Hanyu stood in an empty and dark underground space. Even in the underground base of Shadow Stream, there would not be such a lonely feeling as here.
God knows how an underground project of this scale was built.
However, apart from being empty, this place is also a familiar place to Hanyu. He had been here not long after arriving in Konoha. At that time, the Uchiha in the village were not very honest, so he returned to Konoha from the front line and joined the Anbu to become an Anbu ninja. Here he got an Anbu mask and then carried out the task of monitoring the Uchiha.
But... whether this hint of familiarity increased or alleviated Hanyu's loneliness, even he himself couldn't tell.
Things are no longer the same.
So Hanyu was immersed in his own emotions for a little while, completely ignoring the four Anbu ninjas surrounding him.
After both sides stood there for a long time, the ANBU ninja finally couldn't help but speak up, "Is it Master Yuzuru Hanyu from the Shadow Stream? I wonder what brings Master Yuzuru Hanyu to the ANBU?"
"Yeah, oh."
Hanyu finally reacted. He scratched his head and realized that now was not the time to express his feelings, so he took out the order from the Third Hokage and handed it to the Anbu ninja who had just spoken.
The other party took the handwritten order and confirmed the contents carefully. After making sure there were no problems, he put it away.
"Master Hanyu, please follow me," he continued.
Hanyu nodded and followed the ANBU team.
After twisting and turning in this underground space for a long time, the Anbu ninja brought Hanyu to a secret dungeon - there are many Anbu strongholds, both above and below ground, but this should be the most important one.
Hanyu came here with the purpose of taking away seven "unforgivable" serious criminals, and they must be those with strong strength, chakra quality above the average level and strong physical endurance.
He needed such a ninja, no matter if he was a spy from another village or a ninja of Konoha who had committed a crime.
In front of the dungeon, Hanyu looked at the narrow door in front of him, stretched out his hands and gestured a little, and finally decided to untie the Samehada behind him and hold it in his hands...
"Using weapons" was not because Hanyu wanted to cause any damage, but because the door in front of him was too narrow. Hanyu had just placed the Samehada across his back, but the thing was at least two meters long, so it couldn't go in horizontally anyway.
Then a somewhat strange scene occurred. Hanyu dragged a machete into the Anbu dungeon, with the intention of chopping down anyone who disobeyed him...
After entering the dungeon , Hanyu immediately noticed that the Samehada in his hand moved, but this reaction was understandable because the place was filled with a rotten and bloody smell.
Even if they enter the dungeon, the other party will not allow Hanyu to choose who to take away. Such a task can only be done by the Anbu. Anyway, the candidates given by the Anbu will be fine as long as they meet the requirements set by Hanyu.
So Hanyu could only "visit" here, but after walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and turned his gaze to a cell on the right... He saw a man tied to a cross inside.
The opponent's hands, feet and neck were all firmly fixed, and a seal technique that Hanyu couldn't understand was engraved on his forehead. One of the man's eyes was tightly closed, but his eyelids had collapsed, and half of his face was covered with dried blood. Obviously, one of his eyes had been removed.
But this is not the point. The point is that Hanyu saw the only remaining eye of the other party... The iris was a rich red like blood jade, and there were three magatama scattered around the pupil.
It's the Uchiha clan, it's true that we meet everywhere in life.
"Hanyu-sama, this man cannot be taken out of the ANBU."
The Anbu ninja reminded him when he saw Hanyu stop and followed his gaze to see the person he had noticed.
"I don't want to get involved in this kind of troublesome matter. I don't want this person even if he is given to me."
Hanyu said, he must be sick to want to get a bloody Uchiha for no reason, what's the use of this? Is it for keeping the house safe?
Perhaps because they didn't want Hanyu to see more secrets of the Anbu, the Anbu ninjas acted quickly and selected seven prisoners in a short time.
Then they took advantage of the night to help Hanyu send these seven people to Shadow Stream's underground base.
