Chapter 1: Rare Beasts
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Cat Ninja Village is located in the north of Konoha in the country of Tano, in the original work in the period of time before Orochimaru left Konoha to establish the sound ninja village, the country did not have a ninja force that could be used for battle, the reason why this commercial center was named after the cat ninja is because most of the owners here will make a contract with the open psychic cat. Ninja cats are not good at fighting, at least in the public's impression, they are good at business, and most of the people here will pose a fat sitting cat at the door or in the hall to show their fortune.
Backed by the neutral Iron Country, the Cat Ninja Village can be very convenient to obtain mineral resources from the Land Country, and then make them into weapons and ninja tools, and there are many outstanding craftsmen in the Land of Iron who are here to make a living, and the Uchiha family is quite close to a businessman nicknamed "Cat Woman", her subordinates, there are many craftsmen who are good at weapons and ninja tools, and the tools produced by the "Cat Woman" are also well-known in the ninja world.
Crafted by the craftsmen of the Iron Country, chakra storage ores from the highlands of the Land of Earth, cheap detonation charms smuggled from the Land of Rain, exotic beasts caught in the Land of Snow, of course, you can find everything you want to buy - if you can afford it.
Makoto led a group of clansmen through the streets of the town, and passers-by or shopkeepers on both sides of the town kept coming up to greet him.
Unlike Konoha is also prosperous, but people's faces are mostly leisurely and leisurely, everyone here is in a hurry, the clothes on their bodies and the goods on the horses behind them are slightly swaying with the advance, and they are full of wind and dust, even the shopkeepers in the shops are also trying to sell and win over business, and the whole town looks like a boiling feeling.
Makoto tries his best to smile politely at people he knows and doesn't know, and the people who come up to greet Makoto are also divided into two kinds, most of the people called "Makoto-sama" are well-informed businessmen, and those who are only called "adults" are just seen Makoto's Uchiha uniform, and there are many followers behind him, and they deduce that his identity is extraordinary, and they come over to mix the clever people with familiar faces.
It's been a month since I've been here, but Makoto didn't rush to show his presence in the cat ninja as soon as he came, but low-key first straightened out the family's ninja here, and led the staff on duty and patrol every day as usual.
Today this is the last group, there are hundreds of resident people in the clan, most of them are adult ninjas with responsibilities, although there are also those who have settled here, but only a small proportion of the number of the clan.
Putting aside the ninjas who only participate in the management of cat ninja affairs, a large proportion of the combat-type ninjas who are in charge of security, patrols, and guards belong to the patriarchal line, which is not surprising to Makoto, after all, the patriarch line has been operating here for many years, and the forces are intertwined here, and Makoto is also mentally prepared for this.
This is not counting some of the management talents that the previous steward took away from here before leaving, Cheng has just arrived, if it weren't for the help of Fu Yue, who is full of administrative ability, just the lack of administrative personnel, it would be enough for Cheng to be anxious.
After all, it is also necessary to manage the organization of a town, and if all of them have to be honestly staffed, the number of people who build a new sect with sincerity is less than five, and it will not be able to support a structure that is enough to make this commercial center operate normally.
Therefore, it is impossible to manage this Cheng territory well without relying on the members of the current clan chief and the great elder.
Fortunately, Makoto has the approval from both sides, and now all the Uchiha people in the cat ninja village are nominally his subordinates, as long as he doesn't want to betray the family, then his orders are equivalent to the family's orders, and he doesn't need to take into account his own lack of authority.
There is not enough manpower, which is also a problem that only emerging lineages will have, and Cheng's personal achievements are too great, and his own status and the degree of development of the lineage are even more unbalanced.
"Makoto-sama." A middle-aged man who looks quite rich greeted him, this person smiled lovely, but he was wearing a pure white fur coat, not to mention the value of the ferret fur of the "Snow Country" specialty of such a large coat for the time being, just with this multiple pieces of ferret fur interspersed, but there is no trace of stitches, which can be called "seamless" artificial craftsmanship, which is enough to make many small countries envious.
Rich is something, expensive is someone. The wealth revealed on this spotless coat alone is enough to show the extraordinary identity of the person who came.
