Chapter 922

The negotiations between Sunagakure and Konoha were in full swing. Under Danzo's leadership, every condition of Konoha hit the vital points of Sunagakure.

These conditions were exactly at the point where Sunagakure could barely accept them but were extremely uncomfortable, which made the siblings Chiyo and Ebizo feel somewhat caught in a dilemma for a moment.

And just at this juncture, the connection between Chiyo and the Sunagakure village that had been cut off was finally restored.

Chiyo roughly wrote the situation she was facing into a letter and then sent it to the Third Kazekage, hoping to get the Third Kazekage's opinion and help.

But in the end, this letter sank into the sea without any news.

Chiyo suddenly became silent. She naturally understood what this meant.

The Third Kazekage's meaning was already very clear—solve the mess you made yourself.

Thus, Chiyo no longer held any fluke mentality, began to agree to Konoha's demands one by one, and completely acknowledged the fact of her defeat.

And just when Chiyo and Danzo on the front line were entangled, two completely different things happened at the same time.

One thing was that the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, used the excuse that the war had ended and there were other mission arrangements, secretly transferring Hatake Sakumo back to the village and entrusting all matters of the negotiation to Danzo.

The other thing was happening in Sunagakure, which was in the hinterland of the Land of Wind.

This was a golden village. Looking around, there were all sand-yellow circular buildings. I suppose this should be the unique architectural feature of this village.

And in the very center of this village, a huge circular building stood in the middle, with a huge "Wind" character inscribed on the building.

This was Sunagakure, and the name of this building in the center was exactly "Kazekage Building."

Inside the Kazekage Building, the long-vacant Kazekage office welcomed back its owner. The Third Kazekage hugged his arms, sat in the main seat of the room, and his face was very ugly.

This Third Kazekage, known as the "strongest Kazekage," looked somewhat haggard at this moment. The fair face that originally had enough capital to "eat soft rice" was now tanned somewhat dark by the scorching sun.

This was naturally normal; anyone who had been a "miner" sleeping in the open in the big desert for a month or so probably wouldn't be in a very good state.

In fact, it was precisely because he heard the news of Chiyo's defeat that our Third Kazekage was temporarily freed from the "mining business" and came to deal with this big event.

"Lord Kazekage, is it really unnecessary to provide some support to Elder Chiyo?"

At this moment, besides the Third Kazekage, there were several Sunagakure elders in the room.

These elders were all old-generation ninjas who had accompanied the First and Second Kazekage to fight the world. Although they did not hold power like elders with real power like Chiyo, they had high prestige and status in Sunagakure.

An elder tentatively asked the Third Kazekage, with a hesitant look in his eyes.

In fact, these elders were biased towards the Kazekage's faction in the village, otherwise, the Third Kazekage would not have summoned them at this juncture.

And for several elders, as members of Sunagakure, watching Chiyo's defeat seemed somewhat unjustifiable.

"Hmph!!"

"I thought about the friendship of being in the same village, but what about this old thing!"

"When she acted arbitrarily at the beginning, did she ever put me, this Kazekage, in her eyes?"

The Third Kazekage's resentment was evident, without any concealment, which also made several Sunagakure elders speechless.

Because they also knew that this was indeed a fact. Before the war started, the Third Kazekage only wanted to mine—oh no, he only wanted to develop and didn't want to make trouble.

But who expected Chiyo to force the palace and lead the war against Konoha with one hand.

Now that she was not a match for Konoha, she came to ask the Third Kazekage for help with a thick face. How could the Third Kazekage easily agree?

"What's more,"

"It's already too late."

"At the moment in the village, there is simply no manpower to go and mess around with Chiyo."

"You all know the profits of the iron sand trade. Now, who will bear the losses brought by drawing people to support Chiyo?"

The Third Kazekage did not avoid the fact that he was willing to be a miner, but instead asked several elders bluntly.

Upon hearing this, several Sunagakure elders fell silent again.

A little iron sand and minerals were just worthless things for Sunagakure, and they could have as much as they wanted.

And after being sold through Kirigakure's channels, they could exchange for a large amount of scarce materials and even money, which was simply too fragrant for Sunagakure, which was lacking in resources.

It was "fragrant" to the point that everyone in the village tacitly allowed this "strongest Kazekage" to "not do his proper job" every day and go to the big desert to be a miner.

With the continuous expansion of the Ninja World War, the sales of weapons in the Land of Iron continued to skyrocket, which led to a surge in the demand for raw materials. The Third Kazekage was almost too busy to touch the ground every day...

But at the same time, the benefits brought were also extremely considerable. Asking the Third Kazekage to give up this benefit to fill the hole created by Chiyo was simply out of the question.

"Alright, don't mention this matter again!"

"No matter what, I will not provide a single soldier for Chiyo!"

"Let her solve the trouble she caused herself."

The Third Kazekage waved his hand, directly concluding the matter, and then flicked his sleeves and left. Only several Sunagakure elders were left, looking at each other and finally sighing helplessly.

Yes, if they had known today, why would they have done it in the beginning? Chiyo's handling of this matter was indeed somewhat foolish.