Chapter 160 Rain's Wrath

  The rain was pouring down.

  The air is naturally icy cold, and affected by the perennial rainfall, the Kingdom of Rain has a large number of water channels that continue to rise every year.

  In this gloomy village, no matter if you are a ninja or a commoner, as long as you walk out of the house, you must wear a raincoat to prevent your clothes from being wet by the rain and let your body catch the cold.

   "Hey, have you noticed that the food distributed recently has become less and less?"

  In a tavern, several Yuyin ninjas were quietly talking about matters of life and death.

  For ninjas during the war, although money is important, what is more important is the food that can fill their stomachs.

  They would rather exchange the rewards they get for the missions into food and get them in their hands. This is especially important for the ninjas in Yuyin Village who are not rich.

   They were originally oppressed by ninjas from a big country, and their life became very difficult. If the village does not help them at this time, even if they don’t say it, they will feel a lot of dissatisfaction in their hearts.

   Therefore, the issue of food is indeed a major issue related to the life and death of Yuyin ninja.

   "Have you noticed it too? I don't dare to put too much rice in my porridge now, I'm afraid I'll finish it in a few days."

   "I remember that until November and December last year, the food in the village was quite sufficient. I remember that at that time, there happened to be an envoy from Shayin. They didn't come to ask for supplies from Yuyin Village, did they?"

  A Yuyin ninja was a little drunk after drinking.

  When the rest of the companions heard this, their faces were shocked immediately, and they hissed him softly.

   "You bastard, are you looking for death?"

  The drinking companion immediately scolded him in a low voice.

   "Ah, hug, sorry, a momentary slip of the tongue..."

  The drunk Ninja Amakoro also sobered up suddenly, and began to apologize with a pale face.

   Carefully looked around, but found that no one else noticed, and fell silent.

   "During the Second Ninja World War, Master Hanzo was a powerful ninja who defeated the ninja army of a big country by himself. How could he compromise with Sagakushi?"

   "That's right, Lord Hanzo is the **** of our Yuyin Village, and Sand Yin would not dare to come to us to be presumptuous."

  The drunk Ninja Amane nods repeatedly.

  But in fact, everyone is already suspicious in their hearts, but it’s just because of the power of the leader Hanzo, and they don’t want to believe that, as the leader of Yuyin Village, the ninja demigod who led Yuyin Village to shine in the last Ninja World War would be so submissive to compromise Sand Yin.

  After all, Hanzo's contribution to Yuyin Village is genuine, and he fought with a single sword.

  He took the lead in every battle, and the countless scars left on his body are the iron and blood proof of his life as a soldier.

   It's just because he's getting older in recent years, and he suffered a lot of hidden injuries when he was young, which has caused his physical fitness to decline. However, his strength is still feared by the ninjas of the surrounding powers.

   "Don't worry, as long as Lord Hanzo is around, Sain will not dare to come here to act wildly. They will only blackmail the daimyo and those useless nobles."

   "As long as they dare to come, Master Hanzo will kill Sa Hidden to death. Master Hanzo is a ninja known as a demigod."

  The admiration and admiration for Hanzo comes from the inner truth of every Ukakure ninja.

  The reason why this village is able to retain its sovereignty in the war-torn Land of Rain, known as the only safe haven in the Land of Rain, is because Hanzo guards it here.

  As long as Hanzo stays here for a day, this is the safest place in the Land of Rain.

  Thanks to Hanzo’s protection, even though they suspected that Hanzo had some ulterior dealings with Sagakure, they still believed in their hearts that Hanzo was not such a cowardly person.

  If their leader, Hanzo, was a cowardly ninja, then the last ninja war would not have made all countries fearful, and it would have become an insurmountable peak for ninjas.

  After finishing drinking in the tavern, Ninja Amane left.

  The drunken Ninja Amaya came to the dark alley alone, transformed into a strange ninja, sneaked into the ground and disappeared.

  …

   Within a few days, there were a lot of rumors in Yuyin Village.

  The food distributed by Yuyin Village has decreased, which is obvious to all.

   Judging from the food hoarded before and at the beginning of the war, it should not be consumed so quickly.

