Chapter 237 Akatsuki's Actions

Chapter 237 Akatsuki's Actions

Chapter 237 Akatsuki's Actions
Let’s go back in time a little.

The Land of Rain, the headquarters of Akatsuki.

In this place where it rains all year round, a visitor stepped into the territory, causing Nagato, who was sensing the whole country through the Rain Art, to open his eyes.

"Nagato, what's wrong?"

Konan, who was guarding Nagato, noticed the change in Nagato's expression.

"he came."

Nagato's voice was low, and it was obvious that he was not very welcoming to the newcomer.

"Uchiha Madara? He hasn't interfered with our affairs in a long time. What is he doing here this time?"

Konan also frowned. The newly established Akatsuki organization was destroyed by Danzo and Salamander Hanzo. Not long after, they met the man who called himself Uchiha Madara, who gave them new ideas.

But Xiaonan always felt that the so-called Uchiha Madara was very strange and not a good partner.

"Not sure, he's already outside."

Nagato said as he turned around and looked outside the door, just in time there was a knock on the door.

Uchiha Madara's spatial ninjutsu was unpredictable and difficult to handle even for Nagato. Over the years, he had wanted to uncover the opponent's mask and take a look, but he could not find a good opportunity.

"Nagato, you look well."

Obito, wearing a mask, walked into the room, looked at Nagato with black iron stuck in his back, and said with a smile.

Nagato frowned slightly. His health had been deteriorating. He didn't know whether this was a mockery or a caring greeting. "What are you doing here? I have already started to let Zetsu collect information as planned. We will hunt the tailed beasts soon."

"I didn't mean to change the plan, but some unexpected things happened and our plan needs to be changed in order."

Obito ignored Konan's hostile look and found a place to sit down casually in the room.

"What do you mean?"

Nagato didn't like to change the plans that had been made at will. When the Akatsuki organization was destroyed, Yahiko died because of the temporary plan.

"Something happened in the Hidden Mist Village. The Fourth Mizukage is out of our control. We have to deal with him first."

Obito said that this was something he had just learned about and he was very troubled.

Originally, the Fourth Mizukage would be a hidden chess piece of their Akatsuki organization, able to cooperate with the Akatsuki organization to stir up the situation in the ninja world, but now this chess piece is out of his control, which feels very bad.

After he took over control of the Mizukage from the real Uchiha Madara, he has been manipulating the Mizukage to destroy the Kirigakure Village. He is even more brutal than when Uchiha Madara was in control. It is all because he feels that it was the Kirigakure Village that killed his beloved Rin, so he wants to make the Kirigakure Village suffer.

In fact, Obito had thought about this before. Since the previous Mizukage was controlled by Uchiha Madara, could Rin’s death be related to Uchiha Madara?

But after thinking about it for a while, he put this possibility behind him. After all, he didn't really care who was behind Lin's murder. He just wanted to find someone to vent his anger on.

Even if he could use the Rinnegan to resurrect Lin, he didn't want to do it, because even if he didn't want to admit it, he knew deep down in his heart that even if Lin was resurrected, the person she loved would not be him.

So he wants to create a world with Lin!

Originally his plans had been going smoothly over the years. Although Nagato was not easy to discipline, he was generally following his plans.

But before their major plan could be launched, the Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Village had his illusion broken, which was a very troublesome matter.

With his own level of illusion, it is impossible for him to regain control of Yagura, the perfect Jinchūriki. In order to prevent the Fourth Mizukage from gathering the strength of the entire village to retaliate against the Akatsuki organization, he feels that he must take preemptive action before the Fourth Mizukage is able to gather the hearts and minds of the people and his combat power.

"The Fourth Mizukage? Isn't he controlled by your illusion? Even if the illusion is lifted, can't you control him again?"

Nagato looked at Uchiha Madara suspiciously, thinking that his behavior was not very reasonable. This was not something that Uchiha Madara would be anxious about.

