Chapter 84 The People of Konoha, the Future of Konoha (Asking for Monthly Tickets)

"..."

Shennong thought a lot at this moment, and a chaotic thought surged in his mind. A bitter smile gradually appeared on his face: "It shouldn't be free, right?"

As he thought, Yunchuan shook his head and smiled: "In my life creed, fate and price are synonymous."

After that, he stretched out his left hand to Shennong, and a small crack gradually appeared on his thumb.

Looking at the drop of blood oozing out of the crack, Shennong subconsciously widened his eyes and held his breath.

It was like being possessed, and the breath made him salivate.

"Ahem! Take it, and I will help you."

Until Yunchuan coughed, Shennong suddenly came back to his senses,

"What is this? How can human blood be like this?" He looked at Yunchuan with fear in his eyes, and his tone was full of fear: "Are you really a monster in human skin?"

Shennong looked at the pair of dark blue eyes, feeling plain but hiding some deep meaning.

Like a monster that can see through human desires, that sight picks at his flesh and blood inch by inch, and puts the things hidden in his body one pound and one ounce at a time on the documents and chopping board for analysis and bargaining.

"Perhaps, you can regard me as a devil?"

Yunchuan shrugged indifferently, chuckled and stretched out his hand to Shennong and said: "I respect those who dare to pay the price to change their fate. They deserve more opportunities than those who only beg for charity from others."

"And the most precious thing for a person is his own soul."

The runes on the wall glowed with a bright light, illuminating the back of Yunchuan sitting on the Zero Tail, and casting his shadow on Shennong at his feet.

"You, you..."

Shennong looked at the palm that was gradually approaching him, and looked at the blue eyes through the fingers, feeling his scalp and teeth numb.

The cold and shadow that penetrated into the bones made people feel like falling into hell, as if they would be dragged into hell by ghosts and suffered torture.

He said so many beautiful words just now, but at this moment, he felt instinctive fear.

Once he accepted this drop of blood, he might get some benefits, but he would also lose something forever.

"Sell your soul to me and get the only and last chance to control your own destiny." Yunchuan's voice seemed to float from a distant place.

Hearing the devil's voice in his ear, Shennong's trembling body stagnated, and he watched the palm pressed down and covered his cheek like that.

"Ah!!"

The moment the "blood" merged into his body, Shennong let out a shrill wail.

The soul-tearing pain made his slightly blue blood vessels protrude, and his whole body seemed to be crawling with slender worms that kept wriggling, and countless bloody cracks gradually appeared on the exposed skin.

"Hehe!"

Shennong exhaled hysterically with every breath, and the burning heat in his chest burned his throat. What flowed in his blood vessels was no longer blood, but boiling molten iron, and the roar seemed to be flowing with magma deep in his throat.

That drop of "blood" gradually became a soul shackle, and the end of the shackle was held in Yunchuan's hand, and his body was torn into pieces and turned into a more bizarre form.

Looking at Shennong who was transformed into a "ghost", sensing the blood curse, Yunchuan took a step back with an indifferent expression, and then looked down at the Zero Tail under his feet.

"Ah!"

Zero Tail, who was originally sneaking and looking around, let out a strange cry after meeting Yunchuan's pupils, and retracted several tentacles as if nothing had happened.

"You are really dishonest."

Yunchuan stood up with a smile on his face, looking down at Zero Tail who was curled up into a ball, and whispered: "Sure enough, compared to integrating into the body of your insect, the 'Zero Tail Ghost Pillariki' seems to be better."

Yunchuan planned to seal "Zero Tail" into the body of Shennong who was transformed into a "ghost", so that he could get a subordinate as "Zero Tail Ghost Pillariki" and let him replace "Zero Tail" as the energy source of the fortress and stay here honestly.

"I have no shortage of Uzumaki people who are good at sealing techniques. After the invasion of Konoha is over, you and Shennong will stay here and work for me."

While speaking, the blood mist around Yunchuan was pulled and condensed, and finally transformed into sharp spikes.

Zerotail, who was pointed at by the spikes, shrank and trembled restlessly in the giant cocoon.

"Be good, don't move. It's good for you. Eat more to grow up." Seeing its resistance at the moment, Yunchuan's tone became gentle, and he whispered to comfort it, "Don't waste my patience, bastard."

As soon as the voice fell, in a shrill scream, the sharp tentacles behind him pierced out.

"Hiss!"

The tentacle "puffed" and pierced into Zerotail's body in the cocoon, making it hiss piercingly!

The blood mist contained an extremely deep malice, like a snake wrapped around Zerotail's body, cruising upwards, eroding and licking inch by inch.

The incomplete body of Zero Tail actually began to grow stronger and longer at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The blood color also gradually spread on the black and purple body, outlining strange blood patterns.

"It really works."

Seeing the changes in Zero Tail, Yunchuan narrowed his eyes and thought: "How far can Zero Tail, who has been strengthened by me, and Shennong, who has become a ghost, invade Konoha?"

Just as Yunchuan was thinking, his eyebrows suddenly raised.

Sinking his consciousness into his mind, he looked at the white template.

