Toneri immediately felt a pair of eyes staring at him.
He nodded secretly, although Kakuzu is a miser and a money-crazy maniac, his management ability is still worthy of recognition.
Although the current Kasumi organization is not a great organization, it can be regarded as a force developing in the direction of hidden villages, and this management talent is still quite important.
As soon as the front foot stepped into this area, someone noticed it, which shows that this eyeliner arrangement is good.
Whoosh——
A ninja with an unmarked guard on his head appeared behind Toneri, holding a kunai in his hand and pressing it tightly against his neck.
"Who are you!? Don't you know you can't enter here casually?"
Judging from his appearance alone, this person is not very old.
Judging from the movement speed, he is not very strong. He should be a ninja who has just become a genin.
Shiren narrowed his eyes, with a faint smile on his face.
Seeing that Toneri was just smiling but not answering, the man's eyes froze, and he held the kunai's hand lightly and aimed at his neck and scratched it directly.
Just this determination and murderous intention are worthy of recognition.
Click——
However, as soon as his kunai fell, the feeling that appeared was not that of being secretly cut into flesh, but rather like being chopped on wood.
The man's expression immediately changed, as if he was pulling away, but it was still a step too late.
I saw that the original Toneri slowly turned into a piece of wood, and from this piece of wood, thorns extended out, binding the young ninja who was standing behind Toneri just now.
"Wooden Escape-The thorn-killing technique."
Create rattan-like wood to restrain the enemy, and create multiple wooden pillars around the enemy to prevent the enemy from escaping.
And the Toneri who was subdued by him just now was undoubtedly just a wooden clone.
The young ninja who was restrained by the wooden escape turned red in the face. No matter how hard he tried, he could not break free from the restraints of the wooden escape.
Not only that, the more he struggled, the tighter the restraint became.
Immediately afterwards, I saw the real Toneri slowly walking out from behind a nearby tree. He looked at the struggling young ninja and asked calmly: "Where are you? Why are you attacking me!? Who is your leader?
who?!"
Suddenly, the young man calmed down and stared at Shiren without saying a word.
But Toneri noticed that something similar to a scroll appeared in his movable hand, and he saw him pinch the scroll hard and crush it into pieces.
Send message.
Just watching him do this, Toneri didn't stop him, but he wanted to see how Kakuzu's overall arrangement was going.
Not long after, probably less than ten seconds, ninjas began to appear one by one.
Standing on a tree, standing in the grass, or standing in front of others.
There are genin, chunin, and jounin.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on Toneri. There were many ninjas who were about the same age as the person being restrained by Toneri, but there were also many older ninjas.
And these people are all wandering ninjas recruited by Kakuzu or they were bounty hunters like him.
All recruitment standards are strictly in accordance with Sheren's requirements.
"Wood Release?!"
After an older jounin saw the wooden escape performed by Toneri, his eyes subconsciously shrank.
These young ninjas should have been trained by themselves, and their experience is not very good.
However, the vision and abilities of these older ninjas are much stronger than those of younger ninjas.
For Wood Release, they have always stayed in the legendary First Hokage of Konoha, the God of the Ninja World. This is also the first time they have seen the real Wood Release.
Originally, they wanted to rush forward and fight with Toneri, but after seeing Mu Dun, they were a little uncertain and hesitated to step forward.
Seeing their appearance, Toneri couldn't help but frown.
Still too timid.
In this case...
Hand seals.
"Wooden Escape - The Tree Realm is coming!" He shouted in a low voice.
The Arrival of the Tree Realm is the unique ninjutsu of Senju Hashirama, the first Hokage. It is a powerful ninjutsu that can be used after possessing the Wood Release Blood Succession Limit. The only one who could use it before was Senju Hashirama. However,
Now, there should be Uchiha Madara.
Of course, what Toneri used could only be considered half-assed at best, not even half-assed. Others were really coming from the tree world, but his was just a small forest at most.
Restricted by the limits of his own Mudun Blood Succession, this is already the limit of what he can release.
But no matter what, the scene and momentum must be adequate, right?
If the strength becomes stronger in the future, the wooden escape method will be used in the same way. The only difference is the degree of inheritance of Senju Hashirama's abilities.
Boom——Boom——Boom——
The ground shook for a while. This place was originally a forest, but after the "Wood Release - Arrival of the Tree Realm" was used, more trees emerged crazily from under the ground and bounded towards all the ninjas present.
The advent of the tree world cannot be regarded as a large-scale total ninjutsu, because the emergence of this jutsu only changed the landscape to a certain extent.
But as long as it is within the range covered by the advent of the tree world, all offense and defense are under the control of the caster.
Seeing that all the young companions were restrained by the Wood Release, only a few jounin were not restrained, and the rest, whether they were chunin or genin, were all restrained by the Wood Release.
The scope of the wood world's arrival was not large, and it enveloped everyone just right.
But that's enough.
The jounin were so frightened that they didn't know what to choose for a while, attack or retreat.
But they shuddered when they thought about the situation they might face after retreating.
He immediately gritted his teeth and took a posture ready to fight back.
Before they took action, a voice sounded in the woods.
"Do you think this is the arrival of the tree world? If Senju Hashirama comes back to life, he will probably be pissed off by you." His voice had a muffled feeling.
Hearing this voice, all the ninjas, whether they were bound or not, had joy on their faces.
Their manager is here, the powerful and terrifying Lord Kakuzu is here!
However, when they heard this voice, they were not the only ones who were surprised, but also the person who had used Wood Escape and was ridiculed.
"Why isn't the tree world coming? Look at this tree...it's big and round!"
Toneri laughed and cursed, and with a tap of his hands, all the trees left behind by the arrival of the tree realm disappeared, and all the people who were bound were released.
Kakuzu walked in from the outside step by step. Even though he was wearing a black robe, he still felt a lot of visual and mental oppression.
Looking at Kakuzu with a hint of joking, he walked in after the arrival of the tree world ended.
Once he was bitten by a snake and had been afraid of well ropes for ten years, the shadow left by his battle with Senju Hashirama was still relatively big. He mocked the arrival of the tree world in his mouth, but his body was very honest.
Seeing Toneri's eyes like this, Kakuzu felt as if he was being seen through, and felt very nervous inside.
However, he admitted that he was really afraid of Mu Dun from the bottom of his heart.
Otherwise, when he first met Toneri, he wouldn't have been frightened by his lame wooden escape. Of course, the most important thing was to agree to help him make money.
Later, after Kakuzu learned about the true strength of Toneri Mu Dun, he always regarded his appearance at that time as an embarrassment.
However, in his impression, Wood Release, which was not very powerful at all, actually used "Wooden Release-Tree Realm Advent" today. Even though it was Tree Realm Advent that had been cut down by hundreds of millions of swords, it was still better than the one he had only used before.
It is much better to make a small sapling.
But now, Shiren's Wood Release surprised him again.
Is this little guy really a descendant of Senju Hashirama?
Can this Mudun become stronger again in the future?
Toneri walked up to Kakuzu under their alert gazes. Kakuzu, who was awe-inspiring and scary to others, was suddenly grabbed by his neck.
Unknowingly, Toneri has gone from being a short man among the crowd to now being no less than Kakuzu, and even a little taller.
Being trapped like this by Toneri, Kakuzu's expression suddenly froze, with disbelief in his green eyes.
The people around looked at this scene in stunned silence.
In their impression, just being close to Jiaodu gave them a feeling of trembling. How dare this person do this?
And judging from Kakuzu-sama's appearance, he doesn't seem to be very resistant.
Kakuzu exerted a little force, but after feeling Toneri's strength, he gave up the struggle.
Even he himself had forgotten how long it had been since no one dared to treat him like this.
Perhaps, the memory goes back to when I was a child living in Takigakure Village.
He shook his head gently and suppressed some things in his mind that he had buried deeply in the depths of his memory.
After looking at the people around him, he once again became the unsmiling Kakuzu-sama in their impressions, always talking about money.
"I have always told you that I am just the chief steward of this 'Xia Organization'. You have never seen the real leader. Today, he is here..."
With that said, he gently moved a step aside and released Toneri alone.
For a moment, everyone looked at each other, some not knowing what was going on.
But since Kakuzu said he was the leader, and considering the previous actions of the two of them, he should really be the leader.
Immediately afterwards, everyone felt happy.
Such a powerful leader is a huge benefit to any organization.
Originally, many people were attracted by Kakuzu's powerful strength, but the fact that such a powerful ninja like Kakuzu is willing to become a being similar to his subordinates is enough to explain a lot of things.
They all lowered their heads and shouted respectfully: "Chief!"
Shiren nodded slightly and said nothing.
Kakuzu saw many people peeking at him, trying to remember the appearance of this leader he had never seen before.
So I reminded him: "Don't remember his appearance. It's useless if you remember him. He might change his appearance next time to remember his feelings and the feeling he gave you."
At this time, Toneri was not using his original appearance at all. Kakuzu could recognize him because of the Wood Release he used and his own aura that was not very concealed.
Hearing Kakuzu's words, everyone was stunned again. This was the first time they had heard of such a strange leader.
However, in this case, they can only remember his aura honestly, especially this Mu Dun.
"Okay, let's go and do our own things."
Toneri waved his hands casually, and everyone quickly left and returned to their posts, leaving only him and Kakuzu.
"How do you feel?" Kakuzu asked.
Toneri knew what he wanted to ask, nodded, rubbed his chin, and felt a little bit of stubble, "Not bad. It's pretty good for a hastily trained ninja to have such qualities.
Although this group of people has consumed a lot of resources, it will be good if they can become the foundation in the future. If you want to build a hidden village, the foundation is already there.
Even if we maintain the mercenary model, we can still continuously provide basic troops."
These young ninjas are all orphans gathered from all over the ninja world. After a certain degree of brainwashing, they will be very loyal to their Kasumi organization, especially to the leader Toneri.
Just like Toneri has always felt, those ninjas at the root of Konoha are the ninjas that those in power like the most, because they are obedient enough, and their strength and ability come second.
The abilities and strength of these orphans are not strong. Even if they are called ninjas now, it is only because they have learned how to refine chakra and mastered the Three Body Technique, and that's it.