  But the food in hand is indeed getting less and less every day.

   And the rumors are also directed at Hanzo. Rumors say that in order to please Sand Yin, he provided important supplies of the village to Sand Yin, and Sand Yin only ate the supplies at a very low price. This includes not only food, but also medicine and ninja tools.

  In the high tower, Hanzo, who was protected by dozens of Yuyin elite ninjas, could not sit back and watch such rumors be born.

  Because he knows that once such rumors are allowed to spread completely in Yuyin Village, even if they are false, they will become true, which will lead to the loss of his prestige and lead to a large number of ninjas in the village who deviate from his will.

   In this way, it is not conducive to his rule over Yuyin.

  The most important thing is that the deal between him and Sha Yin happened for real.

  Although it is very hidden, only a small number of cronies know about it.

   Is someone among your cronies betraying you?

  Hanbu recalled the names of his cronies in his mind, but no matter how he guessed, he didn't think it was the cronies who betrayed him.

  But if it wasn't for his cronies who betrayed him, then who revealed such hidden news? Lead the people in the village to guess in this regard?

  Sand hidden puppet old woman?

   "Master Hanzo, how do we deal with these rumors?"

  The Yuyin ninja who came to report asked in a low voice.

   After all, if this kind of thing is not handled properly, it will indeed cause a lot of internal conflicts.

   "Don't worry, it was because the merchant's delivery was delayed when buying rice, so the food sent out had to be reduced. It will return to normal the day after tomorrow. By then, these rumors will be self-defeating."

   Hanzo said confidently.

"yes."

  The messenger also breathed a sigh of relief.

  It seems that those rumors were just taken advantage of by some people with intentions. As the leader of Ugakushi, Hanzo-sama, how could he make such a shameless compromise to Sagakure?

   "By the way, Master Hanzo, there is one more matter that needs to be decided by you."

   "What is it?"

   "According to the survey of people who went out of the village, a large number of villages in the Kingdom of the Rain have recently suffered tragic massacres, and all the supplies in the villages have been looted. According to statistics, a total of 2,400 people died, and there are still many villages that have not been counted. Otherwise, the number of dead people counted will be even higher."

"What did you say?"

  In the closed room, Hanzo stood up in surprise when he heard the number of deaths.

  Opened the door and walked out from inside, with both surprise and anger on his face.

   "Is this true?"

   "It's absolutely true."

  The summoned Yuyin ninja looked solemn.

  Hanzo's face became uncertain.

   "Any clues?"

   "Although someone has carefully processed the traces on the scene, it is not difficult to see that it was done by the ninja."

   "Is this message blocked?"

   Hanzo asked.

  The messenger gave a wry smile and shook his head.

  Block? With so many deaths and such a serious matter, how can it be blocked?

   Within a few days, this matter will probably spread throughout Yuyin Village, which is more serious than the previous rumors.

   Hanzo sighed.

   Indeed, how to block this kind of thing?

   Suffering from the oppression of the ninjas of the great powers, and now this kind of thing happened again, those ninjas of Yuyin will definitely guess that this matter was done by those ninjas of the great powers?

  But, what is the point of doing this?

  Saw Yin should have no reason to do so.

  The puppet old woman would not target the Land of Rain for no reason like this, and pull Yuyin Village into the battle, which would do harm to Shayin but not any benefit.

  If it’s Konoha…

   Konoha! ?

  Hanzo's face changed slightly.

   Immediately, he calmed down and waved his hand to let the messenger go down.

   Back in the room, Hanzo had a gloomy face.

   Picking up a secret letter from Chiyo, the old woman of Sagakure puppet, in December last year.

  The secret letter states that Shimura Danzo, the leader of Konoha Genbu, led the Genbu ninjas to the Land of Rain, with unknown intentions.

  At the same time, he is also alerting Yuyin, not to fall into the trap designed by Konoha and become enemies with Sayin.

   "Danzo!"

  Hanzo clenched his fist tightly.

   There was a terrifying murderous look in his eyes.

  Although there is no definite evidence, if Yuyin intervenes in this war, Konoha will be the most beneficial party.

