"Ranmaru."
"Um?"
"Tell me, why does the teacher look up at the sky when he is urinating? There is obviously nothing there? What on earth is he looking at? Or is there some other reason?"
Gui Deng Shuiyue has a doubt that he cannot ask Yiyong face to face.
They had been ashore for most of the day.
Although this was only Yiyong's second convenience, Gui Deng Shuiyue still saw some patterns.
After all, when a person urinates, his chin is twisted at a weird ninety-degree angle to the ground, so it is really difficult for others to not notice the clues. It was as if Jiyong was worried that something would fall from the sky and interfere with his release of body waste.
However, Gui Deng Shui Yue raised his head and looked hard. There was nothing in the air except thick fog.
"Ask me this..."
Ranmaru looked at the hazy figure in the trees six or seven meters away, with his back to them, his face tangled, "I don't know how to answer either."
After thinking for a while, Ranmaru thought of his past experience and added: "Maybe Giyuu is shy. When I first met Raiga, I needed his help when going to the toilet, and I also liked to look around. In this way, I would be a little more relaxed A little, otherwise you won’t be able to pee and you will feel very embarrassed.”
"It's very common for people to be unable to urinate when others are around. My eldest brother was like that before he mastered the art of hydration. I heard that every time he went to the bathroom when he was in school, he would knock other people in the bathroom out of the window. Throw it out until there is no one left. Later, because he encountered a tough situation, he started to practice sword skills hard, just to be able to go to the toilet safely."
Kito Suigetsu gently rubbed his chin with his fingers, not caring that he had exposed the childhood embarrassment of Kirigakure's genius.
"But I have never seen anyone who can't urinate, and the teacher doesn't seem to be the kind of person who cares about this. Do you think he has something to hide? However, it doesn't seem appropriate for such an age. Maybe?"
He boldly began to think.
"You can ask yourself."
Ranmaru saw that Giyuu's neck posture returned to normal and knew it was time to end the conversation.
"How is this possible?" Gui Deng Shuiyue spread his palms with a proud expression that said I was very well versed in the ways of the world.
"I haven't learned the most important sword skills yet. At this time, it would be too bad if I knew the teacher's unspeakable secrets."
"What's so bad?"
Yiyong's unwavering voice suddenly appeared in Gui Deng Shuiyue's ears.
The latter was frightened by the sudden movement.
He turned around and realized that in just a blink of an eye, the teacher appeared behind him out of thin air, eyes like black holes staring at him blankly.
The teacher is like this at night. Once he escapes into the shadows, he will disappear completely. He is as elusive as a real ghost, especially with that coffin board-like expression, it is really scary!
"Nothing, nothing!"
Facing Yiyong's suspicious gaze, Ghost Light Suigetsu scratched his head and brought the topic to Ranmaru again: "Hey, it shouldn't be far from the place that the big snake pointed out to us, right? How long do we have to go? "
"Lei Ya and I have been here before. About an hour's drive further north is the village where the Kirigakure Seven Ninja Swords were forged. The location is very secret. If Wan She is right, Orochimaru's base should be It's in the valley about ten kilometers northeast of that village."
"It's that village. I heard from my elder brother that almost everyone there once made a living by forging swords, and there were several world-famous sword forging masters. Legend has it that they were able to forge seven ninja swords because they secretly enshrined them. They possess a legendary Kusanagi sword and have been blessed by the gods. It’s just that the Kusanagi sword has been hidden by them, and no matter who asks them, they won’t reveal even a single word.”
Mentioning famous swords, Kiden Suigetsu was extremely excited, "Ranmaru, your eyes can see directly through the mountain. If we look more carefully, we might be able to find that sword. In that case, the teacher doesn't have to You fought with someone with that broken knife, otherwise it would look too cheap!"
"Huh? Is everyone a village of swordsmiths?"
Yiyong muttered, with a hint of nostalgia in his tone.
After the Demon Slayer Corps was disbanded, the swordsmiths responsible for creating the demon-slaying weapons were no longer hidden.
