Chapter 514 The Great Elder of Two Worlds
Konoha.
Nanga Shrine.
The kerosene lamp emitted a dim light, illuminating the path underfoot. The entire space seemed to have only the light in front of me, and the rest of the place was filled with darkness.
Thinking of the secret door she just entered, Kushina curiously explored the sides with her hands.
"There is no musty smell in the air, and the ventilation is very good. This place is very wide. Even if you stretch your arms, you can't reach the edge. I have taken 317 steps since I first entered the door and still haven't reached my destination."
After analyzing the existing information, she looked at Uchiha Asuka walking in front and slowly narrowed her eyes.
From the moment she entered Konoha, the other party did not go to a hotel or some unoccupied room as she thought, but took her directly to Nanga Shrine avoiding the crowds.
The dark environment is extremely depressing.
Kushina didn't notice that her breathing became heavier unconsciously. She ran forward two steps to catch up with Asuka, then put her hands on his shoulders and asked.
"Where are you going to take me?"
The moment Asuka put his hands on his shoulders, Asuka's body froze. When he heard Kushina's voice behind him, he let out a long sigh of relief and continued to slap his chest with his right hand.
"You scared me to death!"
After speaking, he turned the kerosene lamp in his hand brighter, and the entire passage was completely exposed to the two of them.
This is a corridor three meters long and two meters high. The floor of the corridor is paved with bluestone slabs, and logs are used as supports on both sides. The top looks like it has been cut with a knife, and is exceptionally smooth and flat.
"Is this the ceiling?"
Looking at the smooth cross-section above her head, Kushina's eyes widened for a moment and she said in surprise, "Does your family dig a secret tunnel and cover the ceiling with the top of your head?"
"The family didn't dig it!"
Feiniao picked his ears, turned to look at the darkness ahead, and explained, "A certain wise man in the family dug it himself."
"Smart? Who?"
"Uchiha Saburo!!"
Hearing this name, Kushina was stunned for a moment, and then she thought of a kind-hearted old man who smiled at his tribe all day long and had a cold face to outsiders.
"That great elder who likes to worry about family reproduction!!"
"Ha~"
Kushina's cheeks twitched slightly and she sneered.
I vaguely remember that when I was a child, the old man's eyes lit up when he saw her, and he kept asking the Uchiha brats from the Ninja School to play with him, but those brats all spoke arrogantly and unpleasantly.
Every time she heard those brats chirping, she wanted to punch them.
Thinking of this, Kushina looked at the spacious corridor again and said in a bad tone.
"What's the old guy doing to build this place?"
"Have you taken gunpowder?"
Asuka's eyes widened for a moment and he looked behind him in shock. This was the first time he saw Kushina being so rude to Uchiha other than himself.
Seeing his appearance, Kushina shrugged, without any intention of hiding anything, and said directly, "I don't know what the old guy was thinking. When I was training from my concubine, he wanted to protect me as a matchmaker! !”
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These words instantly caused Asuka to fall into silence.
He seemed to understand why the great elder wanted to protect Kushina, who was still in the ninja school, as a matchmaker.
“The old man is so evil!!
No, the great elder's will is perseverance. This is because he failed to persuade the former clan leader and his father to fall in love with Uzumaki Mito at sunset, so he set his sights on Kushina again. "
Thinking of this, Asuka put the kerosene lamp on the ground.
He put his hands behind his back and observed the corridor in front of him. His voice was full of emotion and he said, "I thought that the great elder would become an extrovert for a lifetime, but I didn't expect that he would fall in love with you for that nonsense idea.
That means you weren't a Jinchuriki at that time, otherwise the Great Elder and Danzo would have fought long ago. "
Kushina:? ? ?
Before she could ask, Asuka continued.
“This place was dug by the Great Elder.
Every time Uchiha holds a clan meeting, many crazy ideas will emerge, including clan members who want to sneak attack Danzo. As the centrist and second-in-command of the family, the elder's first priority is to appease the clan members. "
"Those tribesmen are not idiots, they will not always listen to the great elder's words.
Later, when the elder saw that he could no longer deceive, he proposed to the family to dig a tunnel directly to the Hokage Building, the Forest of Death and other places, so as to pave the way for future sneak attacks on Danzo. "
Hearing this, Kushina's pupils shrank suddenly, and she immediately looked at the spacious corridor and exclaimed.
"Is this a secret passage where you are planning to attack the village's upper echelons?"
"Yes and no!"
