Chapter 202
Maki smiled bitterly again: "I can only tell you what I know."
"Baizu is a very talented ninja, especially in puppetry! During the war between the Sand Ninja and the Cloud Ninja, his puppetry played a certain role in reducing the sacrifices of the lower-level ninjas in the village.
Lord Kazekage is very optimistic about him and even plans to accept him as a disciple. If nothing unexpected happens, he may even become the fifth Kazekage in the future!
But shortly after the war with the Kumogakure ended, Baizu defected from the Sand Village and disappeared like the Third Kazekage.
But soon, Lord Kazekage discovered that the Sand Ninja's collection of various puppet secrets had been stolen, and the thief was most likely the missing Centipede.
No one knows why he betrayed the village, because he should have had a bright future!
Lord Kazekage sent out Anbu to hunt him down, but his strength far exceeded the village's assessment of him, and he had even reached the level of an elite jonin.
In the end, what we found out was that he disappeared in the desert near Loulan. Once the Sand Ninja's Anbu entered that area, they would lose contact.
After realizing that ordinary ninjas could no longer threaten the Centipede, the Kazekage, at the suggestion of the Daimyo, joined forces with Konoha on this mission.
The person we originally wanted to work with was the Yellow Flash! But the Hokage rejected our proposal, saying that the Yellow Flash had a more important mission in hand. "
"So, you don't know how powerful Baizu is now?" Lu Nie summarized softly.
Maki shook his head with an unpleasant look on his face.
Judging from what happened after infiltrating, Baizu's strength and application of puppets have reached a new level. It is hard to say that the other party has demonstrated all its strength.
What's more, geniuses cannot be viewed with common sense. Especially in the past few years, the opponent's strength should be growing most rapidly.
Two years ago, Baizu's hidden strength was comparable to that of an elite jonin. It was hard for Maki to imagine how far he had grown now.
"Then tell me more about his abilities." Lu Nie asked. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle. Besides, he also has Itachi and Asuma in his team this time.
"How should I put it? He has great talent in earth escape and puppetry! But his talent was not revealed since he was young. Instead, at a certain period of time, he suddenly revealed his talent.
We thought that before this, he had been hiding his incompetence. It was only after the war that he could no longer hide. But it turned out that he just hid deeper.
After he defected, Lord Kazekage investigated him carefully and found that he was indeed from the Sand Village in the Land of Wind, and not an external spy.
He can use earth escape to shape certain clay dolls as puppets that he controls. These clay dolls have certain recovery abilities and can hide various mechanisms inside their bodies during battle.
He was able to control more than five clay dolls at once, and was considered a puppet genius. The puppet show he created was also listed as one of the puppet secrets by the Sand Ninja.
In the Sand Village, ever since the Second Kazekage created the puppet technique, every famous puppeteer who has developed his own unique system has his own proud puppet creations and corresponding operating secrets.
In order to distinguish them, these secret techniques are generally given color-based names.
For example, the most well-known outside the ninja village is Chiyo-sama's white secret technique, and the black secret technique, which is known as the special skill of the Red Sand Scorpion. The clay puppet show created by Baizu is called the brown secret technique. Master Kazekage believes that he will be able to compete with the disappeared Red Sand Scorpion in the future.
When he defected from the village, he stole many of the core puppet technologies of the Sand Village, as well as some related secrets. It is hard to say whether he applied some of these mechanisms and techniques to his clay puppets.
Because his clay dolls have the highest expandability and transformability.
Puppets with different purposes and corresponding combinations, Baizu's clay puppets are also the most complicated and difficult to deal with. In addition, the biggest limitation of Baizu is his chakra.
His chakra capacity was his only shortcoming, limiting his ability to climb to a higher level. The Kazekage originally planned to seal the One-Tail in his body after accepting him as his disciple, making him the One-Tail's Jinchūriki.
However, if there is another powerful chakra source here, Baizu will definitely find it and will not miss the opportunity to use it."
At the end of the conversation, Maki's face and tone became much heavier. He was obviously aware of the difficulty and trouble. He had already imagined that Baizu must have a very high status in Loulan now, and perhaps even changed his appearance and had a new identity.
They are now in a difficult situation.
Maki even wanted to leave and then join forces with Konoha to send more ninjas to clean up Loulan together.
"We can't escape anymore." Hearing Maki's thoughts, Lu Nie simply shook his head. "The entire Loulan has been blocked by a barrier. A very strange and dangerous barrier. Unless we find the centipede and gain control of the barrier, or find the chakra source that supplies the barrier and shut it down.
Otherwise we’re just going to be stuck here.”
"This kind of place must be heavily guarded." Maki frowned at first, then seemed to have thought of something, looked at Lu Nie expectantly, and asked him: "Can we sneak in from the shadows?"
"Okay, but I don't think this idea will go smoothly." Lu Nie nodded first, then expressed his intuition.
However, they had to first determine the exact location of the chakra source, which was quite difficult with the intensive searches and inspections of the clay dolls.
"Itachi, Asuma, can you tell me what we need to do if we want to locate the source of the chakra?"
When Itachi and Asuma heard what Lu Nei asked, they knew that Lu Nei was testing and training them, and they couldn't help but think about it.
"I think we should capture some people who might know about this place and extract relevant information from them, right?" Asuma said first based on his own experience.
"Then who would know this place?" Lu Nie asked softly.
"Places like this are usually secrets that only a few high-ranking officials know. The only one who knows this secret 100% is the King of Loulan, except for the minister whose centipede is currently unknown. It is not difficult to determine the King's location. As long as we can sneak up on him and hypnotize him, we can get the information."
This was Itachi's answer. He set his sights on the queen from the beginning. They had to determine what state the King of Loulan was in now.
Of course, they would definitely not do anything dangerous towards Queen Louwang. After all, as ninjas from Konoha Village and Sand Village, they still need to pay attention to some impacts.
(End of this chapter)