Starting from the entrance of Konoha Village at noon, if you want to reach the frontline battlefield of the Land of Fire, you will need to travel for at least ten hours.

In the evening, Shiraishi and his team of six found a piece of terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack to rest for the night, preparing to set out again early the next morning. Then, by the evening of the next day, they should be able to reach the Konoha camp on the front line.

This time the ninja war between Sunagakure and Konoha is located at the border between Kawakuni and Fire Country.

This is a small country that exists between the two major countries, the Country of Fire and the Country of Wind. The north is adjacent to the Country of Rain. There is a certain amount of ninja power in the country, but the organized ninja villages are too weak. In the ninja world,

Also has no reputation.

Therefore, in this war, the ninja power of Kawa no Kuni was almost negligible.

Six people were resting in the open space, but their desire to communicate with each other was not very strong.

After traveling for most of the day, everyone was already tired and wanted to take a good rest.

Secondly, the two teams are not very familiar with each other.

Maybe Jiraiya and Sakumo have a good relationship, but there is no connection between Shiraishi and Minato.

Even if they knew each other, they only heard each other's names by chance and were considered acquaintances, not even ordinary friends.

"He is very strong."

Bai Shi was leaning under a big tree, frowning and meditating on the natural energy, when Liu Li next to him suddenly said this.

"What?"

Shiraishi finished his thinking and subconsciously raised his head.

"There is no flaw in this guy's body. Even when he was resting, he chose terrain that was easy to defend but difficult to attack. And he judged it at the first time. It shows that his analytical ability is also top-notch. Facing Mr. Sakumo

When he was there, he seemed neither arrogant nor impetuous, and was not intimidated by Teacher Sakumo's aura. He was very confident in his own strength."

Shiraishi understood who Ruri was talking about, it was Minato Namikaze on the other side.

Shiraishi nodded in agreement with Liuli's evaluation.

How could a ninja who could be taken by the Sannin be so simple?

What's more, when he was in the ninja school, the other party had already emerged and was a well-known genius.

According to Shiraishi's estimation, Minato's current strength has probably reached the jounin level.

"But compared to you, Liuli, I should be a little worse."

Ayane said with a smile at this time.

Ruri's strength in Sakumo's team is second only to that of the captain Sakumo, and coupled with the Uchiha clan's excellent blood stain ability, it is difficult for ordinary jounin to get benefits from Ruri.

"You can only know this kind of thing after a fight."

Although Ruri was proud of herself, she felt that Minato who could follow the Sannin was not comparable to the average jounin.

However, Liuli is also very confident in his own strength, especially after mastering natural energy. His physical ability alone would give a jounin-level ninja a huge headache.

What's more, during battle, you must always pay attention to her Sharingan.

Overall, if a battle really breaks out, Liuli doesn't think there is a possibility of losing.

But it is also true that the other party is quite powerful.

If the situation permits, I really want to test it out. At this time and in this place, it is better to exercise a little restraint.

"Okay, it's almost time for patrol."

At this time, Shiraishi stood up and ended the topic about Minato.

Even though an elite unit of Sunagakure was annihilated in the last mission, and there has been no news of damage in the Land of Fire recently, we cannot relax because of this.

As long as you leave the village to perform tasks, you must pay 200% of your attention to prevent accidents.

The patrol mission of Sakumo's team has always been carried out in teams of two.

Shiraishi and Ayane are responsible for the first half of the night, and Ruri and Sakumo are responsible for the second half of the night.

Now that it was almost dark, Shiraishi and Ayane also started patrolling in the first half of the night, checking around to see if there were any enemies lurking.

Nodding to Ruri, Shiraishi and Ayane disappeared from the spot and began patrolling.

Liuli glanced at their backs and said nothing.

The patrol mission is relatively simple for Shiraishi's group. After all, Ayane's Byakugan is there. Within a radius of five kilometers, as long as there are enemies approaching here, they will appear in the Byakugan's field of vision without hiding.

Although it cannot be compared with the perceptual ninjutsu in terms of range, the perceptual ninjutsu can only determine the distance, direction and number of targets, while the Byakugan's all-round surveillance ability can know what moves the enemy uses to attack and what means one needs to use to attack them.

Seize the enemy's opportunity and quickly suppress the enemy's morale.

It is precisely because of the contribution of the Byakugan that Konoha can avoid the enemy's carefully designed traps in every war, making any conspiracy of the enemy ineffective.

"That's almost it."

In another forest, Shiraishi stopped.

Ayane has opened her Byakugan, as long as anyone approaches here, she will be discovered.

Next, they only need to circle around regularly to complete the patrol mission in the first half of the night.

Shiraishi took out a piece of paper from his ninja tool bag and put it in Ayane's hand.

Ayane tilted her head in confusion, but she still held it in her hand, looked around, and found nothing unusual before opening the note.

It says - Are there any toads around?

"..."

Toad?

Ayane didn't quite understand why Shiraishi asked such a question, so she just shook her head slightly.

There are quite a few bugs around, but the closest toad is more than a hundred meters away, still in the river.

"It seems there are no toads."

"Yes, there are no traces of toads around. But why does Shiraishi-kun care so much about toads?"

Ayane blinked and asked the doubts in her heart.

"That's because there have been a lot of toads in Konoha Village recently. I'm worried that someone is setting up eyes and ears."

"Use toads to arrange ears and eyes?"

"Well, the person who did this was probably Jiraiya Jonin, one of the three ninjas. I heard that he signed a psychic contract with the toad in Mt. Myoboku. And an inconspicuous creature like a toad can easily...

Isn't it convenient to collect information after being ignored?"

This is the reason for the cats cultivated by Liuli. It cannot be ruled out that someone is using toads to collect intelligence.

"Are you looking for something?"

Ayane looked thoughtful.

"I'm not sure. Maybe I'm monitoring something. Anyway, the toad thing has nothing to do with us. At most, we can just pay attention when exchanging information in the future."

"That's it, indeed."

Ayane nodded in understanding.

There were no abnormal situations happening around them, and there were no secret services monitoring them, which meant that the secrets between them had not been exposed.

Too many actions will be superfluous and attract unnecessary attention.

Even if something unexpected happens at this time, just keep the normal rhythm.

"By the way, there is another troublesome matter that I want to explain to you."

Bai Shi scratched his head and sighed helplessly, not knowing how to speak for a while.

"trouble?"

"Ah, it has something to do with Liuli."

Shiraishi glanced away unnaturally.

Ayane thought of a possibility.

"Could it be..."

"Just as you think, our affairs have been exposed. So when the three of us take action in the future, I don't need to hide my strength deliberately. I will fight with all my strength."

Shiraishi continued to scratch his head, feeling that things were getting more and more troublesome.

Because of Liuli's specific attitude towards this matter, he couldn't guess any useful information at all.

But that's fine. In the future, when three people act in groups, he won't need to hide his strength to cover up anything.

This may help complete the task better.

From now on, he just needs to pass the credit on to Ruri and Ayane, and he can continue to be an inconspicuous little transparent person.

After all, safety comes first.

"That's it."

Ayane lowered her head slightly so that no one could see her expression.
To be continued...