Chapter 49 What makes people grow is never smooth sailing.
Between the white sky and the earth, a figure was gradually covered by heavy snow.
Shangguan Mo still stood blankly at the entrance of Tangyin Village. The only thing accompanying him was the inconspicuous stone tablet.
The look in his eyes gradually returned, and Shangguan Mo placed his hand on the stone tablet symbolizing Tang Yin's existence.
It's freezing cold.
He wiped away the snow on the stone tablet with ease, revealing three simple fonts.
Tangyin Village!
"It is Konoha bathed in the sun, and you are Yugakure buried deep in the snow."
he murmured.
"Human life has no meaning, and I have never found the value of my existence.
Until, I saw the real you..."
After coming to the ninja world for so long, Shangguan Mo is still the aimless, free and casual Shangguan Mo.
He was drifting in the ninja world, unable to find a direction for the future, and he never found a harbor where he could dock.
It wasn't until he gradually integrated into Tangyin Village that he suddenly felt the reality of the ninja world.
The words of the businessman named Hebian tore off the layers of fig leaves he had covered for himself called "being at peace with the situation."
It also knocked his self-esteem to pieces.
These two short sentences were more real than the first time he killed someone in the ninja world, and they shocked his heart.
He was nothing without money in his previous life, and without strength in this life. Even in the eyes of ordinary people, he was a being who could be yelled at and scolded at will.
This bloody truth was like an extremely sharp needle, piercing deeply into Shangguan Mo's heart.
"One day, I will make the entire ninja world tremble under my feet! So that those people can no longer look directly at the light in me!"
There was a hint of unwillingness in his eyes, as scarlet as blood.
This is Shangguan Mo's first wish after coming to the ninja world, and it is also his only goal in this life.
"I just want to climb to the highest level step by step until I become the god of the ninja world. No one will dare to look down on me anymore!"
……
Shangguan Mo quickly caught up with Watanabe Mousse and the others. With a few ordinary people like the riverside merchants around, the group couldn't move faster at all.
After walking two steps and walking side by side with Tian Feng and Watanabe Toneri at the back of the team, Shangguan Mo asked them with a smile.
"Where is our mission this time?"
"In the south of the Country of Fire, there is a small town called Dusk Blade. These merchants are preparing to transport goods there..."
Glancing at him slightly, Toneri Watanabe replied calmly, with a faint smile on his lips.
"In other words, we have to go through the entire Fire Country this time? The borders of all countries are not peaceful now. No wonder the fat man wants to hire our Yuyin ninjas to escort this cargo for him."
Shangguan Mo said thoughtfully.
Tian Feng also nodded, then seemed to remember something, turned to look at Shangguan Mo and introduced him patiently.
"Shangguan Mo, escort missions like this are always very boring. Seeing the forehead protectors on our heads that represent the Yuyin ninjas, there are generally very few people who are not discerning enough to dare to take advantage of the caravan. It's just a waste of time. It's a bit much, and it's probably going to be longer this time. After all, we have to go from the Kingdom of Tang through the northern part of the Kingdom of Fire, and then to the southern part of the Kingdom of Fire, directly across the entire Kingdom of Fire, which takes even longer time. According to the caravan's pace, even with a carriage, I estimate it will take more than half a month."
Shangguan Mo nodded clearly. He had indeed never done such a long and boring escort mission.
When he was still in school, even though he went on several missions with Inoshita Rino and Watanabe Mousse, they were all riding the Wind Eagle, and the speed was extremely fast.
In his opinion, apart from being safer, there is nothing commendable about this kind of mission.
The group set out at around two o'clock in the afternoon and followed the convoy until it was almost dark, and then stopped.
This is a slightly desolate flat land. A road paved with gravel and five or six meters wide divides this desolate plain into two parts.
Shangguan Mo and his party stopped on the left side of the road.
This place is close to the border between the Kingdom of Tang and the Kingdom of Fire, and there is no densely populated place within a hundred miles.
The caravan could only stay where it was, preparing to rest here for the night before setting off again at dawn.
"Tomorrow we will be able to cross the border and reach the Land of Fire. Then you will be able to see a different scene."
Watanabe Toneri said to Shangguan Mo with some profound meaning.
At this time, they were leaning against a carriage, slowly chewing dry food.
Hearing this, Shangguan Mo paused slightly in his hand movements and nodded.
"Ok!"
……
Night falls, and with it comes patrol.
Shangguan Mo and the four men were divided into four directions: east, west, north and south, and guarded the four sides of the 100-meter-long caravan.
Shangguan Mo still had some energy at first, but as time went by, he began to feel bored.
After dispatching all of his increasingly large self-destructing flies, numbering nearly ten thousand, to a few miles near the caravan, Shangguan Mo ran to say hello to Watanabe Mousse and the others, asking them to rest as well. Start to find a quiet place to practice with your eyes closed.
Watanabe Mousse, who knew the strangeness of his psychic beast, didn't say anything, just found a place and started getting ready to sleep.
Even though Watanabe Tome and Tian Feng had seen the scene of Shangguan Mo's psychic beast showing off its power, they still looked a little surprised when they saw the dense flies flying neatly towards the sky.
"What a convenient ability!"
Tian Feng looked up at the flies patrolling the sky obediently, with a bit of envy in his voice.
"Indeed, but I'm curious, can these guys with extremely low intelligence sign a psychic contract with them?"
Watanabe Toneri turned to look at Shangguan Mo with some confusion.
"It's just some special means."
Shangguan Mo smiled faintly.
Seeing that he had no intention of saying more, Toneri Watanabe stopped asking further.
The battle between ninjas is an intelligence war. A ninja with no secrets at all. Except for those guys who are famous, capable and troublesome, there is almost no one left in the entire ninja world.
Because they are all dead.
Although Shangguan Mo and them were companions in the same village, their relationship had not yet reached the point where they talked about everything.
……
The night passed and nothing happened to this caravan.
After driving for another half a day, Shangguan Mo and his party crossed the border between the two countries and entered the territory of the Country of Fire.
If there are no accidents, they will soon pass through the edge of the Kingdom of Fire and head towards the depths of the hinterland.
But there was no surprise, the surprise came soon.
Shangguan Mo and the others met Konoha's ninjas stationed at the border of the Land of Fire.
From the perspective of the self-destructing fly, hundreds of Konoha ninjas wearing whirlpool forehead protectors came towards them menacingly.
Shangguan Mo's expression changed immediately.
The shadow of the tree, the name of the person.
Although he is just a time traveler who has not been here for a long time, he also knows what kind of existence Konoha is.
The strongest ninja force in the ninja world!
It was the case before, it is the case now, and it will be the same case in the future if there are no accidents.
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