Konoha's Master of Illusion

Chapter 16 The journey is hard

The carriage traveled all the way through the vast jungle outside Konoha Village, and occasionally could see other oncoming convoys, regardless of size, all loaded with cargo.

This is also a normal phenomenon. Konoha is also the most prosperous central area of ​​the Fire Country except the capital. After all, in this era of ninjas, the military power of a country is in the hands of each ninja village.Although the country is nominally ruled by the daimyo, in some places such as the Kingdom of Wind, or some places like the Kingdom of Rain, the capital where the daimyo is located cannot compare with the domestic shinobi villages in terms of size or population.

If it weren't for the existence of the Otsutsuki clan and its bloodline, Tetsuya felt that in a few decades this weird system of one country and one village would probably be overthrown and simply become Konoha Country or something.

The historical stories he knew were all like this. If a country cannot firmly grasp the use of force, it is unlikely to have a solid foundation for rule.

But this has little to do with him.

When he stopped on the roadside to rest at noon, Zheye helped Chika collect some wood fuel for lighting the fire, and then divided a few bowls of hot bacon jerky to cook vegetable soup with hard dry food. After a simple lunch, he wandered around again. After a few laps, I caught a pretty big pheasant.

Soon after setting off again, the weather became gloomy, and thick black clouds were brewing thunder and rain at the end of the field of vision ahead, and they were rushing in quickly.

"This weather is really bad."

Hong touched his forehead, and a drop of rain just fell on it.

"Is it going to rain?"

Hinata woke up and just asked, when she felt thin raindrops coming towards her face.

Zhe also took out the folded raincoat from his arms and threw it on the roof of the car:
"Put it on quickly, it's going to rain heavily soon!"

Summer weather is like that, it changes very quickly.

As soon as I put on my raincoat, the thin raindrops turned into big raindrops in the blink of an eye, crackling and pounding. The strong wind hadn't started blowing yet, and there was only one sound left in the sky and the earth.

"It's raining too much! It's best to stop and take shelter for a while! Come help me build a shelter from the rain!"

Chika stopped the carriage, bent down and came to the back of the carriage to discuss with Tetsuya.

"it is good!"

First, they pulled the carriage to the side of the road, pulled out a few long sticks, a wooden board and a pack of raincloth from under the carriage, and the two men set up the shed in the rain.

This thing has only two sides. One side is leaning against the ground and has a height of over one meter. The top extends less than one meter and is less than two meters wide. It leaks air from three sides.However, although it is simple, it is still no problem to keep out the rain. The hollow wooden rafts underneath can also block the rain on the ground, and you can also sit on it, so you don't have to stand or sit in the water on the ground.

However, it is impossible to squeeze five people in this size.

After Shino and Hinata entered, Tetsuya turned to Chika who was covering the horse with a special raincoat:
"Let me come, Mr. Cheka can go to rest."

The businessman didn't refuse. He nodded and stepped on the water on the ground to return. Tetsuya touched the mane of the horse that was standing still, causing the horse to snort, twist its huge head, and turn towards him. rub.

Tetsuya bent down and put the tie of the raincoat through the horse's belly and between the legs, then tied it into a knot, and then pulled up some areas that were not flat or pressed.

Then look towards the road ahead through the white rain curtain.

The rain was unexpectedly heavy, but luckily the raincoat I prepared was of good quality. It was made of fine material and soaked with special oil. It didn't leave much traces of water even after you rinsed it in the water and took it out.

"Teacher Hong, do you want to change with me?"

Hinata noticed that Kurenai was sitting on the raft and could not completely hide from the rain. She looked around and asked, preparing to give up her seat.

Hong smiled and turned around to touch her head:
"Get a good rest, the responsibility for keeping watch at night is yours."

……

The rain lasted for a long time, accompanied by rumbling thunder, and it was more than an hour later when the sky cleared.

After restarting the journey, neither Tetsuya nor Kurenai boarded the carriage again, but followed them one after another.

The muddy road was already difficult to navigate, and the speed of the group was undoubtedly greatly reduced.

After finally failing to arrive at the first halfway town as planned at night, Tetsuya began to take Hinata and Shino to set up traps around him. However, he did all the work. He just let the two teammates know the traps, their locations and functions. An explanation would be cumbersome and ineffective.

