Uchiha Ling still didn't know that Orochimaru had taken the blame for her, but even if she did, she wouldn't care, because wasn't it Orochimaru's own fault for selling this information?
During the pursuit of Danzo, Ling noticed that Danzo, that old schemer, repeatedly changed directions and even sent out Shadow Clones to run in different directions, which was truly too cunning.
Although Ling could distinguish which ones were Shadow Clones, she didn't say anything; firstly, it would be difficult to explain how she distinguished them, and secondly, Danzo's successful defection was more beneficial than detrimental to her.
Facing Danzo's rogue tactics, the Third Hokage had no choice but to send some Jonin to pursue the group he believed to be Shadow Clones. Perhaps it was due to the bond between Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi, but the Third Hokage actually chose correctly on his first try.
With a fifty percent chance, the probability of choosing correctly was actually quite high. It can only be said that this time, fate was on the Third Hokage's side.
Others couldn't see Danzo Shimura's expression, but Uchiha Ling, who was constantly observing with the Telescope Technique, noticed that Danzo's nose was almost crooked with anger, and his face was ashen.
However, although he didn't make the Third Hokage chase the wrong person, he did manage to split the Third Hokage's forces, which could be considered a small goal achieved, increasing the chances of a breakthrough.
It wasn't that Danzo didn't want to send out more Shadow Clones to lure the Third Hokage into pursuit, but rather that their Chakra reserves were somewhat insufficient. To have a greater chance of success during the breakout, they couldn't waste any more Chakra.
Danzo had already selected the breakout location. At this moment, they were still over twenty kilometers from the border, and he had to make thorough preparations.
This was the first time Ling had traveled such a long distance since coming to this world. The Land of Fire is vast; although it seemed like they reached the border in one night, that was because the speed of Jonin traveling at full capacity was no less than that of a small car.
Traveling nearly a thousand kilometers in one night, one can imagine how superhuman Ninja truly are.
A normal person would probably collapse after running fifty kilometers continuously, let alone engaging in full-speed combat.
At this time, except for a small number of injured Anbu Ninja who were exhausted, the other Ninja, including Ling, were fine.
Ling noticed that the map in the bubble she summoned showed a large group of people approaching about ten kilometers away.
Upon closer inspection, it could be determined that three teams of people were pursuing one individual, and each team consisted of fifty to sixty people.
They were moving incredibly fast. Based on their current speed and path, they should meet near the border.
Ling pondered slightly. Based on the information she had obtained earlier in the Hokage Office, she could roughly determine who these three teams were and who was being pursued.
Those three teams should be the Hidden Sand Village Anbu, as well as the Iwagakure Anbu disguised as Hidden Cloud Village Anbu, and the Hidden Cloud Village Anbu disguised as Iwagakure Anbu.
The person being pursued should be Sasori of the Red Sand, who had recently eliminated the Third Kazekage, the legendary life-sized figure master.
This behavior of heading directly towards their path, Ling felt, was likely because Sasori of the Red Sand had discovered Konoha's pursuit Ninja unit.
Ling was a little curious if the mutually disguised Iwagakure Anbu and Hidden Cloud Village Anbu would be embarrassed when they encountered each other. She believed both sides would have interesting expressions.
It would be even more interesting if they fought or cursed at each other. Would the Iwagakure Anbu, disguised as Hidden Cloud Village, curse Iwagakure or Hidden Cloud Village?
This is a problem. Cursing their own village would mean they were purely brain-damaged, right? Cursing the village they were disguised as, then would they still need to maintain the disguise?
However, the Hidden Sand Village wouldn't have this problem. They were brave enough to take responsibility; they were who they were, unlike the stones in the latrine and the black people struck by lightning on the high mountains, who were incredibly hypocritical.
In fact, when Sasori of the Red Sand previously made the Anbu of the three villages fight like dogs, a famous scene indeed occurred.
At that time, the Anbu of the two villages were in a dilemma, unable to curse or not curse, so they could only focus on eliminating each other, but unfortunately, they both failed.
When each village learned that Sasori of the Red Sand had discovered their identities, they ordered those Anbu to no longer disguise themselves. They wanted to directly capture Sasori of the Red Sand alive.
If it weren't for the intention of capturing him alive, with Sasori of the Red Sand's strength, even with the Third Kazekage's Human Puppet, he would probably have already perished.
Sasori of the Red Sand's most formidable techniques were the Performance of a Hundred Puppets and the Third Kazekage, coupled with terrifying poison techniques, which allowed him to wander for over a month without being captured.
Ling felt that being pursued by the combined forces of three Ninja villages was unprecedented and would likely never be repeated.
As Uchiha Ling expected, Sasori of the Red Sand had probably discovered the Konoha Village's pursuit Ninja unit chasing Danzo long ago, and at this moment, he was likely coming to use them to kill his enemies.
When the Third Hokage encountered enemy village Anbu acting brazenly within his country's borders, he would naturally intervene to intercept, expel, or even kill them.
At this moment, Danzo's subordinate, a Root Ninja, informed Danzo that another unfamiliar Ninja unit was approaching from their front right.
Danzo initially thought it was Minato Namikaze leading the border Ninja, but when his subordinate said it wasn't Minato Namikaze's Chakra signature and that they were split into three groups chasing one person, he realized the truth.
He immediately guessed who was being pursued, and he was almost certain of the other party's objective. Fortunately, he had a similar plan.
Danzo felt a pang of emotion. Just the day before yesterday, he was discussing with Hiruzen Sarutobi how to eliminate these invading Anbu from other Ninja villages, and now, unexpectedly, he had to rely on their strength to escape the pursuit.
It was just like a dream. If it weren't for the stinging pain in his shoulder reminding him, he might have truly believed it was just a dream.
And it was a complete nightmare, with himself becoming a rogue Ninja, and his former close friend, Hiruzen, pursuing him. It was even more sci-fi than sci-fi itself.
It was a pity that such a sci-fi thing had actually become reality, just like how people in the modern world observing the Alpha Centauri constellation actually discovered it was a three-body system, and they even sent a droplet over.
At this moment, Minato Namikaze's Shadow Clone had already determined Danzo's breakout location and had also received information about Sasori of the Red Sand and the Anbu from other Ninja villages.
The situation was urgent, so he immediately dispelled himself to inform his main body to prepare, otherwise, Danzo and Sasori of the Red Sand would likely assault the border together.
And the Third Hokage would be held back by the Anbu of the three great Ninja villages, leaving him to face these two, now the Ninja World's greatest rogue Ninja, alone.
He himself wasn't afraid; he believed that even if the two of them teamed up, he wouldn't be in danger, but the border Ninja accompanying him were different.
For a moment, he truly had no good way to deal with the two of them without significant losses. He could only hope that Danzo and Sasori of the Red Sand wouldn't team up.
Moreover, even worse news arrived: other Ninja were approaching their predicted interception point from beyond the border.
Although he suspected they might be Root Ninja, whether they were or not, he knew they were foes, not friends, and there would be no peaceful resolution.
This meant he would likely have to lead fewer than a hundred border Ninja to confront Danzo, Sasori of the Red Sand, and the Root Ninja arriving as reinforcements from outside.
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