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If the other party really is Karin's mother, as he thinks, he intends to recruit her as his subordinate.
After all, she was a walking blood bank. Although Xia Yan was not afraid of dying or getting injured, there was no need for him to reveal such important information.
Moreover, being able to give birth to a daughter like Karin, who has awakened the unique abilities of the Uzumaki clan such as Kagura's Mind's Eye and Adamantine Sealing Chains, means that her own talent is definitely not bad. With a little training, she will become a capable assistant.
If we take them back directly, the Grass Ninja Village might come knocking on our door demanding their return.
That will only add a lot of trouble later.
If his identity as a descendant of the Uzumaki clan were discovered, 863 would definitely be recruited by Hiruzen Sarutobi in the name of the Will of Fire.
Then it won't belong to you anymore.
He had no interest in cultivating tools for that old codger, the Third Generation.
We must secretly bring the person back and arrange another identity for them so that the old man from the third generation won't notice their Uzumaki clan bloodline.
Therefore, Xia Yan's plan was to disguise himself as a ninja from Kumogakure to kill the mission target and other ninjas. Each ninja village basically has the ability to extract information from the brains of corpses.
If all the clues point to Kumogakure, Kusagakure and Iwagakure won't notice anything unusual.
After all, Kumogakure and Iwagakure have a feud, and if there are clear clues, no one would suspect that Kumogakure did this.
Then it will be another messy situation.
Xia Yan could then easily forge an identity as a refugee or something similar to bring this descendant of the Uzumaki clan to Konoha Village.
If no one were to investigate, Hiruzen Sarutobi wouldn't have so easily assumed that a refugee who came to Konoha Village would be an orphan of the Uzumaki clan.
With that in mind, Xia Yan refined some details of the follow-up operation, then took out a headband he had previously captured from Kumogakure and put it on his head, preparing to start the operation after nightfall.
Chapter 142 I Attacked from the Dark
BOOM——
In the dead of night, a violent explosion resounded throughout half of the capital of the Grass Kingdom.
It startled countless people from their sweet dreams.
The explosion occurred at the warehouse where the medical supplies that Koji Kawajiri had promised to donate to Iwagakure were stored.
With Xia Yan's exaggeratedly wide-ranging eye roll, he easily found this not-so-hidden location.
Of course, the so-called explosion was just a feint.
The actual supplies have already been sent away by Xia Yan using reverse spirit communication techniques; someone at Ryuchi Cave will be responsible for receiving them for him.
The Kawajiri family's warehouse suddenly exploded, killing half of the people instantly. The survivors were stunned and confused for a while.
"Enemy! Enemy attack! Report to the patriarch immediately!!!"
After recovering from the sudden shock, the servants and hired thugs responsible for guarding the warehouse panicked and shouted, preparing to report to Kawajiri Koji.
Those responsible for guarding and tracking the medical supplies stored in the warehouse naturally had a rough idea of their value.
If converted into money, it would be at least 100 million taels, and that's just judging from its actual value.
Considering that the war ended not long ago and relations between countries are still very tense, it might even sell for 200 million taels at a premium.
This doesn't even include other goods and items.
If anything is lost, whether they are servants or hired hands, the whole family will suffer.
"Master of the family! Master of the family!"
The warehouse manager, who had miraculously survived, ignored his own injuries and scrambled back to Kawajiri Koji's house, shouting in a panic.
When Kawajiri Koji came out, he cried and recounted the story with snot and tears streaming down his face:
"Lord Kawashiri, something terrible has happened! The warehouse has been attacked, and everything inside has disappeared!"
Upon hearing this news, Kawajiri Koji felt a wave of dizziness and almost choked to death.
It's important to know that the warehouse contained not only the medical supplies he was going to donate to Iwagakure, but also all the goods he had been handling recently.
If anything goes wrong with these things, he'll lose at least a third of his fortune.
However, the two Chunin from Iwagakure who came out with him reacted even faster than him.
"Lord Kawajiri, let's go to the warehouse and see what happened!"
A Chunin from Iwagakure suggested without hesitation.
It's important to understand that their actual mission wasn't to protect Kawajiri Koji, but to ensure that he actually delivered the promised supplies to Iwagakure.
"No! Lord Kawajiri, this could very well be a trap set by assassins!"
The grass ninja and wandering ninja responsible for protecting Kawajiri Koji offered the opposite suggestion.
As ninjas hired by Kawajiri Koji specifically to protect him, they would naturally prioritize the safety of their employer.
Koji Kawajiri himself clearly thought of this as well.
After all, his high-profile switch of allegiance might provoke resentment from others, which is why he specifically hired two Chunin squads from Kusagakure to protect his safety.
