Chapter 238: Top Secret? Big News!

The Uchiha, that was a clan once ranked alongside the Senju Clan as the most powerful noble clan of the Warring States period, possessing a very high aptitude for Fire Release in their bloodline, accompanied by a powerful Bloodline Limit known as the 【Sharingan】.

Even after the disappearance of the Senju Clan, they remained a source of dread for the major Ninja Villages.

All Intelligence related to the Uchiha was worth its weight in gold; furthermore, this was a piece of Intelligence from within Konoha Village, claimed to be capable of shaking Konoha, and even inciting a terrifying war that would thoroughly destroy the Land of Fire.

The appearance of the word 【Uchiha】 in this Intelligence was shocking, yet it also gave one a sense of "as expected."

In the eyes of Reincarnators, the Uchiha Clan corresponded to a rather excellent Biological Colonization Armor like the 【Sharingan】, as well as the Indra Bloodline hidden within that clan, and even the bloodline of the Otsutsuki Clan, a race from the universe.

This was likewise a Sequence corresponding to a powerful future, something every Reincarnator who entered this world would scheme for.

This name seemed to possess Magic Power, causing Ayayi, whose will had been very resistant to Hypnosis and refused to decrypt, to rapidly lose mental resistance; he found it difficult to suppress his desire to decrypt this Intelligence.

Catherine's Spirit lifted; at this moment, she could no longer care about the fact that this action might lead to a decrease in Reputation with the Konoha faction. She keenly realized that perhaps standing on Tao Baibai's side could yield greater gains.

She quickly hypnotized Ayayi, who stumbled through the completion of the entire decryption work. Although there were errors and omissions in some parts of the content due to it being a cipher, the general meaning had already been interpreted.

Watching Ayayi write out the text after decryption, her pupils constricted and her heart began to thump. She had a premonition that perhaps this mission was not simple at all.

【The Uchiha Clan intends to rebel; Konoha is about to have a civil war.】

A mere two lines of text contained a great deal of information.

She could not spare the thought to consider anything else and handed the cipher to Tao Baibai, who was still teasing and mocking that Plot Character. Catherine discovered that Tao Baibai's mental state seemed somewhat abnormal; logically, most Reincarnators of this level would have a natural, arrogant attitude of looking down upon Plot Characters.

For example, like those few from the 【Four Demons】 before, they basically did not treat Plot Characters as "people" and could do anything.

But Tao Baibai seemed to be deliberately provoking the resentment in this Plot Character's heart.

Did that sort of thing have any meaning?

Because Bai Cangshu had not yet smelted the 【Thunder Emperor Heart】, he could not practice the 【Heart Net】 ability produced from the Enel Drop Card, but if he could read minds at this moment, he would certainly have explained it to Catherine with great interest.

He was also very curious about what meaning a thing like 【Heart】 actually had; this was the truth he had been exploring during this period.

Would a 【Heart】 like that of 【Kori】 and 【Cindy】 truly eventually brew the ultimate power like that of the 【Black King · Luffy】?

Bai Cangshu's eyes watched the decrypted text, but his finger pointed out.

Hum~

Golden Qi whistled violently, and the next moment, it shot out like a laser.

Pfft!

Catherine subconsciously let go, then saw that the Cloud Ninja Jonin had already lost his breath, with a hole the thickness of a finger in the position of his heart.

That was... Dodon Ray?!

Catherine lowered her head and stepped back two paces. In her judgment, Tao Baibai's danger coefficient had risen further: speed as swift as the wind, ghostly movements of Wind-Turning, defensive power that blades and swords could not injure, strength that could easily snap the limbs of an enemy at the Jonin level, plus what she had just seen—a high-grade energy projection ability capable of killing an enemy instantly.

Damn it, is Tao Baibai really going to become that kind of powerful Martial Artist from the Dragon Ball World?

Catherine weighed her own combat power with 【Luan】 at full strength and found that even if she used Mental Shock to seize the initiative, the win rate was extremely low. And as long as Luan's first set of attacks after transforming failed to kill Tao Baibai, the two of them would likely have one person killed instantly, and then the other would be caught up to and killed due to the speed gap.

Hoo~

Catherine exhaled a breath of turbid air and completely extinguished the thought of being an enemy of the other party. The only fortunate thing was that this world was a peaceful type of team-cooperation mission world; Reincarnators fighting each other would not produce scarlet drops. As such, presumably, Tao Baibai's desire to hunt the two of them would decrease significantly.

"It seems the current timeline is roughly the node before the Uchiha Clan has launched their rebellion."

Catherine began to recount her information and judgment, and Luan followed up with supplements.

"Hmm, combined with the content of Main Mission 1, if this Intelligence is leaked, it indeed has a not-insignificant possibility of causing the other Ninja Villages to start a war."

"What should we do, Mr. Tao Baibai? Shall we take this Intelligence back to Konoha first to trigger the next stage of the mission?"

"We can probably rely on the Reputation brought by this Intelligence to obtain the right to participate in the next stage of action. With our... no, with your strength, it is very likely we can harvest the Bloodline Item of the 【Sharingan】 and the 【Uchiha Clan】!"

Luan's tone was somewhat elevated; Tao Baibai's act of forcibly viewing the Intelligence had brought unexpected gains.

Bai Cangshu listened to the two's words, but his gaze still lingered, intentionally or otherwise, on the woman who had fallen into confusion because she heard a lot of content she could not understand at all.

He did not tell the two that his trial mission was fundamentally not the same as their Main Mission, and furthermore, he and Konoha were not necessarily on the same side.

The content of the first stage of Bai Cangshu's trial mission, 【Most Benevolent and Most Virtuous】, was 【Protect Ping Zhonghua for 7 days】; it did not mention how to handle this Intelligence.

That is to say, in the Space's judgment, even if Ping Zhonghua handed over this Intelligence, she would still be hunted down subsequently.

After losing this Intelligence, who would continue to hunt this woman down?

Bai Cangshu's lips curled; he already had a guess regarding the development of this world.

What remained was how to scheme for his own gains under this development.

Bai Cangshu did not speak, and Luan also gradually calmed down. He knew that regarding how to act specifically next, the initiative was not in his own hands at all, even though for the moment, it appeared that Tao Baibai was in a cooperative relationship with the two of them.

But standing in front of the other party, Luan understood that this was not a cooperative relationship at all; it was a relationship of complete domination. Because of fear, he and Catherine did not dare to oppose the other party's decision.

At this time, the eastern sky began to turn white, and Bai Cangshu suddenly had an idea.

He looked at the two with a playful expression, but opened his mouth to ask a seemingly unrelated question.

"Are you two a fixed team?"

Luan nodded, not understanding the meaning.

Bai Cangshu threw the original text of the Intelligence to him and then said:

"Then now, you can take this Intelligence back to Konoha to complete your Main Mission."

Luan showed a puzzled expression, but Catherine had already understood and smiled bitterly.

"So, I am to be left behind as a hostage, is that it?"

Bai Cangshu gently shook his finger, correcting the other party's phrasing.

"No, you are my collaborator, after all."

He looked at Luan again and continued:

"You only have... hmm, three days. Three days later, if you still haven't completed the mission, then I cannot guarantee what kind of end you will have, heh..."

Bai Cangshu's smile was cruel and dangerous; Catherine suddenly understood the other party's idea.

Tao Baibai wants to release that Intelligence and throw the Ninja World into chaos?!

(End of chapter)