The ninja world is a world full of disputes. Mizuki is not so pedantic as to regard money as dirt. Not only food, clothing, housing and transportation require money, but the various expenses in a ninja career are not a small amount. What's more, Mizuki still has a lot of unfinished business to complete. He is walking on thin ice to support the current situation, and he already feels that he is losing sight of one thing while focusing on another.

As a last resort, he used the fake Jinchūriki to share his pressure. Now he is almost stretched to the limit. Although there will be no problems for a while, it is necessary to prepare for a rainy day. It is indeed time to sort things out. When you have nothing, you can try your luck and go with the flow. With Mizuki's current situation, if he doesn't plan well, three years may not be enough.

Shuimu took a rare break and was on his way to the secret base.

Mizuki is no longer an unknown person. Even on his days off, there are still many people who pay attention to him, either openly or secretly. After handling his daily affairs and getting rid of the attention of others, Mizuki finally found an opportunity and walked out of Konoha Village without anyone noticing. For a master who is proficient in copying and cloning technology, it is too easy to find a substitute. A soulless shell disguised as sleeping and resting, replacing Mizuki during his absence, it is estimated that no one can tell what is going on.

However, Shuimu had no intention of speeding up as he walked through the dense jungle. The closer he got to the familiar place, the more cautious he became. With his concentrated attention, he could see the occasional falling leaves clearly.

"There's nothing unusual about the security outside. Am I really overthinking it?"

It's not that Mizuki doesn't trust the fake Jinchūriki clone, but that he doesn't trust himself! Another "self" who knows his own nature must understand his own thinking habits, and it is not impossible to deliberately create a blind spot in thinking.

Moreover, after carefully sorting out the memories exchanged with the fake Jinchuriki clone last time, Mizuki found some places that he was very concerned about. It seems that the records of a certain aspect have been deliberately ignored. If you want to ask whether the ninjas in this world can modify their memories, there is no doubt that this can definitely be done. Not to mention Kotoamatsukami who can change people's hearts, even ordinary illusions strengthened to the extreme by the Mangekyō Sharingan can do it. Uchiha Itachi used illusions to modify Uchiha Sasuke's memory on the night of the genocide. Of course, Uchiha Itachi did not erase Sasuke's memory, but only covered a small part of the memory and temporarily added a false memory, thereby changing Sasuke's temperament.

This extremely advanced illusion is still difficult for Shuimu to do now, but it is not impossible. If ordinary people with no resistance cooperate, Shuimu can also do it. People who can create a soul-gathering array will definitely not be ignorant of this kind of mental operation. However, there is no Sharingan that can greatly enhance the power of illusions like the Sharingan, and there is no high-level illusion that defies the heavens. Shuimu, who only relies on hard study and sealing techniques and barriers to increase the power and actual combat effect of illusions, is still unable to apply this extremely advanced illusion to combat.

However, if Mizuki had not already had a suspicion in his heart about the vague strangeness in the memory of the fake Jinchūriki's clone, he would not have deliberately looked for problems in it, and naturally he would not have hurriedly thought of taking a look in person as soon as he found an opportunity.

He walked into the familiar Mizuki style warning barrier. The same root and origin of ninjutsu, for Mizuki, it was not too difficult to break it. As Mizuki went deeper, it seemed that nothing strange happened. He walked safely to the entrance of the cave under the bare rock wall. Inside was Mizuki's secret laboratory. Most of the results of the journey over the past few months were not far ahead.

Mizuki, who was somewhat self-deprecating about his unfounded worries, was just about to take a step forward when he suddenly had an idea. A trace of tailed beast chakra burst out of his body. He then formed seals with his hands and began to sense natural energy.

"How come there isn't any?"

The steps just now were just Shuimu's efforts to test his own condition. Since he didn't feel anything wrong, then either the fake Jinchūriki was indeed fine. Or, he had already been under an illusion, otherwise, the possibility of deceiving him was very small.

In order to get rid of the illusion, given that Shuimu came alone, he could only introduce external energy to break the balance of the chakra in his body. If there were no such conditions, using natural energy would be almost the same. The power of ordinary illusions would definitely be greatly reduced against the Sage Mode with explosive perception. However, the steps that were originally flawless did not have any effect. The Sage Mode that was supposed to be formed did not react at all.

"So, all my actions just now were fake. Could it be that I was under an illusion from the very beginning? When did it start?"

With Mizuki's perception and attainments in illusion, it is not easy to make him be controlled by illusion. Mizuki originally thought that in the current ninja world, apart from Kotoamatsukami, only Uchiha Itachi's illusion could make him afraid. He did not expect to encounter trouble here today.

"It's hard to describe the feeling of being defeated by yourself. Should I sigh at my own excellence, or laugh at my own arrogance?"

Shuimu, who was in a dilemma, was thinking quickly about how to solve the problem.

Now his five senses and actions are completely obscured. All external perceptions and changes are illusions simulated according to his own thoughts. They are all fake.

Even if he was caught here, Mizuki would never believe that the illusion barrier of the fake Jinchūriki could be strong enough to simulate natural energy or even fairy magic, so he was exposed during Mizuki's test.

"It is definitely unrealistic to expect outsiders to rescue me. The only thing I can trust now is my own thinking. Nothing else can be trusted. Any self-help method other than thinking will not help me get out of trouble. So do I have something that can be affected by just a thought?"

Mizuki was struggling to find a way to escape, time was pressing and Mizuki could not delay. Since he had already fallen into an illusion, the fake Jinchuriki probably knew someone was coming. With his keen senses, it was not difficult for him to determine that it was the real person. If the fake Jinchuriki really had malicious intentions, then he would be defenseless and could only be slaughtered.

Suddenly, Shuimu's eyes lit up and he thought of a way to escape.