Ninja Ice House

On the southeast coast, in the land of waves and other places, there are countless legends similar to Kaifangzhu, mermaids, sea monsters, etc.

Except for a few that are true, most of them are false rumors.

Every year, Muye Village receives similar commissions.

The mountain spirit and sea monster, which was regarded as the target of the mission, was very likely to be misunderstood by the less experienced local villagers.

Occasionally, there will be people with ulterior motives, pretending to be gods and ghosts, and tricking the people in order to seek benefits.

At the beginning, Baiyun Yeshan didn't take this task very seriously, and only regarded it as a test of the comprehensive ability of his subordinates.

After arriving in the land of waves, after contacting the task entrusting person, Konoha Ninja and his party started an investigation according to the clues.

In fact, it did develop according to the matter of leading the Jonin, until the four met an old man who claimed to be Taro Urashima, and the style of painting changed.

"You said that you were a person hundreds of years ago. You saved a sea turtle. The other party thanked you and invited you to go to the Dragon Palace to enjoy the blessings. Because you were homesick, you went ashore to visit relatives. You discovered the bottom of the sea for a few days. Hundreds of years have passed in the world, and you are still open. The treasure chest that must never be opened, was turned into what it is now by the white smoke coming out of it?"

Hundreds of years ago?

No one in the ninja world knows what it was like at that time.

Let alone hundreds of years ago, what happened decades ago is no longer very clear.

Before the establishment of the order of one village and one country, there were few reliable history books handed down in the turbulent ninja world.

Perhaps only in the private collections of the Fire Nation daimyo and the Gushan family, there are still a few words of records.

In Muye Village, there is very little information in this regard.

The relatively honest Yayoi sympathetically asked about the customs of hundreds of years ago, but Xiaonishi didn't believe it at all.

"Bai, you also think he is bragging! Hundreds of years ago, how dare you brag! If you say decades ago, maybe you can find some evidence. It's up to you to say what happened hundreds of years ago ?”

"Maybe!"

Ever since he arrived in the land of waves, Bai's heart seemed to be covered with a shadow, and he always felt that there was a sense of being calculated.

"It's boring if you don't do it! Teacher Hayama, you won't believe it, will you?"

"Hard to say!"

From the perspective of a senior jonin, the old man who called himself Urashima Taro in front of him was too normal in terms of facial expressions and emotions, and there was no trace of fakery at all.

Although he doesn't have the mind-reading skills of the mountain clan, Baiyun Yeshan, who has studied the subject of torture, can roughly judge some clues.

Especially a weak person like Urashima Taro who doesn't have any power around him, he can't hide his true thoughts at all.

"We are here to investigate the legend of the mermaid that will bring disaster to people. I wonder if this... has anything to reveal?"

"Mermaid?"

Urashima Taro raised his head, opened his cloudy eyes, and made a memory,

"It's just a group of poor people. In Dragon Palace City, the goddess and local residents don't like them very much. If you want to ask for help from humans on the mainland, you will only be killed as monsters. There are also some bad sailors with eccentricities. It is believed that by eating mermaid meat, one can live forever. In fact, it is all false, but many mermaids have unfortunately lost their lives because of this.”

"Mermaids, do they really exist? I thought those were ghost stories..."

Bai asked naturally,

"Have you seen them, where are they?"

"When a mermaid meets a human, either the former is eaten, or the latter is killed. Everyone...is too ignorant, they can get along in harmony, but they kill endlessly. Now, it's hard to find! The surviving mermaids basically don't come out. Dragon Palace City, even if there is an occasional existence, it is either hidden in the marketplace, no different from human beings, or it is hidden far away.”

"Just tell us the location."

Baiyun Yeshan said,

"We are not uninformed fishermen, but specially trained ninjas who have seen everything and will not harm them."

"In the past, there were brazen fellows like you who wanted to go to Dragon Palace

City looking for mermaids, but..."

"What's wrong?"

"Not a single one came back! Mermaids are hard to deal with, and the Dragon Palace is even more so..."

"The people there are dangerous, strong, and bad?"

"I can't tell! It's also possible that after I went there, I stayed for a few days and came back hundreds of years later. Like me, I was considered dead, and when I reappeared, I became a crazy old man, or It just turned to dust."

Next, the Konoha ninjas chatted with Urashima Taro for a long time, obtained a lot of information, and finally obtained the key address.

"Take a rest, tomorrow, go to that place to have a look."

"Wait, Teacher Ye Shan, I always feel something is wrong. If Dragon Palace City is real, why has it never been mentioned before? I have been in the Gushan family for these years, and I have heard some similar stories, but never It hasn't been proven."

"Is it possible that you came late and didn't know much? Maybe Xiang Rin knows..."

"No no no, Hayama-sensei, Karin doesn't know either!"

Yayoi, who joined two years before Bai, added,

"I've never heard her say anything like that!"

If even the Gushan family is not aware of something that happened on the southeast coast, it will be very troublesome.

"Is it possible that it has something to do with the Gushan family?"

Baiyun Yeshan casually guessed, but after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't help but deny this idea.

