Ninja at the top of the food chain

Chapter 23 Snake

The sky did not know when it became cloudy, and the faint thunder sounded intermittently.

After a fight, Yuren left behind dozens of corpses.

Although Konoha has been planning for a long time, there are too many Urenin after all, and among the five Urenin jōnin there are also masters who are good at escaping, so it is still unfinished.

As for the rain ninja, only one upper ninja ran away, and more than a dozen middle ninja lower ninjas.And Konoha lost less than 30 to [-] people, but killed more than [-] enemies. It has to be said that this is a big victory.

Although this victory is not fair to the six teams that exist as bait, because the people who lost are basically members of their teams.In just a few minutes of holding on, three teams were wiped out by the formation, and the remaining teams were not fully staffed.One of the teams even killed a jonin leader, which shows how dangerous the job of this bait is.

But no one will mention all this stupidly, everyone is cheering at this moment, enjoying the joy of victory.The same is true for the three decoy team members who survived by luck. No matter whether they really don't know anything or realize their "real" mission, no one will make a discordant voice at this time.

The battlefield gradually calmed down, and the Konoha ninjas who came to "support" checked the scattered corpses with a clear division of labor.If he found any Yuren who hadn't breathed yet, he stabbed decisively in the neck.

Lei Luo stepped over a fallen Urenin corpse, and looked around the battlefield full of corpses, feeling nostalgic.At this time, he really wanted to light a cigarette, experience the smell of smoke and blood, and pay homage to his past.

Iron, blood and cigarettes are always a man's romance.

Suddenly, Lei Luo saw a man and a woman sitting on the edge of the battlefield, and after thinking about it, he walked over.

"Yo, are you still alive?" Lei Luo walked up to Aokilian and Saoi Naoko, sat beside them, and greeted casually.

Qing Mulian raised her head in silence, and forced a smile in response, but this smile was uglier than crying.Naoko Zuojing still had wet tears on her face, and she looked at Lei Luo with puzzlement, sadness, and some emotions that Lei Luo couldn't understand.The only thing Lei Luo could know was that Naoko Sakai was in pain.

Lei Luo can probably guess what happened, but what does it have to do with him?

He didn't see Satoshi Fujiwara, the young man who was always very witty should be dead.Lei Luo will express regret about this, but will not regret the move of leaving them voluntarily.

No matter who died, Lei Luo would not feel any emotion.

After all, he just met them for the first time, and he has no obligation to be their nanny.When Yuren came up with the first wave, he was able to patiently protect them for a period of time. In his opinion, he had already done his best.

Naoko Zuojing suddenly said, "I'm dead."

wisdom?It should be Satoshi Fujiwara, right?
Naoko Zuojing turned to look at Lei Luo, "Why did you abandon us then?"

Lei Luo said indifferently: "It can only be said that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility?"

You can't say that the position under his butt wants to be moved, right?Hmm... Rescuing a Jonin in this village, killing an enemy Jonin on the spot, and assisting in killing an enemy Jonin, shouldn't this be a small contribution?Is it okay to be promoted to Jnin?What kind of reward will Sarutobi Hiruzen give?Thinking about it, Lei Luo was a little bit looking forward to it.

After hearing Yuko's proposal, Lei Luo wanted to "promote" even more.

"The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility..." Qing Mulian muttered to herself, thinking of the scene when Lei Luo fought with two enemy jounin before, she couldn't help but feel a little enlightened.

Naoko Zuojing is not so easy to fool, or women are more emotional, she stared at Lei Luo with cold eyes, "Because of this inexplicable reason, you disregard our life and death? Are you like this? People, what qualifications do you have to be our captain?"

The air seemed to freeze instantly.

Lei Luo was silent for a while, before raising his head and sighing: "People... always instinctively find some self-righteous reasons to complain, to be angry, to hate when they are in misfortune... After all, this is a cowardly escape. Or incompetent anger?"

Naoko Zuojing stood up awkwardly, and said with suppressed anger in her tone, "Pair with Lei Luo! What do you mean?"

Lei Luo didn't raise his head, but both Aokilian and Zuojing Naoko could hear a hint of sarcasm in his tone: "Since you're on the battlefield, you should be conscious. Whether it's killing or being killed, this is what you choose for yourself." The road. There is no reason to speak on the battlefield, the victor lives and the loser dies."

"Tomo Fujiwara died because he was too weak. And you who can't protect the people you care about are undoubtedly incompetent."

Naoko Zuoi was trembling with anger, "You... what about you? Aren't you responsible for Fujiwara Satoshi's death?"

