"I have to say that the leader was a bit too biased this time."

On the back of the huge rock, there was an indentation where people could sit and rest. After releasing the ninjutsu, Oniyo opened his eyes and said these words to Itachi.

Itachi just happened to open his eyes at this time. Hearing Guijiao's words, there was no obvious emotion on his face.

"Is this really okay, Itachi?"

"what do you mean?"

Itachi stood up from the ground and put the bamboo hat with wind chimes on his head.

The Sharingan is looming under the cover of the bamboo hat, emitting a cold scarlet light.

"I heard that Orochimaru had some issues with you in the past. This time he is trying to take away your brother. He is probably taking revenge on you. And judging from the leader's tone, it seems that he is on Orochimaru's side."

Guijiao also stood up from the ground, patted the wrinkles on his clothes, and swept away the dust.

Finally, he put the big sword and the sword back and hung it up, and turned to look at Itachi's pair of Sharingan.

"The importance of Orochimaru to the leader is self-evident. In fact, I am not angry about this kind of thing. Besides, he was just my spare eye... That stupid brother was temporarily stored with Orochimaru.

alright."

Itachi's tone always remained calm, or in other words, a strong confidence that he had everything in his hands.

This kind of confidence that is different from ordinary people can be clearly felt even by ghosts.

"As expected of you, Itachi. If it were me, it would not be so easy to deal with the Sannin. There is a high chance that Orochimaru will kill me."

Gui Jiao chuckled, and nothing other than a smile could be seen in his smile.

"You're too modest, Guijiao."

Itachi's Sharingan eyes were still calm, but anyone could hear the emphasis on ghost friendship in his words.

"No, I'm just telling the truth."

"Let's just treat it like this. Next, I'm going to be alone and deal with some personal matters. We'll meet at the same place in half a month."

Itachi withdrew his gaze, looked into the distance, and said calmly.

Guijiao raised his eyebrows and looked at Itachi with eyes full of scrutiny.

"Itachi, it's dangerous to act alone at this time. It's not just Kumogakure who is eyeing our organization now. Konoha may also take practical action, and there may even be Iwagakure who also lost his tailed beast. If you don't mind

If so, I can take action with you. Anyway, I’m quite free now.”

"...Okay, but don't talk too much."

Itachi looked into the distance, and after a long time he spoke and agreed to let Onijiao follow him.

"Of course, I think you should know that I am the most secretive ninja. And if you die, it will be very troublesome for me. So, let us get along well in the next days."

Listening to Guijiao's unusual kind words, Itachi snorted slightly, accepting Guijiao's kindness, which was not a good intention.

The Akatsuki Organization is a concentration camp for renegade ninjas. The renegade ninjas here keep each other warm, fear each other, and guard each other. There is no real trust in others.

Although Nagato provides a relatively stable living environment for the rebellious ninjas, this does not mean that these rebellious ninjas will truly be loyal to Nagato.…

Firstly, due to Nagato's strong strength, secondly because the cost of betrayal again was too high, and the huge profits promised by Nagato, it resulted in the apparent "stability" of the Akatsuki organization, and created a great cause that everyone was working for Akatsuki.

And the illusion of desperate struggle.

This is the reason why Itachi would still put a certain amount of trust in Oniko even if he knew that Oniko might have been tasked by Nagato to monitor him.

If Onigao can betray himself in the same group, he may not betray his boss Nagato in the future... Trust, for rebels, is a luxury.

Naked interests are the true and most essential reflection of this organization.

For Itachi, these team members are enemies with different positions, but they are also trustworthy "comrades". It just depends on how you define and utilize their value.

"What's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing, let's go."

Itachi shook his head and walked straight forward.

The wind chimes hanging on the bamboo hat began to shake, and the clear tinkling sound floated into the distance.

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In the empty room, there are about a dozen root ninjas, conducting investigations here.

The data files originally placed on the bookshelf, as well as the computer tools that stored research data, all disappeared from the room.

Shanfeng's gloved fingers gently touched the empty bookshelf, slowly passing by, as if he was feeling something carefully.

Then he turned his attention elsewhere and carefully searched every corner he looked at.

"How's it going? Have you noticed anything unusual?"

The sound reached his ears, so he walked over and asked.

Shanfeng turned his head. He nodded first, then shook his head, and said to Tie Gen: "I don't know if this is a breakthrough. I have been investigating here for several days, and the only feeling I have here is One, that is the cleanliness of the data room is a bit strange."

