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Chapter 589 A casual trip

The country of earth, the village of Iwagakure.

Lao Zi prepared dinner for himself at home as usual.

He learned to cook when he was very young.

But this is not because Lao Zi is born more sensible, but because his parents died before he can remember, and cooking is a survival skill for him.

In fact, it also has something to do with his identity as a jinchūriki. As a jinchūriki, Lao Zi is basically hated by everyone in the Iwagakure Village.

Although he didn't get to eat anything with added ingredients, seeing those people all having such grumpy faces made Lao Zi lose his appetite.

So Lao Zi basically buys groceries and cooks for himself.

After all, Lao Zi can choose the vegetables by himself when buying vegetables without worrying about buying bad ones.

However, Lao Zi, who has rich cooking experience, made a lot of mistakes today. The fish was burnt and the seasoning of the soup was a mess.

"Oonoki, is this your choice?" Lao Zi finished eating the burnt fish with a complicated expression and took a sip of the bowl of vegetable soup with too much salt.

The Anbu didn't disappear, they just replaced them.

Thinking from a darker perspective, perhaps it was the stronger Anbu who prevented him from really escaping.

Lao Zi sighed deeply and began to clean up the dishes.

"Are we leaving?" Lao Zi asked Siwei in his heart.

Lao Zi was still hesitant.

He was not a indecisive person, but this was a big deal, a big deal for both him and the Iwagakure Village.

Lao Zi is stubborn, not incapable of thinking.

If he ran away at this time, it would be a big blow to the Iwagakure Village.

Jinchūriki is not only a top combat force for the ninja village.

The Jinchūriki has an extraordinary suppressive power over the ninja troops.

The Tailed Beast Ball can easily destroy mountains, and a Jinchūriki with the ability to fully transform into a tailed beast can fire several times in a row.

If it were a ninja, even those top-notch ninjas who are well-known in the ninja world, there would be no way they could do this, because the chakra gap between humans and tailed beasts is too big.

"Although I am inside you, if you leave I will also leave, but my advice is that you make your own decision." The Four-Tailed One replied.

From its own perspective, the Four-Tails is inclined to leave the Iwagakure Village.

He is a tailed beast with self-awareness, and of course he is unwilling to be imprisoned by the Iwagakure Village and used as a weapon.

But Siwei approved of Lao Zi, and he didn't want to interfere with Lao Zi's choice.

Otherwise, Lao Zi would regret leaving in the future, and it would be a bit embarrassing for him as the person who helped make the decision.

"I asked you because I can't make a decision myself." Lao Zi said helplessly.

If he could make a decisive decision, he wouldn't have asked the Four-Tailed Fox.

"You don't have to be like this. In fact, there are only two options. One is to stay, and the other is to leave. If you want to stay, stay. If you want to leave, leave." Siwei advised.

Lao Zi fell into deep thought. Although Siwei's words seemed like nonsense, they did point out the core.

Maybe he didn't need to think so complicatedly about the impact of his departure on Iwagakure, and whether he would be wanted and hunted down.

What he really needs to consider is whether he wants to stay or leave.

At this moment, many memories emerged in Lao Zi's mind.

He thought of himself practicing hard as a child.

Because of his status as a Jinchūriki, he was disliked by the ninjas and residents of the Iwagakure Village.

So at that time, Lao Zi thought, if he could control the power of the tailed beasts, would everyone be able to treat him as an ordinary person.

He can control the power of the tailed beasts and won't go out of control. In a sense, he is just a ninja with more chakra.

However, it turns out that hard work does not necessarily lead to success, and the attitude of the Iwagakure and residents towards him did not change because of this.

Of course, it’s not true to say that he hasn’t changed at all. After he became stronger, not many people dared to show their displeasure to him openly.

But the change Lao Zi wanted was not this kind of change.

Then Lao Zi thought of the recent war.

He followed Iwakuni's orders and transformed into a complete tailed beast, using the Tailed Beast Ball to lead the ninja troops to successfully break out.

In fact, Lao Zi didn't think about getting any rewards at the beginning.

Although he successfully led the troops to break through, this way of breaking out, even if he was acting according to Yan Ku's orders, is still not something that can be praised.

Because on their road of retreat there was not only the blood of the enemy, but also the blood of their companions.

But he really didn't expect that he would be under surveillance because of this, and even after he explained everything, they still didn't withdraw.

Lao Zi sometimes thinks that if he had not listened to Iwakuni's orders in that battle, had not fully transformed into a tailed beast, and had not used the Tailed Beast Ball on the ninja troops, he might have been called a war hero after his death.

Instead of leading the troops to successfully break through, he became a monster that killed his companions.

