In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 328 Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Ghost
"Okay, you go out first."

The Sandai Kazekage watched Shimizu walk out of the office and reached out to press a bell on the table.

"Shh!"

An Anbu ninja in black uniform instantly appeared in front of the Third Kazekage and knelt on one knee.

"What is Luo Sha doing now?"

The Third Kazekage asked the ANBU.

"Sama Sandaime, the deputy minister is now entertaining the envoys from Kirigakure according to your instructions."

The ANBU lowered his head slightly and replied.

"Call him over here, I have something to ask him."

The Third Kazekage tapped the table with his fingers and said.

Qingshui already has a perfect answer.

This is the last chance left for Luo Sha.

"Yes!"

The Anbu ninja responded and instantly jumped out of the window.

At the same time, in the commercial city which is the outer city of Sand Village, Luo Sha, with a faint smile on his face, was walking on the street with a fat man with long brown-orange hair, a cloth-wrapped broadsword on his back, and a height of nearly two meters and five.

"How about it, Xiguashan-kun, the prosperity of Sand Village should be no worse than that of Mist Village, right?"

Luo Sha said proudly to the Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish ghost who looked like a little giant beside him.

"The grandeur of Sand Village is indeed far beyond my imagination."

The Xiguashan puffer ghost turned his head and, relying on his height and length, was able to see every corner of the street more clearly.

Compared with the Sand Village, the Mist Village, which has implemented the blood mist policy for many years, is really far behind.

But it is impossible for the Xiguashan puffer ghost to say it directly in front of people from other villages.

"But the Sand Village is indeed prosperous, but what does this have to do with Rasa-kun?"

The Xiguashan puffer ghost turned around and said to Luo Sha with a smile.

He made sufficient preparations before setting off, and specifically contacted the intelligence team of the Hidden Mist Village to learn about the current situation of the Hidden Sand Village.

The man next to him, the disciple of the Third Kazekage and the powerful Deputy Chief of the Sunagakure Anbu, has a chance of becoming the Fourth Kazekage, which is getting smaller and smaller every day.

There are not many people like Shimizu who are not only good at fighting but also have good strategies and management abilities among these ninjas who have been killing people with swords since they were twelve years old or even earlier.

According to Master Yuan, the last person with this template was called Senju Tobirama.

He is a good fighter and has strong ability to govern the village. His various policies have attracted several major ninja villages to emulate him. He is also a master of scientific research.

No one wants to see a figure like Tobirama Senju emerge from the Sand Village.

"I am from the Sand Village. How can what's going on in the Sand Village have nothing to do with me? Xiguashan, what do you mean?"

Luo Sha's face darkened slightly.

"Really? I heard that the reason why Sand Village can become what it is now is largely due to your village's Shimizu Jonin. Such an outstanding person must have a great chance of becoming the next Kazekage of Sand Village in the future."

The Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost looked at Luo Sha with a pair of squinting eyes.

"That may not be the case. Only the strongest person in a village can be the shadow of a village."

"Really? It seems that Lord Rasa thinks that you are the strongest one in the Sand Village?"

Luo Sha didn't answer.

Even though he was unwilling to accept it, he knew that Qingshui's strength was probably above his.

"It seems that Lord Luo Sha is not sure about it either?"

The Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost said with a smile.

"With Qingshui's ability, I think... if Lord Luosha wants to gain an advantage in the competition, these few years may be the last chance. Don't forget how old he is. Perhaps only in these last few years, if Lord Luosha makes enough contributions, can he surpass Qingshui?
And what other merit could be more valuable than leading the Sand Village to defeat Konoha?"

The Xiguashan Puffer Ghost noticed that there was an Anbu ninja leaping towards here in the distance, so he reached out and patted Luosha on the shoulder. Looking at the latter's changeable expression, he suddenly smiled, looking naive.

Luo Sha is the disciple of the Third Kazekage. His words should have a certain influence on the Third Kazekage's choice, right?
……

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After coming out of the Fengying Building, Qingshui went to the puppet troops again.

Scorpion is preparing to be promoted to jonin and is out on a mission.

It's just that now is a non-war period, and although the amount of missions is much greater than in the past peacetime, there are still not many high-level missions that are suitable for senior ninjas.

In peacetime, it is naturally more difficult to be promoted to a jonin than in wartime.

