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Chapter 148: Root Stained with Blood, Danzo!
The Root base was located in the western corner of Konoha.
Surrounded by mountain forests, it was extremely hidden.
Konan walked out of the woods with a cold expression and arrived at the clearing outside the base entrance.
Similar to infiltrating Kirigakure, she had disguised herself as a book, tucked into a convoy of supplies being transported into Konoha.
She passed through the main gate normally and entered Konoha.
With Alex's assistance, she didn't trigger Konoha's barrier detection.
As for the location of the Root base entrance, it was provided by Ryuzetsu.
She had led the Sky Ninja to stake out and observe from high altitude for many days, taking in everything about Konoha.
Even for extremely secretive organizations like Root and Anbu, through careful observation of personnel entry and exit, the location was finally determined.
Konoha would never have imagined that someone would be monitoring every move in the village 24 hours a day with telescopes from a thousand meters in the sky.
All their anti-peeping measures and various concealment methods were rendered ineffective.
Western corner of Konoha.
As soon as Konan appeared, dense clusters of kunai were immediately fired from all directions.
Aiming straight for her life.
The Root ninja had long had their emotions erased by Danzo, becoming cold machines that only knew how to execute orders and kill.
Anyone who came to the Root base entrance... whether it was a villager who wandered in by mistake or a Konoha ninja who came intentionally...
As long as there was no prior instruction from Lord Danzo, they were all to be killed without mercy. The location of the base entrance was absolutely not allowed to be leaked!
As for conversation? Inquiry?
None of that was possible.
The moment they acted, it was with killing intent, bound to kill the intruder.
Konan's body turned into paper, allowing the kunai to pass through her without causing any harm.
Seeing that their attacks were ineffective and even strangely passed through, the Root ninja guarding the base entrance showed no fluctuation on their numb faces.
They continued to attack.
They formed hand seals one after another, using ninjutsu for saturation bombardment.
But it was futile.
Sheets of white paper suddenly shot out like thin, sharp blades.
Spinning rapidly, they accurately circled each Root ninja's neck once.
Their hands, which were forming seals rapidly, suddenly froze.
The remaining half of the seals could never be completed.
A line of blood appeared on their necks, expanding rapidly.
Large amounts of blood spurted out like blood fountains.
Then their heads shifted, detached from their necks, and rolled on the ground several times with a thud-thud-thud sound.
Leaving trails of blood all over the ground.
In an instant, the clearing at the Root entrance was soaked in blood, a crimson scene. The pungent smell of blood was so thick it wouldn't disperse, sticky and nauseating.
Konan's expression remained unchanged.
Like a ghost, she floated over the bloody ground and entered the base entrance directly.
On the ground behind her lay more than twenty decapitated corpses, a bloody hell.
"Enemy attack!! Quickly alert Lord Danzo!!"
Deep inside the entrance, a steady stream of Root ninja emerged.
Seeing Konan floating in, they attacked without a word.
Every Root ninja had at least Chunin-level strength.
Only after extremely rigorous training and testing could they possibly become qualified fangs and claws for Danzo.
Unafraid of death, unscrupulous in their fighting methods.
In a one-on-one fight at the same level, they would almost certainly defeat other Konoha ninja.
At this moment, in the dark entrance corridor, they suddenly spread out.
Cooperating tacitly, they fired a large number of kunai, explosive tags, and various five-element ninjutsu.
Unfortunately...
No matter how many ants there were, they were still just ants.
With such a disparity in strength, no matter the number, they were just cannon fodder.
Their fate of death was sealed the moment they saw Konan.
With a wave of her hand, countless sheets of white paper curled into white needles, emitting a chilling cold as they shot out.
Inside the corridor, a wall of needles swept through, instantly reaching the end.
Along the way, kunai, explosive tags, and various ninjutsu all collapsed upon contact, annihilated into nothingness.
As for the surging Root ninja...
All their movements stiffened as they stood rooted to the spot.
Dense pinpoints appeared on the surface of their bodies.
They were pierced through entirely by uncountable white needles.
Like faces covered in pockmarks, their features twisted in extreme agony.
Even though they had undergone targeted pain tolerance training and had extremely high endurance... under the penetration of the white needles, they still couldn't bear this intense pain that went deep into their bones and even their souls.
The pain at this moment was no different from the torture of death by a thousand cuts (lingchi).
More critically, they were not yet completely dead!
Every second before death, they would constantly endure this agonizing pain until they finally died from it.
Konan scanned the Root ninja whose feet were frozen, her face cold and her eyes icy to the extreme.
This was her revenge on the entire Root, on all Root ninja!
Over a decade ago, it was they who captured her and forced Yahiko to commit suicide.
Condemning Nagato and her to live in endless pain and despair.
Such hatred had been brewing for over a decade.
Now, finally waiting for this moment, she would uproot the entire Root.
Let all Root ninja die in pain—pain so intense that even they, known as numb, cold machines, would recall what fear was, what the emotion of terror was.
Pain so intense they would regret coming into this world!
Even though most of the Root ninja led by Danzo back then had been killed by the Chakra Dragon summoned by Nagato's outburst... and the current batch was not the same batch...
So what?
As long as they were "Root ninja," they were her sworn enemies!
She wouldn't spare a single one!
Konan floated past the Root ninja who were dying in agony, continuing towards the interior of the base.
"Enemy!! Attack!!"
"Quick!! Ahhh—!"
Batch after batch of Root ninja surged over along the way, using various means and traps to stop her, to kill her.
But it was futile.
Under absolute power, all resistance and attacks were in vain.
All were swept away by the needle wall.
Their feet were firmly frozen, their bodies riddled with holes, blood flowing continuously from the needle punctures.
Becoming standing blood men one by one.
Blood flowed down, forming pools of blood beneath their feet.
Pools of blood connected and converged, dyeing the corridor completely red, turning it into an extremely sticky, terrifying road of blood.
Even the air seemed stained red with blood.
All the Root ninja's attacks were futile, merely throwing away their lives. In the end, they would all become blood men standing on the ground.
Countless bloody vapors filled the air. Where Konan flew past, only a bloody hell was left behind.
Underground Hall.
"Torune—"
Danzo's command was interrupted by screams.
He turned around, looking at the opening in the hall that led to the base entrance corridor, his face terribly gloomy.
The screams coming from inside were rapid, then stopped abruptly the next second.
"Lord Danzo! Enemy attack!!" Fu Yamanaka and Torune Aburame immediately blocked in front of Danzo.
They looked at the opening with guarded expressions.
"Who!!!" Danzo roared in rage. "Who is it!! Who dares to break into my Root base so unscrupulously! No matter who it is, I will absolutely make you regret coming into this world!!"
Danzo slammed the Hokage hat onto his head, his face grim. "Konoha is my Konoha! I am the Hokage of Konoha, and the village is protected by me!!"
The enemy was definitely not a ninja from Konoha who opposed him.
Those pedantic fools would only engage in political struggles; they wouldn't do something stupid like attacking Root, killing Root ninja, and greatly damaging Konoha's vitality.
The intruder could only be a ninja from another village!
Danzo took a step back, quickly tore off the bandages on his right arm, and undid the metal seal on it.
Revealing a pale, terrifying arm embedded with ten Sharingan.
The metal cylinder hit the ground with a thud-thud sound.
Just then, a voice, biting cold and chilling to the bone, came from the hall opening:
"Danzo Shimura!!"
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