Escape From Konoha

Konoha Hospital.

In a certain ward on the second floor, Tsunade was examining Minato's body.

"How do you feel now?"

Tsunade pressed her fingers on Minato's exposed arm.

"My muscles feel very stiff and I can't move them flexibly."

Minato's face was relatively pale. Ever since he woke up, he felt that his body functions were in a stiff state and his physical movements were inconvenient.

"This is normal. Don't worry. No abnormalities have been detected in your body. I will prescribe you some medicine and you will recover in half a month."

Tsunade nodded, basically as she judged.

Although Minato is resurrected from death, his body will be in a weak state for a while. As long as he takes medicine and rests for a period of time, he can return to normal levels.

"How's the heart?"

Tsunade asked again.

Minato's fatal wound came from his heart.

Minato touched his heart and said, "I can't feel the pain anymore."

But when I think back to the scene that night, I still feel chilled all over, as if I've been splashed with cold water.

That man really wanted to kill himself.

Be afraid of his space-time ninjutsu - Flying Thunder God's Jutsu.

"By the way, Tsunade-sama, how is Kushina doing?"

Minato asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, it's more stable over there than here. The seal has been successfully completed. And Mr. Sarutobi is also sending ANBU to investigate secretly."

"That's it."

If such a big thing happened, we really need to investigate it carefully, especially Kushina's identity as a Jinchuuriki.

Before this incident, the only ninjas who knew that Kushina was the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki were the senior officials and ANBU members who protected her.

However, Shiraishi and Ruri found Kushina accurately and released part of the nine-tails power in her body, even breaking the sealing technique of the Uzumaki clan.

The seriousness of this matter is not insignificant.

"Tsunade-sama."

Shizune came in with a cart. The top layer was filled with medicines for Minato, and the lower layer was filled with lunch and some diluted food containing nutrients.

"Here we come, Mute."

"Yes, this is the medicine Minato-senpai takes regularly, along with lunch."

Shizune pushed the cart next to Minato's hospital bed and took a cup to pour hot water.

Tsunade picked up the medicine on the cart, looked through it, and asked Shizune, "Isn't this medicine developed by Konoha?"

Shizune turned around and smiled: "This is an active body medicine produced by Shionka Company. It can help Minato-senpai's body recover as quickly as possible."

"Has it been checked?"

Tsunade asked.

Pour out a few tablets from the medicine bottle, put it to your nose and smell it.

It's not that I don't believe it, but now is a critical moment for Minato. If someone mixes poison in the medicine, it will be troublesome.

"Yes, it has been checked several times, and there is no problem."

Shizune said.

Tsunade nodded, and then he was relieved, and put the medicine bottle back.

"Minato, then you can cultivate here first, and I'll go to the intelligence department to check the situation first."

"Okay, please go slowly, Tsunade-sama."

Minato nodded, letting Tsunade stay with him all the time was a bit unreasonable.

Shizune followed Tsunade out of the room and walked down the corridor on the second floor of the hospital.

"What's the matter, just now he seemed hesitant to speak."

Tsunade looked down at Shizune next to him.

"That... Tsunade-sama, did Shiraishi-senpai really betray the village?"

"Are you here to ask this question too? The little girl named Nohara Lin asked this question many times before. Although I can't accept it, I can only say that everything that person did in Konoha was just pretending. .”

"But... there was no sign at all before... Why did Senior Shiraishi want to betray the village?"

Shizune's eyes were filled with sadness.

She really couldn't imagine that the gentle and polite senior in her impression would be an enemy who would cause great harm to the village, and even attack his companions mercilessly.

"This...who knows."

Tsunade's eyes flickered.

"You go back first, I'll go to the intelligence department to have a look."

"Um."

Jing Yin nodded absently, and walked home alone.

Tsunade turned to walk another way until Shizune's back disappeared around the corner.

The intelligence department is in a relatively remote and quiet corner, not far from Konoha's library, and there are several Konoha ninjas on duty at the door.

Most of them are clerical workers, bringing together knowledge-based talents in many fields, especially analytical skills, all of whom are extremely outstanding ninjas.

"Master Tsunade, do you have any orders?"

A female ninja came over.

"I asked you before."

"Well, it's basically done, but since a lot of the information is scattered and there were no abnormalities before, there may be some errors in the derivation of the information."

The female ninja answered unconfidently, and after saying that, she led Tsunade into her office, took down a document from the bookshelf nearby, and placed it in front of Tsunade.

The female ninja made Tsunade a cup of tea and went out to work, leaving Tsunade alone to read the document.

Tsunade opened the intelligence document.

