[with card] Enemy of the World

26、Transaction

"I can't tell."

Almost at the same moment Jiraiya's voice fell, Lu Jing had already given his answer.Judging from the only facial expressions he could observe, he wasn't surprised that Jiraiya would ask this question—rather, it seemed that he had been waiting for him ever since they left the battlefield. With the advent of this question.

As if he didn't expect him to react so quickly, Ji Laiya was taken aback for a moment, and then his expression turned completely cold.But before he could speak, Lu Jing added: "At least not here. But when I return to Konoha, I promise to tell the fourth generation everything."

"..." Jilai also opened his mouth and then closed it, and when he spoke again, his tone finally softened a little. "Can't you just tell me? If you're worried about having ears on the wall here, I can take you to an absolutely safe place to talk." He pressed the psychic scroll on his back.

"I'm very sorry, Master Ziraiya." There was apology in Lu Jing's voice, but the firmness beyond that couldn't be mistaken.

"Then tell me at least one thing, and consider it to satisfy my curiosity." Jiraiya said.He kicked the rough ground under his feet irritably. "You... the scene that Haiyi saw in Yuan's memory, is it fake or... real?"

This time Lu Jing was silent for a while before answering: "It's true."

"Why?" Obito, who was listening to the conversation between the two, couldn't help asking, "Why did you... attack Lin? What happened to you? And all of this happened to be—"

"That's all I can say for now." Lu Jing raised his voice and interrupted Obito. "The rest of the matter, I will only talk about it after seeing the fourth generation."

"……you!"

"Calm down, Obito." Itachi walked quickly to Obito, putting a hand on his shoulder. "Sharingan will activate if you are too emotional. You have just awakened Susanoo and need to rest."

"You also know that coming out of Minato this time gave me the power to make temporary decisions, especially regarding your matters." Jiraiya waved his hand in the direction of Obito to comfort him, but his eyes remained on Lu Jing's body. "I have made a compromise proposal, and you yourself have rejected it; in that case, I am afraid I shall have to impose some restrictions on you for the time being."

"It should be." Lu Jing nodded calmly.After a pause, he continued, "It's not that I don't trust you, Master Ziraiya... It's just that seeing is believing for some things."

Ji Lai also heard his implication, and his expression moved slightly.He seemed hesitant for a moment, but he quickly made up his mind, took out a scroll from his pocket, squatted down and spread it on the ground.

"I'm sorry, I've been wronging you for a while." He whispered, "Now the camp is full of wounded soldiers. No matter what angle we consider, we can't afford any more accidents on the way back to Konoha."

"I understand. Please... take good care of my father for me."

"You don't need to tell me this." Zilai also muttered.He quickly made a handprint, pressed his palm on the circular curse array in the middle of the scroll, and shouted: "Seal!"

The symbols on the scroll shone brightly, and the whole room was shrouded in blue light.Several strips of cloth filled with the sealing spell flew out from under Jiraiya's palm, and rushed towards the target as if he had self-awareness, while Lu Jing stood in place without any resistance, letting the strips wrap himself layer by layer. rise.

"Wait!" Obito yelled.There was a stabbing pain in his eyes, but he ignored it completely, pushing away the blocking Itachi and making a gesture to jump off the bed. "Explain to me now, what the hell are you—"

At this moment, Lu Jing, who had never communicated with Obito in any form since they withdrew from the battlefield, finally raised his eyes and looked towards him.Almost just for a short moment, the pair of strange-colored pupils belonging to the deceased had been covered by cloth strips, blocking the two from seeing each other; but this one glance was enough to freeze Obito in place, unable to move.

The time of eye contact was too short to convey any specific message, but Obito felt that he understood everything.

Immediately responding to Jiraiya's doubts, interrupting his questioning, refusing to tell Jiraiya the inside story, all that Lu Jing did had only one purpose in the final analysis.From the moment he slapped away the hand reaching out to Lin, Lu Jing already understood that he knew Yuan's identity, and he didn't want him to talk too much when he was agitated, and he was not ready to face the reaction of others. The truth came out.In this matter, except for their teacher Minato, Shikaji doesn't trust anyone else.

