Chapter 123
Just like what Xiang Xiang said before.
Most people in the Kamo family do not believe that the sacred tree can fulfill wishes.
But they believe in another research conclusion about sacred trees.
That is to say, the sacred tree is the reason why the curse is basically extinct now.
Thinking of the recent crying and tears, Kamo An was emotional: "Look at what kind of life we have been living since the curse disappeared!"
"We have lost our means of livelihood! We have lost our stable life! We are forced to cross the dark river by feeling our way through this turbulent era!"
"Sometimes, we even have to stand in opposition to our former comrades!"
While promoting herself like an unemployed worker, Kamo An looked at the people in front of her like a capitalist, trying to squeeze out the remaining value from them.
Among this group of people, in addition to the remnants of the Kamo family, there were also many wild sorcerers who came here on their own initiative at his call.
Although cursed spirits and cursers are generally enemies of sorcerers, there are actually quite a few who are unwilling to engage in direct conflict with their fellow human cursers and simply want to take on the task of exorcising cursed spirits to support their families.
Because there is a possibility of dying on every mission, the rewards for a sorcerer's mission are actually not that great. There are also people who do this job for money, such as Miwa.
However, when it comes to money, legal income will always be outweighed by illegal returns.
Therefore, after the curse was destroyed and legal income was directly cut off, there was indeed a group of people who stepped into the gray and black realm.
Because people often die in the scientific world, big bosses have become increasingly superstitious and have begun hiring sorcerers as bodyguards.
Therefore, most of the work of these hired sorcerers is to ensure the safety of their employers' daily lives, and to be responsible for testing whether those fishing lines that are so tough that they seem to be made by Spider-Man have been enchanted.
However, in rare cases, there are always some big bosses who are ambushed and cannot bear it and want to kill back on the spot.
However, most of the sorcerers who come to work as bodyguards do not want to harm humans, so they would naturally want to refuse such a situation. However, what the sorcerers did not expect was that their employers were not as easy to talk to as before.
In contrast, there were cursed spirits that were absolutely non-negotiable before. Once they were cursed, they could only pray for the help of the sorcerers, and their value and status would naturally be higher.
But now, without the pressure from the more bizarre cursed spirits that can inspire fear in people's hearts, the sorcerers are nothing more than slightly special bodyguards.
If you don't agree with something that was hired for money, why not just change it?
Thus, the circle of sorcerers rolled up in a twisted and deformed way. The good guys either had to swallow their anger, or couldn't even be bodyguards, or -
Or you can compromise step by step until you become almost the same as the cursers.
Thinking of this, most of the sorcerers below felt complicated.
Kamo An was very satisfied with their expressions and continued to add fuel to the fire: "Do you want to change the status quo?"
"think!"
"So we—"
“So what do we need to do?”
Kamo An was suddenly interrupted and his face was not very good. He looked in the direction of the voice. There was a young-looking guy with two people of the same age beside him, a boy and a girl. At this time, one was looking at the sky and the other was looking at the ground. It was unclear whether they were in the same group.
The boy with big eyes and a bit of a daze seemed to be unable to read the air and made a few meaningless gestures in the air: "For a tree that big, even if all the spell bonuses are thrown away, it would be impossible to just pull it out normally, right?"
Kamo Anne certainly knew this.
If he really had the ability to pull out trees, he wouldn't be wasting his time here.
In fact, even in the Kamo family, Kamo An is not that strong, but she likes to do some crooked ways, so she was sent out to preach this time.
When there are too many people, it's just a tree, and Kamo An thinks he can kill it anyway.
But when promoting, of course it has to be a little exaggerated to boost morale.
Now that she was exposed, although Kamo An cursed in her heart, she still did a good job on the surface and quickly came up with a reasonable explanation: "Although it is said to be uprooting, for the sake of the overall situation, it is best for us to let this tree die quietly."
"So, what do you do? Pour hot water on its roots?"
…………Do you think this is the enemy camp boss's fortune tree? And how much hot water would it take to grow such a big tree?
“…This is also a solution.”
Kamo An was annoyed. He pointed at the kid who had been talking to him from the beginning and asked, "You, you, stand up."
"Who introduced you here? What's your name?"
"Yes! My name is Yu Itadori Yu - yes, my name is Yu Itadori Yu!"
Although he dyed his conspicuous hair black but still almost exposed his belly, Yuji Itadori suddenly changed his mind after being hit in the kidney by Megumi Fushiguro.
