However, with the annihilation of the Uchiha clan, the once glorious Uchiha Guard also collapsed overnight.

The village's senior officials had no intention of rebuilding the security force, but instead transferred the business that belonged to the Uchiha Security Force to ANBU.

This undoubtedly increases the authority of the Anbu and directly expands the Hokage's influence.

Areas that were once beyond the reach of senior executives are now their home ground.

Rizu glanced sideways at Hizashi.

"This kind of thing has nothing to do with us. We just have to do our job well."

Hizashi said nothing, but his face still felt sad.

The Uchiha were gone, or perished in the hands of their own people. How should the Hyuga clan live in the village now?

He did remember that he almost became a victim due to Yunyin's frame-up incident a few years ago.

Although Kumogakure's conspiracy failed in the end due to Nebe's actions, it still left a deep impression on Hizashi.

Within the Hyuga clan, someone is in contact with Danzo, the leader of the clan.

According to the speculations of the clan elders, the Hyuga clan members who are in contact with Danzo are most likely from the branch clan.

However, over the years, he has continued to investigate, but he has not been able to find any useful information from the family separation.

Perhaps, when Danzo helped the Hyuga clan overcome their difficulties, it was just to protect the ninjas from the same village.

After all, the opponent is a rare hard-liner in Konoha, so naturally he will not let ninjas from the same village be bullied by ninjas from other villages.

Walking through the corridor, at the corner, a thin figure suddenly appeared.

The other party was stunned for a moment, then immediately bowed respectfully.

"My lord, my lord, my father."

The person who came was a boy of about nine years old, with straight long black hair, handsome appearance, and the iconic white pupils of the Hyuga clan members.

Hyuga Neji is this boy's name.

He is the son of Hizashi and a very outstanding genius in the Hyuga clan, and is highly anticipated by the clan.

Seeing that the direction that Ning wanted to go did not seem to be a training ground, but seemed to be heading back, Nizu frowned slightly.

"Are you going back so soon?"

He remembered that he had told him to let Neci come over to sparring with his eldest daughter Hinata. Normally, sparring could never end so quickly.

Neji replied calmly: "Yes. Because Hinata-sama seems to be feeling a little unwell, Miss Hanabi will take care of her when I go."

"Physical discomfort?"

Hizu's brows furrowed even more when he heard Neji's words.

He didn't remember that Hinata's body bones were so fragile. They were fine yesterday and in the morning. In addition, Hinata had received good teachings from the Hyuga clan and would never eat strange foods that would cause physical problems.

Are you pretending to be ill on purpose? Or are you slacking off in your cultivation?

Or is it because you really feel unwell all of a sudden?

"Yes."

Neji answered affirmatively again.

"That's it. In that case, let's cancel today's sparring session."

Nizu nodded, then turned to look at Hizashi.

"That's it for today, Hizashi, you go back with Neji first, I'll go check on Hinata."

Hichi nodded and took Neji out of the clan's territory.

Hiashi paused in the corridor for a while before leaving and heading towards the room where his daughter Hinata was.

Thinking of his eldest daughter Hinata, who always looked weak and cowardly, Hiashi sighed lightly.

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"Boss, check out."

In a barbecue restaurant, a man goes to the counter to pay.

It can be seen that he is not a ninja, there is no trace of a ninja on his body, he is just a normal Konoha villager, but it can be seen from his clothes that he is the type with a well-off family.

"Thank you for taking care of our store's business, a total of thirty thousand taels."

Haruno Zhao reported the bill.

As an ordinary chuunin in Konoha Hidden Village, like most chunin, he works part-time when there are no missions to support his family.

After all, as a family man with a wife and daughter, he always has to bear some responsibilities that a man should have.

But the problem arises here.

He didn't apply for the job at the barbecue restaurant where he works part-time, but was recommended here.

He was a waiter in this store three years ago, was promoted to manager two years ago, and is now the acting store manager.

The salary has also increased accordingly, and I have become a "successful person" in the eyes of many colleagues.

In the past, he aimed to be the Hokage and become a ninja, but now he has become the manager of a high-end barbecue restaurant in Konoha... This experience, to be honest, is always a bit too magical.

But Haruno Zhao also knew that all this was because of a certain woman who was behind it.

Asami Masumi.

In his eyes, a woman whose true identity is extremely mysterious.

The other party is one of the top administrators of Konoha Hospital, and it is said that he has prepared for promotion to the director of Konoha Hospital.

The person behind this barbecue restaurant is Asami Masumi.

In this store, from the lowest-level waiter to all levels of management, or even him as the acting store manager, they are all 'spies' under Asami Masumi.

The reason why he became a "successful person" in the eyes of others and his wife and daughter so quickly was because of his excellent intelligence work, which was why he was specially promoted to the acting manager of this barbecue restaurant.

Although the salary aspect makes him very satisfied.

This gave him the idea of ​​giving up his career as a ninja and instead joining the catering industry with the goal of becoming the king of barbecue.

Haruno Zhao thought about taking away the thirty thousand taels from the customer in front of him.

When he is not working, he usually stands at the front desk of the barbecue restaurant and is responsible for the cashier.

Because of this, he can observe more people and make his boss satisfied with him.

But after collecting the money, Haruno Zhao realized something was wrong.

There is something wrong with the thickness of the three 10,000-tael banknotes.

You can't see anything from the outside. Only by touching it in person will you feel the abnormality.

Haruno Zhao looked at the paying customer in front of him with strange eyes. The other person showed a normal smile and left with steady steps.

"..."

Is this guy... also one of our own?

Haruno Zhao was a little stunned.

However, it is impossible for him not to know the intelligence agents working under Asami Masumi, and there is no chance of him admitting his mistake.

In other words...he is an intelligence agent for the other teams that is not under the jurisdiction of his boss Masumi Asami...?

Haruno Zhao looked at the street scene of Konoha outside the store and had the urge to see a ghost.

What is going on in this village?

Why can I see ‘my people’ everywhere?

I don't know what's going on at the top, but here on the bottom, it's almost infiltrated into a sieve, right?

The intelligence agents I have met so far have various jobs.

Construction workers, those who hand out movie flyers on the street, cleaners of public toilets, fruit farmers who guard orchards, farmers who work under the scorching sun... any occupation that can be thought of is basically covered.

And now, the customers of the barbecue restaurant are also our own people...

I feel that the cats and dogs I encounter on the roadside in the future may be one of my own.

Sooner or later Konoha like this will come to an end.

Asking a waiter to take over his cashier job at the front desk, Haruno Zhao immediately hid in the toilet and pulled out a note.

Above is a series of numbers and symbols that are completely unreadable.

It looks like a child's random scribblings, without any rules.

After correct interpretation, Haruno Zhao discovered that this was a list.

Some of the names on the list seemed strange to him, while others seemed familiar to him.

"Jiraiya, Sarutobi Takashi, Sarutobi Takashi, Matt Dai, Hyuga Takeshi..."

There are more than thirty names in total.
To be continued...