Chapter 254: Watching the Fire from the Other Shore
After the semi-finals of the junior division of the "King of Fighting", the four best performing teams will be selected and will play a single round-robin matchup.
After another two days of competition, the top 10 rankings were finally determined.
Shiro, Konishi and Yayoi took first place without any surprise, Uchiha Sasuke, Inuzuka and Karyo were second, and Hinata Ninji's team was fifth.
The others who performed well basically had a background in the Five Great Ninja Villages, or samurai apprentices from the Iron Country.
Only the three low-key teenagers from the Star Ninja Village in the Land of Bears narrowly occupied the tenth position, barely saving some face for the ninjas who were not from orthodox backgrounds.
"In the serious ring competition, the children from the wild road are obviously a lot worse than the ninjas who have been systematically trained. At the level of lower ninja and middle ninja, the ruthless style and rich experience are very useful, but the upper ninja ...... Don't talk about it. ”
Looking at the final list of winners, Gu Shanbushui shook his head regretfully.
Wild masters of the upper ninja level are rare.
If you don't lay a good foundation, you can't expect ordinary people to cross the shackles and become masters of the upper level of forbearance.
Kakashi Hachiki laid a solid foundation for Uchiha Sasuke, so that he could later fight against Orochimaru; Jiraiya spent three years making up for Naruto Uzumaki, traveling to the ninja world, and increasing his knowledge, without this, there would be no Destiny Son who later turned the tide and saved the world.
At a time when the teaching level of the Inaba School was still very poor, Furusugi Bushui also needed to find a way to send more talents to the Konoha Village Ninja School for further study.
Playing chess with a stinky chess basket is bound to get stinkier and stinker; Only when you have seen the level of Konoha Village, known as the cradle of genius, can you truly realize what level your strength is.
Seeing Gu Shanbushui casually throw the roster on the desk, Togakure Sunrise, who asked for leave to go home to visit relatives, glanced at the revealed name a few times, and couldn't help but sigh.
Don't blame your boss for being indifferent.
The children who perform well have either been recruited under their command, or they are outsiders who have their own belongings and cannot be used by the Gushan family.
The previous contestants were either selected from all over the country and did not have a follower, or they were wild masters who saved their best performance so that the Gushan family could take a fancy to them and eat the iron rice bowl of drought and flood protection.
Now it's different, most of the participating "martial artists" are organized, and even a group of ronins without a backstage are gathered together to keep warm, specifically living on the wool from the annual "King of Fighting" challenge.
These people and organizations can be roughly regarded as the likes of the players' union or the actors' union in the previous life, a group in a disadvantaged position, using their own value as a bargaining chip, and fighting for the interests of the dominant superiors.
Under normal circumstances, Gu Shanbu Shui would not care about these self-righteous fools.
A large number of people does not necessarily mean a great strength; Especially in the ninja world, a world where extraordinary power is manifested, the difference in individual combat effectiveness has reached the point of jaw-dropping.
Of course, the existence of these small groups is not useless, as long as they do not have the idea of manipulating the outcome of the game and maliciously breaking the rules, it is really not worth the fight.
"Young master, tomorrow the rematch of the whole age group begins, what else do you have to explain?"
"Be optimistic about Uchiha Sasuke, just don't let him die."
"Where's Junmaro? I heard that his health is not very good......"
"It's fine!"
Gu Shanbu Shui replied with a big grin,
"Even if he can't fully exert his strength, it's not something that this year's "martial artists" can deal with.
This may be the biggest gap in the 19 years of the King of Fighters Challenge.
In the past year, Wama and Akira won the championship, and it was not that no one tried to challenge their status.
This year's Kaguya-kun Maro is too strong, and Shiro, the only one who can pose a great threat to him, did not participate in the "year-round group" competition, and the only possible attraction is gone.
For Furusugi Bushui, the biggest suspense may be how far Uchiha Sasuke can go after joining the "female fighter" squad as a substitute.
In the cheers of countless spectators, after a week of competition, the top eight teams were selected from 24 teams.
After a three-day break, the final was played.
Unlike the top nine defending mode in the individual group, which tests the strength of heads-up alone, the team group plays a round-robin match in a two-by-two duel to determine the top three before starting the ring challenge mode.
During this period, Uchiha Sasuke's "female fighter" team entered the final with a seventh-place finish, ranked sixth after the single round-robin, and then took the initiative to challenge a strong team from Sand Hidden Village in third place, but was defeated after a hard battle, and the "attack" failed.
