Chapter 233: Fine 10
Ino analyzed a lot of clues from the information of the Yamanaka family, and secretly went out to investigate using the spirit transformation technique. After she was completely sure, she took the opportunity to go out of the village to find Tsunade, and brought 30 million taels to a gold exchange far away from Konoha Village.
The Gold Exchange has been in charge of transactions in the underground world. They act as a platform and anyone can submit a bounty here. It's okay if you want to kill the Hokage or the Raikage, provided you have money and someone will take up the task.
No one knows who the boss behind the Gold Exchange is. Even with the Yamanaka family's intelligence network, Ino couldn't find out. All she knows is that the Gold Exchange has existed for many years.
She estimated that there was a lot of water involved. The daimyos of the five major countries, those wealthy merchants who were as rich as a country, Jue, and even Jigen were all suspects.
Ino had black hair, a black robe, black shoes, and everything in black. She looked like she had run out of the set of Detective Conan, and she walked into the gold exchange office.
She said hoarsely to the staff at the exchange office, "30 million taels of silver are offered as a reward for a ninja from Konoha Village codenamed Terai."
Terai is a member of the Root and is loyal to Danzo. His strength is similar to that of Yamanaka Fuu and Aburame Tori, all of whom are Jonin. On the surface, Terai is a wealthy businessman active among various countries, buying and selling everything from weapons to population. He provides a steady stream of funds for the Root.
The staff followed the procedures and quickly completed the reward for Terai, and Ino also readily paid the reward of 30 million taels.
Even if no one takes the task, the money will not be refunded. The platform is so domineering.
"Is there any other information you can provide?" the staff member asked in a businesslike manner.
Ino immediately put herself in the role of the victim and burst into tears: "Those ninjas. They rushed into our village the day before yesterday, killing everyone they saw, and then used that powerful ninjutsu. My family was all killed by them. The leader was this Terai. Our village is located at the southern foot of Mount Asama."
The staff member had a blank expression on his face and took notes quickly.
He recorded the time, place, people, and even the story that Ino made up. Whether it was true or not was not important, as the person who accepted the task would make the judgment.
Just one day later, Akatsuki saw this mission.
Thirty million taels is a big job for them!
After hearing the story about "the Konoha ninja killed all my family members", Nagato, who was controlling Pain, became furious.
Jue emerged from the soil like a plant. He knew the geographical location of Konoha and even the entire Fire Country very well.
He said sinisterly that there was a base of the Root near the village, and if nothing unexpected happened, this Terai was the person in charge of the Root base, and mentioned Terai's apparent identity as a wealthy businessman.
Kakuzu was overjoyed. If this Terai lived in Konoha Village, he would not dare to act rashly. After all, Konoha Village is full of experts. If he went in alone, wouldn't that be courting death? Since Terai was outside the village, it would be convenient. What? He was a big businessman? This job was very profitable!
"I'm going to kill this guy," he said bluntly.
Several people in the Akatsuki organization knew his style of doing things and were not surprised. Uchiha Itachi didn't say anything either. In his mind, the Root ninjas were not Konoha ninjas at all. He wouldn't even look at them if they died on the roadside. There was no way he would risk passing on information for a Root ninja, so he didn't say a word at this time.
Nagato was still cautious and asked Hidan and Kakuzu to go together.
The two men came to Mount Asama and after a brief investigation, they discovered that this was indeed a branch base of the Root. There were no traps or ambushes, and then the two men rushed in without saying a word.
The branch base was littered with corpses and all the Root ninjas were wiped out. Afterwards, the two men eliminated all traces and took Terai's body to exchange for the task handed over by Jin.
Now the Akatsuki organization does not want to confront Konoha directly, especially with the old bastard like Danzo who hides in the dark. They don't want to leave any traces, so the battlefield is cleaned very cleanly.
However, there are many things in life that go wrong. Based on Kakuzu's seventy years of experience as a ninja, the scene was cleaned up very well and the attacker's true identity would never be exposed. However, Ino wore the robe of the Akatsuki organization, dressed up as Deidara and strolled around two nearby towns.
Not many people have seen her, but quite a few too.
Danzo was tricked in his competition for the position of Hokage, but he was unwilling to accept defeat. Besides being as steady as an old dog, this old man also had the resilience to become more courageous as he faced more setbacks.
Jiraiya couldn't do anything to him, and he didn't dare to do anything too excessive. He still had to do some of the work that he was responsible for.
The Uchiha clan was so ostracized back then, but the Konoha Guard did not relax their work. Are they stupid? No, if you don't do these jobs, you will give people a reason to criticize you.
Danzo can't just take his subordinates and eat and sleep all day long. He has to do some secret work.
It was three days before he received the news that Terai's squad had been wiped out, and he rushed over to investigate.
Hidan and Kakuzu cleaned the scene very cleanly, leaving no trace.
Danzo learned from villagers in the surrounding towns that a man wearing a black robe with red clouds passed by, and immediately locked on the target.
"Akatsuki Organization!"
The reason why Terai, who was a jonin, couldn't even send out a signal was definitely because of this group of powerful S-rank rebel ninjas! The rest of the Akatsuki organization was hard to find, but Kakuzu, who often went to the gold exchange office, was easy to find. Danzo found Kakuzu's subordinates, followed the clues, set up an ambush, and wanted to capture Kakuzu and interrogate him for information.
He hit the target by accident. Kakuzu didn't know why Danzo found him so quickly, but he would not surrender. The two sides immediately started fighting.
Danzo destroyed Kakuzu's heart. Jiraiya knew the information about Hidan, but he didn't tell Danzo. He suffered a great loss and had to use Izanagi to exempt himself from the Death God's blood.
Both sides were wary of each other and retreated.
As the victim, Danzo did not say anything, and the Akatsuki organization would not publicize the matter. There was already a deep hatred between the two sides for Yahiko, and now the hatred level is even higher.
Ino created a big pot and successfully harvested five pot points.
She found a hidden cave, sealed the entrance, and began to add points! The four pot points turned into an extremely powerful force, added to the "essence", and the "essence" increased from 9 points to 10 points.
The cells sent out signals of joy, and she felt that every cell in her body was cheering, celebrating the acquisition of new power. Streams flowed out from 130 trillion cells and converged into an endless river.
"Ouch! It hurts!" The huge swelling made her feel like her whole body was about to split apart. Her body was full of power, and even the "seal" that had been increased to 8 points could not restrain such a huge amount of chakra.
(End of this chapter)
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