I sell sweets in Konoha

"You need to keep warm at night, so people who live in the desert like to wear loose robes."

"On the one hand, the large robes here can block the wind and sand, and on the other hand, they also help dissipate heat."

"It can also be used to keep warm at night."

"So..." Lin looked at the unresponsive Junko and asked, "Godai-sama isn't wearing a robe either? Are you... not cold?"

"I'm not cold." Junko shook her head and said, "Or, if it's just from a personal perspective, it's because of my unique physique. I prefer to stay in cold places."

"Instead of somewhere hot, this is just right for me."

A good place brought by the wind and snow magic, Junko can adapt to the cold weather very well.But the resistance to heat is less than ideal.

Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t stay in hot places at all.

It’s just that you don’t like it.

"We are about to arrive at Loulan City." Shuimen stood on a sand dune and looked at the city hidden in the desert.

Loulan.

He had heard about this place a long time ago. Ninjas who had been here said that Loulan was an extremely prosperous place.It's not as prosperous as a city in war, sandwiched between two hostile countries.

The prosperity here is far beyond people's imagination, and it was once the place where Konoha ninjas most wanted to station themselves.

Apart from the huge temperature difference between morning and evening, Loulan is still a pretty good place.

Minato had heard about such a place a long time ago.

But I have never been here before, and now I am looking at the beautiful city unfolding in front of me like a scroll.He...he really didn't really care.

I'm not here for a business trip, just to hang out.

Came here with a mission.

He didn't have much time to appreciate Loulan City under the night.

"Get your masks ready." Minato said, "We're getting ready to enter the city."

"learn!"

Needless to say, although these three people are not very old, they are certainly extraordinary people who can achieve big things.Some problems can be seen from some small things.

It's really cold, but the mission comes first.

No matter how bad the situation was and it exceeded their expectations, these three people were still prepared immediately.Leaving the cold behind, he put on the strange monster mask.

This is not a regular ANBU mask.

Rather, it is a specially made mask with some kind of symbolic or suggestive meaning used in sacrificial ceremonies.

it looks like...

"Ah haha?" Junko complained while holding the mask.

"What?" Minato couldn't understand.

"No..." Junko shook her head and said, "It feels like Kroger's mask..."

Kroger, commonly known as Yahaha.An important NPC in a certain gangster game, he was named "Yahaha" because he always said "Yahaha" when meeting him.There are a total of 900 in the game, and if you find one, you will get a golden Oli, so there are more than [-] Olies.This thing is used to open the backpack in the game.

Of course, less than nine hundred are actually used.

More than 400 is enough to open all backpacks.

That's not the point, the point is...

Minato actually used the mask on his face.This really surprised Junko.

"This thing..." Junko asked, holding the mask: "Where did it come from?"

Junko had seen the Lost Tower and knew that Minato and the others were wearing masks after entering.But that mask looks more like a Majira mask than a Hahaha mask.

"I bought it before I left," Minato explained, "from a strange businessman."

"I couldn't use Konoha's common masks, so I used this one."

Minato was right, since he couldn't appear as Konoha.Then it is best not to have anything related to Konoha appear here, including the masks of Konoha Anbu.

Although this weird mask looks terribly weird, it is just right for hiding one's identity.

"Oh..." Junko responded without asking any more questions.

Anyway, this is not the orthodox original world, and there seems to be nothing strange about the appearance of the haha ​​mask...

Right?

Then at night, several people wearing masks entered Loulan City.

like...

It seemed like no one was paying attention to them.

Meeting Loulan for the first time, Junzi finally understood why there were so many rumors about this rapidly declining small country.Because if you just look at it from the outside.

Loulan is really incredibly prosperous!

In the ninja world where curfews are still implemented everywhere, Loulan is probably the first city that never sleeps.

At first glance, you can see the towering buildings here, with arch bridges connecting them as passages.It looks like three-dimensional traffic with different heights.

It's like being in a different world.

only...

"This is unscientific..." Junko looked at these tower-like buildings, even though she had known about them for a long time.But it feels really strange to actually enter here.

"What's wrong?" Minato asked.

"The buildings are very tall." Junko said, looking at the tower-like buildings and the bridges connecting them: "But these buildings don't have many windows, and there are so many bridges connecting them. I always feel that these buildings do not have residential functions."

"And there is no clear correlation between bridges and the feeling of the capacity of these bridges."

"Not ideal."

"From the perspective of urban traffic," Junko said, pointing to one of the bridges that seemed to be a mere bridge connecting two towers, "such bridges are simply useless."

"Teacher!" At this moment, Kakashi suddenly pointed at the pedestrians on the ground and said, "Look there."

Minato looked in the direction Kakashi pointed.

A pedestrian, wearing the traditional costume of Loulan Kingdom, was walking aimlessly on the street.If you are just a wanderer, there are many such people in Konoha Village.

but...

If you look a little closer, you can see that the person's body movements are stiff and the limbs always twist in more or less strange directions.

It felt like some special patients who couldn't control their limbs and limped forward in the street in strange postures.

"Is it a puppet?" Minato had good eyesight and could tell at a glance that the strange pedestrian was a puppet.

The kind of puppet made of wood is not a real person at all.

"It's not just this guy." Junko said, "Everyone on this street is a puppet!"

really...

That Baizu was so stupid that he captured everyone as slaves...

This...this idiot...

Aren't you asking for your own destruction? !

1 Hi~Queen Lily No

There is a kind of life called other people's life.

When others are at this stage in their lives, they are already the king of a country.

Sarah is such a person in the life of others, the young Queen of Loulan Kingdom.When he was a teenager, he took over this prosperous country from his mother.

When everyone thought, or thought that the queen could just lie down and enjoy it.

But Sarah has her own difficulties.

It was difficult to start a business, and his ancestors found a corner and led the people to struggle for survival again.My mother, father, grandparents worked hard and never let up for a day to make the Loulan Kingdom so prosperous.

When this foundation is passed on to oneself.

Sarah panicked.

Youth is capital, but it is also a huge pressure.She does not have enough wisdom, experience and discernment to be a good queen.

She doesn't even have a familiar team to consolidate her position and help her govern such a prosperous country.Can the old minister left behind by my mother be used?

Sarah didn't know, but at least on the surface it seemed that the old minister was managing the country steadily.

However, someone told Sarah privately that although this veteran seemed to be governing the country securely, he actually had other agendas.He is using Loulan Kingdom to achieve his own goals.And this purpose will completely destroy Loulan Kingdom!

Sarah would not be indifferent to this statement, but it seemed a bit unconvincing.

Standing on the balcony of his bedroom overlooking his country.

The knowledge learned in books seems useless. Maybe the knowledge is indeed useful but I just don't know how to use it.

this country...

What should I do?

It is really not that easy to be a conservative king.

"My Lady Queen!"

While Sarah was still looking at the brightly lit civilian street under the balcony, the door of her bedroom was rudely pushed open.

It’s not people who come in.

In other words, they are not completely human. They are two strange wooden puppets and a middle-aged man wearing a large robe.

"Lin Jiulang." Sarah came back to her senses. She put on the dignity of a queen and said in a stern and even critical tone: "You actually broke into my bedroom."

"Do you know what a sin this is?!"

Sarah had a stern look on her face, trying her best to look as majestic as a queen.

'This Lin Jiulang is really getting more and more rude. Sarah said with disgust in her heart: "You actually broke in here with a puppet." '

'Is he trying to overstep his bounds? '

When she thought of this, Sarah felt a little bad in her heart.His mother died in an accident.An accident that should never have happened.Everyone probably knew that this was a conspiracy, a targeted conspiracy, but no trace of the conspiracy could be found through investigation.

"My Queen, forgive me." The middle-aged man named Lin Jiulang said.

But there was no sign of fear on his face, and he didn't even bend down.He looked down at the Queen from a high position and said, "I am here because of an emergency."

Sarah's face showed no signs of relaxation, and she still said seriously: "What kind of emergency."

"Why can't we wait until tomorrow's morning meeting?"

"It has something to do with the safety of Her Majesty the Queen." Lin Jiulang said: "According to the news reported by the guards, several unidentified people have sneaked into Loulan Kingdom."

"The identities of these people are suspicious, and their whereabouts are also very suspicious. They have already gotten rid of our guards."

"I don't know where I am hiding at the moment. I am afraid that I am here to assassinate you."

"That's why I came here late at night."

What Lin Jiulang said was shaking his head, but every word made sense.If it weren't for the arrogant expression on his face, Sarah would have really thought that he was concerned about her safety.

"I already know." Her Lady Queen said impatiently: "My dear, please step aside first."

Lin Jiulang didn't move, and didn't even mean to retreat.

"My dear?" Lady Sarah's voice rose a little higher.

"My ministers are here for the safety of the Queen." Lin Jiulang said: "I have brought two newly made high-level puppets. These two puppets will..."

"I don't need it!" Her Lady Queen said angrily: "I don't need you to put this kind of thing in my bedroom."

"But Your Lady Queen..." Lin Jiulang was still arguing and unwilling to continue.

"That's enough!" Sarah was really angry this time and said, "Why don't you get out of here! If you break into my bedroom with a puppet late at night, I can punish you."

"It would be a great forgiveness if I don't hold you accountable, Mr. Lin."

"You are your puppet both inside and outside the palace, if you let the assassin sneak into this place."