Chapter 160 Wind Shadow (2)

The sound of footsteps was quite strange. They sounded hurried and mixed with occasional staggering sounds. It was obvious that the person who came was seriously injured.

Ye Shan narrowed his eyes, and the seals in his hands quietly changed into Lightning Release Ninjutsu. He was determined to kill the person who came with one blow if he was not a spy who came to make contact, and then leave this place of trouble.

The moon had already passed the zenith, and a bright white tinge was faintly visible on the horizon. It would not be long before the sky was bright. The spy who was supposed to meet up with him had not yet shown up, and he was afraid that something had happened. In addition, the Sand Ninja had looked hurried as if he was searching for something, so Ye Shan guessed that something serious must have happened. At this critical moment, he did not want to become the target of the Sand Ninja's anger.

Gradually, the footsteps became clearer and clearer. At the same time, Ye Shan could hear the sound of liquid dripping on the sand, which made him look solemn and he did not dare to be careless at all.

Under the moonlight, a female ninja in her thirties soon appeared in Ye Shan's sight. She was wearing a gray vest, a white cloth wrapped around her head, and shoulder-length hair. She looked heroic, but in a very sorry state. Not only was her vest covered in blood, but there was also a finger-thick wound on her abdomen, which was obviously caused by the wind escape technique.

The ninja seemed to have exhausted all her energy in running here, and she sat down on the sand, frantically taking out a small porcelain bottle from her ninja tool bag, trying to stop the bleeding from the wound. However, her actions were doomed to be futile, as it was a penetrating wound, and there was no way that healing medicine could cure it.

Ye Shan squatted in the dark, quietly observing for dozens of seconds, and decided to take the risk of being exposed and test it: "One, two, three, four, five."

A hoarse voice drifted away in the night, interrupting the Sand Ninja's attempt to heal her wounds. A look of deep joy appeared on her face painted with purple stripes, and she immediately gave the secret signal.

"Go up the mountain to fight the tiger."

Ye Shan no longer hesitated and walked out of the darkness, but he still had a seal on his hand. His whole body was shrouded in a black cloak, and his face could not be seen at all: "You are late, give me an explanation."

"There was an accident in the village, and all exits were temporarily closed. Is this an acceptable reason?"

The Sand Ninja frowned his delicate eyebrows, and tried his best to endure the pain and said: "This is not the place to talk. The enemies who are good at tracking will soon chase us. Take me away, the farther the better."

Ye Shan narrowed his eyes hidden under his cloak and looked carefully at the Sand Ninja who was slumped on the ground. After thinking for a while, he used the golden chakra to cover every inch of skin on his body, walked over to help her up, and then disappeared in an instant.

Even though Sand Ninja gave the contact code accurately, she still didn't gain Yeshan's trust, so it's always better to be careful.

About ten kilometers away from the Sand Village, under a small sand dune, Ye Shan appeared here with the Sand Ninja on his back. He loosened his hands, letting the Sand Ninja continue to collapse on the ground, and cautiously pulled away and asked, "What happened?"

The Sand Ninja ignored Ye Shan, untied the cloth wrapped around his head and wrapped it around his abdomen, still trying to stop the blood from flowing, but soon the white cloth was stained with blood and turned scarlet.

Ye Shan watched the Sand Ninja's self-rescue with cold eyes, feeling extremely regretful. This penetrating wound had already damaged his internal organs. Even if he was sent to the hospital now, the hope of survival would be very slim, not to mention this crude bandage.

The death of Sand Ninja was a foregone conclusion, and it only took a few minutes.

Sure enough, the massive blood loss caused the Sand Ninja's face to gradually turn pale, his body curled up unconsciously, and he trembled visibly. This was the result of the skeletal muscles trembling to generate heat when the body lacked heat. Ye Shan had seen this many times, and each time it was a scene of imminent death, and tonight was no exception.

As if he knew his fate, the light in the eyes of the Sand Ninja dimmed a lot, and then he perked up and asked, "Are you the ninja sent by Konoha to contact us?"

Ye Shan lifted the hood covering his head, revealing his face and the Konoha forehead protector on his forehead: "I am Baiyun Ye Shan, please tell me if you have anything to say."

"Master Yeshan?"

