Chapter 278 Intensification

  The Land of Winds, Daming Mansion.

  At the top of the tower, a figure sat cross-legged without any cover, with a black suitcase next to his hand, and the dry wind constantly blowing from a distance rolled up the corner of the black coat.

  Jade green light radiated from Jiaodu's eyes, and he saw a team rushing out of the Daming Mansion. Looking at the direction they were running, it was obvious that their destination was Shayin Village.

   "Do you want to go to Sand Hidden Village to bring in reinforcements? I didn't expect that as the highest authority in the Kingdom of Wind, he would be so calm."

  Kakuto thought that the daimyo of the country of the wind could continue to support for a period of time under his intimidation, but he didn't expect that the plan would be smoother than expected. It was so simple that the daimyo of the country of the wind was afraid.

   Or is it that the higher the position, the more afraid of death?

  It doesn't matter which one it is, as long as the goal is achieved.

  Although this method can’t be called kingly, under normal circumstances, Kakuto would find the debtor himself in a very rough way, and just carry out endless debt collection.

  The debt collection task this time is obviously different from the previous ones.

   On the surface, it was just a debt collection mission, but in fact it was a secret contest between the Kingdom of Ghosts and the Kingdom of Wind.

  Jiang felt that the behind-the-scenes of this incident was very interesting.

  The Kingdom of Winds does not want to pay off the debts owed by the Kingdom of Ghosts.

  Although the Kingdom of Ghosts wants to collect the debt on the surface, it actually also hopes that the Kingdom of the Wind will take a tough attitude and not pay off the debt.

  Seeing the guards from the Daming Mansion rushing towards Shayin Village, Kakuzu didn't go up to stop them.

  The daimyo of the Land of Wind, who was threatened by terror, summoned the ninjas from Hidden Sand Village to protect himself, which was only an expected action.

   "Next, it's up to you, you can try to add a little more ingredients."

  The corners turned their heads and said to the air.

  Behind him was a humanoid clay puppet with half of its body exposed on the floor. After listening, it silently dived into the floor and disappeared.

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  In the dark room, only the sound of sound sleep can be heard.

  In every corner of the house, there are almost no dead corners squatting and guarding ninjas.

  Because of what happened in the morning, they were collectively reprimanded severely by the daimyo of the land of the wind, and they also hated those who secretly pasted the notes of "repay the money" on the daimyo's mansion.

  Because of the occurrence of this kind of thing, the people in the Daming Mansion were all panicked all day long and did not dare to breathe loudly. Daming's face was also gloomy all day long, and finally he had no choice but to ask for help from Sha Yin Village.

  Compared to the ninja guards in the Daming Mansion, Sand Hidden Village has more soldiers and generals, enough to replace the ninja guards in the Daming Mansion to ensure the safety of the Daming Mansion himself.

   But this is definitely not a good thing for the ninja guards in Daming Prefecture.

  If the ninjas from Sand Hidden Village came to replace their positions, it would not only mean their dereliction of duty, but also mean that their abilities would be questioned, which would affect their lives.

   Therefore, next, they need to pay 100% attention, so as not to let the people in the dark disturb the peace of Daming Mansion.

   Just when they were guarding tightly, a human head protruded out of the gauze curtain without a sound on the wall. The pale yellow eyes had no light in the darkness, and with the help of the gauze curtain, the surrounding guards were not alerted.

  The human head protruding from the wall is Baishi's Earth clone—General Earth.

  Although it is in a dark environment, General Tu can see everything here clearly.

  For artificial humans, there is no big difference between night and day, and it will not affect their vision.

  The surrounding ninja guards squatted at the location. Through its perception ability, it directly formed a radar map and presented it in its mind. It successfully avoided their defense line and directly invaded the location of the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind.

  The earth general with his head protruding from the wall, his face is exactly opposite to the face of the daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind who is resting on the bed below.

  Under General Tu’s observation, the other party was entering a deep sleep, with a deep tired look on his face, probably because he was frightened by the daytime events.

  General Tu didn't hesitate at all, his palm stretched out from the wall, holding a piece of rice paper on it, and gently covered Daimyo's chest in the Land of Wind.

  The other party only heard the sound of sound sleep, and didn't notice anything wrong.

