Ninja at the top of the food chain

Chapter 828
"It's Tugen, please sit down."

Lei Luo nodded and sat on the chair opposite the desk. Huitu put down the pen in his hand, got up, and walked to the cabinet with the kettle at the back. Within a few seconds, he handed over a cup of steaming coffee with an extremely enthusiastic attitude.

"Thank you."

Lei Luo took the coffee, took a sip, and turned his gaze to Shitu who was sitting back again, directly expressing his intention: "Is there any task recently? You know, I am a little restless."

After being severely taught by Taizhi, Huitu restrained himself a lot in the past five days.

At least, no longer bring Qianxiang to Taizhi and continue to stimulate him.

Lei Luo feels that this young man has experienced a wave of beatings from society, and has grown a bit in his dealings with others.

Although he is actually the head of the base, his lack of strength means that Huitu's prestige is far from high.

Coupled with Yan Yin's strategy of breaking down into parts, like an elder, Tuying, he can neither grasp the detailed dynamics of each base, nor have time to pay attention to such trivial matters as fights.

No matter how hard Huitu's relationship was, no one had time to support him. If Taizhi beat him, it would be for nothing. Even if he wanted to take revenge, the two confidantes under his command, Shangren, were no match for Taizhi just by physical skills.

Using ninjutsu, real knives and guns, not to mention the accident, the loss is also the overall strength of the 58th base. If he really issued such an order, the rock ninja underneath would definitely have strong dissatisfaction.

Although Huitu is a son of the rich and powerful, he is not stupid. Under the current environment of the enemy, conflicts are not impossible, but they must be kept within a controllable range. This is why he has not taken tough measures against Taizhi so far. .

Although, this would be frustrating.

But Huitu also has a plan now, that is to win over Lei Luo, who seems to have a good impression of him, who is willing to help in time, and whose combat power is slightly stronger than Taizhi's, and plans to develop Lei Luo into a confidant to counter Taizhi. .

Although the base chief can drive the Iwanin to work, strictly speaking, this power belongs to the public. Huitu, who lacks prestige, can at most issue some external missions for the Iwanin at Base No. 58 to perform.

When it comes to some orders that are obviously related to internal fighting, no one will listen to him except his confidantes. If he really kills his companions, there is a high probability that the two Iwagakushi jonin will not obey the order and will stop him instead.

This situation is just like Nonoyu in the Mitsumei incident, such as Uchiha Ao, the reason why they have not taken action is naturally for a reason.

"Tu Yuan, you have done a good job in your recent missions. The accuracy of the intelligence several times has been very high, which has established a great advantage for our recent operations and is worthy of praise."

First, he praised Lei Luo's work results, and found that the man opposite him was noncommittal, and Huitu was not surprised, after all, after so many days of communication and familiarity, he had already figured out Tu Yuan's character.

"You just came back yesterday, are you sure you don't need to rest for two days?"

"unnecessary."

Sensing the concern between Huitu's words, Lei Luo didn't fluctuate in his heart. On the surface, his face was a little gloomy, and he heard him talking nonsense: "Whenever I close my eyes, I can recall the scene of that night."

"The figures of the dozens of Anbu colleagues still cannot be dispelled in my mind, Uchiha Fugaku... sooner or later, I will kill him!"

Seeing Lei Luo's appearance of hoping to paralyze himself with tasks, eager to improve his strength and eventually avenge his companions, Huitu couldn't help being awed. He felt that this is the real ninja, so he stopped persuading him immediately and issued the task:
"Alright then... You are good at gathering information, so I will leave the task of investigating the southern town to you, Tu Yuan, I believe you will not let me down."

"I never let you down."

Replying faintly, Lei Luo stood up, took the task list and map handed over by Huitu, turned around and walked towards the door, but just before stepping out of the threshold, he stopped and turned his head slightly:
"I just hope you don't disappoint me."

After Lei Luo left, Huitu fell into silence for a while, thinking of the requests that Tuyuan had made to him several times before, a look of hesitation appeared on his face, and he felt quite in a dilemma.

Tugen is a veteran Jōnin from Yanyin. Over the years, he has made a lot of contributions, but he has never made any request to the village. This kind of performance can be said to be selfless and worthy of praise and praise.

In particular, the other party recently obtained a precious intelligence channel from nowhere. Every time they go on a mission, they can bring back some key information, and the accuracy rate is close to [-]%.

This information has provided great help for the encirclement and counter-siege operations of Base 58 and several surrounding bases. It is not an exaggeration to say that Tu Yuan is the most important ninja in Base 58 today.

What's more, when Taizhi beat him up five days ago, it was Tuyuan who rescued him. So easily overlooked.

"The technique of light and heavy rocks and the technique of earth spear should meet the requirements of Tuyuan, but it is absolutely impossible to get this level of technique without father's nod."

Huitu lightly bit the pen, thought for a while, and then breathed a sigh of relief, making up his mind: "Follow up, contact father and report the situation of Tuyuan."

After muttering, Huitu continued to process the documents on the table. Although the young base chief hadn't promised Lei Luo anything, he actually had a clear inclination in his heart, and the rest was how to tell his father.

Among the verdant green mountains and forests, the air carries the fragrance of earth, and the morning sun slowly rises in the distance. The moisture left by the heavy rain last night makes the surrounding environment slightly humid.

The two figures moved forward quickly. It was Lei Luo and Fuyue who walked out of Base 58 and headed for Base 42 where Jiraiya was located. The nominal mission of this trip was to collect intelligence on the Fire Nation troops.

What to do, needless to say.

"Master Hokage, why don't you just control Huitu? Wouldn't it be more efficient to gain his trust, control him, and directly use the communication channel between him and Yan Yin's senior management?"

After running silently for a long time, Fu Yue couldn't help asking Lei Luo his doubts after thinking about it, and Lei Luo's answer was very simple, only five short words:
"It's risky, don't rush."

Thinking carefully about the meaning of these five words, Fu Yue subconsciously observed Lei Luo's face, and found that Hokage-sama was frowning slightly, as if he was thinking about something, so he didn't say anything to disturb him again.

"The Baijue line and the Anbu line have not gained much. Now it depends on whether the Jiraiya line can make a breakthrough. If not, we can only invest more energy on the gray soil line." '

Lei Luo thought about the follow-up plan in silence. The reason why he didn't decisively perform the kaleidoscope illusion on Huitu, or search for the soul, was the same as what he said to Fu Yue, and the risk of failure was very high.

(End of this chapter)