Chapter 226: Cruel Reality
Although it was a little different from what I expected, and I finally applied for support, but in general, this task is still considered Sakura completed.
And it was done very well, and all the important people and materials were preserved.
"It's a bumper harvest this time!" When he returned to Konoha, Tsunade personally checked the harvest of the trip, and his eyes seemed to glow faintly.
No, Sakura dared to vouch for her personality, her master's eyes did brighten up a lot when he saw the string of numbers on the seized passbook.
"Master, shouldn't you want to embezzle this public money to pay off her gambling debts......" Sakura felt a drop of cold sweat run down her head.
She reached out and realized that she wasn't sweating, it was just an illusion. Well, delusions, all delusions!
Looking at it again, Tsunade had indeed returned to a serious appearance, and was accompanying the intelligence department to register and classify the seized books. The information collected by the underground intelligence market is not necessarily accurate, but it also has a high reference value, and some black markets even value credibility more than the formal market, so the information in their hands cannot be ignored.
"Hmm...... For the sake of this harvest, even if you pass the assessment~" After the acceptance was completed, after returning to the Hokage's office, Tsunade, who was in a good mood, joked with Sakura Haruno.
"What? How can it be called 'count me passed'!" Her lovely disciple was concerned and confused, and he didn't hear the meaning of Tsunade's ridicule, so he was in a hurry for a while, and hurriedly defended, "In this mission, I have cut down hundreds of people, and even killed many of them, and there are a few who almost have the strength of Shangnin!" This kind of difficulty, you can take it to the assessment of Shangnin! After completing a task of this difficulty, how can you use the word 'count' to describe it, it should be a full score pass!"
She looked at Tsunade with a smile on her face, and then she realized that her master had said it on purpose.
Sakura Haruno rolled her eyes, and immediately realized another problem: "Then again, master, you shouldn't have known that there was a problem with the intelligence of this mission, so you sent me over to do this mission!"
"Hah, how could it be!" Tsunade quickly denied, but in that tone...... Sakura heard a taste of weakness.
Under Haruno Sakura's aggressive direct gaze, she finally admitted the truth: "Actually, it's just a suspicion that there is a problem, after all, we have rarely reconnoitred that place, and the information has always been very scarce." If you are sent over, if everything is normal, it will be an ordinary special mission assessment, and if the information is indeed different from the real situation, then there is probably a big stronghold there, but with your strength, it won't be too much of a problem......"
The most important thing is that it saves manpower.
Otherwise, to be on the safe side, she would have to send two dark teams, or a top-numbered elite dark team, to carry out the mission.
It's as convenient as Sakura Haruno, and while performing the assessment, there is enough strength to deal with all situations, and one person can top a team.
The fifth Hokage-sama, who did not hesitate to take advantage of his disciple's cheap labor, changed the topic without changing his face in the girl's unkind eyes: "The capture of this mission...... That's it?"
Sakura was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what Tsunade meant......
She looked at Tsunade's raised eyebrows again, and there was a meaningful look in her eyes, and she suddenly realized.
"No!" she said with a little crying and laughing, how could the fifth Hokage-sama seem to be poorer than her?
By the way, she seems to be considered negative equity......
"This can be had!" Tsunade emphasized, "Half of the meeting, I won't pursue you for the crime of hiding the proceeds of the mission!"
"There really is no ......"
The girl had no choice but to stretch out her hands and spread her fingers, revealing the clean and neat pale pink nails on her ten fingers.
This time, she didn't wear any nail polish to disguise the miniature sealing techniques, and the previous ones had already been cut off by her through medical ninjutsu to induce nail growth.
"Ahem, well, it looks like you really didn't do that...... Great!" Tsunade was disappointed, Sakura really didn't have a private collection...... She said insincerely, "You are worthy of being my disciple!, well, it's time to get down to business—"
As she spoke, there was a knock on the door and Ibiki's tall figure walked in.
He first nodded slightly to Sakura, then took out a document and handed it to Tsunade: "This is the information that the interrogation department obtained from several key people in charge of the bounty office, please take a look." ”
Tsunade took the document and said, "It's hard work, let's go back and rest first, you've been tired for three or four days!"
Waving his hand for Ibiki to step back.
She flipped through the file and began to read it. The people at the bounty office know a lot about the corners, and every now and then, Guy will carry a corpse to the bounty office to exchange money, and some information will be revealed in the small talk.
For example, the flying section is immortal.
