The two Root ninjas wore Konoha forehead protectors, mesh tights inside, and loose ninja uniforms outside, with their hands and legs wrapped in bandages.

They walked up to Uchiha You with smiles on their faces, but that smile was uglier than crying. Except for the curved eyes and eyebrows and the upturned corners of the mouth, it could be said that not a single muscle was smiling.

The abnormal smile triggers the uncanny valley effect, creating a strong feeling of weirdness, horror and disgust.

In comparison, the smile of Sai, the Root Ninja more than a decade later, is not bad. At least he still looks like a human being.

One of the ninjas held up a scroll, stared at Uchiha You with his eyes, and said with a smiling expression and a dull tone: "Uchiha You Chunin, you are appointed as the captain of the ninja team, and we are the Genin assigned to you."

After a pause, as if to think about it, the two ninjas bowed together and said in unison: "Please give us your guidance."

Uchiha You: "..."

Miwa Masayo: “…”

What kind of plan is this? Just use a formal order to appoint Uchiha Yu as the captain, and then let the Root ninjas become his team members as junior ninjas.

He actually forced himself on me. How could he be so rough?

The two ninjas behaved in a dull and obscure manner. Anyone who took a glance at them would know that they were not normal people, let alone normal ninjas.

Moreover, they have abundant chakra in their bodies, and strong chakra fluctuations under the bandages on their hands and feet. These make them at least ninjas at the special Jonin level. Do they really think they are blind?

In addition, when a Chunin is appointed as the captain, the relevant orders will be conveyed by the Genin who serve as the team members. This does not feel like an official order at all.

Uchiha You clapped his hands, he understood, Shimura Danzo did it on purpose, he was blatantly placing Akiko next to him, bullying him so that he could not openly disobey his orders.

Even if he knew that there was something wrong with the order, what could he do?

Disobeying orders, this is a real order that has been officially recorded. If a ninja disobeys orders on the front line, he is an undisputed traitor and any Konoha ninja can kill him.

The second order was that the entire battalion should encircle and suppress Uchiha Yu.

Following the order, Uchiha You had to take two assassins who were ready to stab him at any time and leave the camp under the command of the second order, heading for the encirclement set by the Root Ninja.

Once he dies, the records of these two orders will be destroyed, and Uchiha You will be suspected of treason by leaving the ninja camp without reason.

So, death is in vain.

I don't know if it was designed by Danzo Shimura on purpose to disgust people, but this plan is crude and touching, and anyone who is not a fool can see the problem at a glance.

But there is a particularly powerful point about this conspiracy. It relies on the power of the Hokage to act condescendingly and bully others by taking advantage of the situation.

Uchiha You thought about it and found that under the current circumstances, a certain logical closed loop had been formed, which made Uchiha You completely unable to think of a way to break it.

But it is not necessarily to say that there is no solution at all. A conspiracy is a conspiracy after all. Once it comes to light, the outcome will be reversed in an instant.

In the final analysis, this is not an open conspiracy. It is completely different from being able to openly tell the enemy your plan, which is a crystallization of wisdom that the enemy is completely unable to solve.

Thinking of this, Uchiha You smiled happily and said to the two logs: "Haha, this is my first time as captain. You two, please introduce yourselves."

The number that came out of his mouth was forcibly blocked by the technique of eradicating tongue troubles. The two wooden men stood there stupidly for three minutes before they slowly spoke.

"I'm Ryouta."

"I am Zhi."

Uchiha You: "..., shit! It turns out you still look down on me!"

Miwa Masayo asked, "Yuu, why did you say what was in your heart in front of them, meow?"

Uchiha You shook his head and said, "Don't worry, these two pieces of wood are not ninjas of the Root, they are weapons of the Root, there is no need to worry about anything in front of them..."

"Because... they only follow orders and don't have enough intelligence to distinguish what is intelligence."

Uchiha You's eyes showed a hint of sympathy and a little bit of pity. He sighed and said:

"I was wondering why the Root took me so seriously that they sent two special jonin to act as assassins beside me. Turns out they were two weapons that destroyed their intelligence."

Miwa Masayo curiously climbed onto the poop shoveler's shoulder and observed carefully with his big eyes: "Is this the weapon you found out when you interrogated someone last time, meow?"

"Well, let me confirm it." Uchiha You ordered the two pieces of wood: "I order in the name of the team leader, you two stick out your tongues."

When the two Root Ninjas heard the "command", they stuck out their tongues without any hesitation, revealing the seal patterns on their tongues that were intertwined with blue and black, like a tattoo.

Although it was the first time he saw it, Uchiha You guessed the purpose of these seals immediately. He smiled and said, "It should be the tongue disaster eradication technique. I didn't expect it to have been completed. And with this mechanical reaction, it can be confirmed that they are non-intelligent weapons."

Uchiha You opened his Sharingan and carefully memorized the Tongue Eradication Technique. For him who was just starting to learn sealing techniques, this thing was quite valuable as a reference.

The Tongue-Eradication Technique represents the root, the highest level of current research in sealing techniques. The level is quite high, and Uchiha You is completely unable to understand it for the time being.

