"What!?"
Hearing this, Watergate suddenly got up, and his blue eyes were cold.
"Explain the specific situation," Kuroto asked.
The Chunin immediately replied, "The night before yesterday, after finishing the reconstruction work together, we drank some wine together, and then we separated."
"Yesterday morning, they didn't come to work, I thought it was because they drank a little too much, so I waited until noon and went to their house to look for them."
"But the neighbors said that no one came home the night before yesterday, I told this matter to the Jonin in charge, and until now, some of our companions are still looking for them everywhere in the village, but there is no news yet."
The Chunin's face was extremely anxious, the missing Wood Leaf Shinobi were all his close friends.
"Is there more than one missing person?"
Watergate's face sank again, when the village was attacked, not only the houses were damaged, but the most important thing was that the barrier covering the entire Wood Leaf Village was also damaged.
The barrier was originally repaired by Watergate, but after he became Naruto, he didn't have the time.
Therefore, the last repair was completed by Shinna Kushina, and now her attainments in Fuinjutsu are not much worse than Watergate.
The first stage of the reconstruction work of the village has just been completed, so he hasn't let Shinna Kushina participate in the repair work of the barrier.
Because the control hub of the barrier class has been destroyed, and it hasn't been completely rebuilt yet.
It's just that Watergate has found the loophole of the barrier through his perception, and sent Anbu ninjas to take turns to be on duty, so it's almost impossible for anyone to use this loophole to sneak into the village.
"Well, there are a total of three people, one Chunin and two Genin." The Chunin replied.
Minato nodded, then glanced sideways and whispered softly, "Tell your captain to come to the office and look for me."
"Yes!"
At this time, it seems that someone responded, it was an Anbu ninja.
Not long after, Uchiha Yan came to Naruto's office.
"Watergate, what's the emergency?"
Uchiha Yan also frowned, because ever since the disbandment of Root, many members of Root have joined the Anbu.
These personnel could not directly participate in the work of the Dark Department, although it was originally a training institution that had flocked to train the Dark Department.
However, these Root members were selected by Danzo himself, and their thoughts have been solidified.
Therefore, these days, in addition to dealing with the affairs of the Anbu, Uchiha Yan also has to carry out some special training and observation of these personnel.
Watergate wouldn't disturb him if it wasn't something serious.
"Another ninja is missing," Minato said with a serious look.
Uchiha Yan's eyes trembled.
Because after the masked man attacked Wood Leaf, after the investigation, several ninjas in the village also disappeared.
After all, that confrontation affected the entire Wood Leaf, so maybe some ninjas were buried in the ruins, or some other accident, it's also possible, so Watergate didn't care.
But now, it seemed that things weren't as simple as he thought.
"Did the Anbu ninjas guarding the loopholes in the barrier find any suspicious traces?" Watergate asked.
"No, everything is as usual," Uchiha Yan replied.
Watergate frowned, if the situation is true, then there are two possibilities for the strange disappearance of ninjas in the village.
One is that the masked man with a special space-time Dojutsu sneaked back into Wood Leaf.
With his ability, even Watergate can't catch his trace at any time.
It's just that if that guy really wants to investigate the current situation of Wood Leaf, there is no value in asking Chunin or Genin.
Also, since that guy can find out such top-secret information as Shinna Kushina's delivery, why would he need to use such low-level methods?
If it's not him, then there is only one possibility left.
That is, these missing ninjas may still be somewhere in the village.
For some unknown reason, they were captured by someone in the village.
Of course, these are just Watergate's guesses.
"Huh …"
Watergate took a deep breath, the disappearance of ninjas is not a trivial matter, and he immediately looked at Uchiha Yan in front of him.
"Dispatch the Anbu ninjas to participate in the search for the missing ninjas."
In this regard, the Anbu ninjas are even more effective than some Jonins.
"You tell him the details of the missing ninjas, and don't stop the search, even if it delays the reconstruction progress, it doesn't matter."
Watergate said in a deep voice.
"Yes, Naruto -sama!"
The two in front of him both responded with a heavy voice.
After the two left Naruto's office, Watergate's dignified expression remained unchanged.
Because he faintly felt that this matter may be more complicated than he imagined.
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Somewhere in Wood Leaf, there is an underground laboratory.
The dim light illuminated the various instruments in the laboratory, looking extremely gloomy.
In this gloomy room, there was also a faint smell of blood and rotten odor drifting in the air.
It's … the smell of rotting corpses.
But for this, the figure in front of the experimental table in the deepest part of the laboratory didn't care.
He stared at the scene in front of him intently.
There was a fiery madness in that pair of strange brown snake eyes.
This person is Orochimaru.
At this time, he was actually dissecting a corpse.
On the ground beside him, there was a bloody Wood Leaf forehead protector that was thrown on the ground by him.
"Whoosh!"
Just as he was concentrating on the decomposition process, the space behind him began to distort and ripple like a vortex.
A figure in a wide black robe suddenly appeared.
After all, Orochimaru is one of the Sannin, and he immediately sensed something, and through the gap of the long black hair, he saw the masked man.
His snake eyes shrank slightly, and then he said, "You should be the one who attacked Wood Leaf with Sasori and Kakuzu some time ago, right?"
Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, with Orochimaru's position in Wood Leaf, how can he not know the specific information of that day?
"You were lucky to escape from Watergate that day, and now you dare to come to Wood Leaf?" Orochimaru said with a calm face, he looked at the man in front of him with vigilance.
Orochimaru didn't know the purpose of this person.
For his vigilance, the masked man shrugged and said, "Speaking of which, shouldn't you thank me?"
"If it weren't for me and my companions attacking Wood Leaf that night, I'm afraid you wouldn't have the opportunity to take back Wood Leaf Ninja as experimental subjects to carry out your experiments, right?"
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