"The sixteenth person in the third row!"
Yagami's voice rang out from above.
The crowd froze for a brief moment before everyone instinctively began checking their own positions.
The four shinobi standing near the sixteenth person in the third row reacted at once. Without hesitation, they rushed in and slammed their seemingly innocent companion straight to the ground.
"The fourth and twelfth in the sixth row!"
Yagami's voice fell again from the sky.
Each time he pointed someone out, the surrounding Konoha shinobi moved immediately, swarming in and restraining the disguised White Zetsu on the spot.
The White Zetsu clones who had not been exposed yet instantly began to panic.
If they stayed still, Yagami would pick them out one by one.
But if they moved carelessly, the Konoha shinobi around them would not just stand there and watch.
For a moment, they were trapped in a dilemma.
"Eleventh row, seventh person!"
"Run!"
The moment Yagami exposed another one, the remaining White Zetsu could no longer hold themselves back.
With a sharp shout, nearly ten figures moved at the same time, gambling everything on a sudden escape.
Unfortunately, the result was exactly what they had feared.
The instant they made a move, the surrounding Konoha shinobi reacted.
In only a few breaths, every last White Zetsu was forced down and captured.
Even the ones who tried to burrow underground were dragged back out by the quick-witted Konoha shinobi before they could fully escape.
Yagami's method of scattering the formation was not complicated, but the effect was undeniable.
Not a single White Zetsu clone escaped.
"Bring them all to the front!"
After glancing around and confirming there were no fish that slipped through the net, Yagami gave the order.
Soon, more than a dozen White Zetsu were dragged before the army, their arms and legs firmly restrained.
"Lord Yagami, what exactly are these things?"
After Yagami descended from the air, several Konoha Jōnin commanders immediately stepped forward and asked with tense expressions.
At that moment, they were all gathered around the White Zetsu corpse Yagami had strangled earlier.
Looking at its pale body, more than a few shinobi felt a chill crawl up their backs.
White Zetsu looked human at first glance.
But the structure of its body was clearly different from an ordinary person.
And to shinobi, an unknown creature was often more unsettling than a known enemy.
"I don't know."
Yagami shook his head, hiding the truth from them.
He had no intention of explaining White Zetsu's origin.
Nor did he plan to reveal that he had the ability to invade another person's memories.
That kind of ability was taboo, whether used on enemies or allies.
No one would willingly stand beside someone who could peer into their memories at will.
After all, everyone had something they wanted to keep hidden.
Hearing that even Yagami did not know, the Jōnin commanders showed a trace of disappointment.
At that moment, the remaining White Zetsu were brought forward.
"You people… what are you?"
"Why were you hiding among Konoha's forces?"
Since they did not know where these strange beings had come from, the Jōnin commanders immediately began pressing them for answers.
"Ahahaha…"
"Well, now that we've been exposed, I suppose there's no helping it."
"But I am curious. How did you find us?"
"Our Transformation Technique should have been perfect. We can even imitate chakra."
The White Zetsu ignored the Konoha Jōnin questioning them and instead looked at Yagami with curiosity.
At the same time, under everyone's watchful eyes, their bodies gradually lost their disguise and turned pale white.
They became exactly like the White Zetsu corpse lying on the ground.
"So they have no intention of talking…"
"In that case, we should take them back to the village and hand them over to the Torture and Interrogation Force."
Seeing that the White Zetsu had no intention of answering and were instead trying to draw information from Yagami, Nara Shikaku stepped forward and gave his suggestion.
Every field had its specialists.
For enemies who refused to speak honestly, leaving them to the interrogation specialists was the most effective choice.
"Ahaha."
"You Konoha shinobi really are cold."
"We helped you kill plenty of enemies on the battlefield against Sunagakure, you know?"
"And now you turn around, arrest us, and want to torture a confession out of us."
"That's right. Konoha shinobi are truly heartless."
The White Zetsu kneeling on the ground began speaking one after another, pretending to be pitiful as they complained.
However, there was no fear on their faces.
Because they were not the main White Zetsu body.
They were merely clones sent out to gather intelligence.
Even if they died here, they were not particularly worried.
The only regret was that once they died, they would no longer be able to send back the information they had gathered about Yagami over the past few days.
"You call us heartless? Don't make me laugh."
"You infiltrated Konoha's army. The comrades whose places you took were probably already killed by you!"
"Enough talking. Tie them up properly and let the Interrogation Force deal with them!"
The Konoha Jōnin were immediately enraged by White Zetsu's words.
These creatures had hidden among their ranks, wearing the faces of their comrades, and yet they still had the nerve to speak so casually.
"No, no, no."
"We never touched those people."
"They died in battle, so we simply borrowed their identities afterward."
Seeing the anger on the Konoha shinobi's faces, the White Zetsu smiled without the slightest guilt.
The moment their words fell, their heads suddenly began swelling at the same time.
"Get back!"
"Everyone, move!"
Seeing the strange change, the Konoha Jōnin shouted at once.
The Chūnin restraining the White Zetsu immediately released them in shock and quickly retreated.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
Like watermelons bursting apart, the heads of more than a dozen White Zetsu exploded almost simultaneously.
However, the force of the explosion was not strong, and the range was limited. It was clearly meant only for suicide, not to kill the shinobi around them.
Yagami stood nearby and made no move to stop it.
These were only clones. Killing them would not increase his prestige value anyway.
Since the White Zetsu had chosen to destroy themselves, it saved him the trouble of doing it personally.
As for losing the chance to send them back to the village for interrogation, Yagami did not care.
He had already used the power of the Mind Stone to read all the memories inside these clones.
"To think they would kill themselves just to keep their intelligence from being taken…"
"Lord Yagami, what should we do now?"
Looking at the dozens of headless bodies collapsing weakly to the ground, the surrounding Konoha Jōnin gathered around him once more.
"Seal their bodies."
Yagami looked at the corpses for a moment before giving his order.
"After the war is over, bring them back to the village."
Although the White Zetsu were dead, their bodies still contained an astonishing amount of vitality.
Perhaps they could still prove useful later.
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