Chapter 176 Two tasks
Bai Ye didn't believe their lies and walked over to grab the letter.

After quickly reading the contents of the letter, Bai Ye's mouth began to twitch, and he didn't know where to start complaining.

This is really Jiraiya's letter for help...

The content of the letter was very simple. Just two days ago, there was a problem with Konoha's supply line. The military supplies purchased from the Hidden Rain Village were intercepted by the Hidden Cloud Ninja in the territory of the Land of Fire, which directly led to a tight situation on Konoha's front line.

The Kumogakure ninja who intercepted the supplies was very powerful, so Jiraiya wanted to entrust the people of the Rain Village to protect the supplies and ensure their safety.

There is nothing wrong with the content of this letter, but I just said that Jiraiya will definitely come for help.

Faced with the subtle looks from Yahiko and the others, Bai Ye wanted to explain but didn't know how to start. He had just been complaining in his heart that the old toad Gamamaru was a charlatan, but in the blink of an eye, he himself had become a charlatan.

The three steps of questioning, understanding, and becoming were completed in an instant.

After coughing lightly, Bai Ye said, "Senior Jiraiya actually sent a letter for help so quickly. It seems that the war between Kumogakure and Konoha is more intense than I thought."

"I believe that it won't be long before the war between Konoha and Kumogakure will be over."

"Really?" Xiaonan said expectantly. In her mind, Bai Ye's words were not speculation or analysis at all, but a prophecy of the future.

“……” Bai Ye put down the letter for help with an embarrassed look on his face.

At this time, Yahiko noticed Bai Ye's embarrassment and quickly said, "It is still unknown when the war will end. Let's focus on the letter for help."

"Do you agree or disagree with Jiraiya-sensei's request for help?"

Konan and Nagato looked at each other, then nodded and said, "We all agree to support Sensei Jiraiya."

Bai Ye said slowly: "You can support Konohagakure, but there is another price. In addition to the task of escorting supplies, ask him if he needs a ninja to assassinate the masters of Kumogakure."

Seeing that everyone agreed to support Konoha, Yahiko nodded slightly, and then asked Bai Ye: "Bai Ye, are you really going to let our people assassinate the Kumogakure ninja?"

Bai Ye said disapprovingly: "Of course, I have recruited many powerful wandering ninjas these days. This war will be a good opportunity to train them and let them play their due value."

Yahiko thought for a moment, then said:

"Be careful. I know you are very powerful, but there are always people who are better than you. A strange Kage-level strongman might appear from somewhere in the ninja world."

"I'll be careful. You go back to Konoha first. I'll go back and have people prepare."

After saying that, Bai Ye left the Yuyin Village office.

……

After returning to the Akatsuki base, Bai Ye summoned the outer formation members through the ring.

There are not many members in the outer formation at present. Apart from the leader Byakuya, there are only Hanzo, Kakuzu and Sasori left.

The reason why the number of people is maintained at four is not because there are not enough jonin in the Akatsuki organization.

But Bai Ye has always had the idea that it is better to have nothing than to have something less than perfect. In the future, the outer formation members will be responsible for collecting the tailed beasts. If they don't even have the strength of an elite jonin, they'd better do logistics.

However, once a ninja reaches the level of an elite jonin, it is not so easy to recruit him.

These elite jonin are called jonin, but in fact they are not far from the strength of Kage. After all, the Five Kage and the elite jonin are all included in the scope of jonin.

In Bai Ye's memory, most of the original Akatsuki members have been recruited. Nagato and Konan are already high-ranking members of Akatsuki, Kakuzu and Sasori are also in his possession, as for the remaining members, Uchiha Itachi, Hidan, Deidara, Hoshigaki Kisame, and Biwa Juzo.

They are either not yet ten years old or have not yet graduated from the ninja school.

Or he could stay in the Hidden Mist Village and be an ANBU ninja. That was Obito's territory, and they would become his subordinates sooner or later, so he didn't have the time to interfere.

If you want to recruit powerful ninjas in a short period of time, you may have to start from other aspects.

Uchiha Shisui is a good choice, and the Pharmacist Shennong and Hokuroko who travel around the countries are also good choices. Their strength should be around that of a jonin, and with a little training they can become qualified fighters.

Two days passed and Bai Ye received two messages.

One piece of news came from the Hidden Rain Building, saying that Konoha decided to hire ninjas from the Akatsuki organization to help Konoha get rid of the ninjas from the Hidden Cloud Village.

The other one comes from Kabuto Yakushi. After several months of training, Kabuto Yakushi has become a Root Ninja, and has left the Konoha Village and officially started to carry out missions.

Both pieces of news were very useful, especially the one sent by Pharmacist Dou, Bai Ye was very satisfied.

Although Kabuto Yakushi is a war orphan, his talent is actually no worse than Kakashi, especially his talent in medical research, which has been recognized by Tsunade and Orochimaru.

With this talent, whether Kabuto Yakushi becomes a high-ranking official in Konoha in the future or is taken away by Orochimaru, he will be a good candidate for a spy, allowing him to continue to obtain intelligence.

After destroying the intelligence scroll, Bai Ye came to the Akatsuki training ground.

Hanzo, Kakuzu and Sasori had been waiting here for a long time. They all looked at Bai Ye, waiting for his orders.

Bai Ye didn't waste any words and said directly: "The village received a commission from Konoha, asking us to protect the supplies sold to Konoha and assassinate the Jonin of the Hidden Cloud Village."

"This mission is extremely difficult, and we can only rely on a few experts like us to take charge."

"Are you planning on going on a mission to escort supplies, or going out with me to hunt Cloud Ninja?"

After listening to the content of the task, the three of them pondered for a while.

Hanzo walked up to Bai Ye with a smile and said, "I am old now and don't want to leave the village too far. I'd better carry out the task of escorting supplies."

Kakuzu and Sasori said without hesitation: "We choose to assassinate the Kumogakure ninja."

Kakuzu and Scorpion both had their own reasons for choosing assassination instead of escorting supplies.

Kakuzu never cares about the specific content of the mission and is a true bounty hunter. Apart from the mission target and the ninjas who prevent the mission from being completed, he rarely deals with other ninjas.

Compared to unprofitable tasks such as escorting supplies, Kakuzu prefers to carry out assassination missions.

The reason is very simple, killing people earns much more money than escorting them.

Scorpion's idea was even simpler. His parents were killed by Konoha ninjas, so it was impossible for him to help Konoha, even to escort supplies.

In comparison, it would be better to participate in the mission of hunting Cloud Ninjas, at least you can get the materials for making puppets.

Bai Ye had no objection to the decision of the few people and nodded slightly.

(End of this chapter)