Chapter 116 This corner is not too cold

Konoha, Torture Department
In a spacious room, Utane Koharu was kneeling in front of a large wooden table. Behind her stood two ninjas, the two that Sarutobi Hiruzen had given him before.

On the table were the lunch boxes that the people in the interrogation department ate every day.

She was eating the food in front of her slowly, with no special expression on her face.

"Da da da"

In the distance, there were sounds of footsteps.

The leader was Li Zhongren, and behind him were several members of the Morino clan. Obviously, he had the title of the Minister of Torture Department. Even though he would never come here normally and even though the Morino family was still the one who managed this place on a daily basis, when he wanted to use this place, the Morino clan could only follow his footsteps, especially after the Senju clan had a ninja unit.

Even though they knew that they were facing one of the only two remaining elders of Konoha
"Good evening, Auntie Xiaochun. I hope you have a good appetite."

"I always have a good appetite."

Koharu Utane picked up a stack of kelp shreds with chopsticks, rolled it into a ball, stuffed it into her mouth, and continued chewing.

"As long as you have a good appetite, it's good. The most feared thing is that you will lose your appetite when you get older. Once you lose your appetite, you will eat less, and if you eat less, you will age faster."

Li Zhongren sat opposite to Koharu with a smile on his face. This was the first time he observed this woman up close.

In the original work, she was already in her twilight years when she appeared, but now, how should I put it, a 43-year-old female ninja is younger than Tsunade was when she first appeared in the original work. She is still in her prime, and the reputation of being the village beauty of Konoha is well-deserved.

"So, can I go?"

"anytime."

Li Zhongren nodded.

"We have already found out that three steel furnaces caught fire and three blacksmith shops were involved, killing more than 500 people in total. This was an accident due to the poor maintenance of the steel furnaces. As for the intention to smuggle foreign weapons into Konoha, it did happen. It should be the work of the Handwriting Family, but they were so cruel that they killed all the people involved and fled Konoha. At present, I am sending people to follow up on the investigation."

"So, I'm sorry to have let Auntie Xiaochun stay here for a whole night. As an elder of Konoha, you are so busy on weekdays."

"fine."

Utane Koharu put down her chopsticks and wiped the corners of her mouth with a tissue.

"Just take it as a break. Besides, I haven't eaten the food of the torture department for a long time. The last time, I was sitting opposite them."

"Haha, if Auntie Xiaochun wants to eat, she can come over to eat every day, right, Deputy Minister Morinoshige?"

"Hehe, cough, hehe."

Morinoshige hunched his back, his expression distorted, neither smiling nor not smiling.
"That's not necessary. It's embarrassing to have to cook for an old woman like me."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

Li Zhongren looked straight at Kutane Koharu.

"My men were too aggressive and broke the door of Aunt's house, causing her to lose tens of thousands of taels of silver."

"Oh!"

Utane Koharu slammed the table hard, and with the shock of force, the food on the table flew towards Li Zhongren. Of course, it was stopped by the Wood Release that came out from the other end of the table.

"let's go!"

After wiping his hands, Zhuan Nei Xiaochun looked at Li Zhongren coldly, then turned and left.

"Oh, by the way, Auntie, my subordinates found out that the Handwriting Clan seemed to have encountered some wandering ninjas, but the clan leader's eldest daughter, 'Handwriting Sky', escaped. When I catch her, I will definitely bring her to apologize to you, Auntie. How dare you use the name of a Konoha elder to smuggle weapons and bully my Auntie Xiaochun? I won't allow it!"

"Oh, I'm waiting for your good news."

Koharu turned around and looked at Li Zhongren with a smile.

"But you have to hurry up. If you are late, she will probably run to the Water Country."
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Kakuzu opened his eyes, he was woken up.

So he came to the door, with some resentment coming out of his body, and looked out through the crack in the door.

They are Konoha's ninjas, and there are many of them.

"What are they going to do?"

Jiao Tu couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.

This is the town that never sleeps, located at the junction of Konoha and Kirigakure. Its function is similar to that of a black market, but it is broader. The black market mainly deals in bounty hunting.

This is not the case in the Never-Sleeping Town. As long as you have money, you can buy almost any contraband here, even if it comes from the ninja village. Ninjas are human beings after all, and human beings have desires, so reselling the village's resources is inevitable.

Naturally, there is a tacit understanding here. Without special circumstances, neither the Mist Ninja nor Konoha will break the balance here, because this means that interests will fluctuate, and behind these interests are the ninja families of the two major ninja villages.

It is precisely because of this that whenever he feels a little tired of his long life, he will come here to rest for a while, because here he can buy everything he wants, fresh milk, fresh beef liver, and even fresh heart.

