Chapter 285: A Deal with the "Devil".
After the avatar rushed into the car formation, he saw the melancholy red-haired girl at a glance, even if her face was full of sadness, but she was still sitting on a high frame like the stars holding the moon.
The avatar didn't go straight to him, but hid under the nearest cart with a puff of smoke, because the white-eyed insect reminded him that a ninja had come from the oasis, and he didn't want to make a fuss.
After a while, the patrol men raised the alarm, but everyone froze in place, not running or shouting, as if they had turned into wooden sculptures.
"That's it!" The red-haired girl stood up and shouted in a slightly hoarse voice, "Do whatever you have to do, and I will naturally deal with the people from Shayin Village!"
The girl's voice turned out to be quite loud, allowing all the Loulan immigrants to regain their mobility, but the atmosphere of despair was already thick and almost condensed into rain, and more numb.
This also confirmed that the identity of the girl was indeed Queen Sarah, and her prestige was not small.
I saw two sand hidden ninjas come to the periphery of the car formation, unceremoniously drove away the two patrolling men, and even punched one of the men down, and then directly pushed a big car and walked in.
When they entered, they went straight to Sara and asked for the rent and firewood for the night, which aroused anger in the numb crowd.
A young boy couldn't help but yell, "Firewood is our ......."
Before he could finish speaking, a thousand copies spun and flew sideways, smashing off two of his front teeth.
The puppeteer who manipulated the puppet to launch a thousand copies saw that he had hit, and laughed proudly: "Boy, with such a big temper, it is not easy to live to be so big, this time I will teach you a lesson, and you will die next time."
The bloodied boy covered his mouth and curled up in the sand, the anger in his eyes vanishing into fear and cringe.
Queen Sara's heroic eyebrows raised, and she scolded angrily, "There is an alliance between Shayin Village and the Loulan Kingdom, is this how you carry out the contract of the three generations of Wind Shadows?"
Hearing Queen Sara's words, the attitude of the four sand ninjas suddenly converged a lot, only the puppeteer muttered, "The three generations of Kazekage have long since died......
The leader of the sand ninja immediately gave the puppeteer a slap in the face, and shouted angrily in a low voice, "Shut up, don't embarrass Shayin Village!"
Then he turned around, stared at the red-haired girl with a dangerous gaze, and said in a gloomy and mocking tone, "Your Excellency Queen Sara of the Loulan Kingdom, the covenant is unbreakable, but the money that should be paid must not be less, otherwise this is also a manifestation of breaking the covenant."
Queen Sara raised her head proudly, her hands clenched tightly, and even her whole body trembled, but in the end she took the money out of her body.
Soon, a few sand ninjas were satisfied with the money and walked out of the car array.
After Queen Sara handed over the money, her hard breath had been discharged, and she turned into a weak girl again, and she muttered, "Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki......, I hate you, your promises are all in vain."
The sand ninja who was passing through the cart heard the queen's whisper, and all four of them showed mocking expressions, and the puppeteer who had been slapped by the captain even laughed wildly: "Okay! Queen Sarah, don't brag! There is no Naruto Uzumaki in Konoha Village at all, and there is no such ninja in the entire ninja world!" ….
"You've been scared for months in vain, and we've lost a lot of money!"
The four ninjas laughed maniacally and left, leaving only the remnants of Loulan, whose morale was even lower, and Queen Sara, who was devoured by thunder.
At the same time, there is also the incarnation of the stunned oil girl Iron Pill under the car.
When Queen Sara whispered the name "Naruto", he could tell that the girl was acting, intending to use the name of the Konoha ninja to intimidate the other party and make them not come again.
Perhaps similar tricks have been used many times, but this girl's performance is vivid and has few flaws.
And this sentence also proves that the plot of the ancient kingdom of Loulan has already happened, but they have all seen the sealing technique of the four generations of Hokage, which is at most a circumstantial evidence, and there is nothing remarkable.
But the next "Naruto Uzumaki" is really like that
It's like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.,The incarnation of the fight is completely stupid.,I'm going to go.,The name Naruto Uzumaki.,Okay.,It's so familiar.。
This name is the first thing to fan after the large insect of the oil girl iron pill flapped its wings with force, and when this name appears again, it can only prove one thing.
"Alternate planes exist!"
