I just returned to Konoha and found that all my clan members were gone.

"So that's how it is. The medical team is helpless. It's worthy of being the Scorpion of the Red Sand..." Maki sighed after listening to Ye Lan's description.

"Do you know that member of Akatsuki?" Even if Ye Lan was stupid, he could tell what Maki meant by that tone.

"Since it has come to this, I won't hide anything. That man is Scorpion, the former genius puppeteer of Sunagakure, and the grandson of Elder Chiyo." Maki said heavily. The former genius of Sunagakure has now appeared, and he is the murderer of the Third Kazekage. It really makes other villages laugh at him.

"I didn't expect there would be such a fate..."

"There is no time to lose. I will go find Elder Chiyo right now. Jounin Ye Lan, please wait for me for a moment." Maki left in a hurry after saying this. The poisoned people included not only Konoha's ninjas but also Sunagakure's ninjas. No matter what the considerations were, they required Elder Chiyo to come out this time even if it meant death.

In a secluded place in Sand Village, an elderly brother and sister were fishing with fishing rods. This was one of the few entertainment activities they had. The two of them said nothing and didn't care how many fish they could catch. It was just a pastime when they were bored.

"Sister..." The old grandfather was the first to speak. His name was Ebizo. He used to work in the intelligence department of Sunagakure and is now retired. "It seems that a lot of things have happened in the village recently. That guy Luosha is also dead? I didn't expect that he would die before us..."

"The ninjas in the village are becoming more and more useless. A Kazekage actually cooperated with a rebel ninja and got nothing in the end and lost his life instead," Chiyo said in an elderly voice. The two of them looked like they rarely left the house, but they had all the information in the village in their hands. They didn't look like they were retired.

"Well, sister, you have to understand Luo Sha's difficulties. It's just that who can take the position of Kazekage now..." Ebizo said what he was worried about. Now it seems that no one in the whole village is qualified to be Kazekage. Although Luo Sha sometimes doesn't respect them, he is still strong enough to be Kazekage. The current village... What did you think of abandoning Pakura in the first place?

"If there is really no one choosing the Kazekage position, leave it vacant until someone suitable comes along." Chiyo sighed helplessly. The former glory of Sunagakure is no longer there. At their time, the strength of Sunagakure was much stronger than it is now.

"Will other villages look down on us?"

"Don't we have Konoha as our ally? When we are weak, we just need to obey the strong and maintain our relationship with Konoha. I heard that the new Hokage of Konoha is the girl who played with the slug. Her appointment as Hokage won't make things too difficult for Sunagakure."

The conversation between the two determined the tone for the next phase of the Sand Village. They were not as indifferent to worldly affairs as the outside world said.

"Shh, sister, someone is coming..." Ebizo interrupted Chiyo's chattering and looked towards the gate.

Chiyo reacted and continued to keep her eyes closed, pretending to be still fishing.

"Elder Chiyo, Elder Ebizo, I have something important to report." As soon as Maki entered the room, he knelt on one knee to show his respect for the two.

"You've come to the wrong place. Maki, we haven't asked about the village for a long time. All I want now is to see my lovely grandson before I die. I'm not interested in anything else." Chiyo opened her eyes slightly, but didn't look at Maki.

"What if what I'm going to say next is about your grandson?" Maki swallowed and said.

"What did you say?" Before Maki could react, Chiyo came directly in front of Maki. This speed was beyond the reach of ordinary jonin.

Maki didn't expect Chiyo to be so excited. He leaned down and said, "Before, our village's Jinchuriki Gaara was captured by Konoha. During the negotiations with Konoha, Konoha agreed to return Gaara."

"Get to the point! I don't need to know irrelevant things." Chiyo couldn't help but get angry when she saw Maki's slow and leisurely tone.

Maki couldn't help wiping the sweat off his face as he watched Chiyo grow increasingly irritable. "Now here comes the point. On our way back, we encountered two people who attacked us. One of them was Scorpion, your grandson."

"Are you sure it's my grandson Scorpion? So many years have passed, his appearance should have changed. How did you recognize him?" After hearing the news about Scorpion, Chiyo calmed down and continued to ask.

"I'm sure! Because Scorpion not only admitted it himself, he also showed me something..." Maki paused and said, "When I fought him, he used the human puppet of the Sandaime Kazekage."

"So that's how it is..." Chiyo immediately understood when she heard the news. Scorpion, who had disappeared with the Third Kazekage, killed the Third Kazekage and turned him into a human puppet.

"And his target at that time was the One-Tail. They all belonged to the same organization. A ninja from Konoha told me this and told me that people from that organization had also attacked the Nine-Tail." Maki continued without pause.

"What do they want the tailed beasts for? Does their organization know how to seal the tailed beasts?" Chiyo asked doubtfully. "And how did you escape from Scorpion? Has the support from Sunagakure arrived?"

"To be honest, it was Sasori who evacuated on his own initiative. A jonin from Konoha defeated another of Sasori's companions, and when Sasori saw that he couldn't take Gaara with him, he evacuated. That companion of Sasori is now being held in a cell in the village."

"Konoha is indeed a place where talented people emerge in large numbers..." Not knowing the specific strength of Scorpion's companions, but thinking that those who can be Scorpion's companions must not be weak, Chiyo couldn't help but sigh.

"The most troublesome thing now is that there were two other senior ninjas working with me against Scorpion. One was from our village and the other was from Konoha. Now both of them have been poisoned by the poison that Scorpion smeared on the puppet. The medical team is helpless. I can only ask you to treat them." Maki bowed and pleaded.

"Is the Sand Village's medical team so weak that they can't even cure poison?" After hearing what Maki said, he understood why he came here. Mainly because of the ninjas in Konoha, it seemed that he couldn't fish leisurely here anymore.

"I'm really sorry, the medical staff said they've never seen this kind of poison before, and they can't analyze the formula of the poison, so they can't develop an antidote." Maki bowed again.

Seeing Maki's timid look, Chiyo waved his hand impatiently. Maki thought Chiyo was unwilling to take action, so he knelt down and said, "Elder Chiyo, you must take action this time. This is related to the relationship between Sand Village and Konoha..."

Seeing Maki kneeling down like a bachelor, even though Chiyo was already seventy years old, his mouth opened wide, and he couldn't help but said angrily: "I told you to lead the way! I didn't say I disagree!"

Maki was still talking when he heard Chiyo's words. He was stunned for a moment, and the words he had planned to say were stuck. He looked at Chiyo awkwardly.

"You are an elite jonin of Sunagakure after all, you should have some dignity." Chiyo said unhappily.

Maki nodded quickly and led Chiyo on the way.