But this still caught Kamo An's attention.
Facing Kamo An's suspicious scrutiny, Yuji Itadori made up his mind and shouted loudly: "I have another question! What should we do if Uchiha Madara intervenes?"
As expected, Kamo An's attention was drawn away. She cleared her throat and said thoughtfully, "Ahem, this..."
In addition to the Kamo family, there are many other families that are dissatisfied with the existence of the sacred tree.
After all, apart from the Gojo family, which had long been considering whether to simply cleanse itself of its sins and escape from the sea of suffering because Gojo Satoru himself was unreliable, the reputation, status and wealth of most sorcerer families were built on a mysterious foundation.
In short, it is technology monopoly.
Before the mass death of the cursed spirits, the world of sorcerers had always been desperately short of people. Even students in school had to work around the clock to carry out missions. They had never experienced overcapacity and were picked and chosen by new employers.
The sorcerers were angry, but they dared not speak out.
It’s not that no one wanted to take advantage of the sacred tree before, but no one really dared to do it because they knew very well that they could not defeat Uchiha Madara.
Whenever they are annoyed by their boss and feel they can’t do the job anymore, they will look out at the sacred tree from afar, just like a desperate office worker checking his bank account balance, and think about who is represented by it. It seems that they can wipe away their tears and swallow their anger again.
——This time, the Kamo family actually didn’t think about confronting the opponent head-on.
If they had to say it, they just wanted to recruit a group of people first, and then pick and choose from their spells to see if there is any that can kill the damn tree.
As for whether Uchiha Madara will blame me then...
According to common sense in the world of sorcery, great power usually requires a huge price to pay.
Combined with the fact that there has been no news about "Uchiha Madara" recently, many people are waiting and watching, and Kamo An boldly guessed that the opponent now should have consumed too much before and has not recovered yet, so he is not at his peak.
Although judging from the memories instilled in him in the previous [Infinite Moonlight Reading], even one-tenth of "Uchiha Madara" would be enough to beat him, his family, and the newly recruited shrimp soldiers and crab generals eight hundred times...but Kamo An doesn't care.
Now is the time when the plan has the highest chance of success. If he misses this opportunity, he will basically have no chance of turning things around in the rest of his life.
——If he can’t continue to be the boss, he would rather die.
During this period, many people in the Kamo family thought so.
However, unlike the noble families represented by the Kamo family who are accustomed to cannibalism, among those who were captured and used as guns this time, there are many sorcerers of ordinary backgrounds who are really desperate.
Kamo An knew that this group of people were mediocre people who only pursued bread and ignored their self-worth, and they joined in just to survive.
If a satisfactory answer cannot be given, the organization that has just been formed may collapse immediately.
Kamo Anne recalled the information in her mind and thought hard.
Suddenly, a light flashed in his mind and he remembered what the Prime Minister had asked before.
"Although we can't defeat them head-on, we can use hostages as a threat!"
"For example, there is a child on the train that is about to arrive in City C. It is said that he has some kind of connection with Uchiha Madara."
When investigating the information of "Uchiha Obito" for the expansion, Kamo An also participated in it, and heard a lot of gossip, and also learned the relationship between the group of people who suddenly appeared recently.
Thinking of this, Kamo An's thoughts opened up, and she spoke more and more smoothly: "There is also 'Hatake Kakashi'... If we can catch him, we might be able to threaten 'Uchiha Obito' and Gojo Satoru to stand on our side!"
The ordinary sorcerers below were as quiet as chickens.
They didn't know as much inside information as Kamo An. For them, it was just that they fell asleep one day and found themselves hanging on a tree. When they woke up the next day, they found that the weather had changed.
So Kamo Anne's simple and crude plan involved five characters and four names, half of which they didn't recognize. From the remaining parts they could understand, one was the strongest in the world of sorcery, and the other was the current great devil. No matter how they thought about it, they felt uneasy.
"So how exactly do we ..."
"To steal! To cheat! To rob!"
Kamo An was afraid that Yuji Itadori would ask some questions that she couldn't answer, so she quickly interrupted him and said, "There are so many goals and so many possibilities. Do you really want me to teach you step by step?!"
After taking the initiative in the topic, Kamo Anne pretended to be a leader who had high blood pressure because of being angry at his incompetent employees, turned around and left, successfully avoiding further discussion.
