Shadow of the Wood

Chapter 260 Eight Choices

"I'll go with you." After muttering for a while, Xianglin adjusted his glasses in a panic, and said to Shikamaru, "What about the prisoners here?"

"How many ninjas are there?" Shikamaru asked back.

"Not many, they are all locked in the dungeon alone, separated from ordinary prisoners." Xiang Lin responded quickly, and it seemed that he knew all the information in the stronghold.

"Let go of the ordinary prisoner with me first." Shikamaru turned and walked out of the room, and at the same time ordered Xianglin.

There was a flash of struggle in Kaorin's eyes, but reason told her that no matter what Shikamaru's attitude was, she had no chance of disobedience or even escape, so she grabbed the key by the door and quickly followed Shikamaru's figure.

For Orochimaru, these prisoners trapped in the southern stronghold are just the material for experiments, and they are also the cheapest one. The living conditions of behind bars are extremely poor, and they are precarious. Do human experiments, and their lives will end.

Distress and despair consumed the hearts of these people, and most of them lost their luster in their eyes. The sound of Shikamaru and Karin walking into the corridor only attracted a few prisoners to turn their heads, while others were as silent as statues In my own world, it is difficult to extricate myself.

Xianglin still wanted to go forward and use the key to open the door lock, but Shikamaru condensed chakra to form a blade, lightly stroked on the wooden railing, and the gate was already opened, and the thick wooden railing hit the ground with a loud noise, finally causing attention of all prisoners.

"You are free." Shikamaru said calmly, but the prisoners still looked at each other, hesitating, as if there was something terrible outside the cage.

"Oshemaru was killed by me, you can rest assured." Shikamaru explained unhurriedly: "You can leave Tianzhiguo, or you can stay here, but starting today, Tianzhiguo will be controlled by me. Take control, do you understand?"

After Shikamaru finished speaking, he broke open the doors of several cells one after another, then ignored the hesitant prisoners, and left with Xianglin.

Most of these people are adults with their own formed values. The young ones have been taken away by Orochimaru. Shikamaru has no interest in accepting and cultivating them. It is best to leave Tianzhiguo, but if you stay here, you must obey his orders will.

There is no exception for anyone in Tianzhiguo, especially those ninjas or samurai who maintain their own strength.

Most of the ninjas that Orochimaru imprisoned are ordinary zhongnin, there are not even a few jounin, and Shikamaru doesn't look down on them. Originally, he was going to kill all these ninjas, but after thinking for a while, he decided to let some of them go. People, help him spread the word.

Compared with the prison cells where ordinary prisoners are located, the dungeons where ninjas are held are obviously more fortified. As Xiang Lin said, the walls of the rooms here are blocked by steel plates, and ninjas who are proficient in earth dungeon can't go here. get away.

"Which ninja from Ninja Village is this?" Shikamaru walked down the steps, came to the first iron gate, looked through the small window at the young man with an ankle chain inside, and asked Kaorin without looking back. .

"This is a ninja native to Tianzhi Country." After thinking for a while, Xianglin gave the answer.

"How many ninjas are there in the five major ninja villages?" Shikamaru frowned slightly after hearing this, and continued to ask.

"Four." Xianglin quickly replied, "Two Yan Yin, one Yun Yin, and one Sand Yin are all Chunin, and they are in rooms [-], [-], [-], and [-]."

Shikamaru nodded silently, and suddenly used Helixwan to break the gate, and before the ninja in the cell had time to react, he pierced his throat with a sharp blade transformed from "Black Magic. Thousand Fantasy".

The sudden change made Kaorin feel at a loss. It wasn't until a pool of blood had formed under the young ninja's body that he reacted and asked Shikamaru, "What are you doing!?"

"Kill." Shikamaru responded briefly, and at the same time walked to the next iron gate, and repeated the same trick to kill the prisoners inside. These ninjas who have been imprisoned for a long time have fallen into a trough in both will and desire, and naturally it is not Shikamaru. Opponents, but after a while, except for the four ninjas from the five major ninja villages that Kaorin pointed out, the rest of the ninjas were killed by Shikamaru one by one. The body is cold.

Click!

A crisp door lock popping sounded from the dungeon, but this time after Shikamaru opened the iron door, he didn't go in and kill the ninja imprisoned inside.