  Cooperating with the opponent's obviously overweight body, the appearance of sleeping is really like a dead pig.

  General Tu continued to stretch out his hand, gently wiped the daimyo's neck of the land of wind, and smeared something on it.

  The other party just scratched his neck, but there was still no response.

   “…Hoo…Hoo…”

   Still only the slight sound of sweet and sound sleep came, and it seemed that he was having a sweet dream.

  General Tu continued to move without stopping, on the quilt, on the bed, and on the wall, all the decorations were fixed one by one according to Jiaodu's instructions.

   It took General Tu a total of two minutes to finish these things.

   Thinking about it carefully, everything that Jiaodu ordered him was almost done, and there was nothing left to arrange.

  So, General Tu's body slowly sank into the wall, as if he had never appeared before, without making a sound.

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Morning.

  A terrified cry came from the room where the daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind was staying, breaking the tranquility of the morning.

   "Daimyo-sama!?"

  The ninja guards jumped out from the darkness one after another, and when they came to Daimyo's bed, their pupils shrank suddenly.

  On the chest of the daimyo of the land of wind, there was a note with the word 'death' written in red.

   On the neck of the daimyo of the land of winds, there is still red blood stains. The blood stains have been dried on the neck, and it has obviously existed on the neck for a long time.

   Not only that, but on the wall near the back of the bed, many words appeared.

   die die die die die die—

  Countless dead characters overlapped on the wall, and some blood splattered, like swaying and blooming **** flowers, which looked very hideous and terrifying, like cursed killing.

   "What's going on here? Didn't you guarantee everything was safe last night?"

   After the daimyo of the land of winds was extremely frightened, the look in his eyes suddenly became terrifying. He stared at the half-kneeling ninjas in front of him, gritted his teeth, and his face was livid.

   "This... this..."

  The leading ninja was sweating coldly, not knowing how to explain it.

  In fact, he also panicked.

   It's impossible for this to happen.

  As the head of the guard ninja of the daimyo of the land of wind, he is also a sentient ninja, not to mention that his strength has reached the level of a johnin.

  It is impossible for someone to hide from his perception, quietly approach the daimyo of the land of wind, and even use this method to intimidate the daimyo of the land of wind.

  But the development of the facts has exceeded his expectations.

  His perception ninjutsu did not sense anyone approaching last night. Could it be that the enemy's infiltration ability surpassed his perception ninjutsu?

  How is this possible? Must be just a coincidence.

   "You really disappoint me. You let the enemy succeed time and time again, and climb on my head to run amok. You will be punished with half a month's salary, no complaints?"

  The daimyo of the country of wind tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart, and made his tone calm.

   "I'm so sorry, Daimyo-sama! We won't let the enemy succeed next time!"

  The head of the leading ninja is deep down, photographed by the authority of the daimyo, and the atmosphere does not dare to take a breath.

   "Hmph, I hope so, let's go down."

"yes."

  The leading ninja disappeared from the spot with his people, and continued to guard in the dark to protect the daimyo of the land of winds.

   One by one, they are all useless things. The dissatisfaction among the daimyo of the country of wind was even worse.

  He was completely disappointed with the abilities of these ninja guards. It seemed that it was necessary for Sand Hidden Village to train better ninjas to serve as guards at his side.

   After calming down the anger in his heart, Daimyo of the Wind Country was about to get out of bed and get dressed, and went out to take a bath to wash off the blood on his body.

  Suddenly, his fingers touched something on the bed board.

   That's a piece of paper.

  There are two words written prominently on it—repay the money.

  The daimyo of the Kingdom of the Wind was so gloomy that he couldn't say a word. He directly put the paper in his hand and rubbed it vigorously, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it several times with bare feet, making the wooden floor make a thumping sound, venting the anger accumulated in his heart for a long time.

  …

   The daytime passed quickly.

  Everyone in Daming Mansion, including the guards and maids, lived in a strange atmosphere.

  They didn't know much about what happened to the daimyo, and even if they did, they didn't dare to say anything more.

  The night came, and for some reason, Daimyo of the Wind Country couldn't help but feel a burst of panic when he saw the darkness of the night. He touched his neck subconsciously, and he was slightly relieved when he found that everything was normal.

  The ninjas of Hidden Sand Village are already on their way here. As long as they work hard to survive tonight, everything will be peaceful tomorrow.

