Chapter 317 Backhand
"How is the situation now?"

Qing Ming asked Kanda Yinghe.

Upon hearing this, Kanda Yinghe immediately handed over the monocular telescope in his hand and said, "Those four warships are still moving forward. It seems that they are planning to attack the forward base directly."

This answer did not surprise Qingming. He nodded, took the telescope from Kanda Yinghe, and looked directly in the direction the other party pointed.

The moon was exceptionally bright tonight, and Qingming easily saw the four warships of the Hidden Mist Village.

At this time, they were closer to the reef sentry tower, but did not come over here. Instead, they formed an angle with this side and ran towards the direction of the Wave Country's forward base.

It is indeed as Kanda Ozuru said, the other party is most likely planning to attack the base directly.

In this case, his task would be to wait for the battle to break out and then launch a surprise attack from behind.

In this way, he can delay it for a while longer.

At this point in time, every minute of delay increases the chance of his real body returning.

So, naturally, we will delay it as long as possible.

However, just as he was thinking this, he suddenly saw several dark shadows jumping off the boat.

"This is."

Qingming suddenly took out the single-channel telescope and activated the Sharingan.

Although the Sharingan's ability to see far is average, he can still see some things with the help of his powerful insight.

"It's the Mist Ninja indeed!"

Qing Ming's heart moved, and he thought to himself: "Is it coming this way?"

That's right, those Mist Ninjas who jumped off the boat were walking on the sea and running straight towards them.

Behind them, on the other three ships, there were also Mist Ninjas jumping off the ship.

Finally, a team of nearly fifty people came towards them.

This made Qingming look very unhappy.

When the others saw him like this, they all asked, "Captain, what's wrong?"

"The enemy has discovered this place"

Qing Ming replied concisely.

"what?"

When the others heard this, some were anxious, some were calm, and they all looked over there.

With the help of the bright moonlight, they could roughly see that there were some dark shadows running towards them.

Qing Ming picked up the telescope again and carefully observed the movements of the ships. Seeing that they were still heading towards the Kingdom of Waves, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The fact that the ships did not turn around meant that although the enemy had discovered them, they did not take them seriously.

A mere fifty enemies were still within an acceptable range.

With this thought in mind, Qing Ming immediately gave the order: "Everyone, prepare to fight!"

"Yes, Captain!"

When the others heard this, they immediately responded and said yes.

However, before they left, Qing Ming spoke again: "Pay attention, when the battle starts, delay as much time as possible, and when those ships are far away, attack with all your strength and annihilate this group of enemies."

The reason why Qingming made such arrangements was, firstly, to prevent the Mist Ninja from being unable to defeat the opponent and calling for support, and secondly, to delay time.

The other Konoha ninjas obviously understood his first meaning and said quickly, "Got it, Captain!"

"Ah."

Qingming nodded and asked them to go down and prepare.

As for the inability to provide timely support to the front battlefield, Qingming didn't care much.

They have already held back the enemies that outnumber them, what else can they do?
We can't just leave all the battles to them!

Therefore, Qingming was not worried at all about the subsequent difficulties.

Now, he just hopes that his original body will come back soon.

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Time goes back a few minutes. On the other side.

After several hours of long journey, Qingming finally crossed the strait and arrived at the Kingdom of Waves.

After that, he ran all the way and came to the vicinity of the forward base.

However, before he got close, he realized something was wrong.

It was late at night and the base, which should have been quiet, was bustling with activity.

Judging from their appearance, they seem to be building a defense line.

In just a moment, Qingming realized that the enemy was about to attack.

Because he was not sure about the situation of his shadow clone, he did not show up rashly, but performed the "transformation technique" and changed his identity.

Then, relying on his familiarity with the base and his superb method of concealing his aura, he sneaked into the base and returned to his residence.

Qing Ming opened the secret compartment under the bed and took out a piece of paper. On it was written in Chinese characters the mission of the shadow clone this time, as well as his various plans.

This was a backup plan he had prepared long ago, the purpose of which was to prevent such a situation from occurring.

Now it seems that the preparation was not in vain.

"Tower No. 3. Delaying time?"

Qing Ming murmured, and a ball of fire chakra gathered in his palm, burning the paper in his hand to ashes.

Then, without any hesitation, he sneaked out of the base again, found a deserted place, and jumped into the sea.

After swimming in the sea for a long time, he finally surfaced, walked on the waves, and ran towards the No. 3 sentry tower from another direction.

About twenty minutes later.

Qingming came to the vicinity of the No. 3 sentry tower.

Before he got close, he heard the sound of fighting.

Waves of chakra were heard, indicating that the battle over there was quite intense.

Qing Ming was worried that the shadow clone couldn't hold on, so he immediately sped up.

However, the next moment, a memory suddenly flooded into his mind.

Qing Ming hurriedly stopped and quickly browsed through these memories.

There was no surprise that these memories were transmitted by the shadow clone.

Qing Ming just glanced through the memories of the previous three days, and then began to focus on browsing all of the other party's memories tonight, especially the memories before his death.

After a moment, he opened his eyes and muttered, "It's her!"

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at the same time.

the other side.

Mei Terumi was shocked when she saw Qingming suddenly dissipating into chakra smoke, and thought to herself, "It's actually a shadow clone!"

Then, she looked around vigilantly, as if she was afraid that Qingming's real body would emerge from somewhere.

However, what confused her was that Qingming's real body never appeared.

That’s right, the one who killed Qing Mingying’s clone was Mei Terumi.

Originally, after three days of consumption, the shadow clone had little chakra left.

As a result, he encountered a master like Mei Terumi, and was indeed unable to stop him.

Although Mei Terumi is still a little immature and has average combat experience, she possesses two bloodline limits and a huge amount of chakra.

In this way, under the long-range and large-scale attack, the weakness of the shadow clone's weak ability to withstand damage was suddenly exposed.

Although the shadow clone struggled hard, trying to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, getting closer to the opponent and using swordsmanship to restrict the performance of his ninjutsu, he was never successful.

It was true that Mei Terumi's combat experience was very average, but it was impossible for her to let the other party get close to her when she knew that the other party had the so-called 'ghost sword'.

As a result, the shadow clone was exhausted to death by the opponent.

(End of this chapter)