Just when Orochimaru was about to act like he didn't know Jiraiya and take Zhuge Qingyun to take a detour to leave, Jiraiya discovered their existence and took the initiative to greet them with a smile: "Oh! What a coincidence Orochimaru
ah!"
After all, Jiraiya was currently spying in the name of 'collecting wind'. If he couldn't keep an eye on everything and listen to everything, he would have been caught long ago.
"Are you Zhuge Qingyun?"
After Jiraiya said hello to Orochimaru, he quickly set his sights on Zhuge Qingyun, put his hand on his shoulders and smiled: "Learning ninjutsu from behind Orochimaru is too boring, do you want to learn the skills with me?
, learn to write novels?”
"..."
When Orochimaru heard this, he suddenly had the urge to kick Jiraiya away. How could he know such a guy?
Zhuge Qingyun looked at Jiraiya's familiar expression, his mouth twitched, and he said helplessly: "Thank you Jiraiya-sama for your kindness, but I still prefer to learn ninjutsu from the teacher than writing novels."
"Now I understand a little bit why Orochimaru wants to accept you as his disciple?"
After Jiraiya finished speaking, he waved his hands towards Zhuge Qingyun and Orochimaru and said, "You guys should leave first! I still want to collect wind!"
"..."
Zhuge Qingyun and Orochimaru looked at each other, and both master and disciple showed speechless expressions. They ignored Jiraiya and left the street.
Orochimaru led Zhuge Qingyun through the corner of the street, and reminded him with some worry: "Qingyun, stay away from that idiot in the future. Tsunade is not in the village recently, and that guy is itchy again."
Orochimaru had high hopes for his disciple Zhuge Qingyun, and he did not want his disciple to be led astray by Jiraiya.
Ever since Zhuge Qingyun got the training scroll of the Flying Thunder God Jutsu from Orochimaru, he concentrated on practicing the Flying Thunder God Jutsu. It took him more than three months to completely master this ninjutsu.
Although the Flying Thunder God Jutsu is not a ninjutsu with huge attack power, its life-saving ability is one of the best in the entire ninja world.
After learning the Flying Thunder God technique, even if Zhuge Qingyun encounters a shadow-level powerhouse when he goes out, he can escape unscathed, which also gives him the confidence to go out alone to carry out missions.
Because Zhuge Qingyun is now a chuunin, he is qualified to accept C to B level commissioned tasks.
After Zhuge Qingyun rushed to the mission commissioning hall of Konoha Village, after some screening, he finally selected a B-level escort mission.
The reason why Zhuge Qingyun chose to take the B-level escort mission was not because the escort mission was less dangerous, but because the escort mission's time was relatively relaxed.
In the mission hall of Konoha Village, B-level escort missions are often missions such as escorting caravans, and such missions take at least one or two months.
You must know that ninjas from major ninja villages are not allowed to leave the ninja village at will. Unless they are out on a mission or have reported to the village in advance, if they do not return to the village for a long time, they will be wanted as traitors.
Even if Zhuge Qingyun is a disciple of Orochimaru, he cannot leave Konoha Village at will without a suitable reason.
After Zhuge Qingyun accepted the B-level escort mission, as long as he could rush back to Konoha Village within the specified mission time, it would not be considered a violation of the village's rules.
…
"Da da da……"
On the official road dozens of miles away from Konoha Village, a caravan filled with goods was slowly moving forward. The entire caravan consisted of more than ten carriages.
This caravan was jointly funded by several businessmen from the Country of Grass. They were mainly responsible for selling the local specialties from the Country of Grass to the Country of Fire, and then selling the local specialties from the Country of Fire back to the Country of Grass.
This is to make money.
Because this caravan moves between the Country of Grass and the Country of Fire all year round, the caravan itself has hired more than twenty strong bodyguards for a long time.
It's just that these guards are ordinary guards. They can deal with ordinary bandits just fine, but if they encounter some wandering ninjas, it won't be enough.
In order to prevent accidents, the boss of the caravan issued a B-level escort mission in Konoha Village, and this escort mission was the commissioned mission that Zhuge Qingyun accepted.
"Lord Qingyun, here are the food and water prepared for you."
As the scorching sun rose, a young guard who appeared to be in his twenties and had dark skin handed food and water to Zhuge Qingyun who was sitting on the leader's carriage with a flattering look on his face.
"Thanks."
"You're welcome, please take your time."
After the young guard handed the food and water to Zhuge Qingyun, he quickly returned to his post with a smile.
The reason why this young guard was so respectful to Zhuge Qingyun was because Zhuge Qingyun had already demonstrated his strength before.
Although Zhuge Qingyun's body is much more mature than his peers, he looks like he is only thirteen or fourteen years old.
Therefore, when the caravan boss met Zhuge Qingyun, he couldn't help but doubt Zhuge Qingyun's strength, and even wanted to find a new chuunin to replace Zhuge Qingyun.
In order to dispel the doubts of the caravan bosses, Zhuge Qingyun performed the "Fire Tornado Technique" directly in front of them.
When the caravan boss saw Zhuge Qingyun summoning a flame tornado with a diameter of more than five meters, he instantly dispelled his doubts. Naturally, the guards were conquered by Zhuge Qingyun's strength and subconsciously led him.
…
The Country of Grass is a small country near the Country of Fire. The distance from Konoha Village to the Country of Grass is not too far, only a few hundred kilometers in total.
However, the caravan's carriages and horses were carrying too much weight and were traveling slowly, so it took half a month to enter the Kingdom of Grass.
In the past half month, the caravan also encountered two waves of robbers who wanted to rob. However, these robbers were ordinary people. Before they could get close to the caravan, they were already killed by Zhuge Qingyun with a shuriken.
Shot to death.
Of course, it is not that there are no rebellious ninjas from other ninja villages in the Country of Fire. It is even said that the number of rebellious ninjas in the Country of Fire far exceeds that of other countries.
After rebel ninjas from other countries defect from their ninja villages, they often choose to flee into the Land of Fire.
Because the Fire Country is the most powerful among the five major countries, ninjas from other countries who want to enter the Fire Country need to report in advance. Otherwise, once they sneak into the Fire Country secretly, the ninjas from Konoha Village will
Treat him as a spy.
Therefore, it is quite troublesome for the ninjas in other ninja villages to enter the Land of Fire to capture the traitorous ninja. If the traitorous ninja is not particularly important, they will not spend a lot of money to hunt down the traitorous ninja.