  After all, they are different from the ninjas in his house. The ninjas in Shayin Village are more powerful, and there are countless top ninjas. As long as a part of the top ninjas are transferred, it will be enough to protect his life and safety, and clean up the "rats" that sneaked into the Daming Mansion by the way.

   When you find this hateful 'rat', you must dismember it into pieces to relieve your hatred.

  After thinking about these happy things, the anger in Daimyo's heart eased a lot.

  Tonight, the daimyo of the country of the wind did not intend to sleep in his own bedroom, but found a vacant house, and ordered the maid to lay a floor in the center of the house.

   Around the floor, there were a total of sixteen ninjas sitting cross-legged on the floor with their backs facing each other. Their sharp eyes carefully scanned every corner of the house, not missing any subtleties.

   Not only that, there are more than a dozen ninjas squatting on the beams of the house. Not to mention a mouse, even if a mosquito flies in, they cannot escape their sight.

  In order to avoid being harassed tonight like the previous two nights, the daimyo of the land of winds has mobilized most of the ninja guards in the daimyo mansion here, doubling the usual guard strength.

  In theory, there is no need to worry about security issues anymore.

  The only thing to worry about is the enemy's high-strength infiltration ability that cannot be detected by sensory ninjutsu.

  As long as the enemy's sneak ability is disabled, it will be impossible for the opponent to approach the target silently.

  The enemy can never come in stealth.

  Even if one enters in stealth, it is impossible to show up without breath during the action.

  The Land of Wind Daimyo looked at the sixteen ninja guards around him, with their backs turned to him, scanning the outer circle, looking for the enemy's situation.

   And the dozen or so ninjas on the beams also carefully inspected the surroundings, not letting go of any corner.

  The daimyo of the country of wind nodded secretly, he could finally sleep peacefully tonight.

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   "Hurry up, you must feel the Daming House before dawn!"

  In the desert at night, under the moonlight, the sand is as fine and white as snow, and under the blowing of the strong wind, people can't open their eyes.

   It may be troublesome for ordinary people, but for ninjas who are often active in extreme environments, this harsh climate is not worth mentioning.

  The leader is a male sand ninja who is about twenty-four or five years old.

  Paint two red oil paints on the right face, wear a forehead protector representing the identity of a sand ninja on his forehead, and run quickly on the desert under the moonlight.

  Behind him, there were eleven sand ninjas, half of them were junin, and among the jnin in Sand Hidden Village, they could also be called elite junin.

   "Yes, Majisun!"

  The eleven sand ninjas in the back echoed in unison, their voices solemn.

  The daimyo of the Land of Winds has been intimidated and threatened. This is undoubtedly a very serious situation.

  Because about three years ago, the daimyo of the country of water was assassinated by the S-class rebel ninja Kisame of Kisame village. Although the current daimyo of the country of water is the eldest son of the previous daimyo of the country of water, it is said that when he was in power, he also fell into a power struggle due to various problems, which led to chaos in the country of water and the economic level began to decline.

   Now the name of the Land of Winds has also been threatened by unknown persons.

  Although the seriousness of the situation has not yet escalated to the level where Daimyo of the Water Country was directly assassinated.

  But don’t be afraid of 10,000, just in case. If the daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind is assassinated suddenly, the Kingdom of Wind may fall into chaos like the Kingdom of Water. For Hidden Sand Village, this is not a good thing to be happy about.

  Shayin Village controls the military of a country, and the daimyo enjoys the highest political power in the country. This is the era of one country and one village. The contract concluded by Senjujuma, the **** of ninjas, has continued to this day, and no one dares to cross this red line.

   Not only because of the influence of the Ninja God, but also because of this 'contract', which maintains a certain balance in the ninja world.

  The interests of the nobles did not suffer too much loss, but because of the establishment of the Ninja Village, they were more consolidated, and the ninjas cooperated with the nobles, so they obtained the guarantee of survival and military development, which is a matter of mutual benefit.

  The leader of the team, Sagakushi Jōnin Maki, is very aware of the seriousness of the intimidation of the daimyo of the Land of Wind.

  Because of this, the Fourth Kazekage Rasa sent him to Daming Mansion for support.

   This is not only a recognition of his strength, but also a kind of supreme trust.

