Chapter 589: An easy trip
Chapter 589: A quick trip
The country of earth, the village of Hidden Rock.
Lao Zi prepared dinner for herself at home as usual.
He learned to cook when he was very young.
However, this is not because Lao Zi is naturally more sensible, but because his parents died before he could remember, and cooking is a survival skill for him.
In fact, it has something to do with the identity of the jinchuriki. As a jinchuriki, Lao Zi is basically disliked by people in Iwagakure Village.
Although it wasn’t to say that he had eaten the food with extra ingredients, Lao Zi didn’t have any appetite when he looked at those people with their disgusting faces.
So Lao Zi basically buys groceries and cooks them himself.
After all, Lao Zi can choose the food by himself when shopping for food, so he doesn’t have to worry about buying bad food.
However, Lao Zi, who has rich experience in cooking, made a lot of mistakes today. The fish was burnt and the seasoning of the soup was also a mess.
"Onoki, is this your choice?" Lao Zi finished eating the burnt fish with a complicated expression and took a sip of the vegetable soup with too much salt.
The ANBU did not disappear, they just changed a batch.
Thinking from a darker perspective, maybe a stronger ANBU, in order to prevent him from actually escaping.
Lao Zi sighed deeply and started to put away the dishes.
“Do you want to leave?” Lao Zi asked Siwei in his heart.
Lao Zi was still hesitating in his heart.
He is not an indecisive person, but this is a big thing, both for him and Iwagakure Village.
Lao Zi is stubborn, not without the ability to think.
If he ran away at this time, it would be a big blow to Iwagakure Village.
Jinchuriki is not only a top combat force for the ninja village.
The jinchūriki have extraordinary suppressive power over the ninja troops.
The tailed beast jade can easily destroy mountains, and the jinchūriki with the ability to fully transform into a tailed beast can fire several shots in a row.
As a ninja, even the most famous and powerful ones in the ninja world cannot do this. The chakra gap between humans and tailed beasts is too big.
"Although I am in your body, if you leave, I will leave too, but my suggestion is that you make your own decision." Four Tails replied.
From his own point of view, the Four-Tails tend to leave Iwagakure Village.
He is a tailed beast with self-awareness, and of course he is not willing to be imprisoned by Iwagakure Village and used as a weapon.
But Siwei recognized Lao Zi and he didn’t want to interfere with Lao Zi’s choice.
Otherwise, Lao Zi will feel regret for leaving in the future, and he, the person who helped make the decision, will be a little embarrassed.
“I just couldn’t make up my mind, so I asked you.” Lao Zi said helplessly.
If he could make a decisive decision, he would not ask the four tails.
"You don't have to do this. In fact, there are only two options, one is to stay, the other is to leave. If you want to stay, you can stay, and if you want to leave, just leave." Siwei enlightened.
Lao Zi fell into deep thought. Although Siwei's words seemed like nonsense, they did get to the core.
Perhaps he doesn't need to think so complicatedly about the impact on Iwagakure after leaving, and whether he will be wanted and hunted down.
What he really has to consider is whether he wants to stay or leave.
At this moment, many memories came to Lao Zi’s mind.
He thought of himself practicing hard when he was a child.
Because of his status as a Jinchuriki, he was disliked by the ninjas and residents of Iwagakure Village.
So at that time, Lao Zi thought, if he could control the power of the tailed beast, everyone could treat him like an ordinary person.
If he can control the power of the tailed beast, he will not go berserk. In a sense, he is just a ninja with more chakra.
However, it turns out that efforts may not necessarily succeed, and the attitude of Iwagakure and the residents towards him has not changed.
Of course, it would not be wrong to say that he has not changed at all. After he becomes stronger, not many people dare to show his face openly.
It’s just that the change Lao Zi wants is not this kind of change.
Lao Zi then thought of the recent war.
He followed Iwaku's order to enter the complete tailed beast transformation and used the tailed beast jade to lead the ninja troops to successfully break through.
In fact, Lao Zi didn’t expect to get a reward or anything from the beginning.
Although he successfully led the troops to break through, the way of breaking through, even if he was acting in accordance with Iwaku's orders, is still not something that can be praised.
Because there was not only the blood of their enemies on their retreat, but also the blood of their companions.
But he really did not expect that he would be under surveillance, and even after he explained everything, he did not withdraw.
Lao Zi sometimes thinks that if he didn't listen to Iwaku's orders in that battle, didn't transform into a complete tailed beast, and didn't use the tailed beast jade on the ninja troops, maybe he could still be called a war hero after his death.
Instead of successfully breaking through with his troops, he became a monster who killed his companions.
The conversation with Ohnoki in the office, the comments heard on the street, and the strange looks from others, all these memories appeared in Lao Zi's mind.
