Chapter 9 Trap

After officially setting off, the people in the team stopped making noise, and there was no noise except for the occasional whispered conversations between Uchiha Akihiko and Uchiha Hiroshi.

The team finally made some progress two hours after the start of the exploration. Uchiha Akihiko stopped and looked at the entrance hidden in the darkness not far away.

Uchiha Akihiko did not look back, but just made a few gestures. After seeing his gestures, Uchiha Masaki slowly smiled and disappeared with a flash of his body.

The rest of the Uchiha also spread out and began setting traps to prepare for battle, only vaguely surrounding Uchiha Hiro in the center.

They didn't have to wait too long before a dazzling fire came from the stronghold in front of them. Several unfamiliar figures jumped out of it in an instant and fled in all directions.

But what greeted them were sharp steel wires and burning detonating tags. The few who were not stopped by the detonating tags were subdued by the Uchiha ninjas who had been waiting on the side.

"Eh - I succeeded already?" Uchiha Masaki popped up from nowhere, "I've only triggered less than half of the traps I set. Ling was really too vigilant, wasn't he?"

Uchiha Hong also came over, "I've checked here. There's no detonating tag on him. It seems he's just here for training. Let's interrogate him with illusion technique."

Uchiha Akihiko nodded, picked up the leader's collar and pulled him aside. The three scarlet magatama in his eye sockets slowly turned and looked into the eyes of the person in front of him, but in the next moment, he suddenly shook off the person in his hand and retreated, "Retreat!"

All the Uchiha ninjas almost immediately put down what they were doing and retreated. In the next second after all the movements, the ninja who was previously held in the hand of Uchiha Akihiko had his skin burst and exploded on the spot.

The shattered flesh and blood caused by the explosion, along with the surging air waves, threw Uchiha Akihiko dozens of meters away, and he finally stopped after crashing into a tree. It took him a long time to recover from the dizziness.

"Hey, are you still alive?"

Uchiha Akihiko climbed up with the help of Uchiha Hiroshi, covered his forehead and cursed, "A bunch of lunatics!"

"What's going on?" Uchiha Masaki looked at the green light on Uchiha Hiro's hand, his face no longer smiling, the three scarlet magatama in his eye sockets slowly turned, alertly looking around, while pointing the Hui people to disperse around to investigate, "Does that person have a sealing technique in his brain?"

"Yes, it's a magic-triggered sealing technique." Uchiha Akihiko frowned, "As long as the sealing technique in the brain is triggered by the magic, the detonating tags in the body will be directly detonated... The Senju are a bunch of lunatics who only care about information and not their lives! Ugh!"

"It's nothing serious, it's just that the forced interruption of the illusion caused the chakra to flow backwards," Uchiha Hong retracted his hand, "Don't use the pupil technique, just slow down a bit... Since you still know how to pull the person away for interrogation, I won't scold you."

"It's possible that all the Senju here are abandoned pawns. We might as well kill them all." The three scarlet magatama in Uchiha Masaki's eyes turned faster and faster. "We are just going to the main battlefield to provide support. We are not vegetarians either."

"You can kill people, but we have to retreat and avoid the main battlefield," Uchiha Akihiko lowered his voice, "I have a bad feeling, it's very strong.

Hong, I remember your brother is in the main battlefield. You have a spirit beast, so ask them to evacuate immediately. If there are any follow-up responsibilities, ask them to come to me and I will bear them alone."

Uchiha Hong was stunned, his expression became ugly, "... Then what do you want me to say? Say that my leader was frightened to death by a human bomb and demanded that the entire army retreat?"

"We'll talk about whether to retreat or not later," Uchiha Masaki glanced at a little Senju who was quietly getting up and trying to wake up his companions to escape, and drew the short sword from his waist. "Kill them all first."

Before he finished speaking, he had already appeared above the group of Thousand Hand Ninjas in an instant, and with a swing of the short sword in his hand, he easily killed two Thousand Hand Ninjas who had no power to resist. But at this moment, two voices sounded at the same time -

"Wait! Masaaki!"