With the help of the Uyashiki family, a large number of swordsmiths flowed into big cities like Tokyo and Kyoto, making weapons for collection and decoration specifically for nobles, royal families and wealthy people, which looked flashy.
Although the lives of the swordsmiths have improved, the Nichirin sword forging technology they were proud of passed down from generation to generation is no longer in use, leaving many nostalgic swordsmiths depressed and drinking all day long. worry.
The steel mound where Tanjiro forged his sword became a frequent visitor to the police station because he often drank and caused trouble.
"It used to be like that. The whole village was obsessed with broken swords and couldn't help themselves. It was said that even a ten-year-old child could forge steel blanks independently, but I didn't know whether it was true or not. Unfortunately, after the Fourth Mizukage Gouju lost his position and came to power, All the best swordsmiths were executed. Since then, the swordsmith village has been unable to produce good swords, and its relationship with the Kirigakure ninja is not as close as it used to be, so they have to find other ways to make a living."
Ghost Light Shuiyue said regretfully: "Now let alone building a chakra weapon, I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to reconnect the Thunder Blade and Thunder Fang that was interrupted by you, teacher. Otherwise, I wouldn't..."
He wouldn't snatch Giyuu's sword in Yunin Village.
Wait, if they didn't snatch Yiyong's knife, they wouldn't know each other.
To put it this way, not only is there nothing wrong with losing the position of Wolfberry, it is even meritorious.
When Gui Deng Shuiyue thought of this, the resentment on his face disappeared a lot.
"That's right." Ranmaru added: "Being able to do some basic maintenance on the Ninja sword is the limit that the swordsmith village can do now. Most of the forging techniques were completely eliminated after the killing of those swordsmiths. Cut it off, otherwise the Seven would not have such a high status."
"Wait a minute. I know a lot about human beings, but why do I get confused the more I hear about them?"
On Suigetsu's shoulder, Kyuubi, who had been napping, opened his eyes and asked Giyuu the same puzzled question.
"How come from the rumors I heard, everything this Mizukage does sounds like it is weakening the power of this country? Why do Kirikage's ninjas support such a Kage? He is not a thousand people. With a character like the Tehashirama brothers, it should be easy for the ninjas of a ninja village to unite to resist him, right?"
Giyuu gave him a strange look.
[I always feel that Kyuubi is a bit resentful towards the first Hokage...]
"There was such an opportunity once. But although Gouji Shicang was a madman, he was a smart madman. He got to where he is today step by step. But by the time Wuyin Village understood this, it was already too late. ”
Kito Suigetsu shrugged, "The reason for cleaning up the swordsmiths at first was because the ANBU directly under Mizukage found evidence that they sold knife blueprints to Kumogakure. The war had just ended at that time, and it was time to recuperate. There was no need for new ninja swords. Everyone didn't care much about the life and death of the swordsmiths. In addition, the evidence was very sufficient, and most of the ninjas believed it to be true. Moreover, they had a deep hatred for Kumogakure, so they didn't think there was any problem in dealing with the swordsmith village. They just didn't expect that losing their positions would So thoroughly done.
"After dealing with the swordsmith, the problem of casualties caused by the awakening of civilians' blood succession boundaries occurred among the people in various places. The ANBU also produced evidence, saying that these villagers with blood succession boundaries were actually stimulated by spies, and it was necessary to clear them up in advance. But considering This can reduce the number of outstanding ninjas from the private sector, which fully meets the needs of the big family to ensure that they maintain their dominant position. They still sit back and do nothing.
"Then, those who acted as 'spies' became the higher-ups of the village, such as the previous generation's owner of the crossbreeds, the Watermelon Mountain Fugu Demon. After these people were executed, the senior Kirigakure who could restrain the big family became weak. It also caused various families to act recklessly with the connivance of Lost Cang, which caused the ordinary ninjas to become increasingly dissatisfied with them, and the conflicts between the families became more and more serious. My family was the first to suffer. When Lost Cang decided to charge the police with espionage, When the Ghost Lantern clan started, there was still no outsider to stop him. Instead, those people watched the show happily, not knowing that the same thing would soon happen to them.
