Chapter 96 Escape

Hey~
The attack was blocked, Qingming swung the sword again, the Sand Ninja in front of him blocked it for the second time, Qingming continued to attack, and the Sand Ninja continued to block.

For a moment, there was a constant sound of metal clashing in the field. Qingming's attack was like a storm, swift and fierce.

The Sand Ninja he attacked was like a lone boat in the ocean, struggling in the storm and in danger of capsizing at any time.

Seeing his teammates in danger, another Sand Village Chunin immediately came to support.

However, even when facing two people, Qing Ming did not panic.

With his exquisite 'Konoha style swordsmanship', he regained the upper hand in just a moment.

When the two opponents gradually became familiar with his offensive rhythm, Qing Ming suddenly changed his tactics.

The hypnotic ability of the Sharingan was fully activated, and the moves also changed from "Konoha Style Swordsmanship" to "Uchiha Style Swordsmanship" which was more in line with it.

Immediately, one person was hit. The dagger in Qingming's hand slashed across, leaving a deep scar on the man's left arm that was so deep that the bone could be seen.

It’s not that Qing Ming didn’t want to aim at the opponent’s vital points, but he was blocked by another person during the attack, so he only injured the opponent’s arm.

Even so, the injury was extremely serious.

Suffering such a severe blow, the Sand Ninja immediately let out a cry of pain, woke up from hypnosis, and then quickly retreated.

But he wanted to retreat, Qingming refused. He forced back the Sand Ninja who was blocking his way with a sword. He rushed forward and instantly came in front of the retreating Sand Ninja.

He swung the dagger in his hand repeatedly, leaving several scars of varying depths on the opponent's body in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, another Sand Ninja quickly stepped forward to help.

Feeling the kunai coming from the Sand Ninja behind him, Qing Ming dodged the attack.

Then, he leaped back a few times, slightly increased the distance, raised his hands at the same time, and without waiting for the two Sand Ninjas to make any move, he completed the hand seals at an extremely fast speed.

Then, he opened his mouth and spit out a large flame. These flames differentiated and condensed, forming hundreds of fireballs, which all smashed towards the two Sand Village Chunins.

It was the Ninjutsu - Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Jutsu.

The two Sand Village Chunins were caught off guard. Although they tried their best to dodge, they were still hit by several fireballs.

The fireball exploded, severely injuring both of them.

Seeing this, Qingming was about to step forward to finish off the enemy.

But at this moment, a scream suddenly came from not far away.

Qingming looked in the direction of the sound, and saw that Teramitsu, who had gone to stop the Sand Village puppeteer, had his body clamped by the giant pincers that stretched out from the mouth of the giant spider puppet. His upper and lower body were separated, and blood and internal organs were all over the ground. He was wailing in pain.

Even though Qingming was used to seeing life and death, he was still shocked by the scene before him.

Fortunately, Teramitsu did not suffer much pain. In just a moment, he completely lost his life.

At the same time, the situation on Kamijo Yoichi's side is not optimistic.

His opponent is the humanoid puppet.

Although the other party abandoned many mechanisms and structures for a higher degree of realism, the puppet's unique characteristics of not fearing death and threats still caused Kamijou Yoichi to suffer a lot.

Qingming secretly calculated the combat strength of both sides. There were two people left on their side, and he still maintained his full combat strength, while Kamijou Yoichi could only fight at about 70% to 80%.

Although there were three people on the Sand Ninja side, two of them had been seriously injured by him, so it was no problem for Kamijou Yoichi to deal with them.

'Perhaps, the plan can begin'

With this thought in mind, Qing Ming performed the "Instant Body Technique" and came in front of Kamijou Yoichi to block the attack from the humanoid puppet for him.

Then, without even turning his head, he said, "Leave this to me, you go deal with those two." Hearing this, Kamijou glanced at the two Sand Village Chunins who were struggling to get up, and rarely spoke, "Captain, be careful."

"Ah."

Qing Ming responded and then rushed towards the humanoid puppet.

But before he could get close, he saw the humanoid puppet suddenly opened its mouth, and then hundreds of steel needles flew out from it.

Although these flying needles shot out by the mechanism lack variations, their speed is unmatched by human power.

Fortunately, Qingming has the Sharingan, which allows him to see the flight trajectory of these steel needles.

Therefore, hiding is not difficult.

Qian Ye refused to believe it and once again controlled the humanoid puppet to shoot out several waves of steel needles, but Qing Ming dodged them all.

Not only that, Qing Ming also took the opportunity to rush in front of it, stabbing out with the dagger in his hand, apparently intending to engage in close combat with this humanoid puppet.

Seeing this scene, Qianye, who was hiding in the dark, laughed out loud: "Close combat with puppets, haha~, it's true..."

However, before he could finish his words, Qingming's sword tip penetrated the protective layer of the humanoid puppet and accurately inserted into the narrow gap at its left shoulder joint.

Kaka~
Accompanied by the sound of gears clanking, the left shoulder of the humanoid puppet suddenly fell to the ground.

At this moment, he couldn't laugh anymore.

On the contrary, a smile appeared on Qingming's face.

While planning to steal the puppet secrets, he was thinking about how to deal with the puppeteer.

Traditionally, to deal with a puppeteer, one needs to avoid direct combat with his puppets as much as possible, then find a way to search for the puppeteer himself, and then complete the decapitation.

But Qingming felt that this method was too passive.

Although puppets are not afraid of death or threats, they are not invincible. They also have weaknesses, such as the connections between various components.

It might be difficult for ordinary people to aim at these places in a fierce battle, but Qingming is different.

Not only does he possess dual Magatama Sharingan, which gives him amazing observation skills, he has also practiced two advanced sword techniques to near perfection, allowing him to perform precise strikes.

In this way, dealing with these ordinary mechanical puppets is not a difficult task.

As long as he insists on dismantling these puppets, the puppeteer behind the scenes will eventually be exposed no matter how hard he tries to hide.

This was his plan - to turn passivity into initiative. As long as he chased the puppets, he would find the puppeteer hiding in the dark sooner or later.

By then, without the puppet, he would be able to control the opponent at will.

If the opponent does not want to end up in such a situation, he only has two choices: one is to kill him before he dismantles the puppet, and the other is to escape immediately.

Qianye chose the former at first, but when Qingming dodged the joint attack of the two puppets and successively removed one hand and one foot of the humanoid puppet and three legs of the spider puppet, he chose the latter very willingly - escape!
But will Qingming let him escape?
The answer is obviously no.

The other party's combat experience was average, and coupled with his various actions before he appeared, Qingming felt that his real age should be young, and he was still a flower in a greenhouse.

Referring to the appearance of the humanoid puppet, which was about fifteen or sixteen years old, Qing Ming had reason to suspect that it was made according to his own image.

In this way, as long as you catch the other party and torture him severely, you will most likely be able to obtain the puppet secret technique.

How could Qingming miss such an opportunity?

Looking at the spider puppet and humanoid puppet that suddenly retreated, Qing Ming followed without any hesitation.

In the blink of an eye, the man and two puppets disappeared from everyone's sight.

(End of this chapter)