Uchiha's Counterattack

When Kuroizumi's team merged with the logistics team led by Zaemon who came to greet them.

Probably a few more days have passed.

Because this mountainous area is relatively complex and the villagers living there are scattered, although the Uchiha Military Police and thousands of soldiers may seem like a lot, in fact they won't even make a splash if spread out in the mountains.

In the past few days, Heiquan went out early and came back late, leading the military police team to search for human traces in the mountains. Fortunately, her efforts paid off, and she was able to find them all on the map without the help of a photo taken with her.

The six villages shown above have about 500 people.

When Heiquan goes to a village, he will first place the most famous person in the village.

For example, if there is no village chief or village chief, then the oldest living person in the village can be placed, and such people are generally called elders.

This is a wilderness era. These people who live in the mountains have generally never left the 50 miles around their hometowns. Some women may even have never walked out of the mountains in their lives. But the good news is that they at least know where they live.

The Fire Nation, and the official ninja representative of the Fire Nation is Konoha.

When Kuroizumi revealed his identity, the villages welcomed him very warmly and called Kuroizumi "Ninja-sama" - although these villagers would call him this to all ninjas.

Although Heiquan is a woman, she is dressed in military armor and looks very heroic. On the contrary, many villagers misunderstood her gender and treated her as a beautiful boy. The unmarried girls in the village hid behind the earthen wall and secretly watched with shy faces.

My heart is surging and my heart is secretly promising...

The women around him looked like wolves looking at flesh, which made Heiquan shudder.

He hurriedly raised his foot and kicked out Kotaro who was next to him. Kotaro had thick eyebrows and big eyes, a good appearance, and he often liked to smile. That bright smile naturally gave people a positive, energetic and energetic feeling.

As a result, all the women were instantly attracted by Kotaro. They carried the confused Kotaro away amidst screams... and quickly disappeared into the alleys of the village.

Then there was a burst of panic, mixed with heartbreaking male screams.

"What do you want to do? What do you want to do! Don't come over!!"

…

In the village hut:

"Elder, my name is Uchiha Izumi - you can call me Black Izumi."

"Oh hehehe, it is really an honor for this village that Mr. Kuroizumi can come to our village."

Heiquan pushed back the surrounding military police and met the elder alone in this hut made of haystacks.

The elder sitting opposite the Black Spring looks to be in his 70s. He has a messy head of white hair, and a thin beard hanging on his chest. There seem to be messy yellow leaves and branches on it. This is

An unkempt elder and a village that is extremely poor.

Judging from the information given by the elder, this village is called Shigu Village. It is just an ordinary village with no characteristics. To be honest, Shigu Village is very poor. How poor is it? That is the person with the highest status in the village.

The place where they live is still thatched huts, while ordinary villagers live in cubes made of mud and stone...

That kind of structure made of stone and mud mixed together cannot even be called a house.

The elder of this village had gone out to practice for a while when he was young, and he had some knowledge and skills. Therefore, Heiquan was willing to sit down and have a good chat with this poor village to see if he could bring their nearly one hundred people back to Mu.

Go to Ye Village.

Heiquan looked around and found that there were about 80 people in this village, including boys, girls and children.

It's just that both men and women are in their prime or young.

Among the nearly one hundred villagers, not one was a white-haired old man - except for the one in front of him.

The reason is very simple. This poor village has no extra food and technology to support the elderly, so this village should have a rule that when the villagers reach a certain age, they will be driven away or killed to ensure that the younger generation

The share of rations continues the reproduction of the village.

The best evidence is the group of graves on the wasteland outside the village.

"If you leave Konoha, I will give you a new life."

Kuroizumi offered an olive branch to Ishitani Village. If they agreed, New Konoha would permanently solve their food problem and put an end to this cruel system.

"I'm very sorry, we can't agree to that."

The elder did not refuse immediately, but after hesitating for a moment, he slowly shook his head and refused.

Heiquan didn't know why.

Wasn't the village very welcoming at the beginning? Why was it rejected immediately after just one sentence?

Are you kidding me, old man?

The elder explained that their village has been living here for more than a hundred years, and their ancestors have never left this mountain range, so naturally they were born here and died here... This is their duty and destiny.