"I've decided, I'm going to be in touch with the dragon vein, I'm going to specialize in the ability of the time system!" The avatar's eyes gradually became firmer, "From today onwards, my name will be 'Candle Dragon,'"
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Sara was devastated by the puppeteer's words as he left, and she was unable to return to her original appearance until the others brought dinner.
It's just that in the face of the little girl who came to deliver the meal, the girl was unwilling to pass on her low pressure to the child, so she barely squeezed out a smile.
She took the supper, which was a simple tuber paste, and it smelled good because it was sprinkled with some jerky powder and spices.
The portion of the meal was not much, so the queen finished the supper in a few bites and handed the bowl to the little girl.
At this time, the Loulan immigrants all began to eat, and everyone ate the same meal, and only the men who were responsible for heavy physical labor were able to eat an extra portion.
Sara looked at her most loyal people, most of whom had eaten their share in a few bites, as she did, and many of them filled their bowls with hot water again, drank them cleanly, and mixed them to their heart's content.
There were a few old people who secretly gave less food to their children, asking them to eat as much as possible, but they didn't dare to give it all. They are worried that if they don't eat at all, they will fall down from hunger, and their children will have a harder time.
The old man's repeated struggle to weigh how much food to divide pierced Queen LS's heart so deeply that she could barely breathe, and she grabbed her chest and gasped for breath.
At this moment, a completely unfamiliar voice suddenly appeared: "How did you get to where you are today?"
Sarah, who was in deep pain, woke up the moment she heard this, and she looked over vigilantly, only to find that it was a ninja without any forehead protection, and her whole body tensed with fright.
Although the sand ninja just had a bad attitude, they would not kill people unless they had to, this is a rule that the Great Ninja Village spent a lot of effort to establish.
The five ninja villages did not simply rely on force to get their current status, although in the eyes of the oil girl Tetsumaru, the welfare of the ninja village is nonsense, but this at least ensures that their ninjas have a certain bottom line. ….
The quality of the ninjas in the small ninja village is a little worse, and if you encounter it in a place where no one is around, you have to be careful, but this kind of place not far from the crowded area will be fine.
The main problem with the small ninja village is that the village's strength is too weak to investigate what their ninjas are doing outside, and their ninjas will inevitably steal from time to time.
The most dangerous thing must be the rebellion on the forehead, especially those who have just broken through the restraint, the madness and fear in their hearts are the easiest to turn into murderous intentions, that is really to break the stem of the grass when they see it.
The hardest thing to figure out is to meet ninjas without any markings, these are stray ninjas, just like stray cats. Some good wandering ninjas are no worse than the five great ninja villages in terms of character and strength, and some of the bad crimes they have committed will be dumbfounded when they see it.
Sara asked cautiously, "Who are you?"
The candle dragon said unashamedly, "I am the one who has come to help you."
Sara: "......, forgive me for not believing it."
Candle Dragon was neither angry nor anxious, he directly changed his words and asked: "Then when I am interested in Loulan's past, tell me why you have become the ghost you are today."
"Also, why did Sha Ren come to blackmail you, it doesn't seem like it's the first time."
Sara took a closer look with the help of the firelight, she couldn't see the face of the ninja wearing a long trench coat and sunglasses in the middle of the night, but she could feel that the other party was not murderous, so she lowered her guard a little.
Then Sara laughed to herself, the other party was a ninja, and it was stronger than the four sand ninja just now
, she seems to make no difference whether she is alert or not.
So Sara began to tell the story of what happened in the ancient kingdom of Loulan after Naruto Uzumaki left.
In the beginning, everything was going in a good direction, people were working hard, Queen Sara was also trying to learn the knowledge that a king should master, and with the arrival of two bumper harvests, everyone felt that life was very hopeful and full of happiness.
But the good times didn't last long, and a few years later, Loulan's underground water veins were suddenly cut off, and almost overnight, a third of Loulan's water source dried up.
After a month, all the water sources were dry, let alone irrigation, and even drinking water could not be found. As a desert kingdom, there is nothing left when there is no water source, and people have to start fleeing.
"If you don't go, you can't go, in the desert, if you don't drink water for a few days, you will die, and that little bit of dew is enough for a few people to drink."
"I was still young at the time, and I didn't understand anything, so I could only watch everyone and let them embark on the road of escape in such a chaotic manner."
"Eventually, my most loyal people came to me and wanted to take me with them." Sarah's expression darkened, "We also left Loulan."
