"Scorpion..."
"Why? Did Lord Kazekage ask you to do this?"
One month later, one day, Land of Wind was in the territory.
Sunagakure's team was suddenly attacked by an enemy. There was only one attacker.
And he is not an outsider.
A puppet master.
He is also a figure that the three of them are very familiar with.
Anbu's scorpions are geniuses that they Sunagakure are proud of.
When Scorpion appeared, the three of them thought it was Lord Kazekage who had something to tell them and sent Scorpion specially... As a result, Scorpion took action without any warning after approaching.
The three of them suffered heavy losses without any preparation.
In this three-person team, two of them serve as guards, and the captain is one of the top leaders of Sunagakure.
The senior executive was seriously injured, but was not killed immediately. He had a brief fight with Scorpion, but was ultimately defeated by the latter and fell to the ground.
Before dying, the man looked at Scorpion, who was standing in front of him with an indifferent face, and his pupils trembled.
What I subconsciously thought of was that Scorpio followed Kazekage's order to get rid of him.
But the problem is... the recent turmoil within the village is aimed at those civilian forces. As for them, they have never violated Kazekage's intentions.
They also fully support the removal of some "thorns" among the common people.
Why attack them?
Since when did Kazekage even keep an eye on him?
However, in the face of his questioning, Scorpion's response was just a puppet flying forward.
After a while, the senior executive died, and blood flowed from the body...
After the scorpion destroyed the corpse and wiped out all traces, it quickly left.
In Yubi's reply letter to him, he warned him to look for opportunities and not to take action immediately. Even if he was to get rid of some high-level officials, he must ensure time intervals and not do it too frequently.
Moreover, it is best to be outside the village. As the "sharp knife" of Lord Kazekage, and at the same time fully responsible for this matter, Scorpion's identity can perfectly do some tricks.
Firstly, you can find an opportunity for the senior management to leave the village, and secondly, you can carry out some deliberate frame-up.
Furthermore, you can actually leak some information to the outside world, attracting other hostile forces to take action or participate, and make the situation more chaotic.
Of course, it has to be done very secretly.
In short, the method of attacking these high-level officials cannot be too simple.
Therefore, Scorpio waited for dozens of days before finding this opportunity.
Take advantage of this high-level executive to leave the village before taking action.
The situation inside the village is already very tense now. Civilian ninjas in some organizations frequently clash with ninjas who are rich and powerful in the village, not only verbally, but also physically.
But most people don't dare to make things too big and are relatively restrained.
These people are not really afraid of the village's higher-ups... they just have feelings for Sunagakure.
But there are also some who are really ruthless... In the past two or three months, two rebel ninjas have appeared in their Sunagakure.
They all escaped after killing other Sunagakure.
This has also caused changes in the power structure within the village. Previously, there were representatives of civilian forces among the senior leaders. Now, all of them have been intentionally "transferred" from their positions by Kazekage, and they have begun to promote subordinates who believe in his ideas and style to fill the vacancies in the senior leadership.
And the person currently being executed by Scorpion is one of them.
The meaning of Yubi is very simple... First of all, there is a certain span of time to start the project, which can give the village a gap to process and buffer, so that the village's management will not have a lot of gaps all at once.
Secondly, it is also to prevent Scorpio from going too far and being exposed.
Although the current situation has happened according to the two people's expectations and preparations.
But there is still the possibility of being exposed... Once the village discovers that they are behind the scenes, it will not be an ordinary trouble.
In short, you still need to act with caution.
On the other side, within the territory of Land of Rain.
Yubi stepped on the bloody water and stepped over the corpses on the ground.
This is the stronghold of Land of Rain, a group of armed organizations. He killed all the people supported by the other party, including some hired rebel ninjas, nearly dozens of them.
He collected boxes of treasures from this manor-like mansion and gained a lot.
His experience at Land of Rain during this period gave him a better understanding of the current situation at Land of Rain.
Why do so many rebel ninjas or wandering ninjas flock here to find something to do?
If you just bully the people or rebel against the party, you won't be able to use this power.
