Naruto: As a genin, I just want to live a normal life.

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"A single piece of fruit isn't worth much money."

—A sweet fruit, similar in size to a small modern plum, red in color, with a sweet taste and a rich, juicy texture.

"Then let's have three."

"We're tourists, just trying the food."

"Hey, hey, hey, then this will have to..."

Bai Xing placed a 100-tael Wind Coin on the table: "One thousand taels per catty. Three 100-tael coins, not a bad deal, right?"

"No, no loss, no loss." The shopkeeper glanced at the coins from the Land of Wind, confirmed they were money, and happily put them in the drawer. Then, while eating, Shirahoshi tentatively asked:

"Speak of it."

"What is the current situation of Loulan as a country?"

"I heard that a lot of trade has been disrupted."

"Does Loulan not intend to do business with other countries and develop its economy?"

Upon hearing this, the boss felt as if he had found a kindred spirit and said, "That's right! I was wondering if Minister An Lushan was planning to invent some advanced technology to improve people's lives for the good of our country."

"But later we found that the turnover continued to decline and the senior ministers did not care or care."

"It seems we can't even talk to each other anymore."

"And since we can't see the current queen, we can't explain the situation at all."

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"I see." Bai Xing gently removed her mask, took a bite of the fruit, and said:

"Didn't you ever think about resisting?"

"Or perhaps we should search for ninjas from Sunagakure?"

"How can we find that? Although many collaborations have indeed stopped, the domestic cooperation on puppet exports related to Sunagakure has continued!"

The shop owner said excitedly.

"The fact that the puppets used by Sunagakure can be obtained so cheaply is all thanks to the puppet technology of our ancient Loulan Kingdom."

"in addition."

“We are just ordinary civilians. We just need to do what the higher-ups are pressuring us to do.”

"Rebellion might only involve those few... sigh."

"Those people?"

After Shirahoshi finished eating the fruit, she threw the pit into the shop's trash can. Nawaki and Guren were both surprised that the Land of Wind had such a delicacy. After finishing, they both stared at the location of the sweet fruit. Shirahoshi then took out two hundred ryo coins.

"Each of you eat three more."

"Okay!!" x2

"Boss, please continue. Who are those people?"

The shop owner, seeing the money, naturally wouldn't refuse to do business. After accepting it, he continued:

"Those ministers were important officials who followed the late Queen, but unfortunately, the late Queen fell ill in recent years. Afterwards, An Lushan, in order to seize power, also began to make his own moves..."

After the shop owner explained the situation, Bai Xing roughly understood what had happened.

After An Lushan, a rogue ninja from Sunagakure, transmigrated to another world, he used advanced puppetry technology and even surpassed the cognitive level of modern people to create the magnificent and prosperous ancient kingdom of Loulan.

But it seemed to be destined.

Just like before the transmigration, the ancient kingdom of Loulan had its dragon veins sealed by the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God Kunai and sealing techniques.

Without the dragon vein's boundless chakra, the development of the ancient Loulan Kingdom naturally lost its corresponding support.

For example, unlimited chakra.

Without unlimited chakra, the energy consumed by such a large country would be an alarming figure, and the things that Shirahoshi discovered were not simply electricity, but rather the source of light emitted by the surrounding buildings.

Instead, it is electricity converted from chakra, which is then converted into light energy.

"Queen."

"Interesting words."

Bai Xing thought of the many queens among the Shadow Power users, but wasn't this city also giving him an excellent opportunity?

"Unlimited chakra."

"The power to transcend time and space."

"Simply devouring and utilizing this power to become the world's number one is a very small dream."

As he walked along the road, Nawaki heard whispers coming from under Shirahoshi's mask, and his eyes narrowed.

Have you finally revealed your true colors?! The evil dean behind the white subtitles!!!

"Of course, we'll use this power... to create a passage that can traverse the world! That's the true purpose of the dragon vein!"

"Strong."

"It seems like this force isn't that strong."

Rope Tree: "..." Although she didn't know who An Lushan was, as the shop owner had mentioned, it seemed that the 'Dean' knew of his existence.

"Let's go. We'll find out what's going on when we go to the inner palace."

After Shirahoshi's chakra eyes were activated, it became clear that many pedestrians in this location had been replaced by puppets. The bustling scene created was merely to prevent outsiders from discovering the truth.

It is likely that the Queen of Loulan will die soon, and then the puppet Sara will take over the important task of being the queen.

Bai Xing thought to himself: In the original story, Queen Sara appeared not long after the death of the former Loulan Queen. An Lushan held a parade to boost morale and began arresting people, while secretly sending Sara on her way.

So, it's normal that Sarah's mother is still alive at this point. At the same time, the Loulan Queen holds the key to the Dragon Vein switch. After the Loulan Queen activates the Dragon Vein, she will only be a puppet.

