[Hokage] Terukawa

My need for the intelligence network is actually not urgent, but this area is after all a buffer area between the three major powers of fire, earth and wind. The real road encounters and chats are considered treasures of information. There's nothing wrong with that either.

Set up a stronghold in Xingshou City. If the cooperation goes well, everything will be fine. If it doesn't go well...be my knife pointing at their hearts.

On the other hand, although my information needs are not urgent, I also want to remove a stone pressing on my chest as soon as possible.

That weird creature wandering around the border, the one that killed all of my Anbu companions..."dough".

The weirdness of "dough" is indescribable. If I don't get rid of it, I can't feel at ease for a day. However, after careful calculation, the living people who have seen it and remembered it are only me, Kakashi and so far. The three Nohara Lin who are still lying in the hospital, as for my team members who survived the Three Tails incident... they didn't even know what happened after they woke up.

Don't know how you were attacked; don't know how you lost consciousness; don't know how you didn't die; don't know how you survived.There is no valuable information.

If this happened to only one person, "paralysis" could be the explanation, but when this happened to several surviving Anbu ninjas, the nature of the matter changed.

——Dough's method of killing is unusual.

It's a pity that our condition was too bad at that time, and we couldn't bring the dead team members back to Konoha for autopsy.

Four comatose Anbu, a Nohara Rin whose hands and feet were broken by me, a seriously injured me, and a Kakashi who was forced to use my broken knife to clear the way.

If it weren't for Kakashi who brought the rags that I cleaned my hand wound with, the sacrifices of those team members would be meaningless.

Going back to Konoha this time... Orochimaru's research on those white slurries has probably achieved preliminary results.

I have a vague hunch.

I've probably gotten the best seats in a big show.

...I hope Minato and Kushina will not be affected.

I dissipated the illusion that had been cast on the door of the guest room, and took the key from the lintel.A day passed, and the brass key was still clean and bright.

One day... From arriving in the country of rivers to solving the chaos in the mountains, only one day has passed.

Too tired.

The door opened, and everything inside was the same as when I left. The overall space is not big, but it is tidy and clean. The ambient lighting is not good, but it is warm and dry.

I was so focused on my journey that I didn't notice it, but now that I entered such a stable and peaceful small room, the feeling of sleepiness unifies my body in a very short time.

Simply set the illusion, close the doors and windows, take a shower... forget it.

I stretched my eyelids, took a few minutes to arrange everything, and then climbed straight into the bed and slept on it until the sky was dark.

During the period, there seemed to be another storm outside the window, which made the window lattices rattle.Snowfall is no better than rainfall. There will not be the sound of pouring rain falling into the ears with the dream, but frost will fall all over the ground, trees, and everything. Even in the darkest night, there will be reflections on the curtains. Ying light.

I stood quietly in the impure darkness, with a moist, warm, and extremely nostalgic breath lingering at the tip of my nose.The snow outside the window was still falling, following the thin light, I turned my eyes, turned my neck, and in the shadow beside the desk, I found a little child hiding there with his knees hugged, with the same gray-blue eyes as mine Twinkle and twinkle, calm and gentle, like a dark sky with snow falling.

Am I getting smaller?I have no idea.

My steps were very light, almost tiptoeing to the side of the child, imitating his posture, hugging my knees and squeezing beside him.

Am I afraid of footsteps waking up who?It's the righteous man and Zhizi—the parents who never even came to my dream.

The child beside him turned his head, his fluffy curly hair drew a gentle arc, and his light gray-blue eyes were almost shining.

I hesitated for a while, and reached out to gently stroke his hair, so the child blinked meekly, and the hands that had hugged his knees grabbed my palms and wrists, and put his little face against mine. palm.

My eyes didn't blink, my palms didn't move.The touch from the palm was real and warm, so I also looked into his eyes—still calm and gentle.

Exactly the same as my brother in memory.

It's just looking at each other... It's just looking at each other.

My eyes became hot and tears fell.

I opened my eyes, and the tears were still dry.The darkness in the room is not pure, the snow outside the window reflects the thin light of the sky.

My eyes stayed on the dark corner next to the desk for a few seconds, I turned over and got out of bed, and walked steadily to the bathroom.The electric light flickered a few times before it became brighter. I wiped away the tears on my face with clean water, then raised my face and looked at the face in the mirror carefully.

...Like, not like.

I felt a little lost, but also very subtly relieved.

Also, I... This body is almost 15 years old, how can it resemble a real child.

Brother, brother.

I'm already going to be two your age.

A handful of water splashed the image in the mirror to pieces, and I closed the bathroom door and window tightly.

Don't relax even for a moment.

Take a shower and go to work.

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When I set foot on the street again, I realized that the time now is indeed much earlier than I estimated.

It was about [-]:[-] and [-]:[-] in the morning, and it was the moment when everything was silent and silent, but it was a pity that the snow clouds were heavy and the stars and the moon could not be seen. If the snow kept falling, it would be difficult to judge the time.

In short, there is nothing wrong with getting familiar with the terrain as soon as possible, and there are various city defense fortifications...

In about three hours, I walked from the inner city to the outer city, and kept in mind many houses that seemed to have cellars or tunnels.

