With a laugh that sounded really weird, a very...weird-looking figure jumped out from the shade of the tree.
This man looks to be middle-aged. He is quite tall, about 1.9 meters tall, with a tall and well-proportioned figure. You can tell at a glance that he is a good player. He is wearing a gray ninja uniform with a red vest and a large slingshot tied around his waist.
He was wearing a wine gourd, his face was painted with weird oil paint that looked like tears, and a forehead protector with a big word "oil" written in the center couldn't hold back his messy white hair like a chicken coop, making him look quite down and out.
It's like a person who has some abilities, but never found any talent in his life, and has not even been able to settle down. He only has a sword and a pot of wine, sings weird little songs, paints ridiculous oil paints, and wanders around the world alone... It sounds very cool,
But who can understand the bitterness in it?
Uh... Cheng Peng found that he seemed to have some artistic tendencies recently...
This is not a good sign! It should be noted that Mr. Cheng has always regarded himself as an ordinary young man, and as we all know, the process of going from an ordinary young man to a second-rate young man, an artistic young man, is the first step towards falling into the abyss.
Just when Cheng Peng secretly warned himself to be more cautious in his words and deeds, not to be moved casually, and not to look up at the sky at a pure 45-degree angle like those young men, the white-haired middle-aged man did something that stunned him.
behavior.
I saw this man suddenly take half a step forward, his left hand spread out and stretched towards Cheng Peng, and his right hand was raised above his head like a bow. His head turned up and down in a circle, and he shouted in a opera-like tone -
"I am Jiraiya, the Toad Sage of Mt. Myoboku! Please tell me your name as soon as possible!"
Cheng Peng was almost frightened by his performance and fell to the ground, but he still choked on his saliva and coughed violently.
"You...which song are you singing?" Fortunately, the Toad Immortal didn't take this opportunity to rush up and attack, so Cheng Peng could catch his breath and asked in confusion, "Are you singing on the battlefield?"
"Tch! Boring guy!" Seeing that Cheng Peng didn't cooperate with his lyrics, Jiraiya also felt quite bored. He spat, put away his funny face, and regained the deep expression he had when he first walked out.
Steady, as magnanimous as the mountains and abyss.
Only then did Cheng Peng have time to use the evaluation command on him.
[You are estimating the gap between yourself and Toad Sage Jiraiya. But in fact, this evaluation is unnecessary. It is certain that the other party is better than you. Instead of wasting time to evaluate, it is better to save up. Mentally prepare to explode your base strength - what?
?You said you don’t have the strength to explode? Then you can at least order a coffin for yourself. The journey is long and windy, but you still need a place to stay after your death.]
(Damn evaluation system! Why is it acting cute again!)
Cheng Peng secretly complained - the evaluation system of "Adventure" is nicknamed the "cute system" because it often uses ridiculous words to spread out the evaluation results that can be solved in just a few words. In this case
It is so common that someone on the forum specially collected a "Complete Collection of Cute Sayings for the Cute System", which has a high click-through rate.
However, Cheng Peng's luck has always been good, and the cutesy system rarely treats him cutely. When he evaluates others, the results he gets are usually more formal, nothing particularly funny or inappropriate. He originally thought that his character was better.
Because of this, it seems now that his character may have started to deteriorate...
(It’s really unreasonable! I have just done a good deed for a good person! Sweeping the floor does not harm the lives of ants, and caring for moths and gauze lamps. I kept people under the gun based on the awareness that God has the virtue of good life, but the system actually started to act cute...
Sure enough, I still need sofa jelly to hold the scene! Good people are bullied, and good people are ridiculed. It seems that I have to stand on the top of the mountain from time to time, raise my fists and shout to the sky, "I am going to defy heaven today."
Teeth!" will do...)
Cheng Peng was thinking wildly, but Jiraiya had no intention of taking action and just faced him like this.
"I have never understood why you are so resistant to unity?" After a moment of silence, Jiraiya asked, "You strangers are all experienced in many battles, especially a master like you, who must have experienced countless battlefields.
I have seen countless bloodshed and deaths... I see that you are not the kind of bloodthirsty, hard-hearted person, so why do you oppose reunification?"
Cheng Peng was stunned when he heard this - he was planning to fight, but he didn't expect that he would encounter the famous "talking attack".
"For Konoha, unification is of course a good thing; but for other ninja villages, giving up their traditions and independence and merging into Konoha... What's the good thing?" He asked rhetorically, "It's very easy to look up to others.
Is it comfortable?"
"But don't you just look up to others now?" Jiraiya showed a sarcastic smile, "Look at the ninja logo on your wrist, it belongs to Yuyin Village, right? Yuyin Village and Tsukiyin Village have wanted to merge several times.
, aren’t they all blocked by Kirigakure and Kumogakure behind each other? Not only that, you also have to stand between them and Konoha, acting as a buffer. There is danger in rushing to the front, but there are benefits.
The time is behind you... Is this kind of life happier than being subordinate to Konoha after unification?"
Cheng Peng frowned and thought to himself that a person really cannot be judged by his appearance, but this Jiraiya is actually very eloquent!
"If it weren't for the pressure from you, how could we have ended up in this situation?" He immediately retorted, "Tangyin Village used to be called the 'village that forgot the war'!"
Jiraiya obviously had an idea of this, he shook his head repeatedly, his long white hair dangling: "Even if we in Konoha don't launch a unification war, with the development of the entire ninja world, sooner or later there will be another ninja world.
War, when the time comes, you will still be in your current situation. In the final analysis, your situation is determined by your geographical location and strength. How can there be real peace when a weak force is sandwiched between two powerful forces? Forget it
War? You can forget the war, but the war can never forget you!"
"If you can't forget it, you can't forget it. Who is afraid of whom?" Cheng Peng sneered disdainfully, "People who set up nets to fish smile happily, but who knows whether it is a small fish or a great white shark under the net?"
"I admit that you are very strong, so strong that you are not inferior to the so-called 'kage level'. It can even be said that with your strength, even one person can support a ninja village. But no matter how strong you are, you can't protect Yu Yin forever.
Village!" Jiraiya seemed earnest in his words. Probably because he had just seen Cheng Peng let go of several teenagers, he had already been classified as "savable". "Only unification can bring real peace. Is it possible?
Don't you hope that the children in Tangyin Village can live in a stable environment, don't have to undergo arduous training since childhood, don't have to worry about their parents not coming back when they go on a mission, and can enjoy family happiness like ordinary families?
"
Beads of sweat broke out on Cheng Peng's forehead - he had to admit that Jiraiya's words were very reasonable and indeed very convincing!
"Moreover, the current state of separatism and confrontation has led to everyone having to spend a lot of resources on armaments. Whether it is manpower or material resources, they are all limited after all. The more we spend on armaments, the more we spend on people's livelihood.
Good. If it can be unified, expenditures on armaments can be significantly reduced, freeing up more resources for people's livelihood, and everyone's life will become better!" Jiraiya's face showed a light called "longing"
, "I'm not afraid of making you laugh when I say it. As for me, I actually prefer to be a writer than to be a ninja. I hope that one day, when people talk about Jiraiya, they don't think of the mighty Toad Sage, but the famous novelist.
…”
After saying that, he let out a long sigh: "Maybe I won't live to see the end of this war, but I can at least fight for future generations of writers to not have to be soldiers. I think this kind of fight is good, and it makes
I am fulfilled.”
Facing Jiraiya's sincere smile, Cheng Peng could only sigh.
But he still took out the ice and snow spear and got into a fighting stance.
"What you say makes sense, but I am here to fight... You can't do anything with words alone. If you want to convince me, use your power!"