He likes money, not for its own sake, but because money doesn't lie, and you get as much as you spend.
"Looking for someone"

From the bits and pieces of words from the Konoha ninjas who were knocking on doors from house to house, he gathered enough information: they were looking for a woman, a woman who might have just arrived here recently. From the photo in her hand, it could be vaguely seen that she was a young female Konoha ninja.

"He should be some important person."

Kakuzu thought, otherwise it wouldn't be such a big deal.

“Maybe it will be valuable?”

He thought instinctively.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, he saw a little girl, who looked about nine or ten years old, wearing ordinary clothes and walking towards his house with a calm expression. However, he could feel fear and uneasiness in her eyes, and when he roughly compared her with the photo, it seemed to be the woman's childhood.

"interesting."

Kakuzu suddenly seemed to have discovered something. He just watched quietly as the girl came to his door and gently knocked on it, as if she was a child returning home.

However, her expression seemed so helpless, as if she was the only one in the world. This made Kakuzu think of himself. Was it the same when he was abandoned by Takigakure Village?

This is just a little girl trying to escape from the evil Konoha.
Kakuzu opened the door and took the shopping bag from the little girl.

This ordinary paper shopping bag was filled with a pile of chakra paper, which would be worth millions if converted into silver on the black market.
"Thank you."

After the door closed, the little girl let out a long sigh, leaned against the door, and tried hard not to fall down.

"I'm going to the Hidden Mist Village. This is the deposit. After the matter is completed, there will be another 4 million taels."

"Interesting, how did you know that I'm a ninja who will take on missions?"

Kakuzu lifted his cloak, revealing a face full of stitches. His dark green eyes stared straight at the little girl. If she couldn't answer, he would take her to Konoha to collect the bounty.

"I've been wandering around here for three days. I've managed to deceive most people by not relying on the transformation technique to shrink my body. And this place is one of the quietest places. I had to take a gamble. However, I'm lucky. It turns out to be the legendary king of bounty hunters, Kakuzu."

Kakuzu nodded slightly. It was true that he would conceal his identity when he came here for vacation, but people who provoked him usually would not walk out of the room alive. Over time, no one dared to disturb him.

As he spoke, he reached out and pinched the girl's face. It was pure flesh and blood, not the transformation technique that would become ineffective if touched.

No wonder she was able to hide here for three days.

The Never-Sleeping Town does all kinds of business, including the human population business, but there is also an unspoken rule that rabbits don't eat grass near their burrows. After all, they also need people to serve them with food, drink, defecation and urination. Unless it is an extremely special situation, people who live here generally may not live very well, but because of the relatively stable order, they can barely get enough food and clothing.

"I can accept the mission, but tell me your identity and why Konoha wants to capture you."

"So, when did the famous Kakuzu start asking about these things that have nothing to do with the mission?"

"Because I need to calculate whether 5 million ryo is worth it for me to take this mission and become an enemy of Konoha."

"Hiss~~" Jiaodu suddenly snapped his fingers, and several ground resentment rays drilled into the little girl's wrist.

"Don't even think about lying. I can feel it."

"Hu~~"

Shouxitian sighed and could only tell the story slowly.

"The struggle between the elders of Konoha and the roots of Konoha. Tsk tsk, ninja is really a dirty profession."

After hesitating for a moment, Jiaodu withdrew his resentment.

"I can accept the mission, but the reward is 10 million taels, and it must be paid first."

"you!!"

"You can choose to refuse. The door is behind."

"it is good!"

Shouxie Tian looked at Kakuzu, gritted his teeth, took out a scroll from his arms, formed a seal with his hands, and with a "puff" sound, he summoned about 10 million taels of cash from the scroll.

"No wonder, your family's bloodline limit is quite magical, it is activated through blood, which makes it extremely difficult to break it. Moreover, the side effect is that the body shrinks. Hey, it actually allows you to escape temporarily."

Using the same way, but with different methods, Kakuzu sealed up the 10 million taels of cash, and then opened his hands to the sky.

"what are you up to!"

Looking at Di Yuanyu who came out from Kakuzu's hand, Shouxi Tian instinctively stepped back, but unfortunately, there was a door behind her.

"Don't move!"

Kakuzu glared at Shouxietian, and the Diyuanyu in his hand had already penetrated into Shouxietian's face.

Shouxitian felt as if something was crawling inside her skin, which made her feel a little creepy. Fortunately, the feeling disappeared after a while.

Kakuzu withdrew his hand and then formed seals with both hands.

"Secret Technique: Earthly Resentment Transformation!"

"Whoosh~~"

A bunch of Earth Grudges came out of Kakuzu's body and wrapped him up urgently. After a while, the Earth Grudges were taken back into his body, and Kakuzu turned into a relatively normal-looking human being, instead of the terrifying spliced monster he was before.
"dong dong~~"

"Open the door!!"

"What's up!"

After waiting for a while, Kakuzu opened the door.