"Come out!" After Shikamaru opened the four iron doors one after another with the key, seeing that the people inside were still hesitant to push the iron doors, he said loudly.

The mental state of these ninjas is not much better than that of the ordinary prisoners that Shikamaru had seen before. Facing Orochimaru, these ninjas with power far exceeding that of ordinary people are just better experimental materials. When powerful, the reaction is only slightly stronger than that of ordinary people.

There was a moment of silence in the dungeon, and finally the four iron doors were slowly pushed open from the inside, but when one of the iron doors was opened, a figure suddenly jumped out of it, came to the corridor and made seals with both hands, preparing to perform ninjutsu.

"Black magic. Absolutely loud!"

It's a pity that this person's seal technique is only half completed, Shikamaru has already rushed to him like a whirlwind, the stone floor even crumbled in front of the power from his feet, the spiritual energy on his right arm has already Condensed into a long blade with a curvature.

laugh!

The scalp-numbing sound of bone and flesh tearing followed, and the other three ninjas who pushed open the iron gate and walked into the corridor immediately ate Shikamaru. Once they wrote down Ma Wei, the ninja who was overwhelmed by his own strength saw him again. Because of the opportunity, he was beheaded by Shikamaru in front of the prison gate.

"The reason why you were not killed by me like the other prisoners is only because you are still useful to me." Shikamaru took two steps back, avoiding the blood flowing from the dead body, and the three pale ninjas facing him Said in a low voice, "You are free, but there are prerequisites for all of this."

"I want you to leave Tianzhiguo without stopping, and at the same time tell the outside world—" Shikamaru looked around the three ninjas one by one, and said word by word: "From now on, no ninja is allowed to step on the ground." The country of Irita, including Konoha, Sand Gakure, Cloud Gazebo, Iwagakure, and Kirgakure, if anyone dares to violate it, I, Nara Shikamaru, will cut off their heads and throw their bodies in the wilderness!"

"I will do what I say." Shikamaru smiled, his tone cold.

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"What are you going to do!?" In the spiritual space, the eight-tailed bull slammed its huge fist at Shikamaru's transformed evil spirit, and at the same time asked in a loud voice, "Are you going to provoke the five great ninja villages at the same time? "

After the matter in the southern stronghold was resolved, Shikamaru took Kaorin to the Northern Secret Research Institute where Tianping Shigego was located. During the break on the road, Shikamaru began to meditate and started the battle with the fierce bull again.

This kind of battle has been going on for a long time, so many times that the fierce bull can't remember clearly. It seems that it has gradually become Shikamaru's habit. As long as the two meet, the fierce bull knows that it is time to restart the battle. He had never won before, but he couldn't be killed by Shikamaru. After a long time, he even gradually felt numb, and the battle gradually changed from a silent fight to an occasional conversation today.

"Any country or ninja village that seeks to rise needs to win dignity on the battlefield. Today's five major ninja villages, as well as those well-known little ninja villages, all have a powerful leader at the beginning of their establishment. Standing on the battlefield." Shikamaru replied: "Unless Gokage is willing to risk the emptiness of the base camp and come here in person, otherwise, no matter how many ninjas come, I will only make an addition to my honor book."

"But you are talking about 'Ninja Village'." Although the eight-tailed fierce bull was sealed in Shikamaru's body, it can also perceive some information from the outside world through him. What Shikamaru did can't hide it, "You are killing and Expelling the ninjas from this country has no real plan to build a ninja village, are you going to control this country by yourself, even that Orochimaru is just using the resources here, what is your purpose!?"

boom!

The fierce bull didn't notice for a while, Shikamaru grabbed both horns, and Shikamaru pressed his head to the ground forcefully.

"Give all your strength to me, surrender to me, and I will tell you the answer." Shikamaru dodged the struggling hands and tail of the bull, and said in a deep voice, "I will lead you to the unimaginable Realm, I will become..., God!"

The bull was startled slightly, then struggled violently to get out of Shikamaru's hands, looked at him and said, "You're crazy!"

"A real ninja is indeed like a lunatic in the eyes of outsiders. It is difficult for them to understand their ninja way, and they cannot believe that there is another kind of person in the world who can devote themselves to their ideals." Hearing this, Shikamaru did not pursue, smiled slightly, and asked: "You Say I'm crazy, but because you have never understood me, my ninja way, my ideal."

