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

Chapter 28 Black Ants
"You're right, but this is his limit. Of course, he also wants to defeat Konoha and prevent the village from being trapped in the desert sand."

"Who should be blamed for the deaths in the village?"

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Qingshui knew that Scorpion's implication was who should be blamed for his parents' death.

Logically speaking, this matter is not something that a mere Genin like me can know.

Elder Chiyo had been hiding the death of Scorpion's parents from Scorpion, and only told young Scorpion that his parents had gone to a faraway place and would not be back for a long time.

But as he gets older, these things can no longer be hidden from the naturally precocious Scorpio.

Qingshui was silent for a while, trying hard to choose his words to avoid saying anything he shouldn't. In the end, he said something that was correct, but it was the same as saying nothing.

"Whoever killed someone is to blame, and whoever Konoha killed is to blame Konoha."

"But the one who started the war was the Sandaime Kazekage. If he hadn't started the war, no one would have died."

Why is this kid so stubborn! ?
"No, it will, and more people will die."

Scorpion tilted his head.

"Because we are poor, the village is not rich, and we are surrounded by vast deserts. The entire Wind Country is occupied by deserts and Gobi Deserts, which account for more than 70% of the area. More than 85% of the land cannot be cultivated. However, most of the resources and wealth are taken by the daimyo and those nobles to maintain their extravagant lives, and they even cut the village's funding for this."

"The annual funding of our Sand Village is the least among the five major countries. Without funding, the village cannot develop and is even regressing. While other villages are developing, our village is regressing. In the end, the village will become a small ninja village that is bullied by others, leading to the destruction of the village. Without the village, the Wind Country will also perish."

"By then, many people will die in the Land of Wind, more than ten times the number of people you have seen in your lifetime. So in order to avoid this situation, the Third Kazekage can only lead us to fight, grab more resources, better land, and feed more people."

It is very difficult to make a child, especially one who has received a semi-literate ninja-style education, understand the relationship between war and productivity. Shimizu can only try his best to explain these things from a perspective that a ninja's mindset can understand.

"Then why not take back the resources from the daimyo and nobles?"

Scorpion asked again.

"Because the daimyos and nobles of the entire ninja world stand together. If we openly turn against the daimyos and kill them, then all the other daimyos will ask the ninja villages in their own countries to attack the Sand Village, because what the Sand Village is doing is digging up the roots of their ruling class. Then we will have to face the entire ninja world. If we go to rob the Land of Fire, we only need to deal with Konoha."

Scorpion was silent. He felt that he needed to sort out his thoughts carefully.

For ninjas who have only studied for two years and even learned how to kill people in school, this knowledge is completely different from what they have thought before.

As ninjas, they only need to learn two things: kill people and complete the mission.

After thinking for a few seconds, Scorpion decided to throw these things away first and get back to the topic.

"We'll talk about those things later. Today I want to compete with you. The puppet you made with a person inside is a little special. It's different from the mainstream puppets in the village. I want to test the power of that thing."

Qing Shui looked deeply into Scorpion's eyes and said earnestly:
"Okay, after the fight, I hope you can go back and think about what I said. If you have any questions, you can come to me."

In order to avoid being made into a puppet in the future, Shimizu believes it is necessary to guide Scorpion's thoughts.

At least he should be taught to think in a normal way, so that these geniuses who have no one to teach and think they are very smart will not come up with some messy ways to solve problems. The two walked out of the room, came to the training ground of the puppet army, and released their respective puppets.

Shimizu used both hands to eject chakra lines to connect the fat puppet to cover himself, and controlled it with his right hand. The chakra lines in his left hand penetrated through the gap in the fat puppet's gloves and connected to the little boy.

Using chakra strings to manipulate the puppet will not completely affect your body posture.

The thirty-five-year-old Scorpion can control hundreds of puppets at the same time using only the chakra lines released from a piece of his flesh.

The key to manipulating a puppet is the control of the chakra lines.

Of course, the posture movements of fingers and arms can also improve the control of the puppet by the chakra lines, which can maximize the combat effectiveness of a single puppet.

Shimizu naturally couldn't do what Scorpion did during his period of mastery of puppetry, and a normal puppeteer could only use chakra rays from his fingers to control the puppet.

He didn't need it to be that complicated. He just needed to use the black secret technique to divide his mind while controlling the fat puppet to fight, and use his fingers hidden under the puppet's gloves to control the little boy.

That is, the five chakra strings of one hand control the little boy, and the five chakra strings of the other hand control the fat man, and all the different parts of the body just need to coordinate.

Scorpion also connected the chakra lines to the black ants and the salamander. He controlled the salamander with one hand to protect his body, and controlled the black ants with the other hand to actively launch an attack.

"Black Secret Technique: Hand Dance."

It was still the same trick used when performing the mission before. The six arms of the black ant extended in an instant. Not only was the length much longer than that of the white termite, but the tip and the two adjacent tubes were made of metal. It looked like six spears with foldable barrels.

"Secret Black Technique: Rapid Performance."

The little boy also showed his mechanical claws and rotating toothed blades and started fighting with the black ants.

The former is obviously faster than the black ant, but the latter has more claws and more other mechanisms.

The fight between the two was hard to determine, and they were evenly matched, but they soon changed their rhythm - cutting off the opponent's chakra lines to affect the opponent's control over the puppet.

Qingshui raised an eyebrow and looked at Scorpion in surprise.

"Black Ant, Salamander... There should be a Crow in the future, and with Scorpion's ability, he will also transform and upgrade the puppets."

In the future, Kankuro used Black Ant and Crow during the Chunin Exam, and after becoming a Jonin in Shippuden, he added a Salamander.

The fact that they can be used until they become jonin means that Black Ant and Salamander will be upgraded to the jonin level in the future. It also means that the foundations of these two puppets are quite good.

At least according to Qingshui's judgment, the Black Ant puppet should be ranked among the B-level puppets.

They both used dark secret techniques. Although Shimizu's puppetry had made considerable progress compared to the past, it was still some distance away from Scorpion's.

(End of this chapter)