  Maki could feel that Kazekage Luosha valued him.

   Secretly made up his mind that this important S-level task must be completed perfectly to win glory for Fengying.

   "Ma Ji Shang Ren."

  Suddenly, a Shinobi Shinobi came up and whispered in Machi's ear, with a strange expression on his face.

  Maki immediately understood, and silently made a gesture.

  The formation of sand ninjas at the back suddenly changed, and without hesitation, they all spread out towards the surroundings.

  Boom!

  The desert exploded.

  The scorching flames engulfed the surroundings, and the temperature of the air began to rise.

  Manic heat rushed towards the faces of the sand hidden ninjas.

  They stared at the surroundings, and saw figures in black coats embroidered with aster flowers appearing. On their chests, there were copper or silver circular nameplates.

  In their hands, they held a firearm made of metal and solid wood, but the caliber of the muzzle was much larger than that of ordinary firearms, and the tray of the gun was also slightly bloated, giving people a cold and dangerous feeling.

  After seeing the clothes of these people, Ma Ji smiled coldly and said, "So it turns out that they are the notorious debt collectors in the Ghost Kingdom. It seems that you guys who are threatening the name are also you guys who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth."

  The debt collectors of the Ziyuan Flower Merchants Association in the Kingdom of Ghosts are definitely not a debt collection organization with a good reputation in the real sense.

  This group of people sees money, and in order to force debtors to repay their debts, it can be said that they will do all kinds of evil. Although they will not go to the point of murder, they will often use various extreme intimidation methods to force debtors to repay their debts, even resorting to force coercion.

   It can be said that it is quite a notorious organization.

  In the eyes of big countries, this organization is nothing. Many underworld businessmen will also use this method to collect debts. The Kingdom of Ghosts just officially incorporated debt collectors.

   This is why Markey looks down on debt collectors.

   "However, don't compare our country of winds with the group of small country businessmen who were intimidated by you. Moreover, you are a little too courageous to threaten to collect debts on the territory of our big country."

  Maki knows that the location of the debt collectors in the ghost country is basically not on the territory of a big country, but it has a high deterrent ability to businessmen in a small country.

   Surrounded twelve Sand Ninja debt collectors, six silver debt collectors, seventeen bronze debt collectors, a total of 23 people.

  They just stared coldly at the surrounded sand ninjas, without the slightest hesitation, they quickly picked up the burst gun in their hands and pulled the trigger.

  A large number of kunai sprayed out from the muzzle, carrying sparks, and when they shuttled through the air, a very terrifying whistling sound could be heard.

   Without hesitation, Maji raised his right hand, which was entwined with the breath of wind, and instantly condensed a blade of wind, aiming at Kuwu who was flying towards him in front of him, and swung it down forcefully.

   There was a tingling pain in the palm of my hand.

  Although Kunai was successfully cut off, Ma Ji clearly saw a wound on the back of his hand, and his pupils constricted slightly.

  Supremacy of suffering...Condensed wind attribute chakra!

  Propelled by the catapult, the kunai's firing speed far exceeds the power fired by a normal ninja. In addition, the kunai carries wind attribute chakra...the penetrating ability is terrible.

  However, it was too late for him to think.

  Kunai shot one after another, and Maki dodged and backed up. He couldn't dodge, so he cut off Kunai with the wind blade in his hand, but because of this, there were more wounds on the back of his hand, bleeding.

  The rest of the sand ninjas, like Maji, struggled to cope with it for the first time because they were not used to it.

  But soon they maintained their offensive and defensive formation, and the sand ninjas in the back row immediately seized the opportunity and formed seals with both hands:

   "Wind Escape·Big Breakthrough!"

  The gust of wind picked up suddenly, and countless sands were blown up, wreaking havoc towards the debt collectors in front.

  Using the blink technique to dodge, some debt collectors put away the kunai gun, and they didn't think that using this kunai gun could really deal with the elite ninjas in the hidden sand village.

  If this is the case, the Jnin and Chunin are really worthless.

"Art fire escape **** fireball!"

  The momentum of the flame overwhelmed the storm, and the fireball suddenly turned into a sea of ​​flames, burning on the desert.

   "Don't panic, maintain the formation!"

  Mackey is calm in times of crisis.

