Chapter 72

The world in Naruto is basically occupied by five major countries, but in addition to them, there are still many small countries surviving in the cracks.

Now Bai Yun and his friends were walking on the streets of such a small country.

Unlike the prosperous Konoha, this small country is more in line with everyone's imagination of the scene five hundred years ago.

On both sides were low wooden houses, with walls mottled and cracked due to lack of maintenance. Moss had penetrated deep into the wood, appearing a very dirty dark green. The villagers passing by were all wearing coarse cloth clothes, the color of which was as dull as their faces.

When Bai Yun and his friends passed by, most of these thin figures would look at them a few more times.

They frowned, and when they noticed Gojo Satoru looking at them, they abruptly retracted their gazes at the same time, quickened their pace and left, emanating a visible tension.

Gojo Satoru knew that these civilians recognized their identities as sorcerers and felt panic and fear because of it.

The treatment was completely different from when he was in Konoha, and Gojo Satoru couldn't help but sigh that it was the right decision not to bring the student Man with him.

Such an obvious difference could not have come from nowhere, and his young students were not yet at the stage of being exposed to such dirty things.

Thinking of this, Gojo Satoru retracted his gaze and looked at Bai Yun beside him: "Why do we have to go to this place?"

"For intelligence."

After giving a brief explanation, Bai Yun led Gojo Satoru through twists and turns into a dark alley.

The alley was a dead end, and one could see the end of it. It was filled with a mess of junk, and there was a side door in the wall of the small wooden house on the right.

A stale-looking man in his thirties with a stubbled face was sitting in front of the window next to the side door, holding a cigarette but not lighting it.

"Want some fire?"

The man glanced at Bai Yun, and then immediately recognized his identity as "Hatake Kakashi" from his distinctive attire.

The man didn't say much, but just reached out to the blind spot outside the window frame.

Bai Yun stood there calmly without any expression. The man observed him carefully for two seconds and made some small movements.

There was a "bang" sound as a puff of white smoke came out from the side door, and an identical wooden door appeared on the originally empty wall. When it was opened, one could find the stairs leading to the underground.

"Please help yourself."

The man tilted his head towards the secret passage, then continued to hold the old broken cigarette lighter and stared at a stain on the wall in a daze.

Bai Yun nodded and walked in first, followed by Gojo Satoru. Although the door that had just appeared looked light, one could feel a heavy force when he touched it. After losing its support, it automatically closed slowly, making a creaking sound.

There were only two rows of candles lit on the side of the path leading to the basement. They were far apart from each other. There must be some kind of magic spell on them. They only lit up when people walked by and went out automatically shortly afterwards.

Gojo Satoru would like to call it the oldest voice-controlled light in human history.

The staircase stretched as far as the eye could see, seemingly endless. For a moment, the only sounds in the space were the faint sounds of candles lighting and extinguishing, and the gentle breathing of two people.

In this strange atmosphere, Gojo Satoru asked curiously, "Was that a secret code?"

Bai Yun replied indifferently, "Probably, I guess."

"But even if he is not an informant in the black market, he is most likely not an ordinary person."

In ancient times, tobacco production was low, so it was expensive and not affordable for ordinary people. Although the other party had not ignited the cigarette, tobacco itself was already out of place in this poor country.

The small country where Bai Yun and his friends are now is a country sandwiched between the Fire Kingdom and the Thunder Kingdom, and adjacent to the Rain Kingdom.

A small country like this can serve as a buffer zone between two big countries in times of peace, but in times of war it will directly become a battlefield where lives are lost.

Because of wars that occurred every few decades, or sometimes even more frequently, these small countries could not develop at all, people lived in poverty, and even the daimyo had very limited control over the people below.

The poorer the country, the more chaotic it is, and the more chaotic it is, the harder it is to get rid of the shadow of poverty.

Some of the people in these small countries feared and even hated the ninjas who were sent to the front lines as weapons during the war; others were swayed by the power that seemed to easily control life and death, and became spies for certain forces.

Bai Yun was too lazy to figure out who the power behind the shop was. He just wanted to get the information he needed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, the magical staircase finally came to the end, and what came into view was a closed corridor that looked very depressing. A middle-aged man who also looked very decadent was standing at the entrance of the stairs, quietly waiting for Bai Yun and the others to arrive.

Seeing that Bai Yun looked calm and didn't seem like he was here to cause trouble, the man adjusted his attitude and planned to proceed as usual: "What service do you need?"

Bai Yun didn't beat around the bush and stated his purpose directly: "There are a few new families that have emerged recently, right? I want their intelligence."

The man controlled his expression well and nodded: "Okay, please wait."

After saying that, he turned around, pushed open one of the many doors at the side, and went in to look for information.

The scene was once again filled with only Bai Yun and Gojo Satoru. Gojo Satoru looked at the closed door and complained, "I'd rather go and convince Uchiha Madara directly."

This conversation had been repeated many times before between the two of them. Bai Yun replied skillfully, "But you have tried it before. Unless it really crosses the line, he will not easily interfere with the progress in the dream."

After hearing this, Gojo Satoru snorted and said nothing more.

When Gojo Satoru tried, including but not limited to: shouting to the sky, performing mysterious summoning rituals, and trying to replicate the feat of Ryomen Sukuna by destroying flowers, plants and trees, Bai Yun chose not to log in to Uchiha Madara's account.

The first was because he felt it was humiliating to be summoned like this, and the second was because he could not meet Gojo Satoru's request.

Gojo Satoru wants to help Uchiha Madara study how to transform the world more quickly and accurately, while Bai Yun just wants to know what bug is stuck in [Infinite Moon Reading] now.