The confusion on Lao Zi's face dissipated. Now that the matter is over, there is only one answer.
“I want to leave.” Lao Zi said firmly to Siwei.
After saying that, Lao Zi seemed to have been relieved of a heavy burden, and his whole body felt much more relaxed.
After thinking about it carefully, Lao Zi found that he didn't have to look for a reason to leave. He had almost no reason to stay.
Why can he stay?
In order to monitor his ANBU? For the Iwagakure ninja and the residents of Iwagakure Village who don't treat him as a human being? Or is it because he wants to train him into an emotionless Tailed Beast Weapon Ohnoki?
“Haha, it seems you have completely figured it out.” Siwei smiled happily.
Four Tails knew everything that happened to Lao Zi, and he had been watching silently inside Lao Zi's body.
Watching a good, hard-working young man gradually turn into a withdrawn and stubborn adult.
From Siwei's point of view, Lao Zi doesn't owe Iwa Yin anything, on the contrary, Iwa Yin owes Lao Zi.
Lao Zi did not become a jinchuriki because he begged Ohnoki to become a jinchuriki.
Moreover, Lao Zi also performed many tasks for Iwagakure. After the war began, he also worked hard for Iwagakure through life and death.
In the eyes of the fourth tail, Lao Zi is essentially the same as him. They are both poor people restricted by Iwagakure Village.
It's just that the four tails were not born in Iwagakure Village, but Lao Zi was born in Iwagakure Village.
“Let that bad old man Ohnoki regret it.” Lao Zi put away the washed dishes and chopsticks with a smile on his face.
Today he was going to let Onoki know that he, Lao Zi, was a man of his word.
Then Lao Zi walked out of the room and read quietly in the yard.
He planned to leave late at night.
Although he wanted to leave, Lao Zi had no idea of making a big deal out of it. Those Iwagakure ninjas and villagers were annoying but not worthy of death.
His leaving the village is itself a big trouble for Iwagakure Village, so there is no need to create additional trouble.
As time went by, Anbu Iwagakure, who was monitoring Lao Zi, felt a little strange because Lao Zi had been reading for too long this time. Normally Lao Zi would not read in the yard for so long. However, this change was too small to be considered abnormal, so Iwagakure Anbu did not contact Ohnoki and just recorded it.
"It's almost done." Lao Zi looked at the surroundings that had completely darkened, closed the book, walked back into the room and put the book back on the bookcase.
This is his home after all, and if he wants to leave, he can’t leave in a mess. Maybe there will be a chance to come back and stay in the future.
After cleaning the house, Lao Zi went straight to the hiding place of Iwagakure Anbu.
He was worried that there were sentient ninjas among the Anbu under surveillance. If he used Earth Escape to escape, he might be discovered immediately.
“You actually discovered it?” The ANBU was slightly startled when they saw Lao Zi approaching without any disguise.
He knew the reason why he was replaced, but he didn't expect that Lao Zi's anti-reconnaissance ability was so strong and he discovered them again so quickly.
“Lao Zi, what do you want to do? Attacking an ANBU is a serious crime.” Anbu appeared and warned.
He did not panic. The Anbu who were discovered in the last wave did not fight with Lao Zi, so he thought that Lao Zi would not take action against the Anbu.
Lao Zi smiled, he was ready to leave Yanyin Village, and wanted to scare him with this.
Whoosh!
Without saying a word, Lao Zi exploded the huge chakra in his body and ducked behind the two Iwagakure Anbu, swinging the heavy hand sword.
boom! boom!
Two Iwagakure ANBU fell to the ground in response.
After knocking out the ANBU, Lao Zi hid them, then quickly escaped underground and rushed towards the outskirts of Iwagakure Village.
Lao Zi doesn’t know the skills to knock people out. Successfully knocking people out depends entirely on strength.
But because Lao Zi didn't want to kill anyone, he deliberately controlled his power, which made Lao Zi wonder how long the two of them could be knocked out.
To be on the safe side, it’s better to run away as soon as possible.
In order to help Lao Zi escape from Yanyin Village, the Four Tails devoted themselves to refining chakra to assist Lao Zi, allowing Lao Zi's strength to reach its peak.
Four-Tails is also very excited now. He was captured and used as a power bank in Iwagakure Village for so many years and finally came out.
After rushing out of Yanyin Village, Lao Zi returned to the ground and looked back at the hometown where he had lived for decades.
When he first had the idea of leaving the village, he was full of tangles in his heart.
When he figured everything out, he still felt a little reluctant to leave Yanyin Village in his heart.
But when he knocked out the ANBU, Lao Zi felt happy.