In more than two weeks, nearly 30 games were played, and the intensity was naturally not comparable to that of the junior group.
Uchiha Sasuke, who has an appearance rate of nearly sixty percent, deeply understands the cruelty of the 'King of Fighters' of all ages.
With good luck, the draw is excellent, defeat the weak team first, and the strong opponents encountered will often be consumed too much in the last game, and the stamina and chakra are not exhausted and the performance is not good.
If it weren't for this, with the strength of the "female fighters" team, they wouldn't have been able to reach the finals, let alone have passed the addiction of "attacking".
During this period, Uchiha Sasuke very much wanted to fight Kaguya-kunmaro face-to-face.
It's a pity that his strength is not good, and his teammates are not very powerful masters, and he can't even pass the pass of Kusanagi Kyo and Fujido Kasumi.
The best performance was almost defeated by Fujido Kasumi, but unfortunately it fell short in the end.
……
Witnessing the remarkable performance of his classmates in the "King of Fighting" year-round group, Xiang Ryu didn't have any special feelings, and Inuzuka was so envious that his eyes were about to fall out.
"Xianglian, next year you tell your father, in the future, we will also participate in the all-age group, the youth group is not very good."
Except for a few people, their strength is very average, and they are still fighting with those acquaintances.
The whole age group is full of "masters" from all over the world, there are graceful young women sumo wrestlers, heroic female samurai, old men who walk tremblingly, greasy butchers who are fat as a wall but move flexibly without words, heavy samurai who do not remove their armor all the time, ronin who is proficient in Iai slashing, and so on.
It's always more fun to fight these people than to fight with children.
"Among us, except for Bai Neng who can do well in all age groups, nothing else. Zuo Zhu's performance, in fact, is just like that, the strength is not bad, but the combat experience is seriously insufficient, and in the face of different opponents, he lacks the ability to respond quickly. Strictly speaking, the performance is not as good as Sasa and Kageno. ”
"Maybe, after all, he's too small. Left suke kicked the 'dead fat pig' in the stomach, but he didn't break the defense. The fat layer is too thick, the fists and feet are useless, and the shuriken effect is very poor. ”
Teenage children, who are still playing ninja games, use wooden weapons for daily practice, so as not to throw them inaccurately and hurt themselves and their companions.
It's great to be able to come to the King of Fighters Challenge and see the world.
The two stood on the sidelines, greeted the stage, and returned to Uchiha Sasuke after receiving the applause of the audience.
"How does it feel?"
Inuzuka asked impatiently, and Uchiha Sasuke replied with a complicated face:
"It's all amazing, I ...... Not strong enough. ”
"You're really special about that."
Xiang Ryu replied disappreciatively,
"Mr. Mizuki has just been here, and I have a new itinerary, so I originally planned to return to Konoha Village tomorrow......"
"Not going back?"
"The day after tomorrow, there will be a friendship event between the two schools, and our participants from the Konoha Village Ninja School will have an exchange meeting with exchange students and local students from Inaba School......"
"What exactly?"
"I don't know, probably to compare with each other to see the similarities and differences between the two. As far as I know, the teacher of Inaba Academy is also a ninja invited from Konoha Village. It's been going on for more than a year, and I don't know how it works! ”
"There's a fight?"
"It's hard to say."
After pondering for a while, Xiang Lian still replied very seriously,
"Inaba Academy is not a ninja school dedicated to ninjas, and combat is only a small part of their curriculum."
Hearing this, Uchiha Sasuke couldn't help but be disappointed.
After nearly a month of intense actual combat training, Uchiha Sasuke already feels that he has made great progress. If you fight Xiang Ryu now, the hope of victory is undoubtedly higher than before.
Just when the ninjas and students of Konoha Village took advantage of the opportunity to go far away to arrange a series of visits and activities, Furusugi Bushui ushered in a visit from the female ninja of Fog Hidden Village, Ringo Yuri.
"Is this our third meeting, or the fourth?"
"I don't remember."
Gu Shanbu Shui responded directly,
"I wonder what you're looking for me?"
"The thunder knife was obtained by the young master for killing the black hoe Thunder Fang, and it was returned in the form of a bargaining chip exchange, and Terumi Ming, who was in charge of the negotiation, was also praised by the four generations. Just ......"
