Hokage: Let Suffering Never Fly

Chapter 23 Action
"It's a very reasonable arrangement." In the forest, Gaia saw the actions of everyone through the telescope, but from the squad, he could roughly guess the other party's arrangement.

But unfortunately, this is also in my plan.

In the past two hours, Gaia has laid down the capital (the real capital), leaving blood clones of himself everywhere in the forest. Their purpose is only one, and that is to "solve" these searchers as much as possible. trail people.

The five teams explored according to the route that everyone had discussed for a long time yesterday. Each team was 50 meters apart. Once they found Gaia's trace, they would notify the other teams with signal flares. As long as they could drag the second team to come, then Be sure to keep Gaia behind.

But what they didn't expect was that the crowd could only advance a distance of [-] meters, and they found Gaia's traces every day, and there were two of them.

Another clone?

After signaling to the rest of the teammates, everyone began to move closer to one of the figures.

The most fringe team is the first to make contact with Gaia.

In Hinata Hizashi's field of vision, the figure representing the existence of Gaia's chakra dissipated after a few seconds when his hand came into contact with the team.

Apparently it has been resolved.

Quickly notified people to change direction and attack another figure.

But the day difference also knows that this one must also be a clone.

Sure enough, after the figure came into contact with the fringe team, it disappeared again a few seconds later.

When everyone rushed over, they only saw his companion who collapsed on the ground and the people comforting him.

The person is fine, probably just frightened by the sudden attack, the forehead protection is still there, but... a horizontal scratch on the bright metal is extra eye-catching.

In the ninja world, drawing a horizontal scratch on the forehead means defection.

Obviously, this will not be done by the other party himself, so there is only one possibility...Gaia!
"What do you mean? Humiliate us?"

"No..." Nagu Shikamaru in the team sensed the danger.

The rules of the assessment are that Gaia wants to win the quota, and the students want to protect the quota.

If you regard this as a mission, then for Konoha's students, the forehead protection is the material they need to protect.

Gaia's original mission was to seize supplies, but now... Gaia has changed her mind.

That is to destroy the integrity of the material.

But it happens that the forehead protector has a very special meaning...

No one is willing to graduate with a forehead marked as a ninja. Even if they become a ninja, they will be laughed at for a lifetime.

Compared with Gaia, a person with outstanding physical skills, the difficulty of destroying the forehead is obviously less than taking the forehead from the opponent's head.

Just because he noticed this, Gaia's whole mind opened up.

At this moment, the team that had previously fought against another clone of Gaia arrived.

The scratched foreheads on the heads of the three companions are particularly conspicuous.

Gaia's plan turned out to be to use the shadow clone as a consumable to destroy the integrity of the forehead protector.

However, the rules of the assessment restricted them to remove the quota.

"No! Go back!" Nara Shikaku suddenly thought of those weak people in the camp, and quickly informed his teammates to go back.

But unfortunately, they encountered several shadow clones of Gaia along the way, and paid the price of fifteen foreheads.

"Lu Jiu, Gaia's clone is very special, it seems to be built with blood as the core." As the only pupil art owner in the team, Riza noticed the abnormality of Gaia's shadow clone. After dissipating, more or less blood will be left behind.

And informed Nara Shikahisa of his guess.

"With blood as the core..." Nara Shikahisa was shocked by the peaceful scene in the camp before he had time to think about it.

Didn't it turn out to be Tiaohulishan?

"Here we come!" At this moment, the day difference reminded loudly.

In the forest furthest away from them, a figure suddenly appeared and rushed towards the man fishing in the river at an extremely fast speed.

The guarding students hurried forward to stop them, but Gaia cut a mark on the foreheads of the three in a desperate way, and was defeated by other people who rushed over.

Shikaku Nara did the math and found that one shadow clone of Gaia can replace an average of 2.8 forehead protectors...

Up to now, nearly [-] foreheads have been crossed out.

"All together."

Some people who have not realized the seriousness of the problem just listen to the arrangements and gather together.

Some students realized what had happened when they saw a horizontal bar on the forehead of others.

Compared with having their foreheads taken away and going back to school to rebuild, what makes them even more unacceptable is that they want to become Genin with the foreheads marked by the traitorous ninja.

But at this moment, these more than 100 people fell into a panic.

Everyone knows that in terms of personal strength, they are definitely not Gaia's opponents.

Only a team of at least ten people can pose a threat to Gaia's body.

But the problem now is that, except for Hinata Hinata who are good at melee combat, Uchiha Toki, Nara Shikahisa who has control secrets, and the super meat shield Akido Choza, the others are not even sure to solve a clone of Gaia.

Also, they can't separate to find Gaia.

Because once they disperse, it means they will be destroyed one by one by Gaia.

They, 130 three, were surrounded by Gaia alone.

……

Outside the field, Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at this scene, feeling a little angry, but also feeling a little scary because of Gaia's thoughtfulness.

I was angry that this kid actually dared to destroy the forehead protector.

He could also sense that Gaia's way of thinking about problems was indeed different.

The task he gave Gaia was to eliminate 80.00% of the people, but compared to taking away the forehead protector, it seemed easier to destroy the forehead protector, and it did not break the rules.

When the assessment is over, he believes that these students will not graduate with a renegade forehead... So, Gaia's goal has been achieved.

"If I were Shikaku, how would I take this move?" Unknowingly, Sarutobi Hiruzen even put himself into the role of Nara Shikaku, thinking about how to break the situation.

……

"If I were Gaia, what would I do next?" In the forest of death, Shikahisa Nara looked at the more than 100 people gathered in the middle of the field, and suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was quite heavy.

Now, everyone is gathered here, unless Gaia itself comes to attack, it is absolutely impossible to scratch a forehead.

It seems to have solved the problem of Gaia's sneak attack, but Lu Jiu didn't believe that Gaia would stop there, but instead thought about what he would do next if he were Gaia.

……

"If I were Lu Jiu, then I would discover a very cruel fact, that is... I can only choose between guarding against sneak attacks and improving the efficiency of food collection." Somewhere in the forest, Gaia Silently watching everything happening next to the river, he said silently in his heart.

Gathering the crowd together can prevent the sneak attack of one's own shadow clone.

However, they are running out of food.

In the past, when there was no need to be vigilant about sneak attacks, they could divide the people responsible for fishing into several sections to improve the efficiency of food collection, but now, they didn't dare to stretch the team too long.

So, how do you choose?
(End of this chapter)