"Don't let him run!"

"Hurry up!"

A figure ran quickly through the woods, followed by a large group of sand ninjas, chasing the figure in front of them.

Countless kunai and shuriken flew from behind him, and there were also detonation charms mixed with them, which immediately detonated in the forest.

The impact force generated immediately made the fleeing person unable to withstand the impact force, and rolled his body on the ground.

"I didn't expect to chase it to such a point, it's really like a cowhide plaster."

Even the undead who have been able to run rampant in the underground black market for many years feel extremely tired in the face of the sand hidden ninja's relentless pursuit day and night.

Kakudu knew very well in his heart what was the reason for his fall into this situation.

It's because of the money he loves the most.

On the battlefield where Sha Yin and Yu Yin were fighting, he took advantage of the fact that Chiyo, a high-level advisor to Sha Yin, was not paying attention, and snatched the body of the former leader of Yu Yin, Sanshoyu Hanzo, from front of her.

This corpse, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, is the fundamental reason why he has been constantly pursued by the Sand Hidden Ninja these days.

Sand Hide has lost on the battlefield of the Land of Rain, and not long ago he had no choice but to sign an armistice agreement with Konoha , so to speak, they set off the third ninja war, and did not get the rich results they wanted.

If even Hanzo's body had to be taken by a bounty hunter on the underground black market, there really would be nothing left.

For this reason, Sha Yin did not dare to fight with Konoha again, but as a lonely man, Kakuto also took away their important and only important loot, and it was impossible to give up anything.

So he immediately dispatched a large number of elite ninjas to chase the horns to a terrible situation where there was no way to go to the sky and no way to go down.

Even if Sha Yin was rude on the frontal battlefield and lost to Konoha in one move, it does not mean that the majesty of Sha Yin can be violated by a mere bounty hunter.

I don't remember how long the chase lasted, but it should have been at least half a month...... No, maybe for a month.

All the tricks on his body have been used up, and after killing dozens of ninjas who are chasing him in Shayin, there are still many powerful shinobi among them, and because of this, his information has basically been leaked cleanly.

In order to deal with him, the ninjas sent by the sand are all ninjas with considerable strength, range, melee combat, perception, defense, all kinds of physical arts, ninjutsu, and illusions are overwhelming.

Not only that, but he originally had five hearts, but now he only has two hearts left.

This embodiment is the heart of the earth attribute and the heart of the fire attribute of the other body.

As an S-class traitor who defected from Takiyin Village decades ago, when he left the village, the only thing he took with him was this forbidden technique called 'Earth Resentment'.

By taking someone else's heart and keeping it in your own body, you can extend your own lifespan, and you can also master new chakra attribute changes by taking the heart.

Therefore, in his heyday, he was proficient in the five chakra nature change ninjutsu of fire escape, earth escape, water escape, thunder escape, and wind escape.

It is also equivalent to having five hearts, and as long as the five hearts are not destroyed at the same time, they will not die.

He has long since stepped into the realm of inhumanity.

Where the arms of the body are separated from the arms, a large number of black tentacles are released, and the inside and back of the mouth are also occupied by black tentacles.

Under the constant pursuit of the Sand Hidden Ninja, he had to activate the strongest form, which also meant that if this form was also defeated, he would have nothing to do.

There were quite a few sand ninjas chasing after them, there were hundreds of them, and the leader was a very young female ninja.

Kakudo remembered her name, or more precisely, the bounty of the young female ninja.

Sand Hidden Blood Inheritance Limit Burning Ninja - Hakura.

The underground black market has a bounty of up to 45 million taels.

Although it is not as good as Konoha's three ninjas, and the yellow flash that has recently gained fame, there are definitely not many ninjas in the younger generation of ninjas in the ninja world who can steadily defeat her.

Even if they meet alone, the horns don't dare to guarantee that they can kill the other party without injury, and it is likely that they will have to lose one or two hearts to take it down.

After all, the power of the scorching escape is too terrifying, even if it passes by and does not touch, it will drain the water in the human body in an instant, and even the medical ninja can't catch up with the treatment, so the enemy will become a dry corpse and die.

This kind of killing ninjutsu that can be called a one-hit kill, and the horns are also very jealous.

What's more, she is followed by nearly a hundred sand ninjas, judging from the aura on these sand ninjas and the skills they show, they are all at least medium-level ninjas.

