Ninja are not suicide soldiers; their mission is to be vigilant, so there's no need to defend to the death.
After Inoyue determined the six people rushing over were enemies, she decisively issued the order to retreat.
Inoyue took the lead, sprinting towards the border first.
As soon as he appeared and began to retreat, Uchiha Suien immediately followed, asking in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"There are enemies, six of them, coming from the side and rear, with at least one Jonin and two Chunin!" Inoyue replied while sprinting, turning her head to confirm the enemies' current distance.
The observation range of the Mind's Eye is superior to the Sharingan; this was the first time it was used in front of them, but it didn't attract their attention, they only glanced at it.
One Jonin, two Chunin, and the remaining three were naturally Genin; such a team was clearly mismatched in strength.
Upon hearing Inoyue's words, Uchiha Suien and Kami Kida glanced at Inoyue, then followed behind her with solemn expressions.
"What should we do?" Kami Kida asked.
Inoyue didn't hesitate: "Withdraw in a roundabout way, heading towards where you set up the traps.
If we can find Kimura Taku-sensei, even better!"
"Okay!" "Alright!" Uchiha Suien and Kami Kida fully agreed; neither of them showed any resistance.
When did these two become so obedient?
She remembered that no matter what, Uchiha Suien and Black Charcoal Head would always argue a bit.
Actually, after that B-rank mission a month ago, these two guys became well-behaved in front of her.
But that B-rank mission wasn't anything special; it was just encountering a rogue Ninja while killing bandits, and his strength was only comparable to an ordinary Chunin.
At that time, the three of them completely crushed that rogue Ninja.
"Oh no! We've been discovered!" Although Inoyue was deep in thought, she was also confirming the enemies behind her.
As soon as she turned her head, she found that the enemies, who were less than two hundred meters away, had actually sped up, heading directly towards their position.
A distance of two hundred meters is not far for a Ninja; if their strength were equal, it would take some time to catch up, but now their strength was clearly unequal.
"I'll stay!" Uchiha Suien and Kami Kida stopped simultaneously.
Inoyue was stunned.
How did these two have such good chemistry?
Saying the same words, making the same movements, and heading to their deaths in the same way.
They became so coordinated after a month together; could these two be… gay?
Shaking her head twice fiercely, Inoyue was a bit annoyed.
At a time like this, she still had the mind to think such wild thoughts, but these two guys in front of her really deserved a beating.
She rushed forward, giving each of them a knuckle rap, then pulled them along, sprinting at top speed, while scolding, "Are your brains fried? This isn't a dead end!"
"Do you have a plan?" Uchiha Suien asked coldly; it seemed Inoyue's knuckle rap earlier had displeased him greatly.
"Of course!
Follow me at full speed!" Inoyue said with full confidence.
Uchiha Suien and the other's eyes lit up; who would want to die if they could live?
...
A plan, of course, there is one?
Perhaps there really is, but Inoyue genuinely hadn't thought of one yet.
Why did she say it with such confidence?
Nonsense!
Of course, it was to save these two fools' lives.
A Genin directly confronting six people, including Chunin and Jonin, is not a hero, but someone with a problem in their head.
Charging head-on like that, they might be taken out in an instant, without even delaying them, and the result would be giving the enemy a pair of Sharingan.
This was simply serving themselves up on a platter for the enemy.
Dish!
That's right!
It's a dish!
Inoyue's mind lit up as she sprinted, forming the unseal hand sign, and the Mind's Eye instantly activated.
Earlier, during normal vigilance, she kept smelling a familiar floral scent.
Now, it suddenly occurred to her that it should be the scent of the highly poisonous plant, oleander.
The reason she was so familiar with it was due to her interest in her previous life, often using various flowers in cooking, so she remembered those highly poisonous flowers very clearly.
Oleander contains many unknown toxins; a single leaf can kill an infant.
Although Ninja are powerful, they are still human, and she believed it would still have some effect.
Fifty meters to the left was a small river, and across the river was a large patch of flowering oleanders.
"Put on your gas masks, and be careful not to cut yourselves, especially don't bleed!" Inoyue took out her gas mask and put it on, while reminding the two to be careful.
The scent of oleander is not poisonous, and its branches and leaves are not toxic as long as they don't cut the skin.
