Chapter 118: Investment in the Whirlpool Country

Chapter 118: Investment in the Whirlpool Country

Chapter 118: Investment in the Whirlpool Country

“Gulp~~”

There was a bubble under the sea, and in a hidden place, Kakuzu slowly emerged from the water with the handwritten sky.

After two days and one night, they finally arrived at the Water Kingdom, a place consisting of a huge island and several satellite islands.

In fact, they could have been faster, but Kakuzu had lost four hearts, so he couldn't be careful.

"All right, woman."

Jiaodu climbed ashore and shook off the sea water on his body.

"As agreed, I have sent you to the Land of Water. The money and goods have been paid, and our cooperation ends here."

"I know. Thank you for the journey."

Shouxietian bowed deeply to Jiaodu, fumbled for a long time, and took out a scroll from his arms.

"Then, I would like to hire you again to send me to the surrounding areas of Kirigakure Village. As you know, the people of the Water Nation are very tough. For someone like me who has no combat experience, it may not be easy for me to go to Kirigakure Village."

"This"

Kakuzu looked at the 5 million ryo that was unlocked from the scroll again, and cursed in his heart. It was no wonder that Kotobuki Mitsuha wanted to mess with the elder of Konoha. A family responsible for transporting goods could come up with more than 10 million ryo. It was conceivable how much the elder had embezzled.
"Ok."

Kakuzu finally couldn't resist the temptation of money.

He unsealed and re-sealed it in one go, and then led Shusho Tian to continue walking towards the Hidden Mist Village. However, he seemed to be even more cautious than when he was chased by the Konoha ninja before.

On the one hand, he now only has one heart.

Another thing is the public security problem in the Water Kingdom itself, as the writer just mentioned.

Although because it is far away from the Ninja Continent, the Ninja Wars have never reached their homeland. In a sense, at least in terms of war, it is a relatively peaceful place in the entire Ninja World. But if anyone thinks that the Water Kingdom is a paradise, that would be interesting.

Most of the territory of the Water Kingdom is worthless islands, which are just rugged rocks. There are no living creatures or even soil on them. The only valuable things may be various minerals. The special environment also makes the arable land here pitifully small.

Resources are scarce, but people still want to survive. What should they do?

抢呗
This also led to the tough character of the people here, who are more like pirates than farmers.

He didn't care about those civilian refugees, but the Kirigakure ninjas also liked to make extra money. In fact, there was an unwritten rule, or a joke, in the Ninja World.

It is called the country of investment but vortex.

Because, beyond the Land of Whirlpools is the territory of Kirigakure, and all kinds of robbery and plunder are commonplace. Not to mention merchants coming to sell goods, even if you plan to do a good business in Kirigakure, you will be exploited openly or secretly and eventually go bankrupt.

To be honest, he looked down upon these lousy robbers the most because they didn't have any technical skills at all.

"Rest here for a while, we'll go to the Hidden Mist Village at night."

"Mr. Kakuzu, I'm not tired."

"You escaped from Konoha and stayed in the Never-Sleeping Town for three days."

Kakuzu found a place to sit down, and took out a bottle of milk from somewhere, and started to drink it. He had almost lost his sense of taste, and was only sensitive to things with special smells, such as mutton and blood. That was why he liked to drink milk and eat beef liver.

"It took us nearly three days to get from Nevernight Town to the Land of Water, a total of six days. Do you think Utatane Koharu will just watch you run to Kirigakure? If I were her, I would definitely ambush people around Kirigakure, so that I wouldn't have to waste time looking for you and I could also make you careless. After all, we're almost there, so what could go wrong?"

"I see. Thank you very much."

"Don't be polite to me. I don't like others saying thank you to me. Our transaction is purely about money."

"Okay, Kakuzu-san."

Shouxietian took a deep breath and carefully sat down not far from the corner.

She lost almost everything overnight. Besides hatred, she felt more confused and helpless. But at this moment, when she sat down next to Kakuzu, she inexplicably felt a sense of security.