But Heiquan retorted that these so-called ancestors never left and were not nostalgic for this land. They had to stay because they could not leave. However, their helplessness and reproduction until now have been understood by future generations as a kind of duty.

And the arrangement of fate is too funny.

Heiquan felt that this elder was a hypocrite. He seemed to have some wisdom, but his mind turned out to be so pedantic. The most irritating thing was that as the head of a village, he did not consider the future. Instead, he stuck to his old ways and did not care about future generations.

future.

"You can have a better future if you come with us."

Kuroizumi tried to explain to the old man that what he rejected was not malice, but the goodwill from New Konoha.

"Even New Konoha can't force us to change the customs of Ishigani Village!"

The elder rejected Heiquan's invitation very seriously, and insisted that Shigu Village and all villagers should live according to the rules of their ancestors.

"But you are very poor. You refuse at this time just because you don't understand the outside world."

"Your people are wandering in hunger and poverty, but you refuse when you have the opportunity to save them? Is it because of the so-called customs? Or is it the rules set by our ancestors!?"

"This is an internal matter of Ishitani Village and has nothing to do with New Konoha."

Facing Heiquan, whose tone was getting impatient, the elder said forcefully.

Heiquan said with anger on his face: "If this is really the case, then why don't you die? It's obvious that not even one out of ten old people in the village survives, so why can you live without dying? Is your life worse than those buried in mass graves?

Is it important? He is obviously a pedantic and feudal old man."

The elder fell into silence. Why didn't he die? Naturally, it was because his status as "elder" was protecting his life. If he hadn't traveled a lot and had more experience than other people in the village, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to become this elder, or even

It should have been buried 23 years ago.

However, he survived, but his life was meaningless.

Relying on the name of an elder to live quietly but never wanting to make progress, he wasted his time for 23 years, neither guiding the villagers to be positive nor leading them to abandon the bad feudal habits. He has no effect on the village and is only used to maintain it.

Tool, he has lived in vain for 23 years, and has lost all the knowledge and knowledge he has traveled in the past.

Of course, this elder may have had a positive attitude in the beginning.

But I don’t know why, maybe it failed once or twice.

But he gave up completely from then on.

When he gave up, the fire in his heart no longer burned. As time and age grew, the ideas and vitality of his youth were no longer there. At this time, the fire in his heart was extinguished, his eyes were darkened, and only the inaction remained.

In 23 years, I was gradually assimilated and swallowed up by this dark feudal village.

"This has nothing to do with you. I thought that the ninja masters were here to take care of our village and deliver food. It seems that you are just a group of evil people who want to break the rules of Shigu Village. Let's go, hurry up!"

The elder blushed and tried to drive away Heiquan, but he did not notice the cold expression on the other side's face.

Now there are two ways in front of Heiquan, either leave here or resist this atrocity.

Leaving would not do any harm to New Konoha. To New Konoha, the loss of a hundred and ten refugees was not worth mentioning. However, Kuroizumi was disgusted by the arrogance and arrogance in the elder's heart, especially

In contrast with Mingzhu (Xia Nan) in front of him, Heiquan wanted to slap the old man to death.

"You can drive me away if you want, but I want to take away the people in the village."

"No, they can't leave."

"Why can't you leave!?"

Heiquan glared at him.

"They are all villagers of Shigu Village. They are born here and will die here. This is everyone's duty and the rules they should abide by. You, an outsider, casually broke into our village, denounced our customs, and broke our rules.

, and you insist on us accepting your kindness?!"

The elder was so scared that his legs became weak.

No one dared to face the angry Uchiha head-on, let alone Kuroizumi, who had always been very murderous.

But although the elder was scared to death, he confidently confronted Heiquan, and it seemed that what he said made some sense.

Heiquan was stunned for a moment, this guy really knows how to talk.

If it were Xia Nan here, she would have directly criticized the old man, angrily telling others that their duty is not to endure poverty and suffering, to abandon their wives and children, to draw a prison ground, and to be trapped in one place. These rules are called customs at best, but they are just a bunch of people at worst.

The remnants of the old society that owed "revolution" would have to be sent to the execution ground for target practice in special times.

