Infiltration

Leaving izakaya Orochimaru walked slowly as if taking a night walk while enjoying the environment.

Walking slowly in a quiet atmosphere while experiencing cold refreshing air always feels soothing and calm his nerves.

Suddenly Orochimaru started forming hand signs when passing through a dark alley.

(Ram) <Transformation jutsu>

(Ram) <Clone techinque>

Orochimaru performed clone and transformation jutsu quickly as his arms were hidden in kimono sleeves and the clone continued to walk while the real Orochimaru transformed and looked just like his target.

He left in a different direction than his clone and finally reached a house. Walking calmly he extended his hand towards the doorknob.

Suddenly purple chakra extended between his thumb and index finger to the keyhole.

After entering, the chakra solidified in the shape of a key perfectly fitting in the keyhole.

*Click*

Orochimaru turned the key with his thumb and finger and the chakra dematerialized.

Orochimaru entered the home as if it was his own and closed the door calmly.

.....

In a dark corner, the anbu following Orochimaru till now was dumbfounded.

He was confused that how can a person infiltrate someone's house like this. If he was not following Orochimaru till now he would never suspect that Orochimaru was not the owner of this house.

.....

Orochimaru of course knew about the anbu following through hypersensitivity.

As for how he knew it was anbu, he had already noticed the essence of anbu ninjas following them from the village.

From true sight, he can see the essence of a person within his talent range i.e. of a person with less level or 60% more than his true level.

According to what he understood till now, the essence of every person has a different feel.

It is like his essence has a purple color with a feeling of cold, and poisonous feeling.

He was able to find his target by remembering his essence and tracking the traces left by it.

Entering the home he walked into the living room and found that the target was alone and fully asleep.

Forming some hand sign Orochimaru cast a genjutsu on target to let him tell more about the valley. Orochimaru can say that his ninjutsu was very effective due to training how to control receptors.

Although he can also use kotadama illusion arts directly, Orochimaru has kept it a secret for a long time and he will not necessarily use it even if he thinks things were safe. After all, he thinks it's safe doesn't necessarily mean it's safe.

"Name"

"Retsu kurage"

Orochimaru started asking his questions after seeing that the target was in genjutsu.

After some time Orochimaru calmly stepped out of the house and roamed around the village.

From Retsu's mouth, he came to know that he was subordinate of the missing-nin of Hacho village and his boss was a high chunnin level ninja.

They usually take bounties and missions from the black market.

This time they were able to find a territory containing danger beasts.

Danger beasts are large in number but it does not mean that they can be found anywhere.

Most of the danger beast with wisdom live in groups or are very strong.

While wisdomless danger beast does not stay in one place for a large time. Wisdomless danger beast doesn't know how to practice and increase chakra like summon beasts or danger beast with wisdom.

They can only increase strength by consuming the flesh of humans and other beasts.

Danger beast can find the place with the most chakra. It was because of this that summon beast can find places with large chakra density and make it their territory.

Most of the time danger beasts are found in areas near hidden villages as they have a large number of ninjas or chakra density areas.

Wisdomless beast would not live in places like the land of waves which is neither place with dense chakra and nor has shinobis.

A danger could appear in such a place with a low ninja population and chakra density in only 2 cases.

Firstly there is a treasure emanating huge chakra in this area.

Second, they are subdued by a strong wisdom danger beast who has territory here.

And from clues here, he can guess that anbu already know about the wisdomless danger beast forming territory, otherwise they won't take such exam in the land of waves.

Arriving in the dark alley Orochimaru again transformed into his previous identity while the clone dematerialized itself in a secluded place.

Orochimaru arrived in a shop and said "Boss do you have a map of this village"

The boss replied "Of course"

"Give me the most detailed one," Orochimaru said to the boss.

After buying the map Orochimaru left the shop and entered his room at the inn.

After arriving he opened the map and found the valley which was the territory of danger beasts according to retsu.

He notes down the route and area of the valley.

According to what retsu told the people of the village seldom go there as it is believed to be sacred ground by villagers and they only go to pray there once a year.

But of course, there are always some people who do not listen. Retsu's group found a villager entering the valley and he was killed by them to keep the matter of danger beast secret.

After all, if the villagers found out about the danger beast they will immediately report it in Konoha and issue a mission to kill it.

This will be a big loss for Retsu's team as they can earn a fortune selling danger beast carcass.