Avengers of the Whirlpool Family.

Chapter 442 The Decision Needed
"It is confirmed that it was Menma Uzumaki, and that Deidara, Kakuzu, and Hidan all died in the battle, right?"

Obito, who was still hundreds of kilometers away from Menma, looked at a White Zetsu who came to report information and asked with a gloomy look.

Even though he had been mentally prepared to a certain extent, after hearing that it was indeed Uzumaki Menma who arrived and eliminated three official members of his own organization, Obito's mood still became extremely bad.

That’s three official members.

The Moon Eye Project has not been officially launched yet, and three people have died in the battle without capturing a single tailed beast. Including the two people he wanted to invite before, Hiruko and Shennong, there are five people in the total number. Without the necessary members, the efficiency of the tailed beast capture and sealing plan will be greatly reduced.

Because of Menma in this life.

Obito's vigilance is much, much higher than in the original work at the same time.

The reason for making so many preparations is to prevent the plan from failing and to reduce the difficulty before the Moon Eye Plan is implemented.

But now it seems.

Not only has the difficulty not decreased, but it has increased further.

It is not easy to find a suitable member of an organization. Strength is one aspect, but character is also very important. Don't think that Obito and Nagato are just randomly selecting people when they invite others to join the organization.

It was only after a long period of observation and consideration that the decision was finally made.

All the conditions must be met.

After so many years, the organization has only developed such a small number of members, which shows how high the selection standards are and how difficult it is.

"Go and guide Scorpion away from the Land of Grass immediately. Mission abandoned."

The only thing that could comfort Obito was that at least the entire army was not wiped out, as there was still one Scorpion left.

Especially after this battle.

We must re-evaluate Uzumaki Menma's strength.

Against four people at one against another, he was able to suppress Kakuzu, Sasori and the other three without even using the Nine-Tails' chakra, and easily killed three of them. In particular, Deidara's ultimate trump card (the information he obtained from Sasori) failed to hurt Menma.

Such a strength.

This is already far beyond the level of the ordinary five Kage. Even the Third Raikage, who has been hailed as the strongest Kage in the past few decades, is much inferior to him.

Only Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama more than sixty years ago possessed such strength.

Almost the same thought popped up in Obito's mind.

"Yes, yes, I understand. I'll notify them right away. I'll notify them right away!"

The White Zetsu in front of him also responded repeatedly, then dived back into the ground and headed towards the location of the scorpion that had been determined earlier.

"What are you going to do? Uzumaki Menma's current strength is far beyond our expectations. Even if Nagato takes action, with the Rinnegan's suppression of the tailed beasts, he will not be able to defeat them. After all, you and I both know that those eyes do not belong to Nagato at all. He cannot bring out the true power of those eyes."

After that White Zetsu left.

Black Zetsu also quietly emerged from the side, looked at Obito with a gloomy look and said.

Uzumaki Menma.

This is an important existence that disrupts all plans.

If Uzumaki Menma was not the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, the worst that could happen would be to revise the plan and try to avoid the confrontation with Uzumaki Menma in the front. But Menma happened to be the most important Tailed Beast Jinchuriki, and there were now four Tailed Beasts gathered around him, namely the Two-Tails, Three-Tails, Six-Tails, and Seven-Tails.

Facial numbness is a problem that they must face and must solve.

It seems that the original plan needs to be revised now.

According to the original plan, Nagato had to capture the Nine-Tails himself. After Nagato's last bit of strength was almost exhausted, they would control Nagato to sacrifice himself and use the Reincarnation Technique to revive Uchiha Madara.

Everything was planned so perfectly.

But now a huge accident happened.

Be it Nagato or Obito.

They were not strong enough to capture the Nine-Tailed Fox.

In Black Zetsu's opinion, Uzumaki Menma's strength is completely equivalent to that of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama. It is impossible for ordinary ninjas to capture him successfully. Although Black Zetsu did not say it explicitly, his meaning was already made clear, that is, he wanted to resurrect Uchiha Madara in advance.

