Chapter 18 Prequel Mission 1: Dark and Doubtful Life
Itachi still refused the truth, not because he didn't want to hear Sasuke call him brother, but because he knew the brainwashing power of words, and he didn't want Sasuke to have the voice of the truth lingering in his mind for several months...
In order to help Itachi calm down, Shinon only played with Sasuke for a while and then suggested leaving.
After leaving the patriarch's house, Zhenyan went to the radish field outside the village again.
Previously, due to patent issues, Uchiha Fugaku did not allow him to use Wood Release to farm. Later, he met Zabuza and Haku, and with their help, he reclaimed most of the clan land outside the village, and now planted radishes on it.
Today, Zhenyan went there to discuss the sales of radishes with Zabuzan. Regarding this, Zabuzan could provide some help because before being hired by him, Zabuzan had worked for some businessmen, including some who purchased fruits and vegetables.
Zhenyan wanted to test the waters for the village first to see if he could open up the outside market. If he succeeded, the village would have a direction for future development.
"Brother Zhenyan, you're here!" Bai saw Zhenyan and ran out holding a little white rabbit.
When he saw Bai, Zhenyan was still a little dazed. Until now, he still doubted whether Zabushan was joking with him again. Bai was so cute, how could he be a boy?
Zhenyan silently shifted his gaze to the rabbit in Bai's arms and asked, "Is this today's lunch?"
"..." Bai Xiaoqi's eyes widened instantly, and he looked at Zhenyan in disbelief. At the same time, he tightened his hands holding the rabbit, "This was caught by Master Zabuza for me. No, I can't eat it..."
"Did you catch it in the radish field?" Zhenyan looked at Zabuza who was leaning against the door of the wooden house. When he worked in Honghua Village before, he had seen villagers catching rabbits in the fields. The enthusiastic villagers would even invite him to join them for a snack. He really missed the taste of that time...
Zabuza's outfit was somewhat similar to Kakashi's, both covered half of their faces, leaving only a pair of expressionless eyes exposed, giving people an impression of being very cold. When he heard Shingen's question, he simply nodded lightly.
The reason why Zabuzhan was able to catch the rabbit was because Zhenyan had previously said that there was a carrot spirit in the carrot field, but Bai Que took it seriously and stared at the radishes all day long. As a result, the carrot spirit didn't see it, but saw the rabbit eating the carrot leaves, so he caught it.
"It would be nice if we could catch a few more." Zhenyan felt a little regretful. Seeing Bai's vigilant eyes, he explained, "Brother Zhenyan won't eat this one of yours."
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"By the way, have any radish spirits appeared recently?" Zhenyan asked again. He suspected that the last time the radish became a spirit, it might be related to his use of chakra to farm, because since then, he no longer used chakra, and the radishes in the field no longer became spirits.
Seeing Shingen asking seriously, Zabuza fell silent. He felt that it was necessary to teach the naive young Uchiha some common sense about the ninja world. After all, they were now in a cooperative relationship.
"Radishes cannot become spirits." He never spoke again.
"Ah?" Shinon looked at Zabuza in confusion.
"Carrot spirit!" At this moment, Bai also spoke, and stretched out a finger to point to the radish field.
Zhenyan looked out immediately and saw the white radish spirit hiding among the radish leaves, half of its body still buried in the soil...
The most surprised person at the scene was undoubtedly Zabuza, but his good ninja qualities made him the first person to act.
Zhenyan only felt a gust of wind passing by before his eyes, and Zabuzhan appeared in the radish field with a beheading sword in hand. The radish spirit seemed to be frightened and immediately fled into the ground, only to reappear in another location after a while...
"Master Zabuza." Bai Jin followed him out. Zhenyan was a step behind, but before he could catch up, there was a sudden movement behind him. He turned around and saw a familiar face. It was the alien he had seen twice before...
Bai·The Radish Spirit·Jue was dodging around in the radish field, leading Zabuza and Bai further and further away. In front of the wooden house next to the radish field, Zhenyan and Hei Zetsu were staring at each other.
"Hello, nice to see you again." Zhenyan raised his hand and waved. No matter how you look at it, he is the host and should take the initiative to entertain his alien friends. "Do you want me to help you?"
Zhenyan felt that aliens had been wandering around here, most likely seeking help.
"..." Black Zetsu didn't know how Shingo saw that he needed help. He came to Shingo for only one purpose, which was to induce Shingo to join his side. Now that Madara had passed away and Obito was still unable to accomplish anything, Shingo's appearance would undoubtedly add another layer of insurance to his plan.
"Hello..." Hei Jue responded in the form of truth first. He wanted to shorten the distance between them first. Even if he could not successfully induce truth this time, he could not leave a bad impression on the other party.
"Huh?" Zhenyan's eyes widened, "So you can talk!"
"I don't really talk much normally..." Hei Zetsu explained.
Zhenyan thought about it and soon understood: "Is it because there are no companions here?"
