Chapter 249: The first appearance of the ninja world (4k) (Ch 249)

“The Land of Lightning is a country with a strong military, and a warmongering spirit prevails in the country, because the Hidden Cloud Village, which represents the power of this country, is like this.”
“However, being bellicosity does not mean being truly strong, because violence cannot solve all problems. The bellicosity of Lightning also paid a heavy price for its bellicosity during the Ninja World War, and ultimately failed to become the winner of the Ninja World War.”
“Compared to the real winner, Konoha, the Hidden Cloud Village obviously lacks wisdom, and its style of advocating violence has brought considerable disasters and troubles to their village and country.”
“According to my investigation, the crime rates in the Land of Lightning and the Hidden Cloud Village are the highest among the five major ninja villages. Compared with Konoha Village alone, the crime rate in the Hidden Cloud Village is ten times that of Konoha.”
“This poor security situation has severely restricted the development prospects of the Hidden Cloud Village. After all, if there is not even a relatively stable environment, how can the Hidden Cloud Village allow outsiders to settle down and develop in the village with peace of mind?”
“As someone who has traveled throughout the ninja world and experienced the troubles and annoyances caused by the poor security environment in both the Land of Lightning and the Hidden Cloud Village, I know that this truth will cause dislike among the people of the Land of Lightning and the Hidden Cloud Village, but I still want to say that the Hidden Cloud Village is really not a suitable place to settle down, and the same is true for the Land of Lightning. If the crime rate cannot be solved, these places are only suitable as temporary settlements. It is still necessary to pay attention to the safety of life and property when settling down.”
At night, in the new city area outside Konoha Village, in the staff dormitory that Konoha specially prepared for the employees of this “Recruitment Order”, Sachima whispered the contents of Konoha’s new magazine “Public Intellectuals” in a low voice, her heart trembling.
As a spy sent to Konoha by the Hidden Cloud Village and infiltrated Konoha with the help of the “Recruitment Order”, this beautiful blonde girl with a single ponytail has an extremely deep awareness and unwavering will of thunder. She came to Konoha with the mentality of helping the Hidden Cloud Village defeat Konoha and making the Hidden Cloud Village great.
Moreover, this attempt to infiltrate Konoha was very successful. With his expertise in clerical work, numerical statistics, and overall planning, Sachima successfully entered Konoha’s talent department and became an honorable member who contributed to Konoha’s development.
So, after finishing a day’s work and returning to the staff dormitory to rest, Sachima heard that Konoha had recently released a new magazine “Public Knowledge”, which contained the reasons why Konoha was so powerful, so she went to the store owned by the Konoha Game Chamber of Commerce without hesitation and bought a copy to read.
The first article at the opening actually talks about the situation in the Hidden Cloud Village, and the content is very well-reasoned, directly analyzing the predicament of the Hidden Cloud Village, whose development prospects are worrying due to public security issues.
Thinking back to what happened in the Hidden Cloud Village and the Land of Lightning, Sachima had to admit that this article was very true.
Under the influence of the warlike atmosphere, everyone in the Land of Lightning has a desire to destroy everything, and this will comes from the bottom up. Even the Raikage cannot change the trend from above, and he even pays a considerable price for it.
Didn’t the Second Raikage of the Hidden Cloud Village want to conclude peace terms with the Second Hokage because he wanted to stop the war and bring peace to the Land of Lightning?
As a result, it caused dissatisfaction among extreme guys like Jinjiao and Yinjiao, and they were directly assassinated by these heroes of the Land of Thunder – before the rebellion, Jinjiao and Yinjiao were indeed household names in the Land of Thunder.
Thinking of this, Sachima felt heavy-hearted and began to reflect.
I didn’t care about these things before because I was used to them, but now that the problems have been pointed out directly and compared with other countries and villages, especially Konoha, the problems are completely highlighted.
Subconsciously, Sachima looked at the author of the article. His name was ‘Zhou Shuren’, which was his pen name. His self-introduction said that he was a writer who had traveled to many countries.
“Is it the literati, not the ninjas? That’s right, the ninjas have long been accustomed to these things and don’t care at all. Only ordinary people will notice these neglected places.”
