Chapter 237 The Way Out (Subscription Request)

Chapter 237 The Way Out (Subscription Request)

Based on the attitude shown by Mei Terumi and others, although Kakashi and others found it incredible, they still brought them into the Konoha camp and placed them in the most central area, where they were monitored by several senior ninjas at all times.

The news about the arrival of the Kirigakure and others at the Konoha camp was also synchronized and passed to Jiraiya and Tsunade who were in the meeting.

There was no delay at all. Jiraiya and the others directly applied to interrupt the meeting and returned to the Konoha camp because there was something inconvenient to disclose in the camp.

When Jiraiya returned to the camp, Mei Terumi and others who had been unwilling to explain their intentions finally let go and explained the situation.

"The Kirigakure... no longer exists."

In the temporary tent, all the Konoha high-level officials who went out this time gathered here, including Uzumaki Naruto, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

The first sentence that Mei Terumi, who claimed to be the fifth generation Mizukage, said made Jiraiya and others frown deeply.

"In fact, our village's fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura, has been controlled by the top leaders of Akatsuki since a few years ago."

"Akatsuki treated the fourth Mizukage as a puppet, issued one incomprehensible order after another, and abruptly changed many policies of Kirigakure, including attacking your Konoha, closing the border, and even secretly inserting Akatsuki members into the village."

"We found out that the Mizukage was controlled about two years ago. When the Hidden Rain Village was destroyed, Akatsuki showed some flaws, which we saw, but... it was too late."

After staring at Uzumaki Naruto for a while, Mei Terumi said with a cold face, "Maybe it's because of the rain. The headquarters of the Hidden Village was destroyed, and the Akatsuki organization used the Hidden Mist Village as a new base. "Although there were not many spies planted in the Hidden Mist Village, they used other methods to control the Fourth Mizukage, no longer being confused by illusions, and further won over many people in the village. "When we wanted to expose this matter in front of most of the Hidden Mist Ninjas, we found that the Fourth Mizukage was no longer confused by illusions. He had his own consciousness and behavior, and even loudly announced that the Akatsuki organization was actually established by him, and wanted to lead the Hidden Mist and the Land of Water to become the most powerful country! "Because of the intervention of the Akatsuki organization, a coup d'état occurred in the Hidden Mist Village, which was divided into the Mizukage faction headed by the Fourth Mizukage and the Elders faction headed by the Yuanshi. After the matter was made clear, the two sides fought, and the Fourth Mizukage, who was supported by the Akatsuki organization, won without surprise. As for the losers, they could only flee around the Land of Water under the pursuit of countless Hidden Mist, and look for opportunities to regain power again. Because this was an internal dispute, they did not make it public, let alone "invite the wolf into the house" and seek help from other forces.

But it was precisely because of this that they missed some things.

"You have seen our number, there are only a few dozen."

Mei Terumi explained expressionlessly, "As the defeated party, even if the master is on our side, there are not many people in the village willing to leave with us."

"And from among them, those who have enough combat power and experience can only gather a few dozen. The rest of those who are unable to follow us out will all lurk in the Hidden Mist Village, waiting to cooperate with us from inside and outside."

She paused here, "It is also because of our desire to regain power that we have ignored the outside world."

"The internal situation of the Land of Water is In order to prevent other countries from taking advantage of the war and sending troops to invade, they concealed the situation from other countries and blocked all ports that were open to the outside world. "

"Ordinary people did not come out, and we were determined to restore our country and had no intention of coming out either. In this way... all the news was limited to the Land of Water. We did not know the true level of the Akatsuki organization, let alone that they were secretly collecting tailed beasts!"

"If it were not for the companions who stayed in the village to pass the news to us at the risk of their lives, we would not even know about the Five Kage Talks to discuss the attack on the Akatsuki organization!"

Soon, she explained the situation to the Konoha ninjas present.

But...

Jiraiya asked in confusion, "But why did you come to Konoha first? Logically, shouldn't you contact the Iron Country to participate as an ally and then explain the matter clearly at the meeting?"

"Because if we want to negotiate at the meeting, we need to waste a lot of time to confirm, and among the intelligence we have, there happens to be a very important message."

