Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 443 City of the Future

Stepping out of the train station, a wave of heat hits you.

Strangely enough, the climate of Konoha Village is not tropical, and it is only early April.

As a result, the weather was already this hot in early April. Youya wondered how the world could have become like this when there hadn't been any major destruction of the natural environment. In recent years, the hot weather has been coming earlier and lasting longer.

If this continues, we'll probably only have summer and winter.

but……

As is well known, dead people have no body temperature, so the two big shots behind Orochimaru did not feel any heat.

Upon exiting the subway, besides the sweltering heat, one is greeted by the sounds of vendors hawking their wares on both sides of the road:

There are food vendors, phone screen protector vendors, milk tea vendors, and some even sell clothes right here.

I don't know what they were thinking, setting up a clothing store at the entrance/exit of the train station and next to the subway entrance.

However, considering this store has been open for three years...

It's actually possible to make money here? After all, the rent in a place like this must be extremely expensive.

"That's impressive. I heard you say this is only the outer city, right?" the burly man with a gentle expression asked Orochimaru.

Meanwhile, another burly man with a cold expression calmly observed everything around him.

"Yes, First Hokage." Orochimaru was very respectful to this man, after all...

If he wanted to, this man could indeed kill him in an instant.

However, he wasn't particularly afraid, after all...

His 99th clone just backed up his consciousness today. If he dies, this consciousness will be activated immediately, so his death doesn't count as death.

I'm not a coward at all, okay?

Okay, I'm still pretty cowardly, after all, you can't fake pain.

It still hurts.

Yes, these two burly men are the humans that the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, and the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, transformed into using the Transformation Technique.

In order to avoid causing a disturbance, both the first and second generation chose to transform.

But to be honest, Orochimaru felt they didn't need to do that, because...

"So that's the inner city? That's unbelievable..." The First Generation put his hand on his forehead and looked in a distant direction, but unfortunately, the view was blocked by tall buildings.

"When I died... Konoha didn't have this many tall buildings," Hashirama Senju said.

Orochimaru smiled slightly and then said to the two of them, "Let's go. Take care of my business first. After that, if you have any questions about the village, you can ask the current Hokage."

With his arms crossed, Tobirama Senju looked around at the steel jungle of modern society, constructed of reinforced concrete. He sighed, then smiled slightly: "Ya, you did a really good job."

Hashirama Senju smiled as well.

God knows, the moment he saw Orochimaru, what he thought most was that Konoha was in danger and needed him, the First Hokage, to help.

Unexpectedly, Orochimaru's request was something like that...

Simple and realistic.

Well, anyway, he and Tobirama Senju arrived, and the two of them took a train for more than ten hours from the Land of Grass to Konoha Village. Although it was just the outer city, there was no doubt that compared to the villages they passed along the way, Konoha's outer city was already exceptionally prosperous.

For Hashirama Senju, even the lives of the people in the villages of the Land of Fire and the small villas they built were already the perfect life he imagined.

After all, he lived in that large manor until his death.

Although the area is indeed large, it is really inferior to the ordinary villages in the Land of Fire in terms of infrastructure.

At least where he lived back then, if you wanted to drink water, you had to fetch it and boil it yourself. Unlike the villages here, where tap water pipes are connected to every household.

Of course, the water source is underground, and the water pipes mainly serve a filtering function.

In short, these villagers were living better than him, which was something Hashirama Senju hadn't expected.

It is said that the place where Hashirama Senju originally lived was transformed into the former residence of the First Hokage by Yua. They usually charge admission fees and occasionally organize group visits for students, earning several million ryo a year.

However, Orochimaru was unaware of this matter and had no interest in it.

Orochimaru led the two big shots to the subway station, bought subway tickets with their ID cards and temporary visas, and the group boarded the subway.

As soon as Hashirama Senju entered the subway station, he started looking around, as these things were indeed a bit too trendy for him.

After boarding the subway, Hashirama Senju asked about the speed. Upon learning that it covered 300 kilometers in an hour, Hashirama Senju took a deep breath.

That's unbelievable.

Tobirama Senju also had some doubts.

Was he really only dead for over thirty years?

Why does it feel like I've been dead for over three hundred years?

However, this is only the beginning.

I said it a long time ago, Yuya's focus is on Konoha's inner city. You have to make Konoha's inner city better than Konoha's outer city in order to attract people from Konoha's outer city to desperately want to come to Konoha's inner city.

That way they'll be willing to work wholeheartedly for you and be your slaves.

Therefore, the outer city of Konoha is certainly better than other places in the Land of Fire, and even comparable to the villages of the other four great ninja villages.

But the truly prosperous...

It is the inner city of Konoha.

When the subway arrived at the station, Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju got off the subway and followed the signs to the subway entrance.

"Huh? Why is no one on duty? Is someone slacking off?" Tobirama Senju was somewhat dissatisfied to see that there were only a few gates, no one around, and the gates were all open for passage without anyone guarding them.

Orochimaru waved his hand: "That's not how it is. Come with me."

As Orochimaru spoke, he took the lead and walked to the gate. Then, when he reached the gate, an infrared wall made of infrared rays appeared in front of him.

Orochimaru walked straight over.

"Welcome, Mr. Orochimaru."

The mechanical sound startled the two Hokage.

Orochimaru smiled slightly and opened his arms, indicating that the two could pass through.

After the two passed through, the mechanical voice announced their names from their temporary visas.

"The system here is unmanned access control because there is a serious shortage of manpower, so the inner city of Konoha is currently operating without any staff.

Orochimaru opened his arms and said to Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, "Welcome to Konoha. This is the city of the future."

(End of this chapter)