Chapter 403: Friction between Kumog and Mist Villages Escalates

In modern society, some people sell company or country intelligence to others to make a lot of money. This is also very common in the ninja world.

Among the five major ninja villages, the one that sells village information the most is the Kirigakure, which is the most divided.

In the Mist Village, there are many people who are engaged in reselling information.

Not to mention general basic intelligence, as long as you pay, some people will even sell you secrets about the dark forces, and this happens more than once or twice.

This phenomenon has existed since the first Mizukage established the Mist Village but failed to fully control the power of the village.

The second and third Mizukage were also unable to deal with this problem.

"With the support of the master, Yagura defeated other competitors and became the fourth Mizukage of the Kirigakure. It is said that the master of the Kirigakure stood up because of the alliance between the village and Konoha."

"Haha, this old guy really knows how to pick the right time."

When the Mist Village was fighting to the death, the Master didn't say a word. But when Konoha and the Cloud Village formed an alliance, the Master felt threatened and stood up immediately.

Unfortunately, due to inertial thinking, the Mist Village and the Rock Village were unable to form an alliance successfully.

Ohnoki was very angry about the Mist Village's lion's big mouth behavior.

You guys are asking for too much for an alliance, that's just too much!!

Since you don’t want to form an alliance, then let’s not form an alliance. Let’s just see who will be unlucky next.

The Cloud Ninja Village likes to invade the Land of Earth, and has many conflicts with your Land of Water. It depends on whether you will regret it.

After putting away the intelligence scroll on the table, the Third Raikage thought for a while, slapped the table decisively, and said to Tsuchida: "Since the Kirigakure cannot stand the alliance between the village and Konoha, and the ships of the Land of Lightning that attacked the village on the sea, then we should also give them a big gift."

The Third Raikage is not the kind of person who can only talk big after being beaten. He will do whatever he says to you!

It was a good thing that his Cloud Village did not take the initiative to attack the Mist Village, but the Mist Village attacked their ships first, which was simply seeking death.

As for whether these ships that were attacked and disappeared in the sea were the work of the Mist Village, no one doubted it.

Because the friction and fighting between the Cloud Village and the Mist Village has been going on for a long time. Secondly, in this sea area, only the naval forces of the Cloud Village and the Mist Village are strong enough. Konoha has not developed its naval forces at all, and it is impossible for it to attack the ships of the Cloud Village or the Land of Lightning.

In addition, the Third Hokage was a well-known conservative, and he had just formed an alliance with the Cloud Village. Even if he wanted to take action, it would be more reasonable to start with the Mist Village.

Therefore, the Mist Village cannot get rid of this blame.

Compared to the intelligence gathering speed of the Cloud Village, the response of the Mist Village is undoubtedly much slower.

First of all, not many ships from the Mist Village or even the Land of Lightning were attacked. Secondly, the Mist Village, which had just settled its internal strife, was a mess everywhere. Many things were left unattended, and Yagura was busy dealing with these matters.

As a result, the response to attacks at sea was not as timely.

It was not until the patrol warship of the Mist Village failed to return to the village to report intelligence on time that the matter was reported to Yagura.

After carefully reading the intelligence, Yagura frowned and thought for a moment before speaking: "In other words, several patrol warships in the village did not return to the village on time to report on their work?"

Ships do not travel very fast on the sea, and it takes a long time to patrol an area, so patrol ships will return to the village at fixed times to report on their work.

Sometimes it is common to be a few days late.

In the face of the power of nature, ordinary ninjas have no power to resist.

"Yes, Mizukage-sama, the longest time has been more than five days." The ninja who came to report answered in detail: "And there is no bad weather in the sea area in this area."

Even though there was no bad weather, the patrol warship had not returned to the village for five days, which meant that something had happened to the patrol warship.

"Is there any new news in the Cloud Ninja Village?"

Yagura's first reaction was that the Cloud Ninja Village had dabbled.

In response to Yagura's question, the ninja who came to report on his work quickly said, "Mizukage-sama, recently we often see ships from the Kumogakure around our sea area, and the number is increasing."

“Old thing!!!”

Yagura couldn't help cursing when he heard this: "Are you planning to come and provoke us just when the village has just stabilized?"

Being attacked at sea is different from being attacked anywhere else.

If we are attacked on land, we can send people to investigate and gather some relevant intelligence.

On the vast ocean, if a ship is attacked, it will be smashed and sink to the bottom of the sea. Not even the bodies may be left behind. At most, there may be some floating objects left, and no clues can be found even if investigated.

This is also the main reason why Jingyi allowed Kushina to take revenge on the Cloud Village and the Mist Village.

If you are retaliated against at sea, you will not be able to find any clues or collect any valuable intelligence, and you can only wonder who has the motive.

Without seeing the enemy with one's own eyes, all that can be left is suspicion, unless there are survivors who can provide intelligence.

If there are no survivors and the ship has sunk, then just guess and speculate slowly.

So when something happens, don't panic. We might as well make some guesses first and find a suspect.

No one would think that Kushina was seeking revenge, and no one would have thought that the murderer who attacked the ships on the sea was a huge golden python. The people of the Cloud Village and the Mist Village both tacitly suspected that the other was the murderer.

The Cloud Ninja Village was the first to receive the news. In order to ensure the safety of the sea routes between the village and the Land of Lightning, and to show their attitude, they had to take action.

Otherwise, all merchants passing by would know that the Mist Village would attack ships heading to or leaving the Land of Lightning, which would definitely be a heavy blow to the Land of Lightning's commercial tax revenue and the village's reputation.

Therefore, the Third Raikage simply and decisively ordered all the village's warships to take action.

A large number of warships from the Cloud Village suddenly appeared on the sea, which directly irritated the nerves of the Mist Village.

As a result, friction and confrontation frequently occurred at sea.

The atmosphere between the two villages also became tense.

Konoha, Anbu base.

Ye Cang, wearing a secretary's uniform, walked into the minister's office with the information collected from the Anbu team.

“This is a nice suit.”

Seeing that the buttons on Ye Cang’s chest were almost broken, Jingyi couldn’t help but give him a thumbs up.

Do you think I will believe it?

Ye Cang simply pretended not to hear the comment, put the intelligence scroll down, and stood to the side of the desk.

Even though Ye Cang is not as old as Tsunade, his body size is not much different from Tsunade. After putting on the secretary uniform, his curves... make people unable to look away.

But it’s important to look at the information.