Mei Terumi looked at Jiraiya, "At the same time as we received the news of the Five Kage Talks, our companions in the village also passed us an important piece of information."

"The senior leaders of the Akatsuki organization believe that since you already know that their target is the Jinchūriki, then Perhaps the Jinchūriki they control will be brought along with them to the Five Kage Summit this time."

As she spoke, she turned her gaze back to Naruto, who was frowning, "It seems that their guess was right. The Nine-Tails Jinchūriki is indeed here. I guess other countries will not place their Jinchūriki in the village, so there will be such a large number of ninja troops outside."

Although they did not contact other forces, in order not to find the wrong person, they still confirmed the number of troops in each country when they came.

And the number of ninja troops gathered in this small Iron Country has reached 30,000 to 40,000, and each of them has very good combat power, at least the combat power of a Chunin.

For what Mei Terumi said, the ninjas in the tent all had bad thoughts in their hearts.

"Akatsuki is no longer simply focusing on the tailed beasts, but is planning to attack certain forces in the Five Kage Summit. Because this is a secret mission of Akatsuki, our people have not been informed of the specific country they are targeting."

"But after thinking about it, the country that Akatsuki is most likely to attack is definitely your Konoha."

"Although I don't want to admit it, the most powerful country among the five major countries is definitely the Fire Country."

"If they can take advantage of your absence this time to launch an attack on Konoha and destroy Konoha, the pressure they will face in the future will be much less."

As soon as Mei Terumi finished speaking,

the entire tent was filled with a strong murderous aura.

Although the relatively main combat forces in Konoha have gathered here, preparing to directly attack Akatsuki after the meeting, their families and friends are still in the Konoha Village.

This overwhelming murderous intent broke through the curtains that covered the tent, making the Kirigakure ninjas outside and the Konoha ninjas a little tense.

However, there was no movement in the tent, so they were just on guard against each other, and did not really take action.

"Why do you tell us this? It doesn't seem to be good for your Kirigakure, right?" After a long time, Jiraiya took a deep breath and said calmly, "If you conceal this news, we will still follow you to Kirigakure to conquer Akatsuki." "And when Akatsuki is destroyed and withdraws from this chessboard, the remaining five countries will be ours again." "It's not a good thing for Kirigakure for us to maintain our military strength and territory, right? How can I believe that the information you revealed is accurate, and not to distract our Konoha and make us lose interest in conquering Akatsuki?" He has seen too many true and false, half-true and half-false news since he took office as the fifth Hokage. Even if it involves national affairs, the people below may conceal something, so he does not intend to believe this information so easily. At least... he has to let them tell the corresponding purpose. They are originally hostile countries, how can they be so kind. "It must be in our interest, so we'll tell you so simply."

Mei Terumi didn't beat around the bush, "Some of our Kirigakure ninjas were sent to the Land of Fire as abandoned pawns to invade Konoha under the arrangement of Akatsuki."

"Although we were defeated, many people were still captured and imprisoned by Konoha. As a reward for this information, shouldn't you release these people unconditionally? After all, if the information is true, we are also allies, right?"

"Just for this?"

Jiraiya looked into her eyes seriously.

"Whether you believe my information or not is up to you."

Mei Terumi didn't retreat at all, and also looked directly at Jiraiya, "According to the information, they will take action within this week."

"We are almost on the road non-stop, just to do you a favor for Konoha. If you don't accept it, I can't do anything."

"What's more, those people in our Kirigakure are now trapped in Konoha. If Akatsuki really comes to your village, I don't want them to be implicated because of you. They have been betrayed once, and I want to take them home."

After that, she didn't speak again, and she had said everything she should say.

Neither of them spoke again, and the people around them did not interrupt.

The atmosphere remained quiet for a long time, and finally Jiraiya broke it, "I understand. If your information is true, I will release the captives of the Hidden Mist Village."

After the invasion, a large number of ninjas from the Hidden Mist Village were captured alive.

Konoha originally planned to let the Land of Water pay a heavy price to redeem these ninjas, but because the Land of Water later blocked the entire country, it showed no concern for these captured Hidden Mist ninjas, so these ninjas were left in Konoha as slaves.

