Create a swarm technology tree in Konoha

The next night, the latest intelligence came.

Before dawn in the early morning, Hatake Sakumo led a group of Konoha ninjas to the north to meet the returning Northern Front Sunagakure ninja army.

In the morning, Orochimaru led the Konoha ninjas to start a fierce battle with the ninjas of Sunagakure Village, with no winner or loser.

In the afternoon, Hatake Sakumo intercepted the Sand Gakure. After two hours of fierce fighting, he beheaded the leader of the Sunagakure ninja army and defeated Sunagakure's reinforcements.

Still in the afternoon, the Sunagakure reinforcements from the Rain Country battlefield were discovered, and they formed a confrontation with Hatake Sakumo.

Tsunade and Kato Dan devoted all their efforts to building fortifications around Sunagakure Village and larger garrison camps to prepare for the long-term siege of Sunagakure Village.

Aburame Tetsumaru no longer cared much about the changes in the battle situation. Everything was as he expected. Orochimaru chose a steady and steady siege strategy. There would be no major changes in the next month.

The most important thing is that he finally saw the giant ants with his own eyes. He could not care about the situation of the battle that would not change. Now his mind was filled with how to deal with the ants.

With the arrival of Aburame Tetsumaru in person, countless flies infiltrated into the ant nest, and combined with the secret technique and field barrier with a radius of three kilometers, the secret of the ant kingdom could no longer be hidden.

Centered on unknown ruins, ants have dug a huge underground kingdom under the desert. The ant nest passages pass through the gravel layer and dig through the rock layer. The ant queen's palace burrow is even under the second layer of rock slabs.

The dragonfly also discovered hot springs in the palace crypt, which shows that the bottom layer of the giant ants is very close to the geothermal heat.

Aburame Tetsumaru recorded the room temperature, air composition, hot spring temperature and other data in detail on the scroll. Maybe this is a necessary condition for the reproduction of giant ants, and he must find a way to get some hot spring water samples before leaving.

The incubation room has been found. The more eggs the better, and the various data in the incubation room cannot be missing.

Is this the canteen? Take some food samples and analyze their nutritional content.

What is this cave? I don't understand it at all. It seems I can only observe it for a long time and analyze it slowly.

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Unconsciously, one scroll was full of records. Aburame Tetsumaru sealed it without hesitation, then took out the second scroll and continued recording.

There was so much data to record, it was such a blessing.

Every data recorded now will become the cornerstone of Tugo in the near future, and every minute spent now may help him save days or even weeks in the future.

At the same time, hundreds of mole crickets began to move toward the ant nest from the tunnels dug by the burrowing worms. Ant eggs, ant pupae, hot spring samples, food samples, air samples, so many items that needed to be collected,

Aburame Tetsumaru can't break in through the gate. There are thousands of giant ants in the ant nest. It's difficult to even attack the swarm in the narrow ant nest. Plus, he has to worry about throwing rat traps. He will definitely not be able to defeat this group of ants.

So I can only go around and steal the house. As a ninja, why should I push forward if I can steal the house? After all, stealing is my job.

After tossing all night long, Aburame Tetsumaru began to select sites to build the tenth mother nest in the Kingdom of Wind. With the support of this mother nest and the stowaway cave opened by the cricket, he could send insects to peek into the ant nest on a daily basis. No need to stay here every day.

The location of this nest is a bit troublesome. First of all, the distance must not be too far. If it is too far away, there will be problems with the control of the big bug. It cannot be too close. The current feeding system of the mother nest is still sugar ants and mealworms, both of which require large areas of vegetation as the foundation. Plants that are too close will be harvested by giant ants and carried back to the home to cultivate fungi.

Sugar ants can't compete with their relatives two million times their size, and the harvesting efficiency gap between the two is too great.

After a day of investigation, Tiewan regretfully discovered that there was no place to get the best of both worlds. Within thirty kilometers, all water sources had traces of giant ants collecting plants.

In the end, Aburame Tetsumaru expanded the underground passage three thousand meters away from the ant nest and penetrated the first layer of rock slabs. Then he put down the brainworm and began to develop into a mother nest.

This base can only be a purely consumptive mother nest, without any producer-type bugs at all. The materials consumed for development are transported from the mother nest further away. In the future, this kind of transportation will be carried out once a day to satisfy the mother nest. daily operational needs.

The third day was hunting day. Aburame Tetsumaru captured the giant ants that were out as planned. He was reluctant to use violence for fear of damaging these precious genetic samples, so he could only use anesthetics.

During the capture process, Aburame Tetsumaru was surprised to find that the giant ant, a purely natural insect, had a fighting ability that completely defeated the mantis.

