Chapter 803 Arrangement
Qing Ming quickly passed through the wild mountains and soon arrived near the target city.

Logically speaking, as the city closest to Takikuni, this city should have become prosperous quickly with the end of the Third Ninja World War.

After all, whether in the past life or in this life, import and export trade is the most profitable, especially in the Ninja World where the terrain and landforms are extremely distinctive.

However, the reality is that the city is still very deserted.

As for the reasons.
It is also very simple. The eastern and southern parts of the Land of Earth are surrounded by a mountain range that stretches for countless miles, and its borders are also divided according to this.

Such terrain may be a very good natural defense line during wartime.

But now, it is the biggest obstacle to trade between the two countries.

Although the Iwagakure Village spent a lot of effort to open up several trade routes, the Land of Taki was ultimately too small and its terrain was too complex to be suitable for large-scale trade.

Therefore, there is no decent trade route near Takikuni.

As a result, this city, which theoretically would prosper due to bilateral trade, will naturally not become prosperous as expected.

It even lost a large number of population due to the impact of the war, and it was only in recent months that civilians gradually moved in.

what?
You said that Takigakure doesn’t have the courage to invade.

Indeed, Takigakure Village does not have the courage to do so.

But this does not mean that the other major ninja villages will not “borrow the passage”.

It is precisely because of these reasons that the city remained so depressed after the war.

However, no matter how depressed it is, the classes and forces that should exist still exist.

Qing Ming landed near the city, then performed a transformation technique and sneaked into the city.

After coming in, the first thing he did was to use the perspective of his Byakugan to scan the entire city and find all the people with chakra in their bodies.

Among these people, there were wandering ninjas who had lost their backers, bounty hunters struggling for money, and rock ninja guards hired by several nobles.

However, even if these people are added together, there are not many of them.

As for strength.
Let’s put it this way, even if Qing Ming let them use one hand, he could still hang them up and beat them.

Therefore, these people posed no threat to him at all.

After confirming this, he started his plan without any hesitation.

His plan was simple.
First, find the manager of this city, who is the noble lord appointed by the daimyo of the Land of Earth.

As the person with the most power in public, his information channels are probably the most well-informed in the entire city, but they are not too bad either.

Qing Ming was going to learn from him about what had happened recently in the city and see if there was any news about Lao Zi.

If not, turn him into your hidden player, pay close attention to this matter secretly, and by the way, find out the distribution of other forces in the city.

As the saying goes, cats have their ways and mice have their ways.

Perhaps as a high and mighty noble lord, he would not care about the movements of a wandering monk, but it is different for other people.

At this stage, in the ninja world where transportation is not well developed, a wandering monk is still very likely to attract the attention of local people.

Qingming believed that after turning all these leaders from all walks of life into his hidden players, he would definitely be able to get the news as long as Lao Zi appeared.

He will do the same not only in this city, but also in other cities in the future.

In this way, the entire Land of Earth will become a big net. You may not see anything at ordinary times, but once Lao Zi appears, the big net will quickly tighten and trap him firmly. At that time, he can move out calmly and seize the four tails from the opponent.

As for being discovered by the Iwagakure Village
Indeed, there is this risk.

But Qingming felt that as long as his luck was not too bad, there would be no problems in the short term.

As for the reasons, there are roughly three.

First of all, the people he controls are just ordinary people.

In the ninja world, ordinary people and ninjas seem to be closely connected, but in fact they are very independent.

Perhaps ordinary people living in the ninja village know a little more about ninjas, but many ordinary people in other places don’t even know about the existence of ninjas.

In this situation, in the entire ninja world, ninjas basically manage ninjas, and ordinary people manage ordinary people.

Therefore, unless there is something serious, ninjas will not easily disrupt the world of ordinary people.

In this way, the Iwagakure Village would naturally not easily discover the fact that these people were controlled by him.

Secondly, the means he used to control these people were very covert, and even if ordinary people noticed something was wrong, they would not be able to discover the problem.

The last and most crucial point is that he did not control all the people of these forces, but only controlled a few leaders.

This greatly reduces the risk of exposure.

Combining the above three points, as long as their luck is not too bad, it is unlikely that the Iwagakure Village will discover such a big problem in the world of ordinary people in a short period of time.

As time went by, it was discovered.
By then, if he hasn’t found Lao Zi, it won’t matter whether these people are exposed or not.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind, and Qingming activated the “Heavenly Guard”, avoiding several Iwagakure Chunins and a group of ordinary people’s guards in the city lord’s mansion, and found the noble lord.

After that, he followed the plan and first used the “Ninjutsu: Mind Reading Technique” to read the other party’s memory.

After confirming that there was no news about Lao Zi, he immediately left the Flying Thunder God Mark on him.

Then, start to cast the ‘Transfer Seal’.

However, when he was setting the trigger conditions and methods, he suddenly paused.

It’s simple. These ordinary people don’t have chakra and cannot actively activate the Flying Thunder God Mark on their bodies.

So, Qing Ming thought about it, and found a wandering ninja in the city. He used his Mangekyō Sharingan to brainwash him, turning him into a bridge between him and these ordinary people.

In this way, after discovering the target and triggering the ‘transcription seal’, these ordinary people will not think about activating the Flying Thunder God Mark on their bodies, but will contact this wandering ninja.

Afterwards, the other party will convey the message to him.

In this way, the process will be a little troublesome, but it will not take too long.

As for why we didn’t use these noble ninja guards as a bridge.
It’s very simple. Although these Iwagakure ninjas have accepted the job, their missions are usually not too long. If they are forced to stay, they will inevitably attract the attention of the Iwagakure Village.

Therefore, he could only give it up with great reluctance.

In order to avoid being tracked down by the Iwagakure Village, he did not even do anything to these people and turn them into pawns like the Iwagakure sentry.

Overall, although there were some minor problems during this operation, it was still going smoothly.

(End of this chapter)