"Until not long ago, all of Shi Cang's personal ANBU were replaced by his own people. The top management of Kirigakure gave up their power and lived in seclusion. The major families were scattered and scattered. No one could organize enough manpower to deal with him. Shi Cang. Kura can easily kill anyone in the village, but we can't even tell where he is. All of Mizukage's orders are conveyed through Mikaki Demon Hands, and each of these orders is outrageous, but they are all about letting people know. This country is accelerating its death. However, no one can even communicate with the lost positions, let alone dissuade them from admonition. Anyone who disobeys orders will die."
Having said this, Gui Deng Shui Yue looked up at the sky speechlessly.
"Frankly speaking, we don't know what Shicang wants for a long time. The motivation of consolidating power is not enough for him to reach this point today. The remaining people will either simply rebel like my eldest brother, or they will They lie dormant and endure silently, waiting for the wolfberry to lose its warehouse and reveal its flaws. There are also those ordinary ninjas who can do nothing but obey and save their lives. This Mizukage simply appears to take revenge on us. "
"in short."
Yiyong keenly discovered the key issue.
"Everyone in this country wants him dead, right?"
"It can be said." Gui Deng Shuiyue emphasized again, "Except for the master of this generation, Ganshi Guijiao. I don't know what benefits the loss of position has given him. His loyalty is like a long hair. A dog with shark teeth has no ideas of its own.”
Ranmaru added: "Leiga also said that Mikaki Kikyo is the Fourth Mizukage's die-hard loyalist. He should be the strongest among the seven."
Yiyong nodded slightly.
Everyone wants Mizukage to die, which means that there won't be too many people standing in front of him when dealing with Gouji Shicang. This is a good thing and can reduce unnecessary casualties.
As for this dried persimmon ghost sex...
It is said that the Inosaki wave whale he killed before was actually the leader of the Inosaki clan.
The relationship between the Inked Kaki Onigao and the Inked Kakiha Whale may be like the relationship between Shisui and his father in the Uchiha clan. The two should be of similar strength.
"Let's go."
He leaned down and carried Ranmaru, who was leaning on the tree trunk, on his back. "When we get to that village, we will find a place for you to rest."
If the village was still safe, he could temporarily place Onito Suigetsu and Ranmaru there, and go to Orochimaru's hideout alone, which would save him a lot of worries.
Ranmaru nodded obediently, his eyes bursting with eye-catching red light, shining through the fog like a searchlight, guiding Giyuu on the best route to take, avoiding complex terrain such as swamps and mountains, and even wild animals. Didn't encounter a few.
On the contrary, if it weren't for Ranmaru and Giyu, outsiders like him, I'm afraid they would just get lost in the heavy fog. After all, neither the Sharingan nor the piercing vision has any special attack effect on natural phenomena.
After everyone walked for about forty minutes, Ranmaru reminded: "It's right in front."
He looked forward and gave an observation report that made Yiyong uncomfortable: "Like the previous villages, the whole village is in ruins. Judging from the collapse of the houses, Wan She should have done a good job. I didn’t expect that he didn’t even spare this village... Aren’t you afraid of attracting the attention of the Mist Ninja?”
"Is there anyone alive inside?"
Although the answers given by Ranmaru the previous few times were negative, Giyuu still asked as usual, for fear of omitting something.
"This village is very large. I can only see through the first half. The second half is on the mountainside. We have to get closer."
Giyuu nodded and continued moving forward with Ranmaru on his back. He soon saw collapsed earth walls, scattered grass stalks and debris exposed to the air in the mist.
The simple wooden tables, the broken dishes, and the moldy food on the ground all reveal the situation when the village suffered a disaster - at that time, most of the families in the village, He should be eating lunch, unaware of the great horror that is about to come.
"Last time I came here, there seemed to be at least three to four hundred people in this village."
Ranmaru's voice was filled with compassion, and Giyuu could feel his body suddenly becoming stiff.
"We should be in the center of this village now. Take a look."
