The snow was falling, and the originally soft and silent snowflakes fluttered in every corner of the vast snowfield, mixing grandly and slowly into a continuous "rustle" of snow.

The chakra gathered at his feet, leaving almost impeccable traces of a perfect circle on the snow, and then in the blink of an eye, he was covered in snow again. Makoto galloped silently, mosquito-sized snowflakes slashed at his face, and his wife, who was in his arms, had already put her cold cheeks on his chest, but her body still trembled slightly.

The heat in his lower abdomen surged, and he hesitated for a moment, but still injected the internal force into the person in his arms, and wandered for a few weeks to help her drive away the cold.

It worked, but in a moment, the light felt herself warm, and she raised her head, glanced at Makoto's eyes through the gap between the thick scarf and hood, and quickly lowered it under the pressure of the snowflakes.

Makoto naturally smiles at it.

It was the night after getting rid of the Iwa Shinobi, and despite the loss of the sentient ninja and the blizzard weather that could completely hide the traces of movement, the Uchiha team still cautiously marched for a day.

Keenly catching the sound of his teammates behind him breathing a little heavily, Makoto gestured, and the entire team with him as the sharp edge of the formation stopped.

Ninjas are not iron-clad, and in such a harsh environment, not only does Hikari, who is a middle ninja, feel a little unbearable, but the cultivators with a small amount of chakra are also about to reach their limit.

Ahead was a quiet village, and the heavy snow had almost completely buried it in the faint undulating curves of the snowfield.

"Humiliation." Makoto shouted back.

The Uchiha stepped forward and said, "There is no abnormality, all the people in this village are ordinary people. ”

Cheng nodded and said, "Then let's rest here, we have been running like this for a day, it should be enough to get rid of the rock ninja, but be careful, don't leave any traces, humiliation, you lead the way, find a more spacious one." ”

The Uchiha bowed slightly, following his own perception, and headed for the village first.

A family that looked to be wealthier, Makoto and Hikaru brushed the snow off their uniform trench coats and opened the door to enter the entrance. Fugaku subconsciously wanted to stay outside to be on guard, but Makoto beckoned to him, and he didn't insist, and entered the house with Makoto. The fireplace in the house was burning brightly, and in the crackling sound, the smoky heat wave steamed out the snow soaked clothes on his body, even though he had the secret method of internal force, which can greatly improve his endurance, after running in the ice and snow for a day, Makoto still felt a sense of relief spread throughout his body, not to mention several other people.

Fu Yue thumped his waist and found a place to sit next to the fireplace, while at the table opposite him, Yan had already taken off his white cover and lazily stretched his legs towards the firelight.

Under the influence of illusion, a young couple, the true owners of the house, ignore the Uchiha, sit next to them and whisper love words, and after a while, they will feel bored in such a snowy weather, and they will feel sleepy early, and then fall asleep on the couch unconsciously.

Makoto pointed to Fuyue to the Iwa Shinobi named Sakajun Shino on the side, and said, "Tonight, just leave him on duty for the night, Fuyue and the two of you can rest well, replenish your energy, and tomorrow we will be able to reach the border between Tian and Tang." ”

Fuyue nodded, of course, it is the best thing for a perceptual ninja to be on duty at night, but for the precious perceptual type, ninja troops rarely assign them such tiring work, after all, after the concentrated perception of the entire day, they tend to become very tired, not only the consumption of energy, but also the chakra that has been consuming can't afford it.

However, if it is an enemy, then it is not distressing at all, Makoto snapped his fingers, and Sakajun Shino sat cross-legged on the ground silently, took out the soldier food pills from the ninja bag and ate them.

Including the Bing Food Pill, too, this stimulant-like thing is actually not suitable for recovery, but for the same reason, no one cares what damage it will cause to Iwa Shinobi.

"Makoto-sama," the cultivator came down from the wooden staircase, saw Makoto and Hikatsu, and hurriedly saluted: "The subordinates have just done a little inspection on the second floor, and the bedrooms and other places are quite clean and tidy, so you and Hikaratsu should rest early." ”

"Good work." Guang smiled and said, the cultivator is the first clansman in the clan to follow Cheng, although after nearly a year of development in the cat ninja, now the Cheng department also has a dozen people, and the status of the cultivator has also risen, which is second only to the high-level of the head of the clan, but this young man's attitude towards Cheng is always respectful and polite.

"Everyone, give me the trench coat."

Hikari took Makoto's coat and turned to the three of them.

The cultivator shook his head and walked over, glanced at the other two, and was about to take the two coats in Guang's hands sideways, and said, "You don't have to be polite, you can rest quickly, just leave these things to us." ”

"I'm in trouble." Hikari wanted to say something more, Makoto said directly, motioning for her to give her coat to the cultivator, nodding to the cultivator, he took the light up the stairs, leaving the first floor to the three subordinates.

The double-storey building, of course, can't be compared with a wealthy family like Uchiha, but in such a remote village, it is already quite good, especially there is a small bathroom on the second floor, which makes Makoto very satisfied.

"Hikari, do you want to take a bath?"

"Don't."

Unexpectedly, Hikari shook his head and rejected the proposal, Makoto stood at the door of the bathroom and looked in, in the small bathroom, the bidet, shower mouth, tiles on the floor and walls were already a little old, and there was old dust in the corners, he frowned slightly, understanding his wife's scruples.