The Sand Ninja's light green eyes burst into light, and it was obvious that he was no stranger to Ye Shan: "Your Excellency has come in person. It seems that the information that Jiulang and the others have worked so hard to find out can be successfully transmitted back to the village."

"what's your name?"

"Name? How can a spy have a name? You can just call me Nightingale. I am Nightingale, a member of the Fourth Squad of the Third Battalion of the Anbu directly under the Hokage. I have been ordered to lurk in the Sand Village. Now is the twenty-first year."

Ye Shan was very surprised. He didn't expect that this young Sand Ninja had been lurking for so long. After thinking about it carefully, he was relieved. You know, each ninja village has extremely strict defense against spies. Ninjas who join the village midway can't be important at all. Only native ninjas can be trusted. This is also the main reason why the number of renegade ninjas in the ninja world remains high.

"Nightingale, I think you already know that your death is inevitable. I hope you can tell me the information this morning."

Ye Shan's words were very inhumane, but there was no other way. Ninja has never been a sentimental profession. Instead of pretending to pity the other party, it is better to seize the time and get the information.

A trace of fear flashed across the pale face of the Sand Ninja, also known as Nightingale. She hugged her chest with both hands. The continuous blood loss made her a little unconscious, and her speech became intermittent.

Before, she relied entirely on the determination in her heart to escape from the Sand Village. Now, after seeing Ye Shan, her heart strength collapsed, and her vitality quickly drained away from her young body. It was her final moment.

"The Sand Village... the Third Kazekage... is missing."

The unclear words were caught by Ye Shan who was highly focused. He was shocked and asked hurriedly: "Why did you disappear?"

The supreme leader of a village suddenly disappeared. No wonder the Sand Ninjas were so anxious. Everything was explained. Ye Shan abandoned the purpose of coming to the Sand Village. A mere immature Scorpion could not be compared with the Third Kazekage. If what Nightingale said was true, no matter how important Ye Shan's mission was, his mission was to send the information back to Konoha Village.

"According to our...confirmation, it was Scorpion who killed the Third Kazekage..."

It was very difficult for her to say this. The evening breeze seemed to have blown away the vitality of the nightingale, making her lips turn pale and her feet twitching constantly on the sand.

Ye Shan keenly grasped the key point of Nightingale's words. This means that all the spies lurking in the Sand Village might have been wiped out. After all, only Nightingale escaped.

He squatted down, took out a small flashlight, lifted up the other person's half-closed eyelids, and found that her pupils had dilated, and she was obviously exhausted.

Ye Shan gritted his teeth, grabbed Nightingale's cold right hand, and input the few wood-attribute chakras in his body into the other's body. He wanted to know more information, and Nightingale could not die now.

Why did Scorpion kill the Third Kazekage? Who will be the next Kazekage? Will the Third Ninja World War break out soon? This information is extremely important to Konoha, so Nightingale cannot die at this time.

As the wood attribute chakra flowed through Nightingale's body, her face flushed slightly, and her barely perceptible heartbeat became sonorous and powerful, and life briefly appeared in this necrotic body. However, Ye Shan's face turned pale, and he lost a full year of his life in a short period of time!

Nightingale obviously sensed something was wrong. She broke free from Ye Shan's hand, her chest rising and falling slightly. She said with difficulty, "My Lord, there is no need to do this. Nightingale had already realized the outcome of tonight when she stepped into the Sand Village twenty years ago."

"The day before yesterday, the Kazekage suddenly announced that he needed to go into seclusion and ordered that no one should disturb him. The ninjas in the village did not take it seriously until this afternoon when the Anbu directly under the Kazekage noticed something was wrong."

"There were no signs of fighting at the Kazekage's retreat, but the Kazekage mysteriously disappeared. Chiyo immediately ordered the village to be sealed off. Jiulang sensed something was wrong and risked gathering the seven of us, planning to break out from the agreed location. Unexpectedly, we met Scorpion there."

"I don't want to go into details about the battle process. Anyway, except for me, the other six were killed by Scorpion, and the puppet he used was the missing Third Kazekage!"

Having said that, the wood-attribute chakra seemed to have exhausted its power. Nightingale's face turned pale as paper again, her eyes half-closed, and her breathing became inaudible.

Ye Shan was silent, sighing in his heart. He stretched out his right hand and touched Nightingale's eyes, ready to send her off for the last time.