Obito was a little speechless. He couldn't say that he was a loser in the past and his attainments in illusion techniques were rubbish, right?

He hesitated for a few seconds before speaking, "The Hidden Mist Village has already discovered him. It's meaningless to use illusion to control him. In order to prevent the subsequent plans from being affected, we have to get rid of him first."

"Get rid of him? Don't we need to catch him back?"

Xiaonan on the side spoke up.

"The tailed beasts must be sealed in order, otherwise the Outer Path Demon Statue will not be able to adapt. We haven't captured the first two tailed beasts yet, so the three tails cannot be sealed."

Obito said, "And trying to imprison a perfect Jinchūriki like Yagura is too risky."

"However, after the death of the Jinchūriki, the tailed beasts will not reappear in the world for two or three years, which will affect the timeline of our plan."

Nagato frowned, thinking that the masked man's words were full of loopholes. If you could really catch the Fourth Mizukage, couldn't you just use illusion to control and imprison him?
Obito seemed to think his judgment was a bit strange. He thought for a moment and changed his words: "You can send someone to capture him alive if you are sure you can keep a good eye on him until the other tailed beasts are in place."

"So what do you do during this time?"

Konan asked puzzledly. She thought that since Uchiha Madara already knew about this, it was strange that he came to tell them. Couldn't he just capture the Mizukage directly?

"I have other things to take care of. I need to go to Konoha."

Obito made up an excuse, but he was indeed planning to go to Konoha to take a look.

He received news some time ago that the situation of the Uchiha clan had worsened and they were preparing to rebel. He had a good potential seed in his mind and hoped to pull him into the Akatsuki organization.

To this end, he will personally take action to destroy his own family.

Nagato wanted to ask some more questions, but he saw that the masked man had disappeared using space ninjutsu, which made him frown deeply.

"Nagato, do you want to do as he says?"

Konan asked. "Although it feels a bit strange, we can't just sit and watch the Mizukage regain power, especially at this critical juncture when we are about to take action. We must nip the risk in the bud."

Nagato made the final decision, "Gather the members of the organization."

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After the Phantom Body Technique was activated, Lu Li and Orochimaru's consciousness arrived at the space where the Outer Path Statue was located.

All members of the organization were present this time, including Sasori and Kakuzu, Zetsu, Biwa Juuzou and his teammates, Konan, Tendo, Orochimaru and Lu Li, a total of nine people.

"Are you calling us at this time to start collecting the tailed beasts?"

Scorpion in the Scarlet Flow Amber said, "If you want to go to Sand Village, it's best to let me do it."

Tendou glanced at Scorpion and said, "Then I'll leave the Sand Village to you. According to the intelligence, the One-Tail is still a child, but it can easily go berserk. You must be prepared to face the tailed beast directly."

Konan looked at Pain in surprise but said nothing.

Nagato's idea was very simple. He didn't want to delay his plan because of the unstable factor of the Mizukage. Now his physical condition was fine and the Outer Path Statue was ready. Who knows what would happen if he delayed it for another three years.

So he decided to let the members of the organization start collecting the tailed beasts directly, and capture the Fourth Mizukage directly, and then absorb one to three tails directly.

"Going on a business trip to a remote place like Sunagakure is really a waste of my money."

Kakuzu sounded dissatisfied, but when he saw Pain's determined look, he said no more.

"Juzo, your group is most familiar with the Hidden Mist Village and is currently located close by. Go over there first to find out the situation."

Payne said, "Don't act rashly yet."

Biwa Juzo's heart tightened when he heard the first half of the sentence, and he wanted to say "I beat the Mizukage?", but when he heard the latter part, "Don't act rashly," he breathed a sigh of relief.

It turns out that he was just going there to gather information, which is not too dangerous.

"Orochimaru, Natural Disaster, your group will go capture the Two-Tails, and then go south by boat to support the Kirigakure."

Pain issued new instructions, it was only for the first few tailed beasts, there was no need for him to go in person.