But it was this Lu Jing who would rather be temporarily sealed to protect him, but in front of him in another world, personally gave Lin to...

"Bring soil? Bring soil!"

Itachi's shaking brought Obito back to his senses.Looking up, Lu Jing's figure had disappeared from the spot, and Ji Lai also stood up, carefully putting the re-bound scroll into his arms.

"...Sorry." Facing the concerned and confused eyes of the two, Obito squeezed out these two words through his teeth-this seemed to exhaust all his remaining strength. "I'm probably too tired... Please let me rest for a while." After that, before Itachi and Jiraiya could reply, he fell back heavily on the bed and covered his head with the quilt again.

There was silence for a while, followed by the sound of footsteps and the sound of pulling the curtains. After the two walked out one after the other and the door was closed, the ward was completely silent.Obito curled up on the bed, closed his eyes tightly, and only felt an unprecedented and strong sense of weakness in his heart.

All the things that happened in the past month flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern. The difference is that this time the kite in his memory took off his mask and revealed his original appearance.The expression on that face that was exactly the same as his was cold, and one red and one purple eyes were staring at him, as if asking him provocatively what confident means he had to save this doomed world from his own hands return.

He wanted to fall into a deep sleep, and when he woke up, he found that everyone was fine, and the invaders from the other world did not exist. He didn't have to fear that he would become a heinous sinner, and he didn't have to worry about whether his two most cherished family members were the same. died at the hands of another.

He longed for it all to be nothing more than one long nightmare.

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"How long are you going to sleep?"

A low and loud voice echoed in my ears.Kushina slowly opened his eyes, and the scene in his vision was both familiar and unfamiliar. The spiral staircase spiraled up seemingly endlessly. The scrolls on the surrounding bookshelves were neatly arranged, and the outer seal reflected the ancient And the light of wisdom.

The Great Library Tower in Uzumaki Hidden Village had long been burned to the ground in the catastrophe decades ago—and here, it was just an afterimage projected by her inner world.

"What's wrong with me?" She asked in confusion, and slowly sat up from the floor, pressing her forehead.Looking to the left, a large open space was cleared where the desks should have been. The orange-red beast crouched, its four claws were wrapped around a chain, and the other end of the chain was firmly nailed to the ground.

"Before you were killed by Kite, I lent you my strength." Nine Tails snorted, flicking its tail impatiently behind him. "But the human body cannot fully withstand the energy of the tailed beast, so you also suffered a little bit."

"Then what's going on outside now?" The name of the enemy made Kushina wake up immediately, and her heartstrings also tightened. "Is the battle over? We won? Where's Tobi? Everyone—"

"Calm down. The battle is over, the kite escaped, the kid from the Yamanaka family and Bai Fang were seriously injured, it's hard to say whether they are dead or alive. But at least you were not captured, and the purpose of the water gate to lure the snake out of the cave has been achieved. This mission can be considered a success."

"Where did it succeed?!" Jiu Xinnai stomped his feet angrily, "We paid such a high price, but we still failed to keep Yuan here. I don't know how many of his memories Haiyi has detected. If there is nothing important The harvest, or he can't... wake up in a short time..."

"You don't have to worry about this. Even if Yamanaka Kaiichi dies here, it doesn't matter." Facing Kushina's glare, Kyuubi said indifferently, "Anyway, I got a very interesting piece of information early in the morning. "

"what?"

"As a tailed beast, I'm extremely sensitive to Chakra, and you know that too. As early as when Kite first activated the psychic ability of the reincarnation eye, I discovered that he and your precious student Obito have exactly the same Chakra of."

Bai Sensen's teeth glistened under the candlelight, and the nine-tailed fox showed a grinning expression.

"Based on Kakashi who was reincarnated from another world, I can be almost [-]% sure that Kite and Obito are the same person."

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Thousands of miles away, Tian Zhi Guo Yin Ren Village, an underground research institute.

