Seeing the venue fell into silence again.

Nara Shikaku looked around at everyone and spoke again: "Kakashi's idea is the same as mine. But let's get back to the point. No matter what Uzumaki Naruto wants to do, we don't have time to care about him now. The most urgent thing is to solve the village's problems. Morale and public opinion. Without these two things, Konoha will be finished. You are all clan leaders or powerful ninjas in important positions. I hope you can set an example and boost morale after returning to prepare for the next Iwagakure, and even Kumogakure and other ninja villages. They will never miss the opportunity to add insult to injury."

Everyone was silent again.

Nara Shikaku was right. The five major countries have been resentful for a long time. Konoha is in trouble, and they will definitely not miss this opportunity.

Even if it is not a full-scale invasion, it will be a blackmail. By then, the interests lost by the Fire Country will be a huge number, and no one present can afford this consequence.

Hinata Hiashi put his hands in his sleeves, and he said in a deep voice: "It is easy to appease the ninjas. After all, they are all professionally trained people, and they still have psychological qualities. But the villagers are difficult to deal with. After three attacks, although the civilians suffered few casualties, their trust in the village has dropped to the bottom. I am afraid that..."

Hinata's words hit the key point.

It is easy to mobilize ninjas, but the villagers are not so easy to talk to.

The wealth accumulated over decades was destroyed in just a few short periods of time, and the people's hearts are about to fall apart.

Tomorrow at the fastest, within three days at the slowest, the villagers will definitely find a way out and stay away from Konoha, which is a dangerous place.

Without the support and logistical supplies of these people, Konoha may pay an extremely painful price in the face of the next war.

No one can solve this problem.

The key to gathering people's hearts is to let people see hope.

Most people present have the ability to bring hope to the people of Konoha.

The second generation and the first generation looked at each other.

They were very disappointed with these juniors, as none of them could take the lead.

So, the two of them did not intend to remain silent.

The first generation sighed: "Everyone, please go and gather the people to the open space in the center of the village. Let me do the work of gathering the people's hearts."

Everyone's eyes flashed, and in fact, everyone was waiting for the first generation to speak.

With his prestige and ability, it would be easy to re-establish the prestige of the Konoha high-level.

But he had not said a word since the beginning of the meeting, and these juniors did not dare to speak easily, because it would make them seem incompetent as leaders, and they could not even settle their own affairs, and had to rely on an old guy who had been dead for decades to save the situation, which was too cowardly.

However, if he took the initiative to speak, there would be no problem, at least, on the surface, everyone was okay.

After that, the meeting dispersed.

More than an hour later, a large number of Konoha people and ninjas gathered in the big pit at the original site of Konoha Village.

Looking at the barren land, everyone felt discouraged.

The once powerful Konoha has fallen to this point. The residents of a large country and a large village now feel extremely confused and bewildered.

Many people have lost confidence in Konoha and are ready to go to their relatives or live somewhere else at dawn tomorrow.

The civilians are in mixed feelings, and the ninjas are not much better.

They lost the battle, looked dejected, and had no mood to talk when they gathered together.

So, a strange scene appeared.

Tens of thousands of people in Konoha gathered together, but it was surprisingly quiet and the atmosphere was suffocating.

On the Hokage Rock, the first and second generations stood together.

Behind them, a Konoha ninja with a square face and a dull expression said respectfully: "My two lords, the villagers have gathered."

"Yes." The first generation nodded. "Yamato, right? I'll need your help later. It may make you tired. Sorry."

Yamato: "No, I deserve to help the village even if I have to die. Please don't apologize, sir."

Second generation: "Let's go. We can't keep the people waiting for too long. Otherwise, there may be a riot."

After saying that, the three of them jumped and jumped to where the people gathered.

The people were worried all day and exhausted. After waiting for a while, no one from the Konoha high-level officials stood up to say anything, so one by one they began to get angry.

"Oi! High-level officials! Come out and say something! Are you gathering us together just to leave us here in the cold wind?!"

"That's right! You shit-eating ninjas! If you have nothing to say, don't gather us together! It's late at night, you don't sleep, we do! After we have enough sleep, we will leave this damn place early tomorrow morning!"

"Mom, I'm hungry! Wow wow wow!"

The first dissatisfied voice appeared, and it immediately caused a chain reaction.

The originally silent crowd suddenly erupted.

The shouts of discontent, the crying of the children after being frightened, etc. mixed together, making people feel extremely upset.

Nara Shikaku quickly came out with a loud speaker to preside over the situation.

"All the villagers of Konoha, please be patient. This time we gather together just to give you an explanation."

Nara's words spread through the loudspeaker, and everyone fell silent again.

The nearest few people were representatives of the people in the village. After everyone was quiet, they immediately stood up.

An old man with a cane and reading glasses spoke first: "Chief Nara, we know that it is not easy for the ninjas. They have suffered heavy losses in several invasions. We don't need you to give us any explanation. Some of our villagers have already discussed it. We will leave Konoha tomorrow. We will collectively raise money to entrust the village with a task. Please send ninjas to escort us out of Konoha. From now on, we will separate and go our separate ways. We can't bear the attacks one after another."

Nara Shikaku frowned slightly, but soon returned to normal. He said to the old man with a cane: "President Makino Merchants, the village has indeed suffered many disasters during this period, but we have come through it together for so many years. Now the suffering is over, and you can rest assured. I promise that from now on, there will never be such a situation again."

The old man with a cane is the president of the Konoha Business Association.

He is also an old man, and he can see that Konoha is now strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Several wars have already broken Konoha into pieces.

Originally, the permanent population of Konoha Village was more than 20,000. Including ninjas, merchants and tourists, Konoha had a population of 100,000 people at its peak.

Konoha was extremely glorious at that time, and its prosperity crushed other countries.

But what about now?

Let’s not talk about the time with Orochimaru. Although there were some casualties, it was just a minor fight and not a big problem.

Later, the rebellion of Uzumaki Naruto was a big problem.

In that battle, the Third Hokage died, Danzo who provoked everything disappeared, and the Root organization disappeared overnight. The rest of the ordinary ninjas died and injured more than 4,000, and more than 2,000 ordinary people committed suicide due to mental breakdown caused by Uzumaki Naruto’s forced empathy.

If Tsunade had not been so powerful and developed drugs to suppress emotions, Konoha would have been destroyed long ago.

If it was an invasion by foreign enemies, it would be understandable. The key problem is that the top leaders of Konoha did it themselves.

Naruto's telepathy let everyone know the whole story. The actions of the Third Hokage and Danzo chilled the people of Konoha.

Since then, Konoha has actually been demoralized.

But Tsunade finally stabilized the situation.

In addition, Naruto did not destroy all the buildings of Konoha at that time, and most people's lives and property were saved. With Tsunade's strong comfort, everyone gradually stabilized.

But this time, Konoha was completely destroyed, and everyone's property was completely destroyed.

No one is nostalgic for Konoha, a place of right and wrong.

This time, we can't stay no matter what.

"Chief Nara, it's not that we don't believe in Konoha, but Konoha can't protect itself, so how can we protect the people? If we really want to regain our confidence in Konoha, unless Lord Hashirama is reborn, I saw that adult fighting with the Uchiha legend when I was a child. It's really destroying the world... With the ability of that adult, I believe that any enemy coming will not be a problem. It's a pity that this is impossible."

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