[The app that has been running stably for many years is comparable to the old version of the book chasing artifact, which is used by old bookworms

Come, who is coming!As for the location, as I just said, this is Zuodu Island, and the foot of it can be called Zuodu Town.The last time there was an uninvited guest, I can't remember when it was. "

"We weren't here before, but in the blink of an eye, we suddenly appeared in your place. I don't know what the mayor has in mind?"

Baiyun Yeshan asked the whole story while politely telling the whole story.

"Urashima Taro? I don't know! But, the mermaid and Ryugujo..."

"You know? Please let me know!"

"Then you are asking the right person. Other villagers don't know much about it, but I still know a thing or two."

Shiranui smiled mysteriously when he saw it,

"In fact, the local villagers are said to be the descendants of the residents of Dragon Palace City, and some of them have inherited the mermaid lineage. It is a false rumor that eating mermaid meat will make you immortal. Mermaids themselves live longer than normal people Short people, how could their flesh and blood have the function of making people live longer?"

"Have you ever seen a mermaid?"

"When I was young, I was lucky enough to see it! The mermaid densely packed on the sea was an unforgettable grand ceremony. It was really spectacular."

The few people talked for a long time one after another, Shiranui also revealed a lot of necessary information when they saw half-truths and half-false words.

"It seems that the mayor knows a lot about the outside world!"

"Of course! There are quite a lot of things that the mayor can come into contact with. There are not just one or two outsiders who strayed into this place."

"Those people, where are they now?"

"Some of them are tired of the intrigues of the outside world, and settle down here, and die here. Some of them are looking for Dragon Palace City and the mermaid, and the rest are thinking about how to go back..."

"Can I go back?"

"Of course you can. Since you can come, you can go back! The Urashima Taro you saw most likely entered here by mistake. No, he didn't enter by mistake, but was brought in by someone. He has never been to Zuodu Island, went directly to Dragon Palace City, so I don’t know him!”

"Then...he claims to be from 500 years ago, what do you think?"

"A day in the Dragon Palace, a thousand years on the earth, actually does not exist. But..."

With a weird smile on his face, Shiranui replied,

"When you came here, you were activated through a similar time-space transformation array, and you accidentally touched it, and you got here. Actually, I can't say whether you are lucky or unlucky, because when you go back, time-space turbulence may be attracted , causing the way back to be divided into parallel time and space, there is no one to guide, and it is possible to go the wrong way.”

"What's the meaning?"

Such well-prepared rhetoric is still too advanced for Konoha Ninja.

"To put it simply, Urashima Taro is very likely to be a person 500 years ago. After staying in Ryugu Castle for a few days, on the way back, due to some accidents, it took a long time to come to 500 years later..."

"Traveling time? How...how is this possible?"

Bai, who had been listening silently, suddenly asked, and Shiranui shrugged predictably when he saw it:

"Since you know space-time ninjutsu, you should understand that it is a compound ninjutsu of time and space. In essence, time does not exist, but is only a derivative of space changes. Since it can make you span space, how can you span time? Is it that unacceptable?"

The four Konoha ninjas looked at each other, and it took a long time before Baiyun Yeshan calmed down his shock.

"Excuse me, what kind of accident will lead to a time change on the way back?"

"For example, the changes in the dragon's veins, the reorganization of fate by the gods, the influence of the powerful prophecy, etc., may lead to go astray when you go back, and break into a timeline that does not belong to you. But..."

Shiranui tilted his head and pondered for a while when he saw it,

"500 years is indeed too exaggerated. I am afraid that only a true god-level power can achieve this level. As for the treasure box that the goddess gave Urashima Taro, it is actually to protect him. For ordinary people, the span is too long Time, the pressure on the body and soul is great, if there is no

Protected by the white mist in the treasure chest, Taro Urashima would soon die and turn into a speck of dust.Now, he just became an old man, so he was lucky, at least he was still alive. "

"So, the guy who broke into Dragon Palace City either died, or was thrown out of the timeline, or simply concealed?"

Shiranui just smiled and didn't answer.

"Then... what shall we do?"

Xiao Xi, who encountered this kind of thing for the first time, was already terrified, and could not help showing a sad look on his face,

"If I go back, my parents and family are gone, what should I do?"

The scene suddenly became difficult to deal with, and Shiranui added at a glance:

"You don't have to worry, time disturbances don't happen frequently. If you catch up with the good times, if it takes another year or so, you may have to wait a long time before you can find your way home. Now, don't mess around , should be able to return smoothly.”

Next, the two sides talked a lot.

"Mayor, you don't seem to be at all curious about people from the outside world."

"Once born, twice acquainted!"

"is it a lot?"

"Not many times, but..."

Shiranui spread his hands when he saw it,

"Four at a time, since records are kept, it rarely happens! The last time I saw so many people, wearing the same forehead protector as you, probably your companions."

"Huh? Then why haven't we heard of it in Konoha Village?"

"Maybe you are ignorant, or..."

Shiranui didn't finish his words, Bai suddenly answered,

"They 'lost'? "

"No, it's also possible that I took the right path and returned safely!"

"This……"

Looking at Shiranui's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling at first sight, Bai suddenly had a bold idea,

"May I ask, the last time you saw Konoha ninjas, what did they look like, and what era did they come from?"

"If I remember correctly, it should be Konoha's 65th year!"

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