Travel through Konoha and open treasure chests

♂nbsp; Bai Mingyu didn’t know much about the intelligence exchange between several villages. He just felt that something was wrong with the way Kakuzu looked at him during the gathering in the illusion space created by Pain using the Phantom Body Technique... It wasn't until after the meeting that he met Scorpion and learned from the latter that the amount of his bounty on the black market had reached four times that of Asma.

Bai Mingyu had also heard of the black market.

Mainly engaged in various shady underground transactions, such as the latest intelligence between major powers, news about the actions of various village jounin, etc... And the corpses of ninjas are also an important type of trading goods on the black market.

For any ninja who is well-known in the ninja world, the corpse itself is a huge treasure house. In the hands of interested people, a large amount of intelligence information can be researched, even information about secret techniques or blood inheritance limits. Although there are only a few science geeks like Orochimaru who have full skills in biology and anatomy, almost every ninja village has an agency responsible for such matters.

In the original plot, the Cloud Hidden Village launched the Hinata Incident in Konoha in order to obtain the body of Hinata Hizashi. It was out of this consideration.

Even if the white eyes on the corpse were destroyed in advance, a lot of information could be unearthed from the corpse itself.

Not to mention, there are special institutions like money exchanges.

In order to obtain the huge bounty that was clearly marked, there were many wandering ninjas who took desperate risks and hunted down famous ninjas from other countries and exchanged them for money on the black market. The most famous one in this industry was probably Kakuzu.

Kakuzu is the oldest in the Akatsuki organization.

This guy has lived since the time of the first Hokage until now. He has maintained his immortality by relying on the secret technique of Earth Resentment. If you really count his age, even the third Hokage cannot compare with him.

Among the others, Scorpio, who was born during the Second Ninja War, can be considered an old man.

Naturally, I know more about the black market, so I came here specifically to remind you,

"Be careful, that guy Kakuzu is someone who can kill even his companions for money. The fact that you were marked with such a high bounty this time may make him unable to restrain himself." Xie said calmly.

After Fei Liuhu was broken, Xie no longer continued to hide in the puppet.

Instead, he appeared in front of the stronghold as a red-haired boy, wearing a black red cloud robe, and his voice was much clearer than the hoarse voice he had deliberately pretended before.

"That guy doesn't want to use my head in exchange for money, does he?"

Bai Mingyu smacked his lips, and this time he understood a little bit what was going on with the way Kakuzu looked at him before.

"Speaking of which, you are all S-class renegade ninjas from various countries. The bounty on the black market should not be low, right?"

Bai Mingyu looked at Xie.

"It's not like that."

Xie shook his head: "The bounty is not only related to the strength of the person being rewarded, but more importantly, the status of the person being rewarded. If he is a Kage or an elite Jonin from the five major countries, he will often be offered a very high price by hostile countries or enemies. The bounty. But rebel ninjas are different. No village wants its rebel ninjas to fall into the hands of other forces, so they will only send ANBU secretly and spare no effort to hunt them down, but they will never pretend to be in the hands of others. .

Unless the strength of the country is too weak to suppress the rebellious ninja, or other forces want to get the body of the person on whom the bounty is placed, they will offer a high enough price to attract bounty hunters to complete the assassination. "

"In other words, I might be being targeted now?"

Bai Mingyu heard the implication of Xie's words.

In the past few years since he joined the Akatsuki organization, he has done many tasks to assassinate political figures in other countries...

Coupled with some of the missions he had done before in Konoha Anbu, he must have made enemies, and there were a lot of them.

But there are not many people who can offer a high price of hundreds of millions of taels to reward themselves.

"It couldn't have been done by Onoki, right?"

You can't beat him yourself, so you want to use other people's hands to kill him?

It's possible.

However, Bai Mingyu doesn't think this is a big deal. The strength of bounty hunters is uneven. Being able to reach the level of Kakuzu, a Kage-level powerhouse, is already considered to be the best, but Kakuzu... Bai Mingyu really can't I feel that this old-timer in the ninja world who once threw a shuriken at the first generation from 800 miles away can take away his top head.

Just being stared at by others would be somewhat troublesome.

After all, assassination is different from fighting, and it does not only depend on strength.

Most of the time, methods such as poisoning and setting traps are used. For example, Scorpion is a master at this. In terms of using poison, his skills are no less than those of his grandmother Chiyo, who was once known as the strongest third generation in history. Feng Ying died under the poison of Scorpion.

"Anyway, you'd better be careful and don't die so easily."

Scorpion said lightly.

"Thanks."

Bai Mingyu smiled and said.

Although Scorpio seemed plain on the surface, since Ken deliberately came over to remind himself, he owed a favor after all.

If there is a chance in the future... maybe I can intervene and change his ending.

Scorpion said nothing more.

He nodded expressionlessly and prepared to turn around and leave: "I may have to go out for a while later, and there is nothing else I can do to help. If you accidentally get poisoned, you can come to the Kingdom of Wind to find me."

"The Land of Wind?"

Bai Mingyu frowned and couldn't help but ask: "Are you going back to Sand Hidden Village?"

"No, just looking for something..."

Xie seemed to hesitate for a moment before speaking: "In the desert to the north of the Kingdom of Wind, there is a small country called Loulan. There are a large amount of minerals and metals buried underground there, which is perfect for making ninja tools and human puppets. Good materials. My puppets suffered too much loss in the previous battles, and many materials are no longer enough, so I plan to go there to mine some... In addition, there are some other things in Loulan Kingdom that interest me a bit, maybe There can be some gains.”

Loulan...

Bai Mingyu thought the name sounded familiar.

"Do you need help?"

"Well……"

Xie hesitated for a moment, and Deidara hurriedly came over and said excitedly: "Take me one, I'm good at mining minerals. I used to use it a lot when I was in Yanyin Village. Clay helps others blast mines...although sometimes the blasting is a bit too much, but this is definitely not a problem with my art, huh!"

"……All right."

Xie seemed to think for a while and nodded: "I don't have many puppets I can use now. It's really troublesome to be alone. Since you are willing to help, then come together. As a reward, I can help you build a batch of ninja tools. I still have some experience in this aspect.”