The Red Moon of Konoha

Chapter 171 The Fifth Person in the Team

August, the eighth day of the lunar month.

Land Country, Daming Mansion.

The weather was cloudy with a light breeze.

Kakashi and his party finally came to the most prosperous city in Tanokuni.

Four people are walking on the street.

But I can't feel the prosperity and liveliness of this city at all.

"There are too few people on the street, right?"

Lin looked left and right.

Not only are there few pedestrians on the street, but less than half of the surrounding shops are open for business, and all the rest are hung with closed signs. The breeze blows, and the fallen leaves roll up and slide away on the street, adding to the desolation and coldness. meaning.

"Haha, Lin, do you feel like watching a horror movie?"

Asma looked unstingy and didn't care about the weird atmosphere at all.

"Stop talking nonsense, there are no ghosts in this world."

Lynn said angrily.

"That's not certain! I know that there is a forbidden technique called [Spiritualization Technique] in the village. It is said that the soul can leave the body and kill people invisible!" Asma winked and continued to scare the girl.

"Is it the art of spiritualization? I will visit the third generation and ask me how powerful this art of spiritualization is!"

Lin said lightly.

Then, Asma, who was about to continue making a few jokes, froze.

Panic!

Damn, if the old man knew the secrets of the village that he was talking nonsense, he would definitely beat him to death without beating him to death. If there is no one to save the scene... how can the ending be described as tragic.

"Lin, do you want something to eat? There are croquettes over there."

"Too oily."

"Then...do you want something to drink? There are oolong teas."

"I'm not thirsty."

Asma racked her brains, circled around Lin, asked her health, and tried her best.

Kakashi twitched the corners of his mouth under the mask, almost laughing.

Let this guy make trouble, and finally cause trouble, and Lin is caught in the pigtails.

A group of people came to the mansion of Tanokuni Daimyo just like that.

After notifying their identities, they followed the servants into the mansion, passed through layers of gorgeous houses and gardens, and when Akai was a little dizzy, they finally came to a dry landscape style courtyard, and saw the Two middle-aged men drinking in the hallway.

"Yo, Kakashi, Asma, you are here!"

Jiraiya, who had white hair and was dressed like a kabuki, also saw Kakashi and the others at this time, and raised the wine glass in his hand to say hello.

"Master Jiraiya?"

Kakashi's eyes widened in surprise.

On the way when they came, Asma and Lin guessed who the mysterious No.5 teammate would be, and put forward many possibilities, but they really didn't expect it to be Jiraiya.

"Everyone of Konoha, thank you for coming."

At this moment, Daimyo Tanokuni, who was sitting next to Jiraiya, expressed his welcome to the four of them.

The next thing to do is to go through the process.

After handing over the documents, confirming the mission, and chatting with His Excellency Daimyo about a bunch of useless nonsense, in the end the daimyo Tanokuni, who was still winking, said goodbye and left, leaving space for the ninjas of Konoha.

"Master Jiraiya, why are you here?"

After sitting down, Kakashi asked impatiently.

"Why can't I be here?"

Zilai also asked back.

"No, no, that's not what I meant... that, aren't you traveling to collect information?"

"That's right! Didn't I just come to Tian Zhiguo to collect materials? By the way, I will help you with a task to earn some wine money." Zilai also sipped his tea slowly, "Okay, stop talking about such boring nonsense , let's get down to business...do you all understand the situation of this mission?"

Kakashi and the others couldn't help but get serious, straightened their waists and faced Jiraiya.

"It is generally clear that Orochimaru is likely to be in Tanokuni. Our task is to confirm whether the news about Orochimaru is true or not," Kakashi said.

"That's right! Orochimaru's guy... he won't keep his own place wherever he goes!"

Zilai also sighed.

"Huh? Master Jiraiya, have you confirmed the whereabouts of Orochimaru?" Lin's eyes lit up when she heard Jiraiya's words.

"No."

Zilai also shook his head.

"I've only been in Tianzhiguo for two days, and I only had time to take a bath and drink twice, and I haven't had time to investigate yet!"

