Sasuke first turned his head and gave Naruto a look, letting Naruto understand it himself.
Naruto could understand that Sasuke was expressing his admiration for him, having thought of using the Sharingan in this situation even before he did.
Sasuke, unaware of Naruto's silly thoughts, walked up to Timsi, activated his Sharingan, and stared into his eyes: "Answer the questions."
The hypnotic eye took effect, and Timsi's eyes became dull as he slowly recounted how Hyde had brainwashed him with the great aspirations of the Ideal Country, helping him search for the Grael Stone mine.
After they arrived in the Land of Wind, they happened to encounter a Ferret that could sense the Grael Stone, and then, guided by the Ferret, they found the ruins.
Because the most specific method of opening the mine was not recorded, Hyde decided to try using the blood of Timsi, a member of the royal family.
Unexpectedly, after sprinkling Timsi's blood on the magic circle, it triggered the technique left by the ancestors to destroy the mine, resulting in the destruction of the mine, and Hyde went crazy.
As for the children, the energy needed by that Mobile Fortress should have been provided by the Grael Stone, but because there was not enough ore, Hyde captured those children to extract life energy before finding the mine.
In other words, those teenagers were used to provide energy for the Mobile Fortress, and when needed, they would also use special means to transform them into those armored soldiers.
Everyone fell silent, and Naruto felt that Hyde's death was too easy.
These children will be taken care of by Sunagakure Village. Fortunately, the leakage of life energy from the mine earlier replenished them somewhat, which should allow them to live normal lives.
Naruto broke the silence: "This Timsi must have some connection with the merchant group that commissioned us to find the Ferret, but he is a prisoner of Sunagakure Village..."
Gaara said understandingly: "No, he is a prisoner you captured while hindering you from completing the mission."
Naruto asked: "Is it okay with your side?"
Gaara said: "Having just that information, and the corpses of those people outside, is enough."
"Then thank you." Originally just a C-Rank Mission, but the difficulty increased because of being involved in the war of other countries, and this was not the fault of the client, so it was not reasonable to increase the mission level.
But Naruto felt that you commissioned us to find the Ferret, and we also brought you back a prince, shouldn't you give us extra money?
Thus, both missions were successfully completed, and the Land of Wind also gained an oasis for nothing, a win-win situation.
"Wait for me for a while." Naruto greeted his teammates and dragged Gaara away, "Gaara, let's talk in private."
Gaara:?
Naruto asked: "Have you been chatting with Shukaku lately?"
Gaara replied: "I've seen him a few times, but he's not very easy to communicate with."
Naruto patted him on the shoulder: "Shukaku's personality is very awkward, but if you sincerely want to reconcile with him, he will feel it."
"I will try my best." Gaara knew that Naruto could get along well with the Nine Tails, and he didn't want to keep having such a stiff relationship with Shukaku.
"And also." Speaking of this, Naruto was a little embarrassed, this was considered making a decision for someone else without permission, "I promised Shukaku before that I would ask you to occasionally lend him a clone to go out and play or something."
Gaara didn't show any aversion, nodded and said: "I know, if he doesn't use it to cause destruction."
"You can also discuss this with him, how many times a week, how long each time, and so on."
...
After that, they bid farewell to each other, and handed the Ferret and Timsi together to the village designated by the client. Timsi without the Grael Stone was just an ordinary teenager, so there was no need to worry about him causing any trouble.
Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief, this troublesome mission was finally over, and his tone was a little cheerful: "Okay, mission, find the lost Ferret, completed."
Naruto complained, "Looking for a lost Ferret is not the same as looking for a lost Ship Girl, what's there to be happy about?"
Kakashi asked, "Ship Girl? What's that?"
The old pervert really knows how to grasp the key points. Naruto explained, "Ship Girls are girls born from the beautiful expectations that sailors have for their ships. They are beautiful, kind, and powerful."
Seeing the longing look on Kakashi's face, Naruto immediately added:
"But they can see through the dirty thoughts of a pervert like you at a glance, so you can forget about ever meeting them in this lifetime."
"Isn't that just making up a setting to belittle me?" Kakashi was first helpless, then suddenly excited, "If I tell this idea to Lord Jiraiya... maybe it will inspire him, and then he can write a great work!"
"Uh..." Naruto was shocked. Your thought process is too reasonable, but how can Ship Girls be desecrated like this!
But Naruto immediately remembered those people in his previous life who wrote erotic novels and drew doujinshi with Ship Girls as the theme, and said, "Don't forget to give me royalties when the time comes."
Sakura complained, "Kakashi-sensei, don't corrupt your students so easily!"
...
After Gaara and Naruto and others left, a small snake crawled into the ruins, flicked its tongue, swallowed a few pieces of Grael Stone fragments, and then burrowed into the ground and disappeared.
Somewhere underground in the Land of Birds, Guren held a small snake and sent it to the laboratory: "Lord Orochimaru, the things have been brought back, but unfortunately, I didn't get a complete sample."
The person in front of the experimental platform turned around and took the fragments spat out by the small snake, and a hoarse voice came from his mouth: "Life energy? An interesting topic."
Orochimaru handed Guren a piece of paper and instructed, "Contact this person and say you want to discuss a deal."
"Yes." Guren took the information and asked, "In your name?"
"Of course not, I don't want to appear for the time being."
"But..." Guren couldn't stand the outside world's evaluation of Lord Orochimaru. There were rumors in the ninja world, too. Those guys who looked down on Lord Orochimaru, Guren wanted to turn them all into powder.
"There's no 'buts.' The entire ninja world knows that Orochimaru is dead, and the weeds on his grave are already a foot tall."
Orochimaru showed a meaningful smile, not knowing whether he was gratified that Jiraiya had erected a grave for him, or angry that no one was sweeping his grave.
"Yes." Although Guren was unhappy, Lord Orochimaru's orders were absolute.
Orochimaru turned around and continued the experiment. It was good to be dead. After death, that troublesome organization would no longer hunt him down.
He just didn't know why Konoha's investigation into him didn't seem to have stopped. Did they want to remove all his previous strongholds?
Or did Konoha think he still had a backup plan? Then, should he leave another "death certificate"? Maybe he could also cause some trouble for that organization along the way.
Orochimaru licked his lips: "God? You really have a good pair of eyes."
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