I never expected that someone would target this batch of goods and blow up the warehouse.
After all, most people don't have the capacity to move such a large quantity of goods, and it's not wartime now, so why would they come here specifically to sabotage the enemy's supply lines?
Doing this kind of thing is purely harmful to others and doesn't benefit oneself.
The two ninjas offered completely opposite suggestions, putting Kawajiri Koji in a difficult position.
Going there might put you in danger, but not going could result in the loss of a huge amount of property.
After much internal struggle, Koji Kawajiri decided to go to the warehouse and try his best to recover his losses.
After all, while life is important, money is just as important!
"Kusanosuke-kun, notify all the guards in the house to come with me to the warehouse. This is extremely important to me!"
"Yes!"
Seeing that Kawajiri Koji had made a decision, the Kusagakure ninja who had offered the suggestion no longer insisted. After all, he could only offer suggestions during the protection period; he couldn't completely restrict his employer's actions just for the sake of protection, could he?
What is the point of hiring bodyguards in this way?
It would be so much more convenient to simply take the employer to the ninja village and imprison them until the employment period ends.
After a brief assembly, eight ninjas from Kusagakure, three wandering ninjas, two Chunin from Iwagakure, more than ten samurai, and several guards, a group of about fifty people, hurried to the Kawajiri family's warehouse.
And the female ninja from the Uzumaki clan was among them.
Halfway there, the two wandering ninjas leading the way suddenly stepped into a trap.
The next second, another explosion rang out.
The flames and impact engulfed the two rogue ninjas, whose strength was close to that of Chunin, leaving only two mangled corpses.
"Enemy attack!"
Suddenly, everyone became alert, forming a swastika shape around Kawajiri Koji, standing frozen in place, not daring to proceed rashly.
After all, the trap was not only missed by the leading wandering ninja, but by all of them; it was quite cleverly set up.
They were just lucky not to be at the very front.
Otherwise, whoever goes will die.
The air became quiet for a moment.
However, everyone knew that this was only the calm before the storm.
Sure enough, the attack came suddenly the next second.
"Thunder Escape·Pseudo Darkness."
In the darkness, countless bolts of lightning converged, slicing through the night sky like sharp spears, and hurtling towards the assembled guards at incredible speed.
In an instant, ninety percent of the guards were killed, leaving only two samurai who were grazed and barely escaped.
However, he collapsed to the ground, completely paralyzed, clearly unable to get up again.
After all, most lightning-style ninjutsu are known for their swift attacks, making it difficult even for ninjas to dodge them, let alone ordinary guards and samurai who have mastered a little bit of chakra usage.
If this move hadn't been intended to clear out the mobs, and if there hadn't been the fear of accidentally taking the female ninja from the Uzumaki clan with her, those few genin from Kusagakure wouldn't have been able to escape either.
After clearing out those lowly fodder who weren't even ninjas, a burly man with a strong build, dark skin, and wearing a Cloud Ninja headband stepped forward.
It was Xia Yan who was maintaining the transformation technique.
Chapter 143 Nobody Believes the Truth
"It's a Jonin from Kumogakure! Everyone be careful!"
The moment the Chunin from Iwagakure saw Xia Yan's figure, he frowned and said in a deep voice.
"Roar↗Roar↘, how did you guess I'm a ninja from Kumogakure? Maybe I'm just pretending?"
Xia Yan, with his ugly, dark, scruffy face and a mocking expression, walked towards them step by step, attempting to create a sense of oppression.
He clearly succeeded.
That confident and unrestrained demeanor filled the remaining Chunin with tension.
"Hmph! Only a bunch of crazy people from your Hidden Cloud Village would do something as self-destructive as blowing up a warehouse!"
Iwa ninja's voice carried a hint of resentment.
Clearly, they harbored resentment towards Kumogakure, who had inexplicably attacked Iwagakure's home village during the Second Shinobi World War.
Even without the inexplicable attack from Kumogakure, they might not have ultimately won, but at least they wouldn't have suffered such a humiliating defeat.
"No! You guessed wrong. Actually, I am a Jonin of Konoha. This mission is to kill Kawajiri Koji, who has switched sides! Because his open and aboveboard bias towards Iwagakure might make the entire Land of Grass lean more towards the Land of Earth."
"Stop joking! Damn Cloud Ninja, still spouting lies that nobody believes even now? Do you think I'm an idiot?!"
The Chunin from Iwagakure interrupted Natsuhiko without any politeness.
Clearly, the people of Iwagakure are generally quite stubborn, and once they've made up their minds about something, it's very difficult to change their minds.
"Sigh, why is it that when I tell the truth, no one believes me..."
Seeing that the other party didn't believe him at all, Xia Yan shrugged and said helplessly.