The morning after the battle ended.
Iwagakure Camp.
Ayane expressionlessly unlocked the seal on the scroll and took out twelve ninja corpses wearing Konoha ANBU uniforms.
According to the price previously agreed with her by Iwagakure Village, the bounty for a root ninja's head is five million taels.
There were a total of twelve corpses here, so Huang Tu readily paid the reward of 60 million taels to Ayane.
These corpses are relatively intact, and Iwagakure's autopsy team must be able to get a lot of secrets about Konoha from them.
Of course, Ayane doesn't care about these. With the urinary nature of the roots, even if it is a corpse, the enemy may not get much.
For Ayane, this 60 million tael bounty is the benefit that she really values.
"Would you mind cooperating again, Miss Hinata Ayane? The reward will not disappoint you."
Huang Tu asked with a strong willingness to hire.
If you can pay money, you can get rid of the threat to Konoha's roots. This is really a good deal for Iwagakure.
"No, I have other things to deal with. That's it for this cooperation. Let's talk about it if there is a chance in the future."
Although the price offered by Iwagakure is very attractive, his information has been obtained by Konoha. It will be difficult to get any benefits from fighting Konoha's ninjas next time.
Moreover, she was also injured in this battle, and her body was a little sore and weak. The guy with thick eyebrows was not easy to defend with his physical skills, and his hand bones were severely damaged. She had to be more honest during this period of time.
It was too tiring to fight the Konoha ninja.
"What a shame."
After hearing Ayane's refusal, Huangtu didn't force it and could only hope to cooperate again in the future.
"By the way, this is a friendly reminder. If you encounter a Konoha ninja wearing green tights in the future, be careful about his taijutsu."
Before leaving, Ayane gave Huang Tu this piece of advice.
"Green tights... Konoha ninja?"
Huangtu touched his chin, guessing who this Konoha ninja was.
Among the many elite jounin of Konoha he knew well, there seemed to be no Konoha ninja wearing green tights.
Who is Ayane talking about?
Konoha's new jounin?
"I'll be more careful."
Ayane's words cannot be taken as groundless. There must be some basis for giving such a hint.
"With that said, we'll meet again when we have time."
After leaving these words, Ayane simply turned around and walked outside the Iwagakure camp.
Watching Ayane leave, Huangtu paused and thought about the reminder that Ayane left just now.
"Loess, do you want to send someone to follow her?"
The explosive escape ninja Kari walked to Huangtu and asked softly.
"No, there are still many opportunities to cooperate with her in the future. It is not rational to provoke a powerful ninja for no reason just for the sake of the eye roll that you are not sure you can get."
Huang Tu shook his head and continued to say in a calm tone:
"Moreover, the most important thing in the underground black market industry is integrity. Only integrity can allow Iwagakure to gain a foothold in the underground black market and make bounty hunters flock to it. If we break this agreement first, we will lose the entire underground black market. Credit."
After all, cultivating excellent ninjas consumes too many resources.
Instead of doing this, it is better to use readily available cheap funds to find bounty hunters who are good at war activities in the underground black market. Using those war experts for cheap remuneration... is a very necessary thing for Iwagakure now.
After all, they in Yanyin Village didn't care about paying tens of millions of taels and could just take it out casually. It was indeed considered a 'low' reward.
However, if you want to cultivate an outstanding elite ninja from childhood to adulthood, the various resources spent, converted into cash, can be more than tens of millions of taels.
"It's a pity that we can't contact Uchiha Ruri. Even if he posted recruitment information on the underground black market, the other party didn't leave any reply. It seems that he doesn't care about cooperating with us."
Just as Ayane said, Uchiha Ruri will not react in any way to their Iwagakure's actions.
Whether he is not interested or simply does not want the tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of taels in remuneration, Huang Tu has no idea.
However, Huang Tu believes that the former is more likely. It is impossible for anyone to be indifferent to such a huge bounty, especially the defecting ninjas who no longer have a fixed living environment.
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"How is Danzo's injury?"
The hearty battle with Iwagakure was to buy Danzo's roots a chance to prevent Iwagakure's ninjas and Hyuga Ayane from joining together.
The entire process was within their calculations, but the result was beyond Jiraiya's expectations.
So many root elites were dispatched, and in order to support Danzo, he even sent his disciple Minato, just to deal with the dangerous and extremely troublesome defecting ninja Hinata Ayane.
As a result, their operation ended in complete failure.
This seemed very unbelievable to Jiraiya.
The Genbu people who were brought there lost more than half of their men, and only half of them came back with injuries and a lot of injuries.
The leader of the root group, Danzo himself, was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and he has not yet regained consciousness.
Basins of water were continuously delivered to Danzo's tent. When they were brought out, the basins of water were stained red with blood.
