CH 118

After rushing for ten kilometers, the speed of the two slowed down.

It can’t be helped, after all, even if Shisui is a genius, he does not have the Uzumaki Clan’s physique. After consuming a lot of physical strength in such a short time, he can’t recover so quickly. Of course, this is also related to Shisui’s body not fully grown yet.

Then, the two traveled slowly. By evening, they had already traveled dozens of miles. Seeing that it was getting dark, they set up camp beside a stream in the woods beside the road.

Shisui took out a sealing scroll, unlocked it with a hand seal, and took out a tent and some pots and pans.

“You are really well prepared.” Kanpū looked at the sealing scroll with fiery eyes.

For him, this thing is just like a space ring, and he can put a lot of things in it. As Kanpū does not have a sealing scroll, he came out with only a kunai this time.

Shisui smiled and set up a tent with Kanpū, then washed the pots and pans and put them aside before saying: “Let’s go hunting together!”

Looking at Shisui’s gleaming eyes, Kanpū felt something that something was wrong and asked: “Shisui, shouldn’t you… this is your first time out of the village, right?”

Shisui smiled and said: “Of course not, but it is indeed the first time I have gone this far.”

“Why do I feel that you are not reliable anymore.” Kanpū looked helpless.

The two took out the kunai and entered the forest. There is still half a month before spring, but there are already a lot of traces of wild beast activity in the forest. The two slowly slowly went deeper and soon found a few hares, pheasants, and mountain deer’s figures flickering for an instant in the distant shadow.

Xiu xiu!

Shisui and Kanpū attacked almost at the same time, and the two kunai whistled in the air, killing a rabbit and a pheasant in an instant.

The two returned to the stream with their bounty. After cleaning their prey’s inside, they picked up some dead wood, lit it with Fire Release, and started roasting rabbit and making pheasant soup.

Because the ingredients are limited, the taste of pheasant soup and roasted rabbit are very ordinary. The two of them ate them while discussing business matters.

“Although the probability of encountering danger is very small, we still have to watch the night just in case.”

Shisui said with the expression of an old driver, “Kanpū, let’s take turns to guard, do you choose to guard until the middle of the night or start from the middle of the night?” (T/N: Old driver means experienced person.)

Kanpū pondered about it for a while. He has Uzumaki Clan’s physique, and his physical strength recovers quickly, so he said: “I will start from the middle of the night!”

“Well, then I will guard until the middle of the night, you can go to bed first.” Shisui said with a smile.

…

There’s nothing happened in the night.

In the early morning of the next day. When Shisui got out of the tent, he saw Kanpū doing strange actions beside stream, so he couldn’t help but asked curiously: “Kanpū, what are you doing?”

“The era is calling!” Kanpū replied without looking back. (T/N: The era is calling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMIomW9wwg&ab_channel=Aeghilnz. It’s some kind of gymnastics done in the morning.)

Shisui was confused when he heard this.

After that, the two of them simply washed by the stream, and went to the forest to catch a few early birds and drank the soup.

Then, the two continued on their way.

After traveling for three days, at noon on the fourth day, the two finally arrived at their destination.

This is a small forest, not far away is a road more than five meters wide, stretching back and forth to the capital of Konoha and the Land of Fire’s capital.

Looking at the red blood stains left on the roadside, Kanpū asked: “Is this where the old thief Fukken was attacked?”

“That’s right, it’s here.”

Shisui turned his head to identify the direction, and then ran straight towards the west.

“Shisui, wait for me.”

Kanpū followed closely and asked, “So, what did that old thief Fukken say to make you come here?”

“Old thief Fu…cough!”

Shisui was almost swayed by Kanpū, and smiled bitterly, “Big brother Fukken said that after the prisoner disappeared, he checked nearby and found a village.”

“A village?”

Kanpū’s heart skipped a beat, “A Shinobi Village?”

“Of course not. According to the big brother Fukken, the village is full of old and weak women and children.” Shisui frowned and said, “But…”

“But what?” Kanpū was annoyed, “Shisui, can you finish speaking at once? I’m the most annoyed to hear someone talking only half!”

Shisui chuckled and said: “What is strange to me is that a village composed of old and weak women and children, so what they depend on to live on?”

Kanpū is a shrewd person. When Shisui said this, he immediately reacted: “Do you suspect that the bandits who attacked old thief Fukken was the villager?”

Shisui nodded.

When the two were talking, they had already run out for two miles, and they saw the terrain not far away suddenly become clear, and a small village with smoky curling up appeared in front of them.

“This village is really small.”

Kanpū looked at the cooking smoke, and there are only fifty or so strands. Looking around the land around the village, there were obvious signs of farming, but as the cold winter had not passed yet, these fields are frozen like rocks, and nothing could be grown at all.

‘If those bandits are really from the village, then… They should be forced by life, right?’

‘Furthermore, that old thief Fukken killed all the bandits. So the village probably lost all their labor force, right? If that’s true, after the spring come, this village may not even be able to find people who can farm the land.’

When his thought reached here, Kanpū feels heartbroken.

“Let’s go!”

Shisui took the lead, and then looked back at Kanpū, who was standing still in entanglement, “Kanpū, what are you thinking about?”

“Huh? Nothing.”

Kanpū came back to his senses and hurriedly followed after Shisui.

As soon as the two entered the village, they saw two little kids not much older than them blocking their paths.

“Who are you?”

“What are you doing in our village?”

How could Shisui be polite with them, so he knocked them down one by one with one hit.

“Next, we will enter the village with their appearance!” Shisui said and dragged the two little kids to the corner.

“You have so many tricks.”

As an innocent and pure kid who has not yet been deeply involved in the world, Kanpū hates Shisui’s method, but his hands still honestly formed hand seals: Henge no Jutsu! (Transformation Technique)

Bang!

With a burst of white smoke, Kanpū has become one of the kids.

Shisui also formed hand seals and became the other kid.

The two entered the village and looked at the wooden houses around them. Through the windows, they could see that there were old people, women and children sitting and eating together in the house. The two of them walked around with openly and calmly, and they found nothing unusual.

“Shisui, what do you think?” Kanpū asked.

Shisui said: “Judging from the expressions and movements when they eat, the people in this village do not lack food, but there are no young and middle-aged people who could do labor. Where can they get the money to buy food? So I am sure that the bandits that big brother Fukken wiped out came from this village!”

Kanpū recalled the scenes he saw before, and couldn’t help but nod: “I think so too.”

“And then, I suspect that the prisoner’s disappearance was also done by the people in this village, and then the blackmail transaction was carried out by them!” Shisui said.

Kanpū glanced at Shisui, and continued to nod: “I think so too!”

“And, being able to trade the prisoner with an important figure like Yasui Taro, these old and weak people won’t be able to do this. Therefore, there must be Shinobi hidden behind this village!” Shisui said, “But this Shinobi didn’t dare to meet big brother Fujian, which shows that his is not strong enough, or he is afraid of the Uchiha Clan!”

“I think so too!” Kanpū nodded solemnly.

“Kanpū.” Shisui suddenly gave him a strange look, “Why did you speak with an accent?”

“I think… cough, nothing, just continue your deduction, don’t worry about me.”

Kanpū said solemnly.

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