These two pieces of wood also represent a certain level of training of the Root's subordinates, but the level can definitely be said to be very poor. With the help of the feedback of the command, Uchiha You easily invaded their minds without even opening the Sharingan or using illusions.

The mind is the most important core of any intelligent creature. Not to mention humans, even the minds of ninja cats and dogs cannot be penetrated by Uchiha You.

His original intention of launching the attack was his usual routine, first shocking the opponent's spiritual world, tearing a gap and then releasing the suggestion seeds, and then repeatedly pulling and influencing the opponent's mind through suggestion, just like what he did to a group of Genin at the beginning of the study session.

Who would have thought that the shock of the first step would actually break the opponent's mental barrier, and Uchiha You broke in directly.

The moment he attacked, he was shocked, thinking it was some kind of mental or illusion trap, just like Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyō Eye Technique Tsukuyomi later, which pulled the enemy into his own spiritual world and imprisoned them, and then used the home advantage to bully them.

Just as Uchiha You was preparing to escape in panic, he saw the spiritual world of the Root weapon. It was a fragmented world on the verge of collapse.

Several huge rules manifested as thick iron chains, running through the entire world in all directions, pushing the world towards disintegration bit by bit.

At the edge of the crack in the barrier of the spiritual world, countless spiritual fragments continued to shatter, like fallen autumn leaves floating and scattering into the void of the unknown spiritual world.

The minds of these two weapons are being destroyed, and their lives have entered a countdown. Uchiha You estimates that within three or four months, they will completely lose consciousness and become true living dead or vegetables.

In this shattered and collapsing world, the mind can no longer hide secrets, and all information is exposed. Although the damage is very serious, Uchiha You quickly figured out their origins.

In general, the manufacture of these two non-intelligent weapons requires no technical content.

They brought in children under four years old who had ninja talent, used inhumane amounts of training, large doses of banned drugs that destroyed their foundation, and through massive casualties, they quickly cultivated ninjas to the level of Chunin or above.

These fast-growing ninjas are valued and cherished because their physical foundations are damaged. Not only can they no longer grow in strength, but their peak period lasts only five or six years before they become weakened due to physical illness and premature aging.

So they used violent means to brainwash them, taught them extremely dangerous forbidden techniques, and after another round of screening, they obtained weapons that were good at destroying themselves and the enemy.

These are the most traditional ninja training methods in the ninja world. It is said that in the era when samurai ruled the world, this was the method of training ninjas. The main focus is on a method and technique that is inhumane and not full of spiritual energy. The trained ninjas never thought of using them until they were 20 years old.

Obviously, Orochimaru has not yet participated in the basic technological innovation of the Root, and the Root ninja and humanoid weapons have not yet been integrated. The Root ninjas in Uchiha Yuu's memory, such as the ninja named Sai, who have almost zero emotions but intact intelligence, sharp reactions, and full of growth in strength, have not yet appeared.

After observing carefully and finding that there was no more information worth paying attention to, Uchiha You was about to leave, but his movements suddenly froze.

It wasn't that someone was attacking him, but that someone was calling for help.

The desire to ask for help was very weak, intermittent, and vague, as if a ghost was born in this broken spiritual world, which was creepy.

Uchiha You was stunned. The voice for help turned out to be the weapon that called himself Ryota, calling for help in the spiritual world.

The original owner who appeared afterwards revealed an extremely complicated body. What made his scalp tingle was that this was actually a stitched monster.

The life calling for help contains many different components: a four-year-old child who was brought into the Root, an eight-year-old child who trained to become a special jonin, an eleven-year-old ogre who was born after his personality was destroyed, and the most complete four-year-old child as the core, all combined into an indescribable monster.

The monster had seven or eight faces, but none of them were complete. Each incomplete face had a distorted expression of pain, with tears streaming down its face. A total of eight eyes, big and small, stared at Uchiha You, and five or six of its noses and mouths opened and closed, mumbling.

Uchiha You felt very familiar with Creek's angry look and was speechless.

Danzo Shimura is really amazing. He was able to create the monster of Cthulhu in the ninja world. If this thing could be manifested outside the mind, it would definitely cause huge trouble.

This mental monster was extremely weak, but its anxious breathing and low murmurs could not be ignored. Even Uchiha You felt a little uneasy now.

Uchiha You couldn't help but feel his eyes brighten up, this thing was quite interesting.

Although he has not awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, his eye power has long surpassed the standard of the Three-magatama Sharingan. He is also good at standing still and keeping quiet, and he believes that his mental tenacity is no less than that of a real Mangekyō Sharingan.

The monster's psychic attack power was definitely considerable, as it was able to shake Uchiha You. If it could get rid of its weak state and with his support from behind, and launch an attack as a psychic weapon, the power would surely be satisfying.

There is even a slight possibility that we can break through the enemy's mental barrier directly from the front and defeat the enemy with one blow.

Uchiha You said happily: "I have decided, from now on your name will be 'Xiao Ke'."

"Xiao Ke will definitely become a great Cthulhu in the future, but you must remember not to grow too deformed."

"Because I hate ugly things. If Xiao Ke grows up to be disabled, I will kill you."

