Shifting Civilian Discontent Through War

The source of the news had appeared suddenly. A man named Kaiyuan Goro had used money to win over a group of people in the village, then had them spread the news through various means.

"Did you catch him?"

"He's dead. We only found the body. His heart was pierced by a kunai. It was probably the work of a ninja—the wound was clean, struck dead center through the heart without the slightest deviation. An ordinary person couldn't have done that."

Eagle answered truthfully, leaving nothing out.

Jingyi had been about to keep listening when the connection abruptly cut off.

Jingyi opened his eyes and asked doubtfully,

"There was no intelligence extracted from the body?"

"Because the body was severely damaged, so..."

Eagle was speechless as well. They had found the person responsible for spreading the news, but unfortunately, he had already become a corpse by the time they found him, and the body had been badly mutilated.

The other party had planned it all along, specifically to prevent any secrets from being uncovered through the corpse.

All they could determine was that a ninja had done it.

The problem was that there were far too many ninjas in the Shinobi World. How were they supposed to narrow down and identify the target?

"Understood."

After waving a hand, Jingyi handed the scroll to Eagle.

"Take this scroll to the Hokage Office and tell Lord Hokage everything you know."

"Yes."

Eagle accepted the scroll, preparing to deliver it to the Hokage Office and report on his work while he was there.

As for the broken trail of clues and intelligence, there was nothing he could do about it. Ninjas were not omnipotent.

Even the Ino-Shika-Cho had admitted there was nothing they could do. What was he supposed to do?

They could