Now that he is outside Yanyin Village, Lao Zi feels extremely happy and has no regrets in his heart.
“Ohnoki, I hope you won’t be so angry that you become constipated, haha.”
Lao Zi burst out with chakra while laughing and continued to move forward at high speed.
There was no one he cared about in Yanyin Village, and no one cared about him. If he thought about it carefully, it was really not worth remembering.
On the other side, the night shift members of the Iwagakure Barrier Class noticed a person breaking out of Iwagakure Village from underground, and immediately reported the information.
After being knocked unconscious, Iwagakure Anbu woke up and hurriedly passed on the information about Lao Zi's attack on Anbu.
“Sandaime-sama, it’s not good!”
Hearing the ANBU's voice, Onoki, who had been sleeping, suddenly sat up.
“What happened?” Ohnoki quickly put a piece of clothing on himself and asked.
It was worth waking him up from his sleep. It must be an extremely important event.
“The four-tailed Jinchuuriki Lao Zi knocked out the ANBU who was protecting him and broke out of the village alone.” The ANBU quickly reported.
“How dare he!” Ohnoki’s eyes widened and his fists clenched.
He didn’t expect Lao Zi to be so capable. He just said he would regret it during the day and escaped from Yanyin Village at night.
But Ohnoki knew that it was not a question of Lao Zi’s character now, so he immediately gave a stern order:
“Immediately send out manpower to search secretly, and notify the team at the border so that they can also search for Lao Zi. Lao Zi must not be allowed to leave the Kingdom of Earth!”
It would be more troublesome if the jinchuriki ran away than if the jinchuriki died in battle.
The jinchuriki dies in battle, and after a while the tailed beast itself will be resurrected. At that time, the tailed beast will be captured, and a suitable ninja will be found to seal it into its body, and a new jinchuriki will be created.
If the jinchuriki runs away, the situation will be complicated.
If the jinchūriki hides in a corner and doesn't come out, Iwagakure will lose a tailed beast forever until the opponent dies.
It would be even worse if the jinchūriki were kidnapped by other ninja villages
These are things Ohnoki cannot bear.
“Call all the ninjas who know about it and ask them to keep Lao Zi’s escape a secret. The other ninja villages must not let this happen.” Onoki continued to order.
As long as Lao Zi has a little bit of brain, he will not show his identity as a Jinchuriki outside.
Because this is asking for death.
I wonder if the Great Ninja Village, where Lao Zi has escaped, will take the opportunity to kill Lao Zi and leave Iwagakure Village with one less Jinchuuriki.
The ninja village who knows that Lao Zi has escaped may also have thoughts about the tailed beast in Lao Zi's body.
In short, as long as Lao Zi dares to expose the identity of the Four-Tailed Jinchuuriki, there will be no good results.
This gave Ohnoki a chance to disguise himself.
Even though Lao Zi ran away, he could pretend that Lao Zi didn't run away, and there were still two jinchūriki in Iwagakure Village.
Jinchuriki is not a super weapon that can be easily deployed.
As long as Lao Zi does not show up outside, the enemies of Iwagakure Village will have to consider Lao Zi's combat power when fighting Iwagakure.
“Yes!” ANBU replied with his head lowered, and quickly left to carry out Ohnoki’s arrangements.
“To actually do this.” Ohnoki rubbed his brows with a headache.
He really didn’t expect Lao Zi to run away right now. This was the village where he was born and raised, so he just abandoned it like this?
Haven’t you listened to the Will of Stone course at Ninja School? Or the teacher’s lecture was too bad.
“We should pay more attention to this matter.” Ohnoki sighed.
He regretted a little. He shouldn't have just replaced a batch of Anbu at that time.
As far as the current results are concerned, he should have withdrawn the surveillance at that time, or significantly strengthened the surveillance force.
With Ohnoki’s character, he would just prefer the latter.
Today Lao Zi’s request is that he doesn’t want to be monitored. Will there be other requests tomorrow?
Ōnoki did not want to compromise and end up with a lawless Jinchūriki.
Since Lao Zi has made the move to defect, he must have been thinking about it before.
A jinchuriki who had the idea of defecting and "accidentally killed" many of his companions on the battlefield, Ohnoki felt that monitoring was the right choice.
However, even though Onoki didn't want to go somewhere to think, an idea flashed through his mind.
Perhaps it’s not only Lao Zi who is stubborn, but also himself.
As long as one of the two of them is not so stubborn, the result will not be certain.
Ohnoki quickly changed his clothes and rushed to the Tsuchikage Building.
Thinking about those miscellaneous things is meaningless. Lao Zi has defected. No matter how you assume it, this fact will not change.
What he needs to consider most now is how to minimize the impact of this incident on Iwagakure.
(End of this chapter)
