Naruto: I'm really not an evil scientist!

Chapter 141: Master and Disciple - Please Read On!

This crisis has been like a domino effect, causing not only millet prices to skyrocket, but also prices for other types of food to rise accordingly, albeit at a relatively smaller rate.

For example, pork prices have increased by 30%, and although prices have clearly fallen back down, restaurants are still not lowering their prices.

These price fluctuations are all the result of merchants pursuing profits; they won't easily let go of opportunities to make money.

Without a doubt, this was a disaster with far-reaching consequences.

Fortunately, the Sand Village, as an ally, proved to be very helpful at crucial moments.

Hiruko played a crucial role in this, helping Konoha Village turn the tide and narrowly completing the challenge, ultimately preventing a food crisis.

However, not everyone is satisfied with this outcome.

Ordinary people complained about this, and wealthy businessmen were naturally also very unhappy.

Fortunately, when the three clans of Konoha, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure first took action, they made a three-point agreement with each other, requiring them to act in unison.

Without these three, the alliance simply cannot be maintained.

Even though the wealthy businessmen were full of complaints, they could only accept reality in the end, because once the alliance collapsed, all their previous efforts would be in vain.

In any case, the ninja villages like Konoha at least made money; it's just that those wealthy merchants failed to get the last big coin.

Without these wealthy merchants manipulating prices behind the scenes, grain prices plummeted instantly.

Although this incident still brought a catastrophe to the ninja world, fortunately, it did not result in the worst-case scenario of widespread famine and social unrest.

In an effort to appease those guys, Hiruko held several more meetings and put the matter of sharing an intelligence network on hold once again.

Although the advisors had previously raised the issue, this time the intention is to maintain intelligence sharing as a regular practice, with the five major powers jointly providing intelligence.

As for the expenses of the two tailed beasts' operation, they were collectively funded by the wealthy merchants.

The other factions were quite satisfied with this, after all, they were not professional businessmen, and their previous apology was just a temporary measure.

An occasional investment once or twice might be manageable, but if you invest too often, problems will inevitably arise sooner or later.

For these forces, providing local price information is not a difficult task. Although maintaining it year-round requires certain costs, it is not a problem since the big merchants are willing to invest.

These forces can even use some of the funds to maintain their intelligence networks in various locations.

They were quite pleased with this, feeling that by having everyone participate, they were essentially giving up the advantage of controlling the intelligence network alone and not being able to monopolize the benefits.

On the other hand, it can also bring them more opportunities and make the flow of funds smoother.

Fundamentally, this expands the scale of their business empire, which is entirely beneficial to them.

At this point, they finally quieted down.

Finally, Hiruko began to wrap things up. He first dealt with the matter perfunctorily, then he managed to kill several small and medium-sized grain merchants who still wanted to cause trouble, and pushed all the blame onto them.

However, the matter did not end there.

This is not ancient times after all. Even without the internet, there are still newspapers to spread the news, and the public's anger is difficult to quell in a short time. Hiruko also felt helpless.

Fortunately, Konoha's treasury was not damaged. On the contrary, due to the change in the situation, the relationship between Konoha and him became closer, which can be considered a good thing.

Lord Hiruko has secured numerous benefits for Konoha, a fact that all the Konoha ninjas can truly feel, and their trust in Hiruko grows ever stronger.

Hiruko, however, was too lazy to deal with these trivial matters and pushed everything onto Minato Namikaze, burying himself in the research lab.

The biggest gain this time was not the large sums of money they made, but the discovery of those large-scale Void Ninja ruins, or at least that's what they still call them for now.

However, for Hiruko, this was nothing short of cutting-edge technology.

If scientific ninja tools exist in the Naruto world, then a scientific worldview and methodology wouldn't care about these differences in names.

At that time, Sunagakure was actually very close to uncovering the secret of the Sky Ninja, but unfortunately, the people of Sunagakure were only focused on returning to seek their own interests.

Furthermore, they completely disregarded the Sky Ninja and never bothered to search for the Sky Ninja ruins hidden underground.

Thus, Hiruko was able to control the wealth in the ruins and divide it into four parts, which were then given to the four major ninja villages.

After receiving their benefits, the four major ninja villages felt that the matter could be put to rest.

