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A month later, the three of them hid in a cargo ship again and left the Country of Water.
After they gathered in the Land of Rain,
Pipa Shizang and Sasori, who didn't have partners, were arranged to work together and were responsible for the missions around the Country of Earth.
Yumi Hinata and Lantern Full Moon, who received a uniform, ring, and nail polish, were responsible for the missions of the small countries from the Country of Iron to the Country of Hot Water.
This was also quite good.
These small countries happened to be north of the Fire Nation. Many missions were either entrusted to the Country of Thunder in the north or the Fire Nation in the south. There was a chance to meet Yasuji, who was on a mission with her teammates, or it was better to simply entrust a few difficult missions that required investigation under an alias. However, the Fire Nation required the mission client to personally commission in Konoha for review.
This was a difficult problem.
In fact, as long as she could sneak into Konoha.
Yumi Hinata didn't even have to take the risk of entrusting a mission in front of Hokage.
She left countless Thor marks in the Hyuga family.
It was just that the Yasuji family was in the center of Konoha, and the effective range of her Thor was only about one kilometer.
As long as I can enter Konoha, Yumi Hinata thought. The whole Hyuga family was a suitable test subject.
If one person didn't agree, she would knock him out and ask another one. There were hundreds of people, and she could ask them one by one.
However, the entire village was under the protection of the enchantment, and a wanted criminal like her must have been blacklisted by the enchantment department long ago.
As soon as she entered, she would be discovered.
Then she would have to face the whole village of ninjas.
It wasn't that she couldn't escape, but what was the point of going in and running away?
She was looking for someone.
And these actions had to be done under the nose of Lantern Full Moon.
Yumi Hinata thought for a moment.
She felt that it was impossible.
So she simply crossed the open road in front of Payne.
She asked him directly, "Can I do something of my own when I don't have a mission?"
Payne looked at her. "What do you want to do?"
"You know, I'm Yasuji's daughter." Yumi Hinata pointed to her forehead. "I plan to catch a few Hyuga family members from Konoha for an experiment to see if I can remove this."
Payne was actually very considerate. "Sure, as long as it doesn't delay business." He added, "If you can't get into Konoha, you can delegate this mission to someone else in the organization."
"No, thank you." I didn't want the Hyuga family to be turned into a bloodbath. Yumi Hinata said, "I like to do these things myself."
Payne's reply made Yumi Hinata's heart go cold. Uchiha Zetsu made it clear that he wanted to use the Caged Bird to control her, but now he was letting her do whatever she wanted, which showed that he was very confident that the Caged Bird couldn't be undone.
But she had to try anyway. The mystery of Ninjutsu was endless. Yumi Hinata was often surprised by the strange effects of Ninjutsu. They could even summon souls like the Edo Tensei, so how could they not be able to unseal a curse that controlled the nervous system?
This method must exist in the world, but no one has discovered it yet.
After staying in the Akatsuki headquarters for a few days, Yumi Hinata received her first official mission: assassinate a minister of the Kusanagi Country. She didn't like this kind of thing, but she had done this kind of mission in Konoha before, and it was still above her bottom line.
The difference was that the assassination missions in Konoha were either for a legitimate reason, such as revenge for personal grievances, or commissioned by the country, and unless it was wartime, they wouldn't accept missions like assassinating ministers that could easily cause instability between the country and the ninja village. But the purpose of the Akatsuki was to monopolize war commissions, and they didn't refuse assassinations.
"Do you want to do it, or should I?" Yumi Hinata asked Lantern Full Moon. Both of their abilities were suitable for assassination and infiltration. "This kind of thing doesn't need both of us to do it."
In the previous month or so, Lantern Full Moon had been very silent. He had no objection to Pipa Shizang and Yumi Hinata's arrangements, whether it was taking turns to keep watch or explore, he did whatever they asked. This time, he maintained his usual style and said concisely, "Anything is fine."
"Then you do it." Yumi Hinata pushed it to him, "I still have something to do."
"Didn't Payne ask us to act together?"
"Then you follow me," Yumi Hinata said, "Do you have any other places you want to go?"
Lantern Full Moon put on his usual expressionless face and shook his head, "No, I'll do as you say."
In the exchange office at the border between the Grass Country and the Land of Rain, Yumi Hinata bought information about the minister of the Grass Country and asked, "Do you have any information about the Hyuga family?"
The information dealer with bandages all over his face said gloomily, "Yes, do you want information about the Hyuga family in Konoha, or Yumi Hinata?"
Yumi Hinata's bamboo hat covered her face tightly. She smiled, "Tell me about Yumi Hinata first?"
