"What do you mean by that?" Neji stared at Orochimaru, asking with confusion.
"Recently, a group of wandering ninja has risen to fame, attracting the attention of many people. Many are eager to spend a lot of money to hire them." Orochimaru didn't answer Neji's question, but instead spoke to himself.
"What does that have to do with you?" Neji scoffed, "Could it be that you, Orochimaru, have fallen to the point where you need someone to protect you?"
"Hehe, of course not. It's just that one of them has a very special ability, which has given me great interest and made me want to study it." Orochimaru didn't know what he was thinking, and he stuck out his long tongue and licked his cheek.
"What ability?"
Before Neji could speak, Sasuke couldn't help but ask first. An ability that could make Orochimaru interested must be very powerful, which is what he needs most right now.
"Sasuke, you're really impatient." Orochimaru sneered, but he didn't hide anything, and said frankly, "He can turn people into stone."
"Petrification? You're actually interested in this kind of ability?" Neji laughed, "Orochimaru, you're really getting worse and worse."
Faced with Neji's relentless ridicule, Orochimaru was not annoyed. He walked leisurely to a table, picked up the wine glass on it, shook it, and smiled, "That's right, I need you to help me bring him back."
"Wandering ninja? Do you have any information about him?" Sasuke asked.
Orochimaru took a sip of wine and said, "His name is Ishitate. According to intelligence, he should be in the Land of Moon at the moment. Although he only has the strength of a Jonin, his right hand has the ability to turn people into stone, which is very troublesome."
"Ishitate? Land of Moon?" A gleam of light flashed in Neji's eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "I see, it's him."
Ishitate, the BOSS of the Hokage third movie, was hired by Minister Shabaka of the Land of Moon to attack the Land of Moon prince and others who were protected by Naruto and the others. He is not strong, but his right hand has eyes that can turn people into stone. He once injured Kakashi and Naruto with this move.
However, in Neji's view, that kind of petrification was terribly weak and could not cause him any hindrance at all, but he didn't expect Orochimaru to be interested in this kind of useless ability, and he felt that he needed to re-evaluate Orochimaru.
"Is that all? It's enough for me to go alone." Sasuke put his hands in his pockets and said coldly.
Orochimaru's expression was more solemn than ever, and he said gravely: "No, you can't do it alone. This mission is very important and there must be no mistakes."
Then, he looked at Neji, only Neji would make him feel 100% at ease.
"This doesn't seem to have anything to do with me." Neji sat aside, with no intention of taking action at all. This kind of simple task was not attractive to him at all.
"Neji, I said, this mission will interest you." Orochimaru said confidently. His arm suddenly turned into a giant snake, spitting out snake venom and handing a scroll to Neji.
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In the dense forest, the leaves rustled. Neji, Sasuke and Tayuya ran through the dense forest, and soon came to the border of the Land of Rice Fields.
"The Land of Hot Water is ahead. As long as we cross it, we can reach the Land of Moon." Tayuya said, "What Orochimaru-sama needs is there."
"Um." Sasuke responded indifferently, "This time's target, none of you are allowed to take action."
"What, you're good again?" Neji said with an extremely calm face words that would shame Sasuke for the rest of his life. Neji said this last time, and then he was beaten up badly.
"Hmph! Why did you agree to Orochimaru's request?" Sasuke snorted coldly and questioned.
"That's none of your business."
As they spoke, they had arrived at the Land of Hot Water. This area did not seem to have suffered any wars. Everything was very close to nature, and there were very few man-made things, full of a primitive flavor.
Arriving in the town, the people were even more harmonious, and every move was very polite. There were no disputes, and even the fights that were often seen in other places could not be found here.
"It's really a peace-loving country."
"Hmph, that's why this country is so weak." Tayuya very much disagreed with the local customs, her tone full of belittling, without lowering her voice at all, causing everyone here to hear it.
In an instant, everyone looked over with a whoosh, with unkind eyes, but... still restrained themselves and did not act.
Seeing this scene, Tayuya looked down on this country even more, and continued to shout: "See, I've already said that, but they still don't have any reaction. It's only in this country that if they go outside, they would have become bones long ago."
"Having abundant resources but forgetting war, this kind of country is nothing more than that." Sasuke also said the same.
"Let's go, don't forget our purpose." Neji reminded them, he was really afraid that these two would continue to act like this, making those who had forgotten the war unable to resist giving them a hard time.
Although he has absolutely powerful strength, he is not the kind of unprincipled person to attack ordinary people.
This was just an interlude and did not have much impact on Neji's journey, but after Neji and the others left, a person wearing a blood-red robe showed his head from the roof not far away.
"New power." That person murmured, the wide robe covered his face, but you could still hear a trace of excitement in his tone.
"I must guide them to the right path."
After that, his robe swayed in the wind and gradually disappeared, but he didn't know that a small snake had been watching his every move.
The sky gradually darkened, and Neji and the other two were walking through a dense forest. The surrounding trees were towering and dense. Moonlight shone through the leaves onto the ground, revealing sAt this moment, Neji's footsteps suddenly stopped. Using the cover of the trees, he used a wood cattered spots of light.
clone. Then, his main body slowly sank into the ground, while the clone walked on with Sasuke and Tayuya as if nothing had happened.
"Where are they going? The base is already very far from here."
In the grass, a figure slowly emerged, it was the red-robed man who had been spying on Neji and the others before. He had been following Neji and the others.
Sasuke and the others were being watched by someone silently without noticing it, which was simply shocking. This was a big taboo for ninjas, but this red-robed man was unlucky, because Neji had discovered him long ago.
Silently, a vortex appeared out of thin air behind that person...
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