Chapter 33 The Taoyuan Project(1/3)
The morning after the battle ended.
Rock Hidden Camp.
Ayane expressionlessly opened the seal on the scroll and took out twelve ninja corpses wearing Konoha ANBU uniforms.
According to the price previously agreed with her by Iwagakure Village, the bounty for a root ninja's head is five million taels.
There were a total of twelve corpses here, so Huangtu readily paid the reward of 60 million taels to Ayane.
These corpses are relatively intact, and Iwagakure's autopsy team must be able to get a lot of secrets about Konoha from them.
Of course, Ayane doesn't care about these. With the urinary properties of the roots, even if it is a corpse, the enemy may not get much.
For Ayane, this 60 million tael bounty is the benefit that she truly values.
"Would you mind cooperating again, Miss Hinata Ayane? The reward will not disappoint you."
Huang Tu asked with a strong willingness to hire.
If you can pay money, you can get rid of the threat to Konoha's roots. This is really a good deal for Iwagakure.
"No, I have other things to deal with. That's it for this cooperation. Let's talk about it if there is a chance in the future."
Although the price offered by Iwagakure is very attractive, his information has been obtained by Konoha, and it will be difficult to get any benefits from fighting Konoha's ninjas next time.
Moreover, she was also injured in this battle, and her body was a little sore and weak. The guy with the thick eyebrows was not easy to defend with his physical skills, and his hand bones were severely damaged. She had to be more honest during this period of time.
Fighting with the Konoha ninja was really exhausting.
"What a shame."
After hearing Ayane's refusal, Loess didn't force it and could only hope to cooperate again in the future.
"By the way, this is a friendly reminder. If you encounter a Konoha ninja wearing green tights in the future, be careful about his taijutsu."
Before leaving, Ayane gave Huang Tu this piece of advice.
"Green tights...Konoha ninja?"
Huangtu touched his chin, guessing who this Konoha ninja was.
Among the many Konoha elite jounin he knew well, there seemed to be no Konoha ninja wearing green tights.
Who is Ayane talking about?
Konoha's new jounin?
"I'll be more careful."
Ayane's words cannot be taken as groundless rumors. There must be some basis for giving such a hint.
"With that said, we will meet again when we have time."
After saying these words, Ayane simply turned around and walked outside the Iwagakure camp.
Watching Ayane leave, Loess stood still and thought about the reminder that Ayane left just now.
"Huangtu, do you want to send someone to follow her?"
The Explosive Escape Ninja Hunter walked to Huang Tu's side and asked softly.
"No, there are still many opportunities to cooperate with her in the future. It is unreasonable to provoke a powerful ninja for no reason just for the sake of a Byakugan that you are not sure you can get."
Huang Tu shook his head and continued to say in a calm tone:
"Moreover, the most important thing in the underground black market industry is integrity. Only integrity can allow Iwagakure to gain a foothold in the underground black market and make bounty hunters flock to it. If we break this agreement first, we will lose the entire underground black market.
Credit."
After all, cultivating excellent ninjas consumes too many resources.
Instead of doing this, it is better to use readily available cheap funds to find bounty hunters who are good at war activities in the underground black market. With cheap remuneration, let those war experts be used for your own use... It is very necessary for Iwagakure now.
things.
After all, Yanyin Village didn't take it seriously when paying tens of millions of taels, so they could just take it out casually. It was indeed considered a 'low' reward.
However, if you want to cultivate an outstanding elite ninja from childhood to adulthood, the various resources spent, converted into cash, can be more than tens of millions of taels.
"It's a pity that we can't contact Uchiha Ruri. Even if he posted recruitment information on the underground black market, the other party didn't leave any reply. It seems that he doesn't care about cooperating with us."
Just like Ayane said, Uchiha Ruri will not react in any way to their Iwagakure's actions.
Whether he is not interested or simply does not want the tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of taels in remuneration, Huang Tu has no idea.
However, Huang Tu believes that the former is more likely. It is impossible for anyone to be indifferent to such a huge bounty, especially the defecting ninjas who no longer have a fixed living environment.
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"How is Danzo's injury?"
The hearty battle with Iwagakure was to buy Danzo's roots a chance to prevent Iwagakure's ninjas from converging with Hyuga Ayane.