A smarter person might associate it with Zero Tail, but considering that Hiruko was leading everyone to make a fortune this time, they didn't say much.

After all, Zero-Tail is just Zero-Tail; even the weakest One-Tail, Shukaku, is difficult for it to contend with.

However, he had no idea of ​​the true application value of Muslim Zero Tail.

Zero-Tail's greatest strength is not in combat, but in providing energy for large machines.

In the Sky Ninja's plan, Zero Tail was originally intended to be used in conjunction with the floating fortress.

For Konoha, if it makes good use of it, the floating fortress can be used as an aerial warship.

This thing has an astonishingly high energy conversion efficiency.

In the original setting, the floating fortress could be powered by the suffering and life of just one person.

If used in practical applications, the cost is almost negligible.

The Land of Fire is a vast country, so it is not difficult to gather several hundred death row inmates each year.

Even if there aren't enough death row inmates, it's not a big deal to arrest those who have committed heinous crimes, punish them with minor punishments every day, and make them suffer.

If it really comes to the last resort, the Impure World Reincarnation technique can be used to reincarnate the soul of a death row inmate.

They were imprisoned and tortured constantly, their painful emotions extracted.

That said, Orochimaru has always been dedicated to researching the Impure World Reincarnation technique to obtain unlimited chakra.

If we approach this from the perspective of zero emissions, can we directly solve the problems related to energy and transportation?

This is far more practical than simply using the Impure World Reincarnation technique to resurrect a human body, and could even benefit all of humanity.

The Land of Fire is vast and densely forested, making the construction of infrastructure such as roads extremely difficult.

However, if one possesses a zero-tail floating fortress, the importance of ground roads is greatly reduced.

If one floating fortress isn't enough, build more—ten, eight, or even more. As long as there are enough floating fortresses, transportation will become exceptionally easy.

Leaving aside the operational performance of the floating fortress, it essentially relies on dark chakra, but this energy is exceptionally stable and has never gone berserk or out of control in the original work, always obeying commands.

The only time it went out of control was when Shennong was forced into a desperate situation and insisted on merging with Zero-Tail.

Compared to Jinchūriki, Zero-Tails' reliability is ridiculously high.

Hiruko thought it might be worthwhile to let Orochimaru think of a way to see if the Zero-Tail floating fortress could be mass-produced.

After all, isn't the ultimate advantage of weapon science precisely in its large-scale replication and application?

Using it for transportation is truly making the best use of resources, and it's a move that can give you a head start in the overall strategic planning.

In addition, the individual flying vehicles of the air ninjas are also quite effective in actual combat.

The principles behind these things are not complicated; simply put, they are gliders with two large wings.

Unlike ordinary hang gliders, it can be powered by ninja chakra.

Although limited by current technology, it can only be used as a small bomber for the time being, but the requirements for operators are extremely low.

Since it doesn't involve a lot of complex mechanical operations, a genin can basically become an excellent pilot with a little training.

Moreover, there is absolutely no need to worry about engine problems, because the pilot himself is the "engine," and the "engine" is the pilot.

This aircraft relies on the chakra burned by ninjas to generate airflow, making its body extremely light and allowing it to easily perform all sorts of incredible maneuvers.

If it weren't for its overly simple structure and the fact that its flight speed and altitude were too high for the human body to withstand, it could have been used as a supersonic bomber.

The world has become absurd and wondrous because of the existence of chakra; everything that seems complex has been simplified.

Air superiority is a crucial strategic resource in any era and in any world.

With just a force of around three thousand air ninja, they could launch a devastating attack on any major power in a short period of time.

Of course, this is on the premise that the other side does not have a top expert like Onoki in charge.

However, in the ninja world, the Sky Ninja Force seems to have no way to deal with those powerful masters, and is often beaten without any power to fight back.

After all, tailed beasts can unleash powerful weapons like tailed beast balls. If they fire a few shots, the air ninja force would probably be wiped out.

Okay, Hiruko admits that the Sky Ninja Force still has some areas that need improvement and optimization, but its advantages are real, and these minor flaws cannot overshadow its brilliance.

In any case, the potential and value demonstrated by the air ninja force, to some extent, even surpasses that of a traditional aircraft carrier.