"Elder Danzo is currently out of danger, but it is still uncertain when he will wake up. According to the treatment staff, even if he can wake up, his strength as a ninja on the battlefield will be greatly reduced in the future."
Minato stood outside and answered Jiraiya's question.
At the entrance of the tent, there were two root jounin standing like door gods.
They were all wounded, obviously casualties from previous battles. They stood here, except for hospital personnel, no one was allowed to enter and disturb their boss Danzo's rest.
"Is it so serious? What happened? How did your operation fail?"
In Jiraiya's initial judgment, this planned battle of annihilation was not guaranteed, and the success rate would be over 80%.
Regarding Jiraiya's question, Minato smiled bitterly and answered:
"Well, it can only be said that we underestimated the opponent's strength and misjudged the opponent's physical skill coverage. Generally speaking, even if we know the intelligence, we may not be able to target the enemy 100%."
Genbe did obtain some information about Hyuga Ayane before the battle, and based on the total battle duration of the decoy team, he inferred the upper limit of Ayane's strength.
This kind of inference has tried to overestimate the opponent's strength, but the result is still a misjudgment.
And it's almost ridiculously wrong.
Thinking of the overwhelming Soft Fist impact that left no one to dodge, it can only be said that it refreshed Minato's inherent concept of Soft Fist towards the Hyuga clan.
The Hyuga clan's three views on the soft fist need to be reshaped.
If Matt Dai hadn't taken the secret medicine and at the critical moment, the power of the seven fully opened doors replaced Danzo and offset part of his strength, I'm afraid Danzo would have died on the spot.
Even if he doesn't die, he will die if he is sent back because rescue efforts are ineffective.
As for Minato himself, due to the time difference, he waited for Danzo's attack to hit before using the Flying Thunder God Technique to carry out the second combo.
However, before he could use the Flying Thunder God Technique to transfer over, Danzo's tragic end made him give up the idea in an instant, and instead quickly evacuated the battlefield with the seriously injured Danzo to prevent the root leader from dying of serious injuries.
In order to allow the rest of the people to evacuate safely, the two teams of root ninjas, a total of eight people, decisively stayed behind and sacrificed themselves to cut off the rear.
When Jiraiya learned what happened, his expression was extremely solemn.
I'm afraid that even if I get over it, I may not be able to benefit if I don't pay attention for a while.
Ninja information is very important.
Although he didn't like Danzo, he had to admit that this battle was of great significance to Konoha.
The more information you have about your enemy, the fewer people will die later.
As long as you understand these, you can use tactics to target even the strongest enemy.
Even for a tough white-eyed ninja like Ayane, after obtaining so much important information, the next battle will be much easier and he will not be helpless.
However, Jiraiya didn't think Ayane still had the guts to have another grand contest with Konoha.
As long as she is smart, she should know what the outcome will be if she fights again after leaking so much information.
In this way, the other party's actions should be much more restrained.
Or, evacuate from the battlefield of the Country of Grass more cautiously.
No matter which one it is, Konoha can take a few breaths easily.
There is just one more serious problem. Roots suffered heavy losses this time and may not be able to play any role on the battlefield in a short time.
Twelve members were lost in one fell swoop, all of them were Konoha's elite ninjas. The loss was not small.
I hope Danzo can act more responsible. Although Jiraiya thought so, he also knew that it was unrealistic.
"Minato, I'll leave this to you. You should take a rest for the next few days."
"Yes, Mr. Jiraiya, please do as you please."
After Jiraiya left, Minato also walked in another direction, thinking about the problem.
Obviously, it will be difficult for him to intervene in this battle. His Flying Thunder God Technique will be restrained by Byakugan to some extent.
No matter where he appears, he will be discovered as long as he is still within ten kilometers.
In the moment after the transfer, he needs to charge up the attack. Although the time is short, it is a gap that must exist, just like Ayane will be momentarily stiff after using Kaiten.
The gap between the transfer of the Flying Thunder God's Technique and the attack falling on the enemy after the transfer is one's own 'stiff time'.
To make up for this stiff time, Minato honestly didn't have any good ideas. He could only further shorten the time required to attack through constant practice.
and……
Lack of offensive power is the key. Minato's blue eyes showed a hint of solemnity.
He opened his palms and subconsciously condensed a blue chakra ball that could be held in his palms.
This is the A-level Muji Ninjutsu developed by myself - the Rasengan.
It is a special ninjutsu that changes the form of chakra to the extreme.
Although the power is enough to kill most ninjas, as the enemies in the battle become stronger and stronger, and their abilities become more and more special, he gradually discovered that this A-level Muji Ninjutsu - Rasengan, has more attack capabilities. There are also limits.
Immediately, Minato thought of something.
"Speaking of which, the lightning escape property-changing ninjutsu that Kakashi showed in the mission before is exactly the opposite of my Rasengan."
