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At this moment, seeing Kakashi's bizarre behavior again, Obito's doubts grew stronger.
“Two identical old women… White Zetsu…” His initially confused expression gradually turned serious. “Did Kakashi also sense something?”
Thinking of this, Obito involuntarily sat up straight, staring intently at the screen, afraid of missing any of the following details.
……
on the screen.
Young Obito was completely dumbfounded by the sudden turn of events.
He stood there, stunned, for a long time before he came to his senses.
It wasn't until the cold rain dripped from the eaves and hit his cheeks that he jolted awake as if from a dream.
"Kakashi...Are you crazy?!" Young Obito roared, pointing at the old woman lying on the ground. "What are you doing?!"
Kakashi ignored Obito's questions.
He slowly walked towards the fallen "old woman," his brow showing not a trace of guilt or hesitation: "Hmph, Obito—you've been fooled! Look at him closely! Is he even human?!"
His voice boomed like thunder in young Obito's ears.
"Huh...what?!" The young Obito was stunned. "Not human? What are you talking about, Kakashi?"
He subconsciously followed Kakashi's instructions and slowly shifted his gaze to the old man lying on the ground at his feet.
However, upon seeing this, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, his pupils suddenly contracting: "This, this is—!"
The "old lady" on the ground had a deep gash cut open on her back by a sharp blade.
The gash stretched from her neck all the way to her waist, a gruesome sight that seemed to split her in two!
But strangely, not a single drop of red blood flowed from such a huge wound!
"No...it's not blood?" The young Obito was horrified by what he saw.
He stared at the wound, only to see that it was not a normal person's red, bloody mess, but rather a strange, deathly white!
A thick, white liquid was slowly seeping out from the edge of the wound, gleaming eerily in the dim light.
Then, something even stranger happened—
The "old lady" who was lying motionless on the ground suddenly began to move!
That thin, hunchbacked body seemed to have lost its disguise, gradually deforming!
Her skin quickly lost its human color, turning deathly pale in the blink of an eye.
The texture of the skin was also twisting, and plant-like patterns were faintly emerging.
In just a few seconds, the old man on the ground was gone, replaced by a pale-faced humanoid monster!
Young Obito was completely dumbfounded.
He stood frozen in place, motionless like a stone, his gaze trembling slightly as he followed Kakashi's movements.
Kakashi quickly stepped forward and arrived at the white monster's corpse.
He raised a foot and kicked the limp corpse without any politeness, turning it over.
The two finally saw the monster's true form—
It was a humanoid creature, pure white, with strange patterns on its skin that resembled tree bark.
What's most chilling is its face: instead of facial features, it has an exaggerated swirling spiral.
The spiral-shaped face coils and converges from the edges to the center, leaving only a dark, round hole in the center of the face, gazing into the void like a deep, single eye.
It looked like a bizarre mask sculpted from white clay, sending chills down your spine at first glance.
……
Inside the VIP box.
"White Zetsu!"
Obito's pupils dilated suddenly in the private room, and he abruptly stood up from his seat!
He stared intently at the familiar yet repulsive vortex-like face on the screen, his mind churning with turmoil.
[Ding! Emotional fluctuations from Uchiha Obito have been detected! Emotional value +1000!]
"It really is... a White Zetsu! And it's that chattering White Zetsu from Uzumaki!!"
Obito let out an incredulous growl, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.
Although he had suspected it for a long time, when the truth was laid bare before him, he was still deeply shocked and filled with rage.
Clearly, Madara Uchiha's rescue of him was not simply a matter of him being found by chance near his tunnel.
It was premeditated!
Obito clenched his fist involuntarily.
He remembered Kakashi's plan to investigate the Land of Grass!
Has Kakashi already discovered something?
……
Meanwhile, Sasuke and Hiruzen Sarutobi in the regular audience seats also got a clear look at the monster.
Sasuke suddenly stood up, exclaiming in shock, "This is actually that monster who can disguise himself as someone else!"
[Ding! Emotional fluctuations from Uchiha Sasuke have been detected! Emotional value +1000!]
Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes flashed with a sharp light: "It's actually this thing?!"
