Chapter 5: Oasis
The desert is one of the harshest in the natural environment, but there are also some places left for people to live, that is, oases that symbolize life.
Oases will appear in the desert as long as there is a source of water.
Dozens of kilometers away from the ruins of Loulan, there is such a place, an underground river rises from the surface of the desert and gives birth to a small oasis where some civilians live.
Uzo saw this place at this time.
According to the information he got from Tsunade, it took him a few days to get here. is not in a hurry, for Yuzang, going to Loulan to see this place is just wandering aimlessly, and he doesn't expect to get any benefits or know anything about Loulan's inside story back then.
What can Loulan see now? It is estimated that the collapsed ruins still have four generations of seals.
Of course, it would be better if you could find the clues of the dragon vein crystal, but there is not much hope.
This small oasis is located in a relatively low-lying area, surrounded by many trees that are not recognizable by the name, and it seems to be a particularly drought-tolerant species, completely surrounding this small oasis. In fact, it is relatively close to the edge of the desert, and there are no inhabited and lifeless Gobi barren mountains nearby, and there will be no too strong sandstorms, otherwise such an oasis will only be buried by sand.
The world of Naruto is probably also a planet, but the area of human life as far as we know is actually not large. At sea, there is no land outside of the archipelago of the Water Country, and no trace of land has been discovered by long-distance voyages. On land, the desert on this side of the Wind Country is followed by a continuous barren land, where there are no living creatures and no resources for humans to inhabit.
This is also one of the strange phenomena in this world, maybe the author of the original book just didn't set these things, but after becoming a real world, it evolved and transformed on its own, becoming a real existence.
This oasis is located near the area where the Great Desert of the Land of the Wind meets the Barren Lands.
Walking past the outer tree belt, Yuzo saw some people dressed in khaki yellow clothes busy weeding in the fields. These neat and square green areas gave him a very comfortable feeling, and Yuzo's eyes hadn't seen this color for a day or two.
In the desert, there is no color except the color of the sand.
Seeing the outsiders, these people began to point and talk about Yuzang, perhaps because there were relatively few strangers in this place.
To be honest, the location here is particularly remote, Yuzang should not have come here, in terms of route, this place is actually behind Loulan, closer to the real Gobi Desert that has never been inhabited. He actually went the wrong way, and only after passing his destination did he react and turn back, and then he saw that there was a small oasis here.
A few people ran towards the gathering place of the houses in the distance, probably looking for a leader like their village chief.
After walking in, Yuzang saw more clearly, these people seem to be living a very good life, there are no characteristics such as some poor and poor such as yellow face and thin muscles, although the clothes are old and a little dirty, but they are not ragged. Probably because there is a shortage of water in the desert, there is little need to do laundry.
"Excuse me, does this ninja-sama have anything to do here?" A middle-aged man with a relatively thin figure greeted him and asked, looking like a person with more prestige, and the rest of the dozen or so people gathered followed him.
This place is not the kind of isolated peach blossom paradise that even ninjas didn't know about before Yuzo. Although he didn't wear a forehead guard, some of the ninja features on his body were not concealed in the slightest, and his clothes and ninja bag were completely different from ordinary people.
It is also necessary for them to communicate with the outside world, unless they have all kinds of supplies here, they have to go outside and buy some necessities such as salt and cloth. Looking at the scale of this oasis, it is impossible to have everything.
"I'm just passing through, and since I've come across an oasis, I'll replenish the water and food." Yuzo replied.
It seemed that this middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, after all, ninjas were an existence that ordinary people could not resist, and if there was any malicious intent, they would be very dangerous.
Even if it's just a superficial attitude, this can reassure these ordinary people.
"I see, welcome, we don't have anything good here, but we don't lack food and water." The middle-aged man said respectfully: "I'll take you to meet our queen, please come with me..."
Queen? How does this word feel particularly inconsistent? If he was now in a large hall, surrounded by countless warriors and powerhouses, this title would probably be very appropriate. But in such a small oasis, there is a queen?