[Defeat the Void [Zero Tail], trigger with probability, and obtain a new template]

[Name: Jonathan Klein [Scarecrow]]

[World: DC]

[Quality: White]

[Advanced: Not Advanced]

[Ability: ① Fear Poison: It can make the poisoned person fall into the illusion that he fears the most, and it can also guide the poisoned person to fear something that he has never feared before. Fear brings violence, and violence causes fear.

② Psychopharmacology: Proficient in the power and use of psychology and pharmacology, can influence a person's behavior with words, and see into people's psychological weaknesses and use them.

③ Dance of Violence: A fighting technique that combines Crane Kung Fu and Drunken Boxing, and fully utilizes the advantages of long arms and long legs. 】

[Advanced conditions: cannot be advanced]

"...Fear of poison gas?"

In the wailing of Shennong and the scream of Zero Tail.

After a short silence, a chuckle suddenly came.

"Heh." Yunchuan blinked and laughed, "It seems that Konoha's luck is not very good."

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At the same time, in an old two-story house in Konoha.

Dingling... Bang! !

The alarm clock on the bedside rang on time at six o'clock.

But before it could jump twice, it was slapped down by a hand.

"Ha!"

A boy sat up with his eyes open, yawned and stretched on the bed.

Immediately, he put on his clothes and folded the quilt with ease, took a cup of hot water in the living room, held the slightly warm cup of water, walked to the window and opened the curtains.

Wow! !

It was six o'clock in the morning, and the sky was just getting light.

The small flowers by the window are in full bloom, and their colors are particularly bright in the sun. Just one look at them can make you feel much better.

Warm sheets are drying outside, and the breeze is swaying the green leaves.

The sun shines on the boy's smooth blond hair, which reminds people of precious golden silk.

"Konoha, good morning."

The boy enjoys the breeze blowing on his face, and his whole body feels very comfortable. The smile on his face is as bright as the sun.

It's still early now. Compared with the usual bustling and prosperous, the streets downstairs are much quieter, and the feeling of peace and quiet.

The whole residential building is still quiet, and you can vaguely hear the chatter downstairs.

"Yo!"

As if they heard the sound of the window opening above, the two old ladies chatting downstairs looked up, and when they saw the boy, they greeted him with a kind smile: "Good morning, Minato, have you eaten? Do you want to come down and eat together?"

"Ahaha, good morning, Grandma Matsubara, Grandma Nagase."

Faced with the enthusiasm of the two grandmas, Minato scratched his head shyly and politely declined: "Thank you, grandma, but I have already made breakfast."

"Oh, Minato is really mature and sensible, feeling like a little adult."

"Yes, yes, he is nine years old like that naughty boy in my family, but he is not as naughty as him."

Getting rid of the two overly enthusiastic and kind people, Minato closed the window and breathed a sigh of relief.

Walked to the living room and took out instant rice balls and miso soup from the refrigerator. After finishing his breakfast in a few bites, he cleaned up the dishes and finally made sure that he had not forgotten anything before leaving the house.

Minato was exercising as usual, jogging along the street in the light morning mist.

But when he ran to an intersection, a man with long white hair came towards him.

"Senior Hiruhu?" Minato subconsciously greeted him, "Good morning!"

"..." The man called Hiruhu stopped and glanced at Minato with his red eyes.

Then he just nodded indifferently, shook his white hair tied into a ponytail, and walked past him without looking back.

"It seems that Senior Hiruhu is not in a good mood." Minato scratched his head, but didn't care too much and continued to run forward.

But soon, a strange green figure caught up with him from behind.

"Hoo! Hoo! Minato, you got up so early to run, what an enviable youth!"

Minato obviously recognized the owner of the familiar voice. Although he had a headache, he still smiled and turned his head and said, "Good morning, Brother Dai, what goal do you plan to achieve today?"

It was a man with side-parted hair.

Although Minato was called Brother, he looked very mature, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, square face and a big nose, looking like an uncle.

Especially when he was wearing a green tights and "running" upside down with his hands, he looked a little funny and neurotic.

"Today's goal is to run around Konoha upside down twenty times!"

Might Dai, who was standing upside down, smiled brightly, showing his shiny white teeth and said loudly: "If you can't do it, do three thousand frog jumps and pull-ups."

His super loud voice echoed around, and the scolding from the houses on both sides of the street made him subconsciously shut up.

It can be seen that he was actually disliked by many people in normal times. He was not completely indifferent to other people's opinions. His personality was more or less humble.

"Although it's not the first time I heard of Brother Dai's goal, but is this exaggerated training volume really okay?"

Minato didn't look at Might Dai with a strange look, but just looked at him worriedly as he gradually pulled away from him, and reminded him: "Brother Dai, don't force your body!"

As far as Minato knew, Brother Dai had neither ninjutsu nor illusion, and was just a Genin who could not be promoted for many years. He could only do some D-level tasks of catching cats and dogs.

This type of task is a daily chore, usually issued by ordinary people or nobles, and the bounty is between 500 taels and 10,000 taels.

For a physical training practitioner like Might Dai, this amount of money could not even cover his food expenses, and he was even so poor that he had to collect village relief money.