迎着在場其他咒術師們的注視，虎杖悠仁露出了一個沒有被知識污染過的幹淨笑容：“對不起……”
多虧這裏的咒術師們還有着不多的良心，所以虎杖悠仁才能全須全尾地離開。
在脫離了小群體之後，伏黑惠将人拉到一個隐蔽角落，問：“你剛剛為什麽要冒頭，這很不利于我們的潛入計劃。”
虎杖悠仁摸了摸腦袋：“這不是看空氣有些沉重，所以想緩和一下氣氛嘛……”
說到虎杖悠仁他們為什麽會加入這個奇怪的組織……簡單來說，他們其實是被伏黑甚爾帶進來的。
伏黑甚爾被五條悟壓走之後，被直接扔給了親兒子，但兩人對彼此的印象都不是很深，所以一開始氣氛很是尴尬。
其中主要是虎杖悠仁和釘崎野薔薇這麽覺得，至于伏黑父子——大的那個不知道尴尬兩字怎麽寫，小的那個不甘示弱也僞裝的很好。
但也只是僞裝而已，對伏黑惠十分了解的兩位同學在經常在一旁看着他嘀嘀咕咕，那嘴碎得就沒有停過。
就在伏黑惠忍不住馬上就要對同窗重拳出擊的時候，被圈在咒術高專，渾身不自在的伏黑甚爾在他眼皮子底下消失了兩個小時，再回來的時候，就帶着這個奇怪組織的邀請函。
伏黑甚爾離開時，伏黑惠本以為對方不會再回來了。
但伏黑甚爾最後出乎了他的預料，在真正接過邀請函之前，伏黑惠思考了半天，分辨這到底是對方放風之後的随手敷衍，還是某種主動求和。
親情本應該是各種感情之中相對簡單的一種，但一旦複雜起來也出奇地折磨人。
因為你永遠無法斬斷血緣。
伏黑惠嘆了口氣：“算了。”
“對吧。”
虎杖悠仁接話道：“情報也到手了。”
釘崎野薔薇一邊敲着手機一邊說：“話說回來，這情報根本就沒有什麽用處吧。”
“這個組織者明顯水平有限，那幾個人哪個是能輕松抓得到的？”
在場的另外兩人回憶了一下人質清單，覺得這話說的非常有道理。
“……總之先告訴五條老師一聲好了。”
“嗯。”
白筠此時并不知道有人一下子盯上了自己所有的馬甲，也就錯過了痛斥這種可這他一個人薅羊毛的缺德舉動的機會。
因此，他在聽見五條悟手機響起的時候，沒有任何的反應。
這時，他們終于下了新幹線，乙骨憂太左手拎着被五條悟一個人幹掉了一半的零食，右手本想去牽白筠，最終卻抓了個空。
見狀，乙骨憂太也沒有再度嘗試，而是小聲囑咐道：“人很多，別走散了。”
就算是之前的爆.炸案也組織不了人們對于神樹的好奇，甚至從那次直播之後，前往C市的人流還更大了些。
站臺上人擠着人，一不小心就會走散。
“宇智波佐助”小小一個，在人群中就像浮萍一樣随波逐流。
但是從小的訓練能讓白筠很好地在人群中穿梭，雖然有時候會稍微繞一些遠，但卻卸掉了人流的力道，最終更快地達成目标。
乙骨憂太看了一會，就發現對方确實清楚地知道自己要做什麽。
白筠在成功吸引了乙骨憂太的視線之後，偷偷在系統允許的最遠地點投放了另一個馬甲。
随後，“宇智波佐助”跟着五條悟他們去休息，并為第二天的神樹之旅做準備，而“宇智波帶土”負責到處亂晃，争取早點遇見脹相，順理成章地将弟弟們還給人家，洗清自己身上人販子的污名……
雖然宇智波帶土好像确實先後騙了宇智波鼬和宇智波佐助兩兄弟，現在白筠的操作好像也很符合人設就是了。
但是讓白筠意想不到的是，比起脹相，有另一個奇奇怪怪的人先行找上了他。
“‘宇智波帶土’是吧。”
白筠扭頭，發現是一個不認識的咒術師，并不算強，光從站姿就能看出不少破綻。
在白筠看過去的時候，這位陌生咒術師肉眼可見地緊張起來，像是有些膽怯，但最終還是成功說明了自己的來意：“‘旗木卡卡西’在我們手裏，請你和我們走一趟。”
白筠：“…………”
啊？？？
你說誰在你手裏？？？
