Chapter 29 Encounter with Sand Ninja
"A B-rank mission doesn't seem to be that interesting! Those Kusagakure ninjas just retreated when they saw us. They are too cowardly."

Hinata Hizashi and three others took on an escort mission. However, although they encountered ninjas from the Kusagakure Village during the escort, the other party wisely retreated and left.

Because of this, Asuma no longer had the excitement he had when he first received the mission. Instead, he seemed a little bored. He followed the carriage and spoke to Hong.

"What do you think? A so-called B-level mission is a mission that may involve fighting with ninjas. But in fact, ninjas are not fools. Generally speaking, if they see that the opponent is too strong, they will definitely give up the mission directly!"

Uchiha Feiyu, who was standing next to Asuma, rolled his eyes and spoke.

"That's right. Generally speaking, even when ninjas are carrying out opposing missions, they rarely develop into a life-and-death fight. Instead, they will first measure the combat effectiveness of both sides before deciding whether to carry out the mission."

"Starting from the B-level missions, ninjas will often face hostile situations. If every B-level mission requires a life-and-death struggle, then even if the ninjas of the five major ninja villages were multiplied several times, they would all be consumed in the missions."

Hinata Hizashi spoke calmly, in fact, this is the normal state for most ninjas when performing missions.

If it were any other ninja team, the ninjas from Kusagakure might have given it a try. However, after seeing Hyuga Hizashi's Byakugan, facing the Hyuga family, a famous ninja family in Konoha, a small ninja village like Kusagakure didn't even have the mind to test it and simply gave up the mission.

The Hyuga clan's Byakugan is far inferior to the Uchiha clan's Sharingan in terms of pure combat power, but it completely crushes the Uchiha clan in terms of the opening rate. Basically all Hyuga clan ninjas can open their Byakugan directly.

Although their upper limit is not as high as that of the Uchiha clan, the lower limit of the Hyuga clan's ninjas is also the highest among all ninja clans - the adult ninjas of the Hyuga clan are at least the elite among the Chunin, which is an achievement that all ninja clans in the entire ninja world cannot achieve.

Hinata Hizashi had encountered similar situations where the opponent fled at the first sign of danger countless times while on missions, so naturally he was not as surprised as his students.

After completing the escort mission safely, they returned to the Konoha Village much faster. Without the burden of ordinary people, the journey that originally took nearly three days was only two hours of running for the ninja.

In the following days, the group began to carry out B-level tasks again.

Most of the B-level missions were escort missions within the Fire Country. The war had just begun, and the interior of the Fire Country was still relatively safe. In addition, Hinata Hizashi's pair of white eyes were glaring in the front, so the other party chose to give in to most of the B-level missions.

But as more missions are carried out, unexpected events will eventually occur - or in other words, although most B-level missions will not eventually develop into battles, there are still about 20% of B-level missions that end with a battle between the two sides.

Apparently, Class One had finally encountered an opponent they needed to fight in a big battle.

"This is already the sixth B-rank mission. Will it be like last time, where all the opponents we encounter politely give in?"

Asuma had a straw in his mouth, with a look of youth and energy that he had nowhere to vent, as if he couldn't wait for an enemy jonin to jump out of the bushes for a fight.

"Be careful, Asuma, this time is different."

Hong looked around vigilantly and said:
"This time, we are carrying out a battlefield mission. Although the possibility of encountering an opponent is much smaller than in the previous missions, once we encounter an opponent, the opponent will never give in!"

Yes, the three-man team was now carrying out a battlefield mission, escorting some scrolls to the battlefield hospital in front. The battlefield hospital was still a little far from the front line, but it was no longer a safe place. In addition, ninjas were best at infiltration warfare and guerrilla warfare, so it was normal to encounter ninjas who infiltrated the rear anytime and anywhere.

Of course, the First Team is not the only team sent to the battlefield hospital. In fact, Konoha will distribute medical supplies to seven or eight teams to carry out tasks at the same time, and allow a loss rate of about two teams. This is the margin calculated at the beginning.

The advantage of doing this is that as long as the luck is not so bad that it will anger God and people, the front line can at least receive five or six teams of medical supplies, and the logistics supply will not be interrupted.

In other words, the probability of these teams encountering the enemy is about 1/5 or 1/6, depending on who has bad luck.

"Stop! There's something going on ahead! There's a small group of ninjas lying in ambush ahead."

Every once in a while, he would glance at Hinata Hizashi around him, then suddenly stop, wave his hand, and stop the three subordinates behind him.

"Have you spotted the enemy? Which ninja village is he from?"

Asuma and Hong, who were just chatting, slowed down their pace, showing excitement and nervousness on their faces, and pulled out fist blades and kunai from their ninja tool bags.

However, the one who reacted the fastest was not the two of them, but Uchiha Feiyu, who had been standing next to the two of them. He put down the scroll on his back, lightning flashed on his body, and he rushed out in an instant.

"That should be the Sand Ninja..., wait a minute... that's fast, this guy's speed has improved again!"

Uchiha Feiyu was too fast, and Hinata Hizashi was unable to stop him, and could only let out an exclamation.

The soul of Hatake Sakumo has already possessed Uchiha Feiyu, and after half a year of training, Uchiha Feiyu's foundation has greatly increased. Now Hatake Sakumo can already exert 70% to 80% of his strength in his prime, and he is definitely a quasi-kage-level strongman.

The so-called quasi-kage level or even kage level are not standard terms. The standard of a Kage-level powerhouse is the Kage of the five major ninja villages or a ninja who has the strength to compete for the Kage position. The quasi-kage level is a ninja who can fight against a Kage-level powerhouse for a period of time.

Theoretically, most of the ninjas who have made a name for themselves in the ninja world can be called quasi-kage-level ninjas. With this kind of strength, they can easily crush ordinary jonins, even if it's not as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.

Unless the Sand Ninja facing him is the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, or the puppeteer Chiyo comes here in person, Uchiha Feiyu does not think he needs to be afraid of anything.

It is obvious that the Fourth Kazekage and the Chiyo elder would not condescend to come and carry out such a small task. The ninja on the opposite side is at most an elite jonin with a few chuunins. How could they be their opponents?

The Sand Ninja Squad hidden in the front did not discover the Konoha ninjas at first. They were just ambushing on several roads where Konoha was most likely to travel.

However, when Uchiha Feiyu rushed towards them with lightning flashing on his body, these people reacted immediately.

(End of this chapter)