After waiting at the door for a while, a monk with a grim face finally came out from behind the temple door, his dress was basically the same as that of ordinary monks, except that he wore a triangular scarf with the word "fire" printed on his waist.

When Naruto saw this triangular waist scarf, he felt as if he had seen it on someone in Konoha Village before, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"I'm the abbot of the Fire Temple, the two of you..."

As soon as Jilu raised his eyes after saluting, he saw the face of Jiraiya in front of him, and he was instantly shocked for a moment.

Long white hair, oily forehead guards, and a huge scroll on his back...

Absolutely, this is the adult.

Jilu stabilized his mind and did not reveal the identity of Jiraiya, but continued in a calm tone: "Two compatriots of Konoha want to use this temple for a night, and I should welcome it. ”

"It's just that something has happened in the temple recently, and if you want to live here, something bad may happen."

"Bad things?"

Jiraiya's eyebrows furrowed, and he was a little interested in this euphemistic but straightforward statement.

"Yes."

"Of course, if you don't mind this kind of thing, I can prepare a room for you right now."

Before Jiraiya could answer, Naruto, who had been baptized by the rain for several hours, couldn't wait any longer, and immediately shouted, "Lustful immortal, just live here!" I'm starving! ”

Jilai smiled helplessly, turned his head to Di Lu and said, "Then please prepare a guest room." ”

"Okay, you two, please come with me."

As Jiraiya and Naruto entered, the heavy temple gate behind them was slowly pushed shut by several monks on either side, the dull sound of the doorshaft turning combined with the dripping rain to make the air feel a little more eerie.

This is the breath that should not be felt in a land where the light of the Buddha shines.

Walking on the way to the guest room, Jiraiya greeted Jilu.

"It's a lot bigger than it used to be."

Jilu saw the identity of Jiraiya, and with Jiraiya's qualifications, he naturally visited here, so at this time, he didn't ask polite words such as "the guest has been here before", and directly followed Jiraiya's words: "Yes, this place has been renovated and expanded since more than two years ago, and it was not completely completed until a month ago, and the area of the temple is more than twice as large as before, so that no matter how many monks can live." ”

Jiraiya nodded, although this place has undergone a major renovation, the two King Kong statues at the door have not changed.

Those two Vajra statues are not ordinary stone statues, but sealed iron walls, which can defend against those who trespass on the mountain gate.

In the early days of Konoha Village, there was no such thing as "Shadow" among ninjas.

At that time, the Temple of Fire was a killer ninja organization dressed in the cloak of the temple, and the ninjas here mainly practiced Wind Escape Ninjutsu, as well as the immortal body technique as the treasure of the temple, and specialized in receiving the task of rewarding people.

Whether the mission target is a child or an elderly person, they will be brutally killed, and sometimes the mission is only a mission objective, but these killer ninjas violently destroy all the mission targets, and the corpses are also disappeared.

This brutal act caught the attention of the first Hokage.

Later, Konoha Village fought against the killer ninjas of this temple under the leadership of the first Hokage, and it is said that at that time, the sealing iron wall formed by the two Vajra statues caused a lot of obstacles to Konoha Village's attack.

The final result of the battle was naturally a complete victory for Konoha Village, and the first Hokage did not rush to kill them all, but accepted these killer ninjas, and the wind helped the fire, and the first Hokage hoped that they would exist as a help to Konoha Village in the future, and retain the various roots of the Fire Temple.

Until now, the Temple of Fire is still the second largest ninja group legally existing in the Land of Fire, outside of Konoha Village.

Of course, these distant and hidden stories are not something that they have seen with their own eyes, they are all after-dinner stories told by Ape Feiri.

Just as Jiraiya's brain was recalling the cold past of the Temple of Fire, a cat suddenly jumped out of the corner of the corridor.

The cat was covered in color and glared angrily at the human in front of it, its entire body bent into a bow, and the fried fur on its back was a physiological reaction that only cats have when dealing with intruders.

However, as if he couldn't understand the atmosphere at all, Naruto smiled and narrowed his eyes, and stretched out his clutches to the little flower cat.

"Kitten, good boy, I'll hug it."

"Stupid! Stop! ”

Jiraiya stopped it too late, and as soon as Naruto's hand reached in front of the cat, the cat immediately flicked its claws in anger, scratching Naruto's hand, and then rushed into the depths of the corridor as if fleeing.

Naruto covered the scars on his hands with an innocent face, and Jiraiya sneered helplessly: "Don't touch cats if you're covered in water, cats are more afraid of water, don't you understand?" ”

"How did I know such a thing..."

But at this moment, Jilu next to him opened his mouth to speak for Naruto.

"Actually, it's none of the young ninja's business, even if we get close to these cats, they'll be like this."

"Then again, why are there cats in this temple? There are no ordinary people in this area. Jiraiya asked suddenly.

"These cats are the cats raised by the temple, and they are used to deal with the rodent infestation in the temple."

Jiraiya's eyebrows moved slightly, and he wondered: "Rat? ”

"Yes."

"A month ago, after the temple was completed and our monks moved into a new temple, there were reports of 'rats' being found."

"So in order to deal with these rats, our temple bought nine cats from outside for rat hunting."

"It's just that these cats have become very manic since they moved into the monastery, and they often hurt people like they did just now, and we have a lot of headaches about it."

"The rat infestation and the manic and hurtful cats have caused our monastery to temporarily stop accepting visits from outsiders."

Jiriku's statement made Jiraiya capture a sensitive word, that is, when he set out from Konoha Village a few months ago, Jiraiya was committed to finding "magical beasts".

And the mouse that Di Lu said just now seems to have the potential of that kind of "magical beast".

"Wait a minute, is there anything special about the rats you just mentioned? Have any of you seen or caught it? Isn't someone receiving some strange information about these mice in their brains? ”

Faced with a series of questions that suddenly ran out of Jiraiya, Di Lu was a little confused, but he still patiently replied: "The mouse is the usual black mouse, except that it is a little big and no different from a normal mouse." ”

"The monks in our monastery rarely see these rats, because they all appear when the monks are resting at night, and they have caught a dozen of them, but they are nothing compared to the huge number of rats."

"As for receiving information or something, I don't quite understand what Your Excellency is talking about."

Jiraiya nodded, it seems that it may not be what he thinks.

"And how did you know that there are so many rats? Didn't you just say that you rarely see these rats? ”

Speaking of this, Di Lu's voice was much softer, as if to exaggerate the atmosphere, and as if he was looking back at the scene that happened at that time in his mind.

A thunderbolt flashed, and the thunder light hit half of Di Lu's face, and his voice, which was already lacking in confidence, became even weaker.

But Jiraiya and Naruto still heard Jiriku's answer.

"Because we heard those pests in the wall..."