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Chapter 282 A good subordinate must be able to read the emperor's mind.

After that, the meat strip changed hands many times.

It passed through caravans and tourists, newspaper vendors, and was finally delivered to Ichiro Kurohata.

Kurosaki Ichiro lived up to expectations, and after obtaining the items, he returned to the border of the Dragon Kingdom overnight.

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The Land of Waterfalls, a border dungeon.

When Kurosaki Ichiro entered the underground palace, Aburame Shisei was feeding the wriggling experimental subjects in transparent containers with a special nutrient solution.

"My lord." Kurosaki Ichiro knelt on one knee, presenting a sealed scroll with both hands. "This is what you requested."

Aburame Shisei put down the dropper in her hand, turned to look at him, and said, "What I want? I don't think I gave any orders."

He looked at the scroll, his eyes filled with surprise. "What's in here?"

Kurosaki Ichiro replied respectfully, "It is part of Kato Dan's remains, which we believe you may need."

Yu Nuzhi raised an eyebrow slightly.

He took the scroll, unsealed it, and inside was a small piece of internal organ tissue preserved with a special solution. It was dark red in color and had cut marks on the edges.

However, from this one path alone, it was impossible to tell whose body tissue it was, but as soon as he touched it, he knew it was human.

"How did you obtain Kato Dan's body tissue?"

Aburame Shisei asked calmly, but Kurosaki Ichiro could still detect the caution in his voice.

"In fact, during the years when he was doing business in Konoha, Mr. Ryuji Ida secretly supported a group of promising children under the guise of sponsoring impoverished students."

Kurosaki Ichiro lowered his head, his voice very low, as if he were begging Aburame Shisei to forgive them for taking matters into their own hands and cultivating dark forces.

"Some of them... later became ninjas. After a long period of contact, some of them were turned to the side."

Of course, we maintained single-line contact, occasionally obtaining intelligence that didn't involve core secrets. This part of the organization was obtained through an informant working in the logistics department.

Aburame Shisei remained silent for a few seconds. He really hadn't expected that Ida Ryuji's seemingly low-performing distributor team, which appeared to only know how to make money, was actually playing a spy game behind the scenes.

Moreover, judging from Ichiro Kurosaki's account, he had been building his spy organization for at least five years, not just one or two years, and he continued to invest in it.

"How many spies like this do you have in the ninja world?"

"The exact figures... I don't know."

Kurosaki Ichiro shook his head: "Because Mr. Ida strictly follows your teachings: 'The whole world is under someone else's watchful eye.' So we use single-line communication, and each contact only knows their own downline and not the others."

This way, even if one link is exposed, the entire underground network will not be implicated.

To paraphrase Mr. Ida, "The more you do, the more mistakes you make; the less you do, the fewer mistakes you make. The less you know, the better you can protect yourself."

He paused, then added, "However, there are some people in the five great nations and within the five great ninja villages, but they are all peripheral figures who have no access to core secrets. Mr. Ida said that being in a high position makes it easier to be exposed, so it's better to be rooted in the grassroots and see more details."

"Ryuji Ida may lack skill, but his intellect is top-notch," Shisei Aburame said without blaming him, even offering a rare compliment.

After all, it was his subordinates who used their own money to do his work; he couldn't possibly let down his old ministers.

Kurosaki Ichiro smiled and said, "Mr. Ida often says that although we may not be able to help you in battle, we should at least be of value in other ways."

As for why they wanted to obtain these remains... they guessed that the adults might have a need for them.

Actually, it wasn't just Kato Dan; ever since that resurrected boy returned to the Touken Ranbu, Ryuji Ida's mind started to stir.

To be precise, he began to try to figure out his master's intentions.

The scene was like this.

Nanshi came to find him for drinks and inadvertently revealed that there was a boy in their group who had come back from the dead.

Ryuji Ida happened to be standing nearby, and upon hearing this, he immediately turned around: "You mean, Master, you resurrected a young boy?"

"That's right, but from what he said, the Lord resurrected him only to use him as an experiment."

"Wrong, completely wrong!" Ryuji Ida immediately denied him, saying, "My lord thinks ten steps ahead with every step he takes, and every action he takes is based on deep consideration. Therefore, although it may seem like he casually captured the boy, there must be a hidden meaning behind it."

At the time, Kurosaki Ichiro and Minami were speechless.

"Is that so? So what exactly does the Lord want us to do? Why not just say it outright?"

"Hey, there are some things you'll have to figure out!" Ryuji Ida's fat face was all smiles. If he had a fan in his hand, he probably would have started waving it right away.

"Don't worry, I understand what you mean, Master. Although the resurrected body isn't very powerful, it's still necessary to master some of the ninjutsu and secrets of the ninja world. Therefore, we plan to secretly collect some of the body tissues of some important figures in the ninja world for future use."

After saying that, Ryuji Ida's eyes lit up.

Because the hidden clues he had kept hidden for nearly ten years were finally going to come in handy.

However, the current results are not very good. The remains of other dead ninja masters have not yet been found, and the people they are currently training are all of very low quality. So far, they have only received the remains of Kato Dan.

Kurosaki Ichiro came here this time to confirm it.

At this moment, Kurosaki Ichiro repeated Ida Ryuji's words again, his tone filled with pride.

"A good subordinate should learn to consider things from the perspective of their superior. Every action you take, sir, must have a deeper meaning. As long as we act according to our own understanding, we can't go wrong."

After hearing this, Aburame Shicheng was at a loss for words.

He finally understood why some ancient emperors became incompetent in their later years: because they had no truly treacherous ministers around them.

They are all loyal and virtuous people who are well-versed in the classics and have strong execution capabilities.

These people will try their best to figure out what the superiors mean, take your unintentional remark as gospel, and then take full advantage of their initiative to do things to the extreme, even feeling that they have made a great contribution.

However... it's not necessarily a bad thing.

Now that you mention it, this thing does indeed have some use.

Aburame Shisei tucked the scroll into his sleeve. "Go down and tell Ida that the intelligence network can continue to develop, but it must be handled with extreme caution. It's better not to do it at all than to expose it."

"yes!"

After Kurosaki Ichiro left, Aburame Shisei went into the quiet room alone.

In fact, long after Kato Dan died, he began to consider obtaining a part of his body tissue to use for the Impure World Reincarnation technique. In this way, he could obtain the Spirit Transformation technique for free, and even some of Tsunade's techniques.

This is also why he rejected Orochimaru before. Why pay a price when you can get something for free?