Mayuri's card from Naruto

Chapter 87 First Meeting and Cooperation

The land of rain.

Three people in black raincoats walked in the rain.

What I see is the dense rain curtain, what I hear is the noisy sound of rain, and what I feel is the biting moisture and coolness.

Most of the villages we passed along the way were deserted, either sparsely populated with piles of corpses, or empty.

Women, children, old people, men.

The corpses were either skinny and starving, or had wounds that had turned white and swollen from being washed by the rain.

Boneless beasts roamed among the corpses.

It was a despairing scene from any direction.

"I've heard of Hanzo of the Rain Village. Is the village and country under his protection actually like this?" A somewhat suppressed male voice whispered in the team of three.

The place they were in was a desolate canyon. In the center of the canyon was a flat plain, the ground was muddy, and dotted with weeds soaked by rain.

Whoosh whoosh!
It seemed as if he had been waiting here for a long time, just waiting for the three people to appear.

After the three people appeared, several ninjas in black robes jumped down from the height of the canyon with a sharp sound of wind, and landed opposite the three people.

The leader was a young man with orange hair and a resolute face, wearing a Rain Village forehead protector. On his left and right were a boy with red hair and a female ninja with a paper flower on her head.

"Are you the ninjas of Konoha?" The young man in the lead on the opposite side stepped forward and shouted.

"Is it Yahiko, the leader of Akatsuki?" Uchiha Shisui lifted up his hat, revealing his face, and stepped forward to confirm.

"You said you are Konoha's ninjas and came here to seek cooperation and mutual assistance. I wonder what you want to cooperate with us on? Let me make it clear in advance that we do not accept ninja war fighting missions." Yahiko raised his hand high and announced.

"Wait a minute, Yahiko, apart from the forehead protector, they have not yet proved that they are Konoha's ninjas!" The female ninja at the side reminded Yahiko.

"Is it an identity verification?" Uchiha Shisui looked at Lu Nie, and after getting the signal, he took out a scroll from his arms, swung his arm, and threw it far away.

"What is this?" Yahiko grabbed the scroll thrown by Shisui with one hand, opened it, and looked a little confused.

"Aren't you ninjas? Don't you even understand the information authentication between ninjas?" Shisui was a little surprised.

"I'm sorry, our Akatsuki organization has never had this kind of formal official contact with other ninja villages, so..." Yahiko scratched the back of his head awkwardly, looking at a loss.

"Do you understand, Nagato, Konan?" Yahiko subconsciously looked for help to his two companions beside him.

"Let me do it, Chief. I used to be an Anbu of the Rain Ninja, so I know how to look at this." A steady voice sounded behind the three of them. The speaker was a ninja with an old face.

Yahiko and the other two obviously trusted the ninja who was speaking, and immediately handed the scroll to him.

"Actually, it can be proved in another way." Lu Ni first winked at Shisui, and Shisui understood and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, his eyes were already blood red.

"The Uchiha family's Sharingan!" The ninja standing behind Yahiko and the other two saw Shisui's eyes and subconsciously exclaimed.

"Is that the Sharingan?" Yahiko and the other two subconsciously looked at Shisui's eyes. Especially the man who Yahiko called Nagato, he looked at Shisui's eyes seriously for a moment.

"If the Sharingan can't make you sure, then what about Senior Jiraiya?" Lu Ni stepped forward and asked directly.

"Jiraiya?"

When several members of Akatsuki heard this name, they looked at each other in surprise.

If we were to ask who in the entire ninja world remembers the names of the Three Ninjas the most, then Rain Village would definitely be one of them! Because the title of the Three Ninjas was bestowed by the demigod Hanzo of Rain Village.

Only the Rain Village had experienced a war led by the young Sannin.

Therefore, even after all these years, the name of the Three Ninjas is still loud enough in the Rain Village. And as the reputation of the Three Ninjas in the ninja world grows, the Rain Village feels proud of it.

After all, these three powerful ninjas were all defeated by Hanzo, the leader of their Rain Village.

Yahiko and the other two reacted even more strongly to this name, because they were the only ones who knew the relationship between Jiraiya and them.

"Senior Renzhong, please take the members to guard first. Konan and I need to have a good talk with our friends in Konoha." Yahiko hesitated for a moment, turned his head and said to the ninja with a weathered look behind him.

