[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-water-shadow-is-strong-but-excessively-caut":3,"chapter-this-water-shadow-is-strong-but-excessively-caut-this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-149":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","This Mizukage Is Strong, but Far Too Cautious",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2194460,3774,"Chapter 149","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-149",149,"\u003Cp>The gray sky was covered with thick clouds, and under the gloomy sky, the surrounding environment appeared so oppressive and dull.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Below the heavy clouds, countless pipes made of steel were spread throughout the town, and the cold color of the steel, matched with the oppressive clouds in the sky, made the whole town appear lifeless.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A drizzling rain fell from the sky without stopping, but the pedestrians in the rain were all accustomed to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They either wore black raincoats or carried large black umbrellas that could cover their whole bodies, walking quickly through the dark alleys of the town with their heads down.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A person in a hurry was moving quickly through the town; he seemed to be worried about something, and every time he walked a distance, he would look back at the situation behind him from time to time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Soon, after constantly changing paths, the man arrived in front of a small hut in an alley.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He took out a key to open the lock, then quickly stepped into the house, slammed the door shut, and then added three layers of insurance to the door from the inside, as if only this could make him feel a little more at ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Hoo...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After exhaling a breath, the man took off the raincoat that had been soaked by the rain and hung it on the coat rack inside the house.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Having been in the Land of Rain for ten years, the man had become accustomed to such a life.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His name was Kobayashi Shoji, and he was a ninja of the Hidden Rain Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the eyes of most Rain ninjas, Kobayashi Shoji was an extremely unsociable, rigid ninja who rarely interacted with others.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But only he himself knew that the purpose of him doing this was to hide his other identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now that the one-country-one-village system had already spread throughout the ninja world, the Hidden Rain Village was naturally the only official armed organization in the Land of Rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Due to the poor geographical location of the Land of Rain, the Hidden Rain Village had also been squeezed by the neighboring three major ninja villages all year round.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Proper missions didn't even get a turn for the Hidden Rain Village to take.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even the missions within the Land of Rain itself had long been carved up by the other three major ninja villages.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The living environment of the Rain ninjas couldn't be said to be bad; it could only be said to be extremely terrible.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Days of surviving in the cracks also led the Hidden Rain Village onto another path different from other ninja villages.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The so-called \"rely on the mountain to eat from the mountain, rely on the water to eat from the water.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although disasters were constant in the cracks, they also brought a glimmer of survival to the Rain ninjas.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The ninja world was surging with undercurrents, and there was constant friction between the three major countries; the darkness between the great powers was enough to make anyone feel suffocated.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Some dirty and filthy things that even the executioners within the great powers themselves were unwilling to do became opportunities for the Hidden Rain Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thus, the Rain ninjas gradually degenerated into an existence similar to \"mercenaries\" and \"assassin organizations.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Often there would be ninjas from the three major countries who would issue missions to the Rain ninjas to go and assassinate ninjas of enemy great powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Gradually, in the three major countries, the reputation of the Rain ninjas as \"high quality and low price\" and \"good work and not expensive\" gradually spread.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In these years when the ninja world was surging with undercurrents, the Rain ninjas also became a knife in the hands of the three major countries for their use.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because of this, most Rain ninjas also practiced extreme assassination skills, and the assassination methods of the Rain ninjas gradually became famous in the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whoever pays the highest price, I will kill whoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As long as the money is enough, I will even kill my own people for you to see!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was once the best description of the Hidden Rain Village for a period of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Until the appearance of a man, the Hidden Rain Village ushered in a turning point.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Seemingly recalling the figure of that man, Kobayashi Shoji's body trembled slightly, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The period when Kobayashi Shoji came to the Hidden Rain Village was just when the First Ninja World War had just ended and the pattern of the ninja world had just been initially determined.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>More than ten years passed in a flash, and Kobayashi Shoji also became a wielder of real power within the Hidden Rain Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although his power was not great, he was in an extremely critical position, and a large amount of intelligence passed through his hands every day, which also brought convenience to his other identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But now, the situation within the Hidden Rain Village made Kobayashi Shoji feel more and more ominous.