In the eastern district of Hidden Leaf Village, a dozen Self-Exploding Puppets gathered in front of an emergency shelter, charging towards the shelter's gate.
In front of the gate, a line of villagers waiting for inspection were blocked. Seeing the puppets swarming in, everyone's souls flew away, and they were in chaos on the spot.
"Damn it!" A Chunin gritted his teeth and went up. Fortunately, these puppets didn't have high taijutsu skills. He avoided a puppet's grab and kicked the opponent away with a spinning kick, knocking down three or five puppets in a row.
"To protect the villagers, this is the only way!" He took out a Kunai connected to an Exploding Tag and prepared to shoot. As long as he blew these guys up in advance, the Human Bomb would naturally lose its threat.
But at this moment, a pair of thick arms wrapped around from behind, tightly binding his hands, causing the Chunin's expression to change drastically.
Heavy breathing came from the back of his neck, along with a tearful plea: "Please, Lord Ninja, don't do it, my wife is inside!"
"Damn it! Let go of me!" The Chunin turned his head in exasperation. The one attacking him was a burly man, one of the villagers queuing up behind.
The opportunity was fleeting. Taking advantage of this effort, the puppets rushed up again, dark blood foam emerging from their wounds, a sign that they were about to self-destruct.
The Chunin, who had just broken free from his restraints, looked horrified, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
Just then, a deep and powerful voice cut through the air.
"Monkey King Enma, Transformation!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen appeared in a combat suit, his eyes suddenly sharp, leaping up like a nimble monkey.
Accompanied by scattered white mist, a huge Adamantine Staff broke through the mist, sweeping away all the Self-Exploding Puppets with the force of a thousand troops.
The Adamantine Staff changed at will, constantly lengthening. Hiruzen paused with both hands, using skill to remove most of the impact, not actually breaking the puppets' bones, but only letting the inertia of the Adamantine Staff carry them horizontally, separating them from the trembling villagers.
"Shadow Clone Technique!"
With a "bang," two of Hiruzen's Shadow Clones burst out of the smoke, sprinting along the Adamantine Staff all the way to the tip, then landed one after another, forming a triangular formation with Hiruzen's real body, surrounding the puppets.
Hiruzen retracted the staff, inserting the Adamantine Staff, which had shrunk back to its original size, into the ground. His hands quickly formed seals, and finally clasped together violently, "Sealing Technique: Three Directions Seal!"
The two Shadow Clones formed seals in sync with him, and Chakra converged into thin green lines, weaving from the ground to the air, forming a green transparent triangular pyramid in the middle of the three, as if a Barrier, trapping all the puppets in it.
Under the powerful sealing ability, they couldn't move at all, and even the Chakra in their bodies fell into silence, and the self-destruction that had just started fizzled out.
"It's Lord Hokage!"
"Great, Lord Hokage is here to save us!"
Hiruzen looked back, nodded slightly to the villagers in response, then looked at his subordinates and ordered:
"The enemy is the Blood Pond Clan from Hell Valley, who possess the Bloodline Limit Eye Technique, Blood Dragon Eye. Our villagers have been manipulated by their Genjutsu and turned into Human Bombs! If this matter cannot be resolved, more innocent villagers will suffer!"
"Sensing Team, starting from the eastern district, conduct a carpet search, and be sure to find them and kill them one by one!"
"Liaison Team, quickly summon the Uchiha Ninja for support. Their Sharingan can *release* the Blood Pond Clan's control!"
"Sealing Team, before that, use sealing techniques to restrict their actions. The villagers are innocent, they are all part of the village, don't kill them!"
...
While Hiruzen was issuing orders in an orderly manner, Zhi Li's team also quickly joined up with the village and joined the battle.
Because she already knew how to restrain the Human Bombs, Zhi Li was unstoppable along the way. Relying on the Eye Power of the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, she only needed to glare from a distance to *release* the Blood Pond Clan's Genjutsu.
