The sound from behind made the three Anbu ninjas feel an immediate sense of dread, their internal alarms blaring incessantly.
As their pupils contracted, they tried to scatter immediately.
But the perspective before their eyes suddenly skewed.
Through their gradually blurring vision, they saw the figure of an Uchiha girl, but before they could even make out what she looked like, three heads had already rolled from their necks.
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The crimson squares floating above the heads of the three Anbu ninjas slowly dissipated.
But killing them was only the beginning. The previous commotion had already alerted the entire secret base.
However, that was for the best.
It saved Uchiha Chisen the trouble of having to track everyone down.
...
When more Anbu ninjas arrived.
They found several corpses on the ground and an Uchiha ninja holding a blood-stained ninja sword, radiating killing intent.
Shocked, though they didn't know exactly what had happened, they immediately sounded the base's alarm.
"Wooo—wooo—wooo—"
The piercing alarm even alerted Sarutobi Shinosuke.
"Enemy invasion?!"
Sarutobi Shinosuke frowned beneath his Anbu mask. Since this secret experimental base was established, there had never been an incident of foreign invasion.
How could such a mess happen just as the old man entrusted this secret base to his care?
What puzzled Sarutobi Shinosuke even more was who had the audacity to invade a secret base near Konoha Village?
A base being built near Konoha Village implied a secret and close connection with Konoha.
Did the intruders not know this?
Or...
Did the other party not care about Konoha at all?!
"All combat personnel, assemble!" Sarutobi Shinosuke's expression gradually turned solemn as he gave the order, "Proceed immediately to the location where the alarm was sounded within the base. The intruders..."
Thinking that the exposure of this secret base could potentially bring a certain reputational risk to the old man.
A flash of killing intent appeared in Sarutobi Shinosuke's eyes.
"No matter who the intruders are, once discovered, kill them without mercy!"
"Yes!!!"
Led by Sarutobi Shinosuke, an entire Anbu squad mobilized collectively—this secret base was originally guarded by two Anbu squads.
One Anbu squad was responsible for scouting outside the base, patrolling inside, and transporting supplies; the other Anbu squad was responsible for eliminating any threats to the base.
Both of these Anbu squads were under Sarutobi Shinosuke's command.
Sarutobi Shinosuke suspected that the first squad might have already met with trouble!
Moreover, the intruder's strength could not be underestimated!
Otherwise, the enemy would never have been able to infiltrate the base so silently.
"Wait!"
Sarutobi Shinosuke stopped an Anbu ninja and ordered him, "You don't need to come with us. Immediately return to Konoha and inform the old man about this matter. If no news is sent back to the village from the base within fifteen minutes, it means something has happened here. It's best for the old man to bring more people."
"Yes!"
Just as Sarutobi Shinosuke was about to continue towards the direction of the alarm, a sudden sense of crisis made his heart skip a beat.
Almost instinctively, he shouted, "Stop!"
At the same time, he suddenly noticed a faint orange-red glow on the metal-reinforced wall to his right, and he could feel an intense heat emanating from that direction.
—BOOM!!!!
The terrifying high temperature instantly melted a huge hole in the metal-reinforced wall, and the violent volcanic-like impact sent molten iron splashing everywhere, with an invisible heatwave rushing towards them.
The Anbu ninjas immediately bent their knees to stabilize themselves, their eyes filled with horror as they looked at the melted wall cavity.
"That's..."
Sarutobi Shinosuke's pupils contracted. He saw "half" a person lying next to the wall cavity.
The other half of that person's body was nowhere to be found.
But judging by the clothing and attire, the person was also an Anbu ninja.
Their mask had fallen off, and half of their face was frozen in an inexplicable expression of terror, chilling anyone who looked at it.
Drip—
Drip—
Strange water droplets sounded in his ears.
The smell of sulfur flooded his nostrils.
A name of a Uchiha ninja that he deeply detested suddenly popped into Sarutobi Shinosuke's mind—Uchiha Chisen!
The moment the thought crossed his mind, he saw a figure whose body was slowly flowing with lava step out from the other side of the hole in the wall.
"It's Uchiha Chisen!!!" an Anbu ninja behind Sarutobi Shinosuke exclaimed in shock, speaking the other's name.
"Long time no see. Shinosuke... Teacher."
Lava dripped from Uchiha Chisen's body, and the molten light emitted by the lava could hardly conceal the scarlet blood of his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
He looked directly at Sarutobi Shinosuke before him and said, "As one of the Third Hokage's right-hand men, you've been missing for the past two years. I thought you were already dead. I didn't expect that Teacher Shinosuke was arranged here by the Third Hokage."
Sarutobi Shinosuke's fists clenched instantly.
His expression under the mask turned grim, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "The moment you killed two comrades, you were no longer my student, and I am no longer your Jonin instructor! Uchiha Chisen! What exactly do you want here?"
Looking at the half-corpse on the ground, Sarutobi Shinosuke's mood worsened. He stared intently at Uchiha Chisen, "You still can't suppress the demon in your heart, are you preparing to go on a killing spree in Konoha and kill these innocent people?!"
The other Anbu ninjas behind him were quite surprised.
So Senior Shinosuke and Uchiha Chisen had such a past, and he was actually his former Jonin instructor!
Uchiha Chisen asked calmly, "Too many evils of the ninja world have died by my hand, which two are you referring to?"
Sarutobi Shinosuke almost stopped breathing.
"You... have you completely forgotten even your comrades?"
"I don't deliberately remember villains who have already died by my hand."
The veins on Sarutobi Shinosuke's forehead trembled.
"Shimura Reiya! Uzuki Saku! You should remember these two names, right! They... like you, were my Genin students back then!"
Sarutobi Shinosuke couldn't help but recall the "fratricide" incident that had shaken him years ago.
It was also after that incident that he stopped being a Jonin instructor for any Konoha Genin.
"Oh... I vaguely remember."
Uchiha Chisen said, "Shimura Reiya bullied others at the Ninja Academy, leading to the bullied student committing suicide after their complaints were fruitless; Uzuki Saku, Shimura Reiya's accomplice, spread rumors about the bullied student after their death."
"It is true that I killed those two. However, they made the first move, which led the Fourth Hokage to rule it as excessive self-defense, but he did not hold me accountable."
Sarutobi Shinosuke listened to Uchiha Chisen's emotionless tone, as if "comrades" were insignificant in his heart.
A surging anger welled up in his heart, "They didn't deserve to die!"
Uchiha Chisen said, "Then the bullied person deserved to die?"
With every step he took forward, a molten pit appeared on the ground.
"In my eyes, your two students were already corrupted into unforgivable villains by the 'evil' of the ninja world. I merely cleansed the unforgivable 'evil' of the ninja world with scorching lava. That's all."
"Teacher Shinosuke."
Uchiha Chisen's scarlet eyes fell upon a red square box floating above Sarutobi Shinosuke's head.
"The current you..."
"Have also fallen into the abyss."
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