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Chapter 295 The advantage of using Bluetooth headphones is that it makes it easier to realize if you've forgotten your phone.

Rasa! The Fourth Kazekage!

This message popped into Tatsuma's mind, but before today, he had never heard of Rasa.

Even with his Anbu clearance, he couldn't find a person named Rasa in Sunagakure. It was as if Rasa's existence was a discrepancy in the world, or a distortion of Tatsuma's memories.

When he saw the glittering gold amidst the yellow sand, Chenma was certain that his memory had not been so flawed as to have created a character.

"This gold has chakra fluctuations."

Minato spoke up at this moment, and Tenfu, who had already squatted down to shovel sand, paused. Tatsuma, however, did not, and he also squatted down.

Minato did not possess earth-style chakra, but his meticulousness allowed him to observe the chakra fluctuations on these gold pieces. However, he found it difficult to investigate on a large scale or even trace their origin.

This is why he went to the trouble of telling Tatsuma this information. Tatsuma extended his right index and middle fingers and touched the yellow sand, and chakra instantly surged into the ground.

The chase between chakras is more of an auditory experience than a visual one.

Once one party remembers the other's chakra characteristics, it's like a phone and Bluetooth have already paired up. The next step in finding the right direction and distance is to try changing directions to find a better signal source.

From silence to sound, from intermittent to fluent, when the sound becomes stable and fluent, you are not far from your goal.

Of course, the chase between two sensory ninjas is more complicated. Both sides' chakra is both a signal source and a receiver. At the same time, they can change the frequency and give some wrong guidance.

At this moment, Tatsuma was the one chasing, and the owner of the gold sand was naturally the one being chased. In Tatsuma's perception, the fluctuations of the gold sand's chakra were extremely chaotic.

It is easy to be misled in the wrong direction, giving the opponent a chance to escape.

But Tatsuma's brain processes information fast enough to quickly determine the truth or falsehood of the feedback. For directions that cannot be ruled out, he simply uses more chakra to run multiple programs in parallel.

Minato and the others dared not disturb Tatsuma, but they also became vigilant. They had only just set foot in the Land of Wind and had already been discovered, which was quite bad news.

It's currently uncertain how much area this gold dust covers. If the area is large, that's one thing, but it's highly likely that Sunagakure (the village of Sunagakure) deployed a large-scale defense after learning about their intelligence.

If the coverage area is not large, it means that the enemy's target is very clear, as if they already knew their landing site.

This suggests that either Sunagakure has additional intelligence sources that provide a clearer picture of their mission's trajectory, or Sunagakure is cooperating with the rogue ninja who are tracking them from the rear.

Even among those rogue ninjas were ninjas from Sunagakure, only they were dispatched to the Gold Exchange.

Before Tatsuma finished sensing, all of this remained unknown. Minato and Earwig, though highly vigilant, dared not use their sensory abilities, because any additional chakra might disrupt Tatsuma's tracking.

This chase of chakra lasted a full five minutes before Tatsuma suddenly exhaled, slowly stood up, looked at the questioning faces of the group, and said:

"In the southwest direction, about 150 kilometers away, a large area is deployed. The enemy's perception accuracy is insufficient. They must have sacrificed accuracy in exchange for a larger perception range."

Moreover, the way his chakra is presented is very interesting, like magnetic field lines. The way he senses it is different from the usual chakra sense or the sense of sand manipulation ninjutsu. It is more like the Third Kazekage's Magnet Release. I speculate that the other party is also a Magnet Release ninja.

These gold dust particles are the medium through which he uses Magnetism Release. He determines his location by observing the electric current-like waves generated when the chakra attached to the gold dust moves and is tangent to the chakra of the surrounding gold dust.

It's just a crude and clumsy perception technique; even inanimate objects can affect his perception.

As Tatsuma spoke, a mocking expression appeared on his face, but he suddenly froze. He suddenly felt that his comments on this perception technique seemed familiar. Was it from Tobirama Senju's notes?

However, Minato and the others didn't quite understand his explanation. Things like magnetic field lines, tangency, and waves—was this knowledge ninjas were supposed to learn? Why hadn't their teachers told them?!

The earwig remained silent, while Minato pondered. He seemed to have vaguely heard Tatsuma mention these things before, and Tatsuma had also discussed them with Orochimaru. He understood a little of it and asked:

"So even if we had stepped on the gold dust, the enemy wouldn't have been able to determine whether we were ninjas or our identities?"

"You could say that he can only sense that there are people or objects in our location. Of course, my actions should be enough for him to determine our identities."

Tatsuma nodded, then, as if remembering something, said, "Kokuta, you can refer to this method: attach chakra to the sand and use the mutual cutting of chakra to make a judgment."

While it doesn't allow for the same seamless integration of Earth Release chakra with the earth, it still provides another means of perception. Earwigs and cave bears, you can research that when you have time.