The entire process was within their calculations, but the result was beyond Jiraiya's expectations.
So many root elites were dispatched, and in order to support Danzo, he even sent his disciple Minato, just to deal with the dangerous and extremely troublesome defecting ninja Hinata Ayane.
As a result, their operation ended in complete failure.
This was something very unbelievable to Jiraiya.
The Genbu people who were brought there lost more than half of their men, and only half of them came back with injuries and a lot of wounds on their bodies.
The leader of the root group, Danzo himself, was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and he has not yet regained consciousness.
Basins of water were continuously delivered to Danzo's tent. When they were brought out, the basins of water were stained red with blood.
"Elder Danzo is currently out of danger, but it is still uncertain when he will wake up. According to the words of the treating staff, even if he can wake up, his strength as a ninja on the battlefield will be greatly reduced in the future."
Minato stood outside and answered Jiraiya's question.
At the entrance of the tent, there were two root jounin standing like door gods.
All of them were wounded, and they were obviously wounded who had survived the previous battle. They stood here, and except for hospital personnel, no one was allowed to enter and disturb their boss Danzo's rest.
"Is it so serious? What happened? How did your operation fail?"
In Jiraiya's initial judgment, this planned battle of annihilation was not guaranteed to be 100%, and the success rate would be over 80%.
Regarding Jiraiya's question, Minato smiled bitterly and answered:
"Well, it can only be said that we underestimated the opponent's strength and misjudged the opponent's physical skill coverage. Generally speaking, even if we know the intelligence, we may not be able to target the enemy 100%."
Genbe did obtain some information about Hyuga Ayane before the battle, and based on the total battle duration of the decoy team, he inferred the upper limit of Ayane's strength.
This kind of inference has tried to overestimate the opponent's strength, but the result is still a misjudgment.
And it's so wrong that it's almost ridiculous.
Thinking of the overwhelming Soft Fist impact that left no one to dodge, it can only be said that it refreshed Minato's inherent concept of Soft Fist towards the Hyuga clan.
The three views of the Hyuga clan's soft fist need to be reshaped.
If Matt Dai hadn't taken the secret medicine and at the critical moment, the power of the seven fully opened doors replaced Danzo and offset part of his strength, I'm afraid Danzo would have died on the spot.
Even if he doesn't die, he will die if he is sent back because rescue efforts are ineffective.
As for Minato himself, due to the time difference, he waited for Danzo's attack to hit before using the Flying Thunder God Technique to carry out the second combo.
However, before he could use the Flying Thunder God Technique to transfer over, Danzo's miserable end made him give up the idea in an instant, and instead quickly evacuated the battlefield with Danzo, who was seriously injured, to prevent the root leader from dying of serious injuries.
In order to allow the rest of the people to evacuate safely, the two teams of root ninjas, a total of eight people, decisively stayed behind and sacrificed themselves to cut off the rear.
When Jiraiya learned what happened, his expression was extremely solemn.
I'm afraid that even if I get over it, I may not be able to benefit from it if I don't pay attention for a while.
Ninja information is very important.
Although he didn't like Danzo, he had to admit that this battle was of great significance to Konoha.
The more information you have about your enemy, the fewer people will die later.
As long as you understand these, you can use tactics to defeat even the strongest enemy.
Even for a tough white-eyed ninja like Ayane, after obtaining so much important information, the next battle will be much easier and he will not be helpless.
However, Jiraiya didn't think Ayane still had the guts to have another grand contest with Konoha.
As long as she is smart, she should know what the outcome will be if she fights again and faces her after leaking so much information.
In this way, the opponent's actions should be much more restrained.
Or, evacuate from the battlefield of the Country of Grass more cautiously.
No matter which one it is, Konoha can take a few breaths easily.
There is just one more serious problem. The roots have suffered heavy losses this time and may not be able to play any role on the battlefield in a short time.
Twelve members were lost in one fell swoop, all of them were Konoha's elite ninjas. The loss was not small.
I hope Danzo can act more responsible. Although Jiraiya thinks so, he also knows that it is unrealistic.
"Minato, I'll leave this to you. You should take a rest for the next few days."
To be continued...