Of course, this is not to say that aircraft carriers are bad, but mainly to consider the actual situation of Konoha.

Aircraft carriers have always been regarded as a nation's most important asset. They are not just a platform for aircraft to take off, but also a symbol of a modern miracle achieved through the concerted efforts of thousands of departments in a country.

Even in modern society, building an aircraft carrier requires countless human, material, and financial resources, and demands the tireless efforts of tens of thousands of skilled craftsmen and engineers over many years.

While the Konoha ninjas are powerful, they are not experts in technological manufacturing.

Even if you deliberately train thousands of ninjas who are proficient in modern technology, you still absolutely cannot complete a super project like an aircraft carrier independently.

Aircraft carrier manufacturing, bomb development, and aerospace engineering—these fields often require hundreds, tens of thousands, or even millions of workers. This is no joke; it's a game that only major powers can afford to play.

Even if Hiruko pushes Konoha to the brink, he still won't be able to build an aircraft carrier.

Hiruko didn't want to end up like some people, creating a ridiculous "knock-off aircraft carrier".

Moreover, in a world where chakra exists, the practicality of traditional maritime powers like aircraft carriers is indeed greatly reduced.

However, some of the advanced technologies and design concepts on aircraft carriers can be learned from and utilized.

It remains a mystery to this day how those air ninjas managed to create such complex aircraft designs and manufacturing techniques.

The design is so ingenious, it's simply unreasonable and ahead of its time, it's like it's cheating.

After further investigation, Hiruko discovered some relatively primitive computer-aided design drawings in the remains of Kōnin.

Although these blueprints are much more advanced than the technology he currently possesses, they still lag significantly behind modern computers. They are all designs for supercomputers, seemingly intended for fire control or guidance systems.

These technologies were completely beyond Hiruko's comprehension, after all, he had only come into contact with some related knowledge in his previous life and was not an expert in this field.

However, he didn't care about these things, as long as he could make use of them.

In short, all the nations of the ninja world are operating in secret, quietly hiring senior engineers to study these aerial ninja technologies, and planning to further advance and deepen their research based on these advancements.

Thanks to the design drawings and technical data left behind by Kong Ren, everything progressed relatively smoothly.

Soon, we should be able to build the actual object based on these drawings.

Although it may take some time to further optimize and reduce costs, Hirukho is willing to wait patiently.

Once Hiruzen masters this technology, he will be able to mass-produce computers in Konoha.

night.

Hiruko lay lazily in Yekura's arms, holding a large Nohara Rin in his arms; he had been very busy these past few days.

Yekura, that little fellow, was picked up by his apprentice again, begging Hiruko to give Sunagakure some benefits.

It can only be said that Sunagakure has the little cutie, Maki, completely under their thumb.

"Lord Hiruko, could you please give it to Sunagakure this time too!" The adorable little roll looked at Hiruko pitifully.

Hiruko pinched her little nose and said with a smile, "Then how will you repay me?"

"I've brought your master with me again!"

"Damn it!" Ye Cang, whose forehead was covered in sweat, was so dry that he couldn't even lift his arms.

Having such a "filial" apprentice is a blessing for life!

"Good brother, your master and I will take good care of you!"

"Then it's up to you two to try!"

Yecang's refusal was useless; she was simply dragged up by her traitorous disciple.

Konoha, Hokage's office.

Minato Namikaze has an extremely fast nerve reaction speed, and his work efficiency is much higher than that of ordinary people.

In the Naruto anime, his desk was never piled with documents.

But now, due to Hiruko's various meddlings, Minato Namikaze's desk is piled high with documents, creating a scene of busyness that can be described as a Minato Namikaze exclusive.

With the conclusion of the Millet War, the entire Hidden Leaf Village was once again engulfed in a flurry of activity, far exceeding the levels of activity seen before, with the workload more than twenty times greater than in the past.

Especially Kakashi Hatake, as the Hokage's secretary, he was extremely busy, having to use the Shadow Clone Technique every day, and even one Shadow Clone wasn't enough.

Every night, he would drag his exhausted body, his legs weak and powerless, home.

There is so much work to be done in Konoha right now, all because of the complex ideas and plans put forward by Hiruko.

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