Under the tutelage of Orochimaru, Naruto's evil scientist

Chapter 553: A Divine Artifact that Travels Through Time and Space

Haibo Town is an ordinary town on the border of the Fire Kingdom. It is close to the sea and is a veritable sea view room. However, this place also has its own special features, that is, Haibo Town is the place in the Fire Kingdom that is closest to the Wave Kingdom.

The Fire Kingdom is not very big, and Amemiya Kenichi and his group arrived at Haibo Town after walking for a few days. The bandits they were going to suppress this time were in the forest not far from Haibo Town. That group of bandits invaded this small town from time to time, and the people here were suffering.

"But now that the ninja is here, there is a blue sky!" Looking at the Haibo Town in front of him, a line inexplicably rang in Kenichi Amamiya's mind, and then he shook his head and put the idea behind him.

"Brother, look there!" Naruto excitedly tugged at Kenichi Amemiya's clothes. The journey was very interesting except at the beginning, but after walking for a day, Naruto found it very boring.

Now that he finally saw his destination, Naruto instantly became excited.

Kenichi Amemiya looked in the direction Naruto pointed, and saw a bridge looming on the foggy sea, but because the distance was far, only a vague outline could be seen.

"Is that a bridge? Was it built by the Kingdom of Waves?" Kenichi Amemiya took a look at the bridge. That is where the main plot of the Kingdom of Waves takes place, and it will be named Naruto Bridge in the future.

But now that they have arrived here, they don’t know which team has taken on the mission from the Kingdom of Waves.

"That is not within the scope of our mission this time. Let's go. We need to collect some intelligence first." Kakashi glanced at the bridge in the distance.

As a jonin of Konoha and a former Anbu, Kakashi knew something about the bridge. The Wave Country had submitted an application to Konoha to build a bridge. After all, it would connect the two countries, and no matter what, it needed to be informed to the Fire Country.

The Fire Nation had no objection to this. The money and manpower for building the bridge were all provided by the Wave Nation. They only needed to open Haibo Town as the first commercial town connecting to the Wave Nation.

However, the proposal was submitted for a long time, but there seems to be no movement on the bridge. Perhaps something went wrong within the Kingdom of Waves.

It has nothing to do with them.

Amemiya Ken nodded without saying anything more. Sasuke was even less interested. A small country whose name only appeared on the map was not worth his concern.

Hinata looked around curiously. As the head of the Hyuga clan, she seldom went out. For some reason, her father agreed this time.

This also made Hinata very excited and even a little curious.

So after changing out of their ninja uniforms and forehead protectors, they walked into Haibo Town and found an inn to stay in temporarily, which was paid for by Kakashi.

"Okay, as Team 7's first C-rank mission, I need you to collect some relevant information and meet up at the inn in the evening." Kakashi explained the mission.

"Then what are you doing, teacher?" Naruto asked Kakashi.

"Me? Of course I took a shower and had a good rest." Kakashi looked at Naruto strangely and said as a matter of course. Naruto's face fell instantly.

Sasuke didn't care. The time he spent with Kakashi had made him certain that Kakashi was indeed a powerful jonin, but his personality was really infuriating.

"Go ahead, collect information." Amemiya Kenichi didn't care. Kakashi obviously intended to train them.

With Amemiya Ken speaking, Sasuke and Naruto didn't say anything, but took Hinata out. Kakashi yawned and followed silently behind.

It is naturally impossible not to follow. Team 7 certainly needs training, but Naruto is Konoha's Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and nothing can happen to him. What's more, there is also a Hyuga Hinata. This is why the Sandaime asked him to come and lead the team.

"Sasuke, where do you think we should go to gather intelligence?" Walking on the road, Naruto looked around curiously. It was the first time he came to such a far place, and he was curious about everything.

"We just need to ask the bandits which direction they like to come from, and then search for information in that direction." Sasuke shrugged. Finding a person is similar to finding a cat.