“However, it is these neglected places that quietly widened the gap between the Hidden Cloud Village and Konoha, and also made the Hidden Cloud Village’s potential always inferior to Konoha…”
Sachima murmured to herself, and after a long silence, she quietly wrote down all these insights, and then prepared to buy a few more copies of the magazine and send them to the Hidden Cloud Village.
This girl with a firm will of thunder believes that when the wise men in the village see these contents, they will definitely reflect on it.
Moreover, the other contents in “Public Intellectuals” are also well written. It tells the problems of each village from an objective perspective. Even the problems of the Fire Nation are described. It does not simply point out the problems of other countries and criticize them.
“As expected of a magazine named ‘Public Intellectuals’, it is truly fair, open and just!” Under the same night sky, Ye Cang expressed such emotion in the Sand Village delegation.
This outstanding jonin from the Sand Village is no longer in Konoha, because the delegation belonging to their Sand Village has already left Konoha and embarked on the return journey.
The copy of “Public Knowledge” in Ye Cang’s hand was purchased before she left Konoha, but she only had time to read it at night when she was resting.
As a result, Ye Cang was fascinated at first sight.
It contains many short stories and reviews, each of which is fascinating, with a writing style that has never been seen in the ninja world, and is a classic and public starter.
For the natives of the ninja world who had never experienced this, it was undoubtedly a dimensionality reduction blow.
Just as Sachima is most concerned about the content of the Land of Thunder, Ye Cang is also most concerned about the content of the Land of Wind.
These contents describe that the Wind Country has extremely low food output and a low national happiness index due to its barren land and desertification, but they also point out that the Sand Village has vast land and actually has a lot of mineral resources. If the mineral resources can be mined and sold, a lot of funds can be obtained, thus bringing income and happiness index to the people.
However, for thousands of years, the people of the Kingdom of Wind have never thought of doing so. Even when the Ninja Village Era arrived, the Kingdom of Wind remained the same, still struggling on the line of food and clothing, resulting in poverty throughout the country.
What followed was a criticism of the various unreasonable, backward and rigid systems of the Wind Kingdom, and finally a standard format of “fixed body question”.
The most important thing is that the person who wrote this article was not from Konoha or the Land of Fire, but a writer from the Land of Wind – at least that’s what the magazine wrote, so this is an article that criticizes the Land of Wind entirely from the perspective of the Land of Wind.
Such an article is very likely to make people think deeply, at least it caused Ye Cang to think deeply, making this outstanding woman from the Sand Village go through a series of mental journeys: indignation → sudden enlightenment → anxiety → falling into contemplation → feeling of approval.
In the end, Ye Cang seemed to have suddenly realized a lot and realized that the system of the Wind Kingdom was backward and corrupt.
But being aware of this doesn’t mean knowing how to do it.
After all, the education Ye Cang received in this regard was at a very rudimentary level, and his so-called awakening was just him being guided to think about some random things. As for how to really do it and what to do, those articles seemed to have said it, but in fact, they said nothing.
Simply put, it makes you feel that the country is not doing well, there are problems, and it must change, otherwise the country will no longer be a country.
Well, this is the propaganda power and method of the evil Western media from Earth.
Ye Cang, who was unaware of this, had his mind manipulated unknowingly. Especially when he saw the content criticizing some things about the Fire Nation, Ye Cang understood the fairness of this magazine and felt that the content in this magazine was most likely true.
Based on this situation, when Ye Cang read the later “Konoha’s Kunai Must Be Washed Three Times” and “The Story of a Bowl of Char Siu Ramen, Konoha’s Humanistic Care”, he naturally thought that these stories were also true.
The contents of the two stories are also very simple. The first one is described from the perspective of a professional kunai cleaner. It tells about the diligence and responsibility of this kunai cleaner at work during the Second Ninja World War, and there are also classic speeches belonging to this kunai cleaner.
“I can’t contribute my own strength to protect Konoha on the front line, but I can contribute to the warriors who protect Konoha in the rear!”
“Even if it’s just a little bit, as long as it can improve the victory rate of the Konoha ninjas, I will be happy to do it. Therefore, I will clean the kunai three times to remove all the stains on it, so that these kunai that will be sent to the front line can always remain in the sharpest condition!”
Following the inflammatory and melodramatic words, the ‘author’ stated that according to investigations, the Cleaner’s kunai did play a huge role on the front lines, and was always stronger than the kunai from other villages in terms of lethality.