Wait, could this be the queen of Loulan?
Yuzo remembers quite clearly that the country of Loulan or this city was indeed destroyed, but their people did not die, but rebelled against Baizu under the leadership of the then princess Sara, and succeeded with the help of Naruto and Shiyo and others.
It's just that the Loulan dragon vein has been sealed, and after Loulan loses the protection of the dragon vein, it has no ability to protect the people, and then it can only be abandoned.
So, Sara became the new queen and found a small oasis in this place, after which she settled down?
That's probably it, otherwise how could a queen suddenly appear?
Steady his mind, Yuzo followed him slowly on the road leveled out of the fields.
The plot of the theatrical version is not in the setting of the original book at all, and it can be regarded as a story that takes place in a parallel world. However, Yuzo knew a long time ago that some of the things in the theater version also existed in this world, because he had heard the name of a small country.
The country of ghosts, a country that serves shrine maidens and establishes a country based on this, seals and suppresses a tailed beast-level monster.
It was this point that made Yuzang not feel strange when he heard what Tuan Zang said about Loulan and dragon vein crystals. To be honest, he's really looking forward to seeing these theatrical characters in the original book, you know, that Shion can be regarded as Hinata's rival, right? If two people meet, it will be very interesting.
It's a pity that the plot of the previous Hokage animation has nothing to do with the theatrical version.
And that ability to predict the death of others.,Yuzo actually wants to try to be predicted.,What will his future look like? Maybe Loulan can go to the country of ghosts to take a look after reading it, why didn't she think of this before...
Although this prophecy was wrong for Naruto, the accuracy rate was still very high.
When I got to the residential area, there were a lot of people, many old people and children, and Yuzang roughly estimated that this oasis would be about a few hundred people.
I don't know how many civilians in Loulan survived and moved here before.
In the center of the living area, a small two-story building appears in front of Amazo. The houses I saw before were all one-storey, and this only two-story building was probably Queen Sara's palace?
The middle-aged man brought Yuzo in, sat him down at a low table, beckoned a maid dressed to pour him tea, and then walked out.
Just when he was wondering why he didn't report it, a somewhat weak female voice upstairs said, "There are guests here, forgive me for being lazy, I can't see the guest because I am ill."
Upstairs walked a girl, probably a few years older than Yuzo.
The girl was dressed in dark red, with few ornaments, and looked very simple, according to the standard of "queen" or "princess".
However, it is better than the civilians I saw before, at least they can wash their clothes frequently.
It was probably Sara who spoke before? This one may be her daughter, the next queen, right?
Is Sara sick? I don't know if Yan is serious, but well, it's none of his business, if Naruto is here, maybe he should go up to see her, and Yuzo himself will forget it.
"I'm sorry, my mother has been in some bad health recently, please forgive me." The girl apologized politely, then sat down opposite Yuzo and said, "We haven't had anyone from outside here for a long time, and I've only gone out once, and this was the last time I went out to buy something."
The maid just brought the tea, and then poured the two of them steaming tea.
"Your Highness, just now my mother said that something happened at home, and I have to go back first..."The maid seemed to be a stranger because of Yuzang, and said a little embarrassed.
"It's okay, you can go back first." The girl waved her hand, watched the maid leave, and said to Yuzang: "I'm sorry, we don't have many people here, what kind of queen and princess, I actually don't like this kind of thing, but they and their mothers are unwilling to change, sometimes I feel ashamed..."
She lowered her voice in the second half of the sentence, as if she was afraid that Sara upstairs would hear it.
Yuzang didn't care about these details at this time, but he suddenly felt a little restless for no reason, and he didn't know how the inexplicable irritability came from.
"My name is Ramida, what about you?" The girl asked with a smile after complaining.
She has always been curious about the outside world and wants to go out for a walk, but her mother said that she would be a queen in the future and lead these commoners to live, and she did not agree with her to go outside. Going out with the team that went out to buy things was one of the few things she knew about the outside world.
So, seeing an outsider, or a legendary ninja, made her curious.