Konoha Ninja Chiba Shiraishi File Records.

It is very different from the previous file.

The previous file information was only a very standard Chunin level. Except for being able to use a medical ninjutsu, the other abilities were very consistent with the Chunin level.

Among the Konoha ninja group, he is definitely an inconspicuous type.

"Controlling clay men, giant water snakes, and black beast-type psychic beasts..."

The Clay Man has a latent ability that is not easily detected by sentient ninjas. He is immortal and will not die even if his body is chopped off or his body is exploded by detonating talismans.

The water snake can be parasitic, and Ninjutsu is ineffective against it. It will be converted into chakra and absorbed, releasing water escape to attack the enemy, creating a favorable environment for fighting. Its destructive power and defensive power are very amazing, and Taijutsu is effective against it.

The black beast can control thunder escape.

But...the problem is that on the night of the battle, the witch was also channeled, and it can be judged that the witch may be a non-human race creature similar to humans.

Or... the psychic technique used by Shiraishi is of a special level.

In addition, it seems that I can also use the shadow technique similar to that of the Nara clan, that is, the secret technique of escape.

The shadow has an entity, and its attack speed is very fierce and rapid. Even jounin is not recommended to fight with it at close range. The safe distance is more than five meters.

It can also mark people with 'marks' and indirectly use physical shadows to assassinate. In order to avoid being noticed by others, the amount of chakra in the shadow will be reduced, resulting in a shorter attachment time and weaker lethality. It must hit the person's fatal part. Form a sure kill.

Whether this is the full strength remains to be determined.

"Where did that brat find these things?"

After reading this, Tsunade frowned tightly.

Based on this information and what the ANBU ninja saw and heard that night, even he himself would not be able to deal with these psychic beasts with special abilities alone.

The large water snake alone is very troublesome.

Especially the ability to absorb chakra and continue fighting is a troublesome type for most ninjas.

As for the following analysis, they are all analyzing his character, comprehensive ability index, and reasons for defecting.

But these analyses... are just a pair of analytical data. As for the specific facts, more information needs to be obtained for analysis.

In Tsunade's opinion, to this extent, the people in the Intelligence Department have done their best.

Except for that night's battle, the other party did not leave any valuable information. When the ANBU went to his residence, all they found were worthless things.

After reading the information, Tsunade sat for a while, then left the intelligence department and went to the Hokage Building to meet her teacher Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Sarutobi-sensei, I want to ask for leave."

"Ask for leave?"

Hiruzen took a break from his busy work.

"I plan to leave the village for a while."

Tsunade said with a serious expression.

"Where to go?"

Hiruzen asked.

"Moist Bone Forest."

"A place where slugs live?"

Hiruzen pondered for a moment. He was originally worried that Tsunade was planning to investigate Shiraishi's matter. Since this was not the case, there was no problem.

After all, the other party's existence is too dangerous.

The intelligence from the Intelligence Department is not comprehensive, and the deeper things have been kept secret.

"Yes, I have something I want to know from Slug."

Although the matter of Minato's resurrection from the dead has been settled, there are still many doubts about many things.

And Tsunade thought that the slugs in the Shiggy Bone Forest might know something.

"While I'm away, you can find someone else to take charge of the school's classes."

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The country of ghosts.

In the forest, the Tianyu girl wearing a miko uniform formed seals with her hands to accumulate chakra.

Wind Escape·Thousand-faced Wind!

Countless small wind blades flashing with faint white light passed through the woods.

Along with the sound of neat cutting, the trees on both sides fell one after another, causing the earth to shake in the forest and raising dust.

This is not over yet, the small wind blade is still swirling, passing over the surface of the fallen tree, peeling off the branches and bark, leaving only the solid inside.

In less than a minute, one person completed a task that took a logging team half a day to complete.

The ninjas of the Ghost Country all around cheered. They used natural energy to easily lift the trees, put them on the transport truck and began to transport the wood back.

On the other side, Thunder Pill turned into lightning, and everyone could only see its figure quickly shuttled through the forest, and then trees fell down, causing cheers.

Tianyu Nu once again used her wind escape to peel off the branches and bark of the fallen trees, and transported them back to the following ninjas.

"It's exhausting work."

Lei Mingwan returned to Tianyunu's shoulder, and he breathed out tiredly, with sweat even appearing on his face.

Although the work is not difficult, the workload is really too much.

Moreover, it consumes a lot of chakra. According to Thundermaru, this is more tiring than fighting the Konoha ninjas.

"Next, there are still stone mines in the western mountains that need to be processed. Let's go, sister."

Tianyu Nu carried Thunder Pill and flew toward the mountains to the west.