The giant ant ran at a speed of ninety yards in a straight line, far exceeding the fifty-five yards of the mantis. Fortunately, this giant ant was very inflexible and had a poor brain. After being surrounded by six sword mantises, he turned around a few times and became confused. He was easily pulled to the ground by the sword mantises, and then a large swarm of cysticercids submerged him and knocked down the ants with the anesthetic gas stored in his body.

When catching the third ant, a mantis stood at a slightly off angle. The ant seized the opportunity and bit it. The two scythe-like jaws were grinding back and forth in less than two seconds. The mantis was cut into two pieces. A desperate death.

In addition to the jaws, the poisonous needles on the tail of the ant should also be very deadly. Although no unlucky guy was stung, the poisonous needles will directly spray venom when the giant ant struggles. The output of this kind of venom will be absolutely tragic if it is stung. .

The venom of ants is also highly corrosive. The shells of the five surviving mantises were corroded by the sprayed venom, and in some cases the carapace was completely melted through.

Aburame Tetsumaru herself was sprayed too. Sixty-seven of the defensive beetles that had been attached to her body all year round were actually killed, and almost half of her armor was scrapped.

You must know that this version of the defensive beetle can even withstand the attack of the wind shadow. The venom of this ant is very effective.

At this special moment, the greater the loss, the happier Aburame Tiewan was, smiling from ear to ear, and immediately named the venom formic acid, because its main mode of damage was corrosion.

After capturing six giant ants and sending them back through the psychic ant nest, Aburame Tetsumaru will no longer capture them.

Each ant weighs more than 700 kilograms. There is no way for him to carry such a big thing across the desert of the Kingdom of Wind, and the tunnels dug by the burrowing worms cannot fit such a big thing.

Aburame Tetsumaru then killed four giant ants, made specimens and sealed them in seal scrolls. These specimens can be taken back for dissection, sectioning, and basic data collection.

Late at night, the mole crickets finally opened the passage to the incubation room of the ant nest. Aburame Tetsumaru unceremoniously removed a hundred ant eggs. Before he could even attack the pupae and larvae, the entire ant nest rioted. .

This was so unexpected. Ten adult ants were killed during the day. One percent of the ant colony was lost, and the entire ant nest showed no response.

At night, Aburame Tetsumaru stole a hundred ant eggs according to this ratio. Who knew that this would be exposed immediately? Hundreds of giant ants rushed into the incubation room and killed all the crickets that had no time to escape.

More ants rushed to the ground and started searching all over the place.

Aburame Tetsumaru secretly shouted in his heart: Oops. He had been so successful these past few days that he had become a little relaxed. He did not regard the ants as a threat at all, and he ran back and forth without dealing with his own traces and smells.

He made a prompt decision and used deodorant to cover the entrance to the mother's nest cave. He sprinkled some blood on himself and the mantis, attracting the attention of the ants, and then dispersed and escaped, ending his investigation of the giant ants.

Aburame Tetsumaru took advantage of the darkness and ran to the abandoned Sunagakure stronghold on the road. Then he stopped to rest and receive intelligence information from the past three days.

The three days were almost the same, except for Hatake Sakumo who defeated Sunagakure's reinforcements for the second time in the north. Konoha and Sunagakure fought fiercely every day, and Sunagakure attacked Konoha's defense.

During the day, offensive and defensive battles were conducted, and at night, there were sneak attacks and counter-sneak attacks.

For three days, the battles between the two sides were exactly the same, with no difference at all.

It would be fine if there were no changes. If there were no changes, Konoha would have the absolute upper hand. In this way, he would not be recruited from Kawakuni, and no one would notice his activities in the past few days.

After resting all day, he continued on his way at night. Before setting off again, he received the latest day battle report, and his jaw dropped in shock.

The scene on the battlefield changed suddenly today. The Konoha ninja army deployed all its forces and launched an all-out attack on Sunagakure Village. Hatake Sakumo even ignored the third wave of reinforcements brewing in the north and returned to Sunagakure Village to cooperate with the main force commanded by Orochimaru to participate in the siege.

Even now that it's dark, the siege battle is still going on, with no intention of stopping and taking a rest.

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Aburame Tetsumaru felt that his face hurt so much. He had always thought that Orochimaru was not lacking in patience, but this was the result?

Surrounding the opponent's lair, the opponent clearly only has a month's food, and they are in a sure victory situation, but they are attacking day and night. This is a big loss for Konoha. Did Orochimaru take the wrong medicine?

Sunagakure Village is one of the five great shinobi villages. It is located in a strategic location selected by the first Kazekage. The rock wall surrounding the shinobi village serves as a natural wall. The gate is a natural crack in the sky, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

After more than ten years of management by the Nidaime Kazekage, this rock wall has been transformed into an extremely dangerous position. There are all kinds of ninjutsu traps, machine traps, puppet crossbows and crossbows, and the number is too dense to count.