Kakashi, Lin and the others turned black.

Have time to bathe and drink, but no time to investigate?
Even if you are fooling a ghost, you should be more careful!

No matter how much you complain in your heart, you can only roll in your heart. Facing Jiraiya, a super senior, what else can these juniors do besides pinch their noses and suffer?

"Then...can you tell me how likely it is that the Tian Zhiguo incident is related to Orochimaru?" Looking at Akai who was wandering in the sky, Asma whose eyes were empty, and who didn't want to talk anymore Lin, Kakashi, the captain, can only take on the heavy responsibility and continue talking to Jiraiya.

"Okay, I won't joke with you, all of you have no sense of humor."

Jiraiya also put down his wine glass, "Although you have already learned about the situation of Tian Zhiguo, in order to ensure that there is no problem in the communication between us, I will explain to you the current situation of Tian Zhiguo."

He pushed away the drinking utensils in front of him, and took out a map of Tian Zhiguo and a pen from his pocket.

"Two months ago, at the beginning of June, a group of thieves in Caogan Mountain was attacked by a mysterious force, and all the thieves disappeared, followed by a group of rogues in Ogihara..." Jiraiya explained again, while Marking symbols on the map continuously, according to the time difference of the attack, all the attacked places in different time periods are circled.

"The last is... Saito's house, which was attacked early yesterday morning. The prison in the castle was breached, all the prisoners were taken away, and some floating wealth was lost."

Finally, after drawing a triangle symbol, Jiraiya dropped the pen in his hand, looked at the four people, and asked:
"Do you see anything?"

Akai's eyes widened, not knowing why.

Linxiu frowned slightly, a flash of light flashed in her mind, but she felt that there was still a layer of hazy tulle, so she couldn't see clearly.

"The attacker's lair is in Black Hat Mountain!!"

Kakashi and Asma said in unison.

"I see!"

Hearing what the two said and seeing the location of Black Hat Mountain on the map, Lin clapped her hands and suddenly realized.

Akai is the only one left with his eyes staring like a bull's eye. Looking at that, he can't wait to poke two holes in the map with his sight. It's not about Akai's stupidity, it's really the brains of the people around him. Too smart, and because of this, he seems not so smart.

"Akai, look at this."

The most considerate is the only girl in the team.

Lin picked up the signature pen that she also dropped, and connected the different marking symbols with lines. Immediately, seven or eight circles that were slowly nested and not very regular appeared on the map, "Did you see that? The innermost circle is the first target to be attacked, and then it will continue to push outward according to the change of time..."

"I understand!"

Akai slapped his thigh suddenly, "This is because the grass beside the nest has been eaten up, so I have to go farther to find the target."

"That's it."

Ji Lai also nodded slowly, with a smile on his face. These brats are very good. "In all the attacks, a large number of people were missing. Since no large number of bodies were found, it means that these people must have been sent to the police station." Went somewhere, and from this map, Black Hat Mountain is the most likely."

"Then, are you going to investigate this Black Hat Mountain next?"

Asma is gearing up, eager to try.

"Black Hat Mountain must be investigated, but before that, you have other tasks." Zilai also dragged the drinking utensils back and continued to drink.

"What mission?"

Kakashi looked at Jiraiya puzzled.

Isn't their mission to confirm whether the news about Orochimaru is true or not?
"Squeezing the war between gangster organizations in Daming Prefecture."

Ji Lai is also holding a wine glass, and the old god is there.

"...to quell the gang war?" Kakashi and Asma stared at Jiraiya with their eyes wide open. They needed an answer. This damn thing had nothing to do with their mission at all. okay?

"But Jiraiya-sama, Minato-sensei said that our mission is to investigate Orochimaru..."

"In Konoha, of course Minato has the final say, but here is Tanokuni, just us, who do you think has the final say?" Jiraiya gave Kakashi a sideways glance.

"...Of course it's up to you, Master Jiraiya."