Lei Luo's tone suddenly turned calm, "I have what I should do. The initial protection was just due to my kindness. But make no mistake, I am not your nanny, and I have no obligation to protect you all the time."

"If it wasn't for me, we would die a Jonin, and do you know the more serious consequences? Let me tell you, there will be more Satoshi Fujiwara die, and then there will be more Naoko Sakai running over Self-righteously questioning me: You are so strong, why don't you protect us?"

Lei Luo spread his hands and said helplessly: "Look, save one person or save ten people, you can tell me the answer. Oh, from your standpoint, you will definitely tell me: save us, the life and death of other people is up to us." What's the matter? Even if they are all Konoha ninjas, they all have their own families..."

"Enough!" Naoko Zuojing slumped down on the ground, his voice became weaker, "I said, enough..."

Qing Mulian patted Zuojing Naoko's shoulder lightly and said softly, "Naoko, it's all over. I don't think Zhiyi wants to see you so sad."

Seeing Naoko Zuojing's mood stabilized, Aokilian turned her head to look at Lei Luo, hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "Captain Lei Luo, although I don't know whether I should ask... but I still want to know, this time Mission...what the hell is going on here?"

Lei Luo looked at Qing Mulian with deep meaning, "Little Lian, are you sure you can bear the answer to this question?"

Qing Mulian fell into hesitation again, and it took a while before she raised her head, "I, I want to know..."

"Forget it." Lei Luo waved his hand indifferently, "It's not a good thing for you to know the answer too early. You are still young, so you shouldn't pay attention to these irrelevant issues, right?"

In the final analysis, it is nothing more than the sacrifice of a few people in exchange for the victory of the majority, but is the thing that is exchanged for the sacrifice really worth that much?

"Hey!" Lei Luo laughed at himself, stood up and walked forward. "When did I become so sentimental? It's ridiculous." He muttered, his figure gradually disappeared from the eyes of Aoki Ren and Zuoi Naoko.

Lei Luo wanted to talk to the team leader, Jonin, to see what the rules of this mission were next.The materials on the carriage did not suffer much damage, and the "reinforcements" in the camp also came to accept the work.Then do they count as having completed the mission and can return to the village?

While walking, Lei Luo suddenly stopped, squinted his eyes and looked aside.

It was a slender figure, hiding in the dense shadows under the leaves.This person was wearing a ninja vest, with his hands crossed over his chest, and his body was casually leaning against the tree trunk behind him.He didn't seem to care about Lei Luo's glance, but looked at Lei Luo with great interest.

This is a man with a face as pale as paper, about [-] years old, with long black hair draped softly over his shoulders.His eyes are dark gold, with dark purple eye shadow at the corners of his eyes, and his pupils are vertical like beasts.

Lei Luo looked at him for a few seconds before slowly opening his mouth, "Oshemaru Jōnin? What's the matter?"

Lei Luo didn't activate his perception ability before passing here, so he didn't know that Orochimaru was hidden here.If this guy hadn't taken the initiative to leak a breath, Lei Luo might not have noticed his existence from the beginning to the end.

'This is Orochimaru... I couldn't find him just now with my intuition.Looking at it this way, his strength should be much stronger than me under normal circumstances. Lei Luo secretly analyzed the strength gap between the two sides, and at the same time felt strange that Orochimaru appeared here.

"According to Leiluo Chunin, you have a very keen intuition." Orochimaru's voice was very hoarse, giving the impression that he was suffering from a long-term illness. "It's not easy for you to be able to deal with two Junin with your own strength, Mr. Lei Luo."

Hearing this, Lei Luo realized that Orochimaru knew what had happened on the battlefield before, and immediately said modestly: "Where...if it wasn't for the help of another Jonin, I might have died."

Orochimaru shook his head, walked slowly to a position one meter away from Lei Luo, his eyes showed interest, "I think Sarutobi-sensei will promote your rank to Jonin after returning to the village, right? "

"Maybe." Lei Luo was noncommittal, but looked at Orochimaru with questioning eyes, waiting for the other party's next words.

"I heard that Lei Luo-kun was just promoted to Chunin a year ago, and within a year... he has grown to where he is now." Orochimaru licked his lips, "Lei Luo-kun, don't you think you are suspicious?" ?”

Lei Luo shrugged and said, "Maybe I'm a late bloomer?"

"Really?" Orochimaru smiled coldly, and asked back: "I think you are more likely to be a spy from a foreign village?"

(End of this chapter)