Red Dust

"Look at the traces excavated around, it doesn't look like a recently built base..."

Daimaru asked casually and tentatively.

"It's been decades. It is said that it used to be a secret research institute, but it was abandoned later, and it was reopened not long ago..."

"Research on puppets?"

"Of course!"

Shanai replied,

"When it was abandoned, it was planned to be completely landfilled to cover up the traces. Later, my family took over it. It was a private property. It was recently used as a bargaining chip to cooperate with other puppet masters..."

"You mean... the place that was originally this big was also your home?"

Daimaru estimates that the area is nearly half the size of Shayin Village. The upper and lower floors are filled with food and drinking water, which can support the entire village for a long time.

"It's normal!"

Shanai glanced at Daimaru somewhat unexpectedly,

"I'm so familiar with my elder sister, don't you know the background of my family?"

"Know some, but not much!"

Daimaru touched the bridge of his nose awkwardly.

Acting as a background board, never appearing in front of people, and silently exerting influence on the big man of Sandyin Village, Daimaru once ignored it as a character setting.

"Before the establishment of Shayin Village, my great-grandfather was a powerful ninja. He followed the first generation of Fengying to start a business. After three generations of hard work, he has the current background..."

Such a big force in Sandyin Village will basically not directly participate in the battle for the position of Kazekage, which is completely different from the upstarts like Daimaru.

"Originally, this is a testing ground for the development of the puppet technique by the second generation of Fengying. It was funded by my family, and it is normal to take it back when it is abandoned..."

Well, this kind of "quasi-ninja noble family" who has been in power for generations has almost no weaknesses except that the inheritance is weak, there are no decent masters, and they have to resort to political speculation or even marriage to stabilize their power.

"I know you don't mean to show off your wealth. Let's not mention the past. Where is Miss Sha Ye?"

"I'll see you later, I'll take you to the lower floor to see the core of our 'psychic puppet'..."

"also!"

It was almost equivalent to visiting his own reservation. Shanai led Daimaru through the gates that were blocked by layers of barrier, and saw a breathtaking scene.

Puppets of different shapes were placed on the ground covered with psychic runes. The total number of Daimaru was estimated to be close to [-]. It was like an army waiting to be reviewed, which was shocking.

At the same time, in the compound barrier, a strange breath made Daimaru feel a little uncomfortable.

"here……"

Daimaru opened his mouth, but swallowed the words he was about to say.

In this underground space surrounded by enchantment, the concentration of natural energy is much higher than outside, which is very beneficial to talented ninjas or psychic beasts, but some special physiques will also cause some problems, such as Chongwu, here It is very easy to cause the spell to get out of control and go crazy.

Walking among the array of puppets, Daimaru saw with his own eyes that two puppets were summoned away with the psychic array that suddenly flowed under him, and one puppet ended the psychic and returned here.

"It's really being turned by you!"

Most of the hundreds of puppets look relatively primitive in appearance, and should be the inventory accumulated over the past few decades.

Most of them have little practical value and have been replaced and eliminated by better models, but here, some value has been restored.

Powerful puppet masters don't look down on them. Those puppet apprentices and Jinnin are very envious. They can borrow them with a little chakra, which is really hard to ask for.

What makes Daimaru more concerned is that the chakra concentration here is higher than common sense, and the exchange of vague breath with those psychic puppets makes Daimaru a little scared.

"How did you do it?"

There was an inexplicable vibrato in Daimaru's words, and he was really frightened.

I used to think that the so-called "shared puppet" was the same thing.

"It was there before!"

Shanai was a little puzzled by Daimaru's excitement.

"The way of energy utilization is still very primitive, the efficiency of absorbing natural energy is very low, and it needs to be improved..."

In the words, because the technology is not as good as people, the regret of the lack of practicality is palpable.

"When the second generation of Fengying was studying the way to use puppets instead of using natural energy, was it directly used as a weapon?"

Shanai looked at Daimaru in front of her with an idiotic expression.

"At that time, the Ninja World War was in full swing. Why did you spend so much time without studying the weapons to defeat the enemy?"

"I...probably understand!"

Daimaru always thought that the second generation of Kazekage Sramana was studying puppet art in order to study the immortal mode like himself, but it turned out to be completely different.

It is estimated that the ninja world at that time did not understand at all that the immortal mode could be successful in self-cultivation, thinking that the immortal art of Hokage's first generation Mesenjuhashima, like Mudun, was an irreproducible personal talent.

In the era of chaos and chaos, the research on destructive weapons of mass destruction is king. Natural energy is so violent and dangerous, ninjas are too difficult to control, use puppets to use powerful forbidden weapons, or simply self-destructing puppets that perish together, this is the one It's the way of thinking that Feng Ying, who led Sand Ninja struggling to survive, should have.

"Study the puppet fairy mode?I think too much..."

Chapter 0587 Tutoring

In the future, when people look at the past, it is easy to have some misunderstandings.

The talent of the second generation of Fengying is definitely not bad, otherwise he would not have developed sand ninjutsu and puppet art. Unfortunately, the limitations of the times still prevent the seniors from achieving the feat of cultivating the immortal mode like Daimaru.

Because the development of ninjutsu is not as prosperous as it is now, the use of immortal mode and natural energy is indeed a little too crude.

