Take Qingxi around the village above the small oasis a few times, called shopping, but in fact the two are familiar with the terrain.

Of course, since they were nominally shopping, they had to do something that was in line with their disguised identity, as evidenced by the maren candy that Qingxi was holding in his hand.

Seeing Qingxi biting down on the candy cube in small bites, squinting his eyes slightly to reveal a "delicious" expression, Chengcheng was also happy in his heart.

After entering the camp, Qingxi had changed back to her original state, and it was inconvenient for her to carry things in her hands, so Makoto helped her lift the curtain of the tent.

It was a small merchant camp on the edge of the village, surrounded by several wooden wagons, and the whole camp was covered by thick tarpaulin.

Outside the camp, several camels are grazing not far away.

“…… So, be especially careful of the poison ...... of the puppet troops Ah, Makoto, you're back. ”

In the tent inside the camp, Du Feng seemed to be telling the four shinobi about the structure of the sand ninja force, and when he saw Makoto open the curtain and come in, he greeted him in a friendly manner.

To be honest, Makoto admires Uchiha Totoyo quite a lot, being able to face his de facto son, and it is really not easy to make such a friendly attitude with respect and closeness just right.

"Companions."

Qingxi said lightly, reaching out and handing a bag of maren candy to the nearest Boyan.

"Qingxi, if you are on a mission, you must perform the task well and don't do superfluous things......"

The young man with a cold and arrogant expression said earnestly.

Qingxi was silent, or rather, ignored him.

Makoto glanced at him with some amusement, after so much time, Makoto can finally see that the reason why this guy often looks proud is not that he has any strengths that can be proud of everyone, but just to attract the attention of others.

More precisely, just to attract Qingxi's attention.

Pretending to be cool to get more attention from others is essentially no different from Naruto's desire to win the attention of others through pranks, just like Makoto's previous life, when he was still very young in junior high school, some people would become expressive in front of the girls they liked, while others would get a different impression by pretending to have no interest in girls.

Rei walked over, reached out and grabbed a piece from the bag full of maren, ignoring Hirohiko Uchiha's fierce glare, "haha" smiled and said:

"Beyondsoft, don't exaggerate, what's the ...... Qingxi, thanks. ”

Qingxi nodded, but his gaze turned to Cheng:

"Thank him."

The Uchiha Rei suddenly laughed even more happily, and he turned his head and said:

"Thanks, Makoto...... Eldest brother. ”

I didn't expect Qingxi to give him such a look, Cheng glared at Qingxi who offered to buy something back, and nodded back as if he didn't care:

"Nothing...... How's your preparation? ”

Du Feng can directly call Cheng by name less awkwardly, but Cheng is very distressed about how to call Du Feng, so he simply calls him "you" directly in his daily life.

It seemed to understand Makoto's emotions in other ways, and the young Uchiha Rei was happy to watch the conversation between the two.

"There's nothing to prepare, ready to go."

But Du Feng didn't seem to have any idea of how to get close to Makoto, but just maintained a businesslike tone between teammates.

"Alright," Makoto said calmly, "then please get ready, and do it tonight." ”

"Yes!" Including Du Feng, everyone agreed in unison.

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The night is dark and moonless, but in the clear night sky of the desert, a galaxy is horizontal, densely packed and numerous, falling all the way from the sky, almost pressing to the bottom of people's hearts.

A shadow swept by on the ground, and a flower cat lazily raised its furry head, its eyes flashing green in the darkness glanced in the direction where the black shadow had left, and buried it boringly.

The tavern owner knocked lightly on the door, heard a hoarse "come in" from inside, and pushed the door in.

A young man with a white skin rarely seen in the desert turned his head to look under the lamp and frowned:

"What's the matter?"

The order he gave was, "Don't come to me if you're fine."

Looking at this nominal "master", the boss replied respectfully:

"There's something to report."

"Say."

"There seems to be a bit of an unexpected number of caravans coming to the village lately."

"Oh?" The young man, who had not cared at first, showed an interested look and motioned for him to continue.

"Your original order was, 'Watch out for suspicious people' and report back to you, but the recent intelligence doesn't bring anyone who looks like ninjas, it's just that a small village like ours shouldn't be worth passing through so many caravans."

The young man nodded, this is why he chose to live in seclusion here, this small village in the middle of nowhere, with no special products, and more importantly, very far away from Konoha has provided him with a place to live for several years.

He thought about it, perhaps it was the comfortable life of recent years that had worn down his vigilance, and this time, instead of immediately deciding to flee as he had done in the past, he wanted to ask more clearly:

"What do you think is wrong with this situation?"

"There are a lot of caravans, but they all have one thing in common, and that is that they all come from abroad - the Land of the Wind is notoriously resource-poor, and if there is any rare commodity popping up nearby, I should know about it."

Konoha rebelled and said unceremoniously:

"What are you talking about, maybe they're here to dump highly profitable goods locally, don't use this reason to perfunctory me!"

"Yes, yes," the boss's face seemed to be dull for a moment, he lowered his head and said cautiously, "So I specially bought their goods at a high price, just to present them to you, so that you can judge for yourself." ”

The young man felt a little uneasy, the information and signs so far pointed out that an unknown change had taken place in this small village, and no matter what the outcome, maybe it was time for him to start wandering the ninja world again until he found the next hiding place.

Slowly making up his mind in his heart, the young man found that the boss had leaned over before he knew it, and he took out a small dark bottle and pressed it lightly on the bottom.

Disheveled.

With a somewhat feminine light red, a cloud of powder erupted in extreme closeness.

Even though he was a ninja, he mistakenly thought that his subordinates were going to hand him the bottle, and the young man was caught off guard and still got a little bit on him.

The heart immediately fell to the freezing point, and the originally silent night was also full of killing machines from unknown places because of this unexpected move!

At this moment, he finally saw that among his originally loyal subordinates, a blood-colored jade wheel faintly emerged from his dull eyes.