It's all about collecting intelligence, looking for traces, and then surrounding and capturing them. It's the same routine.

"It's almost like looking for a cat." Hinata thought of the painful torture they had experienced before. In order to find the cats and dogs that kept getting lost, they ran all over Konoha.

Now Sasuke knows all the places in Konoha and is familiar with the map of Konoha. This is probably the significance of the D-level mission.

Naruto nodded thoughtfully. There are some similarities between finding a cat and finding a person, but finding a person is more troublesome. After all, these people will deliberately hide themselves, but cats will not.

However, Naruto did not expect these ordinary bandits to know how to hide themselves. For ninjas, ordinary people's hiding methods were too poor.

Soon, Sasuke found out that the bandits often appeared in the west of Haibo Town, and Naruto and Hinata also got the same information.

"Sasuke, do you think we should go back to the hotel and meet up with Kakashi-sensei or go directly?" Naruto rubbed his hands. It was his first time to carry out a C-rank mission and he was really excited.

"I think we should first look for the gathering place of those bandits, otherwise Kakashi will definitely ask us to look for it again." Sasuke also felt that going out to look for it was a good choice. Hinata nodded after hearing this. She had no objection. What Naruto said was right.

What's more, it is not easy to encounter ninjas in C-level missions.

"Let's go. We can come back after we find the location of those bandits." Naruto decided to go and take a look. He was also a little itchy.

So Naruto took Hinata and Sasuke out of Haibo Town, and behind them, Kakashi followed and touched them while watching the intimate paradise.

There are forests all around Haibo Town, except for the side facing the sea. I have to say that the natural environment of the ninja world is really good.

In the forest, Kenichi Amemiya was searching patiently. The Konoha ninjas had not found what he needed yet, so he planned to come out and look for it. Soon he saw some traces and even a mark similar to a horseshoe.

"Horse?" Amamiya Ken was stunned for a moment. Are there horses in the Naruto world? Or do these bandits have horses?
He vaguely remembered that the animal horse didn't seem to exist in the anime he watched, and the only time it appeared seemed to be in the movie version.

"But it should be these guys." Amemiya Kenichi looked at the hoof prints. There were quite a few of these bandits. "We found their footprints, but now we need to confirm where their base camp is." Amemiya Kenichi looked at the hoof prints on the ground. These guys didn't seem to have any sense of defense. Maybe they thought no one would find their footprints.

Kenichi Amemiya stood up again and looked around. Naruto and Sasuke had not found this place yet.

Kenichi Amemiya did not intervene either. He just sat aside and watched. The clues here were obvious and should be visible.

After a while, Sasuke and Naruto found this place.

"There are hoof prints here, and a lot of them. I suspect they are from those bandits." Naruto pointed at the hoof prints on the ground, and Sasuke was eager to try.

"Let's go." Sasuke was not worried about anything going wrong. He took Naruto and followed the hoof prints deep into the forest. Soon Sasuke found something wrong.

"This hoof print seems to break here." Sasuke looked ahead. This was a canyon. There was a road on the other side, but there was a gap of more than 20 meters in the middle. There were steep rock protrusions below. Although there was sea water, ordinary people could definitely not get through at this height.

Naruto lay down beside and took a look, then swallowed his saliva. He felt a little nervous at this height. It would be very difficult to get up again if he fell down.

Kenichi Amemiya, squatting on the treetops, seemed to be thinking about something. He just glanced at the opposite side and didn't see any place to hang a rope. The trees here were close to the sea, so they were not very thick, so it was difficult to hang people over, plus there were strong winds that blew from time to time.

It can be said that it is very difficult to hang over, and those guys are carrying heavier weight after robbing money, so it is very dangerous to get through.

"This canyon is so long that I can't even see the end." Naruto looked into the distance. Although he couldn't see the end of the canyon, just looking at its length he knew it would take a lot of time to go around it.

