Kurosaki Ichigo in Konoha

In this way, Kurosaki Ichigo held Nariko, who had been looking at him with a look that could turn into a knife to kill, in his arms, and followed Kakuzu to Qinglang City for about two hours.

When he approached the city and could see the shadows of buildings in the distance, Kurosaki Ichigo stopped holding Nariko and put her down. Nariko, whose stomach was empty after being held for two hours, didn't bother to look for her. Kurosaki Ichigo was in trouble, so he just gave him a hard look as punishment.Soon the three of them entered Qinglang City after passing a few simple checkpoints composed of guards wearing black vests.

Although Qinglang City is called a city, it is just a commercial town developed based on Dujing Bridge dozens of kilometers away.Even though there are still a lot of people coming and going on the street, for Kurosaki Ichigo, who has lived in a big city like Konoha Village for a long time, this city seems a bit shabby. There is not even a decent entrance and exit inspection, let alone The guards responsible for entry and exit inspections are extremely powerful.

However, compared to the black-clothed guards who were at least capable of being genin, those who occasionally passed by on the street wearing cyan coats and seemed to be sent by the daimyo to maintain public security were even more terrible. There was not even the slightest trace of chakra on their bodies. Of course, Saki Ichigo would not be so stupid as to think that these guys were hidden masters, because judging from those people's vain steps and lazy attitude, they were indeed just a group of hired ordinary people.

Although the country of Sichuan is not small in land area, it is quite a small country in terms of military strength.Not to mention the two behemoths of the Country of Fire and the Country of Wind that sandwich it, even the Country of Rain, which has been a place of war for many years, is much stronger than the Country of Sichuan.This resulted in a situation where the Kingdom of Sichuan could only obtain protection by surrendering to a certain force. In fact, the Kingdom of Sichuan had always been a vassal state of the Kingdom of Fire in the past. Under the protection of the Kingdom of Fire, life in the Kingdom of Sichuan was also very complicated. comfortable.

Even at the Five Kage Conference six or seven years ago, the first Hokage Senju Hashirama transferred the suzerainty of the Kawakuni to the Wind Country as a reward of only one piece of sand hidden village, but in the peaceful environment of the ninja world and the Wind Country Under the country's deliberate protection, the country of Xiachuan remained calm and did not cause the slightest ripples.Therefore, Kurosaki Ichigo is not at all curious about the leisurely and lazy atmosphere of Kawanoguni.

Kurosaki Ichigo was not interested in Qinglang City, but Nari was different. She looked back at Kurosaki Ichigo as if she wanted to eat someone, and looked left and right, her eyes full of curiosity. .After following Ichigo Kurosaki in the deep mountains and old forests for a month, she now sees everything new, not to mention that Nari has rarely had such contact with the outside world since she was a child because of her own life experience in order to avoid being hunted.

"Hey, hurry up and leave. Stop looking."

Kurosaki Ichigo turned around and found that Nariko had stopped in front of a stall selling snacks on the street. There was a light called desire in her eyes, and she had distanced herself from him and Kakuzu, so He greeted quickly.

Nariko looked at the tempting food in front of her, then turned to look at Kurosaki Ichigo who was looking at her helplessly, his big eyes blinking.

Kurosaki Ichigo sighed, walked to Nariko and took her wrist to take her away: "Let's go."

Seeing Kurosaki Ichigo being so dishonest, Nari angrily shook away the hand that was holding her, then pointed back at the freshly fried meatballs on the stall and said, "I want to eat this."

"Follow that guy Kakuzu and we can eat in a while."

Kurosaki Ichigo glanced around with instinctive vigilance before whispering into Nariko's ear.

"I don't care." Nari didn't want to listen to Kurosaki Ichigo's explanation. She crossed her arms and looked like I won't leave until you buy something for me. "What time is it now? I didn't even have time to eat in the morning." I followed you to the Hedujing Gorge, and now I’m almost starving to death. Anyway, I want to eat this.”

As she said this, Naliko asked the stall owner: "Uncle, how much does this meatball cost?"

The stall owner was a middle-aged man in his 30s. He had long noticed the conversation between Kurosaki Ichigo and Nariko, and he couldn't help but feel interesting. At this time, he heard Nariko ask him, so he quickly held it back. Zhuxiao replied: "Hello, five taels per string."

Naliko glanced at Kurosaki Ichigo and said nothing, but the meaning was self-evident.

“good good”

Kurosaki Ichigo saw that the guy from Kakuzu didn't wait for him at all, and his figure almost disappeared on the street corner. Fortunately, he had found some money on the corpses of the bandits before, so he took it out of his arms without caring about anything else. He handed a few 20-tael bills to the stall owner, then grabbed a few strings of freshly fried meatballs and chased after her with Nariko behind him.