Uchiha Madara was able to defeat the Nine-Tails alone a long time ago. No, to be more precise, he was able to toy with the Nine-Tails in the palm of his hand. After opening the Rinnegan, no matter how strong Uzumaki Menma was, Black Zetsu felt that Madara could definitely defeat him.

"We can't be so sure now. The plan has not yet been officially launched. The power of the ninja villages of various countries can still be utilized. However, you are right. Uzumaki Menma needs to be more vigilant in dealing with it. I will go to the Hidden Rain Village in person to have a talk with Nagato."

Obito also deliberately pretended not to understand the hidden meaning of Black Zetsu and spoke in a calm tone.

Resurrection spot?
Unless he is at his wit's end, Obito will never take this step, because if Madara is really resurrected, what role will he have in the Moon Eye Project! ?

Obito has never been satisfied with just being Madara's agent, he wants to be the leader of the plan.

It was he who became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, and it was he who used the Rinnegan and released the Infinite Tsukuyomi Technique.

The world of eternal peace where Rin has always been must be created by his own hands. Anyone else, even Uchiha Madara who proposed this plan, will only defile the peaceful world where Rin has always been.

Not to mention, the natural art of reincarnation.

That was what Obito prepared for Lin.

He wanted to let Nagato resurrect Rin at the last moment of his plan, and then use the Infinite Tsukuyomi Technique.

In this way, he and Lin can live in a dream world forever.

This is the core of all Obito's plans.

Although Black Zetsu was not clear about Obito's specific thoughts, he could still guess some general things, including the fact that Obito himself was aware of the special sealing technique in the heart area. They both knew it well.

Black Zetsu had no intention of exposing the truth, and now was far from the time to turn hostile.

"You still have to be patient."

Black Zetsu thought silently in his heart.

"Well, I understand what you mean."

On the surface, Black Zetsu temporarily expressed his obedience and dived back into the ground.

Obito took a deep look in the direction where Menma was, and his body shook.

"Buzz!"

When a mysterious space ripple appeared behind him.

Obito's figure also completely disappeared inside and walked away.

He totally didn't give Obito a chance to meet him face to face.

Menma searched for an hour or two within a radius of hundreds of miles, but still found no trace of Obito, so he had no choice but to give up.

As the shadow of a village, he couldn't wander around outside all the time, especially during the war.

If anything unexpected happens.

If they delay a little longer here, the situation will easily get out of control. In fact, the current situation on the front line is already very unfavorable to their Hikari Village, even though Menma arrived very quickly and in a timely manner.

But the number of light ninjas who died in the battle and the loss of control over the front line was still a bit much. The loss of half of the air combat force was enough to make people feel numb and painful. It took so long to replicate a giant air combat fortress and train an air combat force of several hundred people, and half of it was lost in an instant.

This was followed by a series of powerful attacks by a large number of Mist Ninjas.

If it is not handled properly.

Although Menma will not become a bald commander, the size of the Hikari Village will inevitably be further reduced.

This is very unfavorable to Mian Ma's future plans.

"Hmph, never mind. I've gained something this time. Runtu, I look forward to the day when we officially meet."

Menma stood at the border, looking into the distance in the direction where Obito might retreat, while whispering this.

"whoosh"

The figure flashed.

Just go back the same way.

In the next few days, he will stay in the western area of ​​the village, which is the former Kusagakure Village, to preside over the offensive and defensive battles between the front line and the Kirigakure Village. Only in this way can he stabilize the morale of the light ninjas on the front line.

Only then can we completely eliminate the offensive threat from the Mist Ninjas on the front line.

You must know that the Mist Ninjas entrenched on the front line are still obeying orders, and are gathering towards the location of the Kusagakure Village in groups.

Even though the price paid was two to three thousand casualties.

But the number of remaining Mist Ninjas is still terrifying.

One point that needs special attention is that although Obito left, he still conveyed the final deceptive order directly through the master he pretended to be, allowing all the Mist Ninjas to force their way forward.

It's waste recycling.

Anyway, the losses are only suffered by the forces of these big country's ninja villages.

There is nothing to be sorry about Obito.

As for whether the Ninja World War could be triggered, Obito didn't care. If it could, that would be the best. If not, then he would think of another way. What was more important now was to consider how to deal with Menma, the extraordinary Nine-Tails Jinchūriki. This was the most important issue.

