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"Sure enough, he is on Earth, but I don't know where he is hiding. If he hadn't come out on his own initiative, I really wouldn't have been able to find him."
"Also, thanks to Baizhi, I was able to capture quite a few White Zetsu. Unfortunately, I was unable to follow the clues and find Obito."
"I see." Hinata understood.
"We have made all the necessary preparations. The rest..." Naruto wiped his hands with a tissue and said faintly, "It all depends on what Obito is going to do."
Save Sakura.
Kill Obito and capture the Ten-Tails.
The former is more important than the latter and should be executed first.
In the blink of an eye, the deadline that Obito had agreed upon arrived.
Naruto stood in front of the giant reincarnation, staring at the projection window.
Suddenly, one of the projection windows that was specifically monitoring Ino changed, and he looked closely.
I saw a little boy of about five or six years old walking up to Ino and giving her a small box that looked like a gift box for rings.
Ino wondered, "This is for me? Why?"
"It's not me. An uncle gave it to me just now and asked me to give it to you." The little boy shook the candy apple in his left hand and explained in a childish voice.
"Uncle?" Ino's eyes suddenly changed.
At the same time, there was a flash of golden light, and Naruto appeared out of thin air.
perspective.
Perception ability.
Beast-mimicking ninjutsu enhances the sense of smell.
Use all abilities that can help find people.
The little boy was frightened by Naruto's sudden appearance and subconsciously wanted to run, but was stopped by Ino.
"Little brother, don't be afraid. Tell me what the uncle looked like and what he said to you." Ino smiled and said, "Answer well. I'll treat you to some candy."
"No, nothing, just..." The beautiful elder sister's words were still very effective. The little boy blushed slightly and said shyly: "She just asked me to deliver something."
"Really? Just delivering gifts, then what does he look like?" Ino nodded, her voice as gentle as possible.
After listening to the little boy's description, Ino was sure that it was Obito. She took out ten taels of silver from her pocket, enough to buy a bag of candy, handed it to the little boy, and sent him away.
He turned to look at Naruto: "How is it?"
Naruto frowned and shook his head.
Seeing this, Ino said nothing, her eyes falling on the small box in her hand.
"If he didn't release the soul as he requested, what do you think he would send at this time?"
Naruto remained silent.
Ino pretended to open the box, but she failed several times when she had her hand on the box.
It's not that the box has a lock or a mechanism, Ino simply doesn't dare to look. She can guess what's inside by just guessing.
The situation remained deadlocked for about two minutes. Ino took a deep breath, closed her eyes, gritted her teeth and opened the box.
Then, he slowly opened his eyes and looked over there, and bit by bit, he could see clearly a finger placed in the box.
There is a photo folded under this finger.
“…” Ino.
He picked up his fingers with a wooden face and unfolded the photo.
The photo is of Sakura, and her face and left hand are included, proving that the finger belongs to Sakura, and not just someone else.
"Haha, haha, that guy really wants to die." Ino laughed angrily, his chakra emanating from his body uncontrollably.
"I will tear you into pieces, you damn bastard!"
"There's more below." Naruto reminded.
Only then did Ino notice that there was a folded piece of letter paper under the photo. She suppressed her anger, took out the paper and unfolded it.
"Three days isn't enough for you to consider? Then add one more day. From now on, every day that passes, I will take one thing from her."
"It could be fingers, hair, toes, legs, kidneys, eyes, ears, nose, etc."
"No negotiations, no meetings, no contact. Your only choice, the only thing you can do, is to release Madara's soul."
As Ino read the script, her face turned pale and she was filled with worry.
"What should we do? He refuses to talk to us at all. It's clear that he will continue to torture Sakura unless we release the soul. This..."
Naruto took the paper and the photo, looked at them over and over again, and was at a loss for a moment.
The two of them just sat on a bench by the roadside, one looking up at the sky in a daze, the other holding his head and frowning in thought.
"Sakura, you must be scared now." Ino murmured.
"Her life is not guaranteed, and her fingers were cut off. After that, there will be even more cruel tortures waiting for her. How despicable!"
"Naruto, what will happen if you release the soul of the person he wants?"
"Sakura is useless as a hostage. She will die." Naruto said in a deep voice.
"Sakura's value as a hostage is even greater. Not only will she not be rescued, but she will further blackmail us into doing things for him."
"Is there really no hope at all?" Ino said without giving up.
"That guy is not a good man. Maybe he used to be a kind and gentle person, but..." Naruto said.
"Now, he has completely turned evil and doesn't care about the loss of other people's lives. He puts everything into the Infinite Tsukuyomi."
"He had long since abandoned reality and only wanted to start a new life in the world of illusion."
"It's wishful thinking to expect him to let Sakura go as agreed."
Ino felt dizzy and leaned back, slumped and motionless.
If negotiations are possible, Naruto knows that Obito cares most about the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and he can be sure that Obito will release Sakura first.
Infinite Tsukuyomi and the Moon Eye are Obito's belief and his only salvation. He cannot afford to gamble, and he cannot gamble.
"I anticipated such a bad situation, but I didn't expect it to come true." Naruto closed his eyes and thought deeply.
"Calm down. Being anxious and angry won't solve the problem."
"Think about it, how can we save Sakura, how can we kill Obito."
The problem ahead is that Sakura and Obito cannot be found.
Sakura does carry her own Flying Thunder God mark, but you have to know that Flying Thunder God cannot be used across boundaries.
In different dimensions, the Flying Thunder God Mark has no effect.
"Is there any way to act as a marker, across the different space, to lock on to Sakura or Obito's location?"
Chapter 241 An unexpected rescue method
Divine space.
"After one day, will I be able to see the results I want?" Obito said to himself.
"That will also affect whether you stay or go."
"It seems that your position in his heart is nothing but this. He is unwilling to exchange your life for a soul that is useless to him, haha."
Sakura's hands and feet were tied up, and she fell into a coffin made of earth escape technique. She was tied up again with wood escape technique thorns, and she couldn't move.
His eyes and mouth were sealed with tape, so he couldn't see or speak.
Because of the implanted Naruto cells, she possesses extraordinary recovery abilities, and the wound on her left ring finger that was cut off by Obito has healed on its own.
However, the bones were not able to regenerate, and the missing fingers could not be restored.
"What I didn't expect was that after devouring his cells, the Ten-Tails would undergo such a change." Obito smiled and said, "It can be called a pleasant surprise."
The Ten-Tails held by Kaguya Ōtsutsuki ate half of Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, completing the transformation from the Ten-Tails to the Divine Tree.
The Ten-Tails held by Obito devoured a large number of Naruto cells that Sakura and Ino had worked hard to cultivate, and it has begun to change into the form of a sacred tree.
Not knowing what the next steps would be, Obito only knew that he had taken the right step by accident and stepped into the threshold of releasing the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Getting closer and closer to the realization of the dream.
In order to understand the subsequent process in detail, he urgently needs to revive Madara and learn the truth from Madara's mouth.
Time passed by minute by minute, and Obito waited patiently.
Soon, the one-day deadline passed.
"Use the Impure World Reincarnation and use it sparingly before new cells are cultivated." Obito said.
Controlled by his eye power, Orochimaru formed hand seals with an expressionless face.
The sacrifice is White Zetsu.
Combined with some indispensable Uchiha Madara cells, he successfully launched the forbidden technique, Impure World Reincarnation.
A lot of dust was floating and flying, enveloping Bai Zetsu.
With a sharp scream, the White Zetsu died on the spot.
Seeing that the dust could not attach to White Zetsu and turned into Madara's appearance, Obito knew that this was a sign of failure. He snorted, walked to the coffin, and shook his right hand slightly.
A kunai fell out from his sleeve.
Use this kunai to cut off Sakura's left middle finger.
The groan of pain was blocked in her throat and could not come out. Sakura struggled in extreme agony.
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Konoha Village.
Home in the mountains.
Ino's bedroom.