Toner and Kakuzu return to the base of Kasumi Tano no Kuni's organization.
I have to say that the results from this outing were quite good.
Not only did he find a suitable excuse for Toneri to attack the four-tailed jinchuriki Lao Zi, but he could also make a lot of money, and he made it with blood.
The most important thing is that originally attacking the Jinchūriki who owned the Hidden Rock Village was likely to cause a huge backlash from the Hidden Village, but now he had a reasonable excuse.
"How's it going? Do you feel nostalgic now that you've returned to the country of Taki again?" Toneri joked.
Kakuzu rolled his eyes at him angrily, "The country of Takino has nothing to do with me for a long time, and now there is no one I know in the country of Takino."
Shiren shrugged and didn't say much about this joke.
He took out a scroll with the word "three" written on it, reached out and pressed it on the scroll, and channeled the third generation Kazekage's human puppet.
In terms of the production technology of human puppets, Toneri is definitely inferior to Red Sand Scorpion, but he also has an advantage, which is his ability to take the wrong direction with his sword.
Seeing this puppet of the Third Kazekage, Kakuzu couldn't help but his eyes lit up, "It was really tricked by you. So, the person Hanzo of the Rain Country condemned some time ago is you, right?
Putting the blame on Sunagakure Village and leaving Rasa in Sunagakure Village unable to express her sufferings just goes along with Hanzo's wishes."
Kakuzu instantly thought of the attack on Sunagakure Village some time ago.
Others laughed and said nothing. Some things are good if you know them, but it seems a little bad if you say them.
Kakuzu immediately showed a knowing expression.
"But this thing is not perfect and I am not the one who made it, so there are still many flaws.
Doesn't your Earthly Resentment Yu have some more practical functions? Help me with it. I always feel that it's not very flexible to control. Please help me adjust it."
After listening to Toneri's words, Kakuzu looked at him in silence for a long time with green eyes, and finally nodded helplessly.
This grudge of mine really has no secret at all in front of Toneri. It is a special ability that he has never used except for himself, but he seems to know this ability very well.
Then he saw a squirming black line slowly crawling out from the seam of Kakuzu's arm, as if alive, and then crawled in from the mouth of the Third Kazekage puppet.
Little by little, if you have a Byakugan here, you can see that some of the places in this puppet that were not very well made and that prevented Chuck from being transported smoothly were all replaced by Kakuzu's black lines.
Even some meridians that are inherently defective are supplemented or replaced by Jiaodu's black lines.
Looking at Kakuzu with a serious look on his face, a smile appeared on Toneri's face.
Why did he think of letting Kakuzu help him perfect this puppet? It was mainly because of the owner that this puppet should belong to, the Red Sand Scorpion.
The Scorpion of Crimson Sand is keen on human puppets, and even transformed his body into a human puppet from the inside out. Not only does his appearance always remain the same as when he was young, but he also has an ability that is similar to immortality, and his
The core is the core heart that is integrated with all his chakra and thinking.
However, transforming yourself into a puppet is okay if you only have hands and feet. Something like a heart is definitely not something that can be completed by one person, no matter how powerful that person is.
Many people would think that the most critical part of Scorpion's body was transformed by Orochimaru, a fellow crazy human body researcher, but in Toneri's view, it should not be Orochimaru, his cheap teacher.
If Orochimaru helped Scorpion transform his body, he would probably not see the sun the next day. Orochimaru, who was coming into contact with a human puppet for the first time, might treat Scorpion as a collection.
Therefore, Toneri believed that it was probably Kakuzu who did this.
First of all, what Scorpio relies on is the most critical heart, and Jiaodu's Yu also relies on the heart the most, and he is also the person who knows the heart best.
At the same time, Kakuzu also needs to be able to ensure that after taking out the scorpion's heart, it will still survive and remain active.
Earthly Resentment Yu allows Kakuzu to obtain the chakra and chakra attributes of the original owner of the heart, and it can also help Scorpion retain its own chakra.
Of course, this is just Toneri's own analysis. Maybe Scorpio has other more practical and efficient methods, but he had such a guess, so he thought of Kakuzu.
As expected, after Kakuzu saw the puppet of the Third Kazekage, he immediately thought of what he could do.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that inside Kakuzu's body, apart from the heart and his outer skin, there are only these black lines left inside.
And these black lines have extremely powerful functions. They can not only ensure the activity of the body, but also replace many things in a person's body, such as the meridians.
Just like Hidan in the future, even if he has an immortal body, his arms and legs will be cut off, but Kakuzu's black thread can sew his severed arms and legs back together, while restoring his mobility and original functions.
It lasted for half an hour before Kakuzu helped Toneri finish repairing the third Kazekage's human puppet.
"How is it?" Shiren asked.
Kakuzu rolled his eyes at him with green eyes, "Although the method of making this puppet is novel, the craftsmanship is really not very good. If his original strength is considered to be 100%, after you make it, you can at most show it.
Fifty to sixty percent, it's not that your control ability is not strong enough, but that the puppet itself has flaws in its production.
However, after the transformation and strengthening of our resentment, it is still possible to exert 70% to 80% or even 80% to 90%, not to mention fully developing all his strength during his lifetime.
You should be glad that you didn't modify the heart of this puppet, otherwise even with me, I wouldn't be able to exert such effect.
But you have to remember one thing, from now on, the starting point of all its strength comes from the heart, whether it is chakra output or body power."
Having said so many words of warning at once, it can be seen that Jiao has put a lot of thought into it.
"I see."
Diandian put away the puppet of the Third Kazekage.
Having such a human puppet is equivalent to having a shadow-level powerhouse that can be summoned to fight at any time.
Although the consumption of chakra will be a bit large, for Toneri, the most important thing he lacks is chakra.
"Let's discuss how to spend the money in the future. Not only the money earned here, but also the allocations provided by the Daimyo of Tiannokuni from time to time, and even the money we earned from being self-sufficient."
Spending money is a bit heartbreaking.
But he also knows what investment is. If you don't spend money, there is no such thing as making money, and there is no steady stream of money income.
Toneri rubbed his chin.
The amount of money this time was not a small amount, and Shiren himself had made a lot of money, so he really needed a place to spend money.
After a long silence, Shecai finally said, "Let's build a village."
Hearing this, Kakuzu was stunned, "Village? Do you mean the Hidden Village?"
Building a hidden village is indeed a good way to spend money, and it is still a bottomless pit. It requires a large amount of investment in the early stage. Let alone making money, it is unknown whether it can make back the money.
However, if a hidden village can be established and expanded to a large enough scale, it will indeed have the highest growth limit and possibility.
Just wanting to reach that level cannot be achieved through steady development, and some opportunities are definitely needed.
Kakuzu is not opposed to the establishment of a hidden village, but it cannot be regarded as supporting it. It can only be said to be a relatively moderate choice.
Sheren shook his head, "Of course not. If you want to build a hidden village, the cost is too high and the cycle is very long. What I mean is on the surface. Build a village to absorb refugees who appear due to wars in various places.
Live them and let them settle in this village.
Then, use the sources of these people to open the doors to various countries and make this village a transit place for transactions.
The Kingdom of Fields has a special geographical location, relying on the Kingdom of Fire, and at the same time having direct access to the Kingdom of Thunder and the Kingdom of Earth from the sea, it has a good geographical advantage."
Then Toneri described how to build a prototype of a trading town. This was not a difficult task for Toneri who had a lot of memories.
If you have never eaten pork, have you never seen a pig running?
Listening to Toneri's idea, Kakuzu's eyes became brighter and brighter. If this village is really built according to Toneri's words, then if nothing else, it will definitely make a lot of money.
"But my main purpose is not here. If possible, I hope to build a psychic holy place here for psychic beasts like cats. This is difficult to say, but it is actually very simple.
Simple, at least I have a good foundation."
"The cat tribe's psychic holy place?"
Kakuzu discovered that Toneri really had a special obsession with cats.
He didn't really understand it at first. After all, to him, cats are no different from a few ants on the roadside.
It wasn't until he got to know Toneri and started carrying a few cats with him in order to know some information at any time, that he gradually began to understand.
Only now did he understand what Shiren once said.
Petting a cat feels good for a while, but it feels good to pet a cat all the time!
Sometimes, when you gently touch the long, soft hair of a cat, you can always feel that the pressure in your heart, all kinds of negative emotions, etc., all disappear at once.
Moreover, every time I see them rolling lazily on me or in front of me, I feel like the world has returned to peace again.
This kind of creature is so stress-relieving and soothing for the high-risk and high-pressure profession of ninja.
"Um!"
Kakuzu said thoughtfully: "Well - it is indeed a good idea..."
Toneri looked at him with a half-smile expression on his face.
"cough..."
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A remote village in the country of Kawa.
Not long ago, a walking monk in strange clothes came to the village. Not long after arriving in the village, he chose to settle in this village.
As a country full of rivers and mountains, there are not many strangers here, but the residents can understand it, because at this time, huge wars have occurred in the ninja world, and many people are homeless.
You can return, let alone an ascetic monk.
Therefore, the simple villagers did not reject the arrival of this man, and at the same time helped the monk build a thatched house where he could barely live in peace.
In this regard, the monk is naturally very grateful to the villagers of this village, so an important lesson he practices every day is to pray for the residents of this village, praying that they can live and work in peace and contentment, and live until their natural death.
In this troubled ninja world, wanting to live until natural death is simply a luxury.
Even in the remote country of Kawa, with this seeming tranquility, it is difficult to achieve.
Because in this country of Kawawa where there are mountains and rivers everywhere, except for the rare possibility of war, many other things happen.
For example, there are many ferocious beasts in the mountains and forests, and even some beasts that have inadvertently absorbed chakra and gradually opened up their wisdom, and there are also some wandering ninjas who have turned into bandits.
These residents are their main source of food and income.
Therefore, just because there is no war in Kawano country, it does not mean that life is very comfortable. As long as there are things like chakra and ninjas, there will be no comfortable life for civilians.
But strangely enough, since the ascetic monk came to the village, this village and even some villages in the surrounding areas have not been attacked by bandits and bandits.
Regarding this, the villagers could only believe that it was because they followed this ascetic monk and believed in the so-called "god" who punished evil and promoted good.
In short, with the appearance of this monk, the life of the whole village suddenly became much more comfortable.
But on this day, in a village that rarely saw an outsider come to the village for several years, two people whom they had never seen before came to the village entrance.
Dressed in black, the towering black collar half covered the faces of the two visitors.
"According to the information, this is right here?"
One of the relatively young-looking people asked, his eyes scanning this ordinary village with curiosity.
It's just an ordinary village, which shows that the target was not chosen deliberately, but was chosen randomly without purpose.
However, it can be seen from some of the expressions of the residents in this village that their living conditions are not bad at this time.
"That's right." The other man wore a mask on his face, so he sounded a bit muffled, but his enunciation was still clear.
These two people were none other than Tonera and Kakuzu, who had taken over the mercenary mission from the third Tsuchikage of Iwagakure, Two-Sky Onoki.
Kakuzu is still his original appearance, while Toneri still maintains the state of "Erasing the Face".
"Actually, from now on, Lao Zi's appearance in this village can be regarded as a blessing. At least since we came to this area, we have never encountered any bandits and robbers.
In this ninja world, there are not many people who can do this." Toneri said with a little emotion.
As he said, in addition to serving their own village and country, the most important thing for ninjas is to serve themselves. It is very likely that there will be people who can make selfless contributions.
Even if he sacrifices himself for others, he cannot be an exception.
"According to what you said, Lao Zi is indeed a blessing, but you are from the perspective of these ordinary residents of the Kingdom of Sichuan. If you look at it from the perspective of the residents of the Kingdom of Earth, or even the residents of Iwagakure Village, Lao Zi
Does Zi's behavior seem irresponsible to them?"
Kakuzu was unmoved by Toneri's words, but instead put forward his own opinion.
Shiren didn't refute, just nodded.
As he said, Lao Zi's behavior was indeed a great good thing for the residents of Sichuan Country.
But for the Iwagakure Village and the Earth Country, it is a sign of irresponsibility.
It was the Iwagakure Village that trained Lao Zi and made him a Jinchuuriki and a great Jonin. However, when he gained a certain level of strength, during such a war period, Lao Zi not only failed to become an important combat force of the Iwagakure Village, but because
He couldn't stand Ohnoki's behavior and ran away directly.
Isn’t this a sign of irresponsibility for Iwagakure Village and Earth Country?
"What he solves in this way is only a superficial problem, not a fundamental problem. Once he leaves, these villages will be in dire straits again.
Facts have proved that as a four-tailed Jinchuuriki, it is impossible to always give him the opportunity to be one of the best." Toneri said frankly.
The two of them simply walked around the village, and after making some inquiries, they got the trace of Lao Zi.
The cliff behind the village.
The two of them did not hesitate and disappeared into the village.
When it appeared again, it was already behind the mountain.
On the cliff at the back of the mountain, a man was sitting cross-legged on the edge of the cliff, eyes closed, looking like he was meditating.
The appearance of Toner and Kakuzu didn't seem to attract much attention from him, and he just continued to meditate.
Kakuzu frowned when he saw this scene and wanted to step forward, but Toneri held out his hand to stop him.
He looked at Toneri with some surprise.
He shook his head gently and said, "He has done some good things, so just treat it as a sign of respect for him."
Hearing this, Kakudu nodded and said nothing more.
The two of them just stood there in silence, waiting for Lao Zi to finish his meditation.
After a while.
Lao Zi, who was sitting cross-legged and meditating, also woke up from his meditative state, stood up slowly, and bowed slightly towards Toner and Kakuzu, obviously expressing his gratitude for what they had just done.
But then, his kind-hearted appearance immediately changed, as if he had become a angry-eyed Vajra.
Wearing purple clothes and a breastplate, with his hair tied into a small bundle like a ponytail and a big beard, he really looks like a King Kong.
He obviously knew very well what Toner and Kakuzu wanted to do when they appeared here.
He clasped his hands together again and said sternly: "I'm sorry!"
A ball of fire like lava condensed between Lao Zi's hands.
Without saying a word, he started taking action directly.
Neither Toner nor Kakuzu were surprised.
"Wood Release - The Art of the Big Forest!" Multiple branches like latent snake limbs sprang out from Toneri's hands and bounded towards Lao Zi.
At the same time, Kakuzu also opened fire, and two masks fell off from his body.