With only two hearts left, it is absolutely impossible for him to be the opponent of these sand hidden ninjas, or even more so when his own information has been leaked.

Kakuto stood up from the ground, and instead of entanglement with these Sand Hidden Ninjas, he drove the black troll fused with the heart of the fire attribute to intercept the Sand Hidden Ninja who was quickly chasing after him for himself.

The black troll's face was covered with a red mask, and then its mouth opened, and the inside of its black mouth was immediately occupied by fiery red light, causing the surrounding air to heat up rapidly.

"Fire escape, head hard!"

Like an overwhelming wave surging in the middle of the sea, the sea of fire spreads out in an instant, and everywhere it passes, the trees and the ground are suddenly evaporated by the high temperature flames.

The air became so dry and blazing that it made people blush.

"Water Escape, Water Array Wall!"

In the hundred-person team, a few Sand Hidden Ninjas immediately performed the Water Escape Ninjutsu at the same time, spewing water from their mouths and erecting a huge wall of water in front of the team, intercepting this extremely powerful Fire Escape Ninjutsu.

White steam covered the area, and the black trolls with red masks immediately twisted their necks, and instead of a sea of fire, fire bombs erupted from their mouths.

The power of the fire bomb is far lower than the impact of the sea of fire, but it is better than speed, and it strikes at the Sand Hidden Ninja through the air.

The rainy forest was suddenly covered by the sound of loud explosions, and the flashes of explosions were one after another, making the pursuing Sand Hidden Ninja scramble for a while.

But soon they stabilized their position, and a strange clucking sound sounded, and a dozen puppet puppets flew through the sky under the control of Chakras, picking up spears or blades in their hands, and slashing at the red masked monster mercilessly.

The Red Mask Monster moves flexibly, but more than a dozen puppets block the front, back, left, right, and above, and the Red Mask Monster has no ability to escape, so it can only be attacked by a dozen puppet puppets.

Rumble!

The Red Masked Monster slammed into the trees, breaking them as well.

Continue to spew fire bombs from his mouth, one after the other, in an attempt to stop the Sand Hidden Ninja from moving forward with indiscriminate attacks.

However, under the leadership of the scorching ninja Hakura, arranging for a few puppeteers and a few ninjas who can use the water escape ninjutsu to stay behind is enough to contain this fierce red mask monster.

According to the intelligence, the opponent's ability to use the five kinds of escape techniques is indeed outstanding, but there is nothing to be afraid of a single attribute.

Especially on the premise of losing three attribute mask monsters, a mask monster that can only escape by fire, as long as it is suppressed with the opposite chakra-nature ninjutsu, there is no need to worry at all.

Sending someone to contain the red masked monster, Hakura took the remaining sand hidden ninjas and continued to pursue Kakuto.

In any case, the body of Hanzo, which was supposed to be the trophy of their Sand Hide, had to be recovered.

This is also where the dignity of the sand is hidden, and it cannot be trampled on by a ninja in the underground black market, and it is necessary to let this bounty ninja who does not know the height of the sky know what the power of the ninjas of the five great powers is.

Boom Boom!

Boom Boom!

The flying kunsu was all rolled with detonation charms.

From the angle of using the Earth Sclerosis Technique, I felt a wave of pain in my body.

The kunai is no threat to him, but the kunai that falls like raindrops, and the ninja with a very strong blasting ability, such as the detonator, is extraordinary.

One by one, the black tentacles were blown away, and even though all aspects of the body were hardened, they still couldn't stop the continuous bombardment of detonators.

Rolling on the ground, without screaming pain, he got up and ran away with a blank face.

I was terrified, and I was a little flustered.

I didn't expect that I would end up in such an embarrassing situation after decades of crisscrossing the underground black market.

The perceptual ninja behind him is constantly locking onto himself, and even if he wants to use the stand-in technique and the clone technique to confuse his vision, he will be found out at the first time.

There is also a way to escape, that is, to hand over Hanzo's body, which can divert the attention of the Sand Hidden Ninjas, and in that way, his chances of escape will be greatly increased.

Which is more important, life or money?

As long as the intellectually mature people understand this problem, how to make a choice in the end.

Kakuto is not an intellectually handicapped ninja either, so he naturally understands this question and how to choose the right answer in a general sense.

However, the answer to this universal meaning is not the pursuit of Kakudu itself.