Even though Scorpion has a backer and his elders are high-ranking officials in the village, he still has to go through the necessary procedures. At most, after meeting the requirements, he will be able to proceed more smoothly than others and will not get stuck.

Shimizu estimated that Scorpio would have to wait until the second half of this year or even the beginning of next year to accumulate enough merits.

That wouldn't break my own record.

Shimizu remembered that he became a jonin two years ago when he just turned thirteen.

As for Scorpion, he will have to celebrate his thirteenth birthday in two months, so the time it takes him to become a jonin will probably be half a year later than mine.

This is also a very impressive result.

Now Scorpion must be in the core training sequence of the Sand Village, because a genius of this level, as long as he does not die young, will most likely grow into a Kage-level powerhouse in the future and become the pillar of a large ninja village.

Even Maki, who became a jonin a year later, has been recruited into the Anbu by the Third Kazekage and serves as the captain of an Anbu detachment, and has been transferred to the Kazekage Guard.

Although he would inevitably be suppressed by the deputy minister Luo Sha after joining the Anbu, Maki, as a member of the Kazekage's guard, could have direct contact with the Kazekage, so Luo Sha would not dare to make his ideas too obvious.

As for myself and Ye Cang...

Basically, he can be regarded as a ninja at the pillar level of the village. Even though Ye Cang's strength is a little bit weaker than most of the Kage-level powerhouses, at least he has the ability to deal with them. The gap with the weaker Kage-level like Rasa is even smaller.

Closer to home.

Because Scorpion, the great scientific research general, went on a mission, and he also took with him Jianye, the veteran main force who had been trained in the new puppetry for nearly three years. If Qingshui did not want to stop the research progress during this period, he would need to personally supervise the puppet troops.

Today, the composition of the puppet army is quite different from the past.

The first five detachments are still composed mainly of elite puppeteers as before, and are important elite combat forces of the Sand Village.

As for the Sixth Brigade, although it is also a combat unit, it will be more responsible for puppet maintenance, logistics support and other fields compared to other brigades. Now, this place has become the base camp for the research and development of new puppetry and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. It is more like a scientific research base than a combat team.

Therefore, Chiyo also considered whether to establish a seventh team to share the original functions of the sixth team so that the sixth team could specialize in the research of new puppetry.

However, this item was put on hold at Qingshui's persuasion because he had other ideas.

It's just that the new puppetry has only been around for less than three years, and it's not yet enough time to build a complete talent training mechanism. They can only rely on Scorpion, a puppetry genius whose progress far exceeds that of others, and Qingshui, a knowledge carrier, to slowly guide them.

Only after a few years, when the talent system is improved, can Qingshui transfer some of the energy invested in it.

Qingshui spent the rest of the morning teaching and guiding students in research.

It was not until the sun was almost at its zenith that it was past noon.

In the outer city of Sand Village, on the main street of the commercial city.

Qingshui burped, put his hands behind his head, and took a walk with Ye Cang after dinner.

We had lunch at a newly opened restaurant on the street. The owner moved here from another country. He was originally a chef serving the daimyo, but the new daimyo got tired of the dishes after a few months, so he simply replaced the chefs.

Qingshui thought it was pretty good, and several of the signature dishes were no worse than the delicacies made by the top chefs in the Marvel and DC worlds.

As for Ye Cang, there is no need to say more.

Having grown up in the poor Sand Village, even the ninja class, who lived a much richer life than the common people, after satisfying the nutritional needs of ninja training, the remaining wealth was all used to purchase, maintain, and allocate training resources in the ninja world. They had no extra money to enjoy, and could only indulge themselves in a small meal during festivals or after completing a fruitful mission.

Not to mention that the resources of the Wind Kingdom are not abundant. Although there are some local specialties, they cannot be compared with the rich places like the Fire Kingdom.

That is to say, after the end of the war, the ninja level was improved, the income increased, and the canal and the new puppetry brought huge changes to the Sand Village in the commercial economy, so they could have this leisure and elegance.

Before they knew it, they had arrived at the gate of the outer city.

"That person is..."

Ye Cang looked at the door and was a little surprised to see a little giant nearly two meters and five meters tall carrying a large sword wrapped in cloth on his back.

"The Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Demon from Kirigakure?"

As one of the seven famous Ninja Swordsmen in the ninja world, Xiguashan Pufferfish Demon has quite a reputation.