Hei Zetsu: “???”
Zhenyan: "By the way, I still don't know which planet you are from? Do the people there look like you?"
Hei Zetsu: “???”
Hei Zetsu blinked his eyes and didn't react for a moment, until he heard Zhenyan say again: "Do you know our Uchiha ancestors?"
Hei Zetsu: “!!!”
Hei Zetsu was shocked, and his first reaction was that he was exposed, because tracing back to the roots, the ancestor of Uchiha was Otsutsuki Kaguya, and he was indeed a descendant of Otsutsuki Kaguya and represented the will of Otsutsuki Kaguya.
But how did Shinon detect it? Was it because of the Uchiha stone tablet? Hei Zetsu quickly denied this idea, because he had rewritten the stone tablet before, and he could confirm that there was no content related to him on it.
Originally, Black Zetsu planned to use the fact that Shingon was "mistreated" by the village and was sent out of the village to farm, so that Shingon would hate Konoha and then take the opportunity to pull him over. But now the situation has changed, and his plan has been completely disrupted...
Hei Jue observed Zhen Yan's expression. He was not sure how much of the truth Zhen Yan had discovered, but from Zhen Yan's reaction, the other party did not seem to show hostility because of his identity. Instead, he had offered to help him before...
Thinking of this, Hei Jue suddenly made a bold decision. He wanted to change his original plan and try another way to lure Zhen Yan...
"I'm originally from the Otsutsuki clan..." Hei Zetsu spoke slowly, looking up at the distant sky at a 45-degree angle, "In the beginning, only my mother came here. Not only did she bring chakra to the ninja world, she also ended the disputes in the ninja world and brought peace to the ninja world."
"But besides mother, there are other Otsutsuki people coming here too. They covet the Ninja World. In order to protect the Ninja World and resist the invasion of other tribes, mother had no choice but to swallow the fruit of the sacred tree..."
Having said this, Hei Jue stopped and observed Zhen Yan's reaction.
At this time, Zhenyan was shocked, because what Heizetsu just said seemed to be the content recorded on the Uchiha stele. As they were both aliens, it was not surprising that Heizetsu knew the ancestors of the Uchiha. What shocked him was that the name Heizetsu just said seemed to be "mother"?
Shinyan stared at Hei Zetsu, but what he was thinking about was the cold white skinned members of his family. He couldn't believe that the ancestor of the Uchiha was such a yin-yang person? Could it be that the Uchiha only inherited the white gene?
Shingon observed it carefully again, and then he found that the white half of Hei Jue's body was somewhat similar to the white radish spirit he planted? Could it be that Uchiha also had vegetative genes?
Hei Jue seemed to have mentioned the sacred tree just now. Could it be that the sacred tree is the origin of the alien plants becoming spirits?
"What is the sacred tree you just mentioned?" Shingen couldn't help but ask. He wanted to know what species the Uchiha ancestors were.
Hearing this question, Hei Zetsu actually breathed a sigh of relief, because this was the reaction a normal person should have. If Zhenyan hadn't asked, he wouldn't have been able to continue...
"The sacred tree is a seed that only the Otsutsuki clan has. After planting, it can collect various energies..." In order to achieve his goal, Hei Zetsu concealed some facts and changed some of the statements, and continued to tell Shingon, "In order to protect the ninja world, the mother swallowed the fruit of the sacred tree, but the mother's two children could not understand the mother's painstaking efforts. They believed that their mother's mind was devoured by the power, and opposed the mother's management policy. In the end, they worked together to seal the mother on the moon..."
Shinyan was dumbfounded. Isn't this the same plot of usurping the throne that is often played out in ancient dramas? As expected, Hei Zetsu continued, "After the mother was sealed, the eldest son, Yui, took her place and founded the Ninja Clan, dispersing the chakra inherited from her. The second son, Hamura, went to the moon to look after her."
"Before she was sealed, my mother told me that other Otsutsuki people would invade the Ninja World one day, so I have been looking for a way to rescue my mother, because only her power can resist those people..."
Zhenyan frowned slightly and asked, "What happened next?"
Hei Zetsu was a little unsure of what Zhenyan was thinking, but since he had come to this point, he decided to continue: "Later, Hagoromo also had two children, Indra and Ashura, who are the ancestors of Uchiha and Senju. However, due to Hagoromo's decision to let the second son Ashura inherit the Shinobi Sect, the two brothers eventually broke up, and the feud between the two and their families lasted for a thousand years..."
"In the past thousand years, I have been trying to find a way to reconcile the two tribes, because in order to rescue my mother, the two tribes must work together..."
Zhenyan's brows knitted tighter and tighter, and Hei Jue couldn't help but start to feel nervous. Did Zhenyan not believe what he said? Although he concealed some of the contents, most of what he said was true facts...