As the captain of the Hidden Leaf Police Force, she immediately organized the Uchiha members, cooperated with the Third Hokage's dispatch, and began a net-like search along the Hidden Leaf main road, greatly alleviating the threat of Human Bombs.
In a certain alley, Shin'yu strolled leisurely with a juice in hand, a pair of crimson eyes blooming with dreamlike light in the darkness. Any puppet that saw these eyes would instantly lose consciousness and fall limply to the ground.
"Go to hell!"
Fresh blood surged, countless droplets of blood coalescing into a spinning red drill, launching a surprise attack from a blind spot behind Shin'yu!
Without even turning his head, Shin'yu raised his hand and waved. A flash of cyan light streaked past, splitting the drill from its center, along with its caster, into two pieces. Warm blood drew a scarlet streamer several meters long in the wind.
"Using those under Genjutsu to locate the caster, Lord Madara's trick is really useful."
He nodded, very satisfied with the newly learned technique.
Outside the alley, a little boy who had become separated from his family was cornered by two zombie-like puppets. He closed his eyes tightly, clutching his injured and bloodied right arm, completely unaware that the two puppets had raised stones and were numbly smashing them down.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Dozens of crystal-clear thin lines burst out in the air, instantly suspending the two puppets in mid-air, the falling stones also being cut into pieces.
Shin'yu wiggled his fingers, the threads tightened, and the two puppets stiffly turned their heads like marionettes, passively looking into Shin'yu's eyes.
The self-destruction that was brewing was extinguished in an instant. As Shin'yu retracted the threads, they fell one after another, unconscious.
"Are you hurt?"
Shin'yu threw away the paper cup, squatted down in front of the boy, and gave a gentle smile.
His voice was like a spring breeze, and the boy couldn't help but open his eyes, a delicate and jade-like face reflected in his trembling pupils.
"I..." The boy knew that this Big Brother had saved him and wanted to get up to thank him, but it involved the wound on his right arm, causing him to grimace in pain, his pale lips devoid of blood.
Shin'yu raised the boy's arm and gently uncovered the blood-soaked sleeve, a deep, bone-deep wound appearing before his eyes.
"Has the injury been more than ten minutes?" he suddenly asked, this sentence without beginning or end.
"It should be, it's been a long time..." the boy said weakly, he almost fainted just now.
"Then I can only use this trick. I'm not very proficient yet, it may be a little itchy, you have to bear with it."
Shin'yu raised his hand and covered it, a shimmering green light emerging from his palm, like a soft flame, and the boy immediately felt his entire arm was warm.
Immediately afterwards, the wound suddenly became extremely itchy, as if his heart was being pulled out piece by piece, the boy gritted his teeth and couldn't help but reach out to scratch.
"Look at me."
The boy subconsciously did so.
"What's your name?" Shin'yu stared into his eyes, diverting his attention.
"I, my name is Teuchi."
"How old are you this year?"
"I'm 4 years old this year."
Shin'yu blinked, "Are you afraid?"
The boy looked around, lowered his head timidly, "Afraid..."
"Normal, when I was your age, I was also afraid."
As he spoke, the boy felt the itching subside again. When Shin'yu removed his palm, he was surprised to find that the wound on his right arm had disappeared without a trace, not even a scar remained.
He excitedly stood up, belatedly realizing that he had regained some strength.
Shin'yu patted the boy's head, pointed to the alley he had just passed, and said gently, "Go back along this road, there is a temporary shelter. Don't worry, it's very safe."
"Thank you, Big Brother!"
Shin'yu's smile was a little stiff. He narrowed his eyes slightly, watching the boy run away with a "pitter-patter," then raised his right hand, aimed his fingertip at the building on the right, and fired a Spiral Bullet.
A blue light shot through the air, piercing through layers of walls, and then, a faint breeze carried a muffled groan of pain.
Just then, Shin'yu sensed a familiar aura, turned his head to look in a certain direction, his deep gaze seeming to pierce through layers of buildings, locking onto several figures in the distance.
"Interesting." The corners of his mouth turned up, and his figure disappeared from the spot with a "swoosh."
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