That's right...... Does it have to be right?

In the eyes of the horns, this world is full of two things-

One is the sweetness that you taste when you make money, and the other is the bitterness that you unfortunately get when you are betrayed.

The bitterness of betrayal, that's a memory from a long time ago.

I was so numb that I couldn't remember what the original motivation was.

But as soon as he knew that the taste was bitter, he decided not to touch it again.

By trusting no one anymore, this bitter birth can be avoided.

So, money gave him a second meaning in life.

That's the sweet taste of happiness.

And this sweet taste of happiness is the only way for him to connect with this cold world.

Let yourself still understand the fact that you are still living in this world.

Therefore, giving up Hanzo's body is not the same as giving up money, but it is the same as giving up yourself.

Giving up the value of living in this world.

Money is life, and money is the meaning of life.

Because I understand the bitterness of being betrayed, I don't want to be betrayed by anyone again.

Money didn't betray him, and he certainly had no reason to betray money.

Neither betrayed by money nor betrayed by money.

What is left of oneself when you put down money?

There is emptiness, sin is left, confusion is left, and true death is left.

When a person dies, it is the moment when faith collapses.

As long as the money does not fall, then he will not die.

If you die, you die with money, it is also a kind of happiness and sweetness.

What he holds in his hand is not money, but enough faith and courage for him to live in this hellish real world.

There was a sharp blade that cut through the air, and then the detonator exploded with light around him in an instant.

The body rushed forward in pain, but the speed had slowed down.

I could already hear the footsteps of the Sand Hidden Ninja behind me, getting closer and closer, and soon they would catch up with him, taking his life and his faith away.

Killing a lot of himself, the horns don't want to repent of anything.

If the righteousness of making money hinders others, then in the eyes of others, you are an evil that must be eradicated.

Life is not happiness, and death is not worth lamenting.

Kill today, be killed tomorrow.

When you decide to embark on the path of ninjas, you must be prepared to die and be killed by revenge.

It's a pity that in the end, I couldn't exchange this corpse worth hundreds of millions of taels...... More regrettable than death, the moment when the horn was almost unconscious.

Lying in the sea of money and dying, it would be better if you could fall into such an illusion and end it.

……

The center of the forest was blown up by an explosion, and there were potholes everywhere, and Hakura surrounded him with the Sand Hidden Ninja, trying to recover the corpses of the enemy, as well as the corpses of Hanzo.

When I stepped forward to look, the crater created by the explosion was still there, but the enemy who should have died in the crater disappeared from the crater as if it had never existed.

The sentient ninja in charge of locking on to the target was stunned, and Chakra reacted...... Gone?

Where did the corpse go?

Could it be that the dead can still escape on their own?

The sand ninjas surrounding the pit also looked at each other.

"Hakura Shangshinobi, what should I do next?"

"Look around, maybe somewhere."

Ye Cang frowned, and then waved his hand to order.

"Yes."

The Sand Hidden Ninjas scattered and began to search.

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Emerge from the ground, and then the whole body emerges from the ground, and is laid on the ground by the man who has only one breath left behind him.

The native man who was in charge of reconnaissance and infiltration work among the Xuan apes took a hard breath.

"Bringing people out of the hands of those sand ninjas, almost revealing the stuffing."

The native man looked at the corner capital lying on the ground, the other party was already dying, and in that case, he could still hold his last breath, which was really a strong vitality.

If it were an ordinary ninja, he would have been killed on the spot.

But when I saw the body full of tentacles at the angle, I was relieved.

This is the power gained by giving up the human body.

The tenacious ones are not like human beings.

The tentacles on Kakuto's body wilted, like algae spread on the cold ground, in a state of scrap and unusable.

Kakudu raised his head with difficulty, and his green pupils could barely see what was in front of him.

Including the native man who is proficient in earth escape, the other four people are his old acquaintances.

A secret agent belonging to the military of the Ghost Country.,The Xuan Ape Five-member group that has risen in the underground black market in recent years.。

The leader is the insect man who uses the secret technique of bursting insects.

Seeing that the horns were so embarrassed, a mocking smile appeared on the insect man's face.

"Mr. Kakuto, you're really choking this time."

"You are 500,000 taels...... The cheap bounty one? ”

"No, I've risen to 10 million taels now."

The worm man corrected Kakuto's words.

