Wok Shadow Ninja

Chapter 339: Save People?

"This is the Kazekage's building, now the Elder Council's headquarters... This is the Ninja Academy, Teacher Baki has been here recently... This is the Sealing Squad... This is the Puppet Brigade controlled by Elder Kōsa…"

In the sensory link, Temari marked out the important locations in the village one by one. Shikamaru had already seen the map of the Sand Village and was constantly raising questions, which Temari answered one by one.

Ino and Choji didn't speak during this segment.

While they were analyzing intelligence, the ditzy duo, Matsuri and Yukata, were crouching by the door, acting as lookouts.

In Ino's eyes, they were the same type of person as Sakura who would just hold her head and crouch down in defense. But in front of the younger girls, they were already true heroes.

The two girls were extremely nervous. Matsuri held her meteor hammer, her large eyes darting left and right. Overall, she was still alert. Yukata, who was even ditzier than her, was crouching by the door, whispering to herself things like, "Go to Konoha Village and defeat the great demon king Yamanaka Ino to vent Lord Gaara's anger."

The sensory link wasn't blocking their five senses. The four people in the meeting could all hear her muttering. Shikamaru and Choji looked at Ino with strange expressions. Temari lowered her head, pretending she had nothing to do with it.

Ino rolled her eyes but said nothing.

She was a typical case of treating people according to who they were. If a man had said that, she could have beaten the crap out of him. But if it was a pretty and cute girl… well, she could be forgiven. Ignorance is no excuse, after all.

She gathered her spiritual energy into a thread and poked Yukata's butt with it.

"Ouch!" The ditzy girl covered her butt and looked around, not knowing what was poking her.

She suspected it was Matsuri, her eyes full of suspicion.

She was still investigating.

Suddenly, Matsuri shouted, "Go! This way, this way!"

A young male ninja was seen running for his life.

The male ninja used all his strength and rushed into the stone house. His running immediately revealed the ditzy duo to the pursuers behind him.

The pursuers' expressions were dull, their limbs as stiff as puppets, but their speed was not slow. They bounced on the spot and flew forward, reaching the stone house door in two leaps.

They seemed to retain their basic intelligence. At this moment, one of them took out a kunai and let out a meaningless roar. Matsuri and Yukata quickly closed the door. The enemies, having missed their target, began to ram the door with their bodies.

The duo held the door firmly with their bodies, but their strength was too little, and the impact from outside was too fierce.

Temari grabbed her iron fan, motioned for them to open the door, then swung the three-star fan with one hand, smashing the pursuers' heads left and right.

Her actions were like poking a hornet's nest. More dark figures staggered towards the stone house.

The stone house Temari had chosen as a gathering point was a former merchant's residence. It was spacious and quite sturdy, but it couldn't withstand repeated impacts.

She didn't hesitate. She opened her three-star fan, shouted, and two "Wind Release: Sickle Weasel" attacks turned into more than ten wind blades, tearing the bodies of these dark figures to shreds horizontally and vertically.

The pursuers' heads were half-cut off, but they still had signs of life. Looking at the familiar faces, Temari felt a chill from the bottom of her heart. What the hell are these things? They can still live with half their heads gone?

A ninja in the harem recognized the pursuers: "Lady Temari, these seem to be those madmen from before?"

As if afraid the Konoha trio didn't know the inside story, Temari quickly explained the origin of the "madmen" to Ino and the others.

Ino's expression was wooden, but she was furious inside. I'm not taking the blame for this! These half-human, half-ghost things were definitely not created by me!

She wanted to say this was Sasori's fault, but she didn't see any chakra threads. These pursuers had the intelligence to pursue independently and had a large number of mechanical parts on their bodies. They didn't seem to be human puppets…

If you really had to pinpoint the cause, it would be the product of consuming a large amount of medicine while her dark music's Yin Release chakra had not yet completely dissipated, followed by partial human puppet and mechanical modification. To blame her for this was truly unfair.

This blame should be on the quack doctors of the Sand Village. If they had been left alone, they would have been fine in a few days. But these guys took medicine recklessly and actually created a strange species.

But these things couldn't be said. If you think they're "madmen," then "madmen" they are…

"So the strange chakra we saw in the sensory link just now was these guys. Temari, what are you going to do?" Ino asked.

It was unknown who was messing around, but now the "madmen" possessed simple intelligence, a tough body, and a bit of a hive mind. Their blood was also contagious and was now spreading rapidly within the Sand Village. They were the source of the chaos.

Things were getting more and more troublesome.

Shikamaru gave Ino a signal in the sensory link, and she immediately shielded Temari from the trio's perception.

Shikamaru stated his analysis: "Actually, the internal strife in the Sand Village has nothing to do with our mission."

Ino agreed with this statement. Both Jiraiya and Tsunade hoped that the Sand Village would continue to be in chaos. Even a rotten ship has three pounds of nails. No matter how down and out the Sand Village was, it was once one of the five great hidden villages. Konoha couldn't control a complete Sand Village, but it hoped to control a divided one.

Shikamaru continued, "In terms of value alone, these ninjas, including Temari, are not as important as Kankurō. Kankurō is one of the few puppeteers in the Sand Village who has received the true teachings."

This time, Ino made no comment. She wasn't close to Kankurō. If it were a matter of saving someone, she would definitely save Temari.

But if you put a price tag on the ninjas, Kankurō's value was indeed higher than Temari's.

Puppeteers were also different from each other. Some could only use puppets, knowing how to control them and how to use them in combat, but nothing else. Another type of puppeteer was one who created puppets; their value was completely different.

Konoha had read the minds of many Sand puppeteers and learned how to control puppets, but had never found the method of creating them.

Now, Kankurō was a good opportunity.

Before Sasori defected, he spent his days creating puppets in a small room; he was a standard puppet manufacturer.

Granny Chiyo, who was previously captured by Konoha, was a typical puppet manipulator. She herself had no manufacturing ability. The old woman often went to the battlefield and was skilled in ninjutsu, puppetry, sealing jutsu, and medical ninjutsu, not a ninja who stayed at home creating puppets all day. Her younger brother, Ebizō, on the other hand, was a puppet manufacturer who stayed at home to strategize and gather intelligence.

As for Kankurō, as the son of the Fourth Kazekage, his life path had been arranged early on.

The Fourth Kazekage may not have had the idea of having Temari assist her younger brother, making Gaara a human weapon, and then making Kankurō the Fifth Kazekage.

Kankurō had a very systematic knowledge of puppet manufacturing in his head. The reason he could only modify them now was because he had no experience and didn't dare to start easily, but he had the basic knowledge.

Once this technology entered Konoha, its value would be immense.

Shikamaru was responsible for coming up with ideas and suggestions; the final decision still had to be made by Ino.

Ino thought seriously.

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