The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 299 Music Box

Earth Escape·Earth Flow Wall.

Since this earth escape ninjutsu can instantly raise a huge earth wall on the ground, some people even have the leisure to carve a few dog heads on it.

Then it would be a piece of cake to create a surface on the wall for the puppet to stand on.

Based on this technique, Hideki created an interesting automatic level generation system called "Music Box".

In order to facilitate scene changes, Hideki made the walls that serve as the background of the arcade into a circular cylindrical shape.

The bricks made of earth-dumping techniques are dotted on it, just like the sound tubes of a music box.

In this way, the entire level can be seamlessly connected, and no matter whether the player goes left or right, the system has enough time to build the level.

And there is another wonderful thing about this music box system.

Because the bricks generated by the rune spell are real, Mario can smash them by jumping like in the original game, which is very refreshing.

At the same time, since these bricks are made entirely of earth-style chakra, the fragments will disappear immediately after being broken and will not affect the progress of the game.

In Hideki's opinion, the fact that Mario can smash bricks that were originally indestructible after eating mushrooms and becoming bigger is also one of the highlights of this game.

Originally he felt that this effect was somewhat difficult to achieve and planned to compromise a little.

Unexpectedly, this music box system happened to solve the problem incidentally. It was a pleasant surprise and well worth his efforts.

After all, it is quite difficult to perform earth escape ninjutsu through rune rituals.

Fortunately, Hideki is best at earth escape, and this system only uses the most basic part of earth escape.

So after putting in some effort, he finally worked out the corresponding technique.

Of course, in such a short time, it is impossible for Hideki to develop the technology to change the nature of chakra through rune techniques.

Therefore, the function of this technique is simply to temporarily solidify the earth-style chakra into bricks. It must be driven by earth-style chakra before it can function normally.

In addition, in order to save materials and costs, Hideki could not equip the mass-produced arcade machines with precious chakra capacitors.

So this means that this type of arcade machine needs a ninja who has mastered the changes in the nature of earth escape to continuously inject earth escape chakra in order to operate normally.

But this is actually not a big problem.

There are still many ninjas in Konoha who have been forced to retire due to old age or injury. Most of them spent money lavishly when they were young and do not have much savings. Now they can only make ends meet by relying on the pensions from the village.

Although it is difficult for them to go to the battlefield and kill enemies, they are still capable of using chakra to drive arcade machines.

Earth escape happens to be the most common property of nature change, so there should be no shortage of people who can do it.

This will also create more employment opportunities for Konoha, reduce social instability factors, and maintain the stability of the village.

Tsk tsk, I really worry about this village.

Hideki couldn't help but give himself a prize of touching the top ten people in Konoha in his heart...

"Teacher Hideki, is this a new product from the workshop? It looks like it's really fun."

Obito's serious voice interrupted Hideki's silent speech of thanks.

Only then did he come to his senses and found that there were children watching behind him without him noticing.

Their curious eyes were fixed on the little man in the arcade machine, following him as he jumped up and down under Hideki's subconscious control, stepping on chestnuts and bursting bricks.

Ding ding ding ding ding…

The crisp sound made by the little man eating a string of gold coins while jogging sounded so pleasant.

This scene made Hideki feel as if he had returned to his childhood in his previous life, the green days when he and his friends played games in front of the TV on sultry summer afternoons.

What a pity~
Even though he was able to live again in this world, he would not be able to experience such carefree happiness again.

But isn’t it a good experience to be able to spread the joy in memory to the ninja world and bring some color to these children’s gloomy childhood?
Hideki's lips curled up slightly, and he began to move his fingers slightly, skillfully jumping onto the continuous steps, and then with a sprint jump, he perfectly pulled the flag down from the flagpole.

The children burst into amazement when they saw this.

Then he slowly answered Obito's question:
"This machine is called a game console, and it is indeed a new product from the workshop." "But it will not be sold directly for the time being. Instead, it will be placed in toy stores and played by inserting coins."

"And this game is called Super Mario, and it's the main game for this console."

In today's ninja world, basic slot machines have already appeared in advanced areas like Konoha.

So the children thought about it a little and soon understood what Hideki meant.

They exchanged glances, their expressions sparkling with irrepressible joy.

This is great.

Although the previous flash yo-yo was very good, the price was too high as a toy.

Not to mention that the evil consortium B launches new dazzling yo-yos every now and then, each of which is either a collector's edition or a limited edition. Anyway, you will be at a loss if you don't buy one.

Even the children of the ninja clan could not withstand such exploitation, let alone children of commoner origin like them.

Buying a few more ordinary yo-yos and hoping for a lucky draw is their limit.

But this arcade machine is different. Judging from what Mr. Hideki said, the price of playing this game console once should not be expensive.

It just so happens that they don’t have much time to play, so spending money on this may be the most cost-effective option.

As expected, Teacher Hideki still loves them.

He must have known that no one can afford the glowing yo-yo, so he launched this affordable new product. He would rather not make money than not spread happiness in Konoha!

He really made me cry...

However, the little ninjas did not know one fact.

According to Hideki's calculations, compared to selling the flashing yo-yos, which is a one-time deal, making money from arcade machines takes a certain amount of time to pay back, but the advantage is that the money is endless, and in the long run it is definitely profitable...

At this time, the little ninjas didn't know Hideki's little plan. They were all imagining that they could play with such interesting toys for a small amount of money in the future, and they felt that they had made a big profit.

And this clever little guy Obito has gone a step further and is thinking about how to get something for free.

He came up to Hideki with a smug look on his face and said in a flattering manner:

"Teacher Hideki, do you need someone to test you?"

Hideki used his hand to push Obito's silly face out of his sight.

But the expectant gazes of the other children still made him feel uneasy, so he could only shrug helplessly and say:
"Whatever. If I'm alone, I might have blind spots that can't be tested."

"Then students who want to help with the test can come and line up."

"One life per person, and it can help me test the difficulty of this game."

"Great!"

The little ninjas immediately burst into cheers from the bottom of their hearts, and then rushed to line up in a long queue.

There are too many people here. I’m afraid we won’t be able to finish playing until tomorrow morning.

Hideki shook his head helplessly and couldn't help but complain in his heart.

It turns out that children’s enthusiasm for playing cannot be underestimated.

In order to reduce the number of testers slightly, he added leisurely:
"I almost forgot to tell you that you can't just play around. You have to write me a test report of at least a thousand words and hand it in tomorrow."

The little ninjas' smiles froze when they heard this.

Wow, it's really worthy of Teacher Hideki, he can always make them feel pain and happiness.

But no one retreated and everyone gritted their teeth and persevered.

Seeing this, Hideki could only smile helplessly, then spread his hands and said:
"Well, actually I have several other models of prototypes. If you don't mind the bugs, you can try them."

(End of this chapter)