The Fourth Mizukage was very strong, and he didn't think that Biwa Juuzou's group could defeat them, so he only let the other party enter the country and lurk.

He was very optimistic about the combat effectiveness of the group of Zai and Orochimaru. After all, Zai had once caused a great disturbance in the Hidden Cloud Village and escaped. It shouldn't be a problem for him to cooperate with Orochimaru to capture people in the Hidden Cloud Village.

"Two-Tails, but there are two Jinchuriki in Kumogakure, right? If we encounter the Eight-Tails, should we capture it?"

Orochimaru licked the corner of his mouth and said so, but he had not actually decided to go out and help Akatsuki capture the tailed beast.

Now that Lu Jun has given him a large amount of research funds, the support of Akatsuki is no longer necessary. It is too risky to go to Kumogakure, a war-torn country, to capture the tailed beast.

"If it's impossible, you can retreat first and prioritize the recovery of the Jinchūriki of the Hidden Mist Village."

Tiandao thought for a moment and said, "If you don't succeed, I will go to Yunyin myself."

Lu Li listened the whole time and didn't say anything. He was just thinking, why was Nagato so anxious to deal with the Kirigakure matter?
It is certainly allowed for Akatsuki members to retreat when they are unable to win. Otherwise, people will die and Akatsuki will have to recruit new people, which will not be good for the organization.

From this point of view, the Akatsuki organization is still more open-minded than the other major ninja villages. There are also people in Konoha Village who were killed on the pillar of shame or punished because they fled because they were unable to win. Not to mention the Hidden Mist Village. Biwa Juzo defected because of this.

During the Ninja War, Biwa Juzo met Might Guy's father, Might Guy, and was defeated by the Death Gate of the Eight Gates of Ninjutsu. He fled in panic, but was sentenced and eventually became a rebel ninja.

Even though it was the Mizukage who was manipulated into issuing this punishment, it still felt ridiculous that anyone else could accept this situation.

Is Biwa Juzo's behavior considered desertion? That was clearly a strategic retreat. The opponent was already dead, so were you going to go up and be replaced by him?

Now that Nagato has said so, he has naturally already thought of a way to slack off.

With his current strength, if he brings Orochimaru with him, can he capture the second Yuzukimon?

He would definitely be caught, and he was confident that he could escape unscathed, but why did he work so hard in the Akatsuki organization?

Anyway, he didn't receive any side quests or hidden quests this time. Going to Yunyin to fight and capture the teak door would be a thankless task, so he could only replenish the Soul Eater Ring.

Once he breaks off relations with Kumogakure, not only will Kumogakure no longer be able to produce value for him, but the angry Raikage will also expose his undercover identity.

Even though he had already caught the Two-Tails by then, Nagato might not believe it, and it would bring him a lot of trouble.

After all, this would affect his own interests too much, so Lu Li decided to sell a wave of big information and squeeze out the value of Yunyin first.

"Any objections? If not, then we'll adjourn the meeting."

Tian Dao said, looking around at everyone.

There was a moment of silence among the people present. Upon seeing this, Tiandao lifted the slide body technique and the remote self-media conference was adjourned.

After Lu Li and Orochimaru regained consciousness inside the base, they looked at each other and saw each other's 'evil intentions' in their eyes.

"Mr. Lu, do you feel a sense of belonging to the Akatsuki organization?"

Orochimaru asked. He wanted to get Lu Li to quit the group with him. After all, catching tailed beasts on a large scale was too offensive. He just wanted to be a scientist doing research quietly.

Let him go with Lu Li to attack the Hidden Cloud Village? Payne, why don't you go by yourself?

"I can't say I feel a sense of belonging, but I am somewhat interested in the tailed beasts, so I plan to go north to take a look."

Lu Li could guess what Orochimaru was thinking and added, "If you don't want to go, just focus on your research. I can do it myself."

(End of this chapter)