A train roared past, puffing out white smoke.

Yiji was sitting by the window of the single car, with a black briefcase on the table in front of her, her dark eyes looking out the window at the lush forest scenery.

This section of the track is built along the forest, allowing passengers to enjoy the beautiful scenery in the forest.

Among the dense and lush forest leaves are many fresh pink and white flowers.

The weather in March is no longer cold, and everything is starting to recover again.

In fact, Ichiji felt more magical about the train she was riding than the scenery outside the window.

For ninjas, the ninja world is neither big nor small.

Many areas are undeveloped artificial areas and are inhabited by all kinds of ferocious beasts and poisonous insects. Ordinary people want to cross mountains and ridges to get from one country to another. Putting aside the safety issues, it only takes time to walk.

, is enough to put people off.

By her standards, it would take two days to reach the Land of Fire by running with all her strength from the Kingdom of Ghosts.

Most ninjas take three days.

And the speed at which she sprinted with all her strength was much faster than the train she was riding.

For ordinary people, traveling to foreign countries will be very inconvenient.

The birth of the train may change this situation.

Since two years ago, the number of carriages in the Kingdom of Ghosts has become extremely small, and has basically reached the point of being invisible.

With the introduction of government policies, trains have also become a new means of transportation to replace horse-drawn carriages in the minds of domestic people.

This is not only favored by the domestic people, but also has a very strong inducement ability for businessmen from abroad.

This can be considered a good thing for the future development of the ninja world.

The more developed the industry is, the more manpower becomes in certain aspects and becomes very inefficient and cheap.

One person's skill in operating a machine can be equal to the manual skills of a dozen or even dozens of people in the past.

When it comes to high-end industry, it is an area beyond the reach of manual capabilities and can only be guided by machines.

The only pity is that the use of trains has not spread to other countries, and has only been popularized in the Kingdom of Ghosts.

Leaving such a convenient environment and entering a country with low industrial capacity, Yiji was able to deeply understand how inconvenient life was in the past.

With the rise of industrial capabilities, sooner or later, countries will completely open their doors to trade in a new era.

However, the future is full of uncertainty about this kind of thing, at least the traditional nobles are still hesitant.

Because mastering knowledge is a very dangerous term in this era of not being open-minded.

Especially to spread knowledge to the lower classes.

This will have an extremely negative impact on the upper-level governance.

So far, the rule of the nobles has relied on various monopolies to ensure their hereditary status and not be affected by the lower classes.

Once a part of the monopoly is cracked, it means that their own interests will be absorbed by the lower levels.

Of course, not all nobles hold this ancient traditional thought and firmly believe that they are the rulers of "one line for all generations".

It's just that the proportion of these nobles in the overall upper class is too small to shake the general trend.

We still need to add some fire to completely cut off the illusions in some people's minds.

And this fire can only be a raging fire called ‘war’!

This time is three years, four years, or maybe five years.

In short, peace will not last long.

Although she is not a high-ranking member of the military, Kazuki can occasionally sense through some changes that the accumulation of the Demon Country is close to saturation.

Before that, we must build a ‘bridge’ directly to the Land of Fire!

The train headed all the way to the western coastal area, crossing forests, mountains and rivers where the ice and snow had melted. Around afternoon, it arrived at the station in the coastal city of Ghost Country and stopped.

"Miss, we have arrived at the station. The cruise ship heading to the Country of Waves at the port is also ready and ready to depart at any time."

The door of the single carriage was opened, and Kado, wearing sunglasses, walked in and said respectfully to Yi Ji.

"Thank you for your hard work, let's go."

Yiji held the black briefcase in her hand, her long black hair fluttering lightly, and her pretty face was full of indifference.

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"The Country of Waves..."

Since the Wave Country Agricultural and Industrial Group succeeded in overthrowing the local nobles three years ago, the Fire Country Daming Mansion and the Konoha Ninja Village have not relaxed for this organization for a moment.

Although Konoha adheres to the principle of non-intervention, the ninjas from the Kingdom of Demons stationed directly so close to the Kingdom of Fire will still make Hiruzen feel troubled.

Now the only dispute between the Fire Country and the Ghost Country is the control of the Wave Country.