At present, Land of Rain's civil society has not yet formed a militarized uprising force like "Akatsuki" that cannot be ignored. Although there are rebel parties in various places, they are still relatively scattered and difficult to manage.
Like a plate of loose sand.
And the stronghold leader he killed was just a puppet. The real person behind it was a close confidant of Hanzō, a senior executive of Amegakure.
These representatives of Amegakure's top executives collect money from the public and gradually hand it over... and then the top executive will find a way or use some reason to contribute to Hanzo of the Salamander.
The need to use "ninja" combat power is because most of the organizations in Land of Rain are now related to Hanzō's cronies, and almost all of them are affiliated with Amegakure's powerful people.
Although on the surface, he is the local overlord.
In fact, he is just a "stand-in" who obeys the arrangements of the village's senior leaders.
In order to compete for various resources, these people frequently fight among themselves and fight.
Even "our own people" are still fighting.
There will even be ninjas from Amegakure involved...
This kind of battlefield is the stage for rebellious ninjas or wandering ninjas.
"It's so dark..."
Yubi walked to a box and opened it. It was filled with letters between the head of the stronghold and the higher-ups.
He opened a letter casually and glanced at it.
The content above made him couldn't help but sigh.
Judging from the information he knew, the power structure within Amegakure has never been finalized.
Hanzo of the Salamander is so high that his status cannot be shaken.
But the guys under him, the heads of Amegakure various organizations, that is, the top management, are all vying for power and profit, and they are in a state of disobedience to anyone.
There is only the skeleton of a village, but there is no "soul" of a ninja village.
Time passed slowly.
Scorpion killed the second senior executive of Sunagakure.
This time, it was not a secret attempt to kill him, but an order from Kazekage to silence him.
The reason is very simple. As the situation in the village becomes more and more chaotic, the water becomes muddier... Scorpion just did some random tricks and framed the high-level executive for having an "affair" with the civilian ninja forces. Third Kazekage became suspicious, and everything that followed fell into place.
The current situation in the village is a bit worrying, and as Kazekage, we are eager to calm the situation.
There is even a mentality that one would rather kill someone by mistake than let anyone go.
With the first, there will be the second, the third...
Once you don't choose the right way to deal with it, the whole thing may fall into a situation of making mistakes again and again.
According to the village, some high-level officials were killed because of leaked intelligence.
Some of them had connections with civilian forces... and had to be eliminated.
In addition, most of them were killed by some forces in the village out of revenge.
In short, the deaths of all high-level officials are "reasonable" in the eyes of most people.
was involved in this class conflict.
A climate of no longer trusting each other began to pervade the village...
But because... the deaths of these high-level officials did not happen all at once, but happened one after another over the course of more than half a year.
Therefore, the situation at Sunagakure was not too turbulent.
At least on the surface, various institutions are maintaining basic operations.
If it is more obvious, it is that during this period, there were many rebellious ninjas in the village...
Moreover, some great ninja villages have noticed the recent Sunagakure, which seems a bit not "calm".
But within the village, there was one person who became suspicious.
That is Arai!
As a shadow guard, Arai has been participating in and handling the whole thing, but due to identity issues, he cannot leave directly. Lord Kazekage can only entrust Anbu's Scorpion to handle many things...
The authorities are fascinated by the onlookers, and Arai feels that... from his perspective, the whole thing is a bit wrong.
The object of his suspicion is Scorpion!
But at this time, Xie Xie was deeply trusted by Lord Kazekage, and he was a powerful person in the village. He was the grandson of Chiyo's mother-in-law...
There is no reason to kill his own people, and it is impossible for his position to fall to the civilian forces, so... no matter what, no one will doubt him.
What's more, Scorpion is still a powerful fighting force that the village will rely on in the future.
Therefore, even if Arai expresses his suspicions to Kazekage, there must be substantial evidence.
Therefore, Arai has been secretly eyeing Scorpion recently.
Watch his every move.
Until Xie left the village alone again, Arai followed him secretly.