Then, she slowly closed her eyes.
"Hoo~~ho~~"

"Humph"

Hearing the calls beside him, Jiaodu snorted softly and leaned back against the stone. As he possessed the Earth Resentment Ghost, he actually didn't need to sleep, but he was still mentally exhausted. Therefore, he planned to take a rest here. Of course, at this moment, a large number of Earth Resentment Ghost had already drilled into the ground under his body and spread all around him. Any disturbance would not be hidden from his perception.

"Eh?"

However, just when he was about to close his eyes, Kakuzu couldn't help but open them.

Because the woman squatting next to him tilted her head and leaned on his shoulder.

"Get up, woman!"

Kakuzu shouted a few words in his heart, but in the end he did not move, but closed his eyes as well—
"Arrogant."

In the Hidden Mist Village, the Third Mizukage listened quietly to Kizuna Hijiri's narration of what happened in the Never-Sleeping Town. After a long time, he spoke.

However, his indifferent tone proved that he did not take the matter to heart.

The reason is also very simple.

The Second Shinobi World War just ended not long ago. Kirigakure was the only country that did not participate in the war. As a family within a ninja village, what rights do you have to provoke a ninja village?
As for Wood Release, it is very powerful. According to the description of Hozuki Hanazawa, it is hard to say anything else about the current Mitsuha Takanashi, but the level of development of Wood Release has already had some shadows of the God of Ninja. Unfortunately, a shadow is just a shadow, not the true god himself.

It's impossible to make the Mist Ninja bow his head with just a Wood Release.

"Ghost Lantern Day."

"My subordinate is here."

"This time, hundreds of our Genin, more than twenty Chunin, three Jonin, and so many resources were seized because of you. Am I right?"

The Third Mizukage slowly opened his eyes, and his pair of deep blue eyes stared at Hozuki quietly.

"You may have been pampered in Never-Sleeping Town for too long. To be honest, you are not worthy of your family name. When facing a Wood Release Ninja, your first thought was to gather your forces. Even I know that the biggest weakness of that Totoro Mitsuha is that there are gaps when using large-scale Wood Release, and his Taijutsu and other Ninjutsu are only at an average level. As long as we are dispersed enough, he will not dare to use his trump card at will. Am I right?"

"No, no."

Kizuna took a slow breath.

"Your subordinate is willing to pay five million taels to buy indulgences."

"I just want cash made of chakra paper."

The Third Mizukage's expression suddenly became less cold, and he even had a hint of a smile on his face.

"Yes, I will send the money to Lord Kirigakure's residence immediately." Finally, Kizuna breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, after leaving Kirigakure for a few years, the Sandaime-sama is still the same as before. No matter what mistakes you make, as long as you can hand over enough money, and it must be cash made of chakra paper, there will be no problem.
"Since you are willing to buy an indulgence, I can't blame you anymore. Let me trouble you to go to Konoha as quickly as possible and ask Sarutobi Hiruzen if he really wants to go to war with my Kirigakage. If not, tell him to take care of his dog."

"Yes!"

"call"

Hozumi left, and in the empty office, only Mizukage was left. After a long while, he put away the smile on his face, and replaced it with a hint of bitterness.
"When will days like this end?"
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Night
In the sky, the moon can be seen dimly.

This is also the origin of the Hidden Mist Village. The place where the Hidden Mist Village was built is in a relatively special environment. There is thick water vapor all around and heavy fog often falls. This kind of fog, combined with the Hidden Mist Village's fog concealment technique, is a natural defensive barrier.

"Get up."

Kakuzu suddenly spoke.

Shouxietian opened his eyes, wiped the saliva that was slightly flowing out, and was stunned for a while before he realized that he had fallen asleep leaning against Mr. Kakuzu.
"Yes, yes, I'm sorry!"

"stop!"

Kakuzu raised his hand.

"Fifty thousand taels, you wet my clothes."

"Ok."

"let's go."

"oh oh."

Seeing Kakuzu stand up, Shuseiten also stood up and followed him as before.

Then, without any warning.

Kakuzu suddenly grabbed her collar and pulled her forward.

Almost at the same time, a bunch of things like black fog drilled out from the ground, but the buzzing sound proved that they should be some kind of insects.