"It seems these guys are quite clever." Sasuke glanced at the hoof prints on the ground. The hoof prints stopped here and there were no obvious traces around. If you didn't know, you would think these guys were all monsters that could fly.

Hinata noticed something strange.

She looked at the edge of the canyon, where there were some low bushes, but they were growing in a strange way. She walked over, pulled apart the bushes and took a look, then found a very thin fiber on one of the thorns.

"They went this way." Looking at the soil around without any traces, Hinata became interested. She originally thought that these bandits were a bunch of fools, but she didn't expect that they still had some good points.

After finding the trail, Naruto and his friends soon discovered some signs of dragging ahead, but the hoof prints were gone, so they didn't know what was going on.

After walking for a while, Naruto finally stopped.

"These guys." Sasuke looked at the place where the dragging marks disappeared, then looked at the beach in front and the black shadows in the distance, and fell into deep thought.

The traces of retreat disappeared on the beach, and there were no traces ahead. The waves that washed over every day took away all traces, but it also gave Naruto and Sasuke some new ideas.

"They...can't be from the Land of Waves, right?" Sasuke hesitated. Although he felt that this possibility was unlikely, the problem was that the trace ended here.

"Did you come by boat?" Hinata tiptoed and looked at the unfinished cross-sea bridge in the distance. A little outline could be seen here.

"It should be from the Land of Waves, unless they have other intentions to cover it up here." Naruto said excitedly.

Amemiya Kenichi pinched his brows. How come we have to go to the Land of Waves again? However, this mission involves the Land of Waves. Will it still be a C-level mission?

You have to know that there is Zabuza Momochi in the Land of Waves. Judging from the time, he should have accepted Cardo's employment and is preparing to kill the client of the bridge builder.

But after searching the area, no other clues were found.

"Let's go back and talk to teacher Kakashi." Sasuke looked at the bridge in the distance, then looked around. Kakashi didn't come out. He didn't know whether he was not there or didn't want to come out.

Naruto and Hinata had no objection and followed Sasuke to leave the beach. When they returned to the hotel, Kakashi was wiping his wet hair and blow-drying it.

"Any clues?" Kakashi asked calmly. Although he was blow-drying his hair, his eyes were still covered, so the Sharingan in his eyes could not be seen.

"Teacher Kakashi, we found some clues, but they seem to be bandits from the Land of Waves." Naruto simply and directly stated the clues they had investigated.

If it was just in the mountains and forests, then we could just go there and suppress the bandits and be done with it. However, there would be some trouble in the Land of Waves. This would involve the diplomacy of the two countries, and Kenichi Amemiya didn't know how Konoha would deal with it.

"Then let's go to the Land of Waves, find them out and kill them." Kakashi said naturally.

Everything seems very normal and natural, as if this is how the world is.

The ninjas fought high and mighty, vying for power, but ordinary people could only passively endure everything. Even after the Fourth Ninja World War, the situation in the ninja world did not change much. At most, it became more peaceful, and this was still based on the super-powerful military force of Naruto and Sasuke.

Kenichi Amemiya held his chin and looked at Naruto and Sasuke. They didn't seem to have any other thoughts and seemed to be accustomed to such things.

In other words, for ninjas, only a small number of them will realize that something is wrong with this world.

Under the leadership of Kakashi, Hinata, Naruto and others also boarded the ship to the Land of Waves. The big sign of Cardo Shipping Company on the ship was very conspicuous.

Kenichi Amemiya yawned. Cardo was a rich man, a very rich man. After all, he was a world-famous tycoon.

But Cardo is about to die. If the plot can develop normally, Cardo will definitely die. Then, Cardo's savings should be divided up by those thugs. Kenichi Amemiya has no interest in money, but he also needs money now.

He planned to go to the Jinso to offer a reward to find the thing that hit him. He recalled for a long time before he remembered some of the outlines he saw at the time. That thing should have the ability to travel through time and space, otherwise he would not have come to this damn place.

(End of this chapter)