Bamboo rafts flying backwards......

Footprints on the ground obscured by broken leaves......

The bloody marks on the dead leaves......

Suddenly open up the grassland......

A huge primeval forest as far as the eye can see......

On top of the giant tree, the oncoming kunai and the black clothes that didn't have time to react at all......

The scenery under the high-speed movement passed through the mind of Chiba, who was full of surprise, and finally froze on the black corners of the clothes and the infinitely expanding kunai in his eyes, and then, slowly, faded away.

The memory that seemed to be like a marquee stopped.

"Whew-"

Then, Chiba, who had unconsciously held her breath, remained stunned after this memory stopped, and exhaled.

This is......

Then, his eyes widened little by little, and the surprised expression on his face also changed little by little with the change of his eyes.

Someone's trail!

The footprints that were covered by the broken leaves, and the bloodstains that were also covered up on the side of the footprints......

Could it be such a coincidence?

At the same time, the thought came to his mind, and his mind recalled the scene he had seen when he leaned over and brushed away the suspicious leaves.

My shadow clone, the shadow clone who returned the same way, these traces I am looking for, could it be the enemy who kidnapped Hirohiko and Yukina?

Footprints and bloodstains......

In Lynn's narrative, the enemy also left blood stains and footprints.

However, based on the memories that came back after the shadow clone was disarmed, my shadow clone should have taken the exact opposite path to that enemy.

How could it be......

Then, after the situation emerged, another layer of doubt appeared in Chiba's heart.

However, those traces are obviously new, and I have looked all the way before, and in that bamboo forest, it is obvious that there are no footprints, and the direction of the footprints is not completely the way I came, but in the middle of the turn, to go in another direction.

Judging from these footprints and bloodstains, I and the owner of the footprints ......

Is it a mistake?

Or did he wait until I entered the primeval forest adjacent to the bamboo forest before he left the route I had come?

Carefully recalling those sudden memories, Chiba continued to filter and analyze, as for these sudden memories, it was obvious that after he found out that things happened in advance, the shadow clone that was divided into two other ways and the shadow clone in the water body was suddenly attacked, and then lifted, and the memory of the shadow clone was transmitted back.

Then, after a first-person perspective and a "memory experience" that combined the visual and tactile sensory memories of the shadow clone's memory, Chiba was sure that those footprints and blood had just been left behind.

That is to say, now, at this very moment, the man who threw Kunai to kill his shadow clone was in that unusually tall primeval forest.

And the corner of the black clothes, although it is only a glimpse, can be connected with the enemy in Lin's words after all.

In Rin's account, the enemy was covered in a black cloak, and he also left footprints and blood stains when he kidnapped Hirohiko and Yukina.

Therefore, Chiba almost subconsciously linked the owner of these footprints and bloodstains with that enemy.

And because the incident of Rin's abduction happened earlier, this enemy took Hirohiko and Yukina before he came, and then went in the direction of the river, and Kakashi and they pursued them, triggering the incident of Rin's abduction, and in this case, it can be determined that this enemy was the river that left before he left, and went in the direction of the other side of the river.

Otherwise, Kakashi and the others would not have been able to track him down to the river and run into those two Iwakushi.

And if this enemy had changed direction after this, that is, after the battle between Kakashi and the two Iwakure, and turned back from the other side of the bamboo forest, it would have made sense to have staggered past him.

It's just that this kind of thing is too much of a coincidence.

However, coincidences are coincidences, and this kind of thing is not logically impossible to happen, so there is nothing wrong or whimsical about Chiba thinking so.

After all, it is a coincidence that there was another man who, when he reached the river, walked the way he came, and left the same footprints and blood as the enemy.

So...... In that case, if the logic is correct......

However, after coming to such a coincidental inference in his heart, Chiba did not get too entangled this time, but put his put down two fingers up again.

"Bang!"

In an instant, the ninjutsu was activated, and a cloud of white mist suddenly exploded beside him, quickly dispersing, revealing an identical Chiba.

The art of shadow clones!

"So, do you go over there, or do I go over there, do I go back, or do you go back. ”

After revealing his body, Chiba, who was exactly the same, maintained the same crouching action as the main body Chiba, turned his head slightly to look at his own body, and spoke.

And it sounded, in the tone, there was a bit of reluctance.

"What do you think?"

However, he did not get an affirmative answer from the ontology Chiba, but a rhetorical question.

"You've got a plan in your mind, and you're asking me what I'm doing. ”

And the rhetorical question of the ontology Chiba soon caused the ridicule of the shadow clone Chiba, the shadow clone Chiba didn't want to say a sentence, when he was separated, he inherited all the memories of the ontology, at this moment, what the ontology was thinking, he naturally knew.

"So now that you know I've got a plan, why are you asking me for?"

Then, the sarcasm of the shadow clone quickly caused the ontology Chiba to ridicule each other, and by the way, he waved his hand in disgust by the ontology Chiba and signaled him to go quickly.

"Cut!

And hearing the body's rhetorical ridicule, seeing the body's impatient waving movements, and the even more impatient expression that was already slightly unhappy, the shadow clone Chiba was very dissatisfied with the "cut", and complained extremely unpleasantly, and then his body flashed, and he threw himself directly into the bamboo forest, flying towards the position of the river.

Why do my shadow clones talk so much?

Seeing the shadow clone disappear into the bamboo forest, Chiba couldn't help but scold a few words, then took a slight breath, didn't talk nonsense, and went directly to the road he was going to.

Obviously, this is the direction in which the shadow clone went to the enemy's escape, and his main body went to the direction where he came, which is the direction in which the shadow clone remembered to find footprints and bloodstains.

Whether this footprint and blood stain are the enemies who kidnapped Hirohiko and Yukina in that Rin's narrative, or another person, such an arrangement can be regarded as Chiba's usual method.

In this way, you can take care of both sides and won't miss either.

After all, these are two completely opposite directions, and without giving up a single clue, Chiba doesn't have time to search back and forth.

This can also be regarded as an application of Chiba's doppelganger tactics.