"Life is the most fragile and impermanent thing in the world. It is as strong as Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, and as knowledgeable as Senju Banjian. It is also inevitable to die when the end is approaching." Behind the one-way glass, Oshemaru puts his hands in his pockets Here, leisurely watching everything that happened in the laboratory.On the operating table, the live experiment subject, who was tightly tied up with a belt, was twitching in pain, his mouth opened wide and let out a tragic scream, but it could not be conveyed to the other side of the glass.The medical ninjas around the operating table turned a deaf ear to this and continued to inject various injections into his body. "I have personally experienced from life to death, and from death to life. You must have the deepest feeling about this, right? Kakashi-kun."

"Rather than 'live' like this, I'd rather die happily." Not far behind him, Qian Anbu, who was hidden in the darkness, replied in an emotionless tone.

"Really? If I release the control on you now, I'm afraid you will run back to Konoha immediately. You will not be harmed or die again. Chakra is endless. As long as you get rid of the shackles of the contract, the reincarnated The freedom that can be obtained will far exceed that of ordinary ninjas. From this perspective, I really envy you—you and your substitute."

"..."

"Speaking of which, the fight between Akatsuki and Konoha in the Land of Water should come to a conclusion. Which side do you think will win? Konoha would rather risk you falling into my hands and keep a substitute, It seems that the information he has on another world is really important to them. Hatake Kakashi was born to go through fire and water for Konoha, and with such trust and reuse, it is impossible for the substitute to do his best. In addition Now that he is a filth, maybe he can really help Konoha defeat the kite—"

"Daydreaming."

A third voice suddenly sounded in this airtight observation room.The atmosphere changed from relaxed to tense in an instant. Orochimaru's Chakra fluctuated violently, his shoulders shrugged slightly, as if he would turn around and attack the uninvited guest in the next moment; but he did not do so, but stayed on the spot After standing for a while, he slowly turned around and faced the person coming.

"Oh, oh...it's not what the leader of Akatsuki should do to come here uninvited. And Kakashi-kun, as my bodyguard, shouldn't you remind me in this situation?"

"I'd rather see you two perish together." Kakashi said coldly.

The one who appeared in the room out of nowhere was none other than Kite—if it wasn’t for Kamui, there would probably be no ninjutsu that could perfectly pass through layers of barriers and allow people to sneak into the depths of the snake den without hindrance.As usual, he was wearing a red cloud and black robe, and his true face was hidden behind the whirlpool mask. There seemed to be no traces of the fierce battle that took place on the border of the country of water not long ago.

Except for the exposed red eye, the fire of obsession ten times stronger than before is leaping inside, which reveals a strong and determined meaning, as if all the obstacles in his way to achieve the goal are bound to be eliminated To be cleared, destroyed, smashed.

"Cooperate with me, Orochimaru." Without any greetings, Tobi cut to the chase and got straight to the point, apparently without the patience to beat around the bush. "Give Kakashi to me, and in exchange, I will provide you with a copy of the cells between the columns, so that you can develop the perfect container for the art of immortality."

Hearing the last four words he said, Orochimaru's eyebrows twitched slightly, but there was no obvious change in his expression. "What if I say 'no'?"

Iris didn't answer.The space distorted, and the rift opened with a sound, and a bloody, half-dead person fell out of it, and fell heavily to the ground.The man turned over with difficulty, the blood stains on the glasses made him unable to see clearly, he could only grope and crawl forward. "O... Oshemaru-sama..."

"Then he is a role model for everyone in your snake den." A foot stepped on the back of Medicine Master's pocket, and then Yuan's ruthless voice sounded from above. "It's also your role model."

"No wonder the experiment started but you can't be seen, so you are here." Seeing the miserable state of the number one assistant, Orochimaru's expression is not as natural as before.He looked up at Yuan again, this time the guard and hostility in his eyes were a bit more explicit than before. "Let me ask a question...I heard that you have used the ability of the reincarnation eye to make Kakashi's corpse into a puppet. He is devoted to Konoha, and it is absolutely impossible to surrender to you. A reincarnated person under the contract control can What you can do, your puppet can also do it, even more like your arm."

"In this case, why do you have to get him?"

"Why?" Hearing this, Tobi narrowed her eyes, her tone was as if Orochimaru asked a stupid question with an obvious answer.

"Of course, use him as a bargaining chip to make a deal with Konoha, and exchange that fake."

(TBC)