The caravan Yichen was with traveled for more than twenty days before entering the Land of Rain. According to the plan, they still had to travel through the Land of Rain for another ten-odd days.
Considering that the Land of Rain was far less peaceful than the Land of Earth and that there would be plenty of setbacks along the way, the caravan might take even longer.
After entering the Land of Rain, refugees gradually began to appear. Some traveled in groups of three or four, while others numbered in the hundreds.
Every one of those refugees' eyes gleamed green when they saw the caravan. If they had not seen the Forehead Protectors worn by Yichen and the other four, quite a few would surely have come up to rob them.
Shironeko quietly said to Captain Purple Lightning, "Captain, it looks like the situation in the Land of Rain is even worse than we expected."
"Such a large number of refugees means order in the Land of Rain is on the verge of collapse. What on earth is Hanzo doing?"
Yichen understood Hanzo's predicament. The losses from the Second Shinobi War had severely damaged Hanzo's prestige in the Land of Rain, and many of his loyal subordinates had died in battle. Hanzo was already struggling to maintain control over the Land of Rain.
However, the leaders of the ninja villages in other nations had not considered this possibility. In everyone's minds, with the strength and forcefulness of Hanzo the Demigod, what could possibly go wrong with controlling a tiny country like the Land of Rain?
So they merely found Hanzo's inaction strange, never realizing it was not that Hanzo refused to act, but that he lacked the power to do so.
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