"stop it now!"

The tip of Uchiha Masaki's knife stopped at the man's throat. He tilted his head slightly and waited for the two to give him an answer.

Unlike Uchiha Akihiko who was full of fear, Uchiha Hiro put his hands to the ground with a serious expression, "There is movement underground, don't kill those people yet."

Uchiha Masaki glanced at those young Senju who were younger than himself, turned the blade, and accurately cut off the tendons of several people without causing excessive bleeding.

After doing all this, he looked at the tribesmen who were scattered and on guard, "Tie them up, and prepare to trigger the detonation trap.

Those who bring the Sealed Scroll will follow me to explore and search the interior of the stronghold, and the rest of you will set up traps and disperse to guard. "

Watching Uchiha Masaki leading people to start searching, Uchiha Akihiko pressed his throbbing forehead and asked, "Hong, what's down there?"

"...It's a detonating array." Uchiha Hong retracted his hand, his expression cold, "But it hasn't been fully activated yet. It should be linked to the lives of those Thousand Hands. As long as all the people are dead, it will explode immediately.

Moreover, the design of the detonation array underground is very clever, and there are many sealing techniques to cover up the fluctuations. If there is a battle above, it cannot be sensed at all... It is really an insidious trick."

"It should be the work of the Uzumaki clan, right? The two clans have always been in cahoots with each other." Uchiha Akihiko pinched his forehead, his head still throbbing with pain, "Notify the main battlefield as soon as possible, and then retreat."

Uchiha Hiroya realized the seriousness of the matter, and immediately formed seals with his hands and used summoning techniques.

As the white smoke dissipated, a pure white short-haired kitten yawned and appeared beside Uchiha Hong's hand. Its voice was still sleepy, "Didn't we agree not to work at night, meow..."

"Sorry, Yukimaru, I'll bring you some dried shrimp later," Uchiha Hiro's expression softened, holding the kitten in his palm, "We have some problems here, could you please inform my brother?"

Xuewan stretched lazily, licked the pink paw, and said lazily, "Go ahead, meow - but you can't be short of dried shrimps for overtime work later, meow."

Uchiha Hiro then carefully informed everyone of what had happened here as concisely and clearly as possible. Yukimaru also knew the urgency of the matter, and after confirming with Uchiha Hiro again that nothing had been missed, he turned into a ball of pale smoke and disappeared.

"Let Yukimaru report this to the clan as well." Uchiha Akihiko shook his head vigorously, suppressing the palpitation in his heart. "There are such arrangements in such an insignificant place. The Senju guys have no intention of giving up at all."

Uchiha Hiro nodded slightly and looked at Uchiha Masaki who was leading his tribesmen out of the base. "How are you doing?"

"It's so clean that even rats would cry and leave something behind." Uchiha Masaki spread his hands, "It seems that they have made preparations to evacuate long ago - or this place is not a real base at all, but just a false appearance to confuse us."

"Let's evacuate here as soon as possible. Although I speculate that the detonation array underground is related to the lives of these people, no one can guarantee that it will not trigger something else." Uchiha Hong frowned, "But to be on the safe side, we will continue to explore along the route Ling gave us. Akihiko, are you okay?"

"Well, I'm fine. I'll let Masaaki take charge from now on." Uchiha Akihiko shook his head vigorously. "But Ling is really too sensitive..."

"I agree—" Uchiha Masaki gestured to the tribesmen to clean up the traces of the battlefield. "Although his caution is not used most of the time, he is indeed a reliable teammate—hey, Akihiko, weren't you fighting? How is Ling recovering?"

"...Go back and ask yourself."

"I don't want to. That guy only practiced and practiced before... Now that he's blind, he's definitely worse. I don't want to spend all my time practicing."

"Ah."

"Uchiha Hiro! Go back and duel! Duel!"

"Oh, noob."

Uchiha Akihiko felt his head hurt even more as he listened to the two people arguing in a low voice: ...two annoying things.