In Lei Luo's view, the Third Raikage's escape was just because the other party most likely discovered his ability and acted rationally out of fear.
Under such circumstances, with the pride in Lei Luo's heart, he would not bother to say that he "completely defeated the Raikage" and "the Raikage is no match for him".
After all, it is an indisputable fact that he cannot effectively break through the Raikage's defense.
But even so, Danzo didn't know the details of the fight between Lei Luo and the Third Raikage, so he naturally widened his eyes, opened his mouth wide, and made a rude expression in front of Lei Luo for the first time.
After being silent for several minutes, Danzo finally regained consciousness. He first patted his chest lightly, took a breath of air, and coughed twice uncontrollably.
"Lei Luo..." Danzo's heart was raging violently, but on the surface he was still trying his best to maintain a calm expression.
His eyes kept flickering, and he continued with a slightly trembling tone: "Where did you fight the Third Raikage?"
Danzo's question was quite beyond Lei Luo's expectations. He originally thought that Danzo would ask about the process of his battle with Raikage, but he did not expect that the other party still maintained a tacit understanding with him and did not touch this topic.
Thinking of this, Lei Luo also thought about it for a while. When he recalled what Namikaze Minato said in front of him, he replied: "Within the country of Yu."
"The Country of Tang?" Silently repeating the name of this country, Danzo slowly exhaled a breath and sighed: "What a pity, it's not within our Country of Fire."
After saying that, Danzo no longer struggled with the matter, but turned to face the door and shouted loudly: "Here comes someone!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two root ninjas walked in from the door. The mask on one of them's face gave Lei Luo a vague sense of familiarity. He should be his subordinate when he was performing the mission in the Kingdom of Rain. I remember his name was Jiazi, right?
Danzo pointed at Kushina and ordered the two root ninjas: "Bring Uzumaki Kushina back to her residence, and at the same time send two more teams to protect her."
Without the slightest hesitation, Jiazi and another Gen-nin bowed their heads to accept the order, and then turned their attention to Kushina on the other side, who was quite restless.
Kushina, who wanted to leave here immediately, saw this and hurriedly walked to Jiazi. However, before leaving, she turned back to look at Lei Luo, with a hint of gratitude in her eyes.
From Kushina's point of view, if Lei Luo hadn't spoken for her about the situation just now, Danzo would never have let it go so easily, and he would never have gotten over it.
Although she clearly didn't do anything wrong, facing an unreasonable Konoha elder, a real high-level official, it was obvious that she couldn't judge her right or wrong by herself.
Therefore, from the time Lei Luo rescued her from the Third Raikage until now, he has spared no effort to exonerate her. Kushina vows to keep this kindness in her heart.
A few minutes later, when the irrelevant people had left, Danzo stopped delaying and said bluntly to Lei Luo:
"Lei Luo, you did a good job this time. You not only recaptured the Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki candidate, but also severely dampened the spirit of Kumogakure Village."
"Tell me, what do you want?"
Lei Luo was not surprised that the topic could advance to the discussion of merit and rewards so quickly.
Anyway, his relationship with Danzo has always been like this, which is why he is willing to join the root and work hard for the other party.
But this time, Lei Luo did not directly ask for anything. He carefully considered his words before saying meaningfully:
"A few months ago, I talked about something with Orochimaru. To be precise, it was an experiment..."
Just as Lei Luo was halfway through speaking, Danzo immediately realized what the other party wanted to mention.
Decisively raising his hand to stop Lei Luo's words, Danzo narrowed his eyes and looked at the former, and said bluntly: "I understand, what you want is Wood Release, right?"
"That's right." Lei Luo nodded slightly, and also narrowed his eyes to look at Danzo, waiting for the other party's answer.
Seeing Lei Luo's admission, Danzo didn't speak for a while. He raised his head slightly and shook his neck. At the same time, he frowned and closed his eyes unconsciously, as if he was thinking about something.
After a while, Danzo looked at Lei Luo again. His face was a little ugly, and he forced a smile on his lips:
"I never thought that Orochimaru would tell you about Mu Dun. It seems that you have a very good relationship with him..."
Regarding Danzo's slightly mocking words, Lei Luo just spread his hands noncommittally and simply asked: "So?"
"I can give you the Wood Release Ninjutsu, and you can also participate in the research and development process of the first generation Hokage cells." Perhaps because he had just weighed the pros and cons, Danzo didn't waste any time at this moment and decisively agreed.
But then, Danzo changed the topic and put forward another condition: "I think you should also understand from Orochimaru how valuable the wood escape cells are, so I won't talk nonsense, so..."
"Just completing the task of recovering the Jinchuuriki candidate is not enough to exchange for this thing."
"You still need to complete another task to make up for the value of this."
Knowing that Danzo was trying to bargain, Lei Luo was not surprised. Rather, he was secretly relieved.
After all, Danzo didn't completely stop talking, which meant that he still had a chance to trade Hashirama's cells through "regular channels."
Danzo's greed did not surprise Lei Luo. It would be a bit strange if the other party handed Hashirama's cells to him so easily.
"I think the other mission you mentioned is to assassinate the Third Mizukage, right?" Having said that, Lei Luo naturally understood Danzo's plan and asked directly.
Danzo nodded: "Yes."
Although he has accepted this "price" in his heart, out of instinct, Lei Luo still plans to pay back the price:
"Don't you think the Third Mizukage's head is too cheap?"
As he said that, Lei Luo pretended to be unhappy and complained to Danzo: "You have to know, during my trip to recover the Jinchuuriki candidate, I almost lost my life after fighting with the Third Raikage."
"Two tasks are done in one, and you only give such a small benefit. This can't be justified, right?"
Hearing this, Danzo remained unmoved. He just sneered and cast his gaze on Lei Luo's body. After scanning up and down, he continued:
"I really can't see that you're a little bit beaten until your life is almost gone."
With that said, Danzo pointed to Lei Luo's undamaged clothes, and said with an expression of "Are you kidding me?" "There is no wound on the body, and even the clothes are not damaged at all, Lei Luo, you
tell me……"
"Do you believe what you just said?"
Noticing the mocking tone in Danzo's mouth, Lei Luo couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart, secretly making a miscalculation.
In fact, he can't be blamed for this. First, he had a fierce battle with the Third Raikage, then he thought about how to deal with the information leakage, then he thought about conquering Namikaze Minato, and finally he thought about the next route to improve his strength.