Chapter 124 The Sigh of the Third Hokage

After solving the giant snake, Bai Ye returned to Jiraiya and waved his hand in front of him: "Brother Jiraiya, are there any other beasts in the training ground? This giant snake is not enough for me to warm up." Hearing this, Jiraiya's mouth twitched slightly. Judging from the size of the giant snake, the opponent is at least the strength of an elite Chunin. It is not difficult to deal with it with his strength, but Bai Ye is so old that he can solve it so easily. Recalling his strength when he was fourteen or fifteen years old, Jiraiya was a little dazed for a while. In a trance, Jiraiya looked at Bai Ye with a more solemn look. He could not continue to treat Bai Ye as a junior. Bai Ye was worthy of being valued by him. The scene of Bai Ye's sword slashing the giant snake also fell on the Konoha ninjas participating in the exercise. They didn't know whether the existence of the giant snake was part of the exercise, but Bai Ye's fighting power surprised them, and what shocked them even more was the forehead protector Bai Ye wore. When did such a genius boy appear in the Hidden Rain Village? Is this the reason why the village cooperated with the Hidden Rain Village? Facing the envious eyes, Bai Ye naturally accepted it calmly. He could have the current strength entirely by relying on his own efforts and the insignificant help of the system.

After waking up from the trance, Jiraiya asked the red and blue teams to continue the exercise.

He took Bai Ye back to the central area of ​​the Death Forest. While walking on the road, he asked curiously: "Bai Ye, who is your teacher, why do you keep hiding your strength?"

Bai Ye looked at Jiraiya with a puzzled look: "My teacher is Hanzo, and when have I ever concealed myself? I have always said that I am very strong, second only to the five shadows."

Hearing this, Jiraiya thought carefully and recalled.

He found that Bai Ye did not lie. The other party always emphasized the identity of Hanzo's disciple and emphasized that he was the savior of the Hidden Rain Village and the Akatsuki organization.

It was wishful thinking on his part, thinking that Bai Ye exaggerated the facts, but in fact he did not.

It can only be said that Bai Ye's appearance is too confusing, and because Yahiko and others are his disciples, he made a mistake in judgment.

Not long after, Bai Ye and Jiraiya returned to the exchange group.

Namikaze Minato and Yahiko had already seen Bai Ye's battle on the surveillance, and their eyes were a little more complicated.

Namikaze Minato was worried about Bai Ye's strength. Although the village and the Hidden Rain Village had a good relationship at present, Bai Ye was not his fellow apprentice after all, and they might become enemies in the future.

In addition, Bai Ye was a descendant of the Uzumaki clan, and the Uzumaki clan had some resentment towards Konoha.

In addition to feeling that Bai Ye's strength had improved, Yahiko was worried about his own strength. When he first met Bai Ye, Bai Ye was only a Genin, while he was a Jonin.

Now Bai Ye has a battle comparable to the Five Kage, and he is still a Jonin.

For so many years, except for his progress in management, he has achieved nothing in other aspects. If this continues, he is worried that he will not be able to keep up with the pace of the Akatsuki organization and become a burden.

After this episode, the exchange group continued to watch the actual combat exercise.

However, after experiencing a small storm, everyone was somewhat absent-minded.

…

In the Hokage Building, the Third Hokage cut off the telescope technique and looked at Danzo across from him.

At first, the Third Hokage had no interest in Danzo's theory of the threat of Bai Ye, thinking that Danzo just didn't want to see Konoha and the Hidden Rain Village communicating, and that Danzo was too afraid of the Salamander.

So much so that anyone who was related to the Salamander would attract the attention of Bai Ye.

But now it seems that Bai Ye's strength is enough for Danzo to pay attention to, and he is definitely not a simple genius young ninja.

Danzo definitely didn't tell them the truth, and the espionage activities in the Rain Country half a year ago were not as simple as they seemed.

Tapping his fingers on the table, the Third Hokage asked seriously: "Danzo, how much have you concealed about the Akatsuki Organization and the Hidden Rain Village?"

Danzo looked at the Third Hokage without changing his expression, and said lightly: "Hiratsune, you are no longer Hokage."

Hearing this, the Third Hokage's face suddenly changed, and the two consultants also cast their eyes on Danzo, obviously they also wanted to know what Danzo did.

Under the collective gaze of the advisor elders, Danzo felt great pressure and told some of his experiences.

When they heard that Danzo sent people disguised as Iwagakure to sabotage in the territory of the Rain Country and contacted Hanzo of the Salamander to wipe out the Akatsuki organization, the faces of the Third Hokage and the two advisors suddenly changed.

This was completely different from what they imagined.

In their imagination, it was Hanzo of the Salamander who valued talents such as Yahiko and Byakuya, so he trained them to be successors.

But in Danzo's mouth, the Akatsuki organization and the Hidden Rain Village did not get along with each other, and there were many contradictions between them.

And Danzo took advantage of these contradictions to use Hanzo's hands to solve the Akatsuki organization and weaken the overall strength of the Rain Country.

There was nothing wrong with Danzo's plan, and weakening the Hidden Rain Village was also in the interests of Konoha.

But the seemingly beautiful plan eventually failed. Not only was the Akatsuki organization not killed, but it also defeated Hanzo and became the new ruler of the Rain Country.

In other words, although the Akatsuki organization was established by Jiraiya's disciples, it also had a lot of hatred with Konoha. After all, it almost perished in the hands of Danzo.

After thinking about it, Danzo decided to skip the matter of his cooperation with Bai Ye and emphasized solemnly:

"The biggest credit for the Akatsuki organization being able to replace Hanzo the Sanshouyu belongs to Byakuya, so we must not take it lightly. I suggest that the exchange team let my ninjas monitor them while the exchange team is in Konoha."

Looking at his old friend, the Third Hokage shook his head gently: "Duanzo, you can't show up again, otherwise it will affect the cooperation between the village and Amegakure Village."

"The reason why Yahiko and the others didn't mention this matter is because they were thinking about their old relationship. If you continue to monitor us at this time, it will only make the relationship between us and Amegakure Village even worse."

"There's no way Minato would agree to it, not even if I come forward."

"Furthermore, what happened to the giant snake that appeared in the Death Forest? What experiments are you and Orochimaru doing? Didn't I ask you to stop the Wood Release experiment?"

Danzo frowned: "I don't know what Orochimaru is doing specifically, but his failure to run for Hokage was a big blow to him. He may be doing experiments to pass the time."

"However, the experiments he conducted definitely did not include human experiments."

After hearing Danzo's words, the Third Hokage nodded. During his reign, he once led a large-scale human experiment on wood escape.

In order to gain the power of the first generation adults, many volunteers signed up enthusiastically at that time.

It's a pity that the probability of ordinary ninjas receiving the first-generation cells is less than one in a hundred. Even if there are one or two lucky ones, they will die within a month.

Since then, the Mudun experiment has become taboo in the village.

Thinking of this, the Third Hokage said to several advisers: "Today's matter is a secret. If Minato doesn't take the initiative to ask, we'd better not tell it."

Faced with the Third Generation's proposal to protect Danzo, the two advisory elders neither agreed nor objected.

What do you need most to be a counselor elder? It’s about not taking sides and shutting up.

After sighing secretly a few times, the Third Hokage looked at the Kazekage outside the window. Unlike the Hokage's office, the consultant's office could only see thick tree trunks and no new leaves.

He began to miss the time when he was Hokage, at least he didn't have to figure out other people's thoughts.