Chapter 360 Eagle's Beak Cliff

"Qingming, Tiehuo, this way!"

Command.

In the conference room.

As soon as Qingming entered the door, he heard someone greeting him. Looking in the direction of the voice, he saw Uchiha Shisui sitting at the table.

The opponent's injuries had long since recovered, but the two sides were not in the same team and were responsible for defending different areas.

In addition, Uchiha Shisui takes his tasks seriously and does everything personally, unlike him who often lets his subordinates do things.

Therefore, the two did not have many opportunities to communicate.

As for Uchiha Tetsuka, because he often went on missions, he met him more often and naturally their relationship became familiar.

So, without waiting for him to speak, Uchiha Tiehuo pushed him and walked over there.

Qing Ming did not refuse and walked over.

After sitting down, the three of them began to talk in low voices.

Of course, most of the time, it was Uchiha Tetsuka and Uchiha Shisui who spoke, and Qingming was just responsible for listening and basically did not express any opinions.

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Time passes minute by minute.

Soon, half an hour passed.

After everyone who should have arrived had arrived, Kurosawa Naoki walked in.

Unlike when they were at the forward base, Kurosawa Naruki was not as decisive as Uchiha Kazuo. Before the meeting, he had to exchange pleasantries.

Although Qing Ming felt that this was a waste of everyone's time, no one raised any objections, so he could only listen patiently.

After nearly a quarter of an hour, Kurosawa Naoki stopped talking nonsense, his expression became serious, and he got down to business.

Then he said, "I'm sure everyone has heard that since noon today, various patrol teams have discovered traces of the Mist Ninja."

Suddenly, there was a whisper below.

Kurosawa Chengshu knocked on the table, and after the meeting room was quiet again, he continued: "This is true."

"Also, let me tell you another piece of news. Not only on our northern defense line, but also on the central and southern defense lines, we have also found traces of the Mist Ninja."

"I'm sure everyone knows what this means, right?"

Upon hearing this, a special jonin immediately said, "It seems that the Hidden Mist Village has already digested the forward base and is preparing to launch a second attack."

"Yes, what Jonin Tachikawa said is right. The Hidden Mist Village is doing preliminary reconnaissance." One person echoed.

"That's right. We must strengthen the patrol team's deployment as soon as possible and try our best to prevent their reconnaissance team from getting close." Another person said.

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For a moment, the meeting room was filled with noise, and everyone was expressing their opinions.

After a long while, Kurosawa Shigeki concluded: "I heard everything everyone said."

"In short, for the next period of time, everyone must be careful when carrying out missions and beware of sudden attacks from the Hidden Mist Village."

"Yes, the captain is right. The Hidden Mist Village is particularly good at this. Everyone needs to be careful."

Someone said this below.

Upon hearing this, the others nodded repeatedly.

At this time, Kurosawa Shigeki said again: "In order to prevent the sudden attack of the Hidden Mist Village, the tasks of some teams will be changed. Next, I will tell you about the latest arrangements."

Hearing this, Qingming suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

As expected, Kurosawa Naoki was the first one to mention him.

Then he said, "Qingming Jonin, your team will head to Eagle's Beak Cliff next. There is a stronghold there that needs to be heavily defended. This mission is left to you."

The Eagle's Beak Cliff stronghold, the northernmost stronghold on the northern defense line, is located in a remote area and is a protrusion of the continental shelf.

Because it looks like a huge eagle's beak, it is called Eagle's Beak Cliff by the locals. That place extends directly into the sea. If attacked, it is very easy to be attacked from three sides.

The last time and the time before that, the Hidden Mist Village broke through the northern defense line, and it all started from there.

The danger involved can be imagined.

However, Qingming knew that Kurosawa Naoki arranged him there not because he had a conflict with him but also because he wanted to retaliate against him.

Instead, he wanted to use his personal strength to guard the weak point in the defense line.

That place has been breached twice. If it is breached again this time, I'm afraid Kurosawa Naruki will have to be investigated by the Anbu.

After all, as the saying goes, it happens once or twice, but it won’t happen again for the third time or the fourth time.

If the Hidden Mist Village were to break through at the same place three times in a row, Kurosawa Naruki's ability would be questioned by the higher-ups.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Qingming.

The reason why he did not raise any objections was because he had enough confidence in his own strength. He firmly believed that even if the stronghold was lost, he would not die.

So, I don’t really care.

What's more, Kurosawa Naruki also promised to support him with three teams, totaling more than fifty ninjas, to guard the stronghold with him.

So Qingming agreed.

In this way, including his dozens of subordinates and the existing personnel in the base, the number of ninjas there will exceed 200.

This is unique in the entire northern defense line.

From this, it can be seen that Kurosawa Naoki is really worried that the Hidden Mist Village will break through from there again.

Qing Ming shook his head and didn't think about it anymore. After the meeting, he didn't linger but immediately gathered his men and the three teams assigned to him by Kurosawa Naruki, and rushed to the Eagle's Beak Cliff in the north overnight.

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It's night, the moon and stars are sparse.

Qing Ming and others ran quickly and finally arrived at the target location at midnight.

Looking at the intact stronghold, Qingming secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that some bloody incident would happen.

For example, he had just arrived when the Hidden Mist Village had already occupied this place.

In that case, there will definitely be a fierce fight.

Now it seems that he is overthinking.

That’s right. The Hidden Mist Village just started exploring today, and it’s still unknown how long it will take to launch the attack. How is it possible to take action tonight?
Even though they had successfully broken through here twice before, they did not dare to be so radical.

If Kurosawa Naoki could think of sending more people here, they could naturally think of it too.

Therefore, they did not dare to take risks.

If this is a trap, they will be in big trouble.

However, the geographical location here is too favorable for the attacker.

Therefore, even if there are risks, the Hidden Mist Village will most likely not give up. At most, they will just do more intelligence gathering work.

This is also one of the reasons why Kurosawa Naruki sent Qingming to guard the place.

Humph~
A series of footsteps sounded.

In the front stronghold, a dozen Konoha ninjas, led by a senior ninja, walked out of the stronghold and came close to them.

Obviously, their arrival alarmed the people who were originally stationed here.

Fortunately, Kurosawa Naoki had already delivered the relevant information here first, so these people did not seem too nervous.

The handover between the two parties was very smooth. After verifying their identities, Qingming took control of the highest command here.

Afterwards, as usual, he handed over all the matters in the base to Uchiha Tiehuo, and returned to his residence to continue his unfinished training that day.

Compared to managing other people, he still prefers practicing. This kind of tangible progress makes him unable to stop.

(End of this chapter)