One is the change in chakra properties.
One is the change of chakra form.
Minato's eyes lit up, what would happen if the properties of the Rasengan were changed?
Kakashi still needs help in this matter.
Let's exchange my Rasengan with information on the changing nature of his Thunder Release Ninjutsu. Minato thought to himself.
Although he has not experienced Thunder Escape, he majored in Wind Escape, but Thunder Escape is just a type of change in nature, and there must be something in common.
Moreover, as the leader of the team, it seems a bit unreasonable not to teach some special skills to the disciples.
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"I asked you to catch those mice. Why are you going to the Country of Grass to join in the excitement?"
After Ayane came back, Shiraishi asked this question as soon as he saw her.
To be honest, Ayane's private action cannot be said to have directly disrupted his plan, but it also shocked him.
Fortunately, it was best that no accident occurred. Things on the Ghost Country's side were not exposed, and Ayane returned safely and unscathed.
"I see."
Ayane stared at Shiraishi for three seconds, then suddenly sighed and said this.
Know?
what do you know?
Shiraishi sat on the chair with a blank look on his face, not knowing what Ayane meant by this sentence.
Soon, he understood.
Ayane, who was standing in front, suddenly untied the belt around her kimono's waist, and the material on her shoulders fell off, revealing her white collarbone.
Without the restraints of clothes, the place seemed to be even more turbulent and full of suffocating oppression.
"Wait, why did you take off your clothes suddenly?"
"Don't you want to punish me? Come on then."
Ayane sat like a duck, with her back facing Shiraishi. Her back was completely white, with a pitiful expression, as if she was a weak little white rabbit being bullied by a bully.
"I can't resist you anyway. So, whether it's a whip or a rope, I'm ready for this."
As she spoke, whips and ropes actually appeared next to her.
"Why are the props prepared in advance?"
It is indeed very tempting to engage in an intimate interactive game with a female ninja wearing white knee-high socks.
But this is an office full of seriousness and seriousness. As the Minister of Military Affairs of the Kingdom of Ghosts and a new official in charge of a country's military affairs, he would not make trouble unreasonably and do such shameless behavior in such a place.
"Ahem, let's put on our clothes first."
"Won't you come?"
"Only a devil wants it."
"This is a rare opportunity to punish me in a natural way."
Shiraishi refused to be punished. Ayane stood up slightly dissatisfied and slowly put on her clothes.
"I'm talking about business."
Shiraishi sighed.
It's hard enough to deal with Liuli at night these days.
During the day, I have to run between the office and the laboratory, and I often don't get enough sleep.
Therefore, women in the honeymoon period are really scary.
If this continues, I feel like my waist can no longer support it.
It seems that a drug to strengthen the waist needs to be developed.
"Since there is no trouble this time, I will let you go for now. However, don't act privately like this next time. I will be the one wiping your ass behind."
"Don't the rest of the parts need to be treated?"
"..."
Shiraishi's brows were filled with the word 'tic', as if he couldn't bear it anymore.
Seeing Shiraishi's teeth-tingling hatred and helpless expression that he had no choice but to do anything, Ayane smiled and said, "Okay, just a joke to liven up the atmosphere. I brought you a gift."
As she spoke, Ayane took out a scroll and made a gesture of unraveling the seal with one hand.
In Bai Shi's surprised eyes, the scroll unfolded automatically, and along with the white smoke appeared an arm covered with blood scabs.
"This is……"
"Danzo's broken arm. I originally wanted to get rid of him, but Namikaze Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique was too fast, and his reaction nerves were simply a monster."
If he hadn't had the Byakugan and used senjutsu chakra to strengthen his physical abilities, I'm afraid that battle wouldn't have been so easy.
Even so, in a fully liberated posture, the speed of nerve reaction is only as fast as his.
Ayane knew that Minato was the kind of 'superman' who was born with quick reactions.
In the ninja profession, as long as such a genius does not perish halfway, it is only a matter of time before he becomes the center of the conversation.
"That's why I asked Shadow Dancer to go to your place. That guy's neurological reaction ability, coupled with the convenient time and space ninjutsu like the Flying Thunder God Jutsu, is really difficult to deal with. The guy from Miaomu Mountain really left me with a huge challenge. trouble."
At this point, Bai Shi snorted coldly.
On the night of the defection incident, he understood how difficult it would be for Minato to continue to grow if he continued to grow with Minato's superhuman neurological reflexes and his elusive flying thunder god technique.
"And that Matt Dai is even stronger than you said before. Although he has the blessing of the secret medicine, Konoha probably also spent a lot of money on cultivating him."