Yanai Masa, a big businessman, focuses on long-distance business, with shops all over the world, and has large transactions with the royal families of many countries, and privately has dealings with the five major ninja villages.
These people, after all, they still can't help it, the information of this middle-aged man crossed his mind one by one, and Cheng's eyes flashed, he, the manager of the cat ninja village, came here for a full week, although he acted in a low-key manner, and the rules and regulations of the cat ninja have not changed in the slightest as usual, it seems that the main thing has changed, and it will not affect the interests of these merchants and owners, but the name of Uchiha Makoto is now famous, and these guys who have to rely on the sign of "Uchiha" to eat continue to sit firmly on Mount Tai.
"Yanai-san, business is booming."
"Wherever and wherever I am, it is all thanks to the care of the adult family, so that I have a little fortune in my family."
"Yanai-san, what's the matter?" Makoto raised his hand, and the clansmen behind him quickly moved forward, Makoto stopped and stood face to face with Yanai, and the passers-by around him consciously avoided the place where the two people were, but quietly pricked up their ears to hear what the two giants were saying.
Yanai Zheng's tone was humble, but in fact, his expression was neither humble nor arrogant: "Actually, my family recently got a strange thing, thinking that your family, as a ninja clan, would definitely be interested in it, so I hurriedly came to offer treasures." ”
"Oh? It seems that I'm blessed today, to get such an evaluation from Yanai-san, I don't know what kind of baby it is? Makoto smiled with interest.
Yanai gestured slightly to the servant next to him, and immediately four tall and strong guards worked together to bring up an iron cage that was one and a half tall and large in size, and the iron cage was covered with a thick curtain, and the interior was very quiet, and it was impossible to hear anything inside.
Makoto raised his eyebrows, and with his hearing, he could hear a thin gasp and even a rapid heartbeat, and it was obvious that the creature was in a state of tension or anger.
"Please." Yanai made a gesture of invitation, walked side by side with Makoto to the iron cage, and explained, "I caught it in the extreme north of the icy and snowy land, and if it weren't for the ninjas of Iwakure at the time, my caravan would have almost been wiped out at the hands of this beast." Even several of Iwakure's upper ninjas were not lightly injured. ”
After listening to this, I couldn't help but become more interested in what was in it, you know, the ninja is already the most powerful group in the world, and other creatures, except for domestic animals and beasts that are completely harmless to the ninja, have been forced to leave the country, surviving in the distant psychic world, and the few who do not obey the control are either slaughtered or imprisoned by the ninjas like tailed beasts.
In this context, the rare species that can be caught other than psychic beasts and tailed beasts are indeed of high research value for ninja clans like Uchiha, as Yanai said.
"Please." Yanai didn't sell it, he raised his right hand, and the four guards stepped forward to pull down the curtain on the iron cage.
"Whoa!"
The barrier opened, the light pierced, and the creature in it immediately let out a hoarse roar to the people around it, its clear yellow eyes were like copper coins, and its black pupils constricted to the center, like all beasts suddenly exposed to the crowd in the city, vigilantly tensing their whole bodies and shrinking into a corner of the cage.
The two legs and two claws, the forehead, the side of the face, the back, and the claw-like forefoot elbow down, are covered with organs or armor like insect exoskeletons, the whole body is hairless, dazzling dark purple, only the head has hair-like hair, which is a very conspicuous orange.
Judging by its structure and body color alone, this creature must be the one that nature plays as a kind of predator, and it is the top layer of the food chain.
Of course, after all, it is a powerful existence that can hurt ninjas, and from the natural world alone, there are no natural enemies at all, right? Makoto narrowed his eyes and took a step closer to take a closer look.
"......Ahh ......The monster's roar was low, mixed with fierce wheezing, so it was difficult to be clear, but its intelligence was obviously high, and in a moment, it was clear that Makoto was the most powerful creature in the circle of people around him, and he turned around and stared at Makoto closely, and from time to time he kept an eye on the others.
"......" The monster's bronze eyes opened unblinking, baring its teeth and threatening.
"Makoto-sama, this monster has very strong combat effectiveness, so I have to ask the ninjas of Iwakure to set up a seal to imprison his actions, otherwise this kind of iron cage alone will not be able to control him at all."
