Chapter 513

Hearing this female voice, Qing, who was in front of the cell, lowered his head and took a step back.

A figure stood at the entrance of the dungeon; the pitch-black dungeon made the sunlight appear exceptionally blinding, and one could only vaguely see the silhouette of the person at the door.

The brown long hair showed a fuzzy halo under the reflection of the sunlight, and from that full figure, one could roughly tell the woman's age.

Mei Terumi, a female ninja with powerful strength, mastered two Kekkei Genkai (Lava Release, Boil Release), and was a mature, dignified woman who would soon become the Fifth Mizukage and was currently a member of the peace faction.

At this time, the Hidden Mist Village was in chaos; the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, had just died not long ago, and Yagura Karatachi was not only the Mizukage but also the Three-Tails Jinchuriki.

Every major ninja village attached great importance to the existence of Jinchuriki, who were like "nuclear weapons," and the Jinchuriki of most ninja villages were under strict surveillance. The fact that Yagura Karatachi became Mizukage while being the Three-Tails Jinchuriki showed his ability.

Now that Yagura Karatachi was dead, the Three-Tails inside him was not, and it was in a state of being released back into nature.

The Hidden Mist Village lost the Three-Tails, which made the "war faction" even more dissatisfied, and coupled with Mei Terumi's peace advocacy, it led to the division of the Hidden Mist Village into two factions.

One faction was the "peace faction" led by Mei Terumi, which wanted the Hidden Mist Village to stop the internal strife, open up external communication channels, and trade with other major countries, otherwise, the Land of Water, located on an island in the sea, would be too poor.

The Land of Water had few resources and did not trade externally; it was an extremely bizarre country.

When the other four major countries were in chaos, it was in internal strife; when the four major countries were at peace, it was in internal strife; when the four major countries had conflicts again, it was also in internal strife, with an attitude of "you fight your fight, I'll fight my own, no one stop me, and whoever stops me, I'll fight them."

Even during the Third Shinobi World War, the Hidden Mist Village just occasionally went out to play a minor role, ambushing if there were benefits, and retreating if there were none. Its innate geographical advantage destined that other ninja villages would not actively attack it, and besides, its perennial internal strife led to the Hidden Mist's strong combat power, and most importantly, the Land of Water was very poor.

One might ask, who would be willing to attack a country that was both poor and militarily strong? The answer is no one.

The Land of Water usually had an attitude of "don't come and provoke me, I'm not easy to mess with, and I'm dirt poor."

For such a country, the impact of internal strife was imaginable; it was fine when the Mizukage was in power, but it was even more chaotic now that there was no Kage in power.

Besides the "peace faction" led by Mei Terumi, the Hidden Mist Village also had a "war faction," and these people's idea was also to stop the civil war and actively plunder other countries.

Both sides wanted to stop the civil war, but they could never agree on which side should hold sovereignty, and both sides refused to budge on the position of Mizukage, so the civil war could only continue.

Mei Terumi's side had top-tier combat power; she herself was very powerful, and she had subordinates like Qing and Chojuro to assist her.

The war faction had no leader; their original leader was the Fourth Mizukage, and the reputation of the "Bloody Mist" was created by them or their fathers' generation.

Although these people lacked top-tier martial power, they were numerous, accounting for 70% of the total ninjas in the Hidden Mist Village.

Now, Mei Terumi's predicament was that she had enough strength but not enough ninjas to support her, and the Daimyo of the Land of Water sat on the mountain watching the tigers fight, not intervening in the internal strife of the ninja village at all.

Mei Terumi could not kill all the people of the war faction; if she really did that, the Hidden Mist Village would be unprecedentedly weak.

So in this situation, a force like Su Xiao, who belonged neither to the Hidden Mist Village nor to other ninja villages, had utility value.

However, Su Xiao once had the "glorious record" of assassinating the Fourth Mizukage, so it was natural for Mei Terumi to be wary of him.