"We are from the Senju clan ninja unit of Konoha, and we are tracking a Konoha rebel ninja. Have you seen this woman?"

As he said this, the Konoha ninja pointed behind him, where Konoha ninjas were everywhere. Obviously, this was to tell him that he was not lying. No one dared to do so. If they were lying, what awaited them would be Konoha's ruthless killing.

"No, there's only me and my daughter at home."

Kakuzu pointed at the little girl whose face had completely changed and even looked somewhat similar to himself.

The Konoha ninja didn't say anything, he just made seals with his hands and touched his lower abdomen.

Kakuzu felt a wave of fluctuations spreading from the lower abdomen of the Konoha ninja. When these fluctuations encountered his own Earth Grudge, they would even interfere with it to a certain extent. In an instant, Kakuzu understood that if they used ordinary transformation techniques and encountered such fluctuations, they would immediately cancel the transformation.
"Konoha, indeed, has a profound heritage."

After the Konoha ninja left, Kakuzu felt emotional.

"Do you know what jutsu that is?"

"I don't know the details, but my father mentioned it."

Shouxi Tian had relaxed at this moment. After all, if Kakuzu wanted to betray him, he had already done it. If he wanted to deny it, there was no need for him to disguise himself.

"The Senju clan's ninja troops are different from ordinary ninja troops. They have an extra chakra source in their lower abdomen. That thing is actually a derivative of the wood escape technique of the Senju clan's patriarch, Mitsuha Kotori. I think the ninjutsu just now should have come from this."

"Okay, go and rest. We'll set off in the evening."

"."

"dong dong dong~~"

"what else."

Just as Kakuzu was about to speak, tree roots broke through the gate and chased after the handwritten sky behind him.

"Fire Escape·Tou Ke Ku!!"

Kakuzu jumped back and a blazing flame suddenly spurted out from one of his shoulders, igniting the tree roots. He took the opportunity to grab the handwritten sky, stepped back, and with a bang, he penetrated the window and ran towards the sea.

"Wood Release·Wood Dragon Technique!"

Behind him, the sound of a bird singing three leaves was heard, and a huge dragon rose from the ground, like a boat on land, and chased after Kakuzu.

"Secret Art: Earth's Grudge: Nature Mask"

Holding the handwritten sky with one hand, Kakuzu used his other hand to release the seal. There was a movement behind his back and four masked monsters jumped out one after another.

"Earth's Grudge: Final Shot!!!"

After the four monsters landed on the ground, they opened their mouths without hesitation, and four powerful streams of chakra gushed out of their mouths, converging into a huge beam of light, whose thickness was even greater than Li Zhongren's Wood Dragon Technique!
"boom!!!!"

The next moment, the chakra beam and the wood dragon technique collided with each other!
After being mixed in a special way, the light column no longer had the attributes of chakra, but became a more direct natural phenomenon. Therefore, it was not absorbed by the Wood Dragon Technique that could devour chakra, but actually blocked the huge Wood Dragon Technique in place.
"Click~~"

"Click~~"

After a while, the chakra beam lost its strength and dissipated between heaven and earth, but the four masks also shattered, and the resentful people on earth also turned into dust.
However, Li Zhongren's Wood Dragon Technique was almost completely burned, and Kakuzu had already run away without a trace.
"Kakuzu-dono, are you okay?!"

"fine."

Kakuzu, who seemed to be flying on the ground, shook his head.

"But you vomited blood."

"Vomiting blood is vomiting blood, and something is wrong is something wrong. These are two different things."

Kakuzu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, jumped, and jumped into the water with Shuxietian. Shuxietian thought that Kakuzu was being chased by Wood Release and had no choice but to go somewhere. Unexpectedly, there was a sunken ship under the water. Kakuzu took her directly into the sunken ship, and there was actually an enclosed space inside the ship.

"Secret Technique·Earth Resentment."

Throwing aside the handwritten sky, Kakuzu formed seals with both hands, and a large amount of blood-stained earth resentment gushed out of his body again. These black threads instantly covered the entire shipwreck, wrapping the shipwreck like a dark monster, silently moving towards the depths of the sea.
"Thank you, Mr. Kakuzu."

He was sitting there quietly writing the text, looking at Kakuzu, and suddenly spoke.

Although she was only a half-chunin in terms of strength, she was not stupid at all. Kakuzu had paid a huge price to take her away. For example, at this moment, she could see clues from the other party. It seemed that there were four masks in total, but now there were only four bloody holes.
"Take people's money and eliminate disasters with them."

With his eyes closed, Kakuzu, who was controlling the Earth's resentment, replied calmly.

"Also, stop talking. The oxygen here is not enough. We need to hold on until we reach an unknown island and replenish our air before we can continue on our way."

　First update~
　　One more update~
　　I'm a little late because of some problems.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)

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