The face under Kakashi's mask was as ugly as if he had eaten shit-flavored curry. Facing Jiraiya's 'kinky power', he had to choose to succumb.

Asma's expression also looked as if she had eaten bitter melon and durian raw.

Lin pursed her lips and said nothing.

Akai scratched his head and didn't feel that it was such a troublesome thing at all.

"Don't be so narrow-minded, you two big men, look away. Besides, this is also a good opportunity to earn reputation for Konoha. You should have seen what the Daming Mansion looks like on the way here, right? I'm not curious about the dignified daimyo. How did the government become like this?"

Zilai also took a sip of the wine, his complexion became more rosy.

It looks a little over the top.

"It's quite strange."

Akai nodded in agreement.

Kakashi and Asma rolled their eyes angrily, what the hell, earning fame for Konoha?
Believe you are a bastard who drinks here in broad daylight!
"Gangsters, after the gangsters in Daming Mansion were taken over by these attackers, Daming Mansion..." Zilai also took another sip of wine, "The original balance of underground forces in Daming Mansion has been broken, and now Several new gangs that popped up all of a sudden are fighting, and they all want to become the masters of the new underground world..."

Jilai also explained while drinking.

After a bottle of wine was consumed, the four people who endured the smell of alcohol finally understood what happened to the Daming Mansion in Tian Zhiguo. Ordinary people are afraid to go out, and most of the shops on the street are closed because of the war between gangs.

As a daimyo, the army under him...has long since been raised and abolished.

Even the daimyo's guards mainly rely on samurai hired from the Iron Kingdom, not their own army!

It is not impossible to send warriors to clean up the gangsters. These warriors from the Iron Kingdom who can use chakra are quite good at fighting. They are so powerful that they can fight back and forth with ninjas a few times. Like Mifune, the new leader of the Iron Kingdom Warriors A fierce man who fought against Sansho Hanzo and survived.

Speaking of which, the samurai who established the Iron Kingdom was an extremely smart guy.

He announced the permanent neutrality of the Iron Country, and as long as the bitter cold land of the Iron Country can be preserved, it will not be involved in the disputes on the mainland.

But at the same time, he also understands that the neutrality of the Iron Kingdom is based on the military power of the warriors that is not inferior to the ninjas. The employment of nobles from various countries not only earned money, but also exercised the combat effectiveness of the warriors, so that they would not degenerate to the point where they could not even hold a knife because of neutrality and peace.

Since then, warriors from the Iron Kingdom have filled the mansions of nobles from all over the world.

The battle between Mifune and Sanshoyu Hanzo was due to a mission conflict. The target of Sanshoyu Hanzo's assassination happened to be Mifune's employer, and the two fought because of this. The final result was naturally that the "half God" won the victory.

However, Mifune, who was defeated by Sansho Hanzo and even failed in the mission, did not become depressed because of this.

Instead, he was favored by the previous generation of warrior leaders of the Iron Kingdom, and he trained this guy who came back alive from the "half god" to become a new warrior of the Iron Kingdom.

All in all, His Excellency Daimyo has a samurai group with extremely strong combat effectiveness under his command.

However, this daimyo cherishes his own life very much, and he is unwilling to let the samurai go too far away from him, so the task of quelling the war between the gangsters and restoring the daimyofu to its former prosperous and lively state falls to the ninja of Konoha body.

That is to say, it fell on Kakashi and the four of them.

"Squeeze the struggle between gangsters? What should I do?" Asma frowned.

He is no stranger to the battles of ninjas, but the struggles of gangsters... This is beyond the scope of his knowledge, and there is no gangster force in Muye Village, and there is no such thing as a gangster in the missions he has performed. How did you come into contact with this type of person?

He looked at Kakashi.

Anyway, the captain is not him, so Kakashi can do whatever he says!

Kakashi is also a little bit blind, don't look at him having been around in Anbu, but this can't erase the problem that he has too little experience and too little experience.

"...Find out all the leaders of the gang and kill them all?"

Kakashi asked tentatively.

"Ha ha!"

Zirai, who showed a bit of smoky and drunkenness, also patted his knees and laughed, "Kakashi, is this your idea? Didn't I tell you that the struggle between these gangsters is because the original gangsters disappeared. Is it because of the death? Not to mention killing a few bosses, even if you kill all the members of the current gangs, there will be new gangs appearing the next day."

Kakashi's face under the mask was blood red, and even his ears were as red as if they were on fire.

I'm so angry!
Be ridiculed!

The key is to be ruthlessly ridiculed in front of Lin, Asma and the others...
Too embarrassing.

Seeing Kakashi whose body was trembling from anger, Asma patted his chest quite fortunately.

Fortunately, he is smart and didn't take up the job of the captain, otherwise he would be the one being ridiculed by Ji Lai Ye while kneeling at the moment.

"Then Jiraiya-sama, what do you say?"

Lin stood up for justice and saved Kakashi in dire straits.

"Two ways."

He also raised two fingers.

"The first is to find a way to balance the gangsters who are fighting now, and to make this balance last for a long time. The second is to directly choose to support a certain organization and help it unify the underground forces in the Daming Mansion."

Kakashi raised his eyebrows and pondered.

The reason why he proposed that kind of 'stupid' countermeasure is because he really didn't understand what the rules of the gangster's domain were. The best way is to tell him early tomorrow.

Wouldn't it be enough to restore the dark world of Daming Mansion to what it used to be?
Before the last gangster who controlled the dark world of Daming Mansion disappeared, the prosperity of Daming Mansion was not reduced by the existence of this powerful gangster. On the contrary, after it disappeared, Daming Mansion became what they saw when they came. That ghostly look that could serve as the backdrop for a horror movie.

This is the second method that Jiraiya said.

"I get it, we'll get this sorted out as soon as possible."

Kakashi complied.

You Jilai also asked, they have no room to refuse this task, it is better to end this troublesome task as soon as possible, so as to start the official errand.

"Come on! Brats."

Jiraiya held his wine glass and laughed to encourage Kakashi and the others.

"Asma, Akai, Lin, let's go!"

Kakashi called the other three to leave together, Asma stood up quickly, walked away, and Akai followed, but Lin didn't leave immediately, looking at Jiraiya, suddenly asked : "Master Jiraiya, what benefits did Your Excellency Daming promise you?"

"He said that he was willing to bear my [prostitution]-funds in Daming Mansion during this time... No, no, no, that, just said it smoothly, no benefit, really no benefit... "

The four people with disdainful eyes did not listen to Jiraiya's explanation at all, and left quickly, as if they were afraid of getting something dirty.

Leaving Ziraiya sitting alone on the porch.

Wait until the backs of the four people disappear.

Jilai also dropped the empty wine glass in his hand. Although his face was as red as a monkey's butt, there was no trace of drunkenness in his eyes. He picked up the map full of various symbols and lines, and pressed his fingers on it. In the area of ​​Black Hat Mountain, "Oshemaru...is that really you?"

His eyes became sharper.

If it wasn't for Orochimaru, everything would be fine, but if it was really Orochimaru who was stirring up wind and rain in Tianzhi Country... then Kakashi and the others couldn't be allowed to take risks.

He didn't know what Minato was thinking, and actually asked these little guys to confirm the authenticity of Orochimaru's news. In his opinion, except for Kakashi who can use that special ninja tool, if the other three people meet Orochimaru, that is definitely a food delivery.

PS: He didn't know that Akai had mastered [Eight Gates Dunjia], nor did he know how perverted [Eight Gates Dunjia] is.

Before Kakashi and the others went to the Black Hat Mountain to investigate, Jiraiya was also planning to do the investigation in advance. If he was not worried that Kakashi and the others would catch up, he would not have waited for Kakashi and the others to arrive, and would have gone directly to the Black Hat Mountain investigated.

In order to prevent Kakashi and the others from taking risks, they even bothered to come up with the task of 'quelling the struggle between gangsters'.

"Oshemaru! I hope it's not you."

(End of this chapter)