Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 407 Meetings and Milestones [Part 2]

The Nara deer remained silent.

He really didn't need to speak. In this situation, neither he nor the next Kage brought by the other five Kage had any need to speak.

Of course, just because they don't need to speak doesn't mean others won't stir up trouble.

Just like the Raikage now.

Yu Ya rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to the other party, and just snorted coldly before saying veiledly, "Of all these villages, you old geezer are the most fond of making trouble. Onoki knows it won't be easy for his son to convince others to be the heir, so he didn't say anything. He knows his place. Why don't you know your place?"

The Third Raikage was furious and was about to slam his fist on the table when Yua glared at him and said, "This table is made of pure jade. It costs at least a billion ryo. Raikage, you're not the kind of person who would break it and then refuse to pay for it, are you?"

The Third Raikage: "..."

The Third Raikage scoffed, but still withdrew his hand.

He really didn't want to spend money on this.

A billion is enough for him to send another person to the moon.

"Alright, alright, what we're here to talk about is going to the moon, can't we stop arguing?" Yagura Karatachi does look like a child, but he is actually very old.

They are at least similar to Yuya.

You Ya slammed his hand on the table: "That's more like it! Look how classy Shui Ying is!"

As expected of the Water Shadow.

"Oh, by the way, Mizukage, who is this beautiful lady behind you? Do you have a boyfriend? I have a son who's over twenty years old. I wonder if you'd be interested, miss?"

Yuya cracked a joke, while Terumi Mei held her head in her hands, her cheeks flushed.

She was genuinely delighted to receive praise from Yuya.

and……

You Ya actually acted as a matchmaker for her?!

It's such an honor!

In fact, due to the influence of television stations, Youya also has admirers in other villages to varying degrees.

Of course, although Mei Terumi may seem like a lovesick fool, she must have some sense of what she's capable of, since she was brought here by Yagura Karatachi.

If you are truly misled by her appearance, you might end up losing both your wife and your money.

Who knows, it might not be Yuuki marrying Mei Terumi and bringing her to Konoha, but rather Yua's son Yuuki traveling all the way to Kirigakure to marry into the family.

Of course, Yua and Yagura both knew that it was just a joke.

If the two villages were truly going to form a marriage alliance, why would they bring it up in this kind of setting?

Grandma Chiyo tapped the table, somewhat annoyed: "Stop with this nonsense! I'm getting old, every day I live is one day less. Can you all stop wasting your time?!"

You Ya and the other figures rolled their eyes inwardly.

Damn it, at this age, people still take advantage of her age...

Alright, Yuya wasn't going to continue joking around, so he looked directly at the other Kage and asked, "For this manned lunar landing, Konoha is still planning to send Minato Namikaze to the moon. What about the other villages?"

"Let's get this straight, each village has only been allocated the money for one spot, so don't expect me to bring more people!"

The other figures rolled their eyes, and then each began to describe the candidates from their own villages.

Youqi nodded; there wasn't a single name he recognized among them.

Indeed, who knows whether this moon landing is safe or not?

Minato Namikaze has the Flying Thunder God Technique. If something goes wrong on the return trip, he can pop out of the rocket. What if they send a genius and something goes wrong?

Anyway, all they want is some soil from the moon or something.

Although Yua had already published the composition of the soil on the moon.

But these shadow figures are all shrewd and experienced, so you have to make them believe you.

Moreover...

If it's truly worthless, why does Youya keep launching them year after year?!

They didn't believe that Youya would do anything that wouldn't benefit him.

Even if it's not immediately apparent, after a few years, ten years, or even twenty years, we'll see how far-sighted Youya's vision is.

Just keep up.

The topic was quickly passed. Afterwards, during the meeting, Tsuchikage Onoki took the opportunity to ask Yua and the other village knights if anyone knew the technology of drilling wells underground, and he could hire them at a high salary.

Yuya, Raikage, Mizukage, and Kazekage all narrowed their eyes at the same time.

"Sunagakure... if I remember correctly, they should have relevant skilled workers, so why would they need this type of talent?" Yua said with a smile.

After You Ya spoke, the others immediately realized what he meant and echoed his words.

Onoki was furious!

But what could he do? He could only endure it.

Yes, a water vein has been discovered in Sunagakure.

It's important to know that Sunagakure is basically a village where the entire area is covered in yellow sand.

Or rather, the reason why the Land of Earth is called the Land of Earth is because it has very little water resources.

And this time, the discovery of the underground water vein is thanks to Onoki's grandson.

Yes, it's Deidara, the legendary demolition genius.

Deidara is nine years old this year.

His upbringing was actually no different from his previous life.

In this life, however, he was not confined to his home by Onoki; Onoki even encouraged him to produce more high-yield explosives.

Why?

The diamond mines within the Land of Earth are far too time-consuming and labor-intensive to mine using manpower.

Deidara, that explosive genius, did a little explosion. To be honest, the power wasn't that great, but at least it was helpful.

Therefore, Onoki instructed his grandson to play hard.

And then...

Who do you think I am, Deidara? You think I'll just blow things up because you tell me to?

Yes, that kid has rebelled.

Onoki told him to bomb in the east, but Deidara insisted on going to the west and even bombing in some abandoned mines!

It's an abandoned mine, so there's definitely not much profit to be made from it.

Then, one day, while Deidara was frying, a small amount of water suddenly popped out.

At first, no one paid attention, until someone pointed out that if you look at the water here, is there an underground water source underneath?

Then Onoki sent people to investigate.

It would have been better not to investigate, but once I did, oh dear...

An underground water vein, no less powerful than a surface river, has been discovered.

In fact, what's emerging is just a small amount of flowing water brought about by the movement of groundwater...

Simply put, it's just a conduit for a tributary of a tributary.

Onoki was happy, but sadness followed immediately.

The entire Land of Earth...

Does anyone on their construction team have experience extracting water from underground?!

We still have to borrow from other villages, right?

Although I'll definitely get ripped off, but...

We can't do without people. The sooner it's repaired, the sooner the people of Iwagakure won't be troubled by water anymore.

As Ohnoki had predicted, although the others all knew that Ohnoki's request for a construction team meant he had something good going on.

But it would be a fool not to make money, so they still made an offer.

Ultimately, Yua and Onoki signed a cooperation agreement.

This made Raikage grit his teeth in anger.

The five directors talked for several hours during the meeting.

The topics discussed were quite varied.

Ultimately, at least a unified narrative was reached, and no one tried to sabotage manned lunar landings.

Finally, this manned lunar landing, a collaborative effort between five villages...

A complete success.

This also became a new milestone for the entire ninja world.

Later generations also referred to Konoha 57 as the first year of the exploration of the universe.

(End of this chapter)