The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 21 Hideki's Fighting Style
Now let's turn the camera to where Hideki is.

In the light from the flashlight, Hideki could be seen sitting cross-legged in a cave about ten meters underground, with the fingers of his hands flying in the air as if he was playing a piece of music.

At the same time, the tip of each finger released a chakra line that extended upward, controlling the corpse puppet on the ground and the opponent to continue to fight.

Yes, the somewhat curious corpse puppet on the ground is indeed Hideki’s masterpiece.

With the ability of radar perception, he naturally discovered that someone was following him very early on.

So just in case, while exploring the Valley of the End, he found an opportunity to hide underground and let a specially made dummy puppet replace himself.

And it turned out that his caution was not in vain.

When the enemy mistook his super-realistic mannequin for him and launched a sneak attack, the huge intelligence gap made the outcome obvious.

The reason why the enemy has not been able to find any traces of Hideki's chakra lines is because they are directly connected from underground to the feet of the dummy puppet!
However, Hideki was able to manipulate the enemy with ease, relying on a ninjutsu that was only C-level in difficulty:

Earth escape technique: Earth dragon hiding technique.

This technique can use earth escape chakra to turn the soil into fine sand, allowing the caster to move freely underground like an earth dragon.

Because he had to focus most of his energy on puppetry, Hideki did not learn much about ninjutsu.

And this Earth Ryuinjutsu is one of the few ninjutsu that Hideki has specially spent a lot of time and energy to practice.

In addition to the fact that Hideki's natural chakra attribute is earth, the more important reason is that this ninjutsu is really suitable for running away...

Hideki, who has always cherished his life, would certainly not miss this life-saving skill.

He also used the power of brainstorming to improve this technique.

So now he can not only transform soil into sand, but also compress them into rocks to reduce their volume, thereby creating underground caves like the one he is in as temporary shelters, allowing him to perform puppetry or avoid enemies.

If an emergency occurs, Hideki can even live underground for more than half a year with the food, water, and oxygen tanks that have been prepared in the storage scroll...

However, this Earth Dragon Hiding Technique is not perfect.

Its most criticized shortcoming is that when you are underground, it is difficult to clearly know the situation on the ground.

Although the ninjutsu scroll of this technique also comes with a set of skills to roughly judge the position and number of enemies based on vibrations, which can be used to make up for the shortcomings of this technique.

But this can only be used for escape or sneaking. If one wants to precisely control the puppets on the ground through chakra lines underground, this set of skills is obviously not enough.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been Hideki's turn to invent this tactic.

And Nakamura would not have completely failed to consider the possibility that Hideki was hiding underground.

In fact, this problem has troubled Xiushu for a long time.

In other words, how to control a puppet without observing with the naked eye has always been a difficult problem that puppeteers have been trying tirelessly to solve.

Because the puppeteer himself is the biggest weakness of the puppetry system.

If the limitation of relying on the naked eye can be eliminated, then the puppeteer can hide farther and more secretly, instead of having to hide near the battlefield, worrying all day whether he will be affected by the AOE ninjutsu of both sides...

Although Hideki already has a radar perception technique, he can easily sense the situation around him.

It's a pity that the principle of this technique is to perceive the surrounding environment by analyzing the chakra reflected waves, so there is a certain delay.

There is nothing wrong with using it to understand the terrain or find people or objects, but it is not enough for the fast-paced ninja battles.

Fortunately, the radar perception technique still gave Hideki some inspiration.

However, this inspiration had to wait until recently, when Hideki's chakra control was improved to a higher level before it officially blossomed:
In fact, the content of this inspiration is very simple.

In Hideki's previous life, radar seemed to have been invented with reference to bats' ability to locate objects by sound.

This time, Hideki's reference is also a creature that can know its surroundings to a certain extent without using eyes - the spider.

Spiders can easily determine whether prey has fallen into the web and accurately locate their location by slight vibrations on the web. Hideki borrowed this principle to create a technique called Chakra Web.

As the name suggests, Hideki uses his powerful chakra control to release a large number of thin chakra lines in all directions with the puppet as the center.

These chakra lines will connect to the surrounding environment and objects, forming a criss-crossing three-dimensional network.

Although they have no strength and will even break at the slightest touch, they are like spider silk. Once someone passes by, the vibration will quickly pass through the puppet and eventually be transmitted to Hideki.

Based on the information received, Hideki simulates the scene around the puppet in his mind, and then uses this as a basis to control the puppet to fight.

Although it sounds complicated, in fact, touch, vibration, transmission, analysis, and operation are all completed in the blink of an eye without much delay.

Of course, with Hideki's current mental strength and chakra control, he still can't perfectly restore the scene in his mind.

Therefore, when using this technique, his puppet control level is only about 30% of the normal level, and needs to be further strengthened in the future.

Another unexpected surprise is that the original intention of inventing this technique was to remotely control puppets.

But Hideki soon discovered that this ninjutsu could also be used on himself, allowing him to more keenly perceive and avoid enemy attacks in close combat.

Therefore, this ninjutsu was named by Hideki: Spider Sensing Technique.

"It should be almost time."

Hideki glanced at the pocket watch he had placed on the ground and saw that almost ten minutes had passed, so he murmured in his heart.

Just as Nakamura thought, Hideki was indeed stalling for time.

A wounded beast becomes more dangerous.

Although Hideki is 99% sure that he can defeat his opponent without any injury, it is better to be careful in this ninja world where people have all kinds of strange abilities.

That's why he stayed leisurely underground, waiting for the other party to destroy itself.

Of course, what Hideki was waiting for was not the other party falling to the ground due to excessive blood loss, but an event that would work faster.

Just now, Nakamura was able to make the most correct judgment in a short period of time and directly cut off the calf, which really made Hideki quite impressed.

If the toxin is simply transmitted through the blood, doing this may be enough to prevent it from spreading throughout the body.

However, what Nakamura didn't know was that Hideki's poisoning method was not only the poison needle, but also a chakra line that penetrated deep into his body along the poison needle...

Before he made up his mind to cut off his calf, Hideki's chakra lines had already penetrated deep into his body with the poison.

Although Nakamura did temporarily suppress the spread of the toxin after taking a lot of antidotes, he was still unable to completely detoxify it.

Because the poison used by Hideki is not a common item that can be found everywhere, but a collection of highly poisonous plants that he accidentally collected while searching for materials in various places in the ninja world.

Even Hideki himself doesn't have a corresponding antidote.

So no matter how effective the antidote made by Chiyo is, when faced with a variety of toxins that have never been studied, it can only surrender...

It can be said that the moment the enemy is poisoned, the outcome is already decided...

Sure enough, not long after, Hideki used the spider-sensing technique to sense that the enemy had fallen to the ground, and the enemy's puppet also became motionless.

The outcome has been decided.

Although Hideki had no idea his opponent's name, his trump card, or even what he looked like.

But he had indeed defeated his opponent.

This is how Hideki has always fought, plain and boring as always...

(End of this chapter)