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Established facts are composed of fragmented information, which is intelligence.

After Jiraiya left the village, he began to travel around various countries, seemingly without any purpose, but secretly collecting information about Akatsuki. Thanks to Akatsuki's uniform, it was like a road sign guiding him in the direction. It didn't take long after he left the village. , while wandering in the Land of Fire, he found a young man wearing a black robe with red clouds. Half of this man's right ear was missing.

From that time on, Jiraiya had been quietly following this man. Over time, he discovered that this man had simply been accepting bounties from the black market. Apart from that, he had never taken over with anyone, let alone I wanted to explore the location of the stronghold, but found nothing except a clear judgment on this man's strength.

However, Jiraiya knew that this man would definitely connect with other Akatsuki members, so he did not alert the enemy and waited patiently for the opportunity.

It wasn't until a month later that the opportunity he had been waiting for finally came.

In the north of the Fire Country, there is a needle forest.

The dusk sun was setting in the west, and long needles slowly fell from the trees, falling to the ground covered with needles.

The young man carried a bulging suitcase on his back and walked deeper into the woods with his feet crunching on the coniferous layer.

Jiraiya spread his arms and legs, like a gecko, lying on the tree trunk, keeping a distance from the young man.

The ground was covered with needles, and it was easy to make noise when stepping on them. In order to reduce the chance of being discovered, he followed the young man quietly using the trees as a road while deliberately keeping a distance.

Following the young man deep into the woods, he saw the young man stop in front of a needle tree with strange scratches on it, and stopped moving.

He was hiding in the dark, staring at the target who was concentrating with his eyes closed.

"I've finally waited for this moment." Jiraiya thought to himself, from discovering Akatsuki's traces to tracking him for a month, he was finally going to gain something.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, night fell, and suddenly a creaking sound came from a distance in the dark and silent conifer forest, from far to near.

The young man under the tree moved slightly and looked in the direction of the sound.

Jiraiya, who was hiding in the dark, was shocked and looked in the direction of the sound. In his mind, the contact person was probably here.

Deep in the woods, as the sound became more and more obvious, a figure loomed and slowly appeared. Under the dim light, a pair of eyes, with a faint green light, belonged to Kakuzu.

Kakuzu walked towards the man with broken ears under the needle tree. The latter looked at him with respect on his face, and then handed him the luggage.

"Lord Beidou, this is the task for this month."

Kakuzu took the luggage, assessed the weight, a glint flashed in his eyes, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Well done."

The bag contains the money the man with the broken ear earned from the bounties he gained this month.

When the man with the broken ear heard Kakuzu's words, his face suddenly showed an expression of excitement, as if he had been working hard for this month just waiting for this compliment from Kakuzu.

"One month later, the same old rules." After getting the money, Kakuzu didn't want to stay any longer, so he turned and left.

"Yes!" The man with broken ears looked at Kakuzu's back with a respectful expression.

In the dark, Jiraiya frowned slightly as he watched this scene. He had been following the man with the broken ears for a month, and he knew that the man with the broken ears had been accepting bounty tasks this month, and that bag was probably the man with the broken ears. The income is now given to another Akatsuki member.

The light was quite dark, and he could only vaguely see Kakuzu's clothes and a pair of green eyes. He couldn't hear the conversation between the two parties. Looking at it from a distance, the two said a few words, and Kakuzu took the bag. Turn around and leave.

"Do you want to follow that person?" Jiraiya looked hesitant. If he followed him rashly, it would be difficult if he was discovered.

"It's better to capture this person and interrogate him first."

After thinking for a moment, he gave up this plan and instead focused on the man with the missing ear.

From the brief contact between Kakuzu and the man with the broken ear, Jiraiya could not hear the sound, nor could he clearly see Kakuzu's face hidden in the darkness, but the only thing that was clear was that Akatsuki seemed to be amassing money, and for what purpose , he didn’t know, it was also possible that this was just a mercenary group that simply made money.

But, why would Ye Zi join such an organization?

Based on this question, he did not think that Xiao was just a money-making organization.

Jiraiya didn't hesitate for too long before he decided to catch the man with the broken ears and interrogate him.

After watching Kakuzu leave, the man with the broken ears walked in another direction.

Seeing this, Jiraiya followed.

After following for an hour, the two of them came out of the coniferous forest one after another.

The night is dark, it is the time when the moon is dark and the wind is high.

"Toad, the art of mouth restraint."

Jiraiya suddenly flashed in front of the man with the broken ear. When the latter reacted instantly, he slapped his hands on the ground. Unidentified light red soft tissue appeared out of thin air and spread around, surrounding the two of them.

"!"

The man with the broken ears looked at the squirming intestinal wall around him, with a slightly panicked expression. He held the kunai and stared at Jiraiya fifty meters in front of him.

"You are Jiraiya, one of the three ninjas!"

After seeing Jiraiya's face clearly, the panic on the man's face couldn't help but deepen.

"I didn't expect my reputation to be quite good."

Seeing that the man with broken ears recognized him immediately, Jiraiya smiled quite proudly.

After recognizing Jiraiya's identity, the man with the broken ears immediately observed his surroundings, looking for an opportunity to escape. Just kidding, the opponent was the famous Sannin of Konoha, and he couldn't defeat him alone.

"Don't bother, this is the intestines of the giant toad of Iwajuku. Unless I let you out, you don't even have to think about it." Seeing that the man with the broken ear wanted to escape, Jiraiya said with a smile.

The man with broken ears was shocked when he heard this, but he didn't quite believe it.

Wind Escape, Wind Blade!

He formed a seal, spitting out a huge wind blade and slashed at the intestinal wall, immediately cutting a huge scar on the intestinal wall, but the wound was not deep, and it healed directly within a second.

"What..." He looked shocked. The most powerful and penetrating Wind Escape he had mastered had no effect at all.

"Didn't I tell you?"

Jiraiya shrugged, put his hands together, and his white hair suddenly grew wildly and lengthened, swarming over the astonished man with the missing ears, and rolled him up like a python.

The long hair tied the whole body of the man with broken ears, leaving only a pair of eyes and nose. Jiraiya controlled the long hair and lifted the man with broken ears in the air.

"Okay, now it's question time."

Hearing Jiraiya's words, the man with the broken ear's doubts were instantly explained. The other party would find a small role like himself, and they were basically coming for the organization, and he was the target, probably because he wanted to get something from him. Get information about the organization.

When he realized this, his eyes started to become fierce, and he wanted to bite his tongue and kill himself, but the long hair penetrated deep into his mouth, directly crushing his thoughts.

Realizing that the man with the broken ear wanted to commit suicide, Jiraiya looked at the cruelty in the man with the broken ear and his eyes flashed. He chose to commit suicide in order not to leak the information. In this case...

"It seems that torture is of no use to you. It's a bit troublesome. I'm not good at illusions. If that's the case, there's nothing I can do."

Jiraiya scratched the back of his head in annoyance.