Fortunately, because the Kingdom of Oni acted too domineeringly in the Kingdom of Waves, after using the Agricultural and Industrial Corps to overthrow the local nobles of the Kingdom of Waves, it immediately wanted to steal the achievements of the Agricultural and Industrial Group's movement, monopolize the fruits of victory, and achieve indirect control of the Kingdom of Waves.

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Unfortunately, the top management of the Agricultural and Industrial Corps had the foresight to recruit the Thunder Light Corps from the underground black market in advance.

The famous Lightning Regiment, as long as the reward is sufficient, is not afraid of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Demons, and has destroyed the secret operations of the Kingdom of Demons in the Kingdom of Waves several times.

This also made Hiruzen look at the Thunder Light Group with admiration.

There are very few bounty hunters with integrity in the underground black market, and there are even fewer bounty hunters with extremely high integrity and strength who are not afraid of powerful ninjas.

The Thunderbolt Group is one of these bounty hunter groups.

Especially in recent years, due to their continuous confrontation with the Kingdom of Ghosts and their reputation in the underground black market, the Thunder Light Group has been able to compete with the Xuan Yuans.

Even for Konoha's actions in the Land of Waves, one has to look at the face of the Raikoudan.

Fortunately, when it comes to the issue of the Kingdom of Waves, the Thunderbolt Corps is employed by the Agricultural and Industrial Corps and is on the same side as Konoha. Otherwise, the Agricultural and Industrial Corps would have been swallowed up by the Kingdom of Demons.

Sitting in the office, Hiruzen picked up the information document about the Lightning Regiment's intelligence and fell into deep thought.

Thunder group.

The leader's name is Qianno.

She is a young woman who appears to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, but her real age is unknown.

Ninjutsu is to summon a powerful red dragon, which is suspected to be some unknown blood inheritance limit.

There are not many members under his command, but each one possesses special secret skills and blood inheritance limits. It can be said that they are one of the most terrifying teams of bounty hunters in the underground black market.

The level of danger is not inferior to that of the Xuanzu who defeated the Sannin Jiraiya.

Looking at the huge red dragon captured in the photo, it is the ninjutsu model summoned by the leader of the Thunder Group.

Hiruzen looked at the huge red dragon and felt that this technique was familiar to him as he had heard it somewhere.

However, he couldn't remember where he had heard of this ninjutsu, so Hiruzen gave up thinking deeply and confirmed the type of blood successor of the leader of the Lightning Regiment. He could just leave this kind of thing to the intelligence department for analysis.

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But even with the strong intervention of the Thunder Light Group, the situation of the Agricultural and Industrial Group in the Country of Waves is not optimistic.

The reason why the Demon Country is powerful is not because their ninjas are scattered soldiers, but because they form groups.

What's more, as far as Hiruzen knew, the leader of the ninja who settled in the Demon Country, Chiba Kazuhime, had never really made a move so far.

The opponent is the daughter of Chiba Shiraishi and Uchiha Ruri. He once defeated his second son Sarutobi Asuma with just a few moves. His strength is unfathomable.

Hiruzen's eyes showed a solemn look.

How to deal with the ninjas of the Kingdom of Demons who are rooted in the Kingdom of Waves has become a problem faced by the Agricultural and Industrial Corps and the Kingdom of Fire at the same time.

And if we want to completely eradicate this hidden danger, if we don't repel Chiba Kazuhime, then this matter will be out of the question.

The other party is probably a ninja on the same level as Kakashi.

"Hokage-sama."

A figure suddenly landed in front of Hiruzen's desk.

Wearing an animal mask, he carries a sheathed short knife on his back.

It's Kakashi.

He held a document in his hand and placed it in front of Hiruzen.

Seeing Kakashi coming over, Hiruzen nodded, without picking up the information document, but asked: "What are the results of the investigation?"

Kakashi prepared a sentence and replied: "As expected by the Hokage, according to the ANBU's investigation these days, there are indeed some problems with the identity of the other party. I didn't expect that a chuunin could hide so well in the village.

It’s only now being noticed.”

"If he hadn't always deliberately approached the 'target', I wouldn't have suspected him."

Hiruzen opened the information file and there was a photo prominently displayed on it.

The photo shows an adult man with a gentle temperament, a gentle smile, and very approachable.
To be continued...