Thinking of the fog shrouded in the "Seven Ninja Blades", Lin Yuyu Yuri realized that with his current strength and status, he couldn't figure out the mystery at all.
"I don't want to die in vain, I don't know if the young master can show me a clear way?"
"Huh?"
I don't know what qualifications this sometimes crazy and sometimes wise female fog ninja has to make a deal with Gu Shanbu Shui, just because she can use it well?
Or do you have sharp teeth like sharks?
Or maybe the hairspray is of good quality and the hair is high?
There are many ninjas in strange costumes and weird buns in the ninja world, and Ringo Yuri is really not special.
Of course, this female fog ninja has nothing to do with ordinary.
Looking at his appearance, he is about sixteen or seventeen years old, and his attitude towards the world is also relatively mature, although his personality is a little abnormal, although he is a little abnormal, compared with a lot of crazy people who have brain problems, are paranoid to kill their whole family and destroy the world, Lin Yuli is really pure as a white lotus.
The most strange thing is that Hayashi Yuri is very, very short, and his absolute height is slightly shorter than the current Naruto Uzumaki.
However, it doesn't look like dwarfism, her facial features and limbs are very coordinated, as if she is an adolescent girl who is one size younger.
Don't look at Lin Yuli is thin and small, his strength is really not weak, one of the seven ninja swords, although he is a little too boastful, his strength is also outstanding in the upper ninja.
When Gu Shanbushui talked to her face-to-face, he looked from a distance, as if he was talking to the child.
"With this look on your face, you are wondering, what conditions can I come up with for you to help?"
When he wasn't crazy, Lin Yuuri's IQ was still very high, and he laughed weirdly, revealing his mouth full of fangs,
"I don't have anything but the Thunder Knife, this thing was originally exchanged from you, and it must not be able to impress you."
That's it, you still want to trade with Young Master Gushan, who doesn't lack anything?
Seeming to understand the thoughts of the aristocratic young master opposite, Lin Yuyu smiled generously:
"I don't know what you want, just mention it, as long as you can do it......"
From top to bottom, it's only one meter four or three, there are not a few taels of meat on the dry side, and the weight is estimated to be ninety pounds, what can such a weird girl be used for?
"Do you have any misunderstanding about me? I can't even figure out what's wrong with you, how can I help? I can't do anything about it! ”
Seeing that the ancient cedar water and oil and salt did not enter, Lin Yuyu turned his heart sideways.
"Otherwise, I'll defect and act as your secret thug."
"Is that okay?"
"The ninja sword seven who have not defected are all cowards who are not in the climate, and Momochi will not kill that fool again, sow discord, win over colleagues, and prepare to rebel, thinking that others are fools and can't detect it. It's still a good hidden persimmon ghost, and on the surface, he is respectful to the water shadow, but in fact, he has long wanted to kill the watermelon mountain puffer fish ghost and snatch the muscles. ”
"You guys, why do you want to defect, isn't it good to stay in Wuyin Village?"
Originally, Gu Shanbushui believed that in today's Wuyin Village, the big disasters have almost all been eliminated, and the small problems will no longer exist under the cover of the rapid economic development after the situation is stabilized.
As a result, the four generations of Mizukage didn't seem to convince these unruly ninja sword seven people at all.
What's the problem? Shine on the beauty?
It's far-fetched!
The wolfberry lost its position and was not controlled by the Uchiha Obito, dragging the village to the road in the blood mist, why did there still be many internal contradictions, so that there were many rebellions?
"The country of water, just like a big platter, Wuyin Village is naturally also a plate of loose sand, although it is rare to fight for the position of the water shadow, but the battle to snatch the Seven Ninja Swords has never stopped."
"Got it."
This time, Gu Shanbu Shui really understood.
There's a fire pit underneath the buttocks, and you have to find a cathartic gap.
There is a battle for the water shadow every three or five days, which is very unfavorable to the entire Wuyin Village. So, he threw out a few pieces of meat and bones, and let the jackals, tigers and leopards who were eyeing him snatch them, and the water shadow could sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and watch the wind and clouds rise.
The so-called ninja sword seven people are the living targets that have been offered.
Bearing the risk of being killed and snatched every day, after a long time, it will definitely have a nervous breakdown, and the seven ninja knives themselves have their own flaws, so the pressure on the holder will undoubtedly be greater.