However, if large quantities of oleander are cut down, the sap that flows out and disperses into the air becomes highly poisonous; if the quantity is large enough, it should be able to poison even superhumans like Ninja.
Rushing out of the forest, the three stood on the river surface, but Inoyue stopped, staring blankly at the oleander forest in front of her, then gritted her teeth and rushed in.
The oleander forest was large, over an acre in size.
Inoyue and the two rushed in and began cutting them down in batches, allowing their sap to flow out.
Originally, Inoyue intended to keep cutting all the way to the center of the oleander forest, but she stopped after cutting only two-thirds of the way.
Inoyue didn't dare to go further into the center!
Because there was someone in this forest, and not only did Inoyue recognize this person, Uchiha Suien and Kami Kida also recognized him.
He was the Jonin Kimura Taku, who had gone out on patrol and had not yet returned.
The oleanders in the center were very dense.
Kimura Taku lay naked on the dense oleanders, blood flowing from his body, staining the surrounding petals beneath him red.
He was not dead, nor was he injured; Inoyue's Mind's Eye could discern this, and she knew the result with one look.
The reason she didn't dare to go further into the center was that her intuition told her it was very dangerous there, and it was best not to go.
...
The pursuit from behind was close.
A Fuma Shuriken was thrown towards the center, and some fake footprints were made, creating a cut path directly to the center.
Inoyue and the two ambushed themselves less than twenty meters to the right of the path.
After Inoyue finished these preparations, Uchiha Suien looked at Inoyue and asked, "What's in the middle?"
Because if it was an ambush, directly passing through the oleander forest and ambushing the moment they exited the forest would be best, but ambushing here was very risky.
"Perhaps you'll know later!" Inoyue didn't say; what exactly was inside?
It was better for them to know less.
Because their guiding Jonin was too strange; lying naked on the oleander, even if it was indecent, it was also so bizarre.
Just thinking about the scene earlier made one shiver.
If too many people knew and he found out, he might even kill them to silence them.
The six people behind arrived shortly after the Sixth Squad ambushed, still in a four-two formation, four in front and two hidden behind.
These four had already dispelled their Transformation Technique; the prey had escaped, so using Transformation Technique now would be a needless waste of Chakra.
The position where the four stopped was precisely the section where the fake path began.
At this moment, looking at the four Sand Ninja in front of her who were judging the path ahead, Inoyue's heart began to pound nervously again.
She hoped this would work, that these Sand Ninja would go directly to the bizarre Kimura Taku in the center, allowing the three of them to escape.
Because it was too dangerous here; the danger was not just the six Sand Ninja in front of them, but also Kimura Taku lying in the center, bleeding.
"Fake!" The leading Sand Ninja picked up a broken oleander branch, looked at it, and made his judgment, then asked, "Can you still track them?"
"Ninjutsu: Sand Beast Tracking!" The Sand Ninja standing in the middle of the four immediately performed the Ninjutsu.
This Ninjutsu was very similar to Summoning Technique, but it didn't use the caster's blood.
After the technique was completed, the soil beneath his feet churned, and soon a vibrant sand worm emerged.
The sand worm was wide and plump, about a meter long and thirty centimeters wide, covered in feelers like a centipede.
As soon as it appeared, it spun in place, its two large nostrils, like eyes on its back, deeply inhaling.
After two such rotations, the large sand worm suddenly let out a mournful cry, flipped onto its back, and died, thick bodily fluid flowing from its nostrils.
"What's going on?" The leading Sand Ninja questioned, his tone somewhat displeased.
"I'll try again!" The caster Sand Ninja wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Ninjutsu: Sand Beast Tracking!" The Sand Ninja who summoned the sand worm pressed one hand to the ground, and this time, he clearly infused more Chakra than before, because he didn't want to fail again.
A few seconds later, the ground surged, and an even larger sand worm burst out of the earth; this time, it was two meters long and one meter wide.
Only when he saw the large sand worm emerge did the Sand Ninja let out a heavy sigh of relief.
However, at this moment, Inoyue's heart skipped a beat, and she inwardly cried out, "Not good!", quickly turning her Mind's Eye towards Kimura Taku in the center of the oleander forest.
Sure enough, Kimura Taku had already sat up, the blood on his body no longer flowing, his gaze fixed directly in the direction of the Sand Ninja.
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