"It's a messenger sent by the Mizukage. He should be returning now."

Qingshui looked at the back of the Xiguashan puffer ghost and spoke.

Ye Cang saw that Qingshui seemed to know something, and then looked at the two Anbu ninjas following the Xiguashan Puffer Demon, but didn't say much.

The Xiguashan puffer ghost stood in front of the Sand Village gate, and his face was not very good.

The Third Kazekage rejected the Fourth Mizukage's proposal to form an alliance to attack Konoha, saying that now was not the right time.

However, the Third Kazekage was also happy to let Kirigakure delay Konoha's recovery, and said bluntly that if Kirigakure must go to war with Konoha, then Sunagakure could provide assistance to Kirigakure in terms of ninja tools and other supplies, and it would only cost a little money, which would be absolutely good value for money.

In short, as long as the Sand Village is not allowed to send troops, everything else can be discussed.

But the mission that the Fourth Mizukage gave to the Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Ghost was to persuade the Third Kazekage to send troops...

"Yakura has become somewhat moody since he became the Three-Tails Jinchuriki and the upper Mizukage. I don't know if there will be any punishment after he returns this time. Sigh..."

The Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost felt a little worried and sighed, feeling some unusual movements of the Big Knife Shark behind him.

"Ok?"

Turning around, the Xiguashan Pufferfish looked towards where Qingshui and Yecang were.

"You want their chakra?"

The Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost withdrew his gaze, turned around, and reached out to press the handle of the Samehada knife behind him.

"What do you want to do? Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Ghost."

Following the Watermelon Mountain Puffer Demon, an Anbu ninja couldn't help but turn his eyes and stare at the former.

"Nothing, Samehada just happened to be a little hungry, so I fed him some chakra."

A portion of chakra condensed from the hands of the Watermelon Mountain Puffer Demon and fed to the Great Sword Samehada.

The fat man knew that those two people were not easy to mess with.

Even though the chakra they carried was of high quality and a type Samehada had never tasted before, they were still not something he could afford to mess with.

"Let's go quickly. We will escort you out of the Wind Country within two days. I wonder if you plan to go by land or sea."

The Anbu ninja followed the gaze of the Watermelon Mountain Puffer Demon and felt relieved as he spoke.

With the presence of two high-end combat forces, Qingshui and Yecang, even if the Xiguashan puffer ghost wants to cause trouble at the gate of the village, it will not be able to cause any trouble.

All they have to do next is to send him out of the Land of Wind safely, and he will have nothing to do with their Sand Village from then on.

"Let's go by sea, it's safer. Next I need to avoid the Land of Fire and go to the Hidden Cloud Village to deliver a letter to the Raikage."

As the Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost was talking with a smile, he saw several chakra energy vehicles driving towards here on the road ahead. He then avoided the road and left the gate of the Sand Village with two Anbu.

The chakra energy vehicle slowly stopped, and a handsome, indifferent red-haired boy walked out, carrying two bundles of sealing scrolls.

Following closely behind was Jianye, and two Chunins whom Shimizu had met several times in the puppet army.

"It's a rare time that it's your turn to wait for me."

Scorpion saw two people not far away on the street, his eyes quickly swept past Ye Cang, looked at Qingshui, then walked over and spoke.

"Ah...ah, yes! Did the mission go smoothly?"

Qingshui almost didn't react and spoke hurriedly.

He and Ye Cang were just taking a walk after dinner and they ran into each other by chance, so they didn't even wait.

In his estimation, he only estimated that Scorpion would return today, but he didn't expect to meet him by chance.

"It's OK. The Daimyo of the Snow Country is indeed a man of some ability and vision. He even sent his brother here to discuss cooperation with the village with the Sandaime."

Scorpion pointed at a big-nosed young man who got off the chakra energy vehicle.

Fenghua Nutao was holding a piece of clothing and looking at the people coming and going at the gate of Sand Village. He felt that the Sand Village was much more prosperous than the Snow Country.

Qingshui also glanced at Fenghuanutao.

The two brothers, the Daimyo of the Snow Country, seem to be good scientific research talents. The elder brother, Fuuka Hayate, invented a magical technology that can turn the snowfield into spring, and the latter also created items such as chakra armor.

You can consider turning around.

(End of this chapter)