The conversation with Ōnoki in the office, the discussions he heard on the street, the strange looks from others, all these memories appeared in Lao Zi's mind.

The confusion on Lao Zi’s face disappeared. Now that things have come to this, there is only one answer.

"I want to leave." Lao Zi said firmly to Siwei.

After saying this, Lao Zi seemed to have unloaded a huge burden, and he felt a lot more relaxed.

After thinking it over carefully, Lao Zi found that he didn't need to find a reason to leave, as he had almost no reason to stay.

Why could he stay?

For the Anbu who were watching him? For the Iwagakure ninjas and residents who didn't see him as a human? Or for Ōnoki who wanted to train him into a tailed beast weapon without emotions?

"Haha, it seems that you have completely figured it out in your mind." Siwei smiled with relief.

Siwei knew everything that Lao Zi encountered, and he had been watching silently from inside Lao Zi's body.

I watched helplessly as a hardworking young boy gradually turned into a lonely and stubborn adult.

In the eyes of the Four-Tails, Lao Zi doesn't owe Iwagakure anything, but rather it is Iwagakure that owes Lao Zi.

Lao Zi became the Jinchūriki not because he begged Ōnoki to do so.

Moreover, Lao Zi also carried out many missions for Iwagakure, and after the war started, he also risked his life for Iwagakure.

In the eyes of the Four-Tail, Lao Zi is essentially no different from him. They are both poor people who are restricted by the Iwagakure Village.

It’s just that the Four-Tails did not come from the Iwagakure Village, but Lao Zi was born in the Iwagakure Village.

"Let that old man Ohnoki regret it." Lao Zi put away the washed dishes and smiled.

Today he would let Ohnoki know that he, Lao Zi, was a man of his words.

Then Lao Zi walked out of the room and read quietly in the yard.

He planned to leave late at night.

Although he was leaving, Lao Zi had no intention of making a big deal out of it. Those Iwagakure ninjas and villagers were annoying but their crimes did not deserve the death penalty.

His leaving the village was already a big trouble for the Iwagakure Village, so there was no need to create additional trouble.

As time went by, the Iwagakure Anbu who was monitoring Lao Zi felt something was strange, because Lao Zi read for too long this time. Normally, Lao Zi would not read for so long in the yard. However, this change was too small to be considered abnormal, so the Iwagakure Anbu did not contact Oonoki, but just recorded it.

"It's almost done." Lao Zi looked around at the dark surroundings, closed the book, walked back into the house and put the book back on the bookshelf.

This is his home after all. He cannot leave in a messy manner. Maybe he will have the chance to come back and live here in the future.

After cleaning the house, Lao Zi went straight to the place where the Iwagakure Anbu was hiding.

He was worried that there might be sentient ninjas among the surveillance Anbu, and if he simply used earth escape to leave, he might be discovered immediately.

"They actually discovered it?" The Anbu was slightly stunned when they saw Lao Zi approaching without any concealment.

He knew the reason why he was replaced, but he didn't expect that Lao Zi's anti-reconnaissance ability was so strong that he discovered them so quickly.

"Lao Zi, what do you want to do? Attacking the Anbu is a serious crime." The Anbu appeared and warned.

He was not panicking. The last wave of Anbu that were discovered did not fight with Lao Zi, so he thought that Lao Zi would not attack the Anbu.

Lao Zi smiled. He was already about to leave the Iwagakure Village, but he still wanted to use this to scare him.

Whoosh!
Without saying a word, Lao Zi exploded the huge chakra in his body, flashed behind the two Iwagakure Anbu, and swung out a heavy hand knife.

boom!boom!
Two Iwagakure ANBU fell to the ground.

After knocking out the Anbu, Lao Zi hid them, then quickly escaped underground and rushed towards the outskirts of the Iwagakure Village.

Lao Zi doesn't know how to knock people out, his success depends entirely on strength.

However, because Lao Zi didn't want to kill anyone, he deliberately controlled his strength, which resulted in Lao Zi not knowing how long the two people would be unconscious.

To be on the safe side, it is better to run away early.

In order to help Lao Zi escape from the Iwagakure Village, the Four-Tails devoted all its energy to refining chakra to assist Lao Zi, allowing Lao Zi's strength to reach its peak.

The Four-Tails is also very excited now. After being captured and used as a power bank in the Iwagakure Village for so many years, it finally got out.

After rushing out of the Iwagakure Village, Lao Zi returned to the ground and looked back at his hometown where he had lived for decades.

When he first thought about leaving the village, he was full of conflicts.

When he figured everything out, he still felt a little reluctant to leave the Iwagakure Village.

But when he knocked out the Anbu, Lao Zi felt a sense of relief.