"Later, I learned that most of the people who fled before me did not make it out of the desert, and those who survived were nowhere to be found, probably because they were heartbroken."
"And I have a minister's organization here, but I have a good way out." Sara said self-deprecatingly, "Since I left Loulan, I have learned how difficult life is without a country."
"Everywhere you go, people drive you away, and the look in your eyes is full of contempt, Naruto told me that Konoha Village is a good place, but we can't even enter the Land of Fire." ….
"The Konoha ninjas on the border will also attack us with weapons, but they have money and use the greater kunai, while the sand ninja uses thin needles."
The candle dragon asked, "Did the Konoha ninja blackmail you too?"
Sara shook her head, "No, he just didn't let us enter the Fire Country, I was too naïve at the time, I thought that Konoha ninjas were all good people and wouldn't ......."
Suddenly, she choked up, took a few deep breaths to regain her composure, and continued, "In order to protect me, the minister died like this, and I really grew up."
"The minister died, and the previous living channels were gone, so I took everyone around in the Land of Wind, pulling some goods to sell, but fortunately, my vision is not bad, and I can still earn a bite to eat."
"But the road is not all smooth sailing, and the people who follow me can't stand it, and they walk, they die, and that's all that's left for now."
"......" Candle Dragon didn't know what to say for a while, this girl's life was really miserable.
"When did these sand ninjas start blackmailing you?"
"Since two or three years ago, these sand ninjas seem to be getting poorer and poorer, and the puppets are getting more and more broken, and the extortion is getting more and more powerful."
"Especially this kind of ninja stationed in the oasis, the most ruthless!"
This is normal, in the Third Ninja War, one of the costs of the defeat of the Sand Ninja was that they ceded a considerable part of the task market, resulting in their financial shortage.
Originally, the life of Sand Hidden Village was tight, but it could go on, who knows what the Daimyo of the Land of Wind thought, and suddenly decided to hand over all his tasks to Konoha Village three years ago, and also cut half of the military expenses!
This is completely fatal, not only the four generations of Kazekage have to desperately pan for gold, but the training of ninjas is forced to become elitist, and even the remuneration for low-level ninjas to perform the defense tasks of the village has been discounted.
The middle and high-level ninjas who can receive the task have a big impact, but the ninjas below are miserable, and it has become the norm to make ends meet.
If you ask a cat that doesn't have enough to eat to see the salted fish storehouse, even if the cat is faithful enough, it will continue to catch mice, but it will never refuse the fish in its mouth.
"The number of blackmails by Sha Ren is increasing day by day, and the reasons are becoming more and more shameless, and I can't hold it anymore."
"Until three months ago, I inadvertently said Naruto's name, and it turned out that Shashinobu actually returned the money to me, hehe, Naruto-kun actually saved me again, thank him so much."
"Later, I used his name to block it many times, but now it seems that it really doesn't work, and Sha Shinobi will only extort more money now, saying that I lied to them."
「…… Naruto-kun, did you really show up?"
Naruto Uzumaki really appeared, but now there is only Naruto Naruto, and it is estimated that Sha Shinobi is also worried that Sara has a relationship with the fourth Hokage, so he "endures" and gives up his financial resources.
It wasn't until Sara might have inadvertently uttered the last name Uzumaki that they thought they had been deceived by an ordinary person, that they intensified their blackmail.
The candle dragon was silent for a while, and then suddenly said, "Now Loulan has water again, but ......
"Giggles, no but." Sara smiled and leaned back, stopping the incarnation's words, "The hearts of the people are scattered, and there is no way to reunite, there are too few people who are still with me now, and Loulan will not be able to go back no matter what, and will be driven away."
"I now understand that no matter what happens, in the end, it is up to me, and I can't count on others."
After saying a lot of words, the depression in Sarah's heart dissipated a lot, and she even showed a hearty smile, even if the campfire had been extinguished to save firewood, this smile was still so bright in the starlight.
The candle dragon's heart jumped, and he couldn't help but wonder: I'm still a colony, where did my heartbeat come from?
However, this little emotion only affected the candle dragon for a moment, and he asked, "If I buy something from you on a piece of safe and rich land, will you be willing to sell it?"
Sara's mouth opened wide, stunned for a long time, and then she spoke, "Are you the devil?"
Candle Dragon: Girl! What do you mean by that?.
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