Naruto: The villain template of me is regarded as the savior.

On the road from the Kingdom of Wind to the Kingdom of Rain, in a narrow, inconspicuous valley.

A ninja unit wearing earth-gray vests and Sand Village forehead protectors is hiding here. The Sand Village ninjas who are good at earth-style ninjutsu have built simple fortifications in this place, with arched earthen bunkers standing in the valley.

It was now around three o'clock in the morning, and everyone in the Sand Village in the valley was already fast asleep. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of the burning brazier.

But at the only entrance and exit of the valley, the biting wind wrapped in rain blew into the sentry post through the windows on all four sides, making the two Sand Ninjas on guard feel like they were on a frozen tundra.

"Ah...ah sneeze!"

One of the Sand Village kunoichi sneezed, shivered, and moved closer to the brazier, complaining, "This damn weather in the Rain Country is so annoying!"

The feeling of this cold wind is just like that of a poisonous snake, which reminds me of the ghost stories in the Kingdom of Wind, where the ghost princess sticks to people's backs and blows cold wind on their necks.

Thinking of this, another male Sand Ninja with good physique also unconsciously tightened his robe and sighed: "After all, the southern part of the Rain Country is now so poor that there is no oil or water."

"We are going to enter the northern part of the Rain Country without Konoha's knowledge and try to plunder the resources there before Konoha does. The operation must be kept secret."

"What a hassle." The Sand Village female kunoichi crossed her arms and complained to herself, "Why choose a better time to launch a counterattack in winter? I feel like the cold wind is penetrating into my bones."

In some places in the Kingdom of Wind, the highest average temperature in summer can even reach over 40 degrees Celsius, and the surface temperature is close to 70 degrees, but once the sun sets, the temperature will drop sharply, and the lowest average temperature at night can reach below zero.

After winter comes, the lowest temperature can reach more than 20 degrees below zero, which is much lower than the winter temperature in the Rain Country.

However, the cold in the Rain Country is different from the cold in the Wind Country.

The air humidity in the Rain Country is so high that no matter how thick your clothes are, you still feel freezing cold.

"If we counterattack later, when the temperature drops, there will be even less money to be made in the Rain Country."

Another Sand Village ninja smiled bitterly and consoled him: "The top brass probably didn't expect the temperature in the Rain Country to change so much."

The two chatted intermittently like this, and they started to miss home before they met the enemy.

This valley is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Unless someone can fly in from above, they can only attack from this small path which is only five meters wide.

There had been no unexpected situations before, and the two of them had relaxed unknowingly.

"Alas, I don't know when Lord Duomu will give the order to leave..."

The female ninja was just speaking, but at this moment, a cold wind blew by, and another Sand Ninja subconsciously looked outside the sentry post.

Seeing this, the female ninja immediately closed her mouth, straightened her expression, and followed his gaze, but she only saw a slanting black rain curtain and countless raindrops hitting the ground splashing up hazy mist.

"what happened?"

After a moment, she turned to look at her companion and asked with a frown.

The Sand Ninja's eyes flickered slightly, and he looked outside and said hesitantly: "Did you hear anything?"

Hearing this, the woman turned her head and looked out the window again. After listening attentively for a while, she shook her head and said, "No, I can only hear the sound of rain. Are you too nervous and are you hearing it wrong?"

As she spoke, it seemed as if raindrops fell on her cheek. She subconsciously raised her hand to wipe them away, but felt a sticky touch.

"enemy……"

The female ninja's pupils shrank instantly, and without turning her head, she opened her mouth without hesitation, ready to warn.

puff!

A blade with a cold glow pierced through her forehead, stopping her scream abruptly. The red and white liquid splashed onto the window, making a slight sound.

The dim, almost invisible moonlight outside the window poured into the sentry post, reflecting two shadows behind the two Sand Ninja corpses, as well as the faces of the two men.

"too slow."

Nagato pulled out the short sword that had pierced through the male Sand Ninja, looked at Yahiko in front of him and said sarcastically with an expressionless face: "You are so slow in killing a female ninja, I really don't understand why my brother let you hold me back."

"……whispering sound."

Pulling out the sword from the corpse, Yahiko casually swung it to shake off the steaming blood on the blade, and said with some dissatisfaction: "I'm not good at assassination. Every profession has its own specialty. Didn't the boss teach you that?"

Having said that, Yahiko did not deny what Nagato said.

The male Sand Ninja was a perception ninja after all. The moment he noticed something unusual, Nagato crushed his throat and stabbed his brain with a knife, crushing it. He couldn't even make a sound the whole time.