In the future, when performing various tasks, you may die one by one, or you may become stronger little by little.
Future growth and gains will be directly proportional to their efforts and contributions.
Hearing what Toneri said, Kakuzu nodded. After all, it hadn't been long, and it was his first time trying many things. It was normal to have surprises and dissatisfaction. This was a company that Toneri took for granted at the beginning.
It's just organization.
However, all the expenses so far have been provided by the Daimyo of Tiannokuni, which is undoubtedly the happiest thing for Kakuzu.
Even, so far, there is still a lot of surplus, and the ninjas in the organization have also begun to do some large and small tasks, and the bounty tasks in the underground bounty exchange house have also continued.
"It's easy for you. Just give them a blow when you come up. It won't waste much time. Do you know how much time is wasted? Don't you know that time is money?"
Kakuzu and Toneri walked towards the real base of their organization, complaining angrily as they walked.
With his eyesight, couldn't he still see what the purpose of Shiren's previous actions was?
Isn't it just to show off to people in the organization who have never seen him before?
So as to determine his leadership position as quickly as possible.
"It's all trivial. If it weren't for the mission information you sent me, I wouldn't even have to go to Tian Country." Toneri said angrily.
Hearing this, Kakuzu narrowed his eyes and said, "Really? You're good to go then. If it weren't for your great need, I wouldn't be willing to take on this mission. Do you know how dangerous it is?"
"
"If I leave, who will help you make money?
As for the level of risk? Are you someone who cares about the level of risk? Don’t tell me that you don’t want to take on this mission just for the money, don’t say it as if it’s for me.”
The two people knew each other well, passed the buck along the way, and slowly walked into the Xia organization's base.
...
Sit down in the deep conference room.
In fact, there are only two of them. No one can enter here except the two of them.
Even those Jonin can only be considered the middle level within the organization, and only people like Kakuzu can be considered high-level.
"Are everything written in your information true?"
Toneri took out the scroll and confirmed it again.
Kakuzu nodded seriously, "Do I look like someone who can joke about this kind of thing?"
"That's really interesting. That old fellow, the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, actually wanted to attack the jinchūriki of his own village." There was a hint of joking in Toneri's eyes.
At such a critical moment, when Iwagakure and Konoha went to war, what was the reason that actually caused the shadow of a village to attack the jinchūriki of his own village?
This is either a joke or a huge joke.
Toneri once met Lao Murasaki, the four-tailed jinchuriki of Iwagakure Village, during the chunin exam, and he also met the five-tailed jinchuriki of Iwagakure Village during the mission in Tiannokuni.
And this time, the person Ohnoki wants Kasumi organization to deal with is none other than the fourth-tailed Jinchūriki Lao Murasaki of Iwagakure Village!
That's why Kakuzu said that he took on this mission for Toneri, because he knew that Toneri had been collecting the chakra of the tailed beasts.
Four of them were the ones he had not collected.
From Toneri's point of view, Kakuzu was completely attracted by his mission reward of up to 50 million taels, and it was all nonsense to say that he was thinking about him.
No matter how you calculate it, it's not as good as the 50 million taels of white flowers.
As for the relationship between the third Tsuchikage of Iwagakure Village and the four-tailed Jinchūriki Lao Murasaki, Toneri vaguely remembers it.
The two stubborn old guys dislike each other. I guess Lao Zi can't stand the fact that the third Tsuchikage Ohnoki ignored the hatred of Kumogakure in the Kingdom of Thunder and insisted on taking action against Konoha to make him
Feeling very unhappy.
It was probably at this time that he chose to leave the village and become a wandering monk, right?
However, Lao Zi is a Jinchuuriki after all, and he has made many contributions to Iwagakure Village, so Iwagakure Village does not classify him as a traitorous ninja.
Lao Zi probably knew that Onoki had suffered a loss at the hands of Madara Uchiha when he was young, so he always held a grudge and pointed the finger at Konoha every time there was a war.
This is true whether it is the Second Ninja War or the current Third Ninja War.
Therefore, Lao Zi subjectively concluded that Onoki just wanted to avenge his private revenge. Under the current situation, uniting with Konoha to attack Kumogakure Village was definitely the best choice.
In his eyes, Ohnoki is a stubborn and selfish old guy.
"Then what is the goal of this mission? To kill the fourth-tailed Jinchuuriki Lao Murasaki?" Toneri stretched out his hand and gestured to his neck.
Kakuzu shook his head, "After all, he is an important fighting force of a village, and he is also a Jinchuriki. If he dies, the Four-Tails will be reborn. So our mission this time is just to bring him back to Iwagakure.
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Hearing this, Toneri frowned, "It's just? This is more troublesome than killing him, okay? The mission reward of 50 million is still less."
Kakuzu nodded empathetically, "I think it's missing too, but after all, we haven't shown our strength yet. He can give so much because he just wants to give it a try."
"Did you give a deposit?"
"No."
Sheren: "..."
He sighed softly and said, "That won't work. Let's negotiate a satisfactory price with him first and get part of the deposit before we take on the task."
