Chapter 203
"There is another method, which is to sneak in and investigate based on the approximate location of the huge chakra source that you sensed."
Itachi finished talking about a previous plan, paused, and then went on to talk about another plan.
"Want to go see why the centipede stays in this country?"
Lune said to Maki next to him, and stepped forward to touch Itachi's head. Asuma next to him puffed up his cheeks slightly.
"can."
Maki nodded seriously. According to the clues obtained by the Sand Village Anbu, the Centipede clearly had some unknown plans in Loulan.
Now that some huge chakra source was involved, Maki had a strong sense of crisis in his heart. Of course, he also wanted to know what kind of plan the centipede had here.
After the group decided on the plan, they immediately took action.
First, they determined that the source of the powerful chakra, or energy, was deep underground.
They were in the country's complex, maze-like underground drainage system, and it was easy to get lost if you didn't have a sense of direction.
However, under Lu Nie's guidance, they did not lose their way and were able to directly find the closest correct path.
Leaving the maze-like drainage system and continuing forward, a large number of clay puppets can be vaguely seen along the way.
These puppets patrolled the surroundings like soldiers, monitoring a group of ragged people in prison uniforms, whipping them and forcing them to work non-stop in a place similar to an assembly factory.
"what happened?"
Seeing that Lu Nie stopped, Maki asked subconsciously.
"The source of chakra is right under this factory." Lu Nie pointed to the factory below in the empty shadow.
The limbs of puppets were constantly being pieced together on the assembly line and then lined up to the side. Judging from the speed of assembly alone, as long as there were enough materials and energy, the number of puppets produced by this factory would probably be an extremely large number.
There is a limit to the number of puppets a puppeteer can manipulate. The large number of puppets created like this is obviously serving a huge plan.
Maki looked at the puppet factory below and immediately thought of this. His expression instantly became uglier and more serious.
He no longer regarded Baizu as a simple traitor. He now had some powerful ambitions.
If all these puppets can be used, it will be enough to fight a ninja war! And when the war starts, the Sand Village of the Wind Country will be the first opponent.
Given the current weakness of the Sand Village, if it were attacked by this large army of puppets, just thinking about it would make Maki feel a chill to the bone.
"Can we destroy this place?" Maki asked anxiously.
In his heart, no matter what Baizu wanted to do, this factory was obviously the top priority. No matter what, he had to get rid of Baizu and this place.
He had discovered that the operation and manipulation of the puppets here seemed to be very different from the puppets he knew. At least it would be difficult to follow the puppets and find the hidden centipede.
"Destroying the factory once is useless, it can only delay some time. If we want to solve the problem once and for all, we still have to find Baizu and kill him." Lu Nie replied.
"But there are puppets patrolling everywhere on the ground." Maki also knew what the situation was on the ground.
"I want to see that chakra source." Lu Nie said with some interest. "Whatever Baizu's plan is, whether it is to start a war, conquer the ninja world, or something else, that place should be the core of the plan.
Whenever something unexpected happened there, he would have to show up to stop it."
Maki nodded silently after hearing this. He agreed with Lu Nie's inference. It was like once there was a problem with the One-Tail, no matter who was the current Kazekage, he would rush forward to suppress and solve the problem after receiving the news.
"That device is extracting the energy from underground." Lu Ni pointed at a huge millstone-like device that was constantly pushing like a prisoner.
"Do you want to continue sneaking in, or alert the enemy?" Maki looked at Lu Nie with a tentative look. As the strongest member of the team, Lu Nie should have the right to command the team, including him, the newly promoted jonin of the Sand Ninja, while working together without any objections or problems.
The shadow enveloped Maki and the others, and they sneaked into the shadows again.
As they got closer to the underground energy core, Lu Nie and his companions saw more and more puppet soldiers, and Maki felt heavier in his heart.
Obviously, the power displayed by the Centipede now has exceeded his imagination. No wonder the Sand Ninja's pursuit team has disappeared repeatedly and there is no news. In a place like this, unless the Kazekage comes, even if a team of Jonin comes, it may not be able to pass on the news safely.
Avoiding those puppets, Lu Nie and his companions finally came to an empty underground space that seemed to have existed for a long time. There were four huge stone statues standing around the space, and in the center of the stone statues was a pattern that glowed purple and looked like a huge eye.
Surrounding the eye pattern are complex and dense runes.
But what attracted Lu Nie and the others more than these runes and eye patterns were the figures that suddenly appeared below. They appeared abruptly in this underground space as if they were suddenly spewed out by the eyes.
"That is, space-time ninjutsu?"
Maki also noticed the people who suddenly appeared. The first thing that came to his mind was the elusive yellow flash.
But the next moment, after seeing the ninja forehead protectors revealed by those people, Maki subconsciously looked at Luna beside him, and even Itachi and Asuma subconsciously looked at Luna.
"Have you, Konoha, sent other ninjas to come along?" Maki frowned slightly as he looked at the four ninja figures below.
A team of four, a standard ninja squad, with one captain and three team members.
"No." Lu Nie's memory gave him some impression of the four people who suddenly appeared. In Maki's suspicious eyes, he took the initiative to disperse the shadow, revealing his own figure, and said to Maki: "But we can ask directly."
"Who?"
Lu Nie's words alarmed the ninjas below. One of them, who seemed to be the team leader, looked up at the source of the voice and had already started to make seals with his hands.
"As a ninja of Konoha, you don't even know the disciple of the Fourth Hokage?"
Maki and others jumped down from a height in an instant, and appeared face to face in front of the alert group of four. Seeing that the four were still on guard, Maki, while being sarcastic, also began to doubt the true identities of the four people in front of him.
(End of this chapter)