Arriving at the Land of Rain

After collecting the body, Shiro went to collect the receipt and bought the location information of the third person before setting off.

The mission went smoothly. The target was just an ordinary Chunin, nothing special. Shiro didn't even need to use his Noble Phantasm to take him down.

Although his strength was weak and he didn't give Shiro much of a combat experience, the gains were still good. Shiro found several vouchers on him, Shiro, after checking, amounted to roughly a million taels.

Then, Shiro headed towards the Land of Rain; he couldn't let anyone steal that fat sheep.

Even now, Shiro still doesn't understand why Jingxia went to the Land of Rain. That place is in chaos, with battles everywhere, making it impossible to hide.

Their own traces were easy to cover up, since the environment was quite chaotic, but the key point was that it was useless, since almost every ninja in that area had a bounty list.

As for bounties that far exceed his strength, they are basically the kind of bounties that every relatively weak ninja would have to carry. Therefore, the Land of Rain should be fraught with danger for him.

Instead of dodging, she went straight for him; Shiro thought this was a really slick move.

However, Jingxia also had his own considerations. He knew that the Land of Rain was dangerous, but given his current situation, it was dangerous no matter where he went.

This incident also made him realize that his strength was too weak. If he were strong enough, he wouldn't need to worry about any of these things.

However, given his current situation, he is all alone and has no way or resources to improve his strength. Therefore, he needs to join a force to obtain the resources to become stronger. Just then, he obtained information about the Akatsuki established by Yahiko and his two companions in the Land of Rain.

Therefore, he decided to risk entering the Land of Rain in search of an opportunity to join the Akatsuki.

After all, large organizations generally don't accept other people; they prefer to train their own. Therefore, Akatsuki is the best choice for him at this time.

However, things haven't gone smoothly; he hasn't found any information about Akatsuki yet, let alone joined them.

So far, all he has encountered is a series of assassination attempts.

All of this was unknown to Shiro. Right now, he was full of thoughts about the woman in front of him, the beautiful woman sitting by the campfire in a clearing in the forest.

This is a very Hokage- esque beauty! You can tell from the fact that the guards around her are constantly staring at her sinisterly. Hmm, she's Shiro's type.

However, these were not the main reasons that attracted Shiro. What truly attracted Shiro was her face, which was exactly the same as the one on the wanted poster.

Bounty: 10 million!

Another one-third of Asuma. If he can take her down this time too, then Shiro's operation will be a pure gain of an Asuma!

However, he was still considering it. Although he had already scouted her out and found no powerful bodyguards, she didn't seem like a bad person, Shiro didn't want to take action.

In the end, Shiro still left.

The camp was left littered with corpses.

He eventually took action, justifying it by saying that she was a businesswoman, and that no businessman is without guile, and that Shiro had seen Explosive Tag, a prohibited item, in the goods, so she was clearly not a good person.

But in reality, the real reason why Shiro didn't know, or rather, subconsciously ignored, was the ten million reward!

Shiro's way of thinking is becoming more and more like that of Magecraft. People who are unrelated to him can be measured by value, and they are not even considered to be of the same kind.

Therefore, Shiro needed that ten million, and since the woman had no connection to Shiro, Shiro took action. It was that simple.

It's just that Shiro himself hasn't realized it yet, or rather, he's running away from it.

"Water Release · Water Shockwave!"

"Earth Release · Earth Style: Earth Wall!"

In a canyon, two ninjas were engaged in a fierce battle. Both were quite skilled and could execute C-rank Ninjutsu fluently, which was considered very good among ninjas outside the Five Great Nations, regardless of age.

After all, in Konoha, apart from geniuses, only Chunin can skillfully use C-rank Ninjutsu, Genin can only use Taijutsu.

However, in the eyes of Shiro, who was born in Konoha and had borrowed thousands of Ninjutsu, this was nothing more than a weakling.

Shiro was calmly watching them from the right side of the canyon.

A week has passed since Shiro killed that woman, which is quite far from the timeline Shiro had planned.

Shiro had originally planned to arrive here three days ago, but he miscalculated.

He only considered the weather problem in the Land of Rain, but he didn't think about the war, or rather, he didn't expect the Land of Rain to be so chaotic.

Logically speaking, with Hanzo suppressing the situation here, things shouldn't be too chaotic.

But what Shiro saw was an overwhelming number of mountain bandits; basically, there was a band of mountain bandits in every mountain in the Land of Rain!

However, this was not because they were fierce, but because they were too poor. Every group of bandits that Shiro encountered was emaciated and extremely weak.

Therefore, after his initial few counterattacks, Shiro stopped killing them, either leaving quickly or moving through the forest to avoid them.

It wasn't that Shiro was unwilling to do it. During Land of Rain Second Shinobi World War, although Shiro was in the logistics unit, he had killed quite a few people, mostly ninjas.

But as for any kind of pangs of conscience, there was none.

Shiro simply didn't want to kill too many people and affect himself.

Killing too many people will cause mental problems. Shiro saw many ninjas who went crazy during Second Shinobi World War.

For those with milder conditions, Genjutsu are used to calm them down. For those with very serious conditions, unless they have powerful connections, they are usually sent directly to be suicide squads.

This is why some ninjas wanted to defect from the village, because they couldn't accept this treatment.

This isn't unique to Konoha; it happens in every village, but some villages just let it go as long as it doesn't harm their own people.

Knowing about these side effects, Shiro naturally wouldn't jump into that trap, which is why Shiro wasted so much time.

Now that so much time has passed, the information that Shiro bought is long outdated. Under these circumstances, even Gray Snake wouldn't be able to find them. There are already few clues due to the rain, and now that so many days have passed, how could they possibly find them?

However, Shiro didn't want to spend money to buy information for the time being; he wanted to see if he could get it from the nearby ninjas.

After all, the Land of Rain isn't very big, so spending money at this point would be a waste. Anyway, it's already late, so a little more time won't make a difference.

Therefore, he is now waiting for the other two to finish their fight so that he can go and close the net.

Moreover, after watching for a while, Shiro noticed that the two people below him were also on the list. Although they only earned a few hundred thousand each, every little bit helps.

Therefore, this time it's destined to be a double success.

Incidentally, ever since Shiro met that woman, he's memorized the wanted list so he can easily take action if he encounters her.

On the way here, Shiro had already met several others, and the total amount was about 100,000 taels, which was not bad.