Naruto: I became a super shadow in the Anbu.

Chapter 148 The Puppet Master's Strange Movements
Ye Guang went up to the guest rooms on the second floor and found the room where Nara Baixiang had once lived.

Using Earth Release: Earth Reflection Fish Technique to pass through the wall, Ye Guang smelled the cheap perfume.

A man and a woman lay on the bed, their clothes disheveled.

Ye Guang ignored them and searched for a coded message in the room.

He touched the underside of the table and indeed found some dents.

Bending down to look, it was indeed the Nara clan's code.

He then found the second and third sets of codes elsewhere.

This is really troublesome; I have to rearrange the three sets of codes.

Just then, the woman in the bed woke up.

"Another man here! Who do you take me for! You didn't say there was someone else here!"

The woman scratched the man's neck with her fingernails, leaving bloody marks.

The man woke up groggily and said, "What other man? It's just me."

"You still say you didn't? He's already inside! If I hadn't noticed, would he have gone to bed with me?"

"what are you saying!"

"More money! Wake up! Give me more money first!"

The two looked up into the room, but it was empty.

"Are you out of your mind to ask for more money? There's no one in this room."

The woman hummed sheepishly, admitting that she had misjudged the situation and mistakenly thought there was another person in the room.

After leaving the hotel, Ye Guang first found the Aries team and asked them to follow him to the location indicated by the coded message.

The location indicated by the coded message was the town's only lumber mill.

Around the lumber mill, Aries found a new code.

The coded message indicated that Nara Umeka had already gone to the next town.

Yako was puzzled. Nara Meika had been chased deep behind enemy lines and was not hiding in one place. Why was she running around everywhere?

They went to another small town, but only found the cipher next to the lumber mill; they didn't find anyone.

Following the coded message, they arrived at the third town.

Still around the lumber mill in the town, Aries discovered the code, and this time the code no longer pointed to another town.

Inside the lumber mill, Nara Meika is currently working as a timber merchant.

Her performance was so excellent that the lumber mill owner had no doubt about her identity.

She was at the lumberyard, waiting for her goods to be loaded onto the truck.

However, her eyes kept glancing at a batch of goods next to her.

"Boss, is that top-quality Huangjian wood? Who has such a large amount of Huangjian wood?"

Huangjian wood is an excellent material for puppet shells; it is hard and highly malleable.

The lumber mill owner said:
"Huangjian wood is known as the nail nemesis; even small nails cannot be driven in."

"All the yellow oak trees near the town have been bought up by a big merchant. I heard that merchant has connections to Sunagakure."

Nara Baika obtained the information she wanted.

Key intelligence is often hidden in the details.

When Nara Meika first became a strategist at the Hokage Building, she analyzed an interesting piece of information.

If more rice balls are being transported to the Forest of Death, it proves that the Hidden Leaf Village's Anbu is about to make a big move.

When ANBU ninjas are at their base, they don't eat soldier rations, so rice balls filled with meat or fish slices become the best snack.

The more rice balls in the dark area, the more difficult the mission.

She also told the antler clan chief about this observation, who praised her but warned her that since it involved the Hidden Leaf Village's Dark Guard, she must not tell anyone.

Forced to flee the front lines and hide deep within the Land of Wind, Nara Meika saw two carts of yellow oak wood while fleeing. She then deduced that Sunagakure might be planning something big.

Someone is buying up large quantities of Huangjian wood.

For the Sand Village ninja, the yellow hardwood has an important function: creating puppets. The puppets of the Sand Village all have steel frames and hardwood shells made of yellow hardwood and other hardwoods.

Judging from the unusual sale of Huang Jianmu wood, Sunagakure Village may be organizing a military adventure, an adventure mainly involving puppeteers.

Nara Baika had many thoughts running through her mind, but she showed nothing on her face. She said:

"Huangjian wood is so expensive, I don't know when I will have the capital to participate in the Huangjian wood business."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sand on the ground suddenly broke open.

The rising sand obscured Nara Baika's eyes as a kunai with a purplish tip pierced her abdomen.

Nara Baika quickly jumped back, narrowly avoiding the attack of the poisoned kunai.

After landing, she immediately formed hand seals, preparing to use shadow techniques to control and track the Sand Ninja, and seize the opportunity to escape.

However, a whooshing sound came from behind.

Two snake-shaped puppets emerged from the pile of wood behind her.

A poisonous kunai emerged from the snake's mouth and lunged straight for Nara Baika's back.

Nara Meika turned her head, wanting her shadow to stab backward, controlling the shadow of the long snake puppet.

However, she was still too slow.

She only controlled one of the long snake puppets; the other long snake puppet was extremely fast and there was no way to avoid it. She watched helplessly as the kunai pierced her shoulder.

Ding!
After a crisp sound, Nara Umeka saw a large hand press on her shoulder.

The venomous kunai of the long snake puppet struck the large hand.

Before that copper-colored back of the hand, the tip of the kunai broke off.

"Bronze Fox?"

Unexpectedly, the antler chieftain actually sought out the bronze fox to rescue him.

Copper Fox is a rising star on the battlefield of the River Country, and his reputation is growing.

Ye Guang nudged Nara Meika's back and said, "Come with me."

Aries found the puppeteer hiding in the shadows and launched a fierce attack on the puppeteer to buy the others a chance to escape.

The people from Konoha fled quickly.

Nara Meika followed behind the bronze fox, thinking to herself that she was safe.

After escaping the town, Ye Guang said, "Let's go, Mei Xiang, let's return to the camp as soon as possible."

Nara Baika shook her head and said:

"No, there is something more important than our lives now."

The unusual market for Huangjian wood is related to the movements of the elite puppeteers of Sunagakure.

I suspect that Sunagakure might send a large number of elite puppeteers to launch a surprise attack on Konoha's frontline troops.

We must investigate Huang Jianmu's movements and determine intelligence on the elite puppeteers of Sunagakure, such as their gathering points and routes.

Most of the ninjas in Konoha have a strong spirit of martyrdom.

Faced with danger, their first thought was not to run away, but to die for Konoha.

Nara Meika's choice surprised Yoko, and greatly changed his impression of her.

He had previously thought Nara Meika was a pampered elite of the great ninja clan, but he never expected her to have such courage.

Where did she get the courage? Wait, could it be that she gave it to herself?
After a slight hesitation, Ye Guang said, "Okay, you develop the investigation plan, and we'll take care of protecting you."

He cannot defy Konoha's political correctness.

Nara Baika was quite certain that the Anbu would listen to her, and she wasn't surprised at all.

The group hid outside the town and waited for a long time until the camel caravan arrived.

More than twenty camels left the town, each camel with five heavy yellow oak logs tied to its sides.

After following the camel caravan for several days, Nara Baika said, "The camel caravan merchants have amazing stamina and don't seem like ordinary civilians at all. They are very likely ninjas in disguise."

The luminescence was used to estimate the time.

There's no village or shop in sight, and I can't waste my chance to win this month's prize. Who should I ask to participate?
(End of this chapter)