"Third Hokage, do you know this guy?" Naruto couldn't help but swallow hard and asked cautiously.
Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded slowly, a wry smile on his face.
He stared intently at the screen.
Orochimaru!
Have you really fallen this low?!
……
After the rain stopped, it was bright daylight.
The drizzling rain continued tirelessly from the leaden sky, enveloping the entire Rain Village in a damp and chilly atmosphere.
Ripples spread from the puddles, and the water beside the road flowed gurglingly down the drainage ditch.
In the dim, gloomy light, the residents on both sides of the street hurried along, all with their heads down, unwilling to linger in the rain for even a moment longer.
Jiraiya, sporting messy silver hair, walked out from the entrance of an inconspicuous brothel.
"Ah—yawn!" He let out a long yawn and casually pulled up his hood to cover his face.
After a sleepless night of "investigation," this lecherous immortal looked quite tired, with faint dark circles under his eyes, and seemed listless.
Jiraiya unconsciously stretched, his bones cracking all over.
He spent the entire night in this brothel in Amegakure, hoping to gather some information, but the people there were all very tight-lipped, and no matter how he tried to get information out of them, he couldn't get a single useful word out of them.
Aside from financial ruin and emotional emptiness, he gained almost nothing.
"Sigh, all that work for nothing."
Jiraiya shook his head and sighed, stretching his aching back as he stepped into the rain.
Large raindrops slid down the brim of his straw hat, but he seemed oblivious as he muttered to himself, "Oh well, I guess I'll just have to find another place to scout. Hopefully, I'll run into someone more open-minded, otherwise these old bones of mine can't take it..."
Jiraiya made a self-deprecating remark, but in his heart he was already thinking about where to go next.
Just as he was about to turn into another street, suddenly, the ground beneath his feet swelled up slightly!
"Huh?!" Jiraiya stopped abruptly, all signs of fatigue vanishing, replaced by alertness.
He keenly sensed a familiar chakra fluctuation coming from underground.
You can’t go wrong!
This is--
Jiraiya's expression changed slightly, and he quickly glanced around.
After confirming that no one was paying attention nearby, he darted into a quiet alley and held his breath, waiting for something to happen.
"Gurgle—" The mud at the entrance of the alley suddenly surged like boiling water.
The next second, with a "whoosh," a red greyhound emerged from the ground!
The ninja dog shook its head, shaking off most of the mud and water from its body.
It had a Konoha ninja headband tied around its neck!
Jiraiya was overjoyed to see this and quickly stepped forward, lowering his voice to greet him, "Blackie, it's you! Did Kakashi send you to deliver information?"
The red-haired ninja dog barked softly and nodded with lively eyes.
Then it lifted its rear end and wiggled, taking out a sealed scroll from a specially made small sleeve on its back and handing it to Jiraiya.
"Well done!" Jiraiya patted the ninja dog's wet head approvingly, then carefully took the scroll and tucked it into his pocket.
Seeing that its mission was accomplished, Red Dog immediately understood and dived back into the ground, disappearing in a flash.
The alleyway fell silent again, with only the patter of raindrops hitting the ground.
Jiraiya waited cautiously for a few seconds, making sure there were no other unusual occurrences nearby, before hiding in a corner and taking out the scroll.
He focused his attention on his surroundings and gently untied the seals and knots on the scroll.
"Let me see, Kakashi, what good stuff you've brought me." Jiraiya muttered to himself with a smile, then slowly unrolled the scroll and carefully read through its contents.
Jiraiya's gaze swept across the scroll, and his spirits immediately lifted—the information recorded on the scroll contained a series of details about Itachi Uchiha's last return to Konoha, as well as some secrets related to the Akatsuki organization!
"Oh?!" Jiraiya was increasingly surprised as he looked, and his previous weariness vanished.
His pupils suddenly contracted when his gaze swept over a particular line: "Uchiha Itachi is actually a spy for Konoha?!"
Remember a few days ago.
In Konoha, Itachi Uchiha used Amaterasu directly on Naruto, a decisive and ruthless act that Jiraiya still remembers vividly.