  The only way for the Land of Rain to achieve peace quickly is to secretly support Yin Sha and bring the flames of war to the Land of Fire as soon as possible. Only in this way can he lead the Hidden Rain Village to quickly stabilize the domestic situation.

   Among them, Konoha can be said to be the opposite of Yuyin and Sandyin.

  Because if the battlefield remains within the territory of the Land of Rain, it will be the most unfavorable situation for Hidden Rain and Hidden Sand.

  Yuyin cannot stabilize the situation in the Kingdom of Rain, and Shayin cannot achieve his own strategic goals.

  The only benefit is Konoha.

   And Konoha is now facing Sand Yin, and now it seems extremely tired. The way to save the disadvantage is to drag Yu Yin into the water, so that Rain Yin and Konoha can form a front alliance to fight Sand Yin.

   "As expected of the darkness of the ninja, I really underestimated you before, Shimura Danzo!"

   To be able to resort to such a despicable person, and to recruit people who are desperate to make profits for Konoha, there is no other choice but the root leader Shimura Danzo.

  Hanzo smashed his fist on the ground angrily.

   But all this is just speculation, he has no definite evidence.

  He believes that the trick at the root will not end here, and will definitely cause a large number of massacres in the Kingdom of Rain, and then plant it on Sha Yin.

  As long as he finds definite evidence that Danzo’s roots did it, he doesn’t mind teaming up with Sand Yin to burn, kill and loot wantonly in the land of fire.

  Even if he faced that ninjutsu doctor, as a ninja demigod, he might not be afraid anymore.

   What he is afraid of is only the elite ninjas that emerge in endlessly from Konoha, as well as those blood successors and secret ninjas.

   "Call Kanzang over here!"

  Hanzo sent an order to the outside.

   Soon, a ninja Amane came to Hanzo's room and knelt down on one knee.

   "Master Hanzo, what are your orders?"

  The Amane ninja named Kanzo is an elderly middle-aged man.

  The right eye is covered with a black eyepatch, and he wears an old Ukakushi ninja forehead protector.

   But listening to his voice, he is still full of aura, and his aura is not comparable to that of ordinary ninjas.

  As Hanzo's trusted right-hand man, Kanzang is not only solid in his work, but also in strength, he is also the most famous jounin in the rain hidden.

   "I need to investigate some things myself, this time you act with me."

  Hanzo came out of the room, wearing a gas mask on his face, and a chain wrapped around his waist. The chain was connected to a sickle with a sharp blade, which was carried behind his back.

"yes."

  Although he wondered why Hanzo had to go out in person at such a time, as a subordinate, he only needed to obey orders.

  Hanzo walked to the outer corridor of the high tower, looking at the dark gray village under heavy rain, his pale yellow eyes showed coldness.

   It seems that he has not been walking around in the ninja world for a long time, and some people have forgotten his existence.

  Although I have already determined in my heart that Konoha Ninja did this, but the Kingdom of Rain can't stand the toss now. I have to investigate it myself to know who is behind this scene.

  Once the mastermind is determined, he will have to bear the crazy revenge of his demigod's anger.

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   "Hurry up, don't leave a single one alive!"

  A ninja wearing a brightly colored mask with a strange aura gave orders to the three subordinates around him.

  The other three also wore masks.

  They are ninjas belonging to Konoha Ne.

   After joining this organization, name, past, future, feelings, everything is abandoned.

  As the 'nutrient' that supports the big tree of Konoha Village and is deeply rooted in the earth.

  As long as it is for Konoha, no matter how dark, despicable, or cruel things are, they will be executed without hesitation.

  In the village under the heavy rain, there were screams. Anyone who lived in this village would be given a merciless death.

   Killing so many innocent people, they have no guilt in their hearts.

  Because they are immortal, the Nation of Fire and Konoha will bear more sacrifices.

  Sacrificing oneself and sacrificing others are two things to be weighed. In the eyes of root ninjas, there is no need for any complicated thinking.

   There is no need to consider justice, nor human nature.

   Subconsciously choose the option that is most beneficial to Konoha.

  The fire burned in the rain, and the fire of disaster that the rain could not wash away devoured everything in this village.