——Aster City, the capital of the Kingdom of Ghosts, on the road facing the northern city, transport trucks are driving there, loaded with various stones, wood, and construction materials such as sand.

When the residents along the way saw this scene, they knew that some strange buildings were going to be built in the military-controlled area in the northern city.

Although they were curious about what was going on in the military-controlled area, the residents only had a curiosity and wait-and-see attitude, and had no intention of rejecting it.

Because the Kingdom of Ghosts has always been a neutral country and will not be affected by wars, in the past, the Kingdom of Ghosts has not developed in the military field. The only capable existence in the country is the miko-sama they believe in.

As long as there are witches in the country, the country will not be affected by the war. This is what the residents of the Ghost Country firmly believe.

And the facts proved that they were right.

With such a high prestige, these people will naturally not object to the fact that their miko-sama suddenly wants to set up a special military territory in the country.

After all, no matter what happens, the miko-sama will bless them.

However, there are so many vehicles and various building materials being transported to the military city area in the north that one has to think that there will be some big move there.

Road construction started near Ziyuan City a while ago, but now I don't know what buildings to build.

"Master Shiraishi, the staff has been summoned."

The manager responsible for statistics reports to Shiraishi.

Baishi's current location is in the northernmost part of the North City Military District of Ziyuan City.

Because if you want to expand from this aspect, it is impossible to expand the territory towards the residential and commercial areas, and you can only continue to expand towards the back.

Through the unremitting efforts of the earth escape ninjas within the organization, the heavy stone wall tens of meters high in the north has been disintegrated, exposing a vast plain area.

At the end of the plain, there is a lush forest and lake, and the shadows of the mountains are looming in the thick fog in the distance.

There are more than a thousand people working on this project. Among them, he mobilized 20 ninjas who are proficient in earth escape, and 50 ninjas who have strengthened their strength, speed and physical skills through natural energy. The remaining They are all ordinary workers.

Prior to this, these ninjas had also adapted to construction tasks in advance, so they could quickly get into formal work. After all, ninjas are very adaptable.

It's not that Shiraishi doesn't want to devote all his personnel, but because this is already the limit. There are many places that need manpower now, and it is impossible to devote all of them to construction work.

Thousands of ordinary workers, plus twenty earth-bending ninjas and fifty taijutsu-type ninjas, should be able to complete the project within a month according to the original plan.

After all, the area to be expanded this time is very large, especially the ninja teaching area. This is an important military force of a country and must avoid contact with residential areas and commercial areas.

Like Konoha, ninjas will live in a mixed population at any time, which will reduce their execution ability and confuse the concepts of military and civilians.

In Shiraishi's view, ninjas are soldiers with extraordinary strength and an important department that must be developed by a prosperous and powerful country. Confidentiality must be implemented first.

Ninja schools belong to a category of the military department and must implement absolute confidentiality measures for the safety of those people.

Therefore, from the beginning, Shiraishi completely separated the two different groups of the military and the civilians.

Those who usually move around residential and commercial areas are security department personnel responsible for patrol tasks.

The construction work here was in full swing. Shiraishi walked towards another area. He had been busy with these things for a while and had no time for research.

However, now the organization has gathered a lot of research talents, and it is not only related to ninjutsu and chakra. The study of society and history is also an important subject and requires specialized personnel to solve it.

Shiraishi doesn't think everything can be solved by copying the knowledge from his previous life.

The development history of the two worlds is very different, and there is something special like chakra, so some common sense may be wrong.

Shiraishi spent a lot of effort to find knowledgeable talents in this field, record all their experience and knowledge, and pass them on in the form of books.

In Shiraishi's view, the knowledge of these people is a cultural treasure worth passing on.

Knowing the essence of things, understanding past history, and summarizing experiences and lessons will promote the growth and maturity of the world, instead of being stuck in today's distorted environment and getting stuck in it.

Material is the foundation of everything, but spiritual and ideological civilization can bring society and the world to a higher level and germinate people's will for freedom and peace.

In the world of ninjas, the mere existence of power can only accumulate problems, and then suddenly erupt in a period of time, and successive ninja wars are coming.

This was true during the Warring States Period, and it was also true after the establishment of the one-country-one-village system. The fundamental problem has not been resolved.

But it is not that there is no growth. At least, a complete formation of a country has been formed.

In the past, countries relied on hiring ninja groups to invade other countries' territories. They only had achievements in the economic and political fields and lacked important military power.

Because in essence, those ninja clans do not belong to any country. This powerful military force exists independently.