"After all, that was information from a few months ago, so of course there will be discrepancies. The top management of Konoha are not fools. When they find such special talents, of course they spend a lot of money to cultivate them. But it's not a big problem. The Ninja World War is for the five major countries. Things, we don’t need to get involved in.”
Although there are many outstanding ninjas in Konoha, there are also many outstanding talents in other ninja villages.
Even if Konoha wants to win, it will definitely be severely weakened.
In the next seven or eight years, Shiraishi is not worried that Konoha will come specifically to cause trouble for him.
And when that time comes, maybe he won't be afraid of Konoha's power.
Both Ruri and Ayane have top-notch combat power comparable to that of the Five Kages. Combining the combat power of themselves and many clones, it is no problem to deal with one of the Five Kages.
Seven or eight years later, after the outstanding talents of the Uchiha, Hinata, and Uzumaki clans have grown up, there will be more and more top combat powers.
Therefore, Shiraishi is not very worried about Konoha's post-war settlement.
What he was worried about was something else -
The problem between Uchiha Madara and White Zetsu.
However, because of the intimidating power of this name, Shiraishi did not intend to face off against Uchiha Madara again without complete preparations.
As long as Bai Zetsu is cut off, Uchiha Madara's intelligence system collapses, and he is unable to obtain information from the outside world, the safest way is to slowly wear him to death.
Of course, the specific implementation method must be adjusted according to Madara's response method, and it is not constant.
"So, have those White Zetsu been dealt with?"
Shiraishi asked Ayane about her work progress these days.
"Although a lot has been dealt with, there is also a lot of feeling that has slipped through the cracks, and they are hiding it deeper and deeper."
Ayane's answer was not what Shiraishi expected.
"It's something that was expected. Although your unauthorized appearance this time has somewhat disrupted the deployment here, if used properly, it can also be used as a place to take advantage. And..."
Shiraishi said.
"And what?"
"Uchiha Madara's purpose, if the prediction is correct, should be the tailed beasts. But now the tailed beasts are in the hands of Konoha and other big country ninja villages. The only one that is not in the hands of the big country ninja villages is the country of Takigakure. The Nanao of the village. I have sent people into the Takigakure Village to act as informants. If any problems arise, they will report here."
"What about Uchiha Obito's problem?"
"The old man is old and has difficulty moving. He needs a spokesperson who fits his ideals. It can only be said that fools are easy to control. So, the next step is to deal with the White Zetsu around Uchiha Obito. I want to see a Let’s see how Uchiha Madara will respond if White Zetsu who is the ideal puppet is dealt with.”
"Do you want me to catch these rats again?"
"No, there is no need to rush for the time being. The plan must be taken slowly, and the route must be determined, as well as the risk of accidents along the way, and the risk of accidents must be well controlled. When dealing with such an experienced guy, you will fall into a trap if you are not careful. Same thing. Uchiha Madara will not make the same mistake twice. Now no matter how we search, we can only find White Zetsu, but not where he is."
And as long as Madara himself cannot be found, there is no point in destroying more White Zetsu.
Therefore, destroying Bai Zetsu is not the goal. How to find the location of Madara's body through the line of Bai Zetsu is the key.
Before that, you must be fully prepared for battle, and improving your own strength is also an important part of the plan.
"It's just the right time for you to come back. I urgently need your help now."
"Assist with what?"
"Draw the map."
Shiraishi said with a serious expression.
"Draw a map?"
"Yes. This is of great use to me. I want to understand the topography and structure of every area in the Kingdom of Ghosts."
"Are you going to set up a large laboratory?"
Ayane asked.
"No, it is a more important place than a manufacturing laboratory. I plan to build a state within a state, just like Loulan. But the state within a state I established is a bit special. This state within a state, from the top to the officials, To the civilians, they are all 'new humans' who have mastered natural energy. For the time being, I call this plan the 'Taoyuan' plan."
Shiraishi is not sure what the consequences will be if the natural energy system suddenly flows into the world.
Therefore, he wants to establish a special 'Taoyuan', which can also be said to be an important experimental area for all humans to use natural energy and how to stably form a social system.
The chakra system has caused some abnormal developments in the ninja world.
The importance of civilians has been seriously ignored, or in other words, the power mastered by ninjas has created a serious 'rich-poor' inequality with ordinary people.
The natural energy system can shorten the 'rich and poor' gap between everyone.
Shiraishi doesn't know what consequences this will bring, nor can he predict it, let alone whether the birth of such a world system will usher in new vitality or usher in destruction.
Therefore, this experimental plan, temporarily defined as "Taoyuan", is meaningful.
It is also a crucial step in reforming the world.
Choosing a good area, investing the people, how to ensure the concealment of this 'Taoyuan', as well as guardians, etc., there are many more complex issues that have not yet been thought of, and they must be solved in advance.
Just the warm-up phase before a plan is launched can take several years to prepare.
