Konoha: Prepare to defect, the system is coming.

Late at night, at the Iron Country Inn.

Mei Terumi was kneeling at the table, drinking the hot tea unique to the Iron Country, her face full of worry.

The result of today's Five Kage Summit was exactly what was expected. Even though all the major ninja villages had lost their tailed beasts, they were unable to reach any consensus due to various reasons.

"Qing!" She glanced at the one-eyed middle-aged man beside her, her voice revealing worry, "What should we do? Should we directly disclose the information of Akatsuki to other villages?"

Qing shook his head slightly and said nothing.

From the attitude of the Kazekage today, it can be seen that if the Hidden Mist Village is too proactive, it will easily be suspected of having ulterior motives.

"Among the five great ninja villages, our Kirigakure is only stronger than the Sand Village." After a long silence, he crossed his arms and spoke, "Although the Akatsuki organization can control the shadow of a village, due to our own strength, we will not make the three powerful villages of Konoha, Iwao, and Kumo feel a real threat."

"But the tailed beasts of Iwagakure and Kumogakure have all been lost. Seven tailed beasts have been lost so far. Don't they feel the threat?" Mei Terumi put down her teacup, her eyes filled with confusion.

Qing shook his head again and explained, "There is a threat, but the threat is not enough to make them want to join forces. In the final analysis, it is still the lack of trust between the villages and the current strong strength of the villages."

"The Third Shinobi World War has just ended. Except for the Daimyo of the Wind Country, the Daimyo of the other four major countries have no intention of weakening the finances of their respective ninja villages for the time being, because no one knows when the Fourth Shinobi World War will break out."

"If this happened 10 years from now, the situation would be very different from what it is now."

Hearing this, Mei Terumi couldn't help but fall into silence.

Of course she understood Qing's thoughts.

The major ninja villages have just emerged from the Third World War not long ago, and have not yet entered the stage of complete peace where weapons are put into storage and horses are sent to the south mountain. They still maintain a high state of combat readiness and are still vigorously cultivating the younger generation of the village.

In other words, the five major ninja villages are now five war machines that can launch another Ninja World War at any time.

After the end of the Third Ninja World War, the output power of this machine may have decreased a little, but as long as there is a slight disturbance, the power of this war machine can be instantly pulled to its peak.

“You’re right!!”

Mei Terumi smiled bitterly and said, "Ten years later, when peace has lasted for a long time, the daimyo will not want to maintain high military expenditures and will reduce the finances of each village, thus reducing the strength of each village in disguise.

If the "relatively weak" five ninja villages faced the powerful Akatsuki organization, they would not be so opposed to the idea of ​​​​cooperation. "

Qing picked up the tea, blew off the foam on it, and said as he drank, "There is another important reason. It has not been long since the end of the Third Ninja World War, and it is also the time when the trust between the major ninja villages is the lowest.

Those young people who have not experienced war have not grown up yet.

Now the backbone of each village are the ninjas who participated in the Three World Wars.

It is difficult for today's backbone forces to remain calm when faced with enemies who killed their parents, teachers, companions and lovers, let alone the idea of ​​fighting side by side.

Even some extreme ninjas may become disappointed with the village and defect."

"They gave everything for the village, but in the end they have to cooperate with the enemy." Terumi Mei's eyes darkened and she sighed softly, "Ninjas are a group of people who can endure, but few ninjas can really endure all this."

Seeing that she had figured it out, Qing couldn't help but pick up the tea and take a sip, with a look of relief in his eyes.

Before coming, the elder Yuanshi specifically told me that the idea of ​​acting Mizukage Mei Terumi was a bit naive, her methods were too immature, and she could easily do extreme things on impulse.

He caught a glimpse of the thoughtful look on Mei Terumi's face, then shifted his gaze to focus on the teacup in his hand.

The shape of the vessel is beautiful and elegant, and the surface is printed with the image of General Mifune drawing his sword and killing the enemy, showing his domineering power.

"This teacup is pretty good!" Qing drank the tea in it, looked around, put the teacup in his arms as if nothing had happened, and prepared to take it home as a collection.

Then, he looked at the thoughtful Mei Terumi again and sneered.

“Before coming here, Elder Yuanshi once said that he was not optimistic about the joint action of the five major ninja villages.

Because the five major ninja villages did not have a sense of crisis at all, the mastermind behind the scenes caused almost no casualties in the process of seizing the tailed beasts, except for the disappearance of the Jinchūriki and the death of the Fourth Mizukage. "

"To put it simply, whenever the mastermind goes on a killing spree to seize the tailed beasts, thousands of ninjas are killed in each village. Do you think those people will unite or not?"

As a veteran jonin, Qing has studied other villages thoroughly.

In every village there are people who advocate war and people who advocate peace.

The fact that the mastermind did not harm innocent people when capturing the tailed beasts meant that the peace faction would not easily support going to war, and might even interfere with the thinking of each "shadow".

Internal: The villages were unable to reach a consensus.

External: Akatsuki failed to bring enough pressure to the villages.

General environment: The grievances between the villages have been there for a long time, and the blood feud is difficult to resolve.

"It would be strange if they could unite together." Thinking of this, Qing grinned and sneered, "Even if they can unite together and really take back the tailed beasts, who knows if the villages will turn against them and take back other people's tailed beasts at the moment of success?"

