The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 248 I Eat Tomatoes

Using radar to find chakra conducting materials can be said to be one of the foundations of Hideki's puppetry promotion plan.

The reason why he hadn't made much progress before was mainly because of the serious shortage of materials and technology, making it difficult to produce large-range, high-precision advanced radars, and the efficiency of drawing prizes was too low.

Moreover, when Hideki just returned, his strength was mediocre and the Sand Village offered a high bounty for him.

He had to be wary of being targeted by bounty hunters while searching for materials, and he was also afraid that the secret of the Valley of the End would be exposed, and he would lose the initiative.

That’s why this part of the plan has stalled.

However, he has recently earned a lot of money through the workshop and toy store, and obtained some precious materials from the Hyuga clan.

Coupled with the improvement in sealing skills, he finally saved enough capital to manufacture advanced radar.

As for strength, Hideki was surprised at his own improvement in the past six months.

At least if the Sand Village doesn't raise the bounty, he won't be intimidated by more bounty hunters coming, he can just treat it as a way to make some extra money.

After all, many bounty hunters themselves are actually the targets of bounties.

The only thing that is giving Hideki a headache now is the possibility that the secret of the Valley of the End will be exposed.

However, after half a year of exploration, his ideas gradually changed.

Because Hideki has realized that even with a better radar, it would be difficult for him alone to discover useful materials quietly and efficiently.

Because the Valley of the End is the border of the Fire Nation and a famous tourist attraction, there has never been a shortage of people visiting and passing by.

Once the remains of the Wood Release technique of the Ninja God Senju Hashirama are discovered, even if it is just the materials, it will be enough to drive countless people crazy.

Even with Hideki's current strength, it seems that he can't hold on at all.

Not to mention that in order to establish an industrial system of puppetry in Konoha, he not only has to collect enough materials for his own use, but it would be best if he could also achieve a stable output of materials through planting.

So instead of digging up materials secretly and cautiously, you may become the target of public criticism if you are not careful.

Hideki ultimately chose to work with Konoha to develop this more cost-effective path.

And now he is asking the children to start looking for materials from the edge of the Konoha Great Forest in preparation for this.

Because in addition to the children who are training now, there will be a steady stream of students and Genin coming to learn breathing techniques in the future.

Therefore, Hideki can expand the exploration scope to the Valley of the End when necessary according to the situation and let everyone discover the secrets therein.

This way, no one would suspect that he had known the secret for a long time, which would attract more covetousness.

Hideki can also take advantage of this time to continue to increase his voice, hoping to get a bigger piece of the pie in the subsequent development of the Valley of the End.

The specially created training uniforms with remarkable effects and the provision of combat yo-yos to the police department were actually for this purpose.

Just cooperate with various ninja clans and create exclusive ninja tools suitable for them.

Then in the future distribution of materials, for the further upgrade of ninja tools, they will definitely become Hideki's reliable assistant.

Of course, the premise of all this is to have strong endorsement.

Otherwise, all goodwill will only be regarded as weakness and can be bullied...

It’s a pity that although Hideki killed Tora, the mastermind behind the previous human trafficking incident, no one knew about it.

Therefore, everyone's impression of him is still that of an inventive genius.

Therefore, Hideki must find an opportunity to demonstrate enough strength to dispel everyone's covetousness towards him and the workshop.

The Jounin Examination that will be held in a few days is an opportunity that Hideki cannot miss...

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The children all went to the forest to collect materials. Hideki did not wait there, but went back to the orphanage with Fugaku to exchange experiences in ninjutsu.

His wild imagination and Fugaku's family background sparked a lot of sparks, and in the end both of them felt that they had gained a lot. Time unknowingly came to noon, and the children returned to the orphanage one after another.

But their gains were not as great as Hideki and his friends.

After all, this is just the outskirts of the forest. If there really are special species of plants, they would have been discovered long ago.

Therefore, the plants that people find often have the rudiments of meridian systems, but they do not have many special features.

Of course, we can’t draw a conclusion yet, and Hideki needs to conduct more detailed tests to be completely sure.

With his powerful perception, he can easily detect the physical properties of materials.

As for the chemical and pharmacological properties, Hideki handed them over to Nono, who had multiple responsibilities.

This made her doubt her life a little bit, and she felt that maybe her previous life as a spy was much easier...

Of course, Hideki did not completely push this task to Nono.

He immediately conducted simple tests on fruits, vegetables and other plants.

And the method used is very unique to the ninja world - the shadow clone test method.

Because the body functions of the shadow clone are no different from the original body, and in the end only the memories can return to the original body.

This means that as long as the shadow clone is allowed to taste the food, a lot of information about the plant can be learned through its feedback, and there is no risk.

Ninjas sometimes use this method to find edible plants and animals in the wild.

Because the children brought back a lot of fruits and vegetables, Hideki asked Fugaku and the police officer who mastered the shadow clone technique to help with the testing.

Of course they had no objection to this, and were even quite interested, wanting to see if the plants the children brought back were really special.

Only Fugaku felt a little scared when he heard that Hideki was going to cook himself.

Because he had tasted Hideki's cooking before, and he was still frightened by the way he would throw a handful of chili peppers into the food without thinking.

After all, what he threw was the Dragon Flame Chili, which could be used as a powerful weapon...

Thinking back to the painful experience of having to drink twenty glasses of water because of the spicy food, he is of course a little worried now.

Even if the shadow clone is responsible for the tasting, the memory and experience will eventually return to the original body...

Fortunately, this time Hideki probably learned his lesson and didn't make any dishes that were too spicy.

There were so many dishes on the table, but the only red one was a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Seeing that the police officers were all looking at him eagerly, Fugaku's shadow clone knew that he had to pick up his chopsticks first.

So he picked up a piece of tomato and put it in his mouth.

Obito's eyes lit up at the nearby table, because he had picked the tomato...

"Woo!"

As a result, within a second, Fugaku's shadow clone's face changed drastically and he almost spit out the tomato in his mouth.

Fortunately, in order to avoid embarrassment, he still held back, and even swallowed it directly with his strong willpower...

As a result, his face suddenly turned red, and then suddenly exploded into a ball of white smoke and disappeared.

Everyone around was surprised, and Obito, who had been expectant, was even more stunned.

Asuma on the side was still finishing off the enemy:

"Obito-kun, does this mean that if your clan leader wasn't a shadow clone, he would have been poisoned to death by you?"

(End of this chapter)