  The four root ninjas quickly wiped out a total of 121 people in this village without any hesitation, leaving traces of misleading. Even though they knew that doing so would not make Yuyin make up his mind, it didn't matter.

  As long as the plan is carried out, there will be more follow-ups to start. Before March, Yuyin and Shayin will definitely turn against each other.

   Now it is just trying to induce Yuyin Village to fall into this trap.

   "The next stage of planning can be carried out."

  The captain of the four said softly.

   After all, if you want to hide from a ninja of Hanzo's level, this kind of trick will not work.

  In order to convince Hanzo that it was the sand hidden ninja who did it, the next action is the key.

   "Next—"

  The words are not finished yet.

  The four of them were startled and jumped from the spot.

  A large number of trees broke through the ground, as if they were alive, and entangled the bodies of the four people.

   "What, this is... Mutun!?"

  The four of them cried out, their hearts were extremely shocked.

  The trees entangled them, and the hard vines tightened tightly.

  The four of them didn't make a scream, and they were squeezed into **** mud amidst the ever-tightening tree branches.

  The trees retracted and returned to the earth, as if nothing had happened.

   Then, four white monsters emerged from the ground.

   A weird laugh came out of his mouth.

   "Night and dream, your plans at the root are too cumbersome, let us achieve your goals directly for you. The more chaotic this country is, the more Nagato can walk on the 'correct' path. Hehe."

  The bodies of the four Baijue began to change, and their bodies were replaced with root costumes and masks.

   After a few minutes.

  Kanzang brought a dozen of Yuyin's elite ninjas to the front of the burning village.

   "Is it still late?"

  Kanzang showed a tired look on his face.

   These days he has been tracking down who committed such a horrific massacre in the Kingdom of Rain.

   It turned out to be empty.

   "Bury the corpses of the villagers."

   Kanzang ordered.

"yes."

  Amakina ninja entered the village with anger and buried the cold corpse.

   When a ninja of the rain entered a room to search for a dead body, his neck suddenly felt cold, blood flew out, and he fell to the ground.

"who?"

   Noticing the movement here, the rest of the Yuyin ninjas also reacted.

   What I saw were four ninjas wearing Konoha Anbu uniforms and masks on their faces.

  They didn't seem to expect to be discovered by the Yuyin ninja so soon, and then calmed down, with cold eyes, and directly attacked the Yuyin ninja.

   "These guys are... roots!"

  As Hanzo's right-hand man, Kanzang also knows a lot of top-secret information.

   Konoha Anbe, one is Anbe directly under Hokage, and the other is the root led by Konoha senior Shimura Danzo.

  Different from Naruto’s directly subordinate Anbu, the mask at the root is more colorful, and the oil paint on the mask makes people feel uncomfortable and cold.

  The mask worn by these four people, with the pattern of oil paint on it, is precisely this uncomfortable and cold quality.

  Thus, Kanzang suddenly knew that these four were Konoha's root ninjas.

   "Water Escape·Rain Array!"

  Kanzang immediately formed a seal, and the surrounding rainwater immediately changed its form, turning into thin and long water needles, stabbing the four root ninjas frantically.

   "Wind Escape·Feng Fan!"

  The severe wind blows back a large number of water needles.

  Kanzang took Kunai and fought against Root Ninja.

  After fighting for a while, I found that these root ninjas, apart from occasionally using a few wind escape ninjutsu, most of the time, they used physical jutsu to fight.

  One of them was obviously not very good at taijutsu, and was besieged by the other Yuyin ninjas. He was beaten almost all the time, and he didn't use any ninjutsu to reverse the situation.

  Kanzang has doubts in his heart.

  Shimura Danzo's leadership is all elite ninjas.

  If you are not proficient in physical arts, then you will use some brilliant secret arts.

   Without special abilities, it is impossible to be selected into the root to participate in the mission.

   Moreover, why do you always use Fengdun?

  In the land of the rain, it is more suitable to use the water escape, which can take advantage of the geographical advantage.

   Are these guys really... root ninjas?

   Seeing Kanzang's strength, the four root ninjas hesitated for a moment and began to retreat.

