Tsunade, you're really drunk!

(The previous chapter has been rewritten into a 4000-word chapter, and the easter egg has been deleted, so remember to reread it)

It took Qianye about a week to leave Konoha Village and arrive at the territory of Wind Country.

Because Qianye is not just trying to hurry on his way.

During this time, he also stopped in several towns in the Fire Nation.

I made a special effort to understand the living conditions of the local villagers and to inquire about various local information.

Along the way, he even saw quite a few merchants from the Land of Fire, all pulling supplies on horse-drawn carriages and heading towards Konoha.

After talking with them, there was even a caring old man who thought Qianye was a wandering ninja and wanted to hire Qianye as a bodyguard and go with them to Konoha Village to catch this wave of business.

But Qianye declined one by one.

After all, he just wanted to find out whether the contract signed between Konoha and Kirigakure would promote the economies of the two countries.

It seems that there are still many smart people among the people. After all, it only took half a month to announce the signing of the contract, but some businessmen with keen intuition have already smelled the opportunity to make money.

According to Konoha's plan, soliciting external investment and announcing the opening of trade routes should have been done in half a month.

The first half of the month was used for Konoha Village to be the first to occupy the market in Kirigakure.

But those experienced businessmen among the common people did teach Qian Ye a lesson.

This made Qianye couldn't help but sigh.

No matter where they are, working people have their own wisdom...

This was also Qianye's first time to directly investigate the lives of civilians in the ninja world.

Although the lives of civilians in the Fire Nation were relatively hard, they still lived a pretty good life and had enough food at home.

But as Qianye moved forward, dark clouds in the sky began to appear little by little until they were completely submerged and covered.

Qianye looked up at the gloomy sky. Raindrops kept falling from the sky and dripping on his body.

"Have we reached the Land of Rain?"

The Mangekyō Sharingan appeared in the eye sockets at this moment, looking at the large and small raindrops in the sky.

Each of these drops and raindrops carries a faint trace of chakra.

This kind of chakra is extremely weak. Even an ordinary three-magatama Sharingan may not be able to detect any clues in the rain.

"Word Spirit - Hidden."

Qianye decisively chose to use the Spirit of Words to block out the aura on his body.

Far away in the Hidden Rain Village, in the tall iron tower in the center, the back of the tower was filled with iron pipes. Nagato, who was in the instrument, suddenly opened his eyes.

Konan, who was standing behind him, immediately noticed Nagato's movements. Looking at Nagato's skinny body and his somewhat scary face, he couldn't help but become worried.

"Nagato, what happened?"

Nagato pulled his right hand out of the instrument, a hesitant look on his face.

"Just now, with my Rain Tiger Freedom Technique, I seemed to vaguely sense a powerful chakra appearing in the west of the Rain Country."

"It's right on the border of the Rain Country."

"That's where my perception is weakest. I'm a little unsure."

"I'll increase my chakra and sense it again."

Nagato formed a seal with one hand, and the chakra in his body flowed along the instrument under him and was now spreading to the iron pillar behind him.

Chakra rushed to the sky.

At this moment, Qianye looked up and immediately discovered that the sky was suddenly filled with dense dark clouds, and the rain also suddenly became heavier at this moment.

"Oh? It seems that his Samsara Eye has gained some perception?"

"If it was Uchiha Madara himself, he might be able to see through my concealment."

"But you...are just a pawn, and you want to spy on me?"

"ridiculous……"

Qianye spoke in a low voice, then lowered his head and ignored the strange phenomenon in the sky, continuing to move deeper into the interior of the Rain Country.

At this moment, after performing the large-scale Rain Tiger Freedom Technique, Nagato couldn't help but start breathing heavily with a frown.

"No, why can't I sense it?"

"It's impossible for me to be wrong. How could I..."

"How is it possible that someone could escape the perception of my Samsara Eye?"

At this moment, Konan heard Nagato's words and suddenly noticed the last sentence in Nagato's words.

"Avoiding perception?"

For a moment, a secret that had been buried deep in her heart for many years was finally touched again. The originally dusty door in her heart was touched again, and the dust on it slowly fell off.

Her sixth sense as a woman told her that this person might be "him"!

"Nagato, let me go and check it out."

Densely packed paper cranes immediately gathered behind Xiaonan, weaving into two white paper feathers.

Fly directly outside.

"Konan, I don't have enough chakra right now, so I can't let Six Paths Pain go with you."

"You must be more careful!"

Konan just turned around and smiled faintly, and that momentary smile made Nagato a little distracted at the moment.

"It's okay, even if I really encounter a powerful enemy."

“No one can keep me here…”

Then the paper wings on its body flapped violently, and it instantly increased its speed and flew towards the border of the Rain Country.

At this moment, Nagato stared blankly at Konan's departing figure, muttering softly.

"I've never seen Xiaonan smile like this before..."

Then he looked down at his palms, smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Alas, after all, you have to stay with someone like me in the dark all day long."

"It's normal to want to go out for some fresh air."

With these words, Nagato tried to deceive the anxiety deep in his heart.

At this moment, Xiaonan recalled the figure of that person in his mind.

Even though she had never seen his face, she had never forgotten it over the years.

The memory she cherished most began to resurface in her mind.

"Don't eat food given by others without permission. Use a silver needle to test for poison first."

"When you are alone in the future, no matter who you meet, you must learn to hide your inner feelings."

"You must be on guard against others. No matter who you are, you must be on guard against me, too~"

"No matter what time it is, you must ensure that escaping and hiding are your most important means. After all, you only have one life..."

At this moment, Konan was trying his best to rush towards the border of the Hidden Rain Village.

"faster……"

"Faster..."

"Is it you... Masked brother..."

"Don't leave me alone again..."

But at this moment Qianye had already left there.

After a long time, when Xiaonan arrived at that place, all traces had been washed away by the rain.

She stared around blankly. For some unknown reason, she felt a sudden emptiness in her heart. More than 20 years of waiting, grievances and heavy longing for Zhen completely burst out at this moment.

He knelt down in the pouring rain, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably.

The figure wearing the half-fox mask still hasn't appeared...