Chapter 327 Grayer Stone
"The wandering ninja brothers Zhongshi and Jiashi. Well, this pair of heads is, let me confirm again, one has red spots on his face, and the other is missing half an ear. Well, this mission is completed. The bandits in Guangqiao Mountain? I've done this too, tick it, done!"
Ino sat alone under a tree, carefully reading Sister Hong's mission records one by one.
It must be said that men also affect the speed of completing tasks. Sister Hong took on a lot of tasks before marriage, but her time was almost spent on Asuma, and there were too many scattered tasks accumulated! Ino's side was like delivering food. She planned the route first, tried to ensure that she could complete seven or eight tasks in one trip, and then ran over to kill.
She flipped through the task list that was as thick as a book, and kept adjusting and planning new routes with the map.
As she watched, she was stunned for a moment.
"Why did you accept a D-level mission? This elder sister is really... Alas."
Since I have accepted it, I have to complete the D-level mission as well.
After investigating, sensing and tracking, she soon found the snow ferret mentioned in the mission and spent a day to find the mission principal to hand in the mission.
The person who commissioned the mission to find the ferrets was an old man with red nose and tattered clothes. He and his people drove a horse-drawn carriage filled with gifts and supplies. They looked a bit like the gypsies in their previous life, as their tribe had been wandering and migrating around the world.
Now that the clouds of war are about to descend upon the Fire Nation, they are preparing to migrate to the southern kingdom for temporary refuge.
Ino was quite curious about the so-called southern country. After completing the task, she asked a few more questions. The old man's words surprised her greatly.
"Is the southern country you are talking about south of the Fire Country?"
The old man was a little drunk and laughed triumphantly: "Hahahaha - Miss Ninja, this world is not just the Fire Country, nor is there just one East China Sea. At the southernmost tip of the Fire Country, across the sea now called the South China Sea, after sailing for about thirty days, you can see another continent. That was once our home."
Ino was really surprised: "You are from another continent?"
In her opinion, the Land of Fire, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Lightning are all countries on the same continent. To the south is the endless sea, which was the continental plate that was broken up by Kaguya Otsutsuki and the Sage of Six Paths. There should be nothing to the south, so how could there be land there now? Speaking of these past events, the old man felt that his ancestors were very impressive, and his beard trembled: "Our ancestors once had a brilliant civilization. At that time, our ancestors cut down the jungle, dug up the mountain roads, and filled up the rivers. The natural world surrendered to us, and the resources of the entire continent belonged to humans.
At that time, the civilization of our ancestors was unimaginable now. Wells that never dried up, livestock that could grow up overnight, and food that could never be eaten up. It sounds incredible, right? All of this was made possible by the incredible energy, the incredible Grayl Stone!"
The old man fell asleep quickly. Ino was quite interested in what he said about the Southern Kingdom and the Gray Stone. Energy is of paramount importance in any world, because wars caused by energy have almost run through the history of human civilization, or that of all intelligent races.
If the ore really has abundant energy as the old man said, it is definitely priceless. What's more, what is he talking about? A mine? Is the underground of the southern continent full of this stuff?
Wanting to inquire more carefully, she temporarily stayed in this migrating group of travelers.
The next day, when Ino asked again, the old man started to play dumb, "Gray what stone? Gray what stone?"
Just as Ino was about to use some unspecified means, the convoy was attacked from the rear.
The smoke from the explosion could be seen from a hundred meters away, and men and women in tattered clothes kept running forward.
Three shining figures were chasing behind them, at a very fast speed and with fierce attack power. The group of civilians were unable to fight back against the attackers.
Ino smiled and looked at the old man: "You weren't drunk yesterday, were you? You deliberately told me about the stone thing, just to make me be your bodyguard today?"
The old man had a bitter expression: "What can I do? I can only grasp at any hope I can grasp. We are burdened with heavy shackles, and every day is extremely difficult."
Ino nodded: "That's true. In fact, it's not easy for anyone to live. Civilians have their own difficulties, and ninjas have their own dangers."
Seeing that he failed to arouse her sympathy, the old man had to use his last trick.
He has too few cards in his hand and this is the only card he can play.
"Grayl Stone is a precious mineral on our continent. Only those with royal blood can open the device and collect the mineral. You can't use it, but I can tell you the exact location of the mineral vein."
Ino didn't believe in the royal bloodline. Are you also the Otsutsuki clan from outer space? Nowadays, there is no mineral vein that can't be raised by "opening the earth and raising the horizo!" The royal bloodline is all nonsense.
She remembered the location the old man mentioned and said she would go check it out later: "Anything else? Is that all the information?"
The old man pointed at three figures approaching and said, "The glorious civilization of our ancestors collapsed. They split into two factions. The powerful and military royal family came here across the sea two hundred years ago to reproduce. They took away the last mined Grayl Stone and Grayl Book. These pursuers should be related to those ancient royal families who left. If nothing unexpected happens, the Grayl Book is probably in their hands."
Ino asked, "Who are you?"
"We are the survivors who migrated to this continent thirty years ago. The natural environment in the southern continent is getting worse and worse, with a shortage of supplies and constant natural disasters. It is really impossible to survive there. It is hell now."
Ino felt that she understood. It must be the devastating battle between Kaguya Ĺtsutsuki and the Six Paths Sage that destroyed the local environment. The royal family retreated first, and the civilians held on for more than a hundred years. When they could no longer bear it, they migrated to the northern continent.
The three figures were getting closer and closer, so close that Ino could see their hideous faces.
These are three women wearing strange armor. They are not ninjas. In Ino's perception, their armors carry chakra equivalent to the level of Chunin, which can provide themselves with power, allowing their strength, speed and endurance to reach an inhuman level.
The guards of the caravan, who were armed with spears and bows and arrows, were unable to fight back against their attack.
"Is the energy source in their armor the Gray Stone you mentioned?" Ino asked.
The old man couldn't see clearly, so he said uncertainly: "Maybe."
(End of this chapter)
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