Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 86 The Mastermind

After guessing this possibility, You Ya felt a chill run down his spine.

Madara Uchiha is probably just like in the original history, waiting to cause trouble on the border between life and death.

Madara Uchiha needs to find a proxy before he can cause any trouble.

And no one in the Uchiha clan is currently in any trouble.

Even because of Tobirama Senju's distrust, all the Uchiha clan members were in Konoha Village.

Uchiha Kagami, who was originally on the battlefield, has now returned.

Therefore, it is virtually impossible for Madara Uchiha to find his own agent.

Then the only one capable of causing trouble is Black Zetsu.

But Black Zetsu...

To be honest, Black Zetsu is indeed top-notch at preserving his life, but when it comes to actual combat power...

Black Zetsu's combat power is basically nonexistent.

Therefore, after thinking it over, You Yasi also felt that it was unlikely that these two were behind the trouble.

However, this war cannot continue under any circumstances.

After thinking for a moment, You Ya wrote a letter and sent it to the front lines.

Tobirama Senju's first reaction after reading the letter was that Yua was joking.

But upon closer reflection, I realized that, as You Yaxin said, there was indeed no other way.

If the Land of Iron really joins the war, something truly terrible will happen.

Thus, Tobirama Senju found a general from the Land of Iron.

This was the most trusted person of the deceased lord. Tobirama Senju went straight to the point, stating that it was definitely not Konoha that assassinated the Lord of the Land of Iron. At the same time, he also believed that it was not Kumogakure, because both sides knew that the Land of Iron was very powerful and they would not provoke the Land of Iron for no reason.

Based on this assessment, although the war between Konoha and Kumogakure has been delayed for a while by Kumogakure, once the next batch of supplies arrives, Tobirama Senju will undoubtedly be able to launch another offensive.

By then, even if the Cloud Village wanted to fight, the ninja clans of the Cloud Village wouldn't want to fight. The outcome would likely be reparations and resource losses. Some people would want the Leaf Village and the Cloud Village to continue fighting because continuing the fight would benefit others.

Who is this bystander...?

Tobirama Senju solemnly stated that he did not know, but he hinted that the ninja who could evade the Konoha and Kumogakure reconnaissance forces was probably a highly skilled Iwagakure ninja who was adept at using Earth Release and could pass underground.

Tobirama Senju appealed to their emotions and reasoned with them. After learning about it, the Hidden Cloud Village weighed the pros and cons and, unlike Tobirama, didn't try to hide it. They simply and decisively admitted that it was those bastards from the Hidden Stone Village who did it.

The Third Raikage wasn't brainless. On the contrary, he and Tobirama Senju both knew that the other party definitely didn't do it, but neither he nor Konoha had any evidence to prove that they weren't responsible. At most, they could only use the process of elimination to prove that their own people didn't do it.

But it would be a miracle if the people of the Iron Country believed in this method.

Since that's the case, why not just hand it over to Iwagakure?

Although he and Tobirama Senju also knew that it was most likely not Iwagakure who did this.

But there was no other way; if they didn't shift the blame onto Iwagakure, they would have to take the blame upon themselves.

Therefore, Tobirama Senju knew, the Third Raikage knew, and even this general from the Land of Iron knew that Iwagakure couldn't possibly be involved in this matter.

But what can he do?

Deny it?

What good will it do if you deny it?

The only way to resolve this dispute now is to investigate the truth behind the assassination of the King of the Land of Iron as soon as possible.

Therefore, the two sides, Konoha and Kumogakure, who had been fighting to the death, strangely fell silent.

Meanwhile, Youya seized the opportunity and embarked on a major construction project.

The civil engineer was overjoyed, while You Ya spent every day rubbing his temples, pondering where to find more people to work with.

Then, someone from the Sarutobi clan came to inform Yua that the kindergarten at the amusement park had been built.

The design was done by Yu Ya. There weren't many entertainment options inside, just a carousel (with a gear mechanism), an acrobatic troupe, various statues, slides, a haunted house, etc. Then, they used a downhill slope of the Sarutobi clan's land to build a bungee jumping site.

However, compared to the bungee jumping sites that were hundreds of meters high in Yuya's previous life, the bungee jumping site that was only twenty meters high was honestly a bit low-class.

But Yuya had no other choice.

Now that the research on electricity has been successful, the next step is to manufacture more electrical equipment, and at the same time, to complete the transmission of electrical sound waves and light signals, and to develop television sets.

Once these are done, the next step is to convert sound into wave signals, and mobile phones will be invented.

However, we have to take it one step at a time. If the war ends this year, Yuya is confident that he can develop a television set within three years and a mobile phone within five years. Then he can start to upgrade and iterate the technology while gradually transferring outdated production capacity to other countries. Konoha can develop high-tech products while other countries become sweatshops.

Although it's not good to do it this way, in any world, if some people do easy work, then there will always be others who do hard and tiring work.

Of course, some important basic factories, such as steel mills, copper smelters, and other factories, will not be shut down, but will only be temporarily closed. If war breaks out, production can be restarted at any time.

What will happen to the employees who have been laid off...?

Referring to the practices of a certain ugly country in Youya's previous life, I will send my people to your country to be your leaders, teach you how to do things, and they can repair the equipment if it breaks down. It's not wrong for you to support these people for me, is it?

Other countries will have to thank Youya then.

Of course, the key to everything is...

Can the war be stopped this year?

The incident in the Land of Iron was a turning point.

Yua's proposal was shameless, but the fact that Tobirama Senju adopted it shows that he also knew the war could not continue.

Konoha has been fighting a war for more than four years. Tobirama Senju is not blind; how could he not know that the war has hindered Yua and changed Konoha's progress?

not to mention……

Nobody likes war.

Several thousand ninjas have died in Konoha in the past four years.

Many people were buried on the spot and couldn't be brought back to Konoha to be buried in the ground.

Of course, although he wanted to stop the war, Tobirama Senju's idea was to defeat you and then talk about peace.

You Ya's idea is to make your economic development inseparable from me, so that when you want to fight, your vested interests in the country can tear you apart.

Their ideas are still different.

What Yua saw in the Land of Iron was an opportunity, a possible chance to stop the war.

Yuya sent a letter to Tobirama Senju, expressing his desire for a peace talks between Konoha, Kumogakure, and the Land of Iron.

After careful consideration, Tobirama Senju agreed to Yua's proposal.

Before he could even find the Third Raikage, the investigation results from the Land of Iron came out...

He was an assassin from the Land of Iron, and he deliberately used a kunai instead of a samurai sword.

The current admiral of the Land of Iron is furious and demands that this bastard be publicly torn to pieces.

The sight of the samurai, bound and wailing under the scorching sun, drew disdain from everyone in the Land of Iron.

He wailed, "It was my fault that I killed my lord with my own hands! But that wasn't my intention! It was a completely black shadow! It was it! It lured me into darkness! It made me lose everything!"

"That's it!"

When the news reached Konoha, while everyone thought it was just the words of a guy who had been blinded by profit and abandoned his samurai dignity, Yua felt uneasy no matter how he looked at it.

This guy... is he talking about Black Zetsu?

As far as I can remember, Black Zetsu does seem to have the ability to control people, but he can only control their bodies and not their minds.

Well, now...

Now we've identified who's behind this...

(End of this chapter)