The day after Aoba was promoted to Jonin, Sarutobi issued him an urgent mission to track down the whereabouts of Orochimaru, the S-level rebel ninja in Konoha.
Of course, the specific content of the mission was just that intelligence found some traces of a suspected Orochimaru, so he was sent to investigate.
Although Sarutobi couldn't bear to kill Orochimaru at first, over the years, Jiraiya has never given up on tracing Orochimaru's whereabouts.
And Jiraiya and Tsunade are exactly the most suitable candidates for the Fifth Hokage in Sarutobi's mind.
Sarutobi, who knew that his energy level was getting worse day by day, had thought of retiring more than once, so now he very much hopes to get Jiraiya and Tsunade back.
As for a certain brat who always considered himself the Fifth Hokage, in Sarutobi's mind, he was not only too young to convince others, but also lacked qualifications, so he never considered Aoba.
Naturally, Aoba, who received the mission and left the village to track down Orochimaru's whereabouts, didn't know that the purpose of finding Orochimaru was to allow Jiraiya to return to Konoha.
But even if he knows, he is not afraid!
Don't forget, he is no longer the rootless Ping he once was.
He has backup and backing. Even if Sarutobi wants to go his own way, he has to consider the consequences and whether Jiraiya and Tsunade are willing to be the Hokage.
Fair competition is out of the question, so why can't he still play some dirty tricks?
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After leaving Konoha, Aoba did not follow the location in the intelligence to find the whereabouts of Orochimaru.
Because based on his understanding of Orochimaru, this guy is building secret bases all over the ninja world. Even if he finds one of them, it will be useless and he can just abandon it casually.
And because of his relationship, Itachi is unlikely to join Akatsuki in this life. Naturally, Itachi will not kill Orochimaru with a look and force him to rebel against the organization.
With Orochimaru's character, he must still be thinking about how to kill Pain and snatch the Rinnegan Eye all day long. He will not easily leave the organization unless he feels that there is no hope of success.
So God knows whether Orochimaru is doing missions with Scorpion at the moment, or is hiding in some base doing research that cannot be seen in the light.
It would be very difficult for Sarutobi to complete this task beautifully if it were given to anyone, but if it were given to Aoyu, it would really be something that can only be described as being accomplished with ease.
Where is Orochimaru?
Just ask this guy!
Qingyu immediately found a place where no one was around, put on the skin of [Scarlet Swordsman], then took out a 'PHS', put it on his hand, and started making a 'video call'.
After the mission to assassinate the Fourth Mizukage was completed, it didn't take long for both Scorpion and Orochimaru to express their interest in Yagura's body through Pain.
It's just that he hasn't figured out what to change, and he can't let Nagato know that what he is interested in is actually Scorpion's favor, otherwise Nagato will definitely doubt his motives.
After getting through the 'video call' with Payne, Qingyu directly explained his purpose.
Payne was also very considerate and immediately sent invitations to Scorpion and Orochimaru for multi-player sports.
Soon, the missing bodies of Scorpion and Orochimaru appeared.
Scorpion and Orochimaru were both a little surprised when they saw Yasuo, who often didn't show up, was there, but they didn't think about anything else, but looked at Pain.
"Is there another mission?"
Orochimaru seemed a little unhappy and said: "My experiment has been placed for a long time. Didn't I agree that after this mission, the mission will be temporarily suspended for a period of time?"
Payne was very dissatisfied with Orochimaru's attitude in speaking, but he would not fall out because of such a trivial matter.
"This time Yasuo has something to ask you. It has nothing to do with the mission. You can talk about it yourself."
After Payne finished speaking, he acted as a tool and stopped looking at both sides.
Orochimaru, on the other hand, stuck out his tongue and licked his lips in surprise, staring at Yasuo coldly with the eyes of his prey.
Qingyu immediately felt like he was being targeted by a venomous snake, but he was not afraid at all, he just felt a little uncomfortable.
"The leader said before that you are interested in Mizukage's body. Please give me a price. What can you give me in exchange for something that interests me?"
It turns out this is what happened...
Orochimaru's eyes flickered, but he always felt that things might not be that simple.
However, Xie, who was in the amber, didn't care about this at all, and said with great interest: "What do you want to exchange for? You must not be interested in my puppet works. So how about using money to trade? Ten million
?Fifty million? Or 100 million?”
As soon as Xie opened his mouth, he exuded the aura of a rich man, which made Qingyu almost shout out: "First charge 100 million!"
If you think about it carefully, Scorpio is a master at playing puppets!
Someone who can play like a puppet can be someone who is short of money!
Just the precious materials used to make puppets are not something that poor people can afford to save.
Qingyu is willing to bet that this guy Xie definitely makes a lot of extra money. Otherwise, Nagato agreed to give him a kickback. Otherwise, it would be tens of millions when he opened his mouth. Where did the hundreds of millions of dollars come from?
However, Qingyu still resisted the urge to agree, after all, his main target this time was Orochimaru.
Seeing Yasuo looking over, Orochimaru now seriously suspected that this guy was trying to raise the price and let him and Xia compete with each other to raise the price, so he found the two of them at once and threw the bait of Mizukage's corpse in front of the leader.
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This also made Orochimaru very unhappy and felt that he was being used.
Especially since all his money was used to build bases and conduct scientific research.
If you spend money playing puppets, do you still have to spend money doing scientific research?
It’s basically a bottomless pit, and no amount of money is enough to spend it!
In addition, he is secretly building a ninja village, and he is spending money like water.
So when competing with Scorpio for financial resources, he definitely has no chance of winning.
Do you want to give it up?
Orochimaru couldn't help but come up with this idea. After all, as an experimental material, Mizukage's body was not that important to him.
Of course it would be best to have it, but not having it would not actually affect his ongoing scientific research.
On the contrary, Scorpion was able to turn the Yondaime Mizukage's corpse into a puppet, which greatly increased his strength again.
Thinking of this, Orochimaru smiled.
Even if he wants to give up, he will still try to trick him!
The two of them disliked each other from the beginning, and almost came to blows several times.
Moreover, Orochimaru, who has been studying immortality, despises Scorpion's concept of 'immortality' and regards it as a heresy!
As a result, Orochimaru chuckled twice and added directly: "What can you do with a dispensable thing like money? I have a lot of scientific research results. Maybe you will be very interested in it. Do you want to see it?
Make a decision later?"
Upon hearing this, Qingyu didn't say anything yet, but Xia's tone immediately became more gloomy, "Orochimaru, you have to fight with me, right?"