When it comes to familiarity with the situation in the city, the Yang team is only a lot more than me, and the current investigation is more for the convenience of my own follow-up actions.In their plan to seize the city, no one other than the castle tower should be alarmed until the plan is completed.Everything should be carried out in such a way that if you miss it, you can only wipe out all the people who know the truth, leaving only those who don't know and continue to work for them.

They know that I don't want to attack ordinary people who don't know anything, so in the agreement with Yang Yi, they asked them to get the castle tower by themselves, and I was only responsible for the initial internal response and the subsequent finishing logistics.

Another important reason is that Shimura Danzo never arranged cultural education for Genin under his command—no way, I just learned about it from Yang Yi—this caused even a smart person like Yang Yi to be illiterate, so ... Put other things aside first, let's make up lessons.

Theoretically speaking, Pharmacist No Naoyu can take on this important task, but on the one hand, she doesn't care about it, and on the other hand, intelligence-related work has already involved her a lot. With me as an "idler" by my side, She seemed to be "out of hand".

That being so...

In my vision, the first thing that should be properly prepared for them is the textbooks of Chinese literature—if possible, the textbooks of history should also be prepared.If the plan to seize the city is completed smoothly, then Chinese and history are the subjects that can help Yang Yi take over the government affairs in the city in the shortest possible time.

In addition, there should be some miscellaneous knowledge... But it is no longer a basic question, and Yang Yi can make up his own mind at that time.

As for the incidental issues such as seals, taxation, construction, and management... I really don't believe that none of the original team can be left.

I run across the snow between houses, light and fast like a real shadow.The surface of the snow touched by my feet was shallowly sunken, but it only took a few minutes for the heavy snow to cover everything about me.

I have already been to the city defense barracks and the castle tower. The former is not very popular, and there are only a few people lighting the night watch, which is in line with the current status of Xingshou City. As for the latter—to be honest, the scale is not small, just as I thought Luxurious and rich, but also as dull as I thought.Xingshou City occupies a large area, but it has built such a watchtower tower in the center, which is really unclear, but this kind of thing sounds very outrageous, if it is placed on a nobleman... it is normal.

I began to look at the bulletin board placed at the city gate.

The wooden fence looks old, and the old wood can’t be called rotten wood, but the cleaning and updating work of the layout is really worthy of a word of “garbage”.A lot of public notices that were posted in the year of the monkey, and are now rotten to the point of disrepute, are still on display. At a glance, you can see torn pieces of paper, dirty dirt, pungent mildew, and all kinds of advertisements It actually directly occupied most of the page.

But being unclean has its benefits—more, more comprehensive information for me to sift through.This level of darkness is not enough to disturb the ninja's eyes, at most it can only make the ink blots a little blurred, a little hazy... huh?

I blinked, and tentatively touched the fuzzy and yellowed handwriting on the top layer of the public notice paper—the fragile paper that had bubbled up due to moisture deformation was actually directly stuck to my fingertips that were in contact with it.

... Evil door.Even if the country of the river is wet, this level of damage cannot be achieved in a short period of time. I am afraid it will take... more than half a year?

In order not to really tear the piece of paper, I controlled my movements very carefully, put the piece of paper stuck on my finger back, and looked around the surrounding environment. Pick up a handful of crushed snow.

The crushed snow melted, and the cold snow water wet my palms. After a few seconds of silence, it gradually glowed with a faint blue light.

The snowy night has no stars and no moon, but at this moment, I hold a few drops of the moon flowing down from the sky.The faint light lit up my eyes—this time I finally saw clearly.

...a very, very badly weathered publicity paper.That is to say, the paper is good paper, but it is too torn, so torn that even the mildew spots are bigger than the ink characters.The overly humid climate has eroded it into a waste paste that will return to its original form when it is only stirred, combined with the sticky touch just now... 噫.

I rubbed my fingertips.

But that's even weirder, isn't it?

What I touched was the publicity paper that covered the top layer, in other words, the one that was posted most recently.The latest announcement has been blown and rained into this look...

How long has it been since the people in the castle tower released a new announcement?

Looking down, the release date of this announcement is... eight months ago.

No matter how loose the management of a city is, it will never fail to issue new announcements for eight consecutive months.

I read this announcement again from beginning to end.

Tax hike...?The increase is not small, combined with factors such as the size and location of Xingshou City, it is no wonder that the city is lifeless, and even the pedestrians walking on the road are sparse.

... always feels a little weird.

My eyes began to wander between several tentatively complete announcements.

Seal, no problem.

The logic of writing is completely carved out of the same mold.

Calligraphic style, somewhat illegible, but little difference from skeleton to skeleton.

The only weird thing is that if only the content of the announcement is considered, the previous content is relatively loose and conservative, which is in sharp contrast to the ugly food of the last large tax increase.

... Am I being too suspicious?I always feel that something is wrong—could it be that before Yang Yi and the others arrived, the castle tower in this city had been changed once?

——Such thoughts are too shocking for ordinary civilians and ninjas, but I don’t care about them, and I even faintly feel that my thoughts are clear, and even the question marks in my mind have dissipated a lot.

right?probably.

In order to have a "home", Yang Yi and others can take risks and plan to seize the city.

Why can't others?

As long as you get out of the blind spot of thinking of "inferior people", there is nothing wrong with it.