Just as Jiraiya said, the mission sheet was delivered to Tatsu and Sakumo a few days later, which meant that they were about to leave this war zone.
This kind of mobilization is actually quite common. Each high-end combat force can exert different strengths in different environments.
For example, for a water-bending ninja, the combat capabilities in the Kingdom of Wind, which is full of yellow sand, and the Kingdom of Water, where water is everywhere, must be completely different.
It may not have much impact on Tatsu and Sakumo, but judging from the battles during this period, there is no other more suitable candidate in Konoha except the two of them.
Along with the mission, there were Orochimaru's other orders, which were to bring the dead ninjas and the prisoners captured by Konoha back to the village.
Standing in the tent, Chen looked at the death list in his hand. After a cursory glance, he found that there were many familiar people.
After a moment of silence, he put away the list and said, "I will count the bodies and check this list later."
"Yes." Orochimaru nodded, then seemed to remember something, and said in a hoarse voice: "Call Minato. Jiraiya told me yesterday that he wanted him to go with you to count."
"Minato?" Chen said softly, and in an instant he understood Jiraiya's intention.
"I understand, let's go first." Chen nodded towards his teacher, and then walked out of the tent with Mikoto.
"Mikoto, go and pack the things we need to pack. We will leave back to Konoha tomorrow." Chen said to the girl who had been following him.
"Yeah." After a gentle response, the two of them separated.
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The Ninja's Remains Storage Station is located in the northwest corner of the station.
Different from the depressing and dull environment as imagined, there is a bit of hustle and bustle in this neighborhood. The reason is simple, because it is close to the hospital where Konoha is stationed.
This is also done for convenience. Ninjas who are declared dead in the hospital can be immediately transferred to the death area next to them, and then registered and sealed.
The extremely developed sealing scroll technology has made ninja items extremely portable, ranging from ordinary luggage to some ninja tools. The high-end production technology can even store chakra.
Although Chen prefers to call this a blue bottle.
The corpse is no exception. In order to prevent it from rotting, the resident ninja will immediately seal the corpse in a seal scroll, then take it back to Konoha and bury it in the memorial monument.
So the question is, if the ninja world also has the tradition of cremation, the troubles in the future will be reduced by at least half.
When they arrived at the station where the corpses were stored, Minato had been waiting for a long time. Wearing a white coat, he was squatting in the corner looking at the scroll of the Flying Thunder God, looking silly and cute.
"Minato, you are dressed like this..." Chen couldn't help laughing, "Are you changing your career to become a medical ninja?"
Minato raised his head, with a warm smile on his handsome face: "No, Kana is too busy here, so I'm here to help, carry a stretcher or something."
"Your boyfriend is really competent at what he does..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? We are just ordinary friends." Minato waved his hand, motioning for him to keep his voice down.
"They are indeed ordinary friends, just an unusual relationship among ordinary friends." Chen shrugged, "Then let's go in."
"Yeah." Minato also immediately stopped smiling and stood up.
The person responsible for keeping the corpse seal scroll was a jounin from Konoha.
Because he was a little older and was no longer suitable for high-intensity battles, Orochimaru did not send the opponent to the battlefield, but left him in the camp to be responsible for keeping and recording the bodies of the fallen ninjas.
"It's Jonin Uchiha Tatsu and Namikaze Minato. Lord Orochimaru has already said hello in advance."
The kind-hearted Jonin smiled and brought the two of them into the white tent.
"Here is the list of ninjas who have died. Please check it with the list in your hand. If you have any questions, just ask me directly."
"Yeah." Chen nodded, and then handed half of the list to Minato. He originally came here for such a thing.
There are actually quite a lot of people on the list. Except for the relatively small number of jounin, the number of genin and chuunin is the largest. This is actually something that is easy to understand.
Chuunin and genin do not have as strong survivability and strength as jounin. Even on the edge of the battlefield, the death rate is still high.
The two of them compared the lists carefully while listening to the jounin beside them talking in their ears.
Maybe it's because there are so few people here, but this older jounin has been holding it in for a long time. Seeing Tatsu and Minato sitting here comparing lists, he gave him a lot of information about the ninjas who died in this war. their things.
"This one in your hand was killed at the beginning of the war. At that time, Sunagakure was the first to try to destroy Konoha's supply line. This guy led two teams there, but was ambushed by Sunagakure halfway. , was seriously injured in the end, and had to protect his ninjas, but in the end he was tortured to death by the Suna ninja.
These grandsons are not good at fighting, but they are really ruthless when it comes to poison. If Tsunade-sama is here... "
"And this." Even without looking at the names on the scroll, this jounin can accurately tell the things about the ninjas on the scroll. This is definitely not because the other party's memory is good, but because the things about these heroes are really recorded. own heart.
The jounin continued to talk a lot until the sunset, but could not finish telling the stories of the ninjas lying quietly in the scrolls.
But it is conceivable that as time goes by, these stories will only be slowly forgotten by people, and then turn into cold names on the comfort cup.
"It would be great if Lord Orochimaru could also send me to the battlefield..."
When Chen and Minato left, the other party was still staying in the small tent, but some sad words still reached their ears.
"Let's go have something to eat together and treat it as farewell."
As night approached, Minato suggested as he looked at the brightly lit station.
"Okay, let's go." Chen nodded, and then channeled a little snake to tell Mikoto that he had other things to do and asked her not to wait for him to have dinner.
"Master Tatsu, and Master Minato, welcome."
If you want to make war fortune, you need more than just courage. The owner of the small restaurant is obviously good at recognizing people. Not to mention Tatsu, who is at the peak of his fame, even Minato, who has just risen, can accurately name people.
"Want a drink?"
As a strict and disciplined ninja, Minato was surprised to be able to talk about drinking.
Tatsu and Minato have known each other for so long, and he only saw each other drinking once. That was several years ago, when Tatsu left Konoha to work as a guardian nin.
"Then drink less." Chen nodded and sat down with Minato at the small table in the corner.
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