Konoha's Dark Harvest

In the early morning, the morning glow and the chirping of birds awakened the entire deep forest. The golden glow slanted over the deep forest, and small animals frequently appeared to look for food.

Zuo Yun stood up from the tree and exercised a little. For him, even if he didn't sleep all night, he only needed to sit for a while to recover.

He only slept for three or four hours last night before refining chakra and entering it into his heart.

After cleaning up, Huliu didn't say anything more, just greeted everyone and continued on his way.

Next, except for eating and coming to a town to rest, the rest of the time was spent on the road.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, they finally arrived at the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Taki. They were surrounded by mountains. At first glance, the winding and rugged roads looked like earthworms. They drove along the mountain road for another half an hour.

A village finally appeared in front of them. Zuo Yun was a little confused. Why would those wandering ninjas harass them in such a remote village? For them, there was no money and water here. It would be better to rob some caravans than here. It was completely meaningless. These mountain people made harassment.

The village in front of me relies entirely on growing food on the terraces on the hillside, and may only go out regularly to sell some food and exchange daily necessities with people.

"Gu Jie and I will not take part in this mission. It will be solved by the three of you!" Everyone stood on the top of the mountain and Beihu Liu turned around and said to them.

"Yes! Captain!"

Because there are five people in their team, among whom Behuru is the temporary captain, so three people with average strength are allowed to solve this C-level task.

Beihu Liu and Gu Jie were observing secretly, and would only appear to help if there was an emergency.

"The three of us should go down and investigate first!" Zuo Yun greeted Nonoyu and Dai.

"Okay!" Nonoyu and Dai nodded and followed.

The other two people went to hide somewhere, and Zuo Yun didn't care. Before arriving at the village, Zuo Yun found a watchtower with villagers watching from above.

They seemed nervous upon discovering them, but soon burst into cheers, presumably upon discovering that they were wearing Konoha forehead protectors.

"Let Sister Nonoyu come forward next!" Zuo Yun said to Dai.

"No problem!" Dai gave a thumbs up.

Letting her come forward is mainly to relax the mentality of the villagers. The three of them, Zuo Yun, is a child and others will not trust him, and Dai is a weirdo, which makes people worry about the ability of their team, so only the pure girl Nonoyu can come forward.

At this time, a middle-aged man poked his head out of the watchtower: "Please... are you the ninja from Konoha?"

"That's right! We are Konoha ninjas! Did you report the harassment of stray ninjas here?" Nonoyu asked after answering.

"Yes! Sir! Please come in!" The uncle on the watchtower climbed down and asked the villagers inside to open the door.

The three of them entered the village and a 60-year-old man came towards them.

"Master ninjas, you are finally here. I am the village chief here, Taro Kusao! Please follow me!" The old man introduced himself to them, and then enthusiastically led them to a room.

"Hello! Chief Kusao! Is it your village that reported harassment by stray ninjas?" Nonoyu asked in a soft voice.

"That's right! Ninja-sama, this is our village. A week ago, a group of masked ninjas gave us 10 days to move out of here, otherwise they would kill us all. Fortunately, you all came in time. The deadline is the day after tomorrow." Village Chief Kusao was full of wrinkles. said with bitterness on his face.

This mission is not a commissioned mission but a mission dispatched by the Kingdom of Fire. The difference between the two is that commissioned missions are usually done by businessmen or wealthy and powerful officials who spend money to entrust them, while missions are dispatched by the Daming Mansion of the Land of Fire. Ninja power is needed to intervene, and there is not much money. The military expenditures given by the daimyo are fixed every year, and most of them are used for these tasks.

Finally, there are the tasks within the village. This part of the salary is calculated as the task level. For example, if you entrust a C-level task, you can generally get between 5 and 3 taels. If the village gives you [-] taels, it will not be less.

Of course, the villagers in front of them had no money to hire Konoha ninjas, so they must have reported to the Fire Country to be officials first, and then the Fire Country told them to Konoha.

To put it another way, the Daimyo of the Fire Country is like the Prime Minister but has no power, while they in Konoha are a real army.

Of course, the daimyo would not be willing to do this. The future guardianship of the twelve ninjas is evidence that they wanted to get rid of Konoha, but they failed. That is all for later. Why the group of wandering ninjas in front of them want these mountain people to leave here is the most important thing. .

"We understand! Chief Caosheng, do you know why those people want you to leave here?" Nonoyu continued to ask, this is what Zuo Yun wanted to ask.

"This... I don't quite understand. Could it be that they want to use the village as a copycat?" Village Chief Caosheng was also a little confused and said unconfidently.

At this moment, Zuo Yun used "Kagura's Heart Eye" to observe whether there were ninjas in the village, and suddenly found a person hiding behind the house where they were talking.

"Who!" Zuo Yun quickly shot out a kunai.

"Phew!" The kunai shot on the wall, so frightened that the person behind him sat down on the ground. Just as he was about to get up and run, he was caught by Dai.

The person who was arrested was a young man with a sinister look on his face.

"I...I'm just curious about what Ninja-sama looks like. I'm not eavesdropping. Please Ninja-sama, please don't...don't kill me!" The man answered tremblingly before even asking.

"Why is it you, Junichiro Koizumi?" Village Chief Kusao looked confused when he followed and found the arrested person.

"What's wrong with Village Chief Caosheng, do you know this person?" No Naiyu asked, holding his medium-sized breasts.

"That's right! He is a well-known idler in the village. He usually steals things in the village. This time he wants to steal the ninja's things!" Village Chief Kusao said with a look of disgust.

Zuo Yun felt that it was not that simple.

"No! No! I'm really just curious. Please let me go, ninja masters!" Koizumi begged Zuo Yun and the others to let him go.

"Is that so? Why don't you let him go!" Dai looked at Zuo Yun hesitantly.

"Master ninjas, deal with him as you please, the village has had enough of him!" Village Chief Kusao said with a look of disgust.

"No need! Leave him to me!" Zuo Yun suddenly spoke and took Junichiro Koizumi away.

"Wait for me outside!" Zuo Yun led him into the house and asked everyone to wait outside.

"There are only two of us here, tell the truth, who sent you here for what purpose!" Zuo Yun said softly.

"I...I'm really just curious. Ninja-sama, please let me go...!" Koizumi still said the same thing, but his eyes turned around and he was lying.

"Really? It seems you still don't give up! Zhi! Zhipa!" Thunder and lightning appeared in Zuo Yun's hand, as if he was ready to be tortured.

"Wait! Wait! Ninja-sama, I...I said...I said don't shock me!" Koizumi looked at the lightning that was very close to him with a look of horror.

"Say it! If I'm not satisfied, you will turn into charcoal!" Zuo Yun said with a deliberately sinister look.

"I just took a little money! Real ninja-sama!" Koizumi quickly replied in panic.

"Collect money? Whose!" Zuo Yun continued to ask.

"Just...those masked wandering ninjas!" Koizumi rolled his eyes and thought for a while before replying.

"Hmph! You're still lying to me! It seems you are not afraid of death!" Zuo Yun's face darkened and the electricity disappeared from his hand. He took out a kunai and quickly inserted it into his left hand. Blood gushed out instantly. Koizumi held down his left hand and wailed in pain. , the sound penetrated the house and frightened the village chief outside.

"Ah ah! I tell the truth! I say! I say! Don't kill me! Don't kill me!" Koizumi covered his left hand and crawled back to the corner of the room, trembling.

Zuo Yun saw that he was really scared, so he stopped threatening him.

"Tell me! If I find out that there is a lie from the beginning to the end, I will kill you instantly! I won't give you a chance!" Zuo Yun turned the kunai and said calmly.

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