Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 604 Betraying the Village? No, It's Abandoning Darkness and Embracing Light [Part 1]

Because this Chunin Exam was broadcast live in all countries across the entire ninja world, many candidates have already made a name for themselves in the ninja world even though only two rounds have been completed.

Take Nara Shikamaru for example.

No one but him could tell that the rules on the trees in the Death Forest were all fake during the second round of testing.

Or rather, some people could see it, but no one else would say it so directly and act on it as a premise.

Therefore, many people who watched the live stream felt that Shikamaru was the best performer in the second round of exams.

And that is indeed the case.

Putting everything else aside, just think about what would have happened if Shikamaru hadn't been there for the second round of Chunin Exams?

Undoubtedly, some teams will strictly follow the fake rules on those big trees and then be eliminated by the other teams. It would be good if one or two teams could leave the second round of the exam and have to rush to the third round. There is a high probability that only three or four people will be left, and they will be the three or four strongest people.

However, the third round of Chunin Exams will be much easier then, as it can be completed in a single day.

It won't be as complicated as it is now. After all, there are seven teams in the third round, so it would be very troublesome to determine a winner and decide the first place in this Chunin Exam.

It will take at least many rounds of fighting.

Thinking about it, Youya suddenly realized that the one-on-one match he had originally planned seemed a bit too troublesome, so perhaps...

How about changing the competition format?

Without hesitation, Youya called Lu Jiu over, and the two discussed the new competition format, eventually finalizing their idea.

On the third day, with only one day left until the third and final round of the Chunin Exams, a major incident occurred regarding the exams.

The captain of the squad from Hoshigakure announced that he was joining Kumogakure.

In short, this guy betrayed his village and joined Kumogakure.

When You Ya heard about this, he was completely dumbfounded.

No, how could something like this happen?

However, after learning more about the situation, Youya came to understand the captain.

Thanks to the development of Konoha Village over the years, many civilians in the ninja world have gradually come to live modern lives.

For example, in the Land of Rain, thirty years ago, the people of this country had problems with food and water. But now, because of the abundant water resources in the Land of Rain, after taking over the Land of Rain from Hanzo the Salamander more than ten years ago, the leader of the Land of Rain, Yahiko, has spent several years digging three canals in the Land of Rain.

Moreover, it involved diverting a large amount of manpower to dig the canal.

It's fortunate that the current environment is peaceful. If the Land of Rain were to become a three-way battleground like in the original manga, Yahiko's plan would completely collapse, and the Land of Rain would never recover.

Fortunately, there haven't been many wars in the last ten years. Even when there have been, they've mostly been like those in Konoha, where the village's ninja clans have gone out to fight proxy wars and then profit from them.

Therefore, the construction of the canal in Yahiko proceeded smoothly.

After the canal was completed, caravans from the three countries of Fire, Wind, and Earth, which originally had to travel by land, could now travel entirely by water.

Although the waterway transport volume of the Land of Rain cannot compare with the railway transport volume from Konoha Village to Iwagakure Village and Sunagakure Village, it still provides merchants with another option.

Moreover, Yahiko, I don't know who he copied, came up with an annual membership system.

Simply put, if you buy an annual pass, you'll get a 20% discount on toll fees for water transport through the Land of Rain during that year.

Don't underestimate this 20% discount; some merchants who frequently travel to countries surrounding the Land of Rain really need this discount.

As a result, the Rain Kingdom has made a lot of money in recent years, and because the population of the Rain Kingdom is not very large, the Rain Kingdom has temporarily created a false image of prosperity.

Simply put, every household had surplus grain, houses were built, hospitals and schools were built, and people had extra money in their hands. At first glance, it really looked prosperous.

The reason this prosperity is described as false is because it is far too easy to target the Land of Rain.

Simply halve the railway transportation prices, and the Rain Country's advantage in waterway transportation will be completely eliminated.

However, this kind of thing would harm the transportation industry itself and destroy the transportation industry of the Rain Country.

Yuya is not prepared to do that.

After all, if you cut travel expenses in half, it will be very difficult to raise them again later.

However, if the Land of Rain goes too far in the future, Yua wouldn't mind letting them know who the boss is.

The reason for saying all this is that even the impoverished Land of Rain has benefited from the era and become better, so naturally other villages cannot stand still.

Therefore, products like mobile phones and computers manufactured in Konoha Village have seen considerable sales overseas in recent years.

As a result, Fetion, a social networking software that Youya had been preparing for for a long time, went global.

It can be said that while other villages were still unaware of what social media represented, Yuya had already begun to seize the global market.

Other villages, such as Xingren Village, naturally also use Feixin and Weibo.

So after the Hoshigakure team was thoroughly humiliated by Shikamaru in the second round and forced the Hoshigakure ninjas who were taking the exam to join their team and successfully pass the second round, the residents of Hoshigakure took to social media to launch a verbal attack on the Hoshigakure team.

Simply put, we originally thought that sending you to participate in this Ninja World Exam was to bring glory to the village.

Looking at it now, it's just a complete clown.

He had previously ambushed Shikamaru's team and driven them out of the joint team, only to find out that the joint team was the only way to guarantee that multiple teams could clear the stage together. If Hoshigakure hadn't implemented this drastic measure, would some teams that should have been eliminated have remained so?

For example, the other team from Kumogakure that was eliminated.

Only seven teams made it to the third round. Even Karin from the Land of Whirlpools was eliminated because her two teammates were eliminated in the first round, so she was targeted by other teams in the second round and was eliminated without any surprise.

This has led many people from the Land of Whirlpools to express their opinions online: "These three useless people from the Star Village can make it to the third round, so why can't we from the Land of Whirlpools make it to the third round? The Star Village deserves to die! Our Karin-chan has already joined the Allied Forces, and if it weren't for this mess, we definitely would have made it to the third round!"

Many other villages also criticized Xingren Village.

The concept of cyberbullying didn't exist at that time, so outsiders couldn't empathize, but You Ya understood.

Cyberbullying...

It really could drive someone to their death.

(End of this chapter)