The previous incident in Konoha was witnessed by all the Ninja from other Villages who had come to Konoha.
The same was true for the villagers and Ninja of Konoha Village.
The commoners were fine, thinking it was just a light show, but the Ninja were the complete opposite.
The stronger the Ninja, the more they could appreciate the horror within.
The Hokage Building did not wait for people to guess and directly issued a statement.
Everything that had just happened was to display Konoha's newly developed combination Ninjutsu and defensive measures to the Ninja World.
Everything was an exercise, with 100% reliability.
As for what kind of Ninjutsu and defensive measures they were, it involved certain content not suitable for public disclosure, so no comment could be made.
All participants had their statements unified and signed confidentiality agreements.
The villagers of Konoha were naturally overjoyed, marveling at the Village's strength.
Although the Ninja felt something was amiss, they didn't dwell on it too much after hearing their superiors' answers.
Because most participants were actually bewildered; they were first urgently assembled, told there was an enemy invasion.
Then they went to fight zombies; as they fought, the zombies disappeared on their own, and they were informed that it was just an exercise to test the combat capabilities of the Ninja team.
Although it sounded strange, it also made a lot of sense, because there were no casualties!
A whole set of emergency-written reports detailed the participating parties in this exercise, the forces invested, and the final results.
The extremely detailed content and seemingly rigorous data inspired great trust.
No matter what the truth was, everyone in Konoha believed it.
People who lacked independent judgment and were easily influenced by authority, whether commoners or Ninja, believed it without hesitation and were proud of the Village's strength and execution.
And among the Konoha Ninja, the many smart ones who knew things were definitely not that simple, believed the official statement even more.
How could smart people go against the Village? No matter what you think, I unconditionally believe the Village!
Other Ninja Villages were mostly shocked.
The Ninja trusted by their respective Village leaders to lead teams to Konoha, perhaps had a few not-so-smart individuals in their groups.
But all the leaders, without exception, were not to be underestimated in terms of both strength and intelligence.
Err, Amegakure was an exception, after all, the situation was special.
The scene that unfolded in Konoha this morning was, in all likelihood, Konoha being attacked!
Otherwise, Konoha wouldn't be so tense, surrounding them three layers deep, inside and out.
The leaders of the various Ninja Villages who came to Konoha, putting intelligence aside, were all quite steady in character, including Amegakure.
They weren't very nervous after being surrounded by Konoha Ninja, as they were all standing outside and hadn't entered the restricted area.
When something like this happened, the leaders of each Village wouldn't leisurely sit in their courtyards drinking tea; they all came out of their residences.
They gathered in an open space or plaza in the residential area.
Everyone looked at each other, speculating which Village's brave warrior chose to act at this time!
No one spoke first; they only probed each other with their eyes, trying to find a weakness.
The smarter ones had already launched an offensive, silently battling through expressions and glances.
For example, the confrontation between Dodai and Kitsuchi.
"It was you Iwagakure who did it, wasn't it? As expected, you're the most shameless in the Ninja World!"
"No, don't talk nonsense!"
"Confirmed, it was you Iwagakure who did it!"
"********!"
The silent confrontation, relying solely on expressions and glances, came to an end, Dodai said to the Ninja beside him.
"Help me submit a request to meet the Fifth Hokage of Konoha; I have important information to report!"
It wasn't just the Great Nation Ninja Villages framing each other; the Small Nation Ninja Villages were also slandering each other.
In the Ninja World, who doesn't have an enemy or someone they dislike?
Unlike everyone's initial schadenfreude at the thought of Konoha suffering, since the matter was now over and Konoha was fine, they decided to find ways to annoy others.
As for Konoha's official statement, not a single person present believed it!
The defensive barrier must have been set up by Konoha, but the attacking Ninjutsu was most likely created by some very brave Village present.
Who did it wasn't important; since I'm sure my own Village didn't do it, then I have nothing to fear!
Then Yuuki received a large number of meeting requests.
After meeting a few people and witnessing a few scenes of 'you frame me, I frame you,' Yuuki rejected all subsequent applications.
A bunch of idle people!
Immediately, Yuuki issued another announcement in the name of the Hokage, emphasizing that this was merely a Konoha offensive and defensive exercise, urging the teams from various Villages not to suspect nonexistent things among themselves.
Seeing Konoha's shameless act for the sake of face, everyone quieted down.
Well, they should focus on how to write tonight's report.
Yuuki didn't care about external speculation; as long as the Konoha Ninja believed it, that was enough.
Fortunately, at the time of the incident, these foreign Ninja were kept under watch; they could only see the scene above Konoha from their residences and knew nothing of what happened outside the Village.
Otherwise, if a certain Ninja Village had known the truth, that the instigator of the attack on Konoha was a Land of Fire Ninja, it would have been a truly great humiliation.
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