Chapter 78 The Conspiracy Begins
The Land of Waves is a bit like Okinawa in Ino's previous life, with a subtropical climate and numerous rivers running through the country. On both sides of the rivers grow plant communities that the locals call mangroves.
The residents wore bamboo hats and the town was very humid.
Ino looked around from time to time.
The town is so small that if something happens in someone's house, everything will be known within five minutes. There is really no room for trouble, let alone Brother Xiaobai who comes out to buy medicine in women's clothes.
Since you didn’t see it, go back.
Carrying large and small bags and four fish, before leaving, Ino used the perception ninjutsu, but ended up with an unexpected gain.
A seemingly weak chakra reaction appeared within her perception range, and the other party was moving quickly five kilometers north of the town.
There are very few people in the whole world who can use chakra. In a small place like the Land of Waves, there are actually only a few people you can meet.
Is it Bai? She seems weaker than I expected.
Ino quickly left the market.
She did not rush over to intercept rashly, but instead transferred her perception ability to an eagle and used the eagle's eyes to search the area that had been discovered before.
"Hmm? Who is this guy?"
There was no such thing as no eyebrows or a man dressed in cross-dressing. In Eagle's sight, there was only a thin man in a wide robe with big sleeves and a samurai sword on his waist.
Afraid that she had seen it wrong, Ino sensed it again, and yes, this guy was using chakra while running.
Is he a samurai from some country?
Chakra is used by ninjas most of the time, but it is not an ability exclusive to ninjas. It's just that ninjas have monopolized this knowledge. Some shrine maidens and samurai with a long tradition can also use chakra.
The ninja world is actually an extremely closed circle. During the Fourth Ninja World War, the five major ninja villages plus the warriors of the Iron Kingdom had a total of only 80,000 troops, and there was actually a lot of water in it.
It is the same in ancient and modern times, in China and abroad. It is common to say that 10,000 is 30,000, 100,000 is 200,000, and 200,000 is 800,000.
The ninja coalition is not that weak. Just look at Ino's ninja number 012604 and you will know that, if you remove those who rebelled against the village, died in battle, or died of illness in recent years, even if it is the most populous and powerful Konoha Village, if you count all the family ninjas who do not belong to the ninja school and all the ninjas between the ages of 8 and 80, they may not be able to gather 20,000 ninjas.
The Sand Village and the Mist Village were even worse off. The former had a vast territory and few people, while the latter was killing each other. How many ninjas were left? This 80,000-strong army probably included all the ninjas in the ninja world. At least Ino remembered that the old jonin Lashi, who publicly said that the Cloud Village sent Kinkaku and Ginkaku to capture the Nine-Tails before Uchiha Madara, was among the 80,000-strong army.
The master is indeed 90 years old, but the master does not need to go to the battlefield. How old is Lashi? 81 years old! Two years older than the Third Tsuchikage. An 81-year-old man yells that he wants to fight the enemy to the death. What kind of scene is this? There are also a large number of samurai in the 80,000 ninja coalition. The total population of the ninja world is estimated to be about 60,000 to 70,000. How many people are there in the world? Hundreds of millions! The number of people in the ninja world is less than one thousandth of the world.
Ninjutsu and the use of chakra are definitely skills mastered by the elite within a small circle.
Nowadays, the chance of seeing a samurai using chakra is really low.
The thin warrior entered a heavily guarded farm. After about a quarter of an hour, the thin warrior came out again.
Should I take care of this matter myself? Just as Ino was thinking about it, two more men walked out from behind the skinny samurai.
She didn't recognize the tall, black-haired man with a rosary around his neck, but judging by his gorgeous clothes, he seemed like a noble from the Water Kingdom.
She had seen another fat man with a smiling face before, or at least had seen his photo. This fat man was a trusted subordinate of the Fire Nation's Grand Magistrate Tan He.
Tan He is in charge of the finances of the Land of Fire and is only responsible to the Land of Fire's Daimyo. He is truly second to none. Why would his confidant appear in a tiny country like the Land of Waves? And are they negotiating with someone who is suspected to be from the Land of Water? Could it be that they are responding to the Third Hokage's call to improve bilateral relations in advance in the Land of Waves?
This must be impossible!
Ino was not enthusiastic about the alliance with the Hidden Mist Village. Three years later, Kaguya Otsutsuki would come back, so what was the point of the alliance now? But she was powerless, and it was impossible for her to tell the Third Generation about the conspiracy of Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito.
She couldn't stop what was happening in the two villages, so she could only see if she could gain some benefits from it.
What were the two countries secretly planning now? She felt that she couldn't just sit there and watch, she had to at least know what they were doing.
Tan He's fat subordinates and the nobles of the Water Kingdom in gorgeous costumes left the farm one after another. She did not move against the two of them. She looked at the direction where the thin samurai left. Ino released the control of the eagle and chased after him herself.
"who?"
The thin warrior on horseback reacted quickly. While on horseback, he felt a strong wind passing behind him. Without thinking, he stepped on the stirrups, stood up straight, and was about to jump to the side. His right hand pressed on the hilt of the sword, and he twisted his waist and turned around, assuming an Iai stance.
He is fast, but Ino, who has increased her speed to 6, is even faster.
The kunai stabbed the samurai's back fiercely, and the thin samurai had just jumped up when the wound on his back pulled his body, causing his jumping movement to become deformed. His right foot was stuck in the stirrup and he fell face down on the ground with a bang, and was dragged over a hundred meters away by the galloping warhorse.
Ino waited for a while, and seeing that the samurai had no way to escape, she threw a kunai and cut the rope on the stirrup.
Worried that the other party would not tell the truth, she did not ask, but knocked him out with a punch, dragged him to a secluded place and began to read his mind.
"Heh, you are actually a samurai from the Land of Water, Daimyoji of the Land of Fire, Daikokuten-sensei? A noble from the Land of Water."
Ino went through the other person's recent memories carefully.
On the surface, this was just a private meeting between the nobles of the Water Nation and the Fire Nation, and the two sides did not discuss any substantive issues.
The core of the matter is actually not surprising. Ninjas, who account for less than one thousandth of the world's population, account for 99% of the world's military force. To put it bluntly, the Ninja World War is nothing more than a fight between a few villages, but the ninjutsu of the senior ninjas can easily destroy a village, or even flatten two mountaintops.
Those who occupy 99% of the world's wealth are dissatisfied and feel even more insecure. What is the use of power and money when their future is uncertain?
They believed that since they supplied the ninjas with everything they wore, ate and used, they should have more rights. They colluded with each other and tried to gain more military power.
There are quite a lot of people involved in this matter, and even the shadows of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and the Daimyo of the Land of Water can be seen among them.
Ino secretly shook her head. She really wanted to say to those two: "Daimyo, why are you plotting a rebellion?"
(End of this chapter)
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