Chapter 49: Konoha's Response
The next day, early in the morning, the original group of people left unconsciously. There were obviously stalkers when leaving, and these stalkers were easily knocked out and thrown aside by the extremely capable Uehara who had been tempered by the war.
As much as 1.1 million yuan, not only supplemented the abundant supplies, but also purchased a cargo ship, the cargo ship is not too big, but it can fit more than 100 people in Uehara.
The power of the boat is a wooden oar, which Uehara never expected, according to Uehara's psychological expectations, at least it must be steam powered, but in fact this is a sailboat powered by wooden oars, which makes Uehara somewhat disappointed.
There were ten long-handled oars on each side of the hull, which meant that a group of twenty people, one hundred and nine of them was enough to divide into five groups, and a half-hour rotation was enough to ensure that all of them had sufficient physical strength.
Seasickness was something Uehara never expected. A group of ninjas who are not afraid of flying and can do everything, not long after they get on the boat, they will become like that, playing and shaking, languishing, how miserable and miserable it is. Uehara sat against the cabin, next to him was the blue-faced Spider Pill, Spider Pill's eyes were staring straight ahead, he was clenching his teeth tightly, his mouth was closed, and he was struggling with the churning sensation in his abdomen.
"I said Spider Maru, are we all rock ninjas like this? How serious is the lack of water in the land country? Have you ever seen a big river? Ever swam in the river? Hell, you guys don't have much combat power......"
Spider Pill opened his mouth, and was about to return to Uehara, when the hull of the ship shook, Spider Pill couldn't hold on any longer, and pushed Uehara who was in the way, and quickly stretched his head out of the side of the ship, and spit out a mess. The bear-like strong spider pills are like this, and others are not much better, so that there are less than twenty people who don't get seasick plus Uehara, and there is a shortage of manpower, and the speed of the ship is naturally not fast.
"Worship Ben, what's wrong? What are you doing when you stop? Watching him come out of the cabin, Uehara grabbed the cable and got up and asked.
"Not good, Uehara." The boat had stopped, spinning along the inertia, "The bilge is leaking, it's troublesome, we're trying to fix it." β
"How could it be, how far have we go." Uehara frowned, he felt that he had been cheated, he had known that he had used the transformation technique to become an adult when he bought a boat, he had a child-like face, and everyone wanted to kill him.
"Profiteers!" Uehara slammed his fist on the floor with hatred, "If it's not for the fear of being exposed, we can hire some boatmen." β
Seeing that his companions were all looking at him, Uehara retracted his angry and depraved expression, and made a confident look, "This kind of trivial matter, I can solve it with the squad leader for a while, and everyone can eat and rest temporarily." β
Speaking of rest, the fat man was very willing, and took out a lot of snacks that he bought for him, and the rats ate a bunch of them in a while. Speaking of which, Shelersa, Fatty, and Uehara put a lot of effort into learning to swim, and although they didn't learn it, they were familiar with the water, so seasickness didn't exist for them.
Come to the bottom warehouse, move away the ballast warehouse, there is indeed a crack in the compartment, but fortunately, the crack is not big, and it is found in time, otherwise everyone will have to abandon the ship when the crack expands.
"Uehara, this is it." "It's been repaired, but it's still leaking, so we'll have a man to guard here, and we'll clean it up if there's a lot of water, otherwise the boat will capsize." β
Uehara frowned, "Shrine Ben, show me the wooden board that was washed away." β
"Give." Hearing this, he looked around, kicked up a piece of wood that was placed in the corner, and continued with his hand steadily, "This is." β
"Shrine book, did you find anything strange?" As Uehara expected, this was really not an ordinary accident, but someone did something to do it, looking at the obviously too smooth fracture, Uehara handed the wooden board to the shrine, his brows furrowed, and his forehead began to ache faintly again, and the troublesome things were simply wave after wave.
"What? Is there a problem? He took the plank in confusion, turning left and right to see it clearly.
Uehara picked up another plank and snapped it with a hard click, "Worship the book, because the fracture formed by external force is ......different from the one cut with a weapon."
"You're saying we've been targeted for a long time?" With a little thought, he came up with a deeper meaning.
"That's right, that's right." Uehara nodded, "It's a good thing we didn't recruit sailors and boatmen, otherwise it would have been more troublesome." β
Now that he has discovered the enemy's intentions, Uehara no longer worries about anything and just responds actively.
"Saimoto, since the cabin is flooded, it means that delaying our speed is beneficial to the enemy......" Uehara has developed a habit of using his fingers to flick something whenever he uses his brain, for example, now, he uses his fingers to flick on his head.
"The enemy is likely to be chasing after us in the next two days, and our hull is damaged, and the other party is likely to be a very fast ship, so ......" Jimoto pushed his glasses, and then analyzed Uehara's words.
"Abandon ship." "Abandon ship."
Uehara and Nishimoto said in unison, and after speaking, the two of them were stunned and smiled.
"But we didn't go far, we accelerated as hard as we could, and we got far enough before we abandoned the ship. How long will it take us to return to the Land of Earth if we don't take the waterway? Uehara looked at the ritual book that took out the map and flipped it over, and felt a little relieved, this guy is simply a living map, the original simple map, under the witness of Uehara, after the ritual book was written and painted, and now it has become extremely detailed.
"My suggestion is to continue to follow the waterway," Jiben gave the answer after a little thought, "I don't know how much danger there will be in the undeveloped area, and many of the strange-shaped murderous creatures arrested by our Tsuchinoji Temple are from these undeveloped areas, so ......"