After the establishment of one country and one village, the Ninja clan established Ninja villages. The Ninja villages attracted more Ninja clans to join, forming a powerful military force and belonging to the country.

The country is then complete.

In Shiraishi's view, this was the achievement that the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan truly deserved recognition for.

It promotes the integrity of the country and allows the country to no longer rely on hiring external ninja forces, but to develop its own ninja military power and achieve better personnel and wealth management.

Someone is responsible for the work here, and Shiraishi doesn't need to stay here all the time.

Next, Shiraishi plans to conduct on-site inspections in various areas of the Ghost Country to see if there are any problems that he has not noticed.

Shiraishi has always believed that without actual investigation, there is no right to speak.

Such people are disastrous as leaders.

"Shiraishi-kun, don't you plan to go back tonight?"

Walking on a path leading to the countryside of the Ghost Country, Ayane was bored and looked for a topic with Shiraishi.

"Well, because the inspection work takes a long time, we need to summarize the problems as soon as possible."

"It's okay to leave this kind of thing to the people below."

"No, this is very important. I have to investigate it myself before I can rest assured. Road construction can be completed in three months or half a year. Because you can use ninjutsu to cheat and promote the completion of the work. But education cannot, education There is no means of cheating, it is a long-term work, and it must be carried out according to the actual situation."

Shiraishi said.

There are ninjas in the ninja world, which are completely different from ordinary people.

There is a big difference in education between the two.

You can't develop ninjas with the education methods of ordinary people, and you can't use the education methods of ninjas to teach ordinary people.

Coupled with the national environment and family environment of each person, the choices they face will also be complicated and changeable.

"I always find it troublesome."

Ayane walked this path, because it was a remote place, so the road surface was not very neat.

The engineering team for road repair has not yet started work here, and it may take some time before the road can be paved here.

It didn't take long for them to come to a secluded village in the ghost country.

Because there is no war involved, even in this impoverished village, it seems that the villagers here are happy and living here in peace.

Compared with most places in the ninja world, this place is like a paradise on earth.

"Is it an outsider? We haven't had an outsider come to our village for a long time."

The old woman holding the heavy package asked with a smile.

"Yes, mother-in-law. You look tired, let me help you."

"Excuse me, young man."

The old woman hesitated for a moment, and asked Baishi to take the package she had just carried on her shoulders.

"It's all right. But what's in it, so heavy?"

Shiraishi felt that the package was very heavy, so he asked curiously.

"It's a souvenir from a neighboring village... just go to the front."

"OK."

Shiraishi took Ayane and followed the old woman into the village.

Stability is certain, but it is not linked to wealth.

"By the way, are you two a traveling couple?"

the old woman asked with a smile.

Before Shiraishi could answer, Ayane took the initiative and squeezed her breasts against Shiraishi's arm. She smiled happily at the old woman and said, "Yes, I am his fiancée, right, my dear?"

Bai Shi glanced at her wordlessly, and he really knew how to push his nose and face.

"I can see that you have a good relationship."

"Well, because we are childhood sweethearts, we plan to get married soon."

Ayane replied.

Shiraishi felt that Ayane was exaggerating more and more.

But this shouldn’t be a lie, right?

"That's it, then congratulations."

The old woman also congratulated her.

Soon we arrived in front of the old woman's house. There was a single wooden house surrounded by a courtyard wall made of railings. There were some wild vegetables growing in the yard. Her life was very simple and simple.

"Put it here."

The old woman pointed to a place.

Shiraishi placed the package containing souvenirs on the ground beside him.

"I'm really sorry to trouble you. It's getting late now. Do you and your fiancées want to have dinner here?"

Just when Shiraishi was about to refuse, Ayane hugged Shiraishi's arm and said with a blush: "In fact, the reason why we are traveling this time is to experience rural life, so please entertain me, mother-in-law."

"No trouble, I'll cook, you two can do whatever you want."

It had been a long time since she had guests at home for dinner. The old woman seemed to be in a good mood and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

"Really, don't make decisions for me casually."

Because there was no chair, Shiraishi could only sit next to him and whispered to Ayane helplessly.

"Anyway, you are here to observe the rural environment of the Ghost Country, so this should be considered one of the fieldwork tasks. And the old woman looks quite lonely. She will be very happy if we stay for dinner."

Ayane let go of Shiraishi's arm and answered.

Hearing what Ayane said, although it was slightly different from his original plan, the purpose was basically the same.

He originally planned to conduct an overall survey of the village and learn more about the people here tomorrow.

"Also, I'm suddenly full of expectations for tonight. The countryside seems pretty good too."

A beautiful smile appeared on Ayane's face.