According to Jiraiya, since those families seemed to have appeared suddenly just like Gojo Satoru, it proves that the situation of these people is different from that of Itadori Yuji and others who have background information.

But Gojo Satoru has reached this point today thanks to his abstract thinking and unique creative ability. Bai Yun doesn't think that those feudal old guys can use the same method to exploit loopholes and even take down an entire family.

Something must have happened during this period that Bai Yun didn't know about yet, and while he was figuring out what it was worth, he wanted to do his best to avoid further deterioration of his composure.

Considering that the first time he realized something was wrong was when he met Yuji Itadori, he had just used his GM's authority to put Kakashi Hatake's vest into Maki Zenin's dream. The second time he realized something was wrong was when these families existed, which was right after he boarded Uchiha Madara's ship and exiled Ryomen Sukuna.

Bai Yun boldly guessed that the current situation might be related to his identity as a higher-level host, so he didn't dare to switch accounts at will. He just planned to follow the logic of the environment and see what the group of people were like first.

The useless man who went to look for information soon returned. Bai Yun had clearly asked many families, but he only had two or three thin pieces of paper in his hand.

He explained as calmly as possible: "Those strange families seemed to have popped out of nowhere. The time was too short, so we don't have much information here."

As if he was afraid that Bai Yun and the others would get angry, the man licked his cracked lips and added, "But if you can promise to leave peacefully, I can tell you a private message."

Bai Yun nodded and accepted the deal: "Okay."

Seeing this, the man first handed the information to Bai Yun, and then said mysteriously: "One of those families, the head of the Kamo family, once bought information about 'A Fei' from me."

Bai Yun: “…………”

How could there be such a coincidence in the world! ?

Before Bai Yun could fully recover from his shock, he heard the other party continue to say: "If he moves quickly..."

"At this time, we should have met each other."

In fact, they did.

It's unknown whether the head of the Kamo family sacrificed his life's luck, but he met Uchiha Obito directly at the border of the Rain Country. He was busy doing things and took some time to observe the current situation of the Akatsuki organization.

Now that the members of the Akatsuki organization are still alive, Uchiha Obito disguises himself as a reserve member, without a code name or uniform, wearing a pure black robe, and plans to meet Pain.

He was then stopped by the head of the Kamo family, who scolded him: "You bastard! I knew you didn't look like a normal person from your hairstyle and dark circles under your eyes, but I didn't expect that you looked so restrained!"

"Look at that mask of yours! It's so ugly! Take it off!"

In fact, the head of the Kamo family didn't know why he came to this strange place when he woke up, but after he regained consciousness, some strange and fragmentary memories flooded into his mind.

At that moment, the head of the Kamo family felt as if his brain was put into a juicer, and after being broken and shaken, it was poured back into his body.

While I was dizzy, those fragmentary memories became clearer.

Those were some memories that he accidentally gained when he was affected by the cursed power of the Outer Path Statue at the exchange meeting.

Originally, these memories would be completely forgotten after he woke up, but now the remaining cursed energy, reacting with something unknown, caused the head of the Kamo family to remember those fragmented scenes clearly, as if he were a revolving lantern before his last breath.

Among them, he was sure that he heard the word "A Fei".

The head of the Kamo family naturally thought of his recently adopted son.

The head of the Kamo family has never been associated with intelligence. Otherwise, in the original development of the story, he would not have withdrawn Kamo Kenki's status as the heir after Nososo revealed his identity, but instead stood on Nososo's side with a logic that no one understood.

And now, this not-so-smart trait is showing up again.

Complex information was mixed together, some of which were interdependent and some of which were conflicting. The head of the Kamo family thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he simply decided not to think about it anymore.

Looking at the other person's mask that looked like a rubber sole, I felt that with such an abstract aesthetic and a perfunctory name, there was probably no other candidate except his newly adopted son.

In short, teach first and deal with it later if it's wrong.

Although Uchiha Obito was a little stunned when he was caught, the other party's obvious mistake did not cause him too much vigilance: "Really? But A Fei has been an orphan since he was a child. He has no father."

This was a complete accusation in the eyes of the head of the Kakamo family. He was furious and started to find fault: "You are wearing nail polish!"

Uchiha Obito listened for a long time, and after realizing that the other party was just talking nonsense and saying things that he couldn't understand, his originally exaggerated movements instantly restrained.

But the Uchiha Obito in front of him is different from the one played by Bai Yun.

At this moment, he was working diligently and focusing on his career. He was completely different from the character who had been whitewashed on the battlefield of Station 4.

He really killed someone.

After all, even if he temporarily removed the identity of Uchiha Madara that he was pretending to be, "Afei" as a reserve member of the Akatsuki organization was still an S-rank rebel ninja, and killing a few people was a perfectly normal thing.

Blood spilled onto the ground, drawing a perfect arc. The smell of blood in the air became stronger and stronger. Uchiha Obito looked at the head of the Kamo family, who was very weak but used an ability that seemed to be different from chakra, and fell into deep thought.

He began to wonder whether the head of the Kamo family had simply mistaken someone for the wrong person.

Uchiha Obito stepped forward and looted some things from the head of the Kamo family.

——Then I started staring at my phone, which was like a brick.

Just as he was driving the Kamui and tentatively pressing the raised button, and was startled by the sudden lighting of the screen, a bulge suddenly appeared on the ground next to Uchiha Obito.

It was as if some kind of plant "grew" out of it, and said to Uchiha Obito: "'Hatake Kakashi' has come to Rain Village."

I found that the quality of my writing has a lot to do with my work status that day ()

I must write well and write more when I have holidays.

I originally wanted the two sides to meet in this chapter, but they didn't. I will definitely do it tomorrow.