"Hoo~!"
As soon as Wave Feng Shui Gate left, the big guy immediately breathed a sigh of relief. After driving for a day and avoiding Shayin's patrol team, everyone was very tired. Although the time was short, there were still at least two hours of rest.
"You guys rest! I'll go out and keep watch, lest Shayin's patrol team pass by and expose our whereabouts," Chao Yanqian said to everyone.
"Hey! Thousand names, aren't you tired?" Hoshinohara asked weakly.
"That's right! We have to go out to perform the task in a while, so let's take a break!" Keita Hyuga added.
"I'm okay! You guys rest!" Chao Yanqian shrugged and smiled. "My physical strength has always been very good."
"Well then! Thanks, Thousand names!" Keita Hyuga said apologetically.
Asakura patted Keita Hyuga and said lightly, "It's okay."
"I'll be with you!" At that moment, Kakashi suddenly said.
Hearing the words,Chao Yanqian turned his head and glanced at Kakashi. Unfortunately, Kakashi was wearing a mask, with only a pair of dead fish eyes exposed.Chao Yanqian couldn't see his thoughts from Kakashi's expression.
"Well! Let's go then!"Yanqian nodded.
Out of the sand cave, he wandered around pretending to patrol but found that Kakashi always appeared in his line of sight, intentionally or unintentionally. He didn't know if Kakashi had noticed something or if it was Wave Feng Shui Gate who had secretly told him something.
Thinking of this, he walked toward the sand dune to the side of Chao Yanqian, which was high enough to temporarily block Kakashi's sight.
He separated a shadow clone to walk out of the sand dune instead, while Chao Yanqian himself used [Transformation Technique] to turn into a pile of sand and temporarily hide.
Sure enough, it didn't take long before Chao Yanqian saw Kakashi walk aside and glance over secretly. Seeing that there was nothing there, he left and continued following the shadow clone of Chao Yanqian.
Asakura was confident. With his chakra control, in the current squad, only Bofeng Mizumon and Hyuga Keita were likely to realize that the one Kakashi was staring at was a shadow clone.
As for Kakashi, Chao Yanqian had never underestimated him. But Kakashi was only observing from a distance, so he never had a chance to discover that the one in front of him was a shadow clone.
After Kakashi left, Chao Yanqian dismissed the [Transformation Technique], took out the letter that Osaimaru had given him, unfolded the letter, and read it carefully.
There wasn't much content in the letter, but it was about a guy named Fujita, who asked Asakura to hand over the scroll to Sain.
Tonight at ten o'clock, Fujita would be waiting at a location ten miles west of Shayin Village, and Chao Yanqian only needed to go there and hand over the scroll without saying anything in the process.
The letter did not mention Fujita's identity, but it contained a photo—a middle-aged ninja in his thirties with a long scar on his face.
After closing the letter, Chao Yanqian stored it and placed it in the small pouch on the chest of his ninja vest.
By all logic, after reading this letter, Chao Yanqian should have immediately destroyed it.
But Chao Yanqian feared that this was a setup by Oshe Maru, so he left the letter intact. If someone discovered it later, he could use it as evidence against Oshe Maru, claiming that he was merely following orders and completing a mission.
After reading the letter, Chao Yanqian carefully recalled everything that had happened since he saw Oshe Maru last night, searching for anything suspicious.
Asa Den China hated this feeling of not knowing anything. It made him feel like he could die at any moment.
First of all, Bofeng Shuimen must have noticed something—because even Kakashi had. Chao Yanqian couldn't believe that Ha Feng Shuimen wouldn't have noticed something was off.
And if you counted the time, Bofeng Shuimen left at around 7:40, and the mission for Chao Yanqian was scheduled two hours later, at 9:40. This meant that Chao Yanqian had an entire hour to lure away Shayin's patrol.
It was too much of a coincidence.
It was impossible to know Haofeng Shuimen's exact action time in advance, so was it possible that the entire thing was a setup by the village and that Haofeng Shuimen was also in on the plan?
If Haofengmizumen knew the plan, then why did Oshemaru hand over the letter to him in secret?
Was it to keep Kakashi and the others from finding out?
"But if Bofeng Shuimen is already in the Land of Wind, why not let him complete this mission instead of me?" Chao Yanqian was puzzled.
Forget it. He could only adapt to the situation. If something went wrong, he would escape immediately.
After about half an hour,Chao Yanqian's shadow clone circled back to the sand dune. Avoiding Kakashi's gaze, Chao Yanqian dispelled the shadow clone, and the real body emerged from the other side of the dune, continuing to play the game with Kakashi.
At around 9:40 PM, Chao Yanqian greeted Kakashi, and the two walked back to the sand cave together.
"Get up and take action!" Chao Yanqian shouted.
"Why so soon?!" Hoshinohara yelled in frustration.
"Hey! You don't even have to go out for the mission, and I haven't complained, so what are you whining about?" Uchiha Obito scoffed.
"You..." Hoshinohara may have noticed the Uchiha clan emblem on Uchiha Obito's belt and simply glared at him without saying anything further.
"Shut up, all of you!" Asakura shot a look at Uchiha Obito, then turned to Keita Hyuga. "Keita, let's go first."
"Understood!" Keita Hyuga replied.
"Tch! Always acting cool," Uchiha Obito muttered after watching Asakura Chinake leave. "If that guy wasn't so fast, I would have beaten him up by now."
After leaving the sand cave, Keita Hyuga looked at Chao Yanqian and asked, "Chao Yanqian, what should we do?"
Chao Yanqian, "In two hours, Captain Watergate should have infiltrated the core of Shayin Village. I think he wants to create chaos at the entrance of Shayin Village to buy time for his mission. But that's Kakashi and his team's responsibility. Our task is to lure away Shayin's patrol team to prevent them from surrounding Kakashi and the others."
Looking in the direction of Shayin Village, Chao Yanqian continued, "We just need to find a Shayin patrol squad and eliminate them."
"Got it!" Keita Hyuga nodded seriously. This mission was going to be difficult.