Yanai explained unhurriedly, everyone could see this, the dark purple skin on the monster's body, a few dense runes, and strange devices connected to several key joints such as the spine, under the ribs, and knees, were obviously used to restrict the monster's movements.
He smiled slightly and said, "It seems that Makoto-sama likes it very much, and this is also an honor for my family." ”
Makoto took his eyes off the monster and smiled, not denying that he was very interested in this guy, he said directly: "Yanai-san, I don't know if I can cut love?" ”
"Where do you say," Yanai waved his hand: "It was originally meant to be given to adults, and such a strange thing can only play its true value in the hands of adults." ”
"In that case, then you're welcome." Makoto didn't pretend either, the two looked at each other and smiled, and in an understatement, they decided the ownership of this priceless creature.
"Come on, carry this cage to Makoto-sama's mansion." Sending the Buddha to the west, Yanai naturally would not be stingy with this bit of manpower, and as soon as the order was given, some guards and servants stepped forward to prepare to re-close the tent curtain.
"Wait." Makoto stopped their movements with a wave of his hand, and with a light punch, the iron cage door opened.
In the physical sense, the iron pillar as thick as a child's arm broke and twisted like a tofu under the chakra explosion of the strange power technique, and a large hole large enough for a person to enter and exit appeared.
The passers-by who were watching around suddenly let out a burst of exclamation, not only because of the terrifying power, but also because the iron cage was destroyed-it was one thing to watch the beast through the iron cage, but it was another thing to face the beast directly.
The onlookers looked like they were scattered, but Yanai stood less than five steps in front of the iron cage with his hands in his hands, calmly watching Makoto's unexpected move.
"Evil ......" Makoto broke through the cage, and the monster stood up on all fours very vigorously, although the range of movement was not too large because of the charms and mechanisms, but the full aggressive appearance still made the crowd let out a frightened shout again.
"Shame...... Kill...... You! ”
The monster raised its head suddenly, its copper eyes opened excitedly, saliva flowed from its mouth, and the expression on its face was panic and vigilance, which was clearly greedy and bloodthirsty!
Even when this monster was in its heyday, it might not be Makoto's opponent, let alone the desolate state of being imprisoned all over the body at this time? Makoto's face was calm, and he only lowered his gaze, shining his blood-red eyes into the monster's eyes.
The bloody eyes were like wheels, turning slowly, trying to suck in the monster's mind.
Cheng was suddenly startled and let out a light "huh".
The monster used all four legs together, and as soon as it flicked on the ground, it quickly pounced towards Cheng, but it trembled in mid-air, and the power of the footsteps on the ground instantly collapsed as if it had been struck by lightning, and it lost its balance and fell to the ground.
Originally, Yi Cheng's idea, no matter what kind of monster it was, in this situation where the whole body was suppressed, could only rely on pure spirit to compete with the pupil power of the writing wheel, and he used his pupil power to suppress its consciousness, and naturally it could control it to go to the station within the **, so that the clansmen could find a place to detain it for themselves.
It's just that I didn't expect that the originally invincible Sharingan Pupil Power was in this monster's body, but it seemed to encounter the resistance of an invisible force, which was not at all like Chakra, but it could compete with the Pupil Power of the Sharingan that dominated the ninja world, so that Makoto was careless for a while, and he didn't even control this monster.
However, that power and pupil force collided in its body, and it immediately disturbed the energy in this monster's body, and looking at its painful appearance on the ground at this time, it was obviously also injured.
Cheng Xin suddenly moved, walked straight forward, reached out to press the monster's churning body, and continued to use the pupil power of the writing wheel to suppress the strange power in its body.
"Kill...... No...... Can't kill...... It hurts! I hurt so much! ”
An even more astonishing scene appeared, and the monster's originally vague roar became clearer and clearer, and finally it was barely able to distinguish human speech.
Makoto's expression did not move, and the powerful pupil force in his eyes suppressed all the power in the monster's body to a corner, and the struggling strength of the body under his palm became weaker and weaker, the original dark purple skin gradually faded, and the exoskeleton organs on the body began to shrink.
In the end, this monster, which was twice as big as a human, shrank and became a teenager covered in **.