In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 2 The Wrong Mission
【Puppet name】: Little boy

【Comprehensive parameters】:
Height: 1.35 meters

Weight: 29.18kg
Material: reinforced wood, lightweight composite material, high-strength alloy
Energy: None
Operation method: Chakra line, with five chakra connection hubs

[Puppet Rating]: B-
[Comprehensive Evaluation]: Auxiliary combat puppet, moderately damaged. When intact, it should have the combat power of a new Chunin level. The difficulty of operation is medium.

【Detailed data】：……

After reading these data, Qingshui became even more confused.

Is it possible for a chunin-level puppet to be repaired by a genin puppeteer like me?

Suddenly, Shimizu remembered some news he had heard from the guiding jonin some time ago.

This time it might be a good thing.

Due to the years of war, the puppet army seems to have the possibility of expansion.

Qingshui picked up the mission scroll again and examined it carefully.

The party entrusting the task is the puppet army.

It's not a certain squad of puppet troops, nor is it an individual.

This is a little different from the past.

Does this mean that I have been noticed and entered the village's puppet maker training sequence?

Is this task a test for myself?
The puppet troop, every puppeteer from the Sand Village wants to join.

That is a force whose strategic position is comparable to that of the Anbu. In it, there are more inheritances of puppetry and ninjutsu, as well as richer resources.

and……

Qingshui looked at the motionless progress bar at the bottom of the panel.

Forget it, let’s not worry about it for now and finish the work first.

He took out a pencil and started writing and drawing on the paper.

After more than ten minutes, a new set of maintenance and improvement plans came out.

"The hinge of the left mechanical claw is broken, and the bearing of the right toothed knife is damaged. They need to be replaced. Model..."

"The mouth's Thousand Bones ejector is rusted. Use No. 3 acid to clean it."

"It is speculated that the rust is caused by the user placing thousands of books soaked in poison in it for a long time, causing some parts to be corroded by the poison. Anti-poison coating can be applied to the relevant parts..."

This was the first time that Shimizu had handled a Chunin-level puppet. Before that, he could only watch others use it.

Its internal structure is much more complicated than that of the Fat Puppet, and it also has some designs that are refreshing to Qingshui.

"In addition to the limbs, there is also a chakra hub in the core of the torso. The glass lens connected to it should be used in conjunction with some kind of perception ninjutsu. During combat, if other chakra hubs are damaged, the slide mechanism can also be used to transfer this hub over."

Shimizu pulled out his notebook and took notes.

This is a new design that I haven't seen before. I'll take note of it and study it slowly after it's fixed.

If I really rely on the knowledge I have now and check them one by one, it will probably take a whole day.

Now, it takes less than an hour.

Qingshui looked at the puppet structure diagram on the notebook that had been revised many times, then looked at the panel, threw down the pencil and wooden triangle ruler, focused his mind on the panel, and modified the puppet structure diagram according to his own modification plan.

It's almost like a holographic projection that you can modify yourself and run in a perfect simulation so that you can find out the unreasonable and incompatible parts.

With this ability, Qingshui was able to improve the modification plan to an almost perfect level within two hours. This efficiency was dozens of times higher than that of other puppeteers of the same level, or even higher.

Because it is difficult for them to improve a puppet to a point close to perfection.

Those who can do this are basically higher-level puppeteers.

This is also the reason why he was able to transform Fatty's puppet, which was a teaching aid, into one with qualified Genin combat power.

……

……

"Oh? The little boy of puppet No. 11 to be repaired has been repaired? So quickly? Is this the first one to be handed in?"

Ebizo looked up from the pile of documents, his face looking a little tired.

The Sandaime Kazekage is out, and Chiyo, the second-in-command of the village, is also not here, so now Ebizo is in charge of the Sand Village.

Ebizo's position in the Sand Village is similar to Danzo of Konoha. He is an elder and the head of the Anbu, and is usually responsible for intelligence work.

"It took four days to basically restore the boy's functions. Even if I did it myself, I might not be able to do it faster. Moreover, he also modified the puppet to a certain extent, and even..."

Ishito, the captain of the sixth squad of the puppet army, handed a few pieces of paper to Ebizo.

"He even proposed a plan for further improvement, but it would require more resources."

Ebizo took the paper and looked at it carefully with his chin in his hand.

He is also the top puppeteer in Sand Village.

When it comes to puppetry, the strongest in the current ninja world is Chiyo. She has reached extremely high levels in both puppet manipulation and puppet making. She is also the puppeteer chosen by Monzaemon to succeed the Chikamatsu Juninshu.

Next is Ebizo, and after that are Chiyo's deceased son and daughter-in-law.

When it comes to puppet manipulation, Ebizo is inferior to Chiyo, but when it comes to puppet making, Ebizo is better than Chiyo.

"The modification is excellent. Although the technology used is very basic, it is enough to improve the performance of the little boy puppet by more than 6%. And the idea of modifying the puppet's joint structure and chakra hub flow nodes to switch the puppet into a shield form is very interesting. It even has the prototype of the ninjutsu of the mechanical shield seal."

Ebizo stroked his gray beard, perked up a little, and there was a hint of wonder in his eyes.

Even from his point of view, this was perfect design.

This must have been the work of a gifted puppeteer!

Apart from his nephew, is there another puppetry genius like this in the village?
"This child has only taken the most basic puppetry elective course at the ninja school. His previous instructor, the jonin Momi, was not a puppeteer. Apart from the basic techniques of the genin, the only things he could teach him were Taijutsu and Wind Style Ninjutsu. So I think this child has great potential and is in line with the puppet unit's reserve training plan."

The Ishido jonin said, pointing at Shimizu's repair plan.

"Are you sure the background is okay?"

Ebizo asked the Ishido Jonin.

"He is the orphan of Chunin Sashin. His mother was a civilian who died during childbirth. So when he was one and a half years old, he was sent to an orphanage that provided care for orphans of ninjas who died in battle. His only starting resource was the inheritance he received from his parents when he entered the ninja school."

Shihu has two meanings.

First, Qingshui’s identity is clear and he has a good family background.

Secondly, he does not have the possibility to access high-level puppet knowledge, which can prove his potential as a puppeteer.

As for Shimizu, he was instigated by other ninja villages to become a spy, and the possibility of him obtaining high-level puppet knowledge from other ninja villages is basically zero.

(End of this chapter)