Naruto: Listen to the bow sound, resounding throughout the ninja world

Realizing that something was wrong, the middle-aged man turned around again with cold sweat and looked at July.

At this moment, Nanatsuki and Karin were no longer behaving like they did just now.

The two of them walked slowly towards the middle-aged man with a smile on their faces.

"What? What did you want to do to us just now?"

"You can continue to do it, and I promise not to fight back."

When the middle-aged man heard July speak, he realized that he was in trouble.

With a 'thump' sound, the middle-aged man knelt in front of Nanatsuki and Karin without hesitation.

"My two aunts, I am blind to the truth."

"I didn't mean to do anything to you just now, really."

"I was just joking with you two aunts. Look, I'm ready to pay you."

"I just hope you can spare my life."

Just when Nanyue was about to speak to scare the man again, Itachi stepped out from the shadows.

The scarlet Sharingan has been opened to the three-magatama state.

Seeing these eyes, the middle-aged man was so scared that he was speechless.

Just repeating one word, "write...write...write..."

"July, I just took a quick look at this town."

“I didn’t find anything strange.”

"And judging from the atmosphere, it's not like what the intelligence said. It feels like a group of people just disappeared."

July did not answer Itachi immediately, but put away his smile and looked seriously at the middle-aged man kneeling on the ground.

"What's your name? What do you do in town?"

With this interruption from July, the man finally came back to his senses from the shock of seeing the Sharingan.

He crawled on the ground trembling and shouted loudly.

"My name is Ishii Iwa, and I'm a member of this town's patrol team."

"I usually just hang out on the street and maintain order when I have nothing to do."

July summoned out a Tang sword and inserted the entire sword and sheath in front of the man.

"What do I ask you now, and what do you answer?"

"If you tell a lie or conceal anything, I will let you see the power of the Sharingan."

"Let me ask you, has it been a long time since a certain number of people in this town disappeared every once in a while?"

"What's the situation with these people? Tell me everything you know."

When the man heard July asking this question, his body, which was crawling on the ground, couldn't help but tremble.

It was obvious that he was very apprehensive about this question.

The man slowly raised his head, his face looked even more tearful than before.

"My lord, it's not that I don't want to say it."

"But I have been cursed since I joined the patrol team."

"Can't say anything about this town's missing people."

"Otherwise, I will be blown to pieces by the curse."

When July heard Ishii Iwa’s words, he felt that it was strangely familiar.

I recalled my memory for a moment.

Shit, isn't this the same restrictive measure that Danzo used against the Root's subordinates before?

How come there is something similar here?

In order to find out the situation, Qiyue asked Ishii Iwa to tell her about the civil servant who was cursed.

Sure enough, when he heard July ask this, the man decisively stuck out his tongue to show it to July.

July looked at the familiar mark of eradicating tongue-trouble in front of him.

Now...it's confirmed.

This is definitely the work of that old guy Danzo. Qiyue suppressed her nausea and forced Ishii Iwa's tongue to stretch it out a little bit again.

Then he drew a character in the air with his finger. Soon, the character was activated by chakra and integrated into the curse seal of the tongue.

July directly isolated the effect of the curse that could eradicate the evil of tongue.

"Okay, now you can speak."

"The person who put the curse on you was an old man."

"The right eye is wrapped in bandages."

Originally, Ishii Iwa didn't dare to respond, as he had witnessed the tragic situation that occurred after the tongue disaster was triggered.

But the feeling on the tongue cannot be faked.

While Ishii Iwa was still hesitating, July drew his knife and put it on his neck.

"Do you trust me to answer my questions honestly, or do you want me to stab you right now?"

Ishii Iwa felt the chill coming from his neck and could clearly sense the murderous aura emanating from July.

He thought that he would die either way, so he just made up his mind.

He directly acknowledged the question that July had just asked.

"Yes, the one who put the curse on me was an old man with a bandage wrapped around his right eye."

After saying this, Ishii Iwa closed his eyes.

Silently waiting for the curse on the tongue to be triggered.

But one second, two seconds, three seconds passed...

The pain that his companion felt when the curse was triggered was not felt in his memory.

Huh? I can really tell you something about that old man.

Is it true that the woman in front of me is not lying to me?

He opened his eyes in surprise, and looked at July in front of him with a desire to survive.

"I don't know the old man's name."

"But I know that the hundreds of people who disappeared in this town were all caused by the old man."

“And it started a long time ago.”

"He not only picked people from this town, but also targeted other remote villages."

"There are dozens of kilometers around Baichuan Town, and any village that has little contact with the outside world."

“A lot of them have just disappeared from this world.”

"I once did a rough calculation when I was free, just in the five years since I joined."

"Nearly 2,000 people have gone missing."

"There are no clues left."

Since Ishii Iwa was freed from the restraints of his tongue, he told all the information he knew in detail, like pouring out beans.

After hearing Ishii's rough statistics, Nanatsuki Itachi and the other three all showed shocked expressions.

"How could the people of the Hidden Mist Village and the Land of Water be completely unaware of a disappearance of this magnitude?"

"Didn't they send anyone to investigate this matter?"

After hearing this, Ishii Iwa shook his head vigorously.

"The Water Country is different from other countries. It is isolated from the world geographically."

"Besides, the Blood Mist Era just ended not long ago."

"Let alone thousands of people, even if tens of thousands of people were missing, it would not attract the attention of the country and the ninja village."

"Because they don't care about the lives of the lower classes."

"The fewer people there are, the happier they are, because then they have to spend less resources."

“Who would be willing to pay more when they can spend less?”

Ishii's last words really touched the hearts of Nanazuki and Itachi.

They knew that the ninja world was dark, but they never thought it would be this dark.

The most important thing for a country is its population base.

Too much is not good, and too little is even worse.

These are all things that the country should take action to regulate, but now the population base of the Water Country is the smallest among the five major countries.

But now even the country’s top leaders no longer care about the lives of the people and the population base.

To be honest, this country is not far from being destroyed.