And if this village elder is poisonous, he must cut off the source if he wants to cleanse the poison.

To put it nicely, it means to cut it off, to put it bluntly, I will kill you...

"You will destroy these villagers who choose to trust you."

Heiquan gave the other party a warning.

"Follow Konoha and leave here and you will receive food, shelter, medical care, and education."

"We don't need this, we live a good life."

"Although we lack food, we are protected by our ancestors. Although we also lack medicine, adhering to the rules of the village is the reason why we have been able to reproduce for nearly a hundred years."

"The colorful and colorful things in your outside world are not suitable for the simple villagers here. They just need to stay here."

Heiquan sneered, stood up, and turned around to leave. She felt that this elder was mentally ill and did not strive for a bright future, but insisted on clinging to this barren mountainous area.

The two parties were no longer able to communicate, and the only reason why Heiquan resisted not giving the old man a genjutsu was because Heiquan despised him to the extreme. She felt that even if she controlled the other party with genjutsu, she still had to find a chance to use this magic to control him.

The old man went to the mountains to feed the jackals, otherwise it would be an eyesore.

Kuroizumi called all the Uchiha military police in front of the thatched house, and then summoned all the villagers in the village.

"I have a disagreement with the elder."

A simple and direct opening statement.

Heiquan explained the conflict between her and the elders in the most concise and concise language, and gave the right of free choice to the villagers present.

"Are you willing to leave with New Konoha, or stay here?"

What is the most delicious fruit?

Naturally, ripe, sweet and watery fruits are the most delicious, while the most unpalatable ones are naturally spoiled and rancid. No one would abandon the former and choose the latter, just like no one would abandon wealth and choose poverty.

Believe me, anyone who says he hates money and yearns for a natural life is a liar. They often come from two positions and have one thing in common.

That is, people who hate money are either very wealthy themselves, or very talented and never troubled by money. The only thing they have in common is that they are never short of money.

So if someone advises you not to just care about salary and benefits, you should see more of the world and appreciate the beauty of the world. Believe me, you should give him a hard punch and drag this person into the dark forever.

On the list, because this is a selfish and short-sighted fool who doesn't know the warmth and warmth of the world.

Therefore - Heiquan is very confident that these villagers will make the right choice.

Until Heiquan noticed that the villagers' eyes were becoming more and more strange.

………………

A deep path is the only way out of the mountain.

"It doesn't make sense."

Heiquan walked at the front of the team, looking puzzled.

Next to Kuroizumi was Kotaro, whose clothes and pants had been pulled off and who was staring at her with a resentful look on his face. Looking back on what happened in the village, Kotaro felt that his life no longer mattered and was completely gray.

Although it was a bit sad, the experience was quite interesting.

At least Kotaro thought about it, and his expression turned into H-Taro...

"So what doesn't make sense, sir?"

"Those villagers who would rather die poor than stick to the rules."

"Oh~ you mean those people."

Huang... Kotaro said oh, took the clothes handed over by the person next to him, and said while changing: "There is nothing to be sorry for, Mr. Kuroizumi. Those people are frogs in the well. They have never been out of the mountains to see anything in their lives."

The outside world naturally doesn’t know what they are missing.”

"Master Xia Nan once said that the outside world is like a mirror. It can't give you anything. But it can let you see yourself clearly. Whether you are ugly, beautiful, tall or short. People are like this, and the village is like this.

The same is true for countries. Without comparison, there is no contrast, and without contrast, there is no harm."

"The idea that those people choose not to make progress but mistakenly think that they are adhering to a certain belief is ridiculous in itself."

"After all, how can a frog in a well see clearly the wonders of the outside world?"

"They think they will be fine if they live in that mountain range? Just by guarding their ancestral graves and rules, they will be fine? Hehe, anyone with a discerning eye can see what their fate will be in the future, but since they have chosen this way and put

If we Uchiha are driven out, they will naturally bear the consequences."

After thinking about it for a while, Heiquan seemed to agree with this.

"——Kotaro."

"Lord Kuroizumi?"

"The group of bandits who were forced to flee into the mountains due to our deterrence should have last appeared not far from that village, right?"

"It shouldn't be far."

"——Do you think we should go back and inform them?"

"..."