"Really...... You're here for my bounty...... Come? ”

Kakudu spoke intermittently, and his body was extremely weak.

The fire-attribute mask monster was destroyed by Sand Hide, and now he only has the last heart left, and once this heart is destroyed, it means that his death time as an immortal has arrived.

He has a very high bounty in the underground black market, and although he secretly retains a financial cooperative relationship with the country of ghosts, he has fallen to such a point that the other party has brought him out for a self-evident purpose.

"The bounty of 85 million taels is indeed very tempting, but we are here to formally invite you to join this time on the orders of the chief."

The worm man put away his smile and said this sentence diagonally.

"Boredom ......"

"Is money worth everything? Even if you pay for your life? ”

"What do you know about a little ghost like you?"

"Imp?"

The eccentrics who have lived from the Warring States period to the present day are indeed qualified to say such things.

"Money is to me like life...... Hell...... It's also about looking at the money. ”

"It's amazing confidence."

"Needless to say, I don't have any interest in any organization."

If you come into contact with someone, you can't avoid being betrayed, and betrayal reminds him of an unpleasant past.

In this world where only money will not betray him, only money can be trusted.

"Having said that, saving you is also the intention of our leader."

"Hmph...... Don't think I'm going to be grateful to you. ”

"If I needed your gratitude, I wouldn't have saved you...... Moreover, the old man tsundere is not cute at all, and Mr. Kakudo is already past that age. ”

This bastard! The green eyes of the horn capital burst out with murderous aura.

If you can't move now, you must dismantle him.

No, think about it carefully, it's too cheap for him, so let's wait for the price to rise a little more before he dies.

After all, the other party's bounty is only 10 million taels now, and there is still a lot of room for appreciation.

It's too cheap to kill now.

Thinking like this, Kakudu felt that he was getting more and more tired, and his eyelids were so thick that he was about to close, but in the end he couldn't resist the will to fall asleep, and closed his eyes tiredly.

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When Kakuto's consciousness woke up again, there was a bit of noise in his ears.

Someone walking around them.

But the strange thing is that when I wake up, I can't open my eyes and see clearly who is walking around me.

"What an amazing body!"

The exclamation of a man full of intellectual curiosity was heard in his ears.

The horns can still smell the cold, cold smell of disinfectant around them.

The skin to skin contact on the back of the bed board was also very cold, so that the horns clearly knew that they were lying on the operating table and were being studied.

The unknown man beside him was doing nonsense against his body, touching and pinching at one time, and occasionally hearing the sound of a scalpel cutting something, and then injecting something warm.

It's supposed to be a medical ninjutsu that is in a state of recovery on his seriously injured body.

"Aren't you alright?"

Another voice came in, this voice was very familiar, it was the guy worth 500,000 taels, named Worm Man, who was speaking.

"It's fast, because it's the first time I've encountered such an interesting body structure, it's even stranger than that kind of white absolute, and I can't help but feel a little bit for a while."

"He's a man."

Worm man reminded.

"Of course I know about it, but I'm really interested in this guy's body."

Although Kakudo knew exactly what the other party meant by being interested in his body, it was still necessary to say that this was a research weirdo.

However, for medical ninjas, his bizarre body is indeed a rare material for experimental subjects.

In a daze, the horns fell asleep again.

I don't know how long it passed, but the horns opened their eyes.

I found that what was lying under me was not a cold operating table, but a soft bed.

The air outside is a little cold, after all, it is already January, and the temperature of the air will naturally drop.

But because today is a rare sunny day, the bright sunshine will dispel the coldness in the air somewhat.

The body is repaired, but the head is very dizzy, because it is because I have been lying in bed for a long time, and I am not very suitable for the current weak state for a while.

However, out of danger of life, this corner can be sensed by itself.

It's ridiculous that someone saved me. This is the only thought in Kakuto's heart.

I don't know if I'm laughing at the person who saved me, or laughing at myself for being rescued.

Or, both, to him, is a ridiculous thing.

Abandon everything, constantly create killings and tragedies in the ninja world, and only have money as a pillar in his heart, and he is not qualified to enjoy the kindness of others.

In the same way, there is no excess kindness to give to others.

Fighting alone, losing, and then quietly dying, forgotten by the world, is what should have been a defined fate.

