Naruto: I'm really not an evil scientist!

In the Naruto world, air superiority is a crucial power that even the major ninja villages struggle to control.

It's not that the major ninja villages don't value air superiority; it's just that the vast majority of ninjas can't fly.

Even if a few ninjas can fly using methods other than summoning jutsu, it is difficult to find a summoning beast that can carry a group of people in a prolonged aerial battle.

There are quite a few flying ninjas, but they are often weak. When they fly with their clansmen, they may become targets for the enemy.

Relying on the enormous advantage of its floating fortresses, the Sky Kingdom is inherently invincible.

Not to mention, the floating fortress also has a large number of devices that do not require ninjas to use flight techniques themselves; they can achieve true flight with just a little mechanical power.

Some ability users can even operate these flying devices with just a certain amount of chakra, remaining high above.

They can bombard people on the ground without using ninja tools like explosive tags.

To this end, the Sky Country has also developed many powerful supporting mechanisms.

For example, you could stuff a large number of kunai into a container at the same time, and then press a mechanism during flight to make the kunai fall continuously.

Due to gravitational acceleration, the kunai will continuously accelerate during its descent, posing a significant threat to the ground.

Many years ago, when the Land of the Sky was at its peak, its army was incredibly powerful thanks to its air superiority and a vast amount of special ninja tools. Ordinary ninja villages were no match for them.

What good are powerful ground ninjas?

The Land of the Sky didn't engage them in direct combat at all. Instead, they flew directly to their ninja village in their flying machines, dropped bombs, destroyed the village, and then left without a trace.

Without the foundation of the ninja village, even the most powerful ninja group will quickly disappear from this era.

Even if the Sky Country doesn't continue to attack them, their enemies won't let go of this good opportunity to annihilate their opponent given the ongoing war.

Because of this unique fighting style, despite the lack of truly top-tier experts within the Sky Country, the people of the Sky Country have always been full of confidence in themselves, even believing that they can unify the five great nations.

However, reality dealt them a heavy blow; they were directly defeated by Konoha Village.

Konoha Village used a cunning tactic, sending out a large number of elite ninjas to launch a surprise attack before the Sky Country workers could take off, wiping out all the panicked workers on the ground.

After that battle, not only was the Land of the Sky destroyed, but even the Zero Tail, which they relied on, was completely shattered.

As a survivor of the Sky Kingdom, Shennong has been working hard to restore the Sky Kingdom and revive the Zero-Tail.

Under his leadership, the remaining workers struggled to survive.

On the other hand, they seize opportunities in the war, disguise themselves, and continue to participate in the war as neutral parties, profiting at the cost of their lives.

Hiruko's friends from Konoha took turns trying to come along and make some money.

In Konoha Village, Hiruko's friends came to his door one after another, each with their own plans, hoping to get a share of the "wealth game" with Hiruko.

Even Orochimaru, who is known for his deep scheming, personally visited Hiruko to try and get on her good side.

It turns out that the price of millet has already skyrocketed thirtyfold. Who could resist such a huge profit?

Everyone knew that Beiliuhu had already made a fortune in the stock market, and they were all envious and eager to get involved and make a killing.

Orochimaru's research funding has always been tight, and although Hiruko felt helpless, he could only reluctantly agree to take them along.

After all, Tsunade led the way in looking for her, and she also wanted more money to gamble a few rounds.

Just as things calmed down here, Mabuyi and Samui rushed over in a hurry.

The two men looked at Hiruko with pleading eyes, begging him to give Kumogakure some benefits.

Looking at the two young girls' voluptuous and graceful figures, Hiruko thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement.

In this world, who doesn't have a few poor relatives they're not even remotely related to?

Countries are keen on marriage alliances, resulting in a complex and intertwined web of relationships.

Some people look closely at their family tree and, wow, after establishing a kinship with the other party, they can't find a single fault with it.

Take Konoha Village, which seems to be at its peak now, for example. The once-glorious Kurama clan also has many powerful relatives.

Even after the Anma family fell into decline, no one dared to covet their land and shops.

Now that you've made a fortune, how can you live with yourself if you don't help these relatives?

Moreover, if we don't take this opportunity to make proper plans, some things will become impossible to hide after a while.

The world has never lacked heroes and great men.

However, Hiruko's actions this time were not exactly ahead of their time; they were simply making full use of the ninja world's intelligence advantage.

Even though other businesses didn't react at first, as time went on, news of the severe drought in the ninja world had already spread like wildfire.

The news that many places have suffered from drought and that grain production has been greatly reduced has spread like wildfire throughout the ninja world.

Faced with such a favorable situation, those big businessmen naturally knew exactly what to do.

As a result, they flocked to Beiliuhu and began to set up a scheme, hoarding large quantities of various grains and grain derivatives, hoping to drive up prices and make a fortune.

When those major business groups learned of this, they did not choose to confront Birukhu, but instead chose to join him.

After all, everyone knows how powerful Hiruko is. If you go against him, you might be assassinated at your doorstep the next day.