As if thinking of something, Feiniao rubbed his throbbing temples and said with a headache, "This is indeed the secret passage prepared by the great elder, but this is also where he deceives the people.
Kushina-sama, whose secret passage is well decorated for sneak attacks? Look at the decoration style of this passage, it is better than mine. "
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With the light of the kerosene lamp, Kushina looked at the unusually smooth ceiling, and the panic on her face was gradually replaced by speechlessness.
Just now, she was a little surprised as to why the passage had to be paved with floors and even had a ceiling above her head. She didn't expect that this was done deliberately by the old man.
Asuka picked up the kerosene lamp on the ground and complained while groping around the walls.
"The Great Elder regarded this place as a place for working people and deceiving radical clan members. To this day, I still remember what he said when he brought me here."
"What words?"
While talking, she came to Asuka, took the kerosene lamp very sensibly, and then lifted it up high so that the dim light could illuminate more places.
"As the great elder, I cannot support you openly. I can only express my strong support with practical actions behind the scenes."
"We secretly dig a passage leading directly to the Hokage Building. We cannot use chakra in the middle to avoid being discovered by the village's high-level officials. We even have to decorate the dug corridor so that even if the village finds out, there is a reason to shirk responsibility."
"Of course, we dig a passage, even if it is decorated very luxuriously, if it is really discovered by Danzo one day in the future, he will definitely use it as an excuse to attack us.
We can't let others use it as a handle!!"
"Let's build some houses in the passage. Even if we are discovered, we will say that we are here to escape the summer heat. Don't they let us Uchiha escape the summer heat underground?"
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After hearing this, Kushina was stunned in an instant.
She didn't expect that the old man did so many things to appease the family? Although anyone with a discerning eye could see that the other party was slowing down the progress, they just couldn't find fault with it.
At the same time.
In the original world.
"A-choo!!"
"Is someone talking about me again?"
Then, Uchiha Saburo rubbed his swollen nose, then stuck the shovel into the ground, looked at the tribesmen who were working hard in front of him, and said slowly in an old voice.
"Everyone, work slower and more carefully. Only slow work can produce fine work, and fine work can reflect the power of our Sharingan."
"You, you, you lay the bluestone slabs neatly, without leaving any gaps. As the first powerful family in Konoha, we Uchiha have the strongest blood limit Sharingan in the ninja world. How can we work so carelessly?"
"Don't work so fast, slow down, slow down, now that Danzo has lost power, we are not particularly anxious to kill him, the time is not ripe yet!!"
"I don't know when Asuka can complete the task. That kid works very well for me, slowly and carefully."
"Or else he can open the Mangekyō, you guys work slower for me."
At this time.
In the corridor of another world.
Although the two worlds are not in the same timeline, and even the development of the two worlds has become different after the night of the Nine-tailed Fox, the two worlds are not without similarities.
For example.
This finely decorated house in front of me.
Click!
With the sound of the mechanism, the wall in front of him trembled for a moment, and suddenly moved slowly to the left.
Asuka hung the kerosene lamp on the wall and pressed the switch on the wall.
Bang!
As the incandescent lamp lit up, Kushina also saw clearly what was behind the wall.
A large house with fine decoration located underground! !
In the center of the spacious living room, there are sofas, tables, chairs, benches and other furniture. In order to prevent dust from falling on the furniture, they are all covered with a layer of white cloth. The kitchen is fully equipped with pots and pans, and there are several sets of brand new bedding in the bedroom.
"Can people live directly?"
"Yes!"
As he said, Asuka looked at the big house in front of him, and a trace of emotion flashed in his eyes.
When I first learned about the situation of the elder from the cat lady, I was a little surprised.
I didn't expect that the elder in this world is also a jack of all trades, a centrist. Combined with his original style, I knew that the old man would definitely dig tunnels, and even dig a few houses out of the tunnels.
Bang!
Throwing her black robe and luggage on the ground, Kushina stretched her body, looked at the big house, and said with satisfaction, "Will we live here in the next few days?"
Asuka rubbed her chin with one hand and thought for a while.
"Let's wait for the information from the cat lady!
If we can't get any useful information from the lady, we will contact the high-level officials of Konoha. Before that, try not to expose ourselves, so as not to be caught and sliced by some people."
"I want to see Naruto!"
Then, she blinked and looked at Asuka with expectation.
"Lord Kushina, how about I transform into Naruto for you to see."
"Then call me mom?"
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