"Then forget it, go to bed early, anyway, by tomorrow night at the latest, we will be able to reach Yuzawa City, endure it and pass."

"Hmph." Hikari said yes through her nose, sounding like a coquettish complaint, and she went over to take out the scroll, and replaced the bedding in the bedroom with the ones she had brought from home.

Cheng smiled helplessly, and stepped forward, the snowy night outside was quiet, the shadow of the snowflakes that never stopped was reflected in the window, the chaos but there was a thick peace, his wife was busy behind him, Cheng looked at the dark window, but his thoughts diverged elsewhere.

At the latest, I will be able to return to Konoha in four days...... Although there is mutual communication, but after all, they can't trust the paper transmission of this era, and some confidential things are still inconvenient, and in order not to arouse suspicion, the information transmitted by the code code is limited, so although Makoto knows that the development of Mizumon and others in the village should be smooth, but the specific situation must be known after returning to the association.

Watergate stayed in the village to preside over the association, and the development association had the right to speak at the top of the village, and Cheng used the family to occupy the convenience of the cat ninja to develop commercial technology to obtain funds, and the ultimate goal was to use huge funds as an external force to promote the strength of the association, in less than a year, although the business situation of the cat ninja was quite flowery and flamboyant, but because although the association provided him with a lot of technical talents like Niwa Takato, the Ninja Revolution Association was still a very young organization after all, He didn't develop real technology of his own.,In order to be able to quickly turn these technologies into economic benefits.,When arguing with those big businessmen of the cat ninja.,Makoto had to make quite a lot of concessions.,The profits from them are not as rich as they seem.。

This is also a matter of no way, at this stage, some of the technologies that can make money, such as iron-making furnaces, improved looms, etc., at most only occupy a clever idea, any puppeteer above the level, as long as you look at it, you can perfectly imitate it, in this case, you still want to rely on the monopoly of technology to grab high profits, not to mention the sand ninja who founded the country with puppets, even if it is Konoha and even within the Uchiha clan, the bad competition that can be caused by this interest can quickly turn the seller's market into a buyer's market.

In the final analysis, Makoto is now just taking advantage of the technical barriers between ninjas and ordinary merchants inside and outside the ninja world to make profits, not to mention, this technical barrier will soon cease to exist.

The land of the earth has already come to the news that Iwakuin is laying the railroad alone, and this time Onoki attacked him, in addition to taking advantage of the discord in the Konoha fog to provoke the sensitive nerves of the Uchiha, and getting rid of Makoto's competitor is not necessarily one of the reasons.

There must be a political purpose behind the military operation, and the political purpose often contains profound economic reasons, Cheng looked at his reflection on the window, and thought, the cat ninja as a rocker, has undoubtedly begun to quietly pry the situation in the entire ninja world, Mizumon, I don't know if you have been prepared?

"Honest ...... Do you still want to cultivate? Let's rest early today. ”

The light called behind him, Makoto shook his head, came back from the rare wandering, turned around and sat on the bed, picked up the coat that the light had taken off, stretched out his palms, and the chakra gathered and vibrated at will.

"I'll help you dry your clothes, and you'll have to travel for the day tomorrow."

"Don't you want to save some energy?"

"This bit of consumption has recovered very quickly, and if it wasn't outside, it would be fine as it usually does at home."

"What's like usual...... Yikes! You're looking! ”

As a joke, seeing his wife blushing and retracting into the quilt, Makoto laughed uncontrollably while carefully controlling the chakra in his palm at a suitable temperature, and the women's family uniform was gradually drying out to the naked eye.

The light only showed his eyes outside the quilt, watching earnestly and silently.

The room fell silent.

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Fu Yue had already fallen asleep, and after the cultivator carefully dried everyone's coats, his breathing gradually stabilized, and he sat alone by the fire, holding a knife and meticulously trimming his nails.

Of course, it's not that there is leisure at this time, but that during the day, I gallop all the way and perceive all the way, and my brain is overexcited, and I am jumping up and down at this time, and although I am tired, I still can't sleep for a while.

The sharp and thin knife, which would cut his fingers if he was not careful, stared at him with insulting eyes, and tried his best to calm the sharp tinnitus that sounded in the silence.

Chakra perception, except for special blood inheritances such as white eyes, is not perceived through the five senses, but a special organ called the "pineal gland" in the brain uses chakra in a unique way, and the scope of chakra perception is far more than the five senses perceived by a hundred times.

In this process, the brain has to process thousands of times more information than the five senses collect.

Each sentient ninja has their own set of adjustment methods to keep their brains from being damaged by being in such a flow of information for a long time.

The method of humiliation is to focus the attention of Chakra's perception on the five senses, and cutting nails is only one of the most convenient techniques.

Glancing at Iwa Shinobi, who was sitting quietly with his eyes closed, presumably, this fellow perceptual guy also had a set of such methods, right?

Suddenly he yawned, and a wave of sleepiness welled up, and he quietly put away his knife, and got into the bunk on the floor, and the exhaustion of a day of running in the snow made him fall asleep quickly.

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In silence, Iwa Shinobi, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, his face brightened and darkened by the light of the jumping fire in the fireplace, suddenly opened his eyes.

In his stiff eyes, there were three magataku faintly turning.