He had to attend the Chunin Trials the next day, so Danzo had no intention of using the remaining time to go to the laboratory.
Rare leisure.
Danzo walked through the lively streets of Konoha.
Occasionally I enter some shops, buy some useful and useless things, and take advantage of the bustling time before dark to integrate into the lives of ordinary people.
There is still a big difference between life in previous lives and modern life.
Except for the main roads, all other roads are three-meter-wide paths.
Even the main road is less than ten meters wide.
There was no Ichiraku Ramen, and Danzo was too fond of barbecue. Finally, Danzo entered a sake shop.
I sat directly at the bar, had a glass of sake, some appetizers, and just sat there alone and drank slowly.
…
"Morino Zouyama, did you pass today's trial?"
The voices of several imps floated in faintly from outside.
"Zouzan Morino will definitely be able to pass. He is so good. He is the best in our class."
"Mori is Zangshan, Mori is Zangshan, tell me, tell me about the situation at that time."
"Yes, yes, we were all knocked down shortly after we went out. When we woke up, we couldn't catch up with you, so we didn't follow you."
"You guys went home directly, right?"
"Ha ha ha ha."
"I passed by luck."
"A fluke? You are so good. How could it be a fluke in the first game?"
"I am no match for those geniuses, so we, as a group, followed the geniuses and used this tricky method to get through the selection."
"Eh~"
"Finally, when we were almost at the finish line, that woman appeared."
"Which woman?"
(￣￣) “That’s the one who was on stage at the beginning.”
"Is there a woman on stage?"
(Mi#) "It's the one standing next to Hokage-sama at the beginning."
"Is there a woman standing next to you, Hokage-sama?"
(д) "He is the examiner of the first session!"
Gradually, the sound slowly faded away.
…
"Hey, I heard that the genius of the Inuzuka family, Inuzuka Rushi, was the most seriously injured in this chuunin trial."
"Haha, you said Inuzuka is ruthless, please keep your voice down, be careful not to be overheard by the Inuzuka family members."
"You can tell me what's going on at the venue? Is his reputation as a genius not worthy of his name?"
"It's not that, it's just that when we were approaching the end, the female chuunin named Kayako suddenly blocked the way of the first echelon."
"Then what? Then what? Was Inuzuka Sumo beaten?"
"No, Inuzuka Juji ordered his ninja dogs to attack Kayako."
"This is normal."
"Well, then, the ninja dog bit Inuzuka Rashi's thigh and ran away with Inuzuka Rashi."
"...Puff...Pfft, hahahaha..."
"Keep your voice down, keep your voice down."
…
"Haha, this trial is really interesting."
Suddenly, inside the wine shop, at a small table near the door, two men were drinking, and one of them laughed.
"Yes, this is also the first time I heard that my own ninja dog bit me."
"There are more interesting things."
"Tell me about it. Being happy alone is not as good as being happy among everyone. Telling it makes me happy."
"The genius of the Aburame clan, Shiwei Aburame, when she saw the female ninja at the finish line, she hugged her head, lay on the ground, and huddled up."
"Haha, is it so interesting?"
"Well, I also saw many geniuses being beaten violently."
"Amazing."
"Let's go, there are many people here. Go to my house and I will tell you about the genius of the Uchiha clan."
"Okay, let's go."
With that said, the two of them left the tavern arm-in-arm.
…
After a while, Danzo finished the sake in front of him, paid the bill and was about to leave.
I saw a person walking out of the back of the store, glanced at Danzo, and then walked out with a dark face.
Danzo also knew this person, Aburame Zaemon, the leader of the Aburame clan.
Did he hear everything just now?
I really want to know the shadow area in his heart right now.
…
The next day, outside the training ground No. 11.
The Genin who passed the first round were outnumbered by dozens.
There were originally nearly 10,000 genin. This was the genin accumulated since the establishment of Konoha. Now there are only less than a thousand genin left.
This time, the Second Hokage Senju Tobirama was not present, but a rough man with white hair was at the front of the team, with his back to the training ground and his face to the genin, standing with his arms crossed.
This person Danzo knew was his disciple Jiraiya.
"Ahahaha, hello everyone, this is the first time we meet. I am the examiner of the second exam. The genius from Konoha, I am the handsome man from the Sutra Pavilion. I am the gap that you can't cross. I am your madness.
The dream you chase, I am the future Hokage, I will die under the sword of Kayako... Bah, bah, bah... I am your Lord Jiraiya!"
At the same time, a set of exaggerated actions, accompanied by his own declaration, were placed in front of everyone.
"puff……"
"Puff..."
Strange popping sounds kept coming from below, and the scene was quiet.
━┳━━┳━
…
"Okay, seeing that you are so excited that you are speechless, let's skip this link and start introducing the rules of the second game."
Jiraiya, realizing that the atmosphere of the situation was not right, quickly changed the topic.
"Rules for the second exam: The training ground behind me is Exercise Training Ground No. 11. The task of this exam is to send intelligence to each other. Exercise Training Ground No. 11 has only two entrances and exits.
We have set up intelligence rooms at the entrances and exits on the east and west sides. Everyone can get their own intelligence scroll in the intelligence room, send it to the intelligence room in another section, and then bring back the information scroll in the other section."
After introducing the basic rules of the trial, Jiraiya paused for a while.
As a result, I didn't hear any questions, and I felt very depressed. Why didn't I look at him during the rehearsal?
Jiraiya had done special exercises in this area for the Chuunin Trials. He asked Kayako and the others to help write the lines. As a result, there were a lot of explanations and responses to the questions asked by the genin below, which was memorized in vain.
Jiraiya, whose enthusiasm was waning, waved his hand: "The first hundred people who complete the task will pass, and all others will be eliminated."
After saying that, Jiraiya stepped aside, revealing the entrance to the training ground behind him. A simple wooden house blocked the entrance. You had to pass through the wooden house to enter the training ground.
I believe there should be an identical wooden house in another section of the training ground.
The genin hesitated here, because the wooden house blocked the entrance, and the door of the wooden house was only a little wide. Thousands of genin had to pass through here, so the order was very particular.
There is no rule that does not allow for mutual attacks, and there were still several attacks on each other in the last match where chuunin interfered, let alone this trial match where there was no interference.
Those who walk at the front will inevitably be attacked by more people.
And the people walking behind are further away from the top 100.
There are only 100 places, and those outside the 100 will definitely attack the people in front of them crazily.
Faced with this dilemma, some genin thought of a countermeasure to form a team.
Some genin who were friends with each other in private began to unite, form cliques, and form parties for personal gain... that's probably what it meant.
It's just that they didn't know that because no one asked questions, Jiraiya didn't explain certain details of this trial clearly.
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