On the border of the Land of Fire, across the coastline from the Land of Vortex, there are many fishermen gathered here, and although it has not become a village, it also has a name called Awa.

This is the destination of Jiraiya and his group, and since the fall of the Vortex Hidden Village, Awa has been visited by fishermen from time to time to "treasure hunting" the ruins of the Vortex Country.

In particular, the fishing season coincided with the closure in the first few months, which can be regarded as an income-generating activity during the period of non-income.

And this time, the person who misunderstood the seal was also Awa's fisherman, named Moyou, but there was not much specific information, because the ninjas who entered Awa's investigation in the previous rounds had all forgotten their experiences in Awa.

This time, the three of them did not disguise, because this time the mission target is not ninjas, or even humans, and disguise will only consume their minds and will not help the mission.

Outside Awa, Jilai is also teaching the two of them the skills of grilling fish, although the ninja travel mission, you should not make a fire to grill fish, after all, it is easy to attract the attention of enemies or other beasts.

But... The hot food was really delicious.

At least Tatsuma ate very happily, compared to the last mission out of the village, he gnawed on the soldier food pills for a week.

"Ah~ so full, Shuimen, you wash the cooking utensils, Chenma, you make a fire and make some tea."

At the junction of the beach and the revetment forest, Jiraiya spread out on the ground, rubbing his stomach and directing the two students, neither of whom complained, and went to the mouth of the river to get fresh water.

Mizumon crouched there and began to wash the cooking utensils, while Tatsuma returned to the fire and began to boil water, and found some tea leaves in his backpack.

When they traveled, they didn't bring tea leaves, which were given by the caravan after helping a caravan drive away the wolves yesterday, including the seasonings for grilled fish.

Originally, they were going to send money, but they didn't agree to it, because it became a commission, and the Konoha ninja received the task entrustment, and he had to go through the "intermediary" of Konoha Hidden Village, and he couldn't take it privately.

Tatsuma took out three wooden bowls that had just been made while waiting for the fish to be grilled, threw a little tea into each bowl, and after the water boiled, carefully poured the water into the wooden bowls.

At this time, Shuimen also washed the cooking utensils, and the three of them drank tea comfortably, enjoying the midsummer sunset.

Sipping tea, Jiraiya asked, "Do you notice something wrong?" ”

Tatsuma and Mizumon nodded at the same time, and Jiraiya pointed to Mizumon and said, "You come and speak." ”

Shuimen nodded and said: "There are too many fishing boats on the shore, it is the beginning of August, the fishing moratorium has just passed, the sea fish are fat, and the weather has been very good recently, there are no typhoons and tsunamis."

But all day today, I hardly saw any fishermen going out to sea, and no fishing boats returning, all the fishing boats were parked on the shore, which is absolutely not right. ”

Jiraiya nodded, Mizumon observed correctly, he looked at Tatsuma and asked, "Tatsuma, what do you think?" Is there anything to add? ”

Tatsuma shook his head and said, "If you don't enter Awa, there's really no way to find more clues." However, I suspect that it is an illusion or a misleading view of the fishermen's thinking. ”

Jiraiya took a sip of tea and said, "Well, but are you ready?" Don't forget, Apo has thousands of fishermen's families, and can influence the illusion of so many people at the same time, can you withstand it? ”

Tatsuma nodded, he is indeed not proficient in illusion, but he is very good at illusion and solution, it's a pity that there are no smart watches for sale in this world, otherwise it would be better to remind himself to use illusion solution every ten minutes.

"When do you think it's best for us to enter Awa?"

Jiraiya asked again, of course he didn't understand, but to test the two students, Tatsuma replied: "It's night, if it's really the ninja beast that uses illusions to control the fishermen, then its routine should be the same as that of the fishermen."

Unless this ninja beast doesn't need sleep, or has the ability to perform illusions after sleeping. ”

"Watergate, do you agree?"

Watergate nodded and said, "I think so too." ”

Seeing that the two of them agreed, Jiraiya nodded and said, "Then take a rest now and set off in four hours." ”

"Yes!" *2

Tatsuma and Mizumon began to rest, and Jiraiya was on vigil, and four hours later, when it was nearly eleven o'clock at night, Jiraiya woke up the two.

The two of them quickly moved their bodies, and after making sure that their state was fine, they followed Jiraiya towards Apo.

Although it is still at the tail end of summer, the night by the sea is also a little cold, but it also makes the fishermen of Awa end their day early and return home to rest.

Quietly and silently came to the center of Awa, Tatsuma knotted his hands and began to use chakra to sense the surrounding situation, and soon he shook his head, and did not find any abnormal chakra.

Jiraiya believed in Tatsuma's judgment very much, and did not perceive it himself, but said: "Actually, this is not bad news, maybe it is not here at this time, and it is suitable for us to investigate." ”

After thinking about it, Jiraiya continued: "Touch the surroundings and find the home of the fisherman named Maoyou as soon as possible, and at the same time check the status of the fishermen to see if there is anything abnormal." ”

The two nodded, and then jumped in different directions.

After about two hours, the three of them returned to their original places, their faces were a little strange, and Jiraiya looked at Tatsuma and asked, "Did you find anything?" ”

Tatsuma subconsciously looked back at the direction he had just searched, then turned his head and said, "I didn't find Maoyou's home, but I checked the status of the fishermen and found that they were generally a little weak.

And there are a lot of stones in the kitchen, and there are even a few of them, and there are still stones in the pot. ”

After Chen Ma finished speaking, he looked at the water gate, and the water gate nodded and said: "It's similar to my side, I also checked a few families with dogs and cats, and their cat and dog food bowls also contain stones." ”

"It's worthy of you, Watergate, it's fine."

Tatsuma subconsciously praised the water gate, the water gate was a little embarrassed, and Jiraiya's expression suddenly became interesting.

But soon Jiraiya shook his head, shook off the distractions, and then said: "I guess that the tanuki ninja beast used illusions on all the fishermen, so that they no longer go to sea, but go to Maoyou's house to buy fish to eat."

But if it doesn't fish, there won't be so many fish, so it uses illusion to disguise the stone as a fish and sell it to the fishermen around it. ”

Tatsuma and Mizumon also nodded, apparently they had guessed this as well, but they couldn't confirm it yet.

"It seems that I have to come again during the day, and the rest of the night will be used to find Maoyou."

Zilai also issued an order again, and in the second half of the night, the three of them were constantly investigating, and there were more than 1,000 fishermen, although there were many, but their luck was not bad until the last one was found.

Before dawn, the three of them left Apo, and after dawn, they returned again and went straight to Maoyou's house, and at this time, outside Maoyou's house, many people had gathered and were queuing up to buy fish.

A middle-aged man who is not tall, very thin and dark, is chatting with the fishermen with a smile, he is the Mao Right who accidentally lifted the seal of the ninja beast.

Tatsuma looked over and found that in the fish basket on the right side of the mo, there were not stones, but a fresh fat fish, and for a moment, Tatsuma also wanted to go over and buy it to taste.

“Duang~Duang~”

Suddenly, Tatsuma and Mizuto were slapped with chestnuts at the same time, and at the same time, a chakra rushed into their bodies, and their bodies froze, and then there were no more live fish in the fish basket in the distance in their eyes.