"My original ideal was to be a teacher, to teach and educate people, but as I grew older, this was contrary to my desire to become a master, so I chose a more utilitarian path." The fierce bull said quietly Listening, Shikamaru paused at this point.

He was born in a poor mountainous area in his previous life. His mother who was trafficked by human traffickers committed suicide when he was a baby. His adoptive father treated him harshly. He still couldn't speak when he was six years old. Let him fantasize about becoming a teacher, but when he stepped into the metropolis and experienced a series of events, as he grew older, he finally chose a more utilitarian path, but in his previous life, he would not talk about it in detail with the bull. .

"I have seen civilians who are full of enthusiasm until they are wiped out by reality, and I have seen people at the bottom who abandon their dignity because of hardship, and I have seen hopeless people who have never had ideals, and only have the instinct to survive. 'People' have also met lucky people who were born rich and powerful, people who felt superior to others, and even became one of them."

"I realized this and felt confused and panicked, because I knew that I was one of those people who were ridiculed and bullied, but I was much luckier than them to have such a chance, but even so, I still I paid unimaginable sacrifices for ordinary people." Shikamaru laughed at himself, "I was born with strong anger and indignation, jealousy and desire for destruction almost destroyed my sanity, I wanted to destroy this system, and I also firmly believed in holding For me, this thought is just.”

"But then I realized that it's not enough to destroy. I'm just a thug, an executioner. How can there be justice?" Shikamaru continued, "I must establish a new system to replace it, so as not to let The act of overthrowing corruption has turned into a murderous atrocity."

"But there is no perfect system in this world, only a relatively good and perfect system. Human beings are progressing, society is progressing, the world is also changing, and the system is the same." Shikamaru said that killing cattle in ancient times was a serious crime, and many Religion also specifies the guilt of killing cattle, and even worships cattle as gods. It is because of agricultural civilization that the importance of farming cattle to food cannot be replaced. However, in the era of industrial development, it is obviously not practical, and instead becomes a burden. "After the death of Sage of the Six Paths, the chaotic world gradually arose. The first generation of Hokage sent the tailed beasts among the pillars to hope to form a peaceful situation, but after his death, another mode of war was set off in the ninja world... How can I ensure that after my death, I will succeed me? People who make rules and systems will not become the kind of people I am committed to destroying because of selfishness and loopholes? Who can supervise them? Before the emergence of ninjas, people's anger and resistance can still make people wake up and fear. Ninjas After the emergence, no matter how many ordinary people there are, there is no chance of confrontation, so how far can the supervision power of civilians go?"

"Finally I came to the answer - I must become the guardian of the system I created, a supreme supervisory force, people must believe in me, respect me, fear me, and make me a sharp sword hanging over their heads." Deer Maru concluded in a deep voice: "I must become a god!"

Even the eight-tailed bull, after hearing what Shikamaru said, still felt indescribably shocked. He was stunned for a long time before asking: "You put yourself in the supreme position, so who can stop you from doing anything wrong?" !?"

"Don't you understand?" Shikamaru smiled lightly, and said softly: "When I first changed my purpose in life, I didn't plan to become a teacher, and decided to get ahead, what I abandoned was the enthusiasm for repaying benefactors, and watching the smiling faces of children. I’m touched—there is no perfect choice in this world, and it’s hard to tell which is right and which is wrong, the difference is just what I choose to sacrifice.”

"What did you choose to sacrifice!?" asked the Brave Bull.

Shikamaru didn't change his smile when he heard this, raised his finger to his chest, and replied: "Feelings."

He wants to become a god, a supreme supervisor and guardian instead of a slave, so he must ensure that he will not be influenced by selfish desires. In some myths in his previous life, the difference between gods and demons is that even if gods have abilities far superior to humans Power will still not disturb the mortal world, but demons will use their own power to do evil.

The difference between becoming a "god" or a "demon" is the choice of what Shikamaru has to sacrifice. The bull is silent about his choice and feels a little sad, but for Shikamaru himself, compared to sacrificing ideals and tolerance Dao, these seem to be nothing.

It may be difficult for him to smile from the bottom of his heart, but if he can somehow make hundreds of millions of people smile, he will be satisfied.