After completing this, Tetsuya began to deal with the caught pheasants.

This was just an escort mission, so there was no need to light a bonfire in order not to expose the location at night. However, we couldn't find much dry firewood, so it took a lot of effort to light the fire.

When it was cooked and shared with everyone, Zheye was quite satisfied with his workmanship. The taste was not that good, but at least it was not dry and tasteless.

While eating, I listened to Cheka, who had been a businessman for many years, telling stories. Time passed quickly.

Shino fell asleep with his back on the wheel after changing shifts with Hinata. He didn't consume much chakra throughout the day, but he fell asleep very quickly after keeping his tense mind relaxed.

Cheka pulled out the hollow wooden raft that was used to cushion his buttocks when sheltering from the rain from the bottom of the car, put on his raincoat and blanket, and lay down comfortably on it.

Compared with several ninjas, he is indeed much more comfortable.

Kurenai squatted next to Shino and looked at it. After a while, he stood up again and came to the other side of the carriage. Tetsuya, who was also leaning on the wheel, had his eyes closed, but he was obviously not asleep yet.

"Aren't you going to sleep yet? If you don't feel well when you wake up tomorrow morning, it will affect the mission."

Tetsuya opened his eyes and saw Hong next to him leaning on the carriage in the same posture:
"Can Teacher Hong rest completely at ease when performing tasks?"

"Of course you can't do it alone, but if you have a companion, you can." Hong turned to look at him and said, "Since you have arranged for Hinata to stay vigil at night, I believe she can take on this responsibility and rest assured."

"Well, I will."

He closed his eyes again.

However, Hong could see that he still had no intention of falling asleep, and the muscles all over his body were still tense to a certain extent. In this state, any disturbance around him would attract his attention.

But Hong didn't say anything else and closed his eyes to rest.

And Tetsuya just closed his eyes and rested, not because he doubted or distrusted Hinata's ability. After all, apart from her introverted and weak personality, she was a completely qualified ninja. The Hyuga clan's white-eyed investigative ability was also a powerful killer that was coveted by other ninja villages. Tool, keeping watch is no problem.

The reason why he didn't sleep was naturally because he really didn't feel too sleepy at the moment, and he always had a hidden worry in his heart.

As he had thought before, a story that wasn't thrilling enough wasn't compelling enough.

The story of Naruto is like this. On his first C-level mission, he encountered a powerful enemy, the combination of Demon Mochi Zabuza and Minazuki Shiro. If Shiro was not set to be particularly kind, Kakashi was designated as Team [-] Two people are going to die.

Naruto is the protagonist of a story made up by people.

He is now in the world of this story.

This has to produce some bad associations, and they are not without reason.

The weird golden finger that suddenly appeared, the inexplicable third sentence on the stone tablet, and the various weird and eclectic cheats in the various online novels that I had read, gave the ground for this suspicion to take root.

But then I thought about it, is this another meaningless guess?

If you are really the protagonist of a novel, then your current thoughts are just what the unknown person typed on the keyboard or cell phone, writing word by word. In this case, everything will lose its meaning.

It's as if time is passing by second by second. What you do in this second and what you think in the next second, everything is fixed.And because you can't go back even a trillionth of a second and change even a tiny objective fact, everything in this world is fixed and has a predetermined destiny.

Fate makes you die, fate makes you live, fate makes you deaf and mute begging on the streets, fate makes you rich and the world is squandering.

Zheye's guess is just like this fatalism. If it is true, it is too desperate.

So it's meaningless.

And if there is an accident similar to what happened to Naruto during this mission, this kind of despair and meaninglessness will change from an illusion to a semi-illusion for Tetsuya.

Of course, this is also his corner.

There are many things that prove that he is not a pale and simple character in a novel. There are many memories in his mind, various people and things, various emotions, and various clear or fuzzy details.

Of course, there was Ino waiting for him to bring back a gift.

　I don’t know why I just wrote this paragraph...

　　Maybe it’s because I’m a little confused about life. After I finished writing it, I thought about deleting it. After all, it ruined everyone’s sense of involvement and my own sense of involvement. But I’d better keep it. At most, I won’t mention it again.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)