Even so, he could only barely guarantee his own food and clothing, and there was no way to get more.

However, Minato could understand his approach, after all, he only had physical training left.

Minato also admired the belief of this big brother Dai, but it was a pity that big brother Dai never asked him for money, even if he took the initiative to ask for money, he would not take it.

In the original words of big brother Dai, that is...

"It doesn't matter!"

Might Dai jumped upside down with one hand, turned around and gave Minato a thumbs up, and said loudly in an excited tone: "This is passionate youth! That's it, work hard and sweat!"

The people around him immediately cast strange looks, which made Minato take a breath of cold air, and the toes hidden in the shoes curled up.

For him, who is still young now, such words are more or less embarrassing.

At this moment, Might Dai suddenly yelled "Ouch!", and while running upside down, he turned his head to look at Minato, causing him to fall headfirst into the grass on the side of the road.

His head was stuck in the grass, with only his legs exposed, still twitching slightly, looking very funny.

"Brother Dai!"

Minato came to his senses and ran over quickly.

But before he could reach out to help, Might Dai supported himself with both hands and jumped out with his legs.

"Pah! Pah! Minato, it's okay, it's okay, I just have to start counting laps again..."

He spit out all the leaves in his mouth, but before he finished speaking, his stomach actually started to growl.

"Brother Dai, you..."

Minato, who was originally trying to help him, paused, and reached into his arms to take out his wallet, advising: "You must eat enough, you can pay me back later...Brother Dai?"

Minato's wrist was suddenly held down, and he looked up at Might Dai in astonishment.

The man shook his head gently, then let go of Minato's wrist holding the wallet, grinned and showed his shiny teeth, and said: "You are still a child, I am an adult, how can an adult ask for money from a child."

"It's embarrassing enough to show this ugly face in front of you. If I really accept your money, my youth will really be extinguished."

Although he was an incompetent man in the eyes of other ninjas and villagers, he was not so useless as to ask for the inheritance left to his son by heroic parents before they died.

"Brother Dai..."

Hearing this, Minato's light blue pupils trembled, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

After a short silence, when he was about to persuade Might Dai again, the figure in front of him had already run away.

"Minato! Come on! Work hard! Go to school! Youth means never giving up!"

Might Dai's passionate shout came from a distance, and it looked like a green frog, running away with a "quack quack" sound.

"..."

Until the green figure disappeared in front of him, Minato retracted his gaze and looked down at his wrist, and his flashing eyes gradually became more colorful.

Konoha is good, really good.

However, it is not good enough, it can be better.

"If I can become Hokage, I will never let someone like Brother Dai..." Minato couldn't help but think of the idea that had appeared several times in his mind again.

Standing there in a trance for a long time, until a villager passed by, Minato suddenly came back to his senses and exclaimed: "Oh no! I'm going to be late for school!"

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At the same time, in the Senju ancestral house with a long historical style but a little deserted.

The girl was wrapped in a white blanket and snoring on the tatami.

The faint light from the window came into the room. Her dishonest sleeping posture exposed her arms, calves and half of her shoulders. Her red hair was very messy.

Just then.

Ding-ling-ling! Ding-ling-ling!!

The alarm clock that had fallen to the ground at some point made a deafening sound as if in revenge.

"Ah!"

The girl screamed in shock, sat up straight, and looked ahead in confusion.

After she recovered, she picked up the jumping alarm clock on the ground and slapped it to turn it off.

But when she saw the time on the alarm clock, her dark green pupils widened instantly, and she stared blankly at the faint light coming through the window.

"Ahhhh! Damn it!"

The girl jumped out of bed, put on her clothes in a hurry, and hurried downstairs.

In the living room, a young woman with long red hair, a pair of buns, a diamond mark on her forehead, and a white kimono sat at the dining table.

"Kushina, are you awake?"

Looking at Kushina who jumped down from the upstairs, the woman teased with a half-smile: "Don't you want to sleep for a while?"

But before she could finish her words, Uzumaki Kushina didn't even stop, and snatched the hot rice ball from the woman's hand and held it in her mouth.

"Mmm, Mmm! (Thanks, Grandma Mito)!"

Kushina replied vaguely, put on her shoes at the entrance and ran away without looking back.

Watching the girl's back disappearing in front of her eyes, Uzumaki Mito's young face showed a kind smile that was a bit out of place.

"That's great, it seems that Kushina should be doing well in school."

She sighed with relief, then lowered her head and said to herself: "In this way, I should not have failed Tetsuya's trust."

As she said this, she looked up in the direction of the Whirlpool Country, but the smile on her face gradually disappeared.

I don't know why.

She always felt a little uneasy in her heart.

What made her even more uneasy was that her sixth sense had always been very accurate.

After a moment of silence, Mito sighed, looked down at her abdomen, and murmured: "I can still hold on for a while, I just hope that day will come later."

If possible, she didn't want Kushina to become the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki too early, carrying heavy responsibilities and missions, even if it was just the last bit of happy childhood.

This chapter is 5,000 words, I'm still typing, and I'm trying to write another 3,000 words.