From Pirates to the Strongest Death God in Soul Society

Chapter 377 Infiltration and counter-infiltration, the battle between Pain and others is about to begin.

At a roadside stall on a street in Yuyin Village.

Jiraiya drank his tea very calmly and observed the situation around him.

Although the Hidden Rain Village has not communicated with the outside world for many years and has blocked its own intelligence, it does not mean that they really have no communication with the outside world. After all, it is impossible for such a big village to be self-sufficient in supplies when it rains every day.

Merchants from the Rain Country or caravans from other places will also come here to do business.

There weren't many faces from outside, but there were some. That was why it wasn't so strange for Jiraiya to be drinking tea here. After all, he wasn't wearing a Konoha ninja's forehead protector.

Glancing at the ninjas hurrying by, Jiraiya was also thinking in his mind.

"The forehead protector has not changed. It still looks like the Hidden Rain Village, which means the flag has not changed."

"But once the villagers ask about the leader and other related information, they will keep silent and be very wary of outsiders. This shows that the village has extremely strong control."

"Even the children would talk about the 'god' of the village. Perhaps this god is their leader. That's a little strange. Could it be a cult?"

Speaking of cults, Zilai remembered that a few years ago, when he was collecting materials in the Land of Hot Springs, he heard about a cult incident that happened there. It seemed that there was some kind of evil cult that was killing people everywhere, and it was rumored that they had developed immortality or something.

But in the end, it failed to achieve great success. After struggling for a while, it was destroyed by self-destruction and suppression by the Kingdom of Hot Springs.

Putting these thoughts aside, Jiraiya looked towards the tallest building in the Hidden Rain Village, his eyes gradually becoming serious.

Because there is heavy rain in the Hidden Rain Village all year round, the overall architectural style is very unique. There are large and small drainage pipes around all the buildings, which look very metallic.

At the same time, there has been no iconic office building in the Hidden Rain Village, similar to the Hokage Building, since the reign of Hanzo Salamander.

However, as Jiraiya, who had participated in the Second Ninja World War and carried out many missions in the Hidden Rain Village, he knew very well that the tallest building in the village was where the leader was.

"Should I choose a target first, capture him and torture him, or should I sneak into the building directly to find out the truth?" Jiraiya put down his teacup, thinking to himself.

It only took two or three breaths of time. Jiraiya's eyes were determined. Let's go directly to that building to find out the truth.

What are you afraid of?
He is Jiraiya, the Toad Sage, one of the Three Ninjas.

Even Hanzo of the Salamander is dead. Even though there are many rebellious ninjas gathered here, Jiraiya is confident enough in his own strength.

What's more... Thinking of this, he touched the scroll in his arms, then adjusted its position and placed it in the hidden cloth bag under his armpit. In this way, when he needed to use it, the scroll could slide directly into his hand along the cuffs, which was very convenient.

This Toad Immortal can summon the Spirit Lord at any time, so why should I be afraid?!

He casually put down two banknotes, then Jiraiya stood up and walked into the rain.

At the same time, many ninjas in the Hidden Rain Village received orders from their superiors to check for unfamiliar faces in the village in case some outside ninjas had sneaked in.

This can be considered a small drawback of Yuhu's technique, which is that it is not so sharp in areas with a lot of ninjas.

Just like in the original story, although Jiraiya was discovered as soon as he entered the Hidden Rain Village, Pain was unable to directly confirm his location through this technique, and also needed the ninjas in the village to investigate and search.

However, while these ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village were searching for the so-called foreign ninjas, Jiraiya had already begun to sneak into the building.

A small brown toad, only the size of a palm, sneaked into the drainpipe, then followed the drainpipe, bypassed the guards in the building, and invaded the core area of the Hidden Rain Village through an unexpected route.

At the same time, in the most secluded room in the central area of the building, Nagato was sitting in a wheelchair, and Konan beside him was looking at him solemnly.

After the Rain Tiger Freedom Technique lost its effect, Nagato performed the Chakra Sensing Technique every five minutes in this place. This technique could be considered a secret of the Uzumaki clan, using chakra to determine the enemy's position and track them.

The advantage is that it is very accurate, but the disadvantage is that the range is not very large. Nagato can currently perceive the entire building in three dimensions from top to bottom, floor by floor.

"Any results?" Konan couldn't help but ask when she saw Nagato finished this perception.

"No." Nagato shook his head, but immediately said: "This unknown outsider ninja is very powerful. From the time I discovered him until now, the ninjas in the village have been investigating him, but they haven't found him yet. This shows that his lurking and infiltration methods are quite sophisticated. The more such a person is, the more likely he is to look for our most core secrets. Therefore, this building cannot be let go by him."

It is precisely because of this judgment in his mind that Nagato continues to perceive and explore.

In a secret room in the building, the sewer pipe in the room was gently pushed open, and then a small brown toad jumped out from it. It looked around and after confirming that there was no danger in this place, it opened its mouth.

Then Jiraiya's arm was seen sticking out from the toad's mouth in a very strange way, and soon, his tall body crawled out from the mouth of the palm-sized small toad. It was hard to imagine what was inside the stomach of the small toad.

The whole body was wet with mucus, but it quickly dried and evaporated with contact with the air. At least from this point of view, Jiraiya is worthy of being Orochimaru's friend, one likes to be spit on by snakes, and the other likes to be spit on by toads.

