Chapter 139 Unexpected Battle

While Bai Ye and Jiao Du were following Scorpion, Scorpion also noticed two figures following him and a strange smile appeared on his face.

On the way to the black market this time, he could clearly feel that several ninjas were looking at him with something strange in their eyes.

These people were acting sneakily and obviously had ideas about me. Maybe they were eyeing my reputation and bounty, and wanted to become famous by stepping on my corpse.

But there is a price to pay for becoming famous.

Over the years, he has killed many ninjas who attacked him, and made these attackers into human puppets, which have become part of his collection.

And the two ninjas following behind him now will not be an exception.

After reaching a canyon surrounded by mountains on three sides, Scorpion's figure disappeared from the spot and appeared behind Bai Ye and Kakuzu, blocking the only way out.

After seeing Kakuzu, Scorpion frowned subconsciously.

Kakuzu's reputation in the black market is no less than that of the Five Kage. How could such an old monster-level traitor come to him? His bounty on the black market is not high.

After a moment's silence, Scorpion asked calmly, "Kakuzu, you accepted the bounty from the black market and want to kill me?"

Jiao Du shook his head and said, "I have no interest in you, but my boss is interested in you. If you have any questions, you should ask him."

"boss?"

Scorpion frowned slightly, then looked at Bai Ye beside him.

If Kakuzu hadn't reminded him, he would have almost forgotten that there was a ninja nearby. However, he didn't remember having seen Byakuya before, so there should be no grudge between the two sides.

At this time, Bai Ye stepped forward and said, "Nice to meet you. I am Bai Ye from the Akatsuki organization. I came here to invite you to become my subordinate."

"Become your subordinate?" Scorpion snorted coldly and asked, "Why should I become your subordinate?"

Scorpion's answer made Bai Ye stunned for a few seconds. It seemed that he really had no reason to impress Scorpion. In the original plot, why did this guy join the Akatsuki organization?
Is it because Akatsuki can realize Sasori's dream? Or is it for other reasons?
After thinking for a while, Bai Ye finally remembered that Scorpion seemed to have been defeated by Konan, and then joined the Akatsuki organization and began to implement the tailed beast collection plan.

However, there seems to be a deeper reason...

Before Bai Ye could give an answer, Scorpion had already taken out the scroll he carried with him, bit his finger, and instantly summoned ten puppets, which were suspended between the two of them.

"Is it just a ten-machine exercise?"

Bai Ye showed a disappointed expression. Controlling ten puppets at the same time is the limit for a puppeteer, but it is not the limit for Scorpion. It seems that Scorpion is far from showing his true strength.

After hearing this, Scorpion's face turned a little ugly.

Then he controlled the puppets to attack Bai Ye. These puppets made of steel were more flexible than ordinary ninjas under the control of chakra lines.

With a whoosh, Bai Ye, who had just dodged the slash, heard the sound of the thousand needles being fired again.

These tiny Senbon swords may not seem to pose much of a threat and can only hurt the ninja's skin and flesh at most, but they are covered with all kinds of deadly toxins and can cause poisoning and death if one is not careful.

This is also the usual trick of the Sand Village puppeteer, using toxins to make up for the lack of lethality.

However, in front of Bai Ye, the speed of these puppets was still too slow. Even if he did not use the instant body movement technique to dodge, he could suppress the puppets just by relying on the flying ability of paper escape.

Moreover, these puppets made of metal were not flexible enough and could not even resist the basic fire escape and water escape. After experiencing the high temperature of fire escape and the cooling of water escape, the joints of these puppets were deformed one by one and could not be controlled normally.

After seeing this scene, Scorpion's eyes became extremely solemn.

Bai Ye's strength was even stronger than he had expected. If it were an ordinary ninja, he would have died countless times after those attacks.

Bai Ye actually reacted and took timely countermeasures, seeing through the puppet's weakness.

Kakuzu was also surprised. Although Byakuya's method of destroying the puppet seemed simple, this was not a watery environment like the Rain Country, where water escape could be performed in a waterless environment.

This level of chakra has surpassed that of a large number of jonin.

This made Kakuzu, who originally wanted to save people and make money, become extremely curious about Byakuya's true strength.

Seeing that ordinary puppets could not defeat Bai Ye, Scorpion took out the second scroll. Inside the scroll were powerful human puppets that he had created using corpses he had collected over the years.

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

Taking advantage of the fact that Bai Ye was standing still, Scorpion controlled the human puppet to attack Bai Ye, but Bai Ye dodged it easily.

This time, Bai Ye did not use any ninjutsu, but directly destroyed Scorpion's human puppet with violence.

In front of hundreds of detonating tags, the human puppet was like a flower in a rainstorm, with no chance to launch an attack at all, and even its chakra lines were submerged in the explosion.

After the explosions ended, Bai Ye looked at Fei Liu Hu who was not far away, and slowly approached him while saying:
"Scorpion, stop hiding your strength and take out the Third-generation Wind Shadow Puppet. Otherwise, you will have no chance of winning against me. Or just surrender and become my subordinate. I will not treat you unfairly."

When he heard the words of the Third-generation Kazekage puppet, murderous intent appeared in Scorpion's eyes.

Although he never concealed the fact that he assassinated the Third Kazekage, he never mentioned it to other ninjas. How did Bai Ye know that he killed the Third Kazekage?

If this matter gets out, it will bring him a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Thinking of this, Scorpion took out the last scroll and prepared to release the Third Generation Wind Shadow Puppet to kill Byakuya and Kakuzu here and hide this secret forever.

However, the next moment Bai Ye disappeared from the spot, and after performing the floating technique, he came in front of Scorpion.

Before Scorpion could react, his entire body was sealed in place, unable to mobilize even his chakra. He watched helplessly as a kunai pierced into his body.

With a "pop", the kunai pierced Scorpion's body directly, and blood continued to flow out of the wound.

After seeing this scene, Bai Ye was also slightly stunned. Wasn't Fei Liu Hu a human puppet used by Xie to conceal his identity? Why was he bleeding?

Could it be that Scorpion hasn't yet undergone mechanical ascension and is still in flesh and blood?
After pulling out the kunai and seeing Scorpion's wound clearly, Bai Ye held his forehead. He confirmed that Scorpion was still a flesh and blood body. No wonder Scorpion's movements were obviously much slower when he used the detonating talismans to bombard him just now.

At that time he thought Scorpion was deliberately showing weakness to the enemy, but now it seems that he might have really been knocked unconscious by the explosion.

In desperation, Bai Ye could only take away the scroll that stored the Kazekage puppet, and then use medical ninjutsu on Scorpion. He couldn't really let Scorpion, a technical talent, die.

(End of this chapter)