The problem is that most of the information, in that life-and-death struggle, has been detected by the 14th team......
So the only thing of value in this is some information about Xiao.
Tsunade quickly finished skimming, drawing a few circles in the report with a red pen, then put the document aside and rubbed his temples.
"Is there any information about Akatsuki on it?" Sakura couldn't help but ask.
Tsunade glanced up at her, hesitated for a moment, but said, "Originally, these things shouldn't have been revealed to a middle ninja, but it doesn't hurt to tell you." Akatsuki's immediate goal is still to lay dormant and accumulate strength, and their next plan is said to be implemented in about two years. So, we won't make much of a move on Xiao for the time being. ”
"Since 'Akatsuki' is still gathering strength, why don't we take the opportunity to attack it?"
Tsunade closed his eyes, thought for a moment, and then raised two fingers and said, "One of the reasons is that we are also in the stage of accumulating strength, and the current Konoha is still too weak to provoke the power of that organization......"
She stopped at this point.
"What about the second reason?" the girl asked.
"Reason No. 2......" The expression of the fifth generation Hokage became serious, and he said coldly, "Our five major ninja villages all know that there is something wrong with it, but none of us want to confront Xiao head-on, and then let other ninja villages reap the benefits of the fisherman, after all, Xiao Ke has several 'shadow' level members......"
"Uh!" Sakura Haruno was stunned, it turned out to be such a reason.
"Isn't it possible for the five ninja villages to unite and solve this problem together as a whole?" she realized as soon as she said something stupid.
"There has never been a thing where the five major ninja villages have joined forces to deal with the same problem together, the hatred between the ninja villages is too deep, and it is our norm to be wary of each other and hostile to each other, as for the ...... cooperation," Tsunade sighed helplessly, "Maybe only when 'Xiao' hurts every village, and everyone really realizes that its threat is greater than the threat between ninja villages, will all the villages unite!"
Sakura said with a gloomy face: "This also means that before 'Akatsuki' jumps out to make waves, we can only watch them grow and develop with appeasement like other ninja villages......? The stupidest decided. ”
This is simply the most typical gambling problem, everyone chooses the best thing for themselves, and then the result will be the worst outcome!
"You're quite right...... Fortunately, we have maintained peace for more than ten years after all, and the new generation of ninjas has not yet established hatred between them, maybe I can fight for the problem of Zaixiao, and strive for the consensus of the five major ninja villages, and work together to deal with this problem, at least share information somewhat, after all, this is not something that a single ninja village can accomplish. Tsunade rubbed his temples and said, people who really do things know how difficult it is to do things, and she knows that it must be an extremely difficult thing.
The five ninja villages don't even have trust, so what is the consensus?
I'm afraid that Tsunade's suggestion will only be regarded by them as a conspiracy of Konoha by them. Before Xiao didn't show his fangs, no matter how much he said, without actual evidence, others would not believe it, but would be wary of Konoha who sounded the alarm, thinking that they had ulterior motives......
This is the harsh reality of the Hokage world.
As her experience grows and her ninja level increases, Sakura gradually learns more and more about the cruelty and darkness behind the ninja world. In Konoha Village, you can still feel the love between your companions, but outside the village, there is a bloody reality - the endless war of the five great powers has left a scar full of blood and tears on most parts of the world.
The country of waves and the country of snow, if it weren't for their sideways, would probably be sinking in the world.
The terrible thing is that, according to the normal process of the mission, the rewards required to defeat high-level missions such as Kado and Stormy Waves are absolutely unaffordable to the people of the Land of Waves and Snowlands, on the contrary, more often than not, it is Cardo and Stormy Waves who rely on the exploitation of the people and have the money to hire ninjas to protect them, so that they have the ability to further exploit the people......
This is the reality of the ninja world...... The more cruel people are, the more nourishing their lives are.
Sakura, who is used to going with the flow, is used to being transformed by the world, rather than trying to transform the world, and now she is gradually getting impatient with this cruel reality.
However, this world is a world where only the strong have the right to speak...... As small as her, she can only adapt to the world.
Even in the Land of Waves and the Land of Snow, she began to try to change the world and began to try to implement her ideas, but it was just a corner of the backwoods, and it was not the mainstream of the world after all.
Her power...... It's too weak.
There was silence between the master and apprentice for a while.
The lightness of the conversation and laughter just now is gone, and a heavy atmosphere spreads in the office.
"Forget it, let's not talk about that, let's talk about the Snow Country mission. Tsunade eventually changed the subject.
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