Gou in the Ninja World

"So it's you, where is Sister Qin?"

She asked quickly, since Taro appeared, there has been no movement of a second person in the forest.

"Quickly!"

I saw Taro's face rushing, he gasped, his whole body covered with sweat, his face flushed with excessive exercise, and when he saw the appearance of Akiko, he said impatiently.

"Go and save Sister Qin!"

Chapter 236 Nine Cities

"Is it here?"

About twenty minutes later, according to Taro's description, Yukimura and the others rushed to a mountain road ten kilometers away from their home.

"Ok."

Taro looked around, nodding, choking in his mouth.

"It's here, Sister Qin is here to let me go first, and then fight the hounds."

"Damn it!"

Yudou ran around, searching all kinds of places, but found nothing, and finally stomped his feet, anxiously.

"There is nothing around here!"

"hateful!"

Akiko bit her lip and said unwillingly.

After learning about the crisis, they had already rushed over as quickly as possible, but they were still one step over. When they arrived, both sister Qin and the hounds who chased them had already disappeared without a trace.

"Uuuuu... blame me."

Taro squatted on the ground and cried, saying that they should have come back safely, but because he accidentally leaked his mouth and caused other people's suspicion, they became like this.

"So I said, I shouldn't let Taro go."

Yuto said angrily, the original act of finding food, which would contact the outside world, was a very dangerous thing in itself, so it used to be that the two of them went out with Sister Koto instead, and Taro had just joined and added his age. She was still young, and always belonged to the group who stayed behind, and this time, it was also Qin sister who felt that Taro should receive some exercise, so she insisted on taking Taro to set off, and something happened.

"It's already happened, what good is it for you to talk about it?"

Compared to Youdou, Jingzi was obviously calmer. Although she was also anxious, she knew very well that the most important thing at the moment was to find the whereabouts of the elder sister, not to pursue responsibility.

"Let's see if I can find some clues."

Several people were arguing nearby. Yukimura didn't interrupt, but carefully looked at everything around him.

There were not many traces of the battle at the scene, a few messy footprints, squashed hay and broken branches, other than that, there were no traces of ninjutsu.

Although he was not born in a tracking force, Yukimura also has some understanding of trace investigation.

Most of the ninja battles are traceable. Once ninjutsu is used to fight, it will leave traces of ninjutsu on the scene, the burning caused by the fire escape, the moisture caused by the water escape, the sharp section caused by the wind escape, and the thunder. The electric burn of the escape and the irregular state of the ground caused by the earth escape are the marks left by the ninjas fighting. Through these marks, the experienced ninja can analyze the opponent's number, strength and the type of ninjutsu that has been used. Wait, these traces are difficult to completely eliminate.

However, at the scene in front of him at this time, there was no sign of anyone using ninjutsu, indicating that no one had used ninjutsu with obvious traces during the battle.

"Is it the only type of combat? Or, because the time is too short, there is no time to use ninjutsu"

Yukimura thought, judging from the few traces on the scene, he prefers the second type, because if it is a physical exercise duel, there are too few footprints and other traces in front of him. It is not that the physical exercise ninja has never been exposed. , Those people fight, at least the movement will be five times chaotic than here.

From this point of view, their opponents this time are a bit level.

Yudou and their strengths had been learned by observation when Yuto came along. Judging from their body shape, movement and speed, they were about the level of ordinary Shinnin, and they knew from their mouths that most of what they knew Ninjas of the same age are of this kind of strength.

And the Qin sister in their mouth, I heard that she is stronger than them, so maybe she is a stronger Xian Ren or Zhong Ren

Yudou and Akiko, who were obviously fifteen or sixteen years old, only had the strength similar to that of Twelve Xiaoqiang at about twelve or even slightly weaker at first, but after thinking about it, they were relieved. The ninjas of the world are always in a state of hunting and fleeing, trying to hide themselves every day, carefully not to be discovered by the outside world, neither time nor energy can be focused on cultivation, plus due to hundreds of years of hunting, powerful ninjas have been The slaughter was exhausted, and the survivors also lost important inheritance. It is normal for the overall level of the ninja to decline after such generations.

In other words, should the general strength of the ninja of this era be weaker than that of your own era?

Yukimura thought in his heart that this was good news for him. It was better to find that the shadow ranks were walking all over the floor, and the people who could not bear the dogs were better than the dragons.

Of course, this is only the status quo on the ninja side. What is the empire side in detail, we have to learn more about it. Perhaps this incident is an opportunity.

"Akiko, let me ask, generally speaking, where will the ninja be taken after being caught"

After thinking about it this way, he asked Jingzi.

"Generally speaking..."

Jingzi froze for a moment, recalled.

"Most ninjas are killed on the spot, and some..."

She suddenly reacted. Since there were no blood stains at the scene, it indicated that Sister Qin had a high probability of not being dead. Since she was not dead, she did not appear here, either she escaped or was taken somewhere.

Judging from the current situation, the possibility of escape is relatively small, because according to Taro's description, it is already very difficult for him to escape from the situation they encountered at the time, and it is almost impossible for both of them to escape. Things, and, until now, they have not received a message or mark.

Therefore, the high probability should be taken away.

"By the way, it's Takino Castle, they must have gone to Takino Castle."

At this moment, Jingzi suddenly thought of something and exclaimed excitedly.

"Taki City"

Yukimura frowned, what a strange name.

"Well, in addition to the various small cities all over the world, the empire has also established nine giant cities in the world, each of which can accommodate tens of millions of people. They are called the City of Fire, the City of Earth, and the City of Thunder. The City of Wind, the City of Water, the City of Taki, the City of Grass, the City of Rain, and the City of Iron. Except for the ninja, many people live in the city. If the hunting dog catches sister Koto, you should finally I will be taken there too. The nearest to us is Takino Castle, and it takes about half a day to go west.

"Fire City, Earth City, Thunder City, Wind City, Water City, Taki City, Grass City, Rain City, and Iron City”

Yukimura muttered to himself, isn’t this a variant of the country of fire, the country of earth, the country of thunder, the country of wind, the country of water, the country of Taki, the fruit of grass, the country of rain, and the country of iron?

They are all the names of countries that once existed, and they are all countries that have their own sovereignty and force. In this way, this empire must have a great relationship with the Ninja world before it, not the kind of wasteland after the war. A new country re-established.

The giant city that can accommodate tens of millions of people and is connected to the kingdoms that existed before, he feels more and more interesting. Yukimura is sure that the emergence of this empire is not that simple, maybe it has a lot of connection with the Ninja Village at that time .

"Are you sure which Takino Castle was taken to?"

Yukimura asked again, it took them about 20 minutes to get here from their place of residence, and it takes at least 20 minutes for Taro to get back from here, and once back and forth, then there is a 40-minute time difference, that is, It took more than half an hour for the person who took the piano to leave.

Half an hour’s journey, it’s not easy to catch up, especially if the opponent's skills are far more than Akiko and others, the gap will become even greater, let alone not knowing the opponent's course of action, even for Yukimura. It may not be able to catch up.

Therefore, the best way is to go straight to the other party's destination.

For Yukimura, this is also a favorable choice. Taki City, one of the nine giant cities established by the empire, may be able to learn some secrets of the empire through this operation and find a connection with the previous one.