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the same time, Kobayashi Shoji had felt a sense of being followed on several occasions on his way home.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His instincts were telling him that danger was slowly approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The atmosphere of crisis permeated the Land of Rain, coiled around Kobayashi Shoji's neck like a poisonous snake, making him unable to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But even so, some things still couldn't stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kobayashi Shoji began to write furiously, writing down all the situations he thought might appear in the Hidden Rain Village recently, as well as some intelligence that had already been confirmed, on paper that had been specially encrypted.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This kind of specially encrypted text could only be interpreted through specific ninjutsu and methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He rolled the letter paper containing the precious intelligence into a tube shape and stuffed it into a sealed container.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Subsequently, Kobayashi Shoji used the Summoning Technique to summon a lizard that was quite miniature in size and stuffed the container with the intelligence into the lizard's mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Immediately, the lizard crawled along the pipes in Kobayashi Shoji's house into the sewers of the Land of Rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That's right, Kobayashi Shoji was an undercover agent!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After passing on the intelligence, Kobayashi Shoji prepared to go out for a drink.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Recently, the atmosphere in the Hidden Rain Village had become increasingly oppressive, even so oppressive that he couldn't bear it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just as he opened the door, his breathing suddenly became rapid, and a hint of panic appeared in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Hoo...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Jonin Kobayashi, don't you plan to invite me in for a sit?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A green-haired man wearing a dark green ninja coat with a respirator full of tubes on his mouth appeared before Kobayashi Shoji's eyes. Beside the man were several Rain ninjas with extremely serious expressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the same time, in the green-haired man's arms, he was holding a lizard with an extremely miniature figure, and one of his hands was constantly stroking the lizard's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Almost instantly, Kobayashi Shoji recognized the man's identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Lord Hanzo.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kobayashi Shoji said with an ugly face and a trembling voice; he looked at the lizard held in Hanzo's arms, his eyes extremely stiff.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The green-haired man was none other than the current leader of the Hidden Rain Village, the man known as the hero of the Rain ninjas—Salamander Hanzo!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Things having reached this point, Kobayashi Shoji naturally understood what all this meant, but there was still a hint of luck in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Snap!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But next, as Salamander Hanzo's hand exerted a little force, dark green blood splattered everywhere, the miniature lizard's body was torn apart, revealing the intelligence in the lizard's belly, and Kobayashi Shoji was completely desperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A hint of determination flashed in Kobayashi Shoji's eyes; he understood the methods of the Rain ninjas, and even if he died, he couldn't fall into the hands of Salamander Hanzo.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kobayashi Shoji was just about to take poison to commit suicide, but found that his whole body, even his eyelids, couldn't move even a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The poison sac hidden in his teeth couldn't be used at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It turned out that he didn't know when his body had been poisoned with a nerve-paralyzing toxin!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Jonin Kobayashi, I think you will re-recognize the Rain ninjas next.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Take him away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Salamander Hanzo looked at Kobayashi Shoji with cold eyes, without any emotion in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Not only Kobayashi Shoji.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>On this night, countless spies lurking in the Hidden Rain Village were all captured by the Rain ninjas.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whether they were merchants, civilians, or ninjas within the Hidden Rain Village, all were captured.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This showed that the Rain ninjas had long been brewing this cleanup plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the highest point of the Hidden Rain Village, this was the device responsible for recycling and utilizing the rainwater of the Hidden Rain Village; its appearance looked like an iron tower gathered by countless steel pipes, and it was also the iconic building of the Rain ninjas.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The man with green hair overlooked this town invaded by rainwater, a hint of determination and resolution flashing in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He, Salamander Hanzo!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Was about to lead this country toward a brand new future!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hanzo pulled down the sickle on his back and swung it fiercely toward the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In an instant, the clouds in the sky were actually cut open by Hanzo with one slash! Revealing the clear sky behind the gloomy clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Konoha, Sand, Rock...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"No matter who it is, they cannot stop the rise of the Land of Rain!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Salamander Hanzo looked at the ray of bright sun in the sky, his eyes full of firm determination.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>·· Seeking flowers ·· ··\u003C\u002Fp>",1609,"2026-06-17T05:01:41.164Z","2026-06-17T09:00:23.248Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","068dd3b2833472c1423372e9cb10a057d53f0d9a92a76614d76180f056d1a3b8","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-150","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-148",533,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-cover.jpg"]