Lei Luo nodded and sat on the chair opposite the desk. Huitu put down the pen in his hand, stood up, and walked to the cabinet with the kettle at the back. Within a few seconds, he handed over a cup of steaming coffee with a very enthusiastic attitude.
"Thank you."
Lei Luo took the coffee, took a sip, looked at Huitu who sat back down, and directly stated his intention: "Do you have any tasks recently? You know, I am a bit restless."
After being severely punished by Tai Zhi, Huitu has restrained himself a lot in these five days.
At the very least, she no longer takes Asaka to Taichi and continues to stimulate him.
Lei Luo felt that this young man had experienced a wave of severe beatings from society and had grown a bit in his behavior as a person.
Although he is the de facto base commander, his lack of strength means that Huitu's prestige is far from high.
Coupled with Iwagakure's strategy of breaking things into parts, the elders and Tsuchikage are unable to grasp the detailed dynamics of each base, and they have no time to pay attention to trivial matters such as fights.
No matter how hard Huitu's relationship is, no one has time to come and support him. If Taichi hits him, it will be in vain. Even if he wants to retaliate, his two confidant Jonin are no match for Taichi based on their physical skills alone.
Using ninjutsu and real swords and guns, not to mention the trouble, the overall strength of Base 58 will be lost. If he really issues such an order, the Iwa ninja below will definitely be strongly dissatisfied.
Although Huitu is a son of a powerful man, he is not stupid. In the current environment of the enemy, it does not mean that conflicts cannot exist, but they must be kept within a controllable range. This is why he has not taken strong measures against Tai Zhi so far.
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Although, this will be very frustrating.
But Huitu also has a plan now, which is to win over Lei Luo, a Jonin who seems to have a good impression of him, is willing to help in time, and has slightly stronger combat power than Tai Zhi, and plans to develop Lei Luo as a confidant to compete with Tai Zhi
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Although the base director can command the Iwa Ninjas to serve, this power is strictly a public one. Huitu, who lacks prestige, can at most issue some external tasks for the Iwa Ninjas at Base 58 to carry out.
When it comes to some orders that are obviously related to internal fighting, no one will listen to him except his inner circle. If he really wants to kill his companions, there is a high probability that the two Iwagakure jounin will not listen to the order and will instead stop him.
In this situation, just like Nonoyu in the Mitsue incident, there is naturally a reason why strong men like Uchiha Aoi have not taken action.
"Tuyuan, you have completed your recent missions well. The accuracy of your intelligence on several occasions has been very high, which has given us a great advantage in our recent operations. It is worthy of praise."
First, he praised Lei Luo's work and found that the man opposite him was noncommittal. Huitu was not surprised. After all, after so many days of communication and familiarity, he had already figured out Tu Yuan's character.
"You just came back yesterday, are you sure you don't need two days of rest?"
"unnecessary."
Sensing the concern in Huitu's words, Lei Luo felt no fluctuation in his heart. On the surface, his face was a little gloomy, and he listened to his nonsense: "Every time I close my eyes, I can think of the scene that night."
"The images of those dozen ANBU colleagues still cannot be driven away from my mind. Uchiha Fugaku...sooner or later, I will kill him!"
Seeing Lei Luo hoping to paralyze himself with tasks, eager to improve his strength and finally avenge his companions, Huitu couldn't help but stand in awe. He felt that this was the real ninja. He stopped trying to persuade him and issued the task:
"Well... you are good at collecting intelligence, so I will leave the task of exploring the southern towns to you, Tu Yuan, I believe you will not let me down."
"I've never let you down."
After replying lightly, Lei Luo stood up, took the task list and map handed over by Huitu, turned around and walked towards the door, but at the moment before stepping out of the threshold, he paused and turned his head slightly:
"I just hope you don't disappoint me."
Lei Luo left, and Huitu fell into silence for a moment. Thinking of Tu Yuan's previous requests to him, a look of uncertainty appeared on his face, and he felt quite torn in his heart.
Tsuchimoto is a veteran Jonin of Iwagakure. Over the years, he has made a lot of contributions, but he has never made any demands to the village. This kind of performance can be said to be selfless and worthy of praise and praise.
In particular, the other party has recently obtained a precious intelligence channel from nowhere. Every time it goes out on a mission, it can bring back some key information with an accuracy rate of close to 100%.
This information has provided great help for the encirclement and counter-encirclement and suppression operations at Base 58 and several surrounding bases. It is not an exaggeration to say that Tomoto is the most important ninja at Base 58 today.
What's more, when Tai Zhi beat himself up five days ago, Tu Yuan was the one who saved him. This favor was small or large, but for Hui Tu, who was interested in developing Tu Yuan as his confidant, it couldn't be ignored.
So easily ignored.
"The art of light and heavy rock and the art of earth spear should be the art that meets the requirements of earth element. But it is absolutely impossible to obtain this level of art without father's nod."
Huitu gently bit his pen and thought for a long time, then he let out a sigh of relief and made up his mind: "Follow up, let's contact father and report Tu Yuan's situation."
After muttering, Huitu continued to deal with the documents on the table. Although the young base director had not promised anything to Lei Luo, he actually had a clearer tendency in his heart. All that was left was how to tell his father.
In the green mountains and forests, the air is filled with the fragrance of earth, and the sun rises slowly in the distance. The water vapor left over from the heavy rain last night makes the surrounding environment slightly humid.
Two figures moved forward quickly. It was Lei Luo and Fugaku who walked out of Base 58 and headed towards Base 42 where Jiraiya was located. The nominal mission of this trip was to collect intelligence on the Fire Nation troops.
There is no need to elaborate on what it does specifically.
"Hokage-sama, why don't you just control Huitu? Rather than gaining his trust bit by bit, controlling him, and directly using his communication channel with Iwagakure's senior management, wouldn't it be more efficient?"
After running silently for a long time, Fugaku thought about it and couldn't help asking Lei Luo about his doubts in his heart. Lei Luo's answer was very simple, only five words:
"It's risky, don't rush."
Carefully pondering the meaning of these five words, Fugaku subconsciously observed Lei Luo's face, and found that the Hokage's brows were slightly wrinkled, as if he was thinking about something, so he did not interrupt again.
'The White Zetsu Line and Anbu Line have not achieved much. Now it depends on whether the Jiraiya Line can make a breakthrough. If not, we can only put more energy into the Ashes Line.'
Lei Luo silently thought about the follow-up plan. The reason why he did not decisively use the kaleidoscope illusion on Huitu or search for souls was because the reason he told Fugaku was that the risk of failure was very high.