"I understand." Liu Yu Renzhong nodded. Coming from the Anbu, he understood some things very well. He knew when he should be cautious and when he should not inquire about certain intelligence information.

After he led his men away and went to guard the surroundings, Yahiko brought Nagato and Konan to approach Lu Nie and the other two, stretched out his hand and asked, "Were you sent by Master Jiraiya?"

"No, it has nothing to do with Senior Jiraiya. I just heard about you from him by chance. Our teacher is Orochimaru." Kaname held the hand that Yahiko handed over and shook his head to deny Yahiko's guess.

Orochimaru?
Yahiko and the other two looked at each other in bewilderment, and subconsciously an image of a gloomy man with a cold body who said he wanted to kill them emerged in their minds.

"I know that Senior Jiraiya has taught you for three years, so I know that you have some very special abilities." Lu Nie didn't mind using Jiraiya to take the blame temporarily in order to gain the trust and favor of Yahiko and the other two.

"You?" Yahiko and the other two immediately looked at Lu Nie with some vigilance.

"Don't worry, I'm not here for you two, but for Xiaonan!" Lu Nie certainly wanted to study the Samsara Eye, but he also knew that these eyes were now a dangerous powder keg. His target this time was indeed Xiaonan.

"What do you want to do to Konan?" Kane's words made Yahiko and Nagato even more anxious, especially Nagato, who showed signs of taking action.

"Cooperation!" Lu Nie ignored Yahiko and the other man whose emotions suddenly fluctuated greatly, "You need food, weapons, and medical drugs, right?"

"Yes." Xiaonan, who was looking into Lu Nie's eyes, didn't seem to notice any malice in Lu Nie and nodded slightly.

Food, weapons, and medical supplies are what the Akatsuki organization, or the entire Rain Village, lacks! It was okay during non-war times, but in the current war period, even the Rain Village itself is short of supplies.

No merchants outside were willing to sell food to Rain Village. Even if there were, the price was too high to be affordable.

If Lu Nie could bring them food, weapons, and medical supplies, then no matter what the conditions were, she would persuade Yahiko and the others to accept them.

After all, providing them with these necessities during this war time can help so many people in the Rain Village and the Rain Country survive!
"Don't be nervous, we have no ill intentions. You should be good at paper escape, right?"

Lu Nie's words stunned Yahiko and the other two, who thought he would make some excessive demands.

"Paper Escape? Is that so?" Xiaonan thought about it, stretched out her arm, and a bouquet of paper flowers formed in her hand.

"Can you use paper jutsu to make an explosive tag?" After taking the bouquet of paper flowers handed over by Konan, Lu Ne used his chakra to observe it carefully and suddenly asked.

"Do you need Detonating Talismans?" Xiaonan's eyes lit up instantly, "I can make Detonating Talismans! Because Detonating Talismans are too expensive, I can only research and make Detonating Talismans little by little from the ones I plundered from other ninjas.

The current detonating tags of Akatsuki were all provided by me. But I am not very skilled in making them now, so I cannot provide you with a large number of them. In addition, the materials of the detonating tags I made are not good, and the difficulty of preservation and power are quite different from the genuine detonating tags.

But as long as there are enough Exploding Talismans for me to study and master, I believe I will be able to provide you with a large number of Exploding Talismans soon!"

In order to gain Lu Nei's trust, Konan used paper jutsu to start making an explosive talisman on the spot.

As she said, it was indeed made quickly.

Lu Nie took the detonating tag in his hand, checked it, tied it to a kunai, ignited it with chakra, and threw it out directly.

Crack!

The explosion, like that of firecrackers, shattered the rain curtain, and as water mist splashed, a slight air wave swept around like a breeze.

"This is a defective product. The fine product I made will be more powerful than this!" In the silence, Xiaonan, with a flushed face, broke the sound of rain and emphasized.

The power is slightly greater than that of firecrackers. Even if it is a high-quality product, it is unlikely to have one-tenth of the power of the authentic detonating talisman.