  Finding a breakthrough in the sea of ​​fire, he used the blade of wind to split through the wall of fire and attack Kunai.

  Although there were bloodstains on his palms, Markey didn't care about it.

  The wounds only looked serious, but they were actually just skin wounds that had no effect on his combat effectiveness.

  A silver debt collector gestured, and everyone dispersed.

  Shayin Shangren Maji, even they have heard of it.

  Fourth generation Kazekage Rasa's confidant, Sand Hidden Village Elite Jōnin, can be said to be one of the top ninja figures of Sand Hidden Village.

   Being approached by this kind of ninja, things will get very tricky.

   "I really underestimated me! You cover me, and I will deal with these rats!"

  Markey saw the group of debt collectors retreating deliberately, with a sneer on his face, and at the same time asked the sand hidden ninja beside him to cover him.

  The wind attribute chakras were condensed on both feet, and they were about to gallop over in one breath.

  The shadows were like lightning, overlapping with Ma Ke's body, passing across the sky one after another.

  Maki raised his head subconsciously, and saw a bird-like object flying far in the air. It was impossible for Maki to judge what it was with his naked eyes.

  Just after the group of strange birds flew by, black dots fell from the sky.

   Finally seeing what it was, Maggie's expression changed drastically.

"retreat!"

  I saw those small black dots falling from the sky, getting bigger and bigger in the field of vision.

  At a distance that can be discerned by the naked eye, I finally saw that there were a considerable number of kunai.

   Not only that, but on the ring handle of each kunai, there is a burning detonating talisman.

  The aerial attack came so suddenly, and just after Maggie finished yelling, it was already too late, and Kunai fell far faster than he had imagined.

  Kumai landed on the ground, and the detonating symbol just detonated.

   Flashes and bangs erupted together.

  The sea of ​​flames produced by the explosion engulfed the desert. During the explosion, there was a series of flustered sounds from the sand ninjas.

  Due to the terrifying shock wave generated by the explosion, their shouting voices could not reach the outside and were covered by the explosion.

  The terrifying sand waves set off on the desert, which intensified the chaos of the sand ninjas.

  After the explosion, ignoring the oncoming heat wave, twenty-three debt collectors rushed forward, becoming the last straw that overwhelmed the sand ninjas.

  About a few minutes later, the twelve sand ninjas fell to the ground without exception, basically with their last breath left, except for the last ninja Maki who still had his last consciousness, but was also seriously injured under the continuous surprise explosions.

   "I was too careless, I didn't expect you to be able to..."

  Air has always been a field that few ninjas can touch.

  In Sand Hidden Village, it is not that there are no anti-air ninjas, but among their group, there are no such anti-air ninjas.

   This is also the reason for their defeat this time.

   Without giving Majid a chance to speak, a silver debt collector stepped forward and knocked Maji unconscious with a hand knife.

   "Give them first aid, if they die, they will be in trouble."

  The reason why he was able to win this time was because he caught the opponent by surprise.

   If the two sides open their battles, it will be very difficult to win the victory, and they may be counter-killed.

   "The existence of new weapons has been exposed, don't we need to get rid of them?"

   "No. Otherwise, I wouldn't have used a detonating talisman with great impact power but limited lethal force just now, just to avoid killing these sand ninjas."

   "That's really weird."

   "Kunai guns and flying machines are not real top-secret weapons, so don't worry too much. Moreover, we are all ninjas who have retired from the military, so stop thinking about problems with military thinking. Debt collection work can hurt people, but you can't kill people unless it is absolutely necessary.

  The leading silver debt collector spoke.

  Although he is also puzzled by this question, this is something the people above should consider.

   Debt collectors work only to collect debts.

   The purpose of attacking these sand ninjas is to better collect debts.

  If these sand ninjas are killed, the nature of debt collection will be different.

   This defeats the purpose of a debt collector's job.

   Soon, the wounds of this group of sand ninjas who were seriously injured and unconscious were bandaged.

  The lead debt collector spoke again:

   "Next, hang them all at the gate of the Daming Mansion, the capital of the Kingdom of Wind, and the task will be considered as complete. By the way, don't forget to attach a bill at the end, and put more threatening letters by the way. The debts owed must be recovered. I will report the debt collection situation here to Gold Medal."

"yes!"

  (end of this chapter)