Su Xiao was also clear about this; if the two sides cooperated, it must be a relationship of mutual utilization. He needed to get rid of his current predicament as soon as possible, at least to leave the prison.

Mei Terumi walked into the dungeon, her brown long hair hanging down in two strands crossed in front of her chest.

"Nice to meet you, I am Mei Terumi."

Mei Terumi had only heard of Su Xiao, she had never met him.

"Bai Ye."

Su Xiao looked Mei Terumi up and down; if this woman were approached by him, the one to die would definitely be her. Her close-combat ability was not considered very strong, which could be seen from the original work.

If the distance were opened up, Mei Terumi could easily burn him to ashes.

At this time, Mei Terumi was about three meters away from Su Xiao; if he suddenly drew his sword, it was highly likely he could kill her on the spot.

Su Xiao certainly would not do this; even if he had the ability to kill her, he would not be able to leave alive.

"You guy..."

Qing suddenly blocked in front of Mei Terumi; he was a sensory type, and the look Su Xiao gave Mei Terumi made him perceive something wrong.

"Qing, no need to be nervous."

Mei Terumi signaled Qing to move aside.

"Lord Mei Terumi, he just now..."

"I perceived it."

Mei Terumi's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly; she knew how strong Su Xiao's close-combat power was, and the sword wounds on the Fourth Mizukage's corpse were the best evidence.

"Your purpose for assassinating the Fourth?"

Mei Terumi spoke.

"Purpose? Entrusted by someone."

Su Xiao had already thought of the reason for assassinating the Fourth Mizukage.

"Who entrusted you?"

"Not clear."

Su Xiao's answer made Mei Terumi somewhat dissatisfied.

"Since you won't say, then you can continue to stay here."

Mei Terumi turned to leave, and Su Xiao in the cell laughed.

"If you pay me benefits, I can also help you kill people."

Mei Terumi's footsteps paused, and she turned her head to look at Su Xiao with her peripheral vision.

"I don't need a killer, I need loyal subordinates. Forget it, I've been very busy lately, especially at night, having to work until very late every day."

After saying this, Mei Terumi and Qing left the dungeon, the dungeon door was closed, and it returned to darkness.

"Add more manpower, and draft two more sensory ninjas. Daye, Muhe, you don't need to guard here anymore, there are other tasks."

Qing's voice came from outside the dungeon.

"Why? The bastard inside assassinated Lord Fourth, we must guard here."

"Yes, we will never leave."

Arguments came from outside the dungeon.

"Under your guard, that guy killed all the prisoners. Don't be embarrassing anymore. Regarding prisoners, we have no faction distinction."

After a long time, it was quiet outside the dungeon.

Su Xiao sat in the cell; the negotiation seemed to have failed, but it had actually succeeded.

Around ten o'clock that night, Su Xiao in the darkness opened his eyes.

Zhan Long Shan appeared in his hand, and the blade light flickered.

Clang, clang.

Ding-ling, the broken iron rod fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.

Su Xiao walked out of the cell, Bubu Wang followed behind with a look of surprise, that look seemed to be saying: 'Master, is it really okay to go out like this?'

Outside, there were more than a dozen ninjas guarding, among them several sensory types.

Su Xiao walked to the dungeon entrance, and he pushed the dungeon door open directly; it was not locked at all.

Walking out of the dungeon, the bright white moonlight shone on the earth, and one could vaguely see the surrounding buildings; Su Xiao's location was at the side rear of the Hidden Mist Village.

More than a dozen ninjas stood on both sides of the prison entrance; these ninjas looked at their noses and their hearts, all becoming "blind people."

From Qing's words earlier, it could be heard that he had already transferred the people of the war faction away; at this time, those guarding the dungeon were all Mei Terumi's people, and combined with Mei Terumi's words, the other party's meaning could not be more obvious.

Su Xiao was not clear about where exactly to go, but someone would come to find him soon.