The monster fixed in the spiritual world of the root living weapon heard Uchiha You's words. It certainly couldn't hear them, but it instinctively felt some kind of great terror and couldn't help trembling.

Uchiha You suddenly spoke, and the content of his words was even more incoherent, which made Miwa Masayo on his shoulder look confused. With its powerful inspiration instinct, the tabby cat noticed some abnormal traces, and couldn't help but look around but found nothing strange.

She scratched the owner with her claws and asked, "Who are you talking to, meow?"

Uchiha You pointed at the living weapon and said, "In this guy's mind, I found a very interesting mind monster. I just named it Xiao Ke."

"It looks like something scary, meow, my tail hairs are standing up!"

"It's a little scary, but it's still good as a weapon."

"Anyway, stay away from me, meow."

"Okay, okay."

Considering that he couldn't kill the Root weapon right now, Uchiha You suppressed his greed and planted thousands of suggestion seeds for Xiao Ke in the Root weapon's spiritual world.

He fully stimulated the generation of a logical chain, binding Xiao Ke tightly into a cocoon, and extended the chain outward, chaining the entire spiritual world, fixing both Xiao Ke and the world together to prevent a sudden collapse and the loss of this interesting spiritual monster.

After doing all this, Uchiha You checked another weapon, but unfortunately he was unable to find the second psychic monster.

This is also normal. Although life can always create miracles, miracles must be very rare. Behind every miracle of life, there are countless corpses of lives that died after struggling hard and failing.

Uchiha You was already satisfied with getting a small piece of wool. After all, he was wooling the wool from the roots. This feeling of getting a trophy was very good.

After thinking about it, he mentally strengthened another ninja who called himself Zhi. Doing all this meant that the ownership of the two root weapons changed hands.

The living assassin sent by the Root has become Uchiha Yu's most loyal weapon. In the upcoming conflicts, he will definitely give the Root ninja a big surprise.

…

The order that Uchiha You expected was delivered to him a few hours later, requiring him to set off tonight and arrive at a valley in the central part of the Kingdom of Hot Springs at five o'clock tomorrow morning to receive the next mission.

The content of the mission is very ordinary. In order to prevent the confidentiality of missions with higher confidentiality levels from being leaked, the five major ninja villages often split the missions, splitting one mission into two or even more to ensure that they will not be leaked during the initial stages of communication and execution.

Uchiha You did not set out at the time required by the mission. As soon as he received the mission, he left the camp with two living weapons and Miwa Masayo.

He first hurried back to the Fire Kingdom in the southwest direction, then moved northwest along the border between the Fire Kingdom and the Soup Kingdom. After a few hours, he entered the Soup Kingdom again, moved northward until he passed the mission location, and finally turned back to the southeast, quietly approaching the mission location.

Setting off early, taking a detour of a hundred miles, and arriving in the opposite direction, this is the anti-tracking technique commonly used by Konoha ninjas.

The Root Ninja following behind him was also familiar with these routines to the core, and couldn't help but sneer: "Foolish Uchi, you actually used such an old-fashioned technique. If it wasn't for preventing accidents, we wouldn't have to go such a long way."

The Root Ninja who led the team snorted and scolded: "Shut up, what's the big deal about running a few steps? We must ensure that the mission issued by Danzo himself is foolproof."

"yes!"

"Follow closely. We can't let this Uchiha out of our sight, but we can't let him discover our presence too early."

"Got it, Captain!"

When the eastern sky was just beginning to turn pale, Uchiha You had already arrived at the mission site two hours in advance. After sending a weapon to scout the interior of the valley, he led the entire team in.

Immediately, the four Root Ninjas who followed him all the way blocked him. Three Root Ninjas also appeared on both sides and in front of the valley, and rushed towards Uchiha You silently.

The Root ninjas did not question Uchiha You's early arrival, and no Root ninja spoke. Some even took out a Root order, announcing that Uchiha You was an enemy or something.

They simply rushed down, launched the first wave of attacks with shurikens and kunai, and then drew out their sharp ninja swords and engaged in close combat.

The two living weapons behind Uchiha You also drew out their ninja swords, drawing two bright streaks of sword light in the dark valley, but these two streaks of light chopped down the Root Ninjas on both sides.

The cold, silent, even pretendingly cold Root ninjas had their defenses broken by the two sword strikes, and they all cried out in fear and confusion.

"What?"

"What's going on?"

"impossible!"

All Root ninjas know that the value of living weapons is to perish together. They always have at least ten detonating tags attached to their bodies, making them a mobile self-destructing bomb.

However, the self-destructive weapons that originally belonged to their side betrayed them. The Root Ninjas understood how dangerous the situation was. They didn't even care about the target of the mission Uchiha Yu, but left people to monitor Uchiha Yu and went all out to besiege the two weapons.

If we don't destroy these two weapons first, they can blow a huge gap in the encirclement at any time, and it will be difficult to stop the target Uchiha You from escaping.

Moreover, the loss of control of the weapon was most likely caused by Uchiha Yu. If the hidden danger is not eliminated first, the Root's mission is bound to fail.