The seven people were temporarily detained by the Shadow Stream. As for what to do with them next, that was not something the Anbu ninjas could know... In fact, they were not interested in such things.
Many prisoners who have been tortured and squeezed out of every last bit of value will be taken away by various departments of Konoha. The better ones will be taken to Konoha Hospital to "assist" in medical research; the worse ones will be taken to the Root or other institutions that cannot even be named for various human experiments.
So when faced with "common things", the Anbu ninjas naturally got used to it.
The seven prisoners were taken to a secret room at the bottom of the Shadow Stream, where they were guarded by a team of Uzumaki ninjas.
Various seals were placed on the prisoners, so it was impossible for them to break free and escape. The main task of the team guarding them was not to prevent anyone from escaping, but to prevent anyone from committing suicide in ways that were beyond imagination and convention.
For this group of people, wanting to die is a very normal thing to do. God knows what they went through in the dark dungeon before.
I just don't know if being a sacrifice for the Impure World Reincarnation is a kind of relief for them.
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One night passed and the next day came.
Although they didn't know what the organization was busy with, many Shadow ninjas felt the tense and slightly depressing atmosphere firsthand. Infected by this atmosphere, all ninjas began to be cautious, and every job and task became meticulous.
After all, this is the purpose of Shadow Stream's establishment, and the next period is the most critical period for Shadow Stream .
In three days, the plan will be implemented. Because they are worried that the Nine-Tailed Fox will cause too much noise and cause the entire plan to lose its secrecy, it will be carried out in a secret and unknown place.
It was not until now that Hanyu met the other eight Uzumaki ninjas besides Mito who were ready to take part in the operation. In order to ensure the independence of the separated Nine-Tails Chakra, the plan was conservative. So although it was feasible to use clones to perform the Demonic Fuujin, this method would bring uncertainty to the division and subsequent summoning, so it was ruled out.
Each tailed beast that is separated will be sealed in a separate person, so eight people are already the minimum number of participants - seven people are responsible for performing the Shikigami Fūjin and the Four Symbols Seal, and one person is responsible for releasing the Shikigami Fūjin.
This was a plan that had been finalized long ago, but there were some things that Hanyu didn't know in advance - he saw the old chief of the Uzumaki clan among the eight people.
"Master Patriarch, you..."
"Haha, Hanyu, what's so surprising about this? Am I not old enough?"
Hanyu didn't know what to say at this moment. The clan leader was indeed old, but he was the clan leader of Uzumaki after all. No one could ask him to participate in such a plan... unless he took the initiative to participate.
Perhaps, as the clan leader, this was the only "responsible thing" he could do in this matter... He was not just asking others to sacrifice, he was also willing to sacrifice himself.
Such an action would ensure that there was no problem with his position as the patriarch, and would also prove that the plan was all done in the public interest.
As the clan leader, he is not greedy for life. This is the best explanation to other Uzumaki ninjas who participated in the operation. Perhaps others do not need such an explanation at all, but the old clan leader believes that he should give such an explanation.
"Young people, a new era is about to begin. We didn't do much before, but after this incident, we can barely say that we are the ones who brought a new era to the Uzumaki clan. Isn't this a rare opportunity for old bones like us who are about to be buried?
We are finally late bloomers, but it seems a little too late."
An old man said this, and after he finished speaking, the others also laughed. Then, the seven people except the clan leader stepped forward one by one, and each of them handed a glass bottle of blood to Hanyu.
Hanyu wasn't sure to what extent the idea of paving the way for a new era for the Uzumaki clan was real, but judging from their open-minded attitude, he felt that this group of old men seemed more like they were sacrificing themselves for the old Uzumaki clan.
All ninjas will die, but precisely because all ninjas will die, the way they die is particularly important to them.
Open-minded and sad, sad and satisfied, satisfied but hopeful, all of this is contained in their wrinkled, blurry smiles.
So, from the perspective of a bystander like Hanyu, what could he say at this time? He couldn't say anything, but just silently collected those blood bottles.
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