Upon hearing this, Minato nodded seriously, while the earwig remained silent. He was a ninja of the Aburame clan, capable of sensing insects and sharing his senses. Wasn't that far superior to such crude and clumsy sensory techniques?

Tianfeng didn't understand. He looked down at the sinking gold dust and said, "But I still think it's really extravagant, even though it can be taken back."

"Take it back? Ha, they really don't take me seriously at all."

Chenma looked down at the sinking gold dust, then lifted his leg.

"Painful Heavenly Kick!"

"Bang!"

A huge crater was blasted in the desert, and ripples spread across the sea of ​​yellow sand, reaching the distant hills.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~"

The tremors caused the sand dunes to collapse, and the desert as far as the eye could see was truly transformed into a raging torrent.

"Ptooey! Ptooey! Squad leader, what are you doing?!"

Unable to react in time, Tenka, who had swallowed a mouthful of sand, complained as he spat it out. Minato and the earwig, on the other hand, were not in such a sorry state.

Minato used Wind Release ninjutsu to disperse the sand, while the earwig used parasitic insects to create an impenetrable armor around itself. Minato then attempted to explain:

"Such a large-scale collision provides a massive amount of information to the caster, and the chakra attached to these gold dust particles has also been destroyed, meaning that the caster is unable to manipulate these gold dust particles."

Tatsuma nodded, indicating that Minato was right. Tenpū looked down at his feet and asked, "Then can we collect this gold dust now?"

"We don't have that much time, nor enough equipment and manpower. We have no way to take these gold dust away."

Chenma twitched the corner of his mouth and said, while Tianfeng looked at the shimmering golden dots in the desert with reluctance and sighed.

One hundred and fifty miles to the southwest, in a small oasis, several Sand Ninja gathered, dressed slightly differently from ordinary Sand Ninja and wearing masks.

Inside a building severely eroded by wind and sand, a ninja dressed similarly to the others outside, with a mask hanging from his waist, short reddish-brown hair, and who appeared to be just coming of age, sat cross-legged.

"Thump~"

Suddenly, his head tilted to the side, and then his whole body fell to the ground.

"Bang!"

"Tap tap tap~"

Less than a second after the sound, the door was pushed open forcefully, and several ninjas rushed in. One of them, who looked the thinnest, quickly went to the side of the fallen ninja, checked him over, and asked:

"Brother Luo Sha, are you alright?! How did you suddenly faint?"

"Yashamaru"

Rasa strained, but was breathing heavily. After a while, he caught his breath and said weakly, "Tell the teacher that Sakamoto Tatsuma of Konoha Village has infiltrated the Land of Wind."

"What?!"

Those around were shocked, but Yashamaru gritted his teeth and said, "Brother Rasa, was your sudden collapse also caused by that Sakamoto Tatsuma?"

"Don't be impulsive, I just need to rest for a bit."

Luo Sha shook his head slightly and said, "By the way, tell the teacher that there is one more important piece of information about Chen Ma that has not been disclosed: he has an extraordinary sense of perception."

"Alright, I'll contact Lord Kazekage. Brother Rasa, you should get some rest."

Yashamaru helped Rasa to a spot against the wall, then spoke a few words to the other ninjas before leaving. The remaining ninjas stayed behind to protect Rasa.

After a while, Yashamaru returned, but he was no longer wearing a mask. Instead, like Rasa, he hung the mask on his waist, revealing a face that seemed somewhat out of place in the land of wind and sand, and even more delicate than most girls.

After resting for a while, Rasa's lips were still a little pale and his dark circles seemed to have worsened, but his condition was much better. Seeing Yasha, Rasa asked:

"What did the teacher say?"

Yashamaru approached Rasa and said, "Lord Kazekage told us to stay put. He will send reinforcements, and we are not to act on our own, especially you, Brother Rasa."

Rasa could believe this reply; it was what his teacher had personally told Yashamaru. But after a while, he still said, "Let's rest for a day."

"Lord Kazekage didn't say when our reinforcements will arrive."

Yashamaru said, but Rasa shook his head and said, "I will be able to recover by tomorrow. Sakamoto Tatsuma is still too dangerous. I cannot stand by and watch him run rampant in the Land of Wind."

"But...his strength..."

Upon hearing this, Luo Sha's face darkened, and he said, "Hmph! No matter how talented he is, he's still just a little brat who's not even fifteen years old!"

After saying that, his expression suddenly froze. He looked at Yashamaru, whose expression was also frozen, and said, "Yashamaru, I wasn't talking about you, it's just..."

"I know, Brother Rasa. If you want to go find Sakamoto Tatsuma tomorrow, I will follow you. But don't forget that my sister is still waiting for you to come back to the village."

Hearing Yashamaru mention his sister, Rasa's expression softened, and he said, "I know, but... I was raised in the village. It was my teacher who took a liking to me, which is why I am who I am today."

I will never allow someone like Sakamoto Tatsuma, who intends to destroy the Land of Wind and the Sand Village, to exist within the Land of Wind!

(End of this chapter)