Konoha's strongest bug

While Lan was thinking about how to repay his kindness, Aburame Shiga and Konan had already entered the Land of Fire, and then headed west along the border of the Land of Fire to the Land of Rain.

For safety reasons, the two chose to disguise themselves as ordinary mountain people, and it took them several days to reach the Akatsuki organization base in the Land of Rain, where they met Nagato and others.

After not seeing each other for three years, Nagato's appearance has not changed much, but his temperament has become much more mature and steady.

But after seeing Younv Zhigao and Xiaonan, he still couldn't help showing his excited expression.

"Master...Xiao Nan, you are here!"

He seemed to be about to call his senior brother, but fortunately he held back in time.

Aburame Shiga smiled and nodded at him, then looked at Orochimaru aside, her smile getting brighter.

"Lord Orochimaru, it's a pleasure to see you again. I haven't seen you for such a long time. It's great to see you in such good spirits!"

"Ho ho ho ho..."

Orochimaru let out a hoarse laugh, rolled his long wet tongue over his lips, and looked at Aburame Shiga.

"You also look very energetic, and you still have a lot of things to hide from me. This is not the attitude you should have towards your allies. Am I right?"

"Hahahaha, don't say that, Uncle Snake, you are one of the people I admire the most!"

Younv Zhigao walked over with a big smile, and put her arm around Orochimaru's shoulders as if she was familiar with her.

"Uncle Snake, to be honest, I have no less respect for you than my teacher, otherwise I would not agree to your previous invitation, let alone invite you here, and I believe you must have gained something, right? "

"Ho ho..."

Orochimaru grinned, but didn't say anything. He just cast his eyes on a short and stooped figure not far away.

Aburame Shiga also noticed this person, her eyes slightly narrowed under her sunglasses.

He has recognized the identity of this rickety little man!

The culprit who betrayed Ren in Hidden Sand Village, murdered the third Kazekage, and the genius puppet master—the Scorpion of Red Sand!

Of course, the real Red Sand Scorpion is not rickety and short. What appears in everyone's eyes at this time is just the human puppet "Fei Liuhu" he made.

A human puppet is a puppet made of human beings as the main material. This technique is a taboo technique that is absolutely prohibited even in Sandy Village where puppets are prevalent.

One of the reasons why Scorpion left Sand Hidden Village was because he was discovered by Chiyo as a puppet producer.

Scorpion, who left Sand Hidden Village, also killed the third generation of Kazekage known as the "Strongest Kazekage", and made him into a human puppet who can use the limit of his blood inheritance during his lifetime.

This is an undisputed genius and a dangerous man!

In the original plot, it was Xiao Nan who defeated and recruited him, making him a member of the Akatsuki organization.

Now Xiaonan has been following Younv Zhigao, and even joined Akatsuki's organization half a year ago, but Xie still joined Akatsuki.

And it seems that he has become Orochimaru's partner, which makes people marvel at the magic of fate.

In addition to Orochimaru and Scorpion, there are several people in the base, but they all look unfamiliar.

Younv Zhigao just glanced at them and stopped paying attention to these people.

Because in his opinion, if nothing unexpected happens, none of these people will survive the beginning of the plot he is familiar with.

And the most important thing is that the other party is a rebel ninja, and there are basically no good people among the rebel ninjas, so there is no need to be polite to them.

Perhaps because his attitude was too obvious, a middle-aged man with a scar on his face stood up and yelled at him.

"You're called a teacher, right? I know your background. Well, you were just a fun person to please Hanzo. Don't you know that I... uh..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a sharp tail thorn pierced his chest.

The middle-aged man's eyes widened in an instant. He opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything, and then he tilted his head and died.

The people around seemed not to be surprised, and some even let out strange laughter of "ho ho ho".

Younv Zhigao didn't pay attention to these people, he set his sights on Xie who shot and killed the middle-aged ninja, and smiled slightly at the latter.

"Thank you for saving me, Mr. Puppet Master full of artistic atmosphere!"

In the original plot, Scorpion and Didala are known as the "art duo" because they both feel that their works are art.

Deidara plays with explosive clay. He believes that explosion is art, and what he pursues is the glory of the moment.

Scorpion plays with puppets. He believes that puppets are eternal, so the eternal thing is art.

Aburame Shiga knew this, so she deliberately said those words to Xia.

And Scorpio just likes this.

"Oh? Do you know art too?"

Saying that, Xie controlled Fei Liuhu to flick the tail sting, like throwing a piece of garbage, and threw the middle-aged ninja's body aside.

Then he slowly walked up to Aburame Shiga and asked him, "You are a musician, right? What do you think of art? Music?"

"To be precise, it's something that can be retained!"

Younv Zhigao smiled and spread her hands.

"Whether it's music or other things, things that can't be kept will eventually be forgotten by people. Only things that can be kept are valuable, and valuable things can be called art."

"..."

Xie didn't speak, just took a deep look at Younv Zhigao, then controlled Fei Liuhu to turn around and leave.

Seeing him go, Orochimaru smiled and stretched out his long tongue to lick his lips, then quickly followed.

After the two left, the others also dispersed one after another, and finally only Nagato, Yume Shidaka, and Konan remained.

"division……"

Nagato seemed to be about to say something, but before he could say anything, Yume Shidaka raised his palm towards him.

"Nagato, it's been so long since we met, let's not talk about work, let's talk about your life in the past two years!"

As he spoke, he gently squeezed his right eye twice.

After all, they were fellow disciples who had known each other for nearly twenty years. Nagato already knew every detail of Aburame Shiga's movements and the meanings of these movements.

So he immediately paused what he was going to say, and started talking about some well-known or irrelevant topics.

For example, the recent policies implemented by the Land of Rain, which ninja village Yuyin Village has cooperated with, what actions the Akatsuki organization has recently taken, who are the people in the organization, and so on.

And Yume Zhigao is like a loyal listener, rarely speaking, just listening to Nagato's narration with a smile on his face.

It took more than two hours like this before he raised his palm towards Nagato again.

"Okay, no one is watching anymore. Nagato, you can say whatever you wanted to say just now!"

"Yes!" Nagato nodded, and then asked directly: "Brother, the situation is as stated in the letter, what should I do?"

"Just the same as usual!"

Aburame Shiga grinned, and then said something that Nagato could not have imagined.

"Nagato, when I asked you to kill Hanzo and defect, in addition to letting Yahiko come to power, I also wanted you to attract this Uchiha Madara. Now it seems that we have succeeded!"

"what?"

Nagato froze for a moment.