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In the past two years, the maintenance force, under the leadership of Hoshigaki Kisame, has drastically shifted its operational guidelines.

The shift from “fighting the Zero Organization” to “maintaining peace in the ninja world” was already being pushed behind the scenes by Jianchuan Tachibana.

After all, the fight against Uchiha Obito can start at any time, but it is definitely better to increase the influence of the Hidden Mist Village and control the surrounding small countries as soon as possible.

But after all, there are four other ninja villages that are also keeping an eye on the maintenance forces.

Although the other four major ninja villages have also interfered with other forces that are not within their own sphere of influence during the activities of the maintenance forces.

But after all, the purpose of establishing the maintenance and mobilization force is clear.

It’s not good for the Hidden Mist Village as they haven’t accomplished any ‘real work’ during their entire term.

At the end of his term, Tachibana Jianchuan took advantage of his contact with Orochimaru and used the information of several bloodline limit ninjas to lure Hiruzen out.

While stimulating Uchiha Obito, it can also be regarded as adding some “performance” to Hoshigaki Kisame.

After seeing the two pieces of information at the end of the document, “Bounty hunter activity track” and “Large-scale population disappearances in the country of River”, a gleam of light flashed in Jianchuanju’s eyes.

“You really don’t have any sense of crisis at all!”

“Please notify Elder Yuanshi for me. Never mind. I’ll go there directly.”

Jianchuan Tachibana, who had originally been thinking about asking Mei Terumi to make another trip to the Mizukage Building, just stood up.

He placed one hand in front of him and made a random seal.

Close your eyes and breathe.

The surging mental power in my mind spread out instantly.

In a flash, the entire Hidden Mist Village was enveloped in it.

‘Spiritual Venue’ unfolds.

Afterwards, Jianchuan Ju kept the seals in his hands and focused his attention on the Mizukage’s office.

‘Dimensional Hole’ is activated.

A golden halo immediately appeared in front of Jianchuan Ju and in the Mizukage’s office at the same time.

Under the adoring gaze of Mei Terumi, Tachibana Kanegawa took a step forward.

When the golden halo disappeared, the person had already arrived at the Mizukage’s office.

Looking at Jianchuan Ju who suddenly appeared in front of them, Elder Yuanshi and Qing rubbed their brows in pain at the same time.

“Lord Mizukage, I am old now. Can you please not launch surprise attacks like this every time? My heart really can’t take it.”

Looking at the awkward smile on Jianchuan Ju’s face, Elder Yuanshi could only sigh helplessly.

Ever since our genius Mizukage developed this magical space-time ninjutsu, things have become convenient.

Not to mention the powerful effect this ninjutsu can bring in terms of tactics and strategy, even in life, the elder master often benefits a lot from the help of the Mizukage to “open the door”.

It was that after his own Mizukage acquired this ninjutsu, he started to appear and disappear mysteriously all day long, and the old man’s heart really couldn’t take it.

However, Jianchuan Tachibana is, after all, the most outstanding Mizukage in the history of the Hidden Mist Village. Elder Yuanshi only mentioned this briefly and then continued to talk about the business.

“Mizukage-sama, did you come here after reading the information sent back by the maintenance team?”

Hearing that Elder Yuanshi took the initiative to change the subject, Jianchuan Ju’s embarrassed look disappeared and he spoke seriously.

“That’s right. Originally, it was said that Kisame would achieve some results before leaving office. Unexpectedly, they also caught the tail of Zero Organization through intelligence.” Elder Yuanshi nodded first, then shook his head slightly.

“In fact, it’s not entirely the result of the investigation by the maintenance and coordination forces themselves.”

“According to the information sent back by the White Zetsu Squad from Konoha, it was actually Konoha’s Anbu who first discovered the whereabouts of the bounty hunter named Kakuzu.”

“After that, even the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze went out in person to encircle and suppress the enemy, but it seems that his actions were discovered by the enemy in advance, allowing them to escape the encirclement. The maintenance team then followed the map and found clues about the enemy again.”

Jianchuan Ju was slightly startled when he heard this.

“Minato Namikaze personally went to the scene and Kakuzu ran away? When did it happen?”

Konohagakure, or rather Minato Namikaze, has been trying its best to track down the movements of the Zero Organization since the end of the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

Jianchuan Ju had actually known about this matter for a long time.

At first, Konoha would share some of the investigation information with the maintenance team led by Hoshigaki Kisame.

However, as time went by, perhaps because the maintenance force had never made any substantial progress, or perhaps because the spies planted by Konoha in the Hidden Cloud Village vaguely sensed something and no longer trusted the maintenance force.

Afterwards, Konoha and the maintenance force basically conducted their own investigations.

As the strongest ninja village in the past, although Konoha has declined in recent years, it still has a profound foundation, so it is not surprising that Jianchuanju was able to investigate Kakuzu’s whereabouts.

But he didn’t expect that even Minato Namikaze himself could help Kakuzu escape.

Although Minato Namikaze has been the Hokage for the past two years, there is no record of him taking action openly.

However, information from all sides indicates that Minato Namikaze has now successfully sealed half of the Nine-Tails into his own body, officially becoming the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Add to that the super mobility that Flying Thunder God brings him, isn’t it easy for him to catch a corner?

After hearing Jianchuan Ju’s question, Elder Yuanshi explained.

“Konoha’s action took place three days ago, and the information was only sent back to the village yesterday. I was originally planning to report this matter to the Mizukage today.”

Jianchuan Ju thought about it and realized that at this time yesterday, he, Kabuto, was still in the Snow Country dealing with follow-up matters. The failure of an operation in Konoha was not a big deal, so it was normal that he was not notified immediately.

Seeing that Jianchuan Ju expressed his understanding, Elder Yuanshi continued.

“As for the failure of Konoha’s operation, the intelligence reported back said that after Konoha surrounded the bounty hunter suspected to be Kakuzu, Namikaze Minato killed him on the spot.”

“However, there was only a broken heart in the corpse, and his teammates never showed up. This confirmed that the other party only left a clone to attract fire and escaped from Konoha’s encirclement in advance.”

“The maintenance team later noticed that there were several small-scale disappearances of people, which overlapped with the activities of bounty hunters suspected to be Kakuzu. That’s how they were able to lock on to the target again.”

Jianchuan Ju nodded upon hearing this.

Kakuzu’s teammate, Wuliang, needs to consume the souls of living people to create his “Undead Army”. This information was traded by Jianchuan Ju from Orochimaru.

Currently, only a few people in the maintenance force know about this, so it is not surprising that they can lock on to the enemy before Konoha.

After explaining the cause of the matter, Elder Yuanshi looked at Jianchuan Ju who seemed to be thinking about something, and spoke slowly again.

“So, that’s the focus now.”

“Now that we have captured a full member of the Zero Organization, do we still need to ask Hoshigaki Kisame to continue chasing after Kakuzu and Wuliang?”

(End of this chapter)