"Is there really no trust at all?" Mei Terumi asked with a glimmer of hope.

Qing shrugged and said casually, "The Third Raikage once gave enough trust to the Sand Village, but in the end he was tricked to death and didn't even know how he died."

"The information that Kisame collected with his life." Mei Terumi reached out and touched the warm scroll in her arms, and suddenly she became hesitant.

Now they already know that Akatsuki is the mastermind behind this incident, and Kisame has even passed back the general information of Akatsuki members in a special way.

but.

boom! !

Just as Mei Terumi was distracted, a white smoke suddenly rose up at her feet, scaring her so much that she jumped up and her heartbeat instantly accelerated.

"Hmm? This thing..." Qing frowned, waved his hand to disperse the smoke, and looked at the scroll on the ground, a little puzzled, "It looks a bit like our intelligence scroll?"

Hearing this, Mei Terumi also breathed a sigh of relief.

She bent down to pick up the scroll, gently unfolded it, and after just two glances, her expression suddenly changed. Her fair palms tightly grasped the scroll, and veins popped out on her forehead.

Noticing the changes in the other person, Qing walked closer in confusion and asked.

"What does it say?"

Mei Terumi said nothing, but simply examined the scroll again and again.

After carefully reading the scroll several times and making sure that not a single word was missed, she sat down on the ground, smiled bitterly and said, "Qing, we are in big trouble."

"What trouble?"

Qing blinked, then moved closer, his eyes fell on the scroll, and whispered, "So it's the information sent back by Kisame, let me see. Hmm. Akatsuki organization. There are 100,000 ninjas. Uchiha Madara"

Qing could no longer see the information behind him. He only felt a black screen in his eyes, as if someone had punched him. He staggered back several steps and finally fell to the ground.

Is this big trouble???

This is the sky falling!!

Kisame is in a pretty good mood right now.

He eats well, sleeps well, and wanders around the Rain Village every day when he opens his eyes, secretly collecting intelligence for the village.

"Isn't the information a bit exaggerated?" Thinking back to the information he sent back two days ago, Kisame rubbed his chin with one hand and muttered to himself, "Then again, if it's not exaggerated, how can the villages work together?"

"If Senju Hashirama hadn't been resurrected more than a year earlier, I would have wanted to add him in."

"The legendary ninja in the ninja world."

Thinking of this, he looked up at the tall building in the middle of Rain Village.

From the time he joined Akatsuki until now, Kisame has never seen the demigod.

Even when he tried to find out from the organization indirectly, no one told him about the demigod's situation.

"What a pity." Kisame quickly glanced at Hanzo's residence, shook his head subconsciously, and thought to himself, "If it weren't for the title of "Demi-God" and the shocking title of "Ninja World Shura", it would actually be okay to change the mastermind to him."

"One hundred thousand ninjas, Uchiha Madara"

The content of that intelligence was fabricated by him after he took great pains to magnify the strength of Konoha, one of the five major ninja villages, tenfold.

Give those ninja villages who have ulterior motives a little shock! !

"Ok?"

Just as Kisame was strolling around, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a pitcher plant squatting in the corner, wondering what it was thinking about.

He hesitated for a moment, then strode forward and spoke.

"Jue, is the leader looking for me?"

Black Zetsu also came back to his senses from his trance at this time. He glanced at Kisame who was approaching and shook his head gently, saying, "The organization has no missions recently. The leader is busy studying ninjutsu."

Hearing this, Kisame's eyes fell on the pitcher plant in front of him, then he lowered his voice and asked curiously.

"Does the organization have a plan on how to capture the Eight-Nine?"

Black Zetsu looked at him deeply and shook his head again.

"not yet."

This statement is not a lie, the organization does not have a very good plan at the moment.

Asuka once mentioned that "war" could be used to force the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Leaf Village to hand over their Jinchūriki.

However, this proposal was not passed in the end. If you want to coerce a ninja village of the five major countries, you must at least have equal strength, but the current Akatsuki organization... well... not good enough.

"Then what should we do next?" Seeing this, Kisame asked curiously.

"Wait until the Five Kage Tournament is over!"

Black Zetsu took a deep breath, his eyes piercing through the obstacles, looking towards the direction of the Iron Country, and whispered, "Wait for the leader to improve his strength, and by the way, see what the group of people can come up with.

We will formulate corresponding countermeasures based on the results of the meeting.”

Hearing this, Kisame couldn't help but feel relieved.

A makeshift team is just a makeshift team.

This plan to capture the tailed beast

It's broken!!

at the same time.

The Land of Iron, the inn where Konoha is located.

After finishing the afternoon meeting, Hashirama hurriedly ate a few bites of food and returned to the inn arranged by the Land of Iron. He sat face to face with Uchiha Asuka, and the two stared at each other.

There was a solemn and depressing atmosphere in the air.

They all noticed this atmosphere, but none of them took the initiative to speak.

Huhu~

The cold wind outside the window blows violently against the glass, making a whistling sound, making people want to hide in the warm bed and immerse themselves in sweet dreams.

"Master Hashirama!" Asuka glanced at the time on the wall and yawned, "We've been sitting here for three hours and still haven't come up with anything. How about we think about it tomorrow?"

Senju Hashirama shook his head and looked at the snowy world outside through the glass, with some worry in his eyes, "I can't sleep!! I really can't sleep if I don't want to come up with a result."