However, Obito, who had already left, didn't know this.

The assault he ordered, including Kakuzu, Hidan, Sasori, Deidara, and others, did indeed cause huge changes in the ninja world.

The cost of losing three people.

What it brought in return was the renewed attention of the Cloud Village, the Sand Village, and the Iwagakure Village.

The scene of Suigetsu and Yugao's complete tailed beast transformations fighting each other was extremely eye-catching, not to mention that before Menma's arrival, the Light Ninjas' front-line defeat was actually known to spies from ninja villages in various countries.

For a while.

Ninja villages in various countries were shocked by this.

Subsequent military changes in the eastern area of ​​Hikari Village.

This is also a better proof of this point.

The Fourth Raikage Ai and the Fifth Kazekage Maki both paid the highest level of attention and subconsciously strengthened the deployment of troops towards the direction of the Land of Grass and the Land of Taki.

If the two countries have only taken the minimum level of security military actions.

The Iwagakure Village, located in the northwest, which currently has the strongest overall strength in the ninja world, is actually preparing for action.

"What? The Tsuchikage's order to cross the border directly?"

Huang Tu frowned and looked at the Iwa Ninja who came to report and asked back.

"Yes, Lord Huangtu, this is an order from Lord Tsuchikage!"

In the southeastern border of the Land of Earth.

A connecting mountain range close to Takikuni.

The entire Iwagakure army that had gathered before was stationed here.

Huang Tu is the commander-in-chief on the front line.

In the past ten days, the Rock Ninjas have been active only in the border areas, and at most a small number of them would cross the border to explore occasionally. But today was completely different. The Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki, who was stationed in the village, learned that the Light Ninjas were defeated on the front line of the Land of Grass, and the two tailed beast Jinchūriki were most likely severely injured and unable to continue fighting, and that there was a certain degree of military action in the eastern area of ​​the Hikari Village.

This decisive Third Tsuchikage only thought for a few minutes.

He gave his son an order to cross the border.

In Ohnoki's opinion, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Regardless of what methods the Hidden Mist Village adopted, the fact that it was able to severely damage the front-line troops of the Hidden Light Village, which was backed by two Tailed Beast Jinchūs, was already a clear breakthrough.

Ōnoki could guess with his toes what the next tactical goal of the Hidden Mist Village would be.

You can be 100% sure that the next focus of the Hidden Light Village will be on the front line against the Hidden Mist Village.

Most of the force that is dragging on.

There is even a high probability that Uzumaki Menma-kun will need to go into battle.

If the Iwagakure Village does not take action now, they will be wasting the opportunity given by God.

In Ohnoki's knowledge, Menma is at most stronger than the Third Raikage, and there is no way he can reach the level of Senju Hashirama. If he really reached that level, why would Jiraiya and the previous Konohagakure army be able to retreat safely? Why would they sign a peace agreement later?
Therefore, the Hidden Mist Village, which was able to defeat the army of light ninjas formed by the cooperation of the two tailed beasts, was very powerful.

Even if Menma could lead the Hikari Village to turn defeat into victory and defeat the Mist Ninja in the end, it would definitely be at a terrible price. This is also the case without the intervention of other ninja villages. Therefore, Ōnoki felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

A great opportunity to completely destroy the Hikari Village and bring all those tailed beasts into the arms of their own Hikari Village!!

This does not mean that Ohnoki's judgment was wrong.

All I can say is that Menma's growth has completely gone beyond common sense.

The more important point is that when Ōnoki gave the order, although the situation at the front line of the Land of Grass still seemed to be very good for the Mist Ninjas, there was a delay in the transmission of information.

All I can say is that Ohnoki’s judgment may not be wrong.

But it would definitely not unfold as he expected.

Huang Tu, who received the order, was silent for a short time.

"All troops, march!"

He also gave the order to advance to the nearly 5,000 Rock Ninja troops that had gathered here, although Huangtu himself still felt that it would be better to observe more.

But since the order from his father, the Tsuchikage, has already come down.

Then there is nothing more to say.

Let the war begin!!!

(End of this chapter)