Naruto: People are in Konoha, the system arrived 20 years earlier Chapter 104

As per their earlier agreement, Hayato went to thwart Anrokuzan’s scheme, while Minato and the other two went to protect the Queen of Rōran.

The four split into two groups as soon as they entered the land of Rōran.

Hayato turned back to look in Minato’s direction, muttering, “Will we ever meet again?”

Soon, he shook his head, dismissing the thought. His priority now was to focus on his mission.

Upon entering Rōran City, Hayato hid in the shadows to observe.

“As expected, they’re all puppets.” Standing on a high tower, watching the puppet figures moving through the streets, he couldn’t help but marvel at the immense power of the Ryūmyaku.

He needed to find the real people first.

With that thought, Hayato searched everywhere within Rōran. After a great deal of effort, he finally found two humans still on the ground.

“Who are you?!” A short female Rōran native shrieked when Hayato suddenly appeared before them.

Another slightly taller female native quickly stepped forward, shielding the one who had just spoken, and vigilantly stared at Hayato, “Are you sent by Anrokuzan?”

Hayato slowly shook his head, not saying much to them, and directly activated his Sharingan.

After an engaging question-and-answer session, Hayato obtained some information about Anrokuzan’s main base.

“He’s quite good at hiding.” Hayato stroked his chin. The current understanding was that the laborers from these two female natives’ homes had been taken by Anrokuzan to a factory in the southwest.

Hayato gazed silently in that direction, “Is it because it’s closer to the Ryūmyaku?”

They only knew the general direction, but not the specific location, as they only remembered the direction their household laborers were taken.

“In any case, I’ll investigate first.” Hayato created six Shadow Clones, sending them out to find useful clues, while he himself headed to the tallest building in Rōran.

“I can’t quite remember the exact location of the Ryūmyaku, but it seems to be in that central, tallest building.”

Not long after, he arrived at the tallest building and carefully sensed the surrounding chakra.

Suddenly, an attack directly struck, and the alert Hayato swiftly dodged.

Upon closer inspection, it was a clay golem puppet. It had just fired a light beam attack.

“Is this security? Putting everything else aside, the situation here is truly advanced.” Hayato jumped to a high spot, crouching.

Not only were there these puppets with diverse attack methods, but also direct elevators. At first glance, it looked like a city of technology.

The clay golem turned around, mechanically raising its head, and a sharp glint flashed in its narrowed eyes.

Then, a laser gun-like muzzle opened from its chest, and it fired another laser at Hayato.

Whoa, it even has targeting capabilities? I must say, the inventor is quite talented.

But Hayato’s reaction was even faster, disappearing from where he stood in an instant.

The attack landed on the stone steps where Hayato had been standing, and with a bang, the entire steps were instantly reduced to rubble.

Hayato landed where the golem was, forming hand signs rapidly.

“Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!”

A massive fireball directly descended, smashing onto the golem. But strangely, the golem was not eroded by the high temperature, only scorched red.

Hayato slowly stood firm, “Clay is indeed heat resistant.”

“But what about adding this?” Hayato rapidly formed hand signs again.

“Water Style: Water Formation Wall!”

A sizzling sound was heard.

Cracks began to appear on the clay golem. Hayato rapidly formed hand signs again, and then directly punched the golem with his right fist.

The golem shattered into pieces on the ground.

But Hayato knew it wasn’t over. The Ryūmyaku here would supply chakra, potentially allowing this golem to fully restore itself.

Understanding this, Hayato activated his Sharingan again, observing the chakra threads connected to this golem.

After confirming the dense network of puppet threads, Hayato drew out Elucidator, directly infused it with chakra, leaped upwards, and swiftly cut all the chakra threads in a clean sweep.

“There must be more than just this one, if this is where the Ryūmyaku is located.”

As Hayato expected, after he entered the interior of this central building, he encountered dozens of puppets.

However, these puppets were not strong, and Hayato easily dealt with them.

He finally reached the very bottom of the building.

Hayato immediately spotted the central jutsu formula and instantly appeared before it.

Good heavens, familiar characters: “Rin, Pyō, Tō, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen.”

At the very center of the jutsu formula was a semi-spherical object that looked like a dragon’s eye.

Hayato placed his hand on the formation, sensing the chakra within it.

After a while, Hayato shook his head, “As expected, it’s not that simple.”

Seeing that he couldn’t solve the formation, Hayato stood up with a look of disappointment.

He had originally thought about taking the Ryūmyaku as a future portable charger.

Unfortunately, there was no way, and this was merely a switch.

The true Ryūmyaku chakra was probably deep beneath Rōran. Since he couldn’t even activate the switch, he naturally couldn’t use the Ryūmyaku chakra.

“Should I try to get information from the Queen of Rōran?” Hayato muttered.

After thinking about it, he shook his head again.

Perhaps only direct descendants of Rōran could manipulate the Ryūmyaku?

Otherwise, Anrokuzan had been scheming here for six years, why wouldn’t he just seize it for himself, but instead still cooperate with the former Queen of Rōran?

“Forget it, I won’t think about it anymore. After all this time, I almost forgot that I’m a man with a cheat.” Hayato chuckled softly, then left the Ryūmyaku room.

He had dealt with so many puppets here; it would definitely alert Anrokuzan.

He couldn’t stay here for now.

Of course, it wasn’t that he was scared, but that he also needed to complete his mission.

Just then, a memory suddenly surged forth. One of his Shadow Clones had found Anrokuzan’s “dream” factory.

And it had thoughtfully left him a Flying Thunder God mark.

With a flash of his body, Hayato disappeared from the central building, reappearing in a dimly lit place.

This was inside a pipe, an absolutely safe anchor point found by the Shadow Clone after discovering the factory.

“Shadow Clones are really good at finding things, they even found this place,” Hayato couldn’t help but exclaim.

Wouldn’t it have been enough to just leave a Flying Thunder God mark in any corner? He made it seem like this place was very dangerous.

In reality, Anrokuzan wasn’t strong; he just had the Ryūmyaku as a power bank, which made him more durable.

After some effort, Hayato emerged from the pipe and quickly discovered people in the factory wearing handcuffs and shackles.

They were like walking corpses, mechanically performing assembly line work for puppets.