Who are you calling a stable boy?!

[Poor Tom (Asia)]: Wow! Brother Bear, are you serious? Could you lend me a hand too? I want to be financially free right now!

[White Bear (Europe)]: Yes, there is plenty of gold, and the price will remain the same.

[Damn Bracelet (Asia)]: Ugh! Help! Help! Someone save me!

[Poor Tom (Asia)]: What, you've completely changed?

[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Europe)]: Mr. Bracelet, don't panic, what's wrong?

【Damn Bracelet (Asia)】: I'm fucking in Bleach VS Naruto!

【Polar Bear (Europe)】: What does that mean?

【Damn Bracelet (Asia)】: It means I fucking saw Aizen in the Naruto world!!

[Like a handsome guy falling from the sky]: ?

[Like a handsome guy falling from the sky]: Let me explain.

Chapter 247: Axis and Alliance

Bi Dong really didn't know whether his luck was good or bad.

After graduating with his bachelor's degree, due to the nature of his major, he felt he no longer wanted to endure the torment of various exams, so he simply took the campus recruitment route and worked for a large online media company.

He thought that working overtime until 9 p.m. every day would continue until he was laid off in middle age, but unexpectedly, a serendipitous encounter came his way before he was laid off.

Having become a player in the courtyard and happily acquired a new stat panel, Bi Dong, after much deliberation, resigned from his job, which he had only recently settled into.

He had already tried the method of making money by using courtyard coins to buy ordinary bone gold in the trading group.

Of course, he was very careful, selling the gold in batches at multiple gold shops, and he didn't dare to sell too many in total. The day after he sold them all, he bought a high-speed train ticket and embarked on his journey back to his hometown, Wuxiang City.

Knowing that their son had returned, Bi Dong's parents didn't ask many questions, assuming that their son had encountered setbacks outside and was returning to rest for a while.

Bi Dong didn't reveal much. He asked his parents for the keys to their old house in the countryside and then set off again.

He had thought it through carefully.

As a player, you will need to travel to different planes from time to time, and the flow of time between planes is often different. As a result, if you want to avoid causing trouble, your old house in the countryside becomes the best choice for settling down.

After graduating, Bi Dong worked frugally and saved up some money. With the money he made selling gold back in his hometown, he now had about 100,000 yuan in savings. He was finally able to devote all his energy to his gaming career for the time being.

As the last player to join the trading group, he is now in the second material plane he has set foot on.

Seven days have passed since Bi Dong arrived in this material plane. During this time, he has discovered that he seems to know something about this material plane.

The ninja world, the five great nations, chakra, tailed beasts...

As his understanding of this material plane increased, familiar words began to enter Bi Dong's ears.

Just as Bi Dong was getting more and more excited and began to think about how to make good use of his [precognition] advantage to develop in this material plane, a name appeared that made his brain instantly shut down.

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【Damn Bracelet (Asia)】: Hey bro, have you seen Bleach? Do you need me to give you a brief explanation?

[Like a handsome guy falling from the sky]: I've seen it, just tell me the situation.

[Damn Bracelet (Asia)]: Okay, but I've only heard about it so far, after all, you see, I'm just a newbie...

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After organizing his thoughts, Bi Dong shared the information he knew with the mysterious high-level administrator.

The situation in the ninja world today is very delicate.

First, led by Ashina Uzumaki, the current ruler of the Land of Whirlpools, the Land of Fire and the Land of Water officially signed an alliance treaty. Konoha and Kirigakure also publicly declared their commitment to working together from now on.

The alliance was formed by the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and the Fifth Mizukage, Mei Terumi.

Furthermore, the three allied nations called on other countries to join them in working together to shape a new peaceful world order.

Major powers like the Wind, Earth, and Thunder naturally wouldn't buy it, but many small countries like the Country of Fields, which borders the territories of the Fire and Water nations, have now joined the alliance.

In order to fight against the alliance, the three kingdoms of Wind, Earth, and Thunder had no choice but to stand on the same side.

As if in response to the alliance's slogan, the three kingdoms of Wind, Earth, and Lightning claimed to be the axis of maintaining order in the ninja world, while the alliance was the ambitious group that could cause chaos in the ninja world.

With both sides sticking to their own versions of events, it's impossible to resolve the issue through negotiation at this stage.

However, not long after World War III, even the five great powers were still recuperating, so none of them wanted to have a real fight in the open.

Since that's the case, we'll have to do something behind the scenes.

As a result, bounty hunters have had another opportunity to become active.

Because of this, many players who had made a fortune here during World War III and left after the war somehow got wind of it and returned.

The players' communities, both large and small, quickly took root again in the ninja world.

As a fellow player and a newcomer to using projectors, Bi Dong is quite popular among most player circles.

It's not that the average quality of the players is really that high, or that everyone is so kind to young people. It's simply because new players who use the projector are practically invincible in a sense. Even if there's really no place where they can use it, no experienced veteran player would deliberately make things difficult for such a new player.

In addition, Bi Dong is a sociable person, which is how he learned a bombshell from some veteran players he knew.

Legend has it that above the Allied nations, there exists an absolute ruler.

That was a mysterious organization called Qitianfu.

Bi Dong had never heard of Qitian Mansion.

But he had heard of the name of the ruler of Qitian Prefecture in legend.

Aizen Sousuke.

—He! Mom! Of! Blue! Dyed! So! Right! Sumire!

No, where did I get this?

Is he still the Hokage?

—It's really hard for Bi Dong to make players who obviously don't know how sinister Aizen Sousuke is empathize with him when they first heard that name.

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【Damn Bracelet (Asia)】: To be honest, I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence of names, because I haven't seen the person in person. But as the saying goes, better safe than sorry, what do you think, bro?

[Like a handsome guy falling from the sky]: I think the old saying is true.

