after deactivating his Tailed Beast form, also nodded towards Nagato.
"Nagato, thanks for coming in time this time," Jiraiya said after sending the two Sage Toads and the Iron Arm Toad back to Mount Myoboku. "Otherwise, it would have taken us a lot of effort to deal with them. That blue energy is too much of a counter to chakra."
"Let's go and check the bodies of this group of people first," Nagato said. "To be able to build such a team, the force behind them is probably not small."
"Yes," Jiraiya nodded and, together with Nagato's Deva Path Pain puppet, walked towards the squad leader who had been dealt with first.
The person whose vital point was pierced by Nagato's black receiver was already dead. The Deva Path Pain raised its hand, and the black receiver stuck in the opponent's body dissipated. Jiraiya also went up, intending to have a good look at this thing that had caused them no small amount of trouble.
"Wait a minute!" However, at this moment, Naruto, who saw this scene, suddenly shouted.
The opponent's already damaged armor, after being freed from the restraint of the black receiver, suddenly surged with a violent energy fluctuation.
"Not good!" Nagato's main body, seeing this, hurriedly formed a seal. The Deva Path Pain's puppet raised its hand to push away the exploding corpse with Almighty Push, while the other hand pulled Jiraiya and quickly retreated.
In the next instant, the residual energy in the armor exploded, enveloping an area with a diameter of up to a hundred meters. It could be said that if they hadn't reacted in time, both Jiraiya and this Deva Path Pain's puppet would have been swallowed by this sudden explosion.
"It also has a self-destruct device?" Jiraiya's face looked a bit ugly.
"Grandpa Jiraiya, be careful," Naruto also came to Jiraiya's side at this moment and reminded him.
"How would I know this armor also had this function," a bitter smile appeared on Jiraiya's face.
"For something that looks so futuristic, isn't it common sense to be careful of a self-destruct device?" Naruto said. Naruto, who had often gone to Konoha's Scientific Ninja Tool Research Institute to help them test new equipment, knew very well that generally, this kind of equipment that contained complex technology would have a self-destruct program installed inside, precisely to prevent the equipment from falling into the hands of the enemy.
Take Neji, for example. If all the scientific ninja tools he carried on his body were to trigger their self-destruct devices at the same time, it would be enough to create an explosion no less powerful than a Tailed Beast Ball.
"It seems I'm really outdated," Jiraiya shook his head and said with a bitter smile. Then he asked, "So what now?"
"That black receiver made by Uncle Nagato seems to have a counter-effect on this kind of energy. So, it's best not to move them for now," Naruto said. "Let's go and see the other people's armor."
"Alright," Nagato nodded, then had the Deva Path Pain take Naruto and Jiraiya along. At the same time, his main body in the wheelchair was also ready to summon the Deva Path Pain along with the two of them back at any time with a summoning jutsu.
This time, the armor wreckage, whose energy flow was locked by the black receivers, did not explode.
However, for safety's sake, the two and the puppet still observed these armors from a distance.
"This should be their organization's symbol, right?" Jiraiya noticed that on top of every piece of armor, the same symbol was carved. "Looking at the shape, it's like a shell... Is there any organization in the ninja world that uses this kind of symbol as its representative?"
"It seems there isn't," the Deva Path Pain shook his head. "At least, the members of our Akatsuki have not seen anyone wearing a similar pattern before."
"A shell?" Naruto's brows furrowed tightly upon hearing this word.
"Naruto? Have you seen this organization?" Jiraiya asked hurriedly upon seeing this.
"Not really," Naruto shook his head. "But before I came out, Teacher told me to keep an eye out for an organization called Kara in the ninja world. Do you think it could be them?"
"Douhuan has heard of this organization?" Jiraiya nodded. "Then it seems we can only notify him first."
"Jiraiya-sensei, this group of people, they don't seem to be human," the Deva Path Pain also spoke up at this time.
"Hmm?" Jiraiya looked at the other with some surprise.
"They... don't bleed," the Deva Path Pain said, signaling the two to look at the places where these people were pierced by the black receivers. Logically, with such a tragic death for these people, this place should have been filled with blood long ago. But now, this place was a bit too clean.
"Not human? Could they be puppets?" Jiraiya said in surprise. He had originally thought that the reason these people's bodies did not bleed was because Nagato's black receivers had an effect similar to high-temperature cauterization, directly stopping the bleeding. But since Nagato himself had spoken, this possibility was naturally ruled out. And the only thing in the ninja world that could achieve a similar effect was puppets.
"No, it probably isn't puppets," Naruto said at this time. "Before, when I sensed their existence with the ability my big brother gave me, I could clearly feel the malice that each of them had towards me. If they were puppets, what I could sense should only be the malice of the single puppeteer behind them towards me."
"Is that so?" Jiraiya nodded upon hearing this. "Then since that's the case, we can only maintain the status quo for now. Nagato, can you have people seal off the surrounding area? Since Douhuan knows some clues about this secret organization, we can only send a message to him now and have him make a trip here."
"Okay, I'll have people come over to seal off this area right away," the Deva Path Pain nodded.
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That afternoon, Deidara, who had taken the initiative to lead the team to seal off the scene, arrived here with a barrier squad from the Land of Rain. At the same time, in the Hokage's office, Uchiha Douhuan also received the message sent by Jiraiya via a messenger toad from Mount Myoboku.
"First, he personally went to Orochimaru's place to snatch the Impure World Reincarnation, and then he sent the Kara organization to attack. Is that guy hiding in the shadows finally planning to show himself?" Uchiha Douhuan frowned after reading the message.
The Kara organization, which should have appeared decades later, was now popping up. This was definitely not good news for Uchiha Douhuan. If the information sent back by Jiraiya was correct, those puppet-like people should be the artificial humans created by the other party. And the special energy they used should be the power extracted from the other Ten-Tails in Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's hands.
Originally, Uchiha Douhuan had planned to unify the ninja world first, and then, with the power of the entire ninja world, slowly deal with these invaders from other planets. But now it seemed that the other party might have sensed something from his actions in the ninja world, so they had jumped out ahead of time.
"How troublesome," Uchiha Douhuan sighed. Putting other things aside, just the artificial humans and the ability to use the Ten-Tails' power that Naruto and the others had encountered, was a huge variable for the upcoming war in the ninja world.
In any case, it was best to first find out to what extent their technology had developed.
Uchiha Douhuan thought to himself, got up, picked up Swift Thunder, and then said loudly, "Inahi, I have to go out of the village for a trip. Have Genma's Flying Thunder God squad come over. As for the documents that need to be processed these few days, just gather them up. The less important ones can be sent directly to the General Staff, and let the Chief of the General Staff handle them."
"Understood," Uchiha Inahi replied from outside the door.
Before long, Shiranui Genma and his two teammates arrived at the Hokage's office. Uchiha Douhuan had already changed into his battle attire and instructed the three, "Let's go. To the border station in the direction of the Land of Rain."
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(End of chapter)
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