He then touched his chest again, and the scroll in his clothes that sealed Hanzo's body was still there, and it had not been taken away, and the horns were immediately relieved.

"Looks like he's recovering well, Mr. Kakuto."

Someone opened the door to the ward, and a white-haired worm man walked in from the outside and smiled at the corners.

"I didn't expect you to really do such a loss-making thing."

"How can you say it's a loss? We invited Mr. Kakuto to join us in good faith. Because of the shortage of manpower, I want to recruit a strong ninja like Mr. Kakuto. ”

"Are you really okay with your brains? I'm a defector ninja. ”

Defecting to a ninja means betraying one's village in the past, and for whatever reason, it's a stain on criticism.

Therefore, defecting ninjas cannot be trusted, which is common knowledge in the ninja world.

Even if you become a bounty hunter, the trust and honor you get are only because of your belief in money and the so-called alliance of interests.

Trusting a defector ninja on an emotional level is a ridiculous act in itself.

"Forty-five years ago, Mr. Kakudo was still an excellent shinobi in Takikure Village. Obeying the orders of the village higher-ups, he went to Konoha to assassinate the first Hokage. ”

Jiaodu narrowed his eyes, and then pretended to be relaxed and said, "Your intelligence network is indeed very powerful, but that's all. As long as you collect it carefully, you can dig up a little bit of it from Takikure Village. ”

The insect man smiled slightly and continued: "Later, the assassination mission failed, and Mr. Kakuto, who returned to the village, was accused of failure by the high-level of Takiyin Village because he did not complete the mission, and was sentenced to a heavy penalty of imprisonment, and encountered the danger of losing his life. ”

Assassinations are often accompanied by a lot of failures.

If the ninja of the village is severely punished because of the failure of the assassination, it is too impersonal and cruel for the loyal ninja who is ready to sacrifice his life to fight for the village, and it is easy for the ninja in the village to hate and resent.

So, according to the intelligence summary, the horns who failed the assassination mission will be severely punished, and they will almost die in prison, and it is likely that they will be involved in the power struggle between the high-level leaders of Takiyin Village, and they will be treated unfairly.

After all, assassinating the first Hokage...... People in their right minds should know that this is an impossible task.

If the assassination is successful, the strongest ninja village now should not be Konoha, but Takikure Village.

In fact, Takikure Village, which was once powerful for a while, is now long gone, and there is not even a decent powerful ninja.

Therefore, in that case, killing the high-level who had treated them unfairly, and then taking away the forbidden art 'Earth Resentment' in the village, was the only path that Kakudu could choose.

After that, Kakudu embarked on the path of defection.

began to advocate money that would not betray itself, with money as a belief, for decades, lived a long and boring life of making money.

What does this mean? I said, you're just a bunch of imps who don't understand anything. In this world, only money can be trusted. ”

Therefore, if you don't believe in human beings, you can avoid being betrayed.

It's not so much a different way of living, it's better to escape and close your heart.

Kakudu got out of bed and walked out of the room.

"I will pay you a hundred times my bounty for saving me this time."

His bounty is eighty-five million taels, and a hundred times that is 8.5 billion taels.

Pay this part of the remuneration, and the remuneration that you have worked hard for decades is basically nothing.

But compared to losing all that money that was full of happiness and sweetness, owing favors was undoubtedly a more disgusting thing for him.

Including the mysterious existence behind the worm man throwing an olive branch to him, and wanting to establish the trust that only companions have with him, this kind of thing is also full of disgust.

In this world, there is no such thing as trust.

Between human beings, there is only betrayal and betrayal, only the relationship of killing and being killed.

In such a filthy world, there is no so-called salvation for a long time.

Money is the last warmth of his life.

Trust...... It's too extravagant.

"That's a shame, but I'm sure we'll meet again soon."

The worm man said.

Jiaodu raised his eyebrows and sneered: "This time I was chased by Sha Yin, I admit that I was careless." But when I exchange Hanzo's corpse for money, I'll be dormant for a while. Rest assured, this kind of place, I won't come a second time. ”

An experienced hunter who will not fail twice in the same place.

This is the confidence that Kakudu has.

The horns didn't drag their feet and walked away.

The worm man scratched his head.

In fact, he really wanted to say that the ninja who was eyeing Hanzo's corpse was not only the Sand Hidden Ninja, but also a guy who was even more terrifying than the Sand Hidden Ninja.