Daimaru even felt that at that time, auxiliary ninjutsu such as shadow clone technique might not have spread, and the so-called secret techniques of investigation and practice were probably only spread among Konoha ninjas.

The morphological and qualitative changes of chakra attributes have been systematically summarized, and various exercise routines have been developed, which are only available in recent decades. Before the establishment of the five major ninja villages, ninjas rely on experience to accumulate, Family inheritance from father and son or private teaching and receiving between master and apprentice.

With the platform of Ninja Village and frequent exchanges, ninjutsu theory ushered in a great development.

These puppets from Daimaru at the moment, ranging from simple to complex, with higher and higher technical content, can roughly reflect the development of Shayin Village's puppet art over the past few decades.

From primitive to a collection of invisible shapes and a bunch of weapons, to multi-purpose puppets that are more and more human-shaped, they have developed into professional puppets with different functions.

There are even trial works imitating wing armor, civil puppets for construction machinery, and underwater deep diving puppets. At first glance, it is known that they are laboratory products born recently.

Of course, these immature puppets are just to enrich the "psychic puppet" storage materials, and most of them are not willing to use them.

After more than ten minutes, Daimaru saw that the psychic response was activated seven or eight times, and the frequency was not low. Considering that the new students of the ninja school were entering the school recently, the graduates practiced their skills hard, and prepared to deal with the critical moment of the genin selection, using the "shared puppet" "It's not surprising that there are so many people.

Even the puppet workshop under Daimaru's command has seen much better business recently.

In this critical period of the development of the Puppet Master University, it is normal to have such a level of activity.

but……

"With all due respect, you 'psychic puppets' don't seem to make much money when you spread them out!"

After weighing it carefully, Daimaru asked Shanai strangely.

The puppet base of nearly [-] seems to be huge, but the total population of the entire Shayin Village is only in the early [-]s. Based on [-]% of the total number of ninjas, it can be seen that the puppet masters in the entire village, even with apprentices, are at most [-] or [-].

Considering that many puppet masters with plenty of money have more than one puppet, Sand Ninja can digest about [-] puppets at most.

Most of the group of this size are not very wealthy Genin and apprentice puppet masters, and it is good to be able to barely cover the operating expenses.

In the long run, the "psychic puppet" can still pay for itself and make money, but the yield is too low.

The basic version of the puppet · spider sold by Daimaru's puppet workshop, even if it is not a huge profit, the after-sales service and peripheral industries such as toys can still make a lot of money.

But this industry, which has spent a lot of time, is more like a public welfare activity.

"You can see the truth at a glance, as expected of a young talent who can work hard in a village where the income is almost solidified..."

"The yin and yang compliments don't need to be used, we are not outsiders..."

"What nonsense, who is your own?"

Shanai rolled her eyes at Daimaru angrily.

"Miss Sha Ye is the shareholder of the puppet workshop, and you are also an executive who has made great contributions. I'm not mistaken!"

Daimaru replied confidently,

"If someone else arranges a bunch of messy scandals to slander me, it won't be so easy to pass the test, and... In order to hide the fact that even your sister is implicated, I didn't tell Miss Sha Ye, if she knew that her trusted relatives My sister has done so many things behind her back, I don't know what will happen..."

"It's alright, alright, I get it, it's stingy to be entangled in the slightest thing..."

Shanai relented a little unwillingly,

"Our family's accumulation of generations has almost reached the upper limit that the entire village can accommodate. At this level, external things such as money are no longer important. The speed of wealth naturally expands faster than that of profligate consumption..."

"This...I understand!"

Daimaru nodded in understanding.

Even if the entire Shayin Village is not a complete capital society, the top forces still have a winner-take-all aura.

As a nouveau riche, even if he does nothing, his subordinates, under the banner of "Red Sand Dust", can justifiably grab a lot of benefits in the village, and "offer" a portion to Daimaru to maintain the faction. The valve operates and continues to grow, and then feeds back to the subordinates to continue to expand, forming a virtuous circle.

Lying down to make money is really not a dream for the winners who have accumulated wealth to a certain extent.

The two sisters, Sha Ye and Shanai, who came from a wealthy family, have a deep understanding. When Miss Sha Ye lent money to Daimaru and invested in the puppet workshop, the phrase "I'm not interested in money" is really not a lie.

Anyway, you can't spend your whole life, and it really doesn't matter if you make money or not.

"It may be a bit hateful to say it, but for my elder sister and I, learning how to spend money is far more important than how to make money..."

Shanai said helplessly,

"When we were young, my father taught us that if we don't have too much talent, it is better to be a playboy who eats and waits to die than to be a rich girl with high ambitions and low talents who wants to prove that she doesn't exist. more useful..."

It’s only a few dollars to eat, drink, and play, but you can’t afford it. Isn’t it good to live a comfortable life?

Really want to force a great dream, use the power and wealth of the family to squander it, and the accumulation of several lifetimes is not enough to spoil it.

The loss of money and industry is second, the key is the price of using human connections and the backlash of human feelings, which is even more painful.

"Is your family's education so anti-human?"

Daimaru spit out angrily,

"It's no wonder that Miss Sha Ye would rather 'run away from home' and run to her own single ninja apartment to 'endure hardships', rather than be a tool for marriage..."

"Marriage or something, it doesn't really matter. If my elder sister really disagrees, my father and mother will not force it. Our family has long passed the level where we need to sell our own daughter's happiness to maintain power..."