Is this the truth behind the fact that in the future, Shikamaru Nara used dozens of explosive tags to blow an immortal to pieces, while the explosion maniac Konan failed to kill herself and a masked man with 500 billion explosive tags?
As for using public funds to buy Detonating Talismans, let's not talk about whether the ninja world can produce so many Detonating Talismans in the past ten years. Such a large amount cannot be concealed from any ninja village. Just the price of Detonating Talismans is so high that even if you work yourself to death, you still can't save enough. You can't just use the money you earn to buy Detonating Talismans, right?
"Trust me, I can definitely provide you with better detonating tags!" Seeing the silent Lu Ni and the other two, Xiao Nan emphasized again anxiously.

She now has a sense of sudden enlightenment!
It turns out it can still be like this!
It turns out that she can also help Yahiko and Nagato in this way!
She is not the most useless of the three, the one who needs protection but can't provide much help to the organization.

"Don't detonate the explosive talisman." Lu Nie slowly shook his head under Xiao Nan's disappointed gaze.

Detonating Talismans are also inspected when purchased in the village. Detonating Talismans of this power are fine for small ninja villages, but they will not pass the quality inspection in Konoha or other large ninja villages. They are useless except for personal use.

"But your paper escape technique is indeed enough to cooperate with us." Lu Nie's words suddenly lifted the depressed mood of the disappointed Konan, Yahiko and the other two.

They thought this cooperation was going to fail.

"Try it, can you copy this talisman using paper escape?" Lu Nie took out a healing talisman from his body and handed it to Xiaonan.

"What is this?" Xiaonan took the healing talisman and tried to replicate it. As expected, he produced a bunch of failed products.

"This is a healing talisman. It can replace medical ninjas on the battlefield and provide emergency treatment to injured ninjas. It usually only treats wounds and has little effect on toxins." Lu Nie stopped Konan from repeating his failed behavior.

"I need some time." Xiaonan looked at Lu Ni expectantly.

"What we lack is time." Lu Nie looked at Xiao Nan and the other two and said, "You all know how scarce medical ninjas are in the ninja world. Once a war comes, the lack of medical ninjas will mean a large number of casualties.

Konoha was able to survive the siege of other ninja villages during World War II because of the medical team led by Tsunade Senju. They saved the lives of many Konoha ninjas and maintained the number of core ninjas.

Even you can use your abilities to copy the detonating talisman, even if it is a defective product, which means that there is no high technical threshold that is difficult to overcome.

But the healing talisman is different. Currently, only Konoha can produce healing talismans stably, and perhaps the Hidden Cloud Village in the future. But if your paper escape technique can produce a large number of healing talismans, even if they are also defective products, it will be enough to exchange a large amount of money and materials from their merchants and big ninja villages during the war.

A monopoly business is the most profitable. Maybe your healing talisman is not as good as the genuine one, but quantity can make up for everything. If you can do it, you can easily support the entire Akatsuki organization by yourself. "

Konan's face showed a look of longing, as if she really thought about everything that Lu Nie said. Although the Rain Country is isolated, and although they have not learned any knowledge or read any books except for the three years they followed Jiraiya.

But with the experiences of these years, it was not difficult for Xiaonan and the other two to distinguish whether what Lu Nie said was true or false.

Whoosh!
A paper kunai cut open Konan's arm, and blood flowed down her arm from the wound. Amid the exclamations of Yahiko and Nagato, Konan placed the healing talisman that Lu Nie handed her on the wound and activated it with chakra.

Under the shocked gazes of Xiaonan and the other two, a green halo containing vitality lingered on the healing talisman. The wound on Xiaonan's arm healed quickly under the effect of the healing talisman. Soon, except for the remaining blood, the skin became smooth and flat, and healed as before.

"It's true!" Xiaonan felt the warm power in the talisman. If she could master this power, the number of casualties among the Akatsuki organization's partners during battles would be greatly reduced! Their team would also expand rapidly!
"Please teach me how to make a healing talisman!" Xiaonan bowed to Lu Nie and pleaded loudly. She knew that it would take too long to replicate the healing talisman with her own strength, and the effect might not be good.

"This is the basis of cooperation. I can teach you the technical knowledge of healing talismans, and I can also provide you with some materials and supplies you need, but the prerequisite is that you have to share the healing talismans you sell with us equally! How about it?" Lu Nie asked.

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