Build the Swarm Tech Tree in Konoha

Chapter 30 Money is just lubricant

Aburame Tetsumaru was a member of the ruling class in her previous life, but she herself was the ruled.

In this life, I am not only a member of the ruling class, but also a member of the rulers by birth, but my status is not high enough.

In short, Aburame Tetsumaru has never seen the world from the perspective of a ruler, so she has never experienced what "money is just the lubricant in the tools of rule".

Now that he was bothered by Konohagakure's wartime limited purchase order, Aburame Tetsumaru understood it and felt it deeply.

Under the purchase restriction order, even though I had tens of millions of taels in savings, I couldn't buy what I wanted and had no channels.

what to do?

By building connections and making connections, Aburame Tetsuwan bought more than a hundred kilograms through her social connections, but it was not enough.

Konoha's governance model is generally a feudal system, and having money is not as good as having power.

The power of Konoha ninja depends entirely on the distance and intimacy with Lord Hokage.

For example, the three Hokage auxiliaries, especially Danzo, must have no quota, otherwise what would he do to the root?

For example, the red-haired girl Uzumaki Kushina, does she lack anything or study materials?

But this path is laborious and time-consuming, and most importantly, Tetsumaru Aburame doesn't have the talent, so the path of a teacher is more suitable for him.

Be self-reliant and have enough food and clothing.

Aburame Iron Pill eliminated insects that did not meet the requirements, such as insufficient fecundity, insufficient metal enrichment, and poor controllability, and finally selected three types of insects.

The first is the gold-eating beetle, a wingless beetle that reproduces quickly and grows quickly. It likes to devour metals. It is similar in size to melon seeds. The carapace on its back is rich in metals to enhance its defense. The strange thing is that the metals in the carapace exist in the form of a mixture of simple substances.

High-quality resources directly smelted.

Although it borrowed the name of Han Laomo's spiritual insect, Aburame Tetsumaru's gold-eating insect has no fighting ability.

No, this little bug has to work hard to stay alive. The carapace of the gold-eating bug is too heavy, and its ability to move and forage is very weak. Large-scale breeding of this little bug requires manual intervention, and Aburame Tetsuwan is the only one who can

Instead, he decided to combine two kinds of insects.

Burrowing worms are earthworm-shaped worms with an adult diameter of about 2 cm and a body length of 40 cm. Burrowing worms have no eyes, a keen sense of smell, and are good at digging holes. The mucus secreted on the body surface solidifies to solidify the holes.

The weakness of the burrowing worm is that its bite force is not strong and it cannot deal with rocks. It can swallow small rocks in one bite, but it can only detour when it encounters large rocks.

The mole cricket that Aburame Tetsumaru finally selected was an insect that was good at digging holes in rocks. In addition to its shovel-shaped forelimbs, which were good at digging, it also had a hammer-shaped appendage that could be used to crush rocks with a charged strike similar to a mantis shrimp.

In addition, the mole cricket's saliva is a strong acid, which corrodes particularly hard rocks and then crushes them for excavation.

Mole crickets are also responsible for transporting minerals, crushing the excavated ores and transporting them to the insect nests to feed gold-eating insects.

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The eggs are soaked in a special hormone solution, and chakra and genitin are injected into the pupa. After this preparation, the mortality rate is 95%, and the insect is successfully mutated into a giant insect.

What Aburame Tetsumaru is most satisfied with is that he has successfully created flaws in three giant bugs, and they are huge flaws in the life system, making them very easy to domesticate.

The gold-eating bug became the size of a thumb, and its six legs shrunk by half. After the second molt, it completely lost the ability to walk and relied entirely on mole crickets for food.

The mole cricket became as big as a palm, and its speed and strength increased significantly, but its consumption increased even more, and its digestive system was so fragile that it could only rely on artificial feed to survive.

The burrowing worm turned into a terrifying giant worm with a body length of 12 meters as thