Gou in the ninja world

Chapter 271

At noon that day, Nei Lunqin left the village alone, entered the forest along the side path, followed the directions marked by various secret marks for a while, and came to the foot of a hill. In front of her was a door. The stone gate is covered by layers of vines and shrubs.

"Brother Yukimura."

Standing on the steps, she knocked on the closed door in front of her, waited for a while, but did not get the expected response, so she took half a step forward, leaned in front of the door, looked inside through the crack of the door, and could see There were a few dots of fire light, and there was a figure shaking beside the fire light.

But still no one responded, so she waited for a while, knocked again, and said loudly.

"Brother Yukimura."

This time, there was finally a response. Accompanied by a few hurried footsteps, the stone door in front of him separated to the two sides with a bang.

"Sorry, I was a little too engrossed just now."

Standing in front of the door, Yukimura explained embarrassingly that he had been looking up various records and classics of the Uchiwa clan for the past two days, and his attention was too concentrated, so he didn't notice the arrival of the Uchimoto for a while.

"fine."

Nei Lunqin shook her head, got up and stepped into the cave, the stone door at the entrance of the cave closed behind their backs again.

Inside the stone gate is a wide space with an area of ​​about a thousand square meters. The place near the entrance is a little narrower. Two storage rooms are taken out on both sides. One room houses bookshelves and other things, and the other side There are some food and medicines in the room, which are arranged in an orderly manner.

There is a simple desk and chair in the corner next to the bookshelf. The candlestick on the table emits a faint halo, illuminating the books on the table and a small area around it.

"Where's Uncle Yang Jie?"

Neilunqin walked in, looked around, and asked.

This cave is one of the places used by the members of the Inner Clan to practice secretly. After all, the hidden identity of the Inner Clan under the rule of the Empire is a village of hunters, so many books and props related to ninjas cannot be directly stored in the village. Here, it is too dangerous to be spotted so easily.

That's why they dug out these secret caves in the mountains around their village. The small ones are used to store weapons and equipment, and the larger ones can be used for training, practicing ninjutsu and body skills. After all, ninjas always If you want to practice, you can't do it blatantly outside, you can only do it secretly.

Like the villages, the exteriors of these caves are also equipped with barriers to prevent prying eyes. Even a very insightful eye like Baiyan has no way to discover the mystery inside from the outside.

The place where Yukimura is now is one of the underground training grounds. At the front of the training ground are two large warehouses, where books, materials and supplies are stored.

The library is for storing some records and cultivation experience, the storage room on the other side can store some food and medicine, and there is a smaller bedroom at the end. no problem.

But now, only the lights in the library, the storage room and the torch next to the training ground, which is so big inside, have not been lit, indicating that no one is using it, and it seems that there is only Yukimura alone.

"Oh, he felt a little boring, so he went out for a walk."

Yukimura explained that Uchiwa Yosuke originally came with him in the morning, but Yukimura has been looking up information for several hours, Uchiwa Yosuke has no interest in this and doesn't want to disturb him, so he suggested going out for a walk alone. And maybe get some game to eat.

"That's it."

Nei Luqin nodded, seemed to think of something, and smiled knowingly.

"Uncle Yang Jie didn't like reading a long time ago."

As she said this, she took a few steps forward, came to the front of the spacious hall, looked up, and stretched herself.

"I miss it so much."

She looked at the vast training ground shrouded in darkness in front of her, and sighed with some emotion.

"When I was young, I often came here with my father to practice ninjutsu."

She looked at the ceiling above her head, the walls on both sides, and the looming potholes and depressions on the ground, many of which were contributed by her.

"But then, when I got a little older, the space just wasn't enough."

Nei Lunqin continued to say that there are not many people in the Nei Lun family, and there are still dozens or hundreds of them. Even if only half of these people need to practice, this training ground is not enough at all. Therefore, here It's just a place for children to carry out enlightenment education and group training. When they are a little older, they will be scattered to individual training rooms in the nearby mountains according to their talents and abilities, for more targeted and intensive training. Even more difficult special training, so this place, Neilunqin has not been here for several years.

"By the way, Brother Yukimura, how are your results these two days? Did you find what you were looking for?"

She was emotional for a while before turning around again, and then said curiously.

"Well, it can be said to be negligible."

Yukimura let out a long sigh when he heard the words, a little helpless and a little disappointed.

To be honest, the progress this time is much less than he imagined. Yukimura originally thought that the Uchinawa clan, as the descendants of the Uchiha clan, should have preserved some historical materials of that era from that era to the present. However, the reality is far from what he thought.

It is true that the inner circle clan has a lot of information, but most of the information is related to this era, such as information about the empire, information about surrounding cities, and the exploration of the ninja world by the inner circle clan over the past few decades Information and so on, among which the information around the City of Fire is the most.

This information can’t be said to be useless, at least let Yukimura know a lot about the world, especially in terms of the empire’s military, and explained the political and military structure of the empire in relative detail.

To put it simply, the political level of the empire is actually the same as before. In the past, it was headed by the daimyo, supported by nobles and officials, but now it is headed by the emperor, and the left and right ministers hold most of the power. All city owners and officials at all levels.

The military structure is mainly divided into the Garrison Corps and the Guards Corps. Among them, the Guards Corps is the most powerful, but the number is not large, so it is only used for the protection of royal family members and important officials, and the Garrison Corps is the real military group. The regiment leader is divided into various teams, with a total number of about 10 people. Each team is also divided into different teams according to different focuses. In this way, the distribution of all levels, down to the lowest level of private soldiers, is a very distinct ladder. .

For example, Hyuga Tokuma, whom Yukimura had contacted before, according to the information in the data, his position should belong to the captain of the action team of the branch team of the Security Corps located in the Taki City Police Station. According to Yukimura's explanation at that time, he probably belonged to the The deputy captain of the team sent by Ye Village to other towns in the Land of Fire to maintain law and order.

And Shinichi Haneda, the commander whose name Yukimura didn't know, was at the level of the captain.

Of course, there may be some discrepancies. For example, the status of Kuju Castle is much higher than that of other towns in Yukimura's era, so Haneda Shinichi's status may be referred to as the level of guardian twelve ninja, or even a little higher.

After reading these news, Yukimura realized that he was fighting against the defense force of a city in the empire before, and judging from the number of people, it is estimated that it is not all, it should be said that it is definitely not all, considering that there are so many surrounding cities and villages. People need to stay behind, maybe only one-third or less of the people who participated in the round-up operation that time.

To be honest, Yukimura's guess is already somewhat in line with the facts.

In fact, as an important city of the empire, each of the Nine Giant Cities has at least ten thousand people of security forces assigned to it, and the same is true for Taki City, about half of which were scattered among the surrounding villages and small towns, and the rest One-third of them are responsible for the daily guard of the city, one-third are responsible for patrolling and guarding the surrounding areas, and the last remaining third are the mobile forces that are really used to deal with ninjas.

And what Yukimura and the others were facing at that time was only a part of the people in the last third.

However, only a part of this one-third of the army forced Yukimura and the others to almost fall into a desperate situation. This was because Haneda Shinichi didn't know his true identity and had concerns, so he didn't use his heavy artillery at the beginning. Full power, and Yukimura found an opportunity to destroy the result of the heavy artillery.

You know, according to the records of the inner wheel family, the maximum power of those heavy artillery can destroy a small city in one shot, which is not weaker than the Tailed Beast Jade that Yukimura learned.

Seeing this, Yukimura couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Sure enough, the conflict with the empire at that time was a bit too hasty, and the result was almost doomed.

It is a pity that there is a lot of information about the current state of the empire, but about how the empire was established and how the five great powers disappeared, this part of historical information, Yukimura did not find a lot, and the collection of the Uchiwa clan does not exist Some chronological documents like history books are just some intermittent words mixed in related materials or ninjutsu books.

In fact, this is already the third day since Yukimura came to the inner wheel clan. In the past three days, he has changed three libraries. The orthodox reference room stores materials and documents that have nothing to do with cultivation, but there, Yukimura gets very little information.

Basically, what Yukimura was able to find was the same as Uchiwakoto said before, the appearance of the descendants, the tragic war, post-war reconstruction, and the final fusion of the five major powers and changes in the status of ninjas.

To say the least, these materials do tell what happened before, but the method of description is too hasty, so I just talk about the causes and results, and the most important people or events in the middle. There is no narrative at all, it's like telling a story, just tell the beginning and the end, the process is completely blank, people want to guess and make up, which makes Yukimura very headache.

Therefore, after looking through two libraries to no avail, he asked to come to the small library in the training ground today, hoping that perhaps in some ninjutsu practice manuals or the experiences recorded by ninjas, He was able to find some clues related to it. However, after a whole morning, what he saw was not only the practice manual, but also the practice manual, and most of them were relatively low-level things. Although there were some bright spots in it, compared to Qi Xingcun's purpose is still a lot worse.

"Alas, a lot of information has been lost."

Nei Lunqin was also a little helpless when she heard the words. Perhaps compared to those down-and-out exiled ninjas, the Ui Lun clan is a big family, but in the final analysis, they are just surviving under the rule of the empire.

If it is a ninjutsu secret book, it is easy to say, it is related to the future development and inheritance of the family, so it is very carefully protected, but things like historical documents are basically of no help to them, so they don’t have so much energy to protect them. There is a lot of historical data, so it is normal to have incomplete data.

"correct."

Speaking of this, her eyes suddenly lit up, she recalled something, as if she had thought of something, she ran to the innermost bookshelf, and struggled to find an old book from the dusty old book at the bottom of the shelf. A big box, and then took out a thick notebook from the box, and then ran back.

"I found this by accident when I was a child. I heard from my mother that it seems to be an old family tree of their family. Brother Yukimura, don't you come back from a long time ago? Check to see if there is anyone you know."

"Oh, really?"

Yukimura also became interested when he heard the words, genealogy, it is a historical classic handed down from generation to generation, and there may be clues he wants to find in it.

The two put the genealogy tree on the table. It was a thicker hardcover book than some manuals. It seemed to be old. It was covered with a thick layer of dust, and the edges were not neat. Some pages of the book were corroded and rotted. Yukimura doubled it a little and saw a lot of past photos stuck inside. There were blurred names under the photos, but due to time, many handwritings have become unrecognizable. But judging from the photos, most of them are strangers who don't know each other.

"I don't know anyone here, I heard it's been there for a long time, but if it's you, maybe you can recognize one or two?"

Nei Lunqin said that when she was young, when she was practicing, she found the iron box hidden in a certain corner. At that time, she was very interested in the photos inside, so she went to consult her mother. Then I realized that the mark on it indicated that this book seemed to be the genealogy of their family, but due to some factors, it had been placed for many years, and the records behind it had been interrupted for a long time, and even Yoko Uchiwa didn’t know who the person on it was. , no actual reference value, so I didn't pay much attention to it, and put it back there.

"I don't think it's possible, you still don't have too much hope..."

Yukimura shook his head slightly, and turned the page to the front again. Although this book has been placed for so long, judging from the feel of the paper, it should be unlikely that it was inherited from more than 200 years ago. As I said, the Neilun family has been wandering for so many years, and even lost some of their cultivation experience. A genealogy that was piled up in a corner and no one paid attention to it is unlikely to be preserved for such a long time in the turbulent years.

However, before he could finish his sentence, the next moment, his movement of turning the pages stopped suddenly, and his whole body seemed to be frozen there, his eyes glazed over, looking at the old photo on the title page.

For a moment, he was stunned.

This is……

Yukimura stared blankly at the page in front of him. In the middle of the page, there was an old photo that was yellowed. Due to poor preservation, the corners of the photo were already incomplete. Even the image of the person in the center of the photo became blurred.

However, even so, Yukimura still recognized the person on the left side of the photo at a glance. The faces of sweet people.

Because, that is none other than Yukimura's family in this world, his older sister, Uchiha Sarina.

(End of this chapter)