Yiyong's tone was unexpectedly gentle, making Gui Deng and Shui Yue want to suffer a serious illness to experience this feeling.
"good."
Ranmaru cheered up, his eyes glowed red again, and he looked around. Within a few seconds, the expression on his face suddenly changed.
"What's wrong?" Gui Deng Shui Yue noticed his change, "Is there really someone here?"
"There is one person, but more..."
Ranmaru swallowed and said, "It's a snake! There are snakes all over the mountains and plains, on the mountain over there."
"Where exactly is that person located?"
Yiyong's eyebrows pressed together and became sharp.
The only living person in the ruins, but there was an animal with distinctive characteristics like a snake around him. Could it be that they happened to run into Orochimaru?
"The man is at the shrine on the mountain. He is around ten years old and wears glasses."
Ranmaru continued to explain what he saw, "And those snakes, to be precise, are not on the mountain, but inside the mountain, as if they are searching for something..."
"Orochimaru shouldn't be wearing glasses. He's the only one here, so there's no need to pretend. This person is probably related to him."
Yiyong thought for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hands and started playing with them like a conductor of a symphony orchestra.
The surrounding fog rolled and gathered like clouds blown by the wind, and expanded in all directions like a retreat, exposing a large area of clear land.
Yiyong looked around. Unfortunately, there is no suitable place for Suigetsu and Ranmaru to hide around.
"Let's go meet this person together."
In a situation where Orochimaru might appear at any time, it would be safer for the two of them to stay by his side.
In this way, Giyuu embarked on the road to the mountain shrine.
In the shrine.
Kabuto Yakushi was holding a scroll full of ancient characters and comparing it with the spells on the altar of the shrine.
After several days of hard work, Orochimaru's mission to collect homeless blood stepchildren has come to an end.
Kabuto Yakushi came here this time to find the legendary Kusanagi sword enshrined by the swordsmith village.
On the one hand, he taught himself ancient writing through the scrolls in Orochimaru's base and tried to decipher the secrets on the altar.
On the other hand, he sent smaller snakes to search around in the cracks of the mountain, hoping to prove his unique value.
Compared with those children with natural heirs, what he can do is still too limited.
When those children grow up and have a little bit of brains, they can easily take over his role.
Orochimaru, like Danzo, would never leave a useless person behind.
If he couldn't prove that he was special, Kabuto Yakushi might not be far away from becoming the food of ten thousand snakes.
"Well... what I'm talking about here are the names of the Kusanagi swords, the Sora no Tachi, the Ten Congyun sword, the Ten Fist sword... I don't know which one is enshrined in the swordsmith village..."
While Kabuto Yakushi was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps coming from behind and he immediately turned around, his brain starting to work like a high-speed tire.
"Two footsteps, one heavy and one light. I don't know if they came here accidentally or if they discovered my location."
While he was analyzing secretly, he concentrated chakra on his right hand and smiled the cowardly and harmless smile he had when kidnapping the child, intending to lower the vigilance of the visitor.
Soon, the owner of the voice appeared. Kabuto Yakushi looked at the visitors carefully, trying to judge their origins based on their appearance.
[A sick child, looking very weak. 】
This is Ranmaru.
[This child’s eyes are glazed over, and it’s very likely that his whole family is dead. He carries a knife, maybe he knows ninjutsu? 】
This is righteousness.
Kabuto Yakushi was very familiar with this kind of face with absent-minded eyes. He had seen this kind of child all the time in the past few days.
[It should be a wandering orphan from the Kingdom of Water. He is relatively clean. He must have just lost his family not long ago. Could it be that Mizukage has attacked another village? 】
[Why does this last one look a bit like a ghost lantern full moon? 】
Just as he was looking at the three strange children, Yiyong was also scanning Yakushi Kabuto, but this person looked ordinary and there was nothing special about him. Even wearing glasses was not a disguise, but a real high degree of myopia.
However, at the same time.
A root ninja with Danzo's orders has successfully landed in the Kingdom of Water and is on his way to Orochimaru's secret base.