  It gives people the feeling that they had no time to escape and had to hide in the village, but when they were discovered, they wanted to kill people to silence them, cover up their whereabouts, and finally lost the battle and fled.

   These people have a big secret!

   Kanzang's heart is clear.

   "Catch 'em!"

   As long as you catch these few people, you may be able to find out who is behind this incident.

  The four root ninjas cast detonating symbols to block the footsteps of the rain hidden ninjas.

  Running wildly in the rainstorm, the sky covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, seemed to indicate that something bad would happen.

   "Damn it!"

  Kanzang saw that his troops were getting farther and farther away from the four root ninjas, and showed unwillingness.

   It's just the last step.

   Just catch them and the truth will come out.

  Suddenly, a gust of wind passed by, and a black figure rushed into the rain, approaching the four fleeing root ninjas at a terrifying speed.

  Kanzang was startled, and then saw the familiar figure rushing out, showing a look of surprise: "Master Hanzo!"

   Surrounded by a silent and oppressive atmosphere in the rain curtain, the four root ninjas were hit hard before they noticed anything.

  The whole body flew upside down, screaming in pain.

   Flying and rolling in the muddy rain, after standing up, he looked at the ninja who appeared in front of him with fearful eyes.

   Ninja demigod—Hanzo.

  The legendary ninja of Hidden Rain Village.

  Hanzo stared at them with dead eyes, and his figure disappeared in the rain again.

"ah!"

   Didn't see anything clearly, and didn't sense Hanzo approaching him.

  The four of them lay on the ground in embarrassment, their bones were broken, their masks were smashed on the ground, and blood was sprayed from their mouths.

   "Master Hanzo."

  Kanzang came with the Ninja Ukakure.

   Hanzo nodded, and then stared at the four root ninjas who fell on the ground.

  One of them struggled to pull out a large stack of detonating symbols from the ninja bag, and was about to detonate these, intending to die together.

  Pfft!

  The arm was thrown into the air, and a large number of detonating symbols flew around and were wet by the rain.

  Hanzo held a **** sickle in his hand, his eyes were cold.

   "Who sent you here?"

  The four root ninjas clenched their teeth and did not make a sound.

  The masks on their faces have been broken and spilled on the ground.

   Kanzang stared carefully at their real faces, and suddenly his face was startled.

   "What's the matter, Kanzang?"

   "Master Hanzo, I seem to recognize this face, I remember that he is the jounin of Sand hidden!"

   Kanzang pointed to one of them and said.

   "Hidden in the sand?"

   Hanzo was also surprised.

  The man's expression remained the same, he just said: "Hmph, Lord Danzo will avenge us!"

   As soon as he finished speaking, Hanzo swung down the sickle in his hand, slashed the man's body, and died completely.

   "It doesn't look like a transformation technique. No matter how advanced the transformation technique is, it will return to its original shape after death."

   Hanzo still had doubts in his heart.

  He always thought that Konoha's Danzo was deliberately framing him, but he didn't expect that the mastermind behind this incident would be Sand Yin.

  Does that puppet old woman want to swallow him and Konoha together?

  Hanzo's eyes flickered with horror.

  So, the secret letter admonishing oneself to be careful of Shimura Danzo a few years ago was paving the way for this matter? Deliberately directing your thoughts to Shimura Danzo? It is logical to plant the blame on Konoha?

  Shayin not only wants to attack the Fire Nation, but also wants to take this opportunity to destroy his Yuyin?

  Doing this on purpose is to let him fight Konoha, and Sayin will benefit from the fisherman behind?

   That puppet old woman has such a big appetite!

  His tolerance everywhere made her so greedy that even the Kingdom of Rain wanted to swallow it in one gulp!

  Are you not afraid that you will be exhausted if you can't eat one bite?

  There was a chill behind Hanzo's back, and at the same time his teeth were gritting, and an uncontrollable anger flashed in his eyes, like an enraged beast.

  I have tolerated enough these big countries to run amok in the Land of Rain over the years, why do I always come to test his limits and force him so?

  Over the years, the anger accumulated in Hanzo's heart began to erupt like a volcano, out of control.

  (end of this chapter)