As for An Lushan's later flashbacks in the original work, the Loulan Queen was killed by kunai after activating the Dragon Vein, and then An Lushan, as an outsider, instantly took control of a country and was even able to command the residents to cooperate in its development... That's too explosive! It would be more like it if he had only a year left. (Naruto and Minato arrive at the timeline)

After all, the flashback says that An Lushan planned to use the dragon vein to create weapons, but if the economy hadn't developed, what right did he have to build puppet weapons?

Furthermore, the back-and-forth development through cooperation with outsiders also takes time.

The puppets created using the dragon vein's power seem incredibly weak. If it took six years to reach this level, then the dragon vein must be incredibly weak...

Therefore, Bai Xing guessed that this should be the world's restoration. An Lushan here used the power of the dragon vein to develop Loulan. When the time was right, he directly imprisoned the queen, then secretly killed the important ministers, and seized power in his own hands. He slowly developed Loulan's economy, and then replaced the queen with an easy-to-deceive Sara after the queen died. This way, he completely controlled the power of the entire ancient Loulan Kingdom and began to change his face and exploit the local residents.

Furthermore, Bai Xing could see that, in addition to the pedestrians played by puppets, there were now quite a few strong puppet soldiers patrolling the streets.

As they passed by Shirahoshi, the puppet soldier glanced at her before continuing his patrol.

"Surveillance?"

"That's awesome."

"But it can only be used in a single small town like this."

In the vision of the chakra eye, the puppet's eye area actually has monitoring projection devices, so as long as it patrols the streets, it can achieve the purpose of remote monitoring in a certain place.

Therefore, if anyone in Loulan dared to bring their family to seek help from outsiders, they would be discovered immediately.

Furthermore, the guards at the city gates will likely be replaced with puppets soon, which would give them more confidence that information within the city wouldn't leak out. The ban on ninjas entering is also to prevent local residents from paying ninjas for their services...

"Wow--"

"It's so big and tall!"

Bai Xing glanced around and noticed a pair of people carrying backpacks, of the same height, and now almost up to Bai Xing's shoulder.

"Huh?! What are Nagato-nii and Yahiko-nii doing here?"

"Hehe...maybe it's a traveling merchant."

Upon hearing Guren's words, Nawaki glanced at Nagato and Yahiko's current attire: each of them wore a stylish sun hat, their clothes were draped with a sash with the character "Akatsuki" printed on it, and their schoolbags also had the character "Akatsuki" on them.

"Yahiko, look, isn't that the Dean, Jonin Nawaki, and Kurenai?" Nagato's Rinnegan has excellent eyesight and strong perception, so he instantly spotted Shirahoshi and her group not far ahead.

"It really is! Let's go say hello!"

"Walk."

"Don't have contact with them."

Shirahoshi didn't have time to meet with the duo who were now businessmen. After grabbing Guren and turning the corner with Nawaki, they leaped a few times and landed on the roof of a building, evading Yahiko and Nagato's pursuit.

Fortunately, Yahiko and Nagato remembered Hanzo's words and did not use chakra, so the surveillance cameras around them only saw normal people chasing each other.

But Shirahoshi and Yahiko are different.

"Intruders?!"

Minister An Lushan, whose original name was also Baizu, was a rogue ninja from Sunagakure during the Shippuden era.

After discovering that Shirahoshi and Nawaki were unusual, An Lushan immediately realized that they were ninjas, perhaps a team from a ninja village that had discovered the changes in the ancient kingdom of Loulan and was conducting an investigation.

"Then... let me show you the power of the dragon vein."

......

"Damn it, where are the dean and the others?"

"do not know."

Nagato shook his head, then looked up with his Rinnegan and saw many chakra threads, as well as puppets, pedestrians, and soldiers. But they were just traveling merchants; there was no need for them to meddle too much. They should just learn some knowledge.

Therefore, Nagato pressed down on Yahiko's shoulder, and seeing Yahiko's expression, shook his head slightly:

"The dean is unwilling to see us, he must also have a mission."

Then he leaned close to Yahiko's ear and whispered:

"This seemingly prosperous city may harbor untold secrets."

—Nagato didn't lag behind in developing the Rinnegan. Walking puppets, chakra threads on buildings in mid-air, ubiquitous surveillance agents... all came into Nagato's sight.

Upon hearing this, Yahiko's pupils dilated slightly, but he quickly regained his composure and patted Nagato's hand: "I understand. Let's go, let's continue sightseeing. It's none of our business; we just need to focus on our studies."

He looked up at the bustling scene and exclaimed, "This city has transformed from a poor little country into what it is today in just five years."

"We also need to spend five years changing the current state of the Rain Kingdom!"

"Ok!"