"It's really troublesome...... this was different from what Uehara thought, but when he looked back, it seemed that the vegetation near the stations of the detachments was not too dense, and there were some traces of human activity.
"Just do as you say, Worship Ben." Uehara made the final decision, "After abandoning the ship and advancing along the waterway, the enemy is in a hurry, if the number is small, we will eat them, if they are invincible, there is no choice but to cross the jungle all the way back to the land of the earth, although, there may be many unknown dangers." Patting him on the shoulder, Uehara stepped out of the cabin and looked at the tents neatly stacked on the deck, he couldn't help but feel glad that he had foresight, without these tents, even ninjas wouldn't be able to last long camping in the wild for a long time.
"All stop and rest, rotate in five shifts, and go full speed!" After giving an order from the deck, Uehara was the first to pick up a long wooden paddle and start rowing.
Rowing requires considerable skill, especially when there are as many as twenty oars. Looking at the companions who are obviously not in rhythm, because the force is not in the same line, even though everyone has exhausted their strength, the speed is still worrying.
"Listen to me," Uehara began, "I know some boating skills, so listen to meβ"
"Draw when you shout one, collect when you shout two, and get ready! Oneββ,twoββ, oneββ,two-" Under Uehara's order, everyone's movements gradually became neat, and everyone liked this atmosphere of unity and cooperation very much, and the more they shouted, the more energetic they became. Everyone is lively and energetic, but Uehara can't stand it, Spider Pill this guy likes to say nothing when he fights, and when he is fine, he has to come up and roar twice, and the sound like a broken gong even has a tendency to get bigger and bigger, Uehara can't stand it anymore, and he doesn't care if he hands the oar to the fat man with long physical strength. The fat guy can row for a whole morning, and then as long as he eats something, he will be alive again.
At full speed, the speed was naturally very fast, but the crack in the broken bottom compartment was larger, and the number of people scooping water had to be increased to two, one in the cabin and one on the deck. Uehara frowned, there were no repairmen on the ship, and the reluctant repairs were obviously out of order, which made the ship's leakage even more serious, and everyone had to stop repairing. Uehara had a hunch that in two days at most, the boat would be unusable, and it would take ten days against the current to return to the land of earth, and if the remaining eight days were to walk on land and through the jungle, the devil knows how long it would take to get back.
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The information that Uehara got from Yuhe was extremely important, and Konoha still pulled out a sizable ninja force even though he was fighting on all sides, and secretly crossed the border between Konoha and Kawanokuni to march towards the Iwa ninja camp. This is also a helpless move for Konoha who is in a tight battle, because there are many imps who have just graduated from ninja school among the personnel transferred. Fortunately, the other party was the always weak Iwa Shinobi, and it was a remnant of the soldiers who were killed by the rain ninja, so the top management of Konoha agreed to this rather risky personnel transfer.
The day after they left by boat, the underground black market in Shinano-cho, where Uehara had been, came to a few mysterious guests.
"Lord Shimura." Murashita Pheasant nodded, and respectfully held a scroll in both hands to the Konoha ninja in a black ninja suit, "This is the ninjutsu we exchanged, since the other party has ninjutsu, there is no doubt that it is a ninja." β
Murashita Pheasant secretly looked at the other party's obvious interest, and continued with great interest, "There are only three of them who show up, but we guess they may be more than three people......" Speaking of this, Murashita Pheasant took out a paper tube from his wide sleeve, "They have purchased a lot of supplies, and there are as many as nineteen camping tents, so we think they should have nineteen people, or nineteen ninjas." They left by boat and we secretly sabotaged their ship......"
"Bring it." The ninja known as Shimura spoke in a cold tone, and reached out in front of the Murashita pheasant without respect, and his fingertips almost touched his nose.
The whole person of the village pheasant was stunned, and then quickly rolled up the paper tube, and he also chose to offer a small paper tube with both hands, humble and excessive.
"So many wounded medicines...... Shimura's eyes shone, "there must be seriously injured people on the other side." After a cursory look at the beginning, Shimura was not interested in reading it, he didn't think that a group of ordinary people could collect any valuable information, if ordinary people could do what only ninjas could do, then why should ninjas do? In fact, if he had paid more attention and looked carefully enough, he would have found valuable information, such as the fact that Uehara had ordered as many as one hundred and nine sets of ready-to-wear clothes......
"This technique is very good." Shimura tossed the scroll in his hand, "I'm sure the patriarch will be very satisfied with your work, by the way," Shimura said, "Lord Danzo is preparing to form the roots, what is the ...... of your village?"
"Murashita." When Murashita heard the news that he had his grandson, he was very happy and carefully reminded him.
"That's right, Murakita, it's this name, the first root members, have his name." After speaking, he looked at the Murashita Pheasant whose hands were trembling with excitement, and Shimura was a little disdainful, "To be able to enter the root that only the elite can enter, you have to thank Lord Tuanzang, the old man of the village." β
Murashita Pheasant is very excited, he doesn't know what the root is, but ah, only the elite can enter the dark department, which means that Murashita must be an excellent ninja now, and he must have enough ability to protect himself, Murashita Pheasant is sincerely happy for him.
"I take the liberty of asking...... "Murashita Pheasant seemed to remember something, "Murashita is not a Konoha ninja, he can enter ......"
"It's definitely going to get into the roots, you don't have to worry about it!" Shimura was a little angry, "Now, go and prepare the fastest boat for us, whether they are Iwa Shinobi or not," the corners of his mouth grinned, "Let's catch up and sink them!" β