Became the mastermind behind the Akatsuki organization

Chapter 55: The Lower Limit of Akatsuki
After meeting all his new subordinates and leaving orders for them to assemble the next morning, Bai Ye returned to his room with satisfaction and slept very peacefully on the 1.8-meter-high bed.

He gave the new department a name in his mind, the Akatsuki Anbu.

Compared to Bai Ye who was sleeping soundly, all the Akatsuki Anbu members who were cursed suffered from insomnia.

They don't know what they will encounter tomorrow, nor do they know if there will be a tomorrow. Since the emergence of ninjas, once the identity of a spy is exposed, the only outcome is betrayal and death.

They were prepared to die, but they couldn't help but feel nervous.

After worrying for a whole night, they came to yesterday's training ground. Each of them had panda eyes and their gazes fell on Bai Ye in the middle of the open space, their expressions full of uneasiness.

There is a red-haired figure standing next to Bai Ye. Judging from his attire, he should be a medical ninja?
This made them even more certain that Bai Ye was here to torture them. After all, torture would inevitably result in injuries, and the presence of medical ninjas could prolong the interrogation time.

Strangely, Bai Ye did not reveal their identities or kill them immediately.

He just pointed at the rain forest behind him and said to them: "See that mountain behind? Your task today is to deal with the trees on the mountain."

After hearing this, the members of Akatsuki's Anbu frowned, not understanding what Bai Ye was trying to do.
But last night, a curse had been left on their bodies, and they had no way to resist. They could only obey Bai Ye's orders and open up wasteland in the rainforest.

The experience of opening up new land is not pleasant. Even for ninjas, it is not easy to deal with the bushes and vines in the rainforest.

After all, ninjas have limited chakra. Once they lose the blessing of chakra, they are not much different from ordinary people. And doing the same work as ordinary people is a humiliation for ninjas.

However, under Bai Ye's pressure, they could only work hard.

He continued to open up a passage in the forest, and used ninjutsu to put the wood together and transport it to the Akatsuki base.

After working for a whole morning, the Akatsuki Anbu members finally heard the order to rest.

After returning to the temporary camp, they saw lunch on the table. There were vegetables and meat in the lunch, which was definitely a sumptuous meal.

The Akatsuki members next to them were even more enthusiastic in preparing meals for them, without looking down on them at all. Even the injured members among them could get help from Huali.

All these actions made them wonder and they looked puzzled.

What exactly did Bai Ye want to do? Didn't he expose their identities as spies? Or did he want to use this kind of tenderness to make them reveal the information?

Not only the Akatsuki Anbu showed doubtful looks, but also Yahiko and Nagato.

After Bai Ye revealed the identity of the new member yesterday, although they said that they would leave it to Bai Ye to deal with, they were still concerned about the follow-up handling methods.

But after observing for a whole morning, they were a little confused.

Didn't Bai Ye say that most of these people were spies? Why didn't they interrogate the spies and just take them to open up wasteland in the back mountains of the Akatsuki organization?
Is this some new method of torture? It doesn't look like it.

After a moment of silence, Yahiko asked Nagato, "Nagato, Bai Ye is one of your people. Do you know what he wants to do?"

Nagato shook his head at first, then said firmly:

"They may be squeezed to death. In the absence of food and drinking water, they won't survive for long with this intensity of work."

Yahiko was about to nod, but then he saw the food in the camp and asked, "Do you think the food is bad? It's better than what we had a few months ago."

Nagato was silent. He had not read much and did not know what was going on. At this time, Bai Ye, who had already discovered the existence of Yahiko and Nagato, came over. He patted Yahiko on the shoulder and said:
"Yahiko, didn't you say to leave it to me? Why are you here?"

"I came here because I was a little worried, but the way you handled it was a little beyond my expectations. I thought you would just..."

Yahiko hesitated to speak, but his meaning was very clear.

Bai Ye glanced at Yahiko and snorted coldly: "Senior Yahiko, you'd better not believe those rumors. I am not a person who kills casually, even these foreign spies."

"As the leader, you should still remember the ideals of the Akatsuki organization."

"We are an organization dedicated to mutual understanding between people. Our ideal is to create a world without disputes and united as one."

"So even though they are spies, I am willing to give them a chance to communicate. After all, hatred will continue, and only cooperation can lead to a win-win situation. It is because I convinced them that they are willing to work for the Akatsuki organization, and they don't even ask for compensation."

"Yahiko-senpai, when did you forget all this?"

Bai Ye’s words sounded reasonable, and they were all things he had said before.

But Yahiko always felt that something was wrong. He advocated peaceful exchanges, but these were spies sent by major forces. Would they be so easy to convince?

Something must have gone wrong.

Yahiko pondered and focused on the communication phase. He tried to convince others by promoting the benefits of cooperation and the possible consequences of non-cooperation.

Bai Ye would not use force. He would beat them until they submit.

Then use some secret techniques to control the ninjas.

Thinking of this, Yahiko looked at Bai Ye with a strange look, not knowing what to say.

He thought Bai Ye had killed all these people, but Bai Ye did not. Instead, he used the ideas of the Akatsuki organization to "influence" these people. This completely exceeded his psychological expectations.

But if we ignore it, will Bai Ye go around convincing people with reason in the future?

After choosing his words, Yahiko was about to say something, but found that Bai Ye had already left, leaving him no chance to speak.

After sighing in his heart, Yahiko looked at Nagato who was standing beside him: "Nagato, what do you think of Bai Ye's approach?"

Nagato thought for a moment, then nodded:
"I think Bai Ye did a great job. He practiced the concepts that you mentioned, Yahiko, and he really didn't kill anyone this time."

Hearing this, Yahiko felt a chill in his heart. Even Nagato had been led astray by Byakuya.

However, after seeing Bai Ye getting along well with the new members, Yahiko kept his words to himself.

There is nothing wrong with using these methods against spies, but they cannot be used against official members.

If Akatsuki uses Byakuya's method to control its subordinates, Akatsuki will be inferior to even the five major ninja villages. It seems that we still have to find an opportunity to talk to Byakuya.

(End of this chapter)