The room was extremely dark, as if no light from the outside could penetrate into the room at all. There were no windows around, and apart from a heavy metal door, there was no other exit. Oh, there was a sewer pipe.

This can be considered a feature of the Hidden Rain Village. After all, it rains all year round, so it is normal for some water stains to seep into the rooms. Therefore, almost all buildings are designed and constructed with drainage pipes in each room.

"Lantern Technique." Jiraiya muttered to himself and turned his palms upwards.

A flame emitting a dim white light appeared in Jiraiya's hand, and this change made the dim room a little brighter.

The first thing Jiraiya saw was a ninja who was nailed to a torture device. He seemed to have a very weak breath and was on the verge of death. He was a middle-aged man with a forehead protector from the Gakushi Village on his head and dense sealing spells engraved on his body.

"Takigakure Village?" Jiraiya was a little confused. He took two steps forward and shone the faint white light in his hand on the other person's lowered head, and saw the man's face clearly.

"Seven-Tails Jinchuriki!?" Jiraiya said in surprise.

Konoha's intelligence penetration is still very thorough, and it has a certain understanding and investigation of all ninja villages in various countries, regardless of size.

People like Yakushi Nonou and Yakushi Kabuto had been away for many years and never returned to the village, just to survive in order to obtain more information.

Before Jiraiya came, he already knew that the Akatsuki organization was likely to be secretly hunting and capturing the tailed beasts. Therefore, when he left Konoha, he obtained Konoha's real-time intelligence on each tailed beast's Jinchūriki.

In the original story, the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki was a little girl named 'Maple', but it is obvious that the middle-aged man nailed to the torture device is the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki of this time period.

"The injury is really serious." Jiraiya quickly observed the other party's injuries.

From these injuries, we can obtain some information and thus determine the ninjutsu that the members of Akatsuki may use.

After careful observation, Jiraiya got the result. Most of them were "explosive injuries". In other words, there was an explosive ninja in the Akatsuki organization who was strong enough to severely injure and capture the Tailed Beast Jinchuriki alive.

"In the ninja world, there are not many people who can use Explosion-related ninjutsu." Jiraiya began to recall the information in his mind.

I have to say that he is really a very good ninja and is indeed a master of intelligence. Soon, Jiraiya locked on a target in his mind.

There is actually only one person who is an S-rank rebel ninja who can use the power of explosive release and meets these two relevant elements. That is the genius that the Iwagakure Village once boasted of, the Sandaime Tsuchikage, the direct disciple of the famous bloodline eliminated ninja, the two great scales Ōnoki, Deidara.

"But it doesn't seem likely. If I remember correctly, that little brat should be only about seventeen years old now? Are all young people nowadays so powerful?" Jiraiya thought with some surprise.

But even though it seemed unlikely, it was indeed true that Deidara was the only one who best met the intelligence screening criteria, so Jiraiya also increased his vigilance in this regard.

Although he had just sneaked in, in fact, when Jiraiya saw the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, it could be said that it was worth it. He thought about it for a while and decided to end this first investigation of the Hidden Rain Village and try to see if he could take the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki away.

If this guy is brought back to Konoha, Konoha will have a lot of initiative against Takigakure Village. At the same time, this Seven-Tails Jinchuriki has obviously fought with the Akatsuki and been defeated. As long as he can be rescued, the information he can reveal alone will be very valuable. By the way, it can also disrupt the progress and plans of the Akatsuki, killing two birds with one stone.

Thinking of this, Jiraiya began to carefully examine the sealing technique on this guy, and carefully searched around to see if there were any triggered alarms and traps.

At the same time, Nagato performed the chakra sensing technique again after five minutes.

Unlike the previous times, this time, his expression changed quickly, and with a hint of shock and anger in his eyes, he said: "The enemy has invaded the interior of our building, and is in the secret cell where the Tailed Beast Jinchuriki is imprisoned, Konan!"

"I understand. I'll go now." Xiaonan said with a very serious expression.

Not everyone who can extract the terrifying chakra of the tailed beast can be as easy as Bane, who can pull the tailed beast out of the Jinchuriki's belly with one hand.

Do you really think the sealing technique within the Jinchūriki's body and the huge chakra of the tailed beasts are a joke?

Even Nagato, who calls himself a god and possesses the power of the Rinnegan, cannot do this. It takes a lot of time for the Akatsuki organization to extract the power of the tailed beasts. They use the Phantom Dragon Nine Sealing Technique, which requires the gathering of several masters and the use of huge amounts of chakra as a medium. It takes a long time, often several days in a row, to truly extract the chakra of the tailed beasts.

But the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki had just been brought back to the Hidden Rain Village by Deidara and Sasori, and before Nagato had time to gather everyone to extract the tailed beast's chakra, Jiraiya had already come in to cause trouble.

So there was a time lag in between.

At the same time as Konan set out, Nagato had already begun using his spiritual will to communicate through the rings of the Akatsuki members and to contact the rest of the people in the Hidden Rain Village.

"Be on high alert! The enemy has sneaked into our base camp and is located in the Jinchūriki's prison. Konan is on the way there, and you should go to support her as soon as possible." After Nagato conveyed this message, he began to put his consciousness into the body of Six Paths Pain.

Soon, the Six Paths Pains scattered throughout the Hidden Rain Village began to gather towards this building.

(End of this chapter)