When the Konoha ninjas rushed forward, the sand ninjas opened fire with all their strength. All kinds of attacks rained down on the Konoha ninjas like a torrential rain. This density of attacks filled the space. There were even senior ninjas responsible for coordination to ensure that the ninjas within the attack range would dodge no matter how they tried. , cannot escape the attack of the attack.

Before Konoha ninjas rush to the wall, they are often knocked down in half. Then the two sides fight on the top of the rock wall. Sand ninjas can also attack from the defensive buildings in the village. They will also organize cross fire, which makes the Konoha ninjas miserable. .

A shadow clone of Aburame Tetsumaru specially went to watch the battle, then released the clone technique and passed the information directly to Aburame Tetsumaru himself. He saw a more intuitive battle scene and saw how much wood he had to go through in order to climb the rock wall. Ye Ninja was knocked down while climbing and left forever.

Aburame Tetsumaru couldn't help but spit out the fragrance.

"%$,\u0026#@$, crazy, Orochimaru is simply crazy."

Aburame Tetsumaru quickly quickened his pace. With such a strategy, it would take less than two days to mobilize the ninjas stationed in various places. He would definitely be the first to be recruited.

Who knew that that night, Aburame Tetsumaru's shadow clone would deliver Orochimaru's orders to him through the brood.

"No matter where you are, come here quickly and don't take your students with you."

"Temad." Aburame Tetsumaru said angrily, the quintessence of the nation. His actions were definitely not discovered, but Orochimaru guessed it.

Orochimaru actually used this secret to blackmail Tetsumaru and asked him to go to Sunagakure Village immediately. It was really unpleasant.

But when Aburame Tetsumaru thought about it, he realized that this order was probably not a threat, but that there were other situations that might break his cover. If he couldn't clear out the little tail immediately, he might be caught.

Aburame Tetsumaru did not dare to neglect, and conveyed the new order to the three disciples through the shadow clone, and then pretended to start running, but in fact, he canceled the shadow clone's technique with a turn and passed the information to the main body.

After receiving the signal, Aburame Tetsumaru turned around without hesitation and went directly to Sunagakure Village. He wanted to see for himself what happened, which actually made Orochimaru anxious. Everything he did revealed a sense of danger and madness. smell.

Entering the Konoha camp outside Sunagakure Village, Aburame Tetsumaru habitually used the secret technique and field barrier to observe the camp, and found that there happened to be a group of Konoha ninjas going through the entry procedures at the east gate.

Aburame Tetsumaru immediately recognized that the two leaders were acquaintances. The long-lost Hokage assistants Mito Kadoen and Koharu who had transferred to the dormitory arrived at Sunagakure Village almost with him, and they must be shouldering important tasks.

Based on the performance of these two guys over the years, the task that the Hokage can assign to them should be, and can only be, a diplomatic mission.

This is not a good sign. Sand Hidden Village is still struggling hard and is not willing to bow its head and admit defeat. What diplomatic mission can it have at this time?

Could it be that Konoha proposed peace to Sunagakure?

The result was true. When the two elders explained their tasks, everyone immediately became dissatisfied.

"Why?"

"we can not accept!"

These were the two Inuzuka Jonin. They were furious and were the first to jump up to express their opposition.

"The destruction of Sunagakure Village is just around the corner. You dare to hinder this great victory. Uchiha cannot accept it."

The person who spoke was obviously an Uchiha jounin.

More Jonin did not speak, but they expressed their dissatisfaction in various ways.

The angry parasites of Aburame Jounin came out, and they bared their teeth and claws at Koharu and Mito Katobu who had gone to bed; Kurama glared at Mito Kadobu with anger, making him unknowingly startled. He was sweating coldly, but he didn't know that he was under an illusion.

The jounin Inakacho showed more restraint. Akimichi dug out a bag of snacks and ate them with a crunching sound. Nara took out a shogi pawn from somewhere and played with it in his hand. There was nothing done in the mountains. Their secret skills were too easy to avoid, so they had to be careful at all times.

It was Orochimaru who stood up and suppressed the dissatisfaction of all the Jonin, leaving some face to the two elders. Then he said directly: "I am disgusted with your mission, but this is the Hokage's order, and I cannot refuse. However, at least you cannot carry out this mission within two days. You have the right to adjust the details of the mission according to the actual situation. , I think I still have it.”

After inviting the two losers out, Orochimaru's face darkened and he said, "Everyone heard it, we still have two days."

All the Jonin nodded together.

Orochimaru also nodded, looked around everyone, and said: "Then try your best to fight for it."

This time even Hatake Sakumo stood up, and everyone responded in unison: "Oos."