"Do you feel that way too?"

Asked by taking root.

Obviously, he also felt that the stolen data room was so clean that it was a bit strange.

"Well, it's so clean here, but I can't tell you exactly what's strange about it. To be honest, this is my first time feeling this way. What do you think?"

Shanfeng frowned and tried hard to think about the indescribable strange feeling in this stolen data room.

"Could it be because of the word?"

He paused for a moment and spoke out his thoughts.

"Word? What word?"

Shan Feng was slightly startled, staring at Tie Gen's face. He didn't understand what the 'word' he mentioned at this time meant.

Gegen pointed to the bookshelf, walls, and floor, and said: "Based on my observations these days, I think the strangest thing about this stolen reference room is that all the 'words' in it have been taken away by someone. Gone. In other words, after a certain 'prisoner' swept it away, not a single thing with 'words' written on it was left in this reference room. The most unusual thing here is probably this."

You know, even in the reference room, there are a large number of meaningless paper documents, which record non-research data, such as duty schedules and the like, are also posted here...

There are a lot of scraps like this, but you can still tell that they are scraps at a glance. There is no need to go out of your way to appraise them to determine their value.

However, things like this were still taken away, leaving nothing behind.

After hearing what Qiogen said, Shanfeng suddenly seemed to understand something and his expression changed.

"I see, this indescribable strange feeling is caused by the 'words'... But why does the other party insist on taking away all the 'words'? If it is to confuse our sight, what is the meaning of this? It’s not big at all, and there is no need to do this at all. Moreover, some of the words were carved on the walls and floors like a grumble by the staff on duty when they were bored..."

Shanfeng looked at the walls and floors in some places, and found out the reason for the inexplicable missing piece.

Because of this, the mountain wind caused even more headaches.

Thinking about what the other party’s purpose is and what kind of message they want to leave behind.

However, despite Shanfeng thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't understand what the other party's intention was in taking away all the things related to the word.

"Could it be because the thief was not very smart? For example, the other party couldn't tell which of the information here was important and which was unimportant, so he took away everything related to the 'word'..."

Taking root boldly made this assumption.

"No, you don't need to think about it to know that this kind of thing is impossible. Someone who can sneak in silently and steal such a large amount of information and documents in a very short time is definitely not an ordinary person. It is impossible for him to have such basic common sense.

We can't even tell the difference. The reason why he did this must have a deeper meaning. As long as this is discovered, it may be able to provide unexpected help to our investigation work..."

Shanfeng insisted on his own idea, believing that the infiltrator who stole the data must have left behind some extremely critical information by stealing the data and files with such abnormal behavior.

Otherwise, it would be too childish to speculate based on the idea of ​​​​taking roots.

As a jounin at the root, Shanfeng believed in his keen intuition of many years of dealing with things, which made him realize that this matter was definitely not simple.

There must be some unknown secret behind it that they haven't noticed.

Listening to Shanfeng's serious analysis, I couldn't help but touch my chin and think about it, as if I had some enlightenment.

He also felt that his guess was a bit too much for his daughter-in-law, and Shanfeng's inference was more in line with normal logical judgment.

It's just that Zhiqian is not as obsessed with answering the question as Shanfeng Feng, but said:

"Okay, but I'm not particularly good at reasoning. I'm going to report to Danzo-sama on the progress of the work here."

"Understood, I will be in charge of the investigation work here. You can go and report the matters here to Danzo-sama."

After Shanfeng finished talking about getting the roots, he lowered his head again and looked like he was thinking. It seemed that he planned to dig deeper into this matter.

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Late November.

The weather is getting colder.

The weather on this day was very gloomy, giving people a sign that it was about to rain.

In fact, this day is indeed an extremely heavy day for Konoha...

That is the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, who will be buried today.

The death of the Third Hokage has been kept secret by the senior management. Now that the matter is revealed, it is only after a new Hokage appears in Konoha and has stronger self-regulation ability that they dare to announce it.

After all, this kind of thing is too sudden for uninformed people.

The cause of death of the third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen is somewhat confusing.

According to the official definition given by Konoha, when the Anbu protection manpower was insufficient, he was suddenly betrayed by the spy Kakashi Hatake and sacrificed heroically under the double assassination of Orochimaru, fighting to the last moment.
To be continued...