Now that they were outside the Iwagakure Village, Lao Zi felt extremely happy, without a single regret in his heart.

"Ohnoki, I hope you don't get constipated from being angry, haha."

Lao Zi laughed and released chakra while continuing to move forward at high speed.

There was no one in the Iwagakure Village that he cared about, and no one who cared about him. If you think about it carefully, it was indeed not worth remembering.

On the other side, the night shift members of the Iwagakure Barrier Squad noticed that someone broke out of the Iwagakure Village from underground and immediately reported the information.

After waking up, the knocked-out Iwagakure Anbu member hurriedly passed on the information that Lao Zi had attacked the Anbu.

"Sandaime-sama, something bad has happened!"

Hearing the voice of the Anbu, Oonoki, who was originally sleeping, suddenly sat up.

"What happened?" Oonoki asked after quickly putting on a piece of clothing.

It must be an extremely important matter if it is worth waking him up from his sleep.

"The Four-Tails Jinchuriki, Lao Zi, knocked out the Anbu who was protecting him and broke out of the village alone." The Anbu reported quickly.

"How dare he!" Ohnoki's eyes widened and his fists clenched.

He didn't expect that Lao Zi was so active. He just said he would make him regret it during the day, and then he escaped from the Iwagakure Village at night.

However, Ohnoki knew that this was not the time to worry about Lao Zi's personality, so he immediately gave a stern order:

"Immediately send people to search secretly, and notify the border teams to search for Lao Zi as well. We must not let Lao Zi leave the Land of Earth!"

It would be more troublesome if the Jinchūriki ran away than if he died in battle.

After the Jinchūriki dies in battle, the Tailed Beast will be resurrected after a period of time. At that time, the Tailed Beast will be captured and a suitable ninja will be found to seal it into its body, and a new Jinchūriki will be created.

If the Jinchūriki runs away, then the situation becomes complicated.

If the Jinchūriki keeps hiding in a corner and doesn't come out until the other party dies, Iwagakure will lose a tailed beast forever.

It would be even worse if the Jinchūriki was abducted by other ninja villages.
These are things that Oonoki cannot tolerate.

"Gather all the ninjas who know the truth and have them keep the matter of Lao Zi's escape a secret. Never let other ninja villages know about it." Ohnoki continued to order.

If Lao Zi had any common sense, he would not reveal his identity as a Jinchūriki in public.

Because this is seeking death.

I wonder if the Great Ninja Village where Lao Zi escaped would take the opportunity to kill Lao Zi, so that the Iwagakure Village would have one less human sacrifice.

The ninja village that knows that Lao Shi has escaped may also have ideas about the tailed beast in Lao Shi's body.

In short, if Lao Zi dares to reveal the identity of the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, there will be no good result.

This gave Oonoki an opportunity to disguise himself.

Although Lao Zi ran away, he can pretend that Lao Zi did not run away, and the Iwagakure Village still has two Jinchuriki.

Jinchūriki is not a super weapon that will be deployed easily.

As long as Lao Zi does not show up outside, the enemies of the Iwagakure Village will have to consider Lao Zi's combat power when they are at war with the Iwagakure.

"Yes!" The Anbu replied with his head down, and quickly slipped away to carry out Oonoki's arrangements.

"It has come to this." Ohnoki rubbed his brows with a headache.

He really didn't expect that Lao Zi would run away just like that. This was the village where he was born and raised. Just abandoning him like that?

Didn't you pay any attention to the Will of Stone course at the Ninja School? Or maybe the teacher was just too bad.

"We should have taken this matter more seriously." Oonoki sighed.

He felt a little regretful that he shouldn't have just changed a batch of Anbu at that time.

Judging from the current results, he should have abolished the surveillance at that time, or significantly strengthened the surveillance force.

Given Oonoki's personality, he would tend to lean towards the latter.

Today, Lao Zi’s request is that he doesn’t want to be monitored. Will he have other requests tomorrow?
Ōnoki doesn't want to compromise and end up with a lawless Jinchūriki.

Since Lao Zi has already taken action to defect, he must have thought about it before.

As for a Jinchūriki who had thoughts of defecting and "accidentally killed" many of his companions on the battlefield, Ōnoki felt that monitoring him was the right choice.

However, even though Ohnoki didn't want to think about it, an idea flashed through his mind.

Perhaps, it’s not just Lao Zi who is stubborn, he himself is the same.

If one of them was not so stubborn, the result would be different.

Ōnoki quickly changed his clothes and rushed to the Tsuchikage Building.

There is no point in thinking about all those random things. Lao Zi has already defected, and no matter what assumptions you make, this fact will not change.

What he needs to consider most now is how to minimize the impact of this incident on Iwagakure.

(End of this chapter)