不知道是不是白筠的表情變化太過明顯，那人明顯是噎了一下，甚至後退了一步，眼看着就打算跑路。
白筠沒有讓他如意，大步上前，抓住了滿臉驚恐的咒術師，咬牙切齒地道：“帶路。”
他倒要看看，到底是誰想幹什麽。
随後白筠就跟着這人來到了一個……轟趴館。
沒辦法，加茂家本來也是想租一個正經一點的地方，但是現在因為旅游的人實在太多，基本所有的賓館都已經住滿了，租房子的話手續太多，三兩天之內搞不完，再加上市長的大力開發，市區內也沒什麽荒廢的建築給他們做據點……
沒辦法，加茂杏最終只能租上這麽一個地方——雖然裏面放的都是桌游麻将之類亂七八糟的東西，但好歹是獨棟的別墅。
在白筠踏入轟趴館的時候，正躺在沙發上喝飲料的虎杖悠仁一下子噴了出來。
他旁邊正在假寐的伏黑惠張開眼睛就給了他一拳，虎杖悠仁對此絲毫不在意，反而快速拍打對方的胳膊，示意對方向門口看。
随後伏黑惠同樣露出了一副見鬼一般的表情。
那位将鬼子引進村的咒術師環視了一圈，雖然沒找到人，但是為了氣勢，還是挺了挺胸，字正腔圓地向虎杖悠仁他們問道：“老大呢？”
虎杖悠仁恍惚間想到：就這個業務水平的對比，其實你原地上位我覺得也可以。
伏黑惠回過神來，解釋道：“他出去了。”
“你去找找看有沒有他的聯系方式好了。”
說話的整個過程，他的眼睛都沒有離開“宇智波帶土”。
他可不信對方真的是被騙來的，這其中肯定還有貓膩，得好好聊聊才行。
而雖然只是想将人支開，但伏黑惠說的确實是實話，雖然之前加茂杏說要不擇手段地搞對立，但是他自己也沒想到有人效率能快成這樣，因此為了避免虎杖悠仁再問問題，早早就找了個借口跑走了。
這位咒術師見伏黑惠給了自己一個離開的理由，感動的都要流眼淚了——和組織力的大部分人不同，他是真的被騙來的，他天生別人說什麽信什麽，人際關系搞不了一點，只能靠袚除詛咒度日這樣。
等到沒有外人之後，伏黑惠皺着眉，問道：“你為什麽會在這裏？”
“有人在打我的主意，我當然要來看一看。”
白筠的解釋不無道理，伏黑惠想了想，覺得這應該确實只是個巧合，而不是加茂杏其實扮豬吃老虎，是個真能聯系上“宇智波帶土”的狠人。
随後兩邊互通了一下情報，白筠聽着加茂杏那邊給出的邏輯，和最終的目的，只感覺大受震撼。
他自己本來只想跑路，但此時竟然還有人想幫他清理剩餘的……嗯，家具？總而言之聽上去确實是個好事。
畢竟神樹雖然算不上是垃圾，但确實極大程度地改變了整個世界的格局。
但白筠從來沒想過要這麽高調，當時也只是因為意外導致。
所以現在本世界的土着民們在考慮如何拔樹的時候，白筠只會思考如何才能讓兩邊的實力稍微平衡一點，至少到時候“宇智波斑”放水不要太明顯。
——從四戰的規模來看，最好的辦法就是讓所有人都站在“宇智波斑”的對立面。
就在白筠思考着什麽理由才能讓“宇智波帶土”加入拔樹大隊的時候，虎杖悠仁猶猶豫豫地說道：“還有一件事情，我覺得你應該知道。”
“就是，我們在來的路上，去看了之前許願成功的那位老婆婆……”
“那個婆婆身邊是有一截神樹的樹枝，作為術式的載體的，而且老爺爺的……靈魂？還需要時不時回去充電。”
“乙骨前輩說帶土前輩曾經替卡卡西老師許過願的對嗎？但是他的狀态好像并沒有什麽明顯的變化。”
再結合神樹許願是有周期的這個設定——
白筠終于意識到虎杖悠仁要說什麽了。
現在無論是“宇智波佐助”還是“旗木卡卡西”都是定時炸彈。
而白筠是無論如何都躲不過一場左右互搏了。
我思考了半天，都沒想到一個适合當最終副本BOSS的反派……
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