The information dealer stretched out his hand, "Shenghui, one hundred thousand taels."
Hey, how could she, an S-class Ninja, be so cheap? A B-class mission sometimes cost more than one hundred thousand taels.
After Yumi Hinata paid the money, she received the scroll that recorded her information. She opened it and saw that it contained information about her background, age, appearance, and other things that everyone knew. The only valuable information was the analysis of her defection: She was able to kill Hinata Hinata and Shunsuke Hinata before the "Caged Bird" was activated, which meant that she either had the strength of a Kage, or she had a secret ninjutsu that could increase her speed. It was speculated that it was the Hachimon Tonkou.
The only valuable part of the scroll was the last paragraph, so one hundred thousand taels wasn't a low price. After all, their imagination hadn't expanded to Thor yet.
Yumi Hinata tapped the table in front of the information dealer, "That's too perfunctory. Other than things that everyone knows, it's speculations. The information about the Hyuga family had better be worth the money."
The information peddler cackled strangely. "Yumi-sama, of course these are things that everyone knows about you. However, there are still many people who don't know about your reputation and need to learn about it through us."
Yumi Hinata fell silent. During the war, all she did was kill, kill, and kill. After the war, the missions she did were mostly simple and crude. She really didn't have any dealings with people from the Underground. She had no idea when she had been exposed.
"Please rest assured," the information dealer said, "Cape Town has ordered that this is the extent of the information about you." He handed over another scroll, "This is a summary of the information about the Konoha Hyuga family for the past three months. Shenghui, three hundred and fifty thousand taels."
Yumi Hinata suddenly understood. This person was a subordinate of Cape Town, which meant that he was probably an outer member of the Akatsuki.
However, she bought the information to save herself the trouble because all the expenses in the mission could be reimbursed. According to the normal procedure of her previous missions, she should have investigated the whereabouts of the ministers of the Grass Country and the defense forces of her family.
However, Cape Town's subordinate charged her for the information, and she asked for reimbursement from Cape Town. Interesting. Did Payne, no, Uchiha Zetsu know that he was making money from both sides? Or did he not care?
After all, when the Infinite Tsukuyomi was realized, money would be meaningless. Whether it was the billionaires or the poor, they could have whatever they wanted in their dreams. The only thing that could limit them was their imagination.
According to the information records of the exchange office, the Hyuga family had lived a wonderful few months after Yumi Hinata's defection.
The main family only had two girls and Madam Yingko left, but they had left behind hundreds of years of accumulated wealth. Not only money, but also ninjutsu, genealogy, and so on. The members of the branch family, who were usually respectful, seemed to have suddenly discovered the unfairness of the world and demanded equal power. How could this equality be reflected? The most basic thing was to divide the main family's wealth equally.
The elder of the branch family, Yasuji Yukawa, said it well: The wealth came from the branch family. The main family had not produced anything for thousands of years, and they were just parasites sucking the flesh and blood of the branch family. Now was the time to get everything back on track.
Objectively speaking, this was unfair. Whether it was during the Warring States Period or after joining Konoha, the main family had always contributed to the Hyuga family in their own way by relying on their superior strength, such as protecting their clansmen, killing enemies, and so on.
However, unlike other families, their superior strength was determined by limiting the strength of the branch family. Unlike the Uchiha, Sarutobi, and other clans, being close to the patriarch only meant that their chances of becoming the patriarch were higher than others, and it did not mean that they were absolutely noble.
Unfortunately, the branch family members who wanted to divide the land with the nouveau riche were like a group of dragons without a leader. There were at least seven or eight people who wanted to raise their voices, and no one could win everyone's support.
Those who loved peace directly moved out of the Hyuga family's territory. It seemed that they did not intend to treat themselves as part of the Hyuga family in the future, and did not care about the Hyuga family's matters anymore.
Those who were more radical wanted to let the main family have a taste of the "Caged Bird"'s pain. Yumi Hinata destroyed all records of the "Caged Bird", and they wanted to make a move on the mother and daughters of the main family. Their methods were bloody and ugly, and not only did the other members of the Hyuga family find it unacceptable, even the higher-ups of Konoha had no choice but to intervene. Currently, they were in the stage of being repelled.
Those who wanted to protect the mother and daughters of the Zong family were divided into several factions. There were those who had thoroughly brainwashed the Zong family, and those who hated the Zong family but felt that the two young misses of the Zong family were only children. One of them was Hinata Yasuji, who was closest to the main family by blood. Although he was only seven or eight years old, his father died for the sake of the main family, and he was a famous master when he was alive. He had a lot of prestige in the branch family, and this child did not even bother to hide his hatred. Who would have thought that he would not allow anyone to harm Yasuji Hinata and Yasuji Fireworks?
