Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 773 Reason
"Captain, what do you think of the Fourth-sama's policies?"

Ahead, in the darkness, a slightly childish voice was heard.

Then, a voice that was slightly more mature but still not completely childish replied, "It's okay!"

Hearing this, another young Mist Ninja said, "I feel good. This way we can have each other's backs from now on."

"Can"

The last person in the team seemed to have a different opinion.

However, just as he uttered a word, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a dark shadow out of the corner of his eye. He immediately took out a kunai and was about to shout out a warning.

Unfortunately, his reaction was still a beat slow.

Almost at the moment when he was about to shout, a pair of blood-red eyes came into his sight, pulling his consciousness into the illusion.

"Momonosuke, what's wrong?"

The other three people saw that Fujiwara no Momonosuke suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his words and were a little confused, so they opened their mouths to ask.

However, when they saw Fujiwara no Momonosuke's motionless body and closed eyes, they were suddenly shocked.

Then, a dark shadow appeared in their field of vision.

"careful!"

Among the four, the team leader reacted the fastest. He immediately took out a kunai and shouted.

However, before he could finish his words, everything went dark before his eyes.

In an instant, a black curtain like silk suddenly descended, completely enveloping him and making him lose his sense of the surrounding light.

"Illusion?"

Without any hesitation, he immediately took a defensive stance.

Now, he only hoped that the other two could find the enemy in the dark and help him break this illusion.

However, his idea was destined to be redundant.

As an A-level illusion, if 'Illusion: Darkness Walking Technique' was so easy to break, it would not have been used by Hashirama Senju to deal with Uchiha Madara's Sharingan.

What's more, after Qing Ming mastered this technique to perfection, it can now be used against multiple enemies at the same time.

Therefore, not only him, but the other two were also trapped in hallucinations and were unable to help him at all.

Things were very simple after that. Qing Ming dodged a few times and easily knocked out the three people.

There was no way. These three people didn't even have a Jonin. After losing their important sense of vision, most of their combat power was lost, and they were completely unable to deal with his sneak attack.

Looking at the three people lying unconscious, Qing Ming finally came to the Mist Ninja who was first controlled by his "Illusion·Sharingan".

slap~
Another palm strike came down, and the opponent also fell to the ground unconscious.

After doing all this, Qing Ming raised his hand and performed the 'Shadow Clone Technique'.

bang~
As a cloud of chakra smoke dissipated, a figure who looked exactly like him appeared on the scene.

Qing Ming looked at the other party and said directly: "Take them with you, let's go!"

Hearing this, the shadow clones didn't waste any time and took two of them with them to take the four people on the ground away from where they were.

Although the fight just now, well, even if it was a fight, it didn't make much noise.

However, this road is ultimately a main road leading to the heart of the Hidden Mist Village. Many Mist Ninjas who have completed their patrol missions will pass through here, and there is no guarantee that someone will not discover something.

So, it’s better to leave first.

A few minutes later, Qingming and his shadow clone brought four Mist Ninjas to a remote corner of the forest.

After putting the four people down, Qingming's shadow clone continued to guard the surroundings, while he himself performed the "Chakra Absorption Technique" and began to extract the chakra of these four people.

This step was completed very quickly.

After confirming that the four people had no strength to resist, Qing Ming did not hesitate at all and immediately used the "Ninjutsu: Mind Reading Technique" to forcibly read the memories of these four people.

Thanks to the powerful mental strength brought by the 26 points of "Spirit" attribute, as well as the endurance developed from the long-term training of a large number of shadow clones, he easily completed the memory reading of the four people.

In this way, he also had a preliminary understanding of the changes in the Hidden Mist Village. Before, he was still wondering why the other party mentioned the Fourth Mizukage during their conversation.

Now, he finally understands.

It turned out that just a few days ago, the leader of the Hidden Mist Village was changed. The Third Mizukage officially announced his abdication, and the Fourth Mizukage was succeeded by Karatachi Yagura.

The martial law in the Water Country was because someone seemed to be dissatisfied with Yagura Karatachi's ascension to power and was planning a coup.

After learning this, Qing Ming immediately thought of the Hyuga clan.

As I recall, in another timeline, this clan seemed to have launched a coup and was eventually exterminated, with only Kimimaro surviving.

Then, he was abducted by Orochimaru and became his subordinate.

But when he thought about it carefully, he felt that the time didn't fit.

Whether judging from Kimimaro's age or his encounter with Orochimaru, the Hyuga clan's betrayal would take several years, and it shouldn't be so early.

As for other families or forces.
Qingming doesn’t feel like it either.

At the very least, from the memories of these four people, the news that someone was planning a coup had always been groundless, and no one really stood up to oppose Karatachi Yagura.

What's more, if someone really wanted to stage a coup, the Hidden Mist Village should not have blocked the entire Water Country.

After all, the camp remains permanent, but the soldiers remain transient.

No matter who wants to stage a coup and finally comes to power, they will not take action against the Water Country, because this is the basic foundation of the existence of the Hidden Mist Village.

As for defending against foreign enemies?
That's even more nonsense.

If the Hidden Mist Village was really afraid that other villages would take advantage of the situation, what it should have done was to send more troops to the border instead of dispersing personnel across the country.

Doing so would seem more like preparing to suppress a rebellion.

"Then what made Karatachi Yagura feel the need to do this?"

Qingming pondered in his heart.

Reviewing the memories of the four people again, he found some clues.

It turned out that shortly after Karatachi Yagura came to power, he suddenly announced a policy, which was to abandon the "blood mist policy" promoted by the Third Mizukage.

However, Qingming knew very well that if a policy could be implemented for many years, no matter how many disadvantages and incredible things it had, there would definitely be beneficiaries.

After all, a policy that offends everyone, even the Mizukage, cannot be implemented for a long time.

Now that there are beneficiaries, any attempt to interrupt this policy will affect the interests of these people.

As the saying goes, it is easy to shake the soul but difficult to shake the interests.

Others might be able to tolerate a mere position of Mizukage, but to make them give up the benefits that have already been in their mouths is more painful than killing them.

In this case, it is normal for Karutagi Yagura to make a scene even bigger than a coup d'état.

Qingming even felt that the so-called coup rumors were just a warning from the vested interests in the Hidden Mist Village to Karatachi Yagura.

When he thought of this, Qingming gradually had the answer in his mind.

Perhaps this is the information he is looking for.

And if his guess is true, then this "farce" in the Hidden Mist Village will not end in a short time.

There is no other reason. According to Kakashi, the blood mist policy of the Hidden Mist Village was officially stopped after Zabuza killed all his classmates of the same period.

And when did Zabuza graduate?
The answer is "eleven years ago", which is one year after Naruto was born.

According to the current timeline, that would be about two years later.

This period of time is the time for Goju Yagura to play games with the group of vested interests.

Of course, after Obito controls Karatachi Yagura, the blood mist policy will reappear in the Hidden Mist Village and will become even more severe.

By that time, Zabuza would have launched a coup, assassinated Karatachi Yagura, and defected to the Hidden Mist Village.

(End of this chapter)