Just when Hei Zetsu thought he was going to fall, Zhen Yan finally spoke: "You just said that the fight between Uchiha and Senju lasted for a thousand years?"
Hei Jue paused for a moment, then nodded hesitantly.
True Words: "They have been fighting among themselves for the past thousand years?"
Hei Ze: “Yes…”
"A thousand years, a full thousand years!" Zhenyan suddenly felt heartbroken, "They have been fighting for a thousand years over the right of inheritance. Is there no one who cares about our great-grandmother on the moon?"
Hei Jue: “…”
"In the past thousand years, not a single one of my ancestors was filial to their parents?" Zhenyan found it unbelievable. "Except for the Uchiha, there is not a single filial person among the Senju clan?"
"Filial piety, filial obedience?" Hei Jue was completely stunned by Zhen Yan's question...
Shingen nodded. What Hei Zetsu said matched the contents on the Uchiha stele. The Uchiha and Senju were both descendants of aliens, so the one sealed on the moon was the great-grandmother, right?
Zhenyan stepped forward and held Heijue's hand: "Uncle, thank you for your hard work over the years!"
Hei Jue: “…”
"Although I am a descendant of the Uchiha family, I am different from my ancestors." Shingon said righteously, "As the saying goes, filial piety is the foundation of virtue. Even crows know to repay their parents, and we, as human beings, must not forget our roots."
Hei Jue: “…………”
This result once again exceeded Hei Zetsu's expectations. He originally just wanted to use the threat of other Otsutsuki clan members to the ninja world to persuade Zhenyan, but he never thought that Zhenyan would talk about Xiaoshun? ...
"Uncle, you just said that you have been trying to rescue grandma for the past thousand years. How far have you progressed?" Zhenyan looked up at the sky and asked, "Do you have a plan for landing on the moon? Building a rocket or using chakra?"
Seeing Hei Zetsu's dilemma, Shingen knew that it would be difficult to build a rocket with the current technological level of the ninja world. However, the ninja world had chakra, so maybe there were other ways to do it.
Thinking of this, Zhenyan spoke again: "Uncle, don't worry, as long as I can reach the moon, I will dig with a shovel and dig out my grandmother!"
The earnestness of the words and the sincerity of the emotions made Hei Jue doubt his life...
All along, he had been planning and scheming so carefully, paying attention to the movements of Uchiha and Senju at all times, and finally he thought of using peace as a pretext to induce Uchiha Madara to launch the Infinite Moon Reading plan.
However, Uchiha Madara died halfway through the plan, causing many twists and turns in his plan. So far, there has been no progress, and he has not even collected the chakra of a tailed beast...
But now Shingon told him that "filial piety is the foundation of virtue, and as a human being, one must not forget one's roots." If he had known that using "filial piety" would make the Uchiha and Senju clansmen willingly resurrect Kaguya Otsutsuki on the moon for him, then what had he been doing for the past thousand years? !
Why didn't he think of playing straight? Why didn't he use "filial piety" to control the descendants of Yuyi? Hei Zetsu suddenly felt that he had wasted many years...
Zhenyan opened the door to a new world for Heijue, and the way Heijue looked at Zhenyan was also different, less exploitative and more sincere.
"There's no need to go to the moon..." Black Zetsu briefly explained the Moon Eye Project, "As long as we collect the chakra of the nine tailed beasts and use the Samsara Eye to perform the Infinite Moon Reading Ninjutsu, my mother can be resurrected through the Ten-Tails' true form, the Divine Tree."
Zhenyan nodded, not quite understanding, but the tail beast alliance reminded him of something else: "So, you were the one who released the giant fox before?"
"It was done by a member of the Akatsuki organization." Hei Zetsuyan revealed the existence of the Akatsuki organization, saying only that it was established to resurrect Kaguya Otsutsuki.
In the previous Nine-Tails incident, Black Zetsu felt that Obito was too eager for quick success. First of all, it was not safe to bypass the previous eight tailed beasts and attack the strongest Nine-Tails first. Secondly, Obito had not yet done the finishing work and was almost exposed. If Obito was exposed, all his previous plans would have been ruined. This was why he was eager to find new bargaining chips, and fortunately he came to see the truth.
With the comparison, Hei Zetsu now felt more and more satisfied with Mana. Thinking of Mana's situation in Konoha, he said again: "Leave Konoha and join the Akatsuki organization with me."
"Leave?" Zhenyan shook his head, "I can't leave."
Hei Jue was puzzled, and then he heard Zhen Yan say, "Where will grandma live after she comes back? Uncle, have you considered it?"
Hei Jue: “…”
"Konoha is a beautiful place with clear water and mountains. I think it is very suitable for the elderly to retire here." Zhenyan said sincerely, "I want to stay here and build Konoha into the number one village in the ninja world, so that my grandmother can live a good life when she returns."
Hei Jue: “…………”
Hei Zetsu suddenly felt ashamed. Compared to Zhenyan, he didn't think it through enough...!