Therefore, everyone was willing to give Beiruhu face and come to him to make money together.

Those who are wealthy and powerful are the ones who understand that this opportunity is once in a lifetime.

Faced with enormous profits, they all set aside their past unpleasantness and threw themselves into this feast of wealth.

In the ninja world, millet is not an important crop for brewing; sorghum is the main raw material for brewing.

After all, the food production in the ninja world is not high, so people can only rely on this relatively high-yield crop to brew wine.

This time, due to the disaster, grain production was greatly reduced, and sorghum was naturally not spared either.

As a result, the production of alcoholic beverages decreased sharply, and logically, prices should have risen accordingly.

Beiliuhu seized the opportunity and launched liquor concept stocks.

To everyone else, what lay before them now seemed like a golden road to wealth.

However, Hiruko remained unhappy.

It wasn't that he disliked money, nor that the wealthy merchants and ninja diplomats disrespected him; rather, he had a vague feeling that he might have gone a bit too far.

If this hype continues, the common people in the ninja world may not even be able to afford a full meal due to soaring prices.

Initially, Birukhu was planning a scheme—implementing a trade embargo.

He vainly hoped to use this as bait to force those treacherous ninjas who operated in the shadows to the open, and then wipe them all out in one fell swoop.

Later, wealthy merchants and ninjas, upon hearing of this game of wealth played by Hiruko, were all tempted and came to request to join.

Considering that the number of participants was not too large, and that this opportunity could also deepen their relationship, Hiruko thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement.

But who could have predicted that this agreement would be like opening Pandora's box, unleashing an uncontrollable storm?

In order to expand their influence, wealthy merchants would bring in their friends, who in turn would invite their own friends to join them.

Not to be outdone, the ninjas called their friends, who in turn called even more friends.

By the time Hiruko emerged from the laboratory and came to his senses, the situation was completely out of control, galloping wildly in an unpredictable direction like a runaway horse.

The wealthy and powerful merchants from the five great nations, who were secretly plotting their ambitions, as well as the strong ninjas and high-ranking ninjas, were almost all present.

These guys are like greedy hyenas, colluding and linking up with each other, their ambitions and appetites growing bigger and bigger like inflating balloons.

Initially, they only set their greedy sights on some unfortunate small countries, wantonly plundering resources and manipulating markets.

But later, their ambitions grew even larger, and they even attempted to extend their greedy tentacles to the five great nations, and even the whole world.

Originally, only some small countries suffered their exploitation and bullying, but now, all small countries in the world are beginning to fall into dire straits, with widespread suffering.

Food, a basic commodity that is essential to people's livelihood and survival, has now become a bargaining chip for them to speculate wildly.

These guys are insanely driving up food prices, and who knows how many innocent lives will be lost to hunger this year.

They not only pushed food prices to astonishing heights, but also drove the prices of various food-related commodities to outrageous levels.

The citizens of the five major countries, due to their relatively limited access to information and the fact that major countries tend to have more stable prices, have not yet realized the severity of this crisis.

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Chapter 137 Temptation!

Other smaller countries, however, were driven to the brink of despair by these guys, like trapped beasts cornered against a wall with no way to escape.

These days, it's no longer a question of whether you can afford to eat. Unless you go on a complete hunger strike, there's no way to avoid these guys' carefully designed traps.

At this moment, Hiruko suddenly realized that he had seemingly unleashed a monster of power that was countless times more terrifying than ten tailed beasts.

This monster is greedy and ferocious, wantonly devouring the world's wealth and vitality.

However, in the current situation, it seems that Hiruko is powerless to reverse the situation and cannot stop the spread of this disaster.

After thinking for a while, he shook his head helplessly, feeling a mix of emotions.

After all, he had initially planned to use the power of capitalists to promote social reform, and now that things have developed to this point, he can only let nature take its course.

However, Hiruko was prepared to forcibly intervene.

Otherwise, the hands of these big businessmen will inevitably be stained with the blood of innocent people.

If they were given such an opportunity to make a fortune, it would be worse than killing them if they weren't allowed to participate.

However, with the powerful figure of Hiruko in charge, others, even if they harbored ill intentions, dared not act rashly.

In this era of limited information, even if businessmen wanted to connect and plan together, it would require a significant investment of time and money, making it no easy task.

Moreover, in many cases, everyone is in a state of testing and distrusting each other. After all, which of those who can become great businessmen is not cunning and shrewd?

With Beiliuhu in charge, all problems seemed to be easily solved.

No one doubted Hiruko's sincerity; after all, he couldn't have made such a big fuss just to harm everyone.

There are too many interest groups involved here, with representatives from all five major countries participating.

If he really wanted to harm everyone, the people of the five great nations would probably not let him off the hook, and Hiruko could not bear such serious consequences.

At the same time, no one doubted Hiruko's formidable strength as the leader.

Although this operation was nominally carried out under the banner of the Land of Fire, everyone knew that Hiruko was the true leader of Konoha and even the Land of Fire.

Even Minato Namikaze, known as the Golden Flash, couldn't compare to him in terms of popularity and influence.