I rely on myself

Chapter 704: Root Surveillance

“…So I don’t have to worry too much.”

"That being said, I don't think we won't be targeted. After all, we are undoubtedly the majority in terms of the number of people who pass the second round of exams. Whether for practical benefits or reputation, Konoha will definitely take some measures. The most effective one is for their candidates to defeat us in the exam, so we can't take it lightly."

Shuise suddenly spoke at this time. As the only one among the six who did not pass the second round of exams, it would be a lie to say that he was not unwilling at all. But even so, he could distinguish between what was light and what was heavy, and calmly made a suggestion.

Watching this scene, Jie nodded slightly, and a hint of relief flashed in his eyes when he looked at Shuise. When the others heard Shuise's words, they thought about it for a while and felt that it was indeed very possible.

They all realized that they couldn't be careless in the next game. After all, if they faced targeted means without knowing it, they might really be brought down. Thinking of this, the five of them were on guard just in case.

Seeing that the six people were on guard, Jie was very satisfied and concluded: "In short, this is the current situation. Although there is still a month to prepare for the third round of exams, we can't do any special training in our current situation, so you can only rely on yourselves. Besides that, you should always remain vigilant. Not to mention whether someone will deliberately test you for information, just being in another ninja village is enough. Do you understand?"

"Got it." x6
Lie and the other six people all listened to Jie's warning and responded seriously.

At the Konoha Root base, at the moment the second round of additional examinations for the Chunin exams ended, the relevant information was urgently delivered to the hands of the Root leader Danzo Shimura.

Looking at the information in his hand, Danzo said unhappily: "The number of people who passed the exam in Konoha, the leader of the five major ninja villages, is less than that of a small country. It turns out that Sarutobi is still old. The performance of Konoha's new generation of ninjas is so poor."

Although Danzo is a very suspicious person, he will attack anyone who disagrees with him without hesitation, even if they are fellow Konoha ninjas.

But even so, it is undeniable that he is loyal to Konoha, although this loyalty is more of his own paranoia.

In his opinion, only under his leadership can Konoha become stronger. To this end, he will do whatever it takes. As long as he sees a ninja with potential, he will try his best to snatch him to be his subordinate.

On the contrary, if he fails to succeed and the enemy poses a threat to him, he will kill them without mercy no matter who the enemy is or how much contribution they have made to Konoha.

It can be said that Danzo himself is a very contradictory person. Although he did many things that damaged Konoha's strength, such as persecuting some outstanding ninjas, forcing his ninjas to launch suicide attacks when there was no hope of victory, etc., on the other hand, he would never let go of any existence that was harmful to Konoha.

Danzo has been engaging in such contradictory behavior for decades and it has not changed to this day, and it is still the same now.

"Somebody come!"

Suddenly, Danzo, who was looking at the information, called out to his subordinates. A Root member immediately came to him, knelt on one knee, and looked like he was obeying orders.

"Master Danzo, what can I do for you?"

"Let two teams monitor the Snow Country. Monitor everyone there. No matter where they go or what they do, record everything for me. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

The Root members naturally had no objection to Danzo's order and directly accepted it. When they were about to leave to convey it, Danzo suddenly said, "One more thing!"

"!"

"If you have the chance, try to kill them cleanly without leaving any obvious traces."

"Yes!"

This time Danzo did not speak again, and the Root members also left here and conveyed orders below. The dark space fell into deathly silence again. Except for the flames of a few candles around, there was no other light source. Danzo had already gotten used to such an environment and even enjoyed it.

Feeling the familiar darkness and silence, Danzo whispered to himself: "Just wait, I will prove that I am more suitable to be the Hokage than the weak Hiruzen. If that day is too late, I will definitely change it back! Definitely!!"

Just like that, a few days later, the six candidates from the Snow Country initially stayed in their residences and did not go out because of the warning from their leader, teacher Jie. However, after a few days, they could not stand it any longer.

After all, the scope of activities is limited to a house, which is no different from being in prison. Some people may like it this way, but the six of Lie couldn't stand it.

Of course they also remembered Jie's warning, so they did not go out rashly, but after some discussion with Jie, they finally concluded that they could go out, but they had to be in groups of three, and only one group could go out every day, and the rest of them continued to stay in the residence.

Naturally, the six people had no objection to this result and accepted it with pleasure.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey... I didn't expect this to be such a letdown on my rare outing."

At this time, Mizuise was walking on the streets of Konoha, but there was no sign of happiness on his face. Instead, he had a bitter face, as if everyone around him owed him money. At least the people of Konoha around him didn't have a good face when they looked at him as an outsider, and now they had to face such a bitter face, so they had even less of a good attitude.

Nobuyuki and Chiyomi, who were traveling with them, expressed their understanding of this, regardless of the behavior of Mizuiro or the surrounding Konoha people.

"Okay, stop talking. Have you finished shopping? If you have, then go back quickly. After all, we can't go shopping anymore in this situation."

"Wait, I have something else to buy, wait a minute..."

After buying everything they needed, the three of them no longer continued their original journey and went back directly, reporting the situation they had encountered to Jie, the team leader.

Inside the residence, Jie, Lie and the other six sat together again and discussed something.

"...This is roughly what happened when we went out. To sum it up simply, someone was monitoring us. It was definitely from Konoha. It wasn't unexpected, after all, they had a history when we first arrived. But now it's obviously even worse. Their sight can't be said to be almost blatant, but almost blatant. I'm afraid that except for ordinary people, even children who have taken a few anti-detection classes can tell their presence. It's almost like monitoring is written on their faces. This is too bullying."

(End of this chapter)