[Damn Bracelet (Asia)]: Right! I'm thinking that the gods fighting is none of my business, so I might as well take advantage of the projector while I still can and see if I can find some junk to eat...

[Like a handsome guy falling from the sky]: It sounds like most players are now working for that Axis Three Kingdoms?

[Damn Bracelet (Asia)]: After all, the three kingdoms of Wind, Thunder, and Earth do hire bounty hunters more often, unlike the alliance which often sends its own people directly. I heard from other players that there seem to be several very powerful figures involved, and quite a few players who were paid to assassinate the ruler of the Whirlpool Kingdom have died on their missions.

[Like a handsome guy falling from the sky]: What about you?

[Damn Bracelet (Asia)]: I'm just a level 3 newbie, how could I possibly get involved in such big things? Right now, I mostly just run trade routes using the panel space and the space ring I bought before, earning money to buy ninja tools and other small items. Occasionally, I can join a few veteran players who are willing to help me fight and gain some experience... By the way! You wouldn't believe it, when I was running trade routes for the alliance, guess who was managing the biggest trade caravan in Konoha? Hey! Uchiha! Who would have thought that those Uchiha lunatics would actually be doing business? But honestly, if they hadn't called themselves Uchiha, I wouldn't have recognized them at first. They were all either very refined or incredibly energetic; besides being good-looking, I really couldn't see anything about them that resembled Uchiha...

Chapter 248: I said I just want to resolve the conflict, are you deaf?

Angle returned from the Qitian Prefecture branch headquarters in the Land of Whirlpools, having just completed a mission.

"Are you the only one here?"

As he walked through the corridor, Kakuzu saw a red cat emerging from around the corner at the other end of the corridor and asked a question.

Orochimaru hasn't returned yet.

With a flick of its tail, the scorpion wrote a line of words on the writing board it carried on its back as a response.

Kakuzu raised an eyebrow.

"Does his little matter really need to take this long? Could he have been ambushed and killed by those players outside?"

This time, the scorpion didn't pick up a pen; it just flicked its tail, looking somewhat impatient.

Looking at him, Kakuzu squatted down, wanting to reach out and touch Sasori's head, but Sasori slapped his hand away.

"Ever since you figured out this backup, you've been using it every day. When you actually need to use the backup, you won't really be like a cat, completely unable to turn back, will you?"

Aizen learned a great deal about puppetry from Sasori, and Sasori also learned a great deal about the concept of the soul from Aizen.

The backup that Kakuzu mentioned is one of the results of Sasori's research, which combined knowledge of puppetry and soul techniques.

He successfully created a backup self-awareness and implanted it into the cat puppet that had never retired.

Normally, the main body of the scorpion stays in his own puppet workshop doing his own thing. Most of the communication is done by the backup consciousness in the cat puppet's body. After the cat puppet returns to the workshop, it synchronizes its memories with the main body.

Compared to Orochimaru, who occasionally goes out for walks, Sasori is the one who least likes to be in the light among the current members of the branch.

In response to Kakuzu's teasing, Sasori took a cat-like step, intending to walk close to the wall and pass by him.

"Where's our chief strategist? The same old story?"

Kakuzu reached out to grab Sasori's tail, but Sasori jumped up and dodged him.

[You know the answer already, so please, stop touching me like that.]

"That's called caring for your colleagues."

Kakuzu chuckled and stood up.

"I'm off. I still need to report the results to the Grand Strategist. I'll come find you for tea later."

The scorpion did not respond and silently continued forward.

Watching the kitten disappear around the corner at the other end of the corridor, Kakuzu turned his head and continued walking down the corridor.

Before long, he arrived outside Aizen's office.

But before Kakuzu could speak, the office door was pulled open from the inside.

"Hey hey hey! Little Duzi! Did you miss me, Old Zheng?"

"..."

Kakuzu was taken aback when he saw Zheng Jing open the door.

"Excuse me, Kakuzu, please come in and sit down for a while."

At that moment, Aizen's voice came from behind Zheng Jing.

Sitting in front of the black and white Go board, looking at Kakuzu who was standing dumbfounded at the door, Aizen adjusted his glasses and said with a gentle smile.

"Hey! Xiao Duzi must have something important to do. Important matters are important!"

As he spoke, Zheng Jing scooped up Kakuzu and brought him into the room, then casually pushed the chessboard aside.

“Very well, that’s perfect. I was just about to let you hear Kakuzu’s report.”

Aizen nodded.

And so, Zheng Jing and Aizen sat down side by side, with Kakuzu facing them.

"Let's get straight to the point, Kakuzu."

Aizen spoke.

Kakuzu shook his head: "Pain's conditions remain unchanged."

Aizen sent Kakuzu out this time to make contact with the Akatsuki organization.

Or rather, it was to recruit members of the Akatsuki organization.

This was actually Kakuzu's second time representing Qitianfu to recruit members of the Akatsuki organization.

Payne made his conditions on his first visit.

The Akatsuki organization does not accept recruitment, but is willing to join an alliance.

If Akatsuki were to ultimately manage all the Tailed Beasts, Pain indicated he would step back and hand over the main management authority of the allied nations to Qitianfu.

Given these conditions, Kakuzu felt he couldn't accept them on his own, so he had no choice but to return to the Qitian Prefecture branch.

On this trip, Kakuzu conveyed Aizen's message.

Want to manage the Tailed Beasts? Of course you can.

As long as your Akatsuki organization can abide by the rules set by the Qitian Palace, just like the allied nations, then it's fine to entrust the management of the Tailed Beasts to your Akatsuki organization.

Pain—Nagato still did not accept this condition.

At first glance, they seem to be no different; both involve Akatsuki managing the tailed beasts.

But in reality, they are worlds apart.