Naruto

When the First Hokage established Konoha Hidden Village, Tanshu Street was just a small street worthy of the name. More than eighty years later, it has become the seat of the newly designated Esaki County. There are many high-rise buildings.

Electrically driven vehicles whizzed by on the spacious and flat asphalt roads, transporting fresh blood to the city's economic arteries; large and small inflatable airships floated in the air, hanging down colorful advertising banners. Tourists and tourists from all over the world

Merchants gathered here. From time to time, ninjas wearing various kinds of forehead protectors walked through the crowd, attracting awe from everyone.

"Teacher, why are everyone looking at us with such strange eyes?" Sarana poked Konohamaru's back and asked in a low voice.

"Haha, who told you Konohamaru brother to be reluctant to take off this vest?" Naruto chuckled a few times, "The entire Fire Country has a population of nearly 600 million, and the jounin is officially recognized by Daming Prefecture and Konoha Village.

There are less than a thousand people. Many people’s impressions of jounin are only in legends and TV. Now that such a young jounin appears in front of them, it is naturally quite eye-catching."

"It turns out that Jonin has such a lofty status in the Land of Fire..." Zolianna exclaimed, "Then Dad and Seventh Generation..."

"In the entire Fire Country, only the daimyo Enichikyu-sama has the same status as them." Konohamaru took over Naruto's words, "But the higher the status, the heavier the responsibility, otherwise they would not have the same status.

meeting……"

"Lord Konohamaru!" A loud call suddenly came from the front. Everyone looked up and saw a girl in her early twenties hurriedly ran in front of them and blessed her respectfully, "I

This is Esaki County’s Gonmori Akiha. On behalf of the governor, Sarutobi Chiho, I would like to welcome all the ninja-sama.”

The position of "Quan Shou" in the county-level official system of the Country of Fire is the adjutant of the county chief. He assists the county chief in handling political affairs on weekdays, and when the county chief is vacant, he performs the duties of the county chief in accordance with the law.

Ninjas never pay attention to red tape, so Konohamaru just crossed his hands and replied in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Then I'll ask Akiba-sama to lead the way."

"Please come this way." Qiuye led the way while introducing the situation of a series of missing persons cases that occurred under Esaki's rule.

"The missing persons are all young men under the age of 40. The locations have nothing in common. They happened on the way home from get off work, on the farm, at home, and even in the office."

"Are there any traces or clues at the disappearance scene?"

"No. There were a total of thirty-six missing cases, without a single witness, and no traces were left at the scene."

"Um……"

"Esaki County once employed a group of

The Kirigakure ninja who came with the caravan investigated the matter, but..."

"...They didn't get any valuable conclusions, right?"

"No, they completely disappeared the day after receiving the mission."

"..." Boruto, Sarana, Mitsuyue and Kawaki frowned at the same time, deeply aware of the difficulty of this matter. Naruto coughed lightly and asked calmly: "I wonder if there is anyone related to this matter?"

Can you provide us with files or records for reference?"

Qiuye found a small black leather notebook in his shoulder briefcase and handed it to Naruto: "This is the memorandum of the last six disappearance cases."

"Well, thank you." Naruto opened the memo and asked casually, "What does Chiho-sama think of these cases?"

"Your Excellency, she...she doesn't have a clue about this either."

"That's such a shame." Naruto replied noncommittally.

Qiuye led everyone to take a shortcut and headed straight to the county government. Just as they were passing through a narrow and empty alley, Naruto suddenly closed the black leather notebook and stopped at the same time as Konohamaru.

"Akiba-sama, no one is monitoring us here. If you have any difficulties, just tell us." Konohamaru said with a sincere face.

"Every time you mentioned the word "sheriff" just now, your heartbeat would speed up a few beats, and the muscles in the back of your neck, upper arms, and other parts of your body would contract slightly." Naruto folded his hands on his chest.

In front of him, his eyes looked directly into Qiuye's dark brown pupils, and he raised his fingertips slightly, "What's wrong with her, Lord County Chief?"

The girl's shoulders trembled like an electric shock, but her tone remained calm: "Chiho-sama suddenly said after working yesterday afternoon that she wanted to go to the nearby woods to relax. It wasn't until her family called in the evening to inquire about her whereabouts that we realized

By now she has disappeared. In order to avoid causing panic, we have blocked the relevant information, and we ask for your forgiveness, ninja-sama."

"We can understand Mr. Quan Shou's concerns. Now please take us to the Sheriff's office to investigate." Naruto said warmly.

Ten minutes later, everyone, led by Qiuye, successfully entered the county mansion. They passed through the clean and elegant gardens of the mansion and walked to a vermilion wooden door guarded by guards.

"You guys stay at the door while I take these ninja masters in to take a look." Qiuye whispered to the two guards.

"Yes, sir." The guard looked at Konohamaru in awe and stepped aside respectfully. Qiuye pressed his hand on the door and pushed open the wooden door with a "squeak", revealing the scene inside the house.

In the spacious and bright room, sunlight pours in from the half-open and half-closed glass skylight, coating the oak desk with a golden coat. A silver-white

The laptop with a green frame was lying quietly on the desk. The green light on the body echoed the indicator light on the receiving end of the wall socket. Naruto knew that this meant that the laptop had a built-in wireless charging device, and the sensing distance

It's a full six meters.

Although the internal combustion engines and automatic weapons in this world have not developed due to the existence of ninjas and chakra, the achievements in electronic devices, clean energy and biotechnology have surpassed the technological level of Naruto's previous life in all aspects. The advancement of energy storage technology

The innovation allows mankind, which lacks fossil fuels due to the reconstruction of the earth's crust by the Six Paths Sage, to store periodic wind energy, tidal energy and solar energy into batteries to continuously meet the power needs of industrial production and daily life. Not to mention those powered by chakra

Directly driven scientific instrument.

"Menma, did you find something wrong?" Konohamaru's soft call brought the blond boy's thoughts back to reality.

"Let me take a look..." Naruto immersed himself in the time stream and looked "upstream". Countless fragments from the past flashed before his eyes, and gradually pieced together in his mind

A complete scene.

In the eyes of others, Naruto's eyes were just confused for a while, and he soon regained his clarity. He hurriedly walked to his desk, opened the lid of his laptop, and moved the keys on the keyboard with a speed that no one could catch with the naked eye.

It made a crackling sound.

"Ninja-sama, you..." Qiuye shouted in shock.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." The boy stared at the LCD screen intently and replied without raising his head.

Half a minute later, Naruto finally finished typing the long command and pressed the Enter key.

"This is probably the reason why Governor Chiho disappeared."

After hearing this, everyone hurriedly came to Naruto's side and stared at the floating message box on the screen.

"We have paid our reward, and now it is time for you to show your sincerity. At six o'clock this afternoon, we are waiting for the governor's visit in the grove to the east of the city. - C" Konohamaru read out the short sentence word for word.

the content of the message.

"It seems that the Sheriff made a shady deal with this 'C'. What conditions did the other party offer that the Sheriff could not refuse? Could all this be related to the recent disappearance case?" Perhaps it was influenced by

Under the influence of her father, in the past year or so, Zoliana's sense of smell for various criminal activities has been much more sensitive than that of her peers.

"Oh, it's too early to say this now." Naruto took out a scroll from his ninja bag and recorded the content of the message in the scroll in the form of illusion, "There shouldn't be any more valuable clues here.

Akiba-sama, please take us to the scene of the disappearance and have a look."

"……yes."