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Kakuzu's 400 clones turned to look at the shouting Damon and said calmly, "I'll collect your body if you die. I'll take back your headband and your ring. I think Loganfeld would be willing to pay a higher price for it."

Listen, listen, is this human language?

That guy is a complete bastard!

Damon wanted to curse him out, but since this bastard was the only one who could save him, he had no choice but to hold back.

Nagini and Richinelle pushed Damon toward Mystic Falls. Kakuzu's shadow clone didn't follow directly; since he could sense Damon's location, there was no need to make a big fuss and put unnecessary pressure on Nagini and Richinelle.

"come out!"

Kakuzu's shadow clone, who remained in place, suddenly turned to look at the woods beside him. After waiting a few seconds and seeing no one appear, a cold smile appeared on his lips, and he quickly formed hand seals.

"Fire Release: Phoenix Immortal Fire Technique!"

In an instant, fireballs hurtled toward the woods, followed by several loud explosions as flames shot into the air.

"Cough cough...cough cough...don't do anything, I just want to make a deal with you!" A figure emerged somewhat disheveled.

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P.S.: Here are some recommendations for my completed older books: *Marvel: The King Arrives*, *Zombie Contract: The Strongest Grim Reaper*, *Marvel: The Door-Door Fruit*, *American Comics: The Strongest Villain*, *KO One: The Strongest God of War*, and *I Have a Dimensional Street in Marvel*.

Chapter 423 Catherine makes her appearance

Kakuzu's shadow clone looked at the slightly disheveled woman before him and was secretly surprised: "Elena? No, this isn't Elena, it's Catherine!"

"Tsk tsk, if that idiot Damon knew that the person he desperately wanted to save was right here, he'd probably cry himself to death in the bathroom." Kakuzu's shadow clone chuckled as he looked at Catherine.

"Looks like I don't need to introduce myself." Catherine tossed her hair, a slightly arrogant air about her. "I want to make a deal with you, or rather, I have a commission!"

"Tell me."

Although Kakuzu's shadow clone did not expect Catherine to return to Mystic Falls so early, and even to secretly investigate his affairs and make a deal, he still maintained a calm and mysterious image on the surface.

Catherine's lips curled into a wicked smile: "I hope you can help Damon break the seal on the church cemetery in Mystic Falls and rescue me, and the vampire imprisoned inside!"

Rescue you?

Damon, Damon, do you see this?

This is what happens to a simp!

Kakuzu's shadow clone asked calmly, "Is this all you asked for?"

Catherine shook her head: "Not only that, I also hope that you can assist the committee of Mysterious Falls in eliminating all the vampires in the cemetery, including me! Of course, just nominally, as long as everyone believes that I am dead."

"You want to fake your death?" Kakuzu's shadow clone asked.

Catherine chuckled, "I thought your Akatsuki organization only cared about missions and rewards, not the reasons!"

She glanced at the shadow clone of Kakuzu and said, "Perhaps I should go to the Gold Exchange or go directly to your god!"

Kakuzu's shadow clone sneered: "You know quite a lot, huh?"

Catherine shrugged. "Maybe it's because I've lived too long. You know, the longer you live, the more you know."

"Fifty million US dollars, I'll take this job."

"Come here tomorrow to collect the money!" Catherine casually tossed a business card with a handwritten address to Kakuzu's shadow clone.

Kakuzu's shadow clone caught it with a wave of his hand, glanced at it, and when he looked up, Catherine was already gone.

She pursed her lips, waved her hand to open the ethereal alternate dimension, threw the business card in, and then with a bang, it dissipated on its own.

A restaurant in New York.

Su frowned slightly, then the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

Catherine's sudden appearance was indeed a surprise to him. According to the known plot of the TV series, Catherine only appeared after the committee had wiped out all the vampires in the cemetery. She remotely controlled many people, such as Elena's biological parents, Pearl and Anna, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the vampires in the cemetery.

These people, whether directly or passively, knowingly or unknowingly, helped Catherine achieve her goals and became her tools.

If Elena is naive and innocent, even a little bit of a saint, then Catherine is her opposite—ruthless, cunning, and you never know who she will use, who she will sacrifice, or what her purpose is.

Based on the information currently available, aside from other personal reasons such as wanting to reconcile with Stefan or causing trouble for Elena, her real purpose in doing all this seems to be to solidify the fact that she is already dead!

This is interesting. Why would Catherine do this? Why would she want some people to believe she was dead?

To make Damon give up?

No, it's definitely not because of Damon. Damon is just an obedient little wolfhound to Catherine. She wouldn't need to go to such lengths to achieve her goals.

The most likely reason is that someone incredibly powerful, so powerful that Catherine had no chance, is hunting her down for some reason. Only this could explain why she pretended to be burned to death in the church, and why she commissioned Damon to kill all the vampires again, creating the illusion that she was also dead, when Damon tried to break the seal to save her!

Given Catherine's methods and strength, the only enemy Su could think of that could force her to fake her death and escape was the progenitor vampire from the vampire series!

Su knew that the vampire series also had spin-off shows like The Originals, also known as The Vampire Diaries, and Vampire Descendants. Unfortunately, Su had never watched these shows; he hadn't even finished watching The Vampire Diaries, so he didn't know the details.

Su was not disappointed. After all, checking off the storyline was fun, and experiencing unknown storylines and gradually understanding them was also a kind of fun.

With limited intelligence, it's impossible to analyze for the time being who Catherine faked her death to hide from. However, Catherine must have returned to Mysterious Falls Town a long time ago and has been making preparations in secret, otherwise she wouldn't know so much about Kakuzu's shadow clones and the Akatsuki organization.

Although Catherine's appearance this time may be because she was forced to show up to conduct a transaction after being discovered, given her personality and methods, she must have other informants in Mysterious Falls, otherwise she wouldn't be so aware of what happened.