This situation deeply encouraged the other kunai cleaners of Konoha, and they all supported each other and cleaned all the kunai three times during the Second Ninja World War, which ultimately allowed Konoha to win the Second Ninja World War.
And this is just one of the efforts made by many ordinary people in Konoha. It is a reflection of the efforts made by the whole of Konoha, not just the ninja adults, to protect the village.
With everyone united as one, the will of fire will live forever in the hearts of every person in Konoha. This is the fundamental reason why Konoha has always been strong and has always won the Ninja World War.
Just reading an article like this makes Ye Cang’s blood boil, as if scenes of Konoha’s unity during the Ninja World War appeared before his eyes. Even though he knew that this was the grand occasion of a hostile village, he was still moved by the spirit shown in the article.
What followed was helplessness and frustration, because such a situation could never happen in the Sand Village.
Not to mention that there are far fewer ordinary people in the Sand Village than in Konoha, even the water resources in the Sand Village are not enough to support washing the kunai three times.
Besides, do you need to find someone to clean a kunai? Don’t ninjas clean them themselves?
All these problems intertwined together, allowing Ye Cang to directly see the huge gap between Sunagakure and Konoha, which made Ye Cang feel deeply frustrated and helpless.
Details determine success or failure. Such a gap is really despairing.
The second article about ramen tells the story of an old ramen restaurant in Konoha. The owner arrived in Konoha when the village was first built and witnessed the changes and growth of Konoha. It illustrates the harmony and beauty among the villagers of Konoha, as well as their mutual support and care.
It also contains content about retired disabled ninjas, orphans, and the elderly. In these content, sometimes the boss takes the initiative to treat these people to free ramen, and sometimes other people in Konoha see them and take the initiative to pay for them to eat ramen.
Although a small bowl of ramen is not expensive, it is full of humanistic care and the family-like feelings between people in Konoha Village.
This once again deeply touched Ye Cang, making him feel trembling and frustrated, because such a situation would never happen in the Sand Village.
And such humanitarian care is something that the former Yekura would never care about, because in the cruel ninja world, the so-called kindness and humanitarian care are just a joke. They will only become boring things that other villages laugh at and ridicule, and even be regarded as cowardly and pedantic.
However, the current Konoha is different, because the current Konoha is so prosperous, so prosperous that even if people keep emphasizing that Konoha has embarked on the wrong path, they will still be envious and jealous of its prosperity and strength.
Being powerful and prosperous often means a lot of things, especially as a superpower.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Cang continued to press his violently heaving chest, his brain thinking and making decisions rapidly.
Finally, Ye Cang realized.
It has been confirmed that she will be sent to Konoha as a spy from the Sand Village this time, and there is even a detailed plan on how to become a Konoha member.
Originally, Ye Cang thought that he was only responsible for gathering intelligence, becoming a “mine” buried in Konoha, delivering intelligence to the Sand Village when needed, and causing chaos and disasters within Konoha.
But now, Ye Cang discovered that she had a more important mission, which was to learn advanced concepts and technologies in Konoha, and then bring these things back to the Sand Village, so that the Sand Village would become great and prosperous.
Yes, this is her, Ye Cang’s mission. Perhaps it is because the ancestors who protected the Sand Village realized this that they used this method to guide her, Ye Cang, to understand these things.
At this moment, a bright light bloomed in Ye Cang’s eyes. It was a light full of hope and longing for the future. It was the expectation that the Sand Village in the future would be as prosperous as Konoha today.
The above is Ye Cang’s feeling after reading “Public Intellectuals”.
There are many other village ninjas like Yekura and Sachima who have experienced various feelings after watching this new magazine.
There is no way around it. The very existence of this kind of magazine that objectively, openly, fairly and impartially evaluates and collects short stories about various countries makes people feel that the content inside is likely to be true.
When watching a movie based on this kind of cognition, one will subconsciously choose to believe it, and then compare the content with one’s own knowledge and experience.
Well, no one realizes it yet, but in this magazine that judges and tells short stories about the problems of the Fire Nation together, the bad side is all about the Fire Nation, and when it comes to telling the stories of Konoha, it’s those two very public stories.
After all, in the eyes of the world, Konoha and the Land of Fire are one.