And because it would be a pity to kill them directly,

So these captives were used as coolies by Konoha after the war to pay for the sins committed during the invasion, which also supplemented the manpower that Konoha lacked at the time. Even the reconstruction of the village later had the help of these coolies.

After so many years of exploitation, although they could not pay off the sins of the Konoha ninjas they had killed,

but the losses in financial and material resources were also paid off early, so releasing them to go home at this time was not a loss.

Without further delay, Jiraiya quickly communicated with Konoha, which was several countries away, through the special channel of spiritualism, and explained the matter at a very fast speed.

He asked Maruboshi Kosuke, who was currently serving as the acting Hokage in Konoha Village, to deploy defense and evacuation within the village, and temporarily avoid the sharp edge of the Akatsuki organization.

In Konoha Village,

Maruboshi Kosuke, who received Jiraiya's message, did not pretend, but directly evacuated the masses, secretly dispersed to other villages around Konoha Village, and hid among the civilians.

It is expected that no matter how crazy the Akatsuki organization is, it will not attack the helpless civilians.

Based on Jiraiya's impression of the village's original two consultants, of course he would not keep Utatane Koharu and Mitomon En as the acting Hokage, but recalled Maruboshi Kosuke, who was in charge of the border defense affairs of the Land of Fire, and let him serve as the acting Hokage.

Although Maruboshi Kosuke is only a Genin, his record, achievements and even qualifications are fully enough to be the Hokage. If it is him, even Utatane Koharu and Mitomon En will not have any objections. In a sense, they can be regarded as brothers from the same school.

Konoha urgently deployed the actions of Akatsuki.

In the Iron Country, after multiple notifications and appointments, the formal meeting finally started again.

The originally vacant Mizukage position was occupied by a charming woman wearing a Mizukage hat.

Behind her, two people stood on the left and right,

one was a master who was so old that he had no teeth, and the other was Qing who had only one eye exposed.

"This is what happened. Now it is certain that the main members of Akatsuki are concentrated in the Hidden Mist Village, and even the fourth generation Mizukage, who is the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, is in their hands."

After Mei Terumi once again introduced the information they had, Jiraiya looked at the others solemnly, "We are now facing not only the members of Akatsuki, but also the remaining Rain Ninjas, and... the bewitched Hidden Mist Ninjas."

"Please wait a moment."

But before Jiraiya could continue to speak, the fifth generation Raikage Darui suddenly spoke and interrupted his speech.

He looked at Mei Terumi seriously, "The Fifth Mizukage, the information you got about the Five Kage Talks was provided by your informants who stayed in the village at the risk of their lives, so... does this also mean that the people of Akatsuki have already known that their base has been exposed?"

"That's right."

Mei Terumi nodded and turned her gaze to the others, "So we have to leave as soon as possible."

"With the distance from the Iron Country to the Water Country, even if our ninja army is huge, as long as we set out now, we can arrive within a month."

"One month, unless the people of Akatsuki abandon everything they have worked hard to get and leave, it is impossible to evacuate within a month."

After a pause, she looked around solemnly again, "Here we, the Hidden Mist Village, make a statement. Once the crusade plan begins, except for those companions who have agreed to cooperate with us in the village, we will regard all other people in the Hidden Mist Village as enemies."

"Don't worry that we will show mercy or betray the coalition because we were once companions. From the moment they chose not to trust us, the team has been separated."

The words were extremely ruthless, and they didn't even consider what their status in the Hidden Mist Village would be in the ninja world after the war.

In fact, Mei Terumi and the others had already discussed it very clearly on the way here.

Since the Akatsuki organization chose them to invade, and they dragged it out for several years before discovering it, the status of their Kirigakure was no longer secure.

In the past few years, the Akatsuki organization made the village a mess, many bloodline families were destroyed, and elite jonins such as those who held the Seven Ninja Swords were forced to rebel against the village...

From that time on, Kirigakure was no longer the Kirigakure of the past.

And now that it is being attacked as the center of the war, this village can no longer return to its former appearance and status.

They have already considered the way out, and this village where they have lived for decades...they can only be forced to abandon it.