"Fire Escape·Tou Ke Ku!"

Kakuzu opened his mouth, and the fire chakra remaining in the Earth Grudge spurted out from his mouth, burning the insects and the land into a sea of ​​fire. Almost at the same time, the Earth Grudge buried deep underground pulled violently, directly opening the ground like a door, and the people hiding underground were burned into fire on the spot.
"Humph."

Kakuzu continued to take a few steps back and snorted coldly. He had noticed long ago that there were parasitic insects climbing here, and he could not hide that from his Earth Grudge. However, this was also the first time he encountered a parasitic insect of such a small size, and its venom was extremely strong, so strong that even his Earth Grudge could not withstand it.

It is obvious that this is definitely the elite of the Konoha Aburame clan.

So, he pretended not to know, and when that guy gradually sneaked into his attack range, he gave him a big attack.

But to be honest, this ninja's poisonous insects are indeed very powerful, but the disadvantage should also be obvious, that is, these poisonous insects cannot leave him too far away. Otherwise, he only needs to hide in the upwind direction and release the poisonous insects, and he can poison as many people as there are in the downwind direction.
"It seems that my guess was correct."

The flames died down and Kakuzu clapped his hands with a smile.

"Alright, let's poof!!"

Suddenly, a dagger stabbed directly at Kakuzu's chest. At such a close distance, Kakuzu seemed to have no defense at all, and the kunai instantly pierced Kakuzu's last heart.
And, Kakuzu looked at the handwritten sky with an expression of disbelief, and finally fell limply to the ground.

"what!!"

After coming to his senses, Shujitian looked at the blood in his hands and at Kakuzu who was no longer breathing. His body went limp and he collapsed to the ground.

Because she probably guessed what happened to her.

She was controlled by the Yamanaka clan of Konoha through a secret technique, which allowed the opponent to control a ninja's body for a short period of time.

"clatter!"

The sound of something landing gently.

Shujitian turned his head and saw a ninja wearing a mask, but judging from the color of his hair, he was most likely from the Yamanaka clan.

The ninja did not say anything, but walked forward a few steps cautiously, making sure that Kakuzu, who was lying on the ground, had completely stopped breathing and had no heartbeat. Then he took out another kunai and was about to throw it at the handwritten sky.

During the whole process, he didn't say a word, because the order given by his master, Utane Koharu, was to assassinate Sha Tian at all costs.

"Whoosh!!"

The kunai aimed at Shouxi Tian, ​​who seemed to be somewhat distracted, and sped away.

And Shuxie Tian also closed her eyes, but at that moment, she reached out and grabbed Kakuzu's hand
"puff!"

However, just as it was about to touch the kunai, the hand belonging to Kakuzu that was caught by the kunai suddenly raised up to block the kunai.

The masked ninja instinctively took a few steps back. The title of Bounty King was still there, but because he focused all his attention on the front, he forgot what was happening behind him.

A group of resentful demons emerged from the ground and turned into a humanoid monster with an earth-colored mask on its head. Its hands turned into spears and pierced the opponent's heart.
"Whoosh!!"

After making sure the ninja was dead, the masked monster jumped back to Kakuzu's side and entered his body.
"Boom~boom~boom~"

"Cough cough~~"

Kakuzu coughed violently a few times, took a long breath, and was still frightened.

This might be the closest he has ever been to death. Fortunately, he had a trick up his sleeve and dug out the heart of a senior ninja from the Aburame clan in advance.
"Mr. Kakuzu!!!"

"what?"

Kakuzu turned around and saw the handwritten sky lying directly in his arms, and burst into tears.
"The village ahead is the Hidden Mist Village. My identity is quite special, so I can only send you here."

Outside Kirigakure Village.

Kakuzu stopped.

"The money and goods have been paid. My mission ends here. Goodbye."

"Mr. Kakuzu."

"Ok?"

"Will we be able to meet again in the future?"

"That depends on whether you have money."

Kakuzu turned around, waved his hand at the handwritten sky, and disappeared into the night.
(End of this chapter)