That's right, in terms of bloodline, the two girls were also his cousins — although when the main family was in power, he was reprimanded by the elders for not even calling his cousins "XX -sama".
Perhaps it was due to the "Caged Bird" that was introduced in an unknown era, but in the long history of the main family, no one knew if it was real or fake, but anything could happen in the thousands of years of history. After all, less than ten years ago, there was an incident where the eyes of the main son of the main family were stolen. He couldn't even keep his own eyes, not to mention the inanimate spell scrolls.
However, Yumi Hinata always held on to a sliver of hope. She felt that after so many years, no one jumped out to control the main family of Yasuji. Even if there was someone who stole the spell scrolls, they would have died in the years of war.
Now that this sliver of hope was shattered, Yumi Hinata had to carry out her backup plan B — killing Orochimaru and seizing his research on the Edo Tensei.
After Orochimaru was discovered by the Third Hokage to be conducting human experiments, Yumi Hinata, who was still part of the regular ninja force at that time, was ordered to cooperate with the Anbu to seize many of his laboratories. Although she wasn't an Anbu, the Hyuga family was a famous family in Konoha, and she was known for her "naivety and kindness," so the Third Hokage believed that she wouldn't be confused by the strange power in the laboratory. Besides, the other Hyuga family members working in the Anbu combined weren't as good as her detection ability.
As the only non-Abu member present at the time, Yumi Hinata's performance was indeed perfect. She expressed strong disgust and fear of the inhumane human experiments in the laboratory, cracked all the hidden ninjutsu traps, found all the hidden secret rooms and data, and never mentioned to anyone that she had participated in the operation.
Yumi Hinata, who had been secretly planning to get rid of the "Caged Bird," also benefited a lot. Although she didn't do anything suspicious, even if she stood far away, as long as she opened the Byakugan, she could see much more than what others could imagine. Although the closed scroll was not a flat surface, so she couldn't directly see the content inside, just the surface of the scroll revealed a lot.
In Orochimaru's research, what she valued most was the Living Corpse Reincarnation, which was almost completed at that time, and the incomplete Edo Tensei.
The Living Corpse Reincarnation referred to putting one's soul into another person's body and taking it as one's own. It was said that Orochimaru intended to use this as a means to pursue immortality, and most of his cruel experiments were carried out to develop this technique.
The "Caged Bird" of the Hyuga family controlled the nervous system of the entire brain through the curse mark on the forehead. After all, it worked on the body. If the body was changed, there would be no carrier, and the "Caged Bird" would collapse.
But the side effects of this technique were too great. On one hand, it was unbearable cruelty. On the other hand, it was a rejection reaction that even Orochimaru couldn't solve. This meant that the user of the Living Corpse Reincarnation was just struggling to survive in another sense.
Yumi Hinata felt that if the ethical issues were not considered, the technique would probably be perfect if it could clone a person's body. But obviously, this world didn't have the technological level — even the earth in her previous life didn't have this level of technology. How could life be so easy to create?
The third shortcoming was only for Yumi Hinata herself. Although she had a strong learning ability and could use hundreds of ninjutsu, whether it was proficiency or power, it was difficult to compare with her own taijutsu. She had been training since she was five years old. On the surface, she looked like a slender female ninja, but in fact, her body was like copper skin and iron bones. If she casually changed her body, she would be lucky to have 30% of her abilities left.
And Yumi Hinata was concerned about the Edo Tensei. That was another way of thinking. She didn't believe that the Hyuga family, with so many years of history, had never considered what would happen if an outsider got the control spell.
That night, time was tight, and Hinata Hinata was a stubborn person. Yumi Hinata couldn't force him to answer. But if she could summon Hinata's soul through the Edo Tensei — and it was said that the user could completely control the Edo Tensei — then whether it was coercion or temptation, there would be a chance.
Even if she couldn't directly remove the "Caged Bird", it would be good if she could slightly reduce the pain when the spell was activated. This way, she would have a chance to directly attack and interrupt the spell, or even kill him.
"So, how long are you going to sit here?"
In a hole deep in the soil one kilometer below the Orochimaru base, Ah Tai licked his claws and acted like a spoiled child to Yumi Hinata. "I've dug such a long tunnel. I'm so tired."
"We have to wait until Orochimaru leaves his laboratory. Then I'll kill him, and you can steal the information." In the face of an opponent like the "Sannin", Yumi Hinata was certainly prepared for failure. She rummaged through her ninja bag. "The black-winged termites are gone. How about the yellow-winged ones?"
"The yellow-winged ones aren't brittle enough … but they'll do." Ah Tai held the pangolin nutrient pack that Yumi Hinata released from the scroll. "Konoha is more versatile. Forget it, I'll try to get used to it."
While Ah Tai was eating, Yumi Hinata was focused on the scene in the base above. A person who looked very much like Orochimaru but was a little different had been in the laboratory for more than 18 hours. Yumi Hinata had also been waiting for him underground for 18 hours. In addition, there were 30 to 40 people in the base, most of them were locked in cages or soaked in water. They must be his experimental subjects. There were five or six people who could move freely and were suspected to be Orochimaru's subordinates. Judging from the strength of Chakra, they were not worth mentioning, but they still had to be careful of some of the mysterious users.
After a while, Yumi Hinata suddenly became alert. "Orochimaru has left the laboratory."
Ah Tai directly poured the remaining half of the pack of termites into its mouth and threw the bag away. After Yumi Hinata attached to its abdomen with Chakra, it quietly dug out the rocks and soil above its head with its sharp claws and piled up the hard scales behind it.
In less than half an hour, with Yumi Hinata's guidance, Ah Tai had already dug a hole more than two meters below Orochimaru's bedroom. Any further and it would be a rock.
Yumi Hinata signaled it to stop and wrote on its scales, "The laboratory is at ten o 'clock. Take away everything with words." Then, she hung a huge cloth bag around its neck.
Ah Tai left in the direction of the laboratory. The Earth Dragon Stealth Technique and the Earth Dragon Stealth Technique were very useful in the soil, but they were a little weak against rocks. Yumi Hinata looked up and saw Orochimaru walking step by step towards the top of her head. She counted silently in her heart, "One, two, three!" Then, she suddenly punched out.
The gravel that burst out from the ground did not pose any threat to Orochimaru. Under the cover of the gravel, he either blocked or dodged the kunai that attacked him. Yumi Hinata's attacks came wave after wave, not giving Orochimaru a chance to form any hand seals. He only managed to block a few attacks before his bones were broken.
Until Orochimaru's neck suddenly stretched out and wrapped around Yumi Hinata's hand.
"Yumi Hinata …" Orochimaru said playfully, "After escaping from Konoha with great difficulty, who ordered you to come here?"
The feeling of his neck could be said to be quite disgusting.
Yumi Hinata's flying kick forced Orochimaru to have no choice but to retract his neck. At the same time, using the Thor's Mark that hit his shoulder during the exchange of fists and kicks, she instantly moved behind him and stabbed him with her hand blade that was infused with wind attribute Chakra.
"Of course it's your old boss' Akatsuki '." Yumi Hinata said.
Orochimaru suddenly opened his eyes wide, "Thor? What a surprise … "
Then his head tilted, and he breathed his last.
Yumi Hinata softly sighed. How should she say, Orochimaru was indeed a kage level expert. Under her sneak attack, he did not have any chance to use his exquisite ninjutsu. His genjutsu was also restrained by her Byakugan. This was fine, after all, for her, relying on high-speed close-range attacks to not give her opponent any chance to form any hand seals was her old specialty.
But the taijutsu he used to deal with the enemy should be the most insignificant part of his abilities. But under the situation where his strength and speed were completely suppressed, he could still rely on his super fast reaction and decades of combat experience to exchange several tens of moves with her.
If not for this unexpected Thor, even if she could defeat him, she would not be able to kill him.
As for now, the wind element Chakra that she attached to her hand blade almost tore half of his body apart.
Yumi Hinata crouched down and wanted to remove the Air Ring from Orochimaru's hand. She suddenly froze for a moment. She lifted Orochimaru's torn clothes and gasped. She could not help but respect the person on the ground – this was clearly a woman's body.
She thought that he, no, she … no, it was still him. His appearance changed because he used a ninjutsu to hide his appearance to avoid being hunted down, but it turned out that he simply changed his body.
This was probably the Living Corpse Reincarnation Jutsu that he had been researching for a long time. It turned out that he had already put it into practice so quickly.
This kind of spirit that rushed straight to the goal of immortality, disregarding superfluous self-esteem and morality, was really admirable.
Yumi Hinata took back the dozens of Thor kunai that she threw out at the beginning and ran all the way to the laboratory. On the way, she casually opened the cages that held the test subjects. Interestingly, several of Orochimaru's subordinates also seemed to be working as test subjects – or were they originally promoted as test subjects? When they tried to stop her, they resorted to all sorts of strange tricks.
The test subjects' reactions were also very strange. Some turned a blind eye and squatted by the wall in a daze after the door was opened, some of them immediately went to fight with other test subjects, and some even tried to kill her.
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