Especially when it comes to ninjas and matters concerning oneself!

So, who will be Catherine's informant?

Su thought about the people around her. Jessica and Vicky were definitely out of the question, as were Elena and Caroline. Moreover, they had Amaterasu sealed in their eyes, which would activate if they were hypnotized.

Bonnie? That's unlikely too. Bonnie is a witch, and although she's only just awakened, the possibility of her being hypnotized is very small.

Members of the committee? Impossible. They all have some knowledge of vampires and wear verbena ornaments, so they couldn't be hypnotized.

After analyzing them one by one, a person suddenly popped into Su's mind.

Elena's aunt, Jenna!

Although Jenna only recently appeared in his life, her appearance was indeed sudden. The distance between them, the ambiguous relationship, made her perfect as an informant.

It allows you to stay informed about your activities without worrying about being exposed by getting too close.

Of course, besides Jenna being rather suspicious, Sue believed that Catherine must have hypnotized others to learn about her and the town's affairs, such as Elena's brother Jeremy, who knew that Elena could perform ninjutsu. Catherine could have learned a lot of things through Jeremy.

So far, Catherine and the 'Su Clan' have had no interaction, but instead of coming to find her, she went to Kakuzu's shadow clone, which shows her steadiness and is also in line with her personality.

She rarely takes matters into her own hands or makes a public appearance; she prefers to control others to do things!

Furthermore, if the previous speculation that Catherine was being hunted is true, her purpose in approaching Kakuzu's shadow clone this time was definitely not to fake her death, but most likely to test the strength of Kakuzu or the Akatsuki organization!

In order to understand the unknown plot that follows, Sue doesn't mind letting Catherine think she has found a backer or an ally.

So you see, isn't this the benefit of using a disguise?

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P.S.: Here are some recommendations for my completed older books: *Marvel: The King Arrives*, *Zombie Contract: The Strongest Grim Reaper*, *Marvel: The Door-Door Fruit*, *American Comics: The Strongest Villain*, *KO One: The Strongest God of War*, and *I Have a Dimensional Street in Marvel*.

Chapter 424 Another deal?

Mysterious Falls, a secret basement.

Carole Lockwood and Liz Forbes, accompanied by several police officers who knew the inside story, were fully armed and carefully injected Damon with verbena under the watchful eyes of Nagini and Ricky Naylor. Afterward, they tied up and hung Damon, whose pain had been alleviated.

Damon's brother, Stefan, was also hanging nearby.

Their nephew, Zach, wasn't here.

Because the Su family did not vouch for Stefan, Carol and the others had no choice but to temporarily lock him up. Because of Zach, although Stefan was also injected with verbena, he was not tortured and was treated much better than Damon.

Incidentally, the vampire that the Su family gave them before was imprisoned here. Damon also came here to rescue him, but unexpectedly, the tables have turned and now he is imprisoned here.

“Damon is yours now. Our mission is complete. You can give the commission to the sir. Just a heads-up, Damon has joined a ninja organization called Akatsuki, and its member Kakuzu is very likely to come to his rescue.” Nagini finished explaining to Carol and gave her a reminder.

After all, they were all ninjas. They delivered the person, and then the other ninjas rescued them. It was a bit too much of a rip-off. Although the mission was considered complete once the person was handed over, and the subsequent events had nothing to do with them, there was still a big difference between being reminded and not being reminded.

If she hadn't been warned, Carol might have overthought things. If she thought that 400 and the other side had conspired to trick her, it would have affected their reputation, and most importantly, the reputation of the Su family.

As expected, Carol, who had initially breathed a sigh of relief, had a strange expression after hearing Nagini's explanation. Nagini briefly explained their relationship with the Akatsuki organization, fulfilling her duty not to betray her employer. The rest was Carol's own business.

After Nagini and Ricky Naylor left, Carol and Liz discussed countermeasures. Logically, the simplest way was to kill Damon immediately. If Damon was dead, there would be no need to worry about others coming to rescue him. Besides, the purpose of capturing Damon was to kill him. Why keep him around?

Liz suggested that it would be best to kill Damon immediately, but Carol refused. She offered almost all the money she had on a bounty for Damon, aiming not so easily, but to kill him.

She wanted to avenge her husband!

Carol called the Su family, partly to discuss the follow-up to the mission, and partly to inquire about the Akatsuki organization.

At the same time, Liz also called her daughter Caroline to ask if she had heard of the Akatsuki organization.

After a while, the two hung up the phone and shared the information they had gathered.

As she was speaking, Liz suddenly waved her hand to signal everyone to be quiet. Then, with a serious expression, she looked around attentively, and finally, her gaze was fixed on a certain wall in the basement.

Everyone instinctively looked at the wall, and it seemed... there was nothing wrong?

Carroll thought Liz might be too nervous and was about to tell her not to be so suspicious when her gaze suddenly froze.

The once solid and hard wall now seemed to have transformed into a pool of water, rippling in layers. A man dressed in a black robe suddenly emerged from the wall and appeared abruptly in their sight, standing in front of them.

shhhhh--

Such a bizarre appearance caused the police to instinctively raise their guns and aim at Su, who was wearing a Kakuzu vest.

Yes, this time it wasn't a shadow clone, but the real person.

Although he was enjoying his time with Amber, he could see her anytime, so he didn't want his shadow clone to show up in the current situation.

"You're Kakuzu, the Akatsuki ninja?" Liz asked cautiously and nervously, without holding a gun, to confirm the other person's identity.

She knew very well that guns might not be effective against ninjas, especially in direct confrontation.

"it's me."

"You're here to rescue Damon?" Liz asked a pointless question.

However, Su shook her head and denied it: "No, I'm here to make a deal with you."

transaction?