His moves were indeed fast and accurate, and Yahiko admitted that he was better than him in this aspect.

Seeing Yahiko admit it so bluntly, Nagato felt a little bored. He cast his gaze towards the innermost end of the valley and said coldly, "I thought the people from Konoha were split into two groups, but it turns out that the idiots from Sunagakure wanted to interfere."

"We haven't even gone to settle accounts with them yet, but they're coming after us again. They really think we're a soft persimmon that anyone can bully!"

Yahiko sheathed his sword and asked in an annoyed tone, "From what these two people said just now, there may be a big fish here. Do you want to go check it out?"

After a blood pigeon from the Intelligence Department discovered something unusual here, the two people who had originally planned to face Jiraiya's troops decided to come here and take a look.

After arriving, we found that there was indeed a very tight defense outside the valley. Even though we were far away from the valley, there was a guard post every ten steps and a sentry every five steps.

It took a lot of effort for Nagato and the other two to come here without alerting anyone.

"Although it's a bit unexpected that Sunagakure is here, but with such strict guards, led by Chiyoko herself, who knows what they will do? We can't just let them go, right?"

Yahiko continued to add fuel to the fire, "Doesn't Jiraiya still have Uncle Ye? Uncle Ye has now been promoted to Upper Rank Four. Even if the two of us are not here, he shouldn't have much trouble fighting Jiraiya on his own."

Nagato ignored Yahiko and instead sensed the military strength in the valley, his brows furrowing ever tighter.

There are more than 400 Sand Ninjas in the open in the valley. If there are more in the dark, there are at least 600 Sand Ninjas hidden in the entire valley.

Jiraiya led a group of people to ambush near the river, ready to intercept the Rain Hidden Army after its defeat, and also to guard against sudden intervention by "Dawn". They had known about this matter a long time ago.

But when Sand Village and Konoha were planning to work together to defeat the Rain Village forces, the Third Kazekage actually secretly dispatched such a force to cross the river to the northern part of the Rain Country, which really surprised Nagato.

Is it really to get ahead of Konoha and plunder the resources of the northern part of the Rain Country?

That's not right. When Ōnoki hired bounty ninjas to test Dawn, he was slapped in the face by them. The Third Kazekage should have known all about it. Why would he take risks at this time...

"Are you planning to let the fisherman take advantage of the conflict between the two?"

Nagato was puzzled, but Yahiko suddenly spoke up, raised an eyebrow and said, "Is it possible that the real target of this Sand Village army is not us, but the Konoha blocking force led by Jiraiya?"

Hearing this, Nagato had a flash of enlightenment in his mind and glanced at Yahiko beside him.

The real purpose of the Third Kazekage was not to plunder the northern part of the Rain Country as these Sand Ninjas thought, but to let this Sand Ninja army ambush behind Jiraiya's Konoha army in advance.

Wait until Jiraiya jumps out to intercept the defeated Amegakure troops in front, and then let this Sand Village troops jump out from behind to form a double-sided situation with those defeated Amegakure troops to surround Jiraiya.

In one fell swoop, it swallowed up the remnants of the Amegakure troops and the Konoha troops led by Jiraiya.

The Sand Village and Konoha are still working together to deal with Hanzo and the Rain Village, but the Third Kazekage has already set his sights on Jiraiya?

"These big countries are really uglier than each other."

Thinking of this, Nagato sneered and whispered: "In their eyes, the so-called covenant is just a piece of paper that can be torn up at any time, and the so-called allies are just characters that can be betrayed at any time."

Sure enough, to deal with these guys, you have to beat them into submission, beat them painfully, and beat them to death, so that they will remember fear and pain, which is more effective than the so-called covenant.

"So, are you going to take action? Give me your answer!"

Seeing that Nagato remained silent, Yahiko asked impatiently.

"Don't underestimate Jiraiya. Ye may not be able to handle him alone."

Having his thoughts interrupted, Nagato retorted coldly and then looked up at the distant sky.

A moment later, a pigeon with a completely black body and purple metallic feathers on its head, back and waist, gently flapped its wings and landed on Nagato's shoulder.

"Cuckoo?"

The black dove blinked its scarlet eyes and tilted its head to look at Nagato's face.

Under the envious gaze of Yahiko, Nagato raised his finger which was oozing with blood, and handed it to the black pigeon, which sucked it into its beak.

"This is Nagato. Yahiko and I have now left the team and arrived at the target valley." Nagato spoke first.

The next moment, in the silent sentry post, Yahiko suddenly heard a familiar human voice coming from the black pigeon's mouth, and his expression instantly became interesting.

At the same time, in the aerial fortress above the Rain Country.

The control room in the center of the fortress was brightly lit and filled with trivial discussions, and in the center of the control room was a huge projection of the ninja world map.

You can see many red dots scattering outward from Dawn City, many of which are flashing and moving like breathing.

This is a technique developed by combining the Uzumaki clan's sealing and barrier techniques, the Sky Country's Zero Tail technique, and Shennong's blood demon technique.

The blood magic that Shennong possesses is not of the combat type, but more of an auxiliary type. It allows him to use "blood" as a possession and communicate with the outside world over long distances with the assistance of "Zero Tail" and barrier magic.

Although he couldn't forcibly read the thoughts of the person given blood and communicate with him mentally like Yunchuan who possessed the "Blood Curse", he could still sense his approximate direction and position.

Although Shennong cannot control the humans who have been bestowed with blood, he can now control the pigeons that have been bestowed with blood.

In this projection of the ninja world, each red dot represents a blood pigeon, and each blood pigeon represents a team.

Shennong was not fully aware of what had happened in each team, and he was only in direct contact with the blood pigeons, which meant that the command center could only wait for them to contact him proactively to obtain their intelligence.

"This is Nagato. Yahiko and I have now left the team and have reached the target valley."

Shennong stood in front of the projection, and heard Nagato's voice in his ears. He looked at the projection in front of him, and finally fixed his gaze on Nagato's position. He said, "The command center has received it. What's the situation?"

"At least six hundred Sunagakure ninjas are hiding in this valley. The leader is Chiyo's son, Tateme, and there may be Tateme's wife as well."

Nagato described the forces in the valley, explained the speculation raised by Yahiko, and continued: "Yahiko and I will go to behead them, and you will need to send the air force to deal with the other Sand Ninjas."

"Also, Upper String Four: Night needs help. It's not safe for him to fight Jiraiya alone."

Hearing this, Shennong looked up at the projection and saw the Upper Moon temporarily staying in place.

After a brief pause, he heard a familiar gentle voice and nodded, saying, "Master Yunchuan told you to adapt to circumstances. I'll send someone to your place now. I'll also send Jiaozu to Shangsi."

After the voice fell, Nagato said nothing and quickly disconnected the call.

Shennong knew that this was his character, so he didn't care and turned to look at the other air ninja who was in charge of the contact.

"An air force of 500 men has been dispatched."

After a moment, the air ninja looked up and said bluntly: "We will reach the target within thirty minutes at the latest..."

"Fifteen minutes." Before he could finish his words, Shennong interrupted him and said coldly, "They are not the main force of the Sand Village. There is no need to conserve their energy. Let them reach the target location within fifteen minutes!"

After saying that, he ignored the air ninja who was hesitant to speak and used his blood demon technique once again.

At the same time, in the Finance Ministry office of Dawn City.

"Wow, there are so many account books. When will we be able to sort them all out?"

Faint sobbing sounds were heard, and the sorrow and grief in the words made those who heard it sad and those who listened to it cried.

The account books on the table in front of Kakuzu had already piled up into a small mountain. Seeing the account books in front of Feng Ai that were wet with tears, he immediately frowned and said in a deep voice: "Don't cry, the account books are all wet with your tears."

After saying that, he looked at the other table, but didn't see anyone there. He then looked under the table skillfully, and finally couldn't help but sighed, "Shui Fear, that's enough!"

Dodo…dodo…

The table was shaking rhythmically, but not because of the earthquake, but because of the person under the table.

"Good, so scary, the original body is angry."

The face that was 90% similar to Jiaodu's was now pale and thin, full of fear and timidity. He was hiding under the table, holding the blue jar and trembling.

"Oh! Poor Water-fear."

Feng Ai hurried over, held it in his arms, and said with a tone of resentment and pity, "Master, look how scared Shui Fei is."

Looking at his two weird clones, Jiao Du felt like his head was about to explode.

He felt that he should be angry now, but he didn't feel angry at the moment. He just felt that he was really miserable. This feeling was really uncomfortable...

Just then, a crisp sound came from outside the window.

dong dong!Boom!

Kakuzu subconsciously turned his head and saw a pigeon outside the window pecking at the window glass with its beak.

"Cuckoo! Cuckoo!"

Seeing this, Kakuzu narrowed his eyes and sighed, "Jiraiya, I don't think it's easy to deal with... But, a clone with a fire-attribute heart shouldn't be too annoying."