But at this moment, Nightingale's breathing became rapid, and she grabbed Ye Shan's hand with strength from nowhere, and her face flushed.

Ye Shan knew that this was a moment of last reverie before death, and asked hurriedly, "Is there anyone you care about?"

At the other party's last moment, Ye Shan did not choose to ask her about the intelligence, but asked her if she had any concerns, because there was still a trace of humanity in his heart, and after all, he could not be as cold as iron.

"Master Ye Shan...is everything we have done...meaningful?"

Nightingale's eyes were beautiful, like emeralds, and now they were filled with a strong expectation of being recognized.

"Yes!" Ye Shan said firmly: "Konoha will gain extremely valuable information because of your sacrifice. You are excellent successors of the Will of Fire and great heroes of the Land of Fire!"

Nightingale pulled up a satisfied smile, and the hand that was holding Ye Shan lost its strength and fell to the ground. Her eyes were wide open, staring at the stars that were about to disappear in the night sky.

"That's good... That's good... I'm so cold, is winter coming... So cold..."

"I seem to smell the scent of seven-colored balls..."

This was the last words left by Nightingale, who had been lurking in the Sand Village for twenty-one years. The reluctance and attachment contained in the words made Yeshan's heart beat violently, and sadness still surged up, for the ninja who died in front of him.

Ye Shan has always believed that the will of fire should not be defined by words, it should be as free as the wind. Tonight's nightingale confirmed his idea.

Spying is a dangerous profession. It requires the ninja to live in fear all the time but to keep a normal expression. It requires the ninja to betray his companions and the village he lives with day and night. It even requires the ninja to change the living habits that are ingrained in his bones. Only those with great willpower can do it.

Ye Shan slowly closed Nightingale's lifeless eyes. Before he could take out the scroll and collect her cold body, a green flame ignited from her abdomen. It exploded as soon as it appeared, ruthlessly devouring the only proof of Nightingale's existence in the world.

The rule of the Anbu is to leave no body behind after death. Nightingale had left spells on the surface of her body early on, ready to die at any time.

Ye Shan's right hand was wrapped in orange flames. In the green flames, he took off the ninja tool bag hanging behind Nightingale's waist. He wanted to preserve the evidence that the other party had lived, and he didn't care even if it was just cold ninja tools. At least the cenotaph would not be empty.

Ye Shan took out a tattered notebook from Nightingale's tool bag. He flipped through it in the moonlight, and the sadness in his heart immediately grew stronger.

This notebook was full of trivial things, such as today's weather, today's cultivation results, where the food was delicious, etc. However, there was a withered lily in the middle of the notebook, which was extremely glaring between the yellowed papers.

The Sand Village is located in the desert, and it is extremely difficult to feed the large population of the village, so they naturally have no interest in growing lilies. So this withered lily comes from Konoha Village. It is the only thought of this man code-named Nightingale for countless days and nights.

Unfortunately, these lilies have long since withered and decayed, just like the identity of the nightingale, which has long since changed beyond recognition.

Thinking about the fact that she didn't think about her relatives or mention anything that worried her before she died, it was obvious that she was truly alone.

Yeshan never thought that a lily could become a ninja's wish, and never thought that a string of seven-colored meatballs sold everywhere in Konoha would become a ninja's last food.

He stared at the ashes left on the sand with a grim expression, slowly stood up, solemnly put the notebook into his arms, and turned his head to look at an inconspicuous place.

"Do you want to get out on your own or do I have to force you out?"

Ye Shan's voice was very cold, which showed that he was in a very bad mood, so bad that he wanted to vent.

The death of a ninja is often accompanied by sadness and pain. Yeshan thought his heart had become hard, but he didn't expect that a string of meatballs and a lily would break his defense.

Everyone has to die, some people's death is heavier than Mount Tai, some people's death is lighter than a feather. Yeshan believes that Shimura Danzo's death is lighter than a feather, while Nightingale's death is heavier than Mount Tai, although most of the ninjas in the village hold different views.

He thought that it shouldn't be just Nightingale's seven spies who would die tonight, as that would be too lonely, so he decided to kill the ninja who dared to approach him, and no one could stop him even if he came.

The ninja world seemed to have forgotten that Baiyun Yeshan killed Yagura. He was very unhappy and felt that he was being looked down upon.