The vendor was very conscientious. He grabbed the banknote handed over by Kurosaki Ichigo and shouted, "Hey, young man, you gave me too much money."

"Keep the extra for yourself"

Kurosaki Ichigo said without looking back.

After some hurrying and slowing down, Kurosaki Ichigo finally caught up with Kakuzu who was stopped in front of a dilapidated hut.

"No, this is the base in Qinglang City you mentioned."

Kurosaki Ichigo said in disbelief as he looked through the fence of the courtyard gate at the dilapidated and disrepaired house, which made people worry that it might collapse at any time.

"That's right." Kakuzu said with certainty and rummaged for something in his arms, "Are you disappointed?"

Kurosaki Ichigo nodded: "Indeed, I am indeed disappointed. I thought that the base prepared by a guy like you must be a very secret or very gorgeous place. And here" He looked around, although it is not the main place It’s a commercial street, but there are still a lot of residents walking back and forth. “I don’t think it has anything to do with either.”

"You seem to have some misunderstanding." Kakuzu finally found what he wanted, which was a rusty and inconspicuous key. "Gorgeous is just an impractical word. It will only waste your money. , As for the secret, I think the answer has already come out when you ask this question."

After saying that, Kakuzu used the key he found to open the iron lock hanging on the courtyard door, opened the door with a creak, and led the two of them into the small, run-down courtyard overgrown with weeds.

After closing and locking the iron door smoothly, Kurosaki Ichigo and Nariko followed Kakuzu to the house in the courtyard.

Before Kakuzu opened the door of the house, Kurosaki Ichigo was still sighing. Fortunately, Kakuzu still had a conscience, at least he would not build a broken wooden house, but chose to build this house with a brick structure.However, after Kakuzu opened the door, Kurosaki Ichigo looked into the house through the sunlight outside, and immediately rejected his previous thoughts. Several beams exposed on the roof of the house had been broken, not to mention the pillars. There were deep cracks.There is no doubt that this is a dangerous house. The possibility of collapse and the danger after collapse are much greater than that of a wooden house.

However, Kakuzu acted like he was used to it, and walked into the house and walked to a room in the house.

Kurosaki Ichigo pulled Naliko and stopped at the door of the house and shouted to Kakuzu inside: "Hey, did you really find the wrong place? This house will collapse at any time, right?"

"If you don't dare to come in, just wait there."

Kakuzu left a cold word, and then the figure disappeared behind the door of the room on the left side of the room.

"Hey, do you think I'm as stupid as you and commit suicide?"

Kurosaki Ichigo heard Kakuzu's irritating words but had no impulse. Instead, he took Nariko's wrist and stepped back a few steps, a little further away from the house, because the door of the house exuded a rotten and dilapidated smell. , making people feel very uncomfortable.

Naliko stood on tiptoe and tried to look over Kurosaki Ichigo's shoulders to see the layout of the house. However, due to the height difference between the two, she was unable to do so. This made Naliko feel a little embarrassed when Kurosaki Ichigo looked at her. Angry, he hit Ichigo Kurosaki on the arm with a pink fist.

"doing what"

Kurosaki Ichigo, who was suddenly attacked, obviously did not understand Nariko's brain circuit, and couldn't help asking strangely

"Why are you so tall?" Naliko rolled her eyes at Kurosaki Ichigo, even though he didn't know why it was his fault that he was tall. Then Naliko walked around Kurosaki Ichigo and looked at the layout of the house. "There's so much dust. This house probably hasn't been cleaned in more than a year."

"Probably more than that."

Kurosaki Ichigo replied.

Naliko turned around and said with interest: "Do you think this is really the base of that guy named Jiao or something? I don't think it looks like it no matter how I look at it."

"I feel the same way," Kurosaki Ichigo nodded in agreement, "Another point is that his name is Kakuzu. You were so afraid of him before, but now you are speaking very rudely."

A blush spread on Nariko's cheeks, but she refused to give in: "Who said that, when did I ever get scared?"

"You said yes."

Kurosaki Ichigo looked like there was no need to discuss it, so Nari couldn't say it or not. After hesitating for a few seconds, he punched Kurosaki Ichigo on the arm.

"Hey" Kurosaki Ichigo said loudly.

Naliko raised her head and looked at Kurosaki Ichigo: "How is it?"

Looking at Naliko's tit-for-tat eyes, Kurosaki Ichigo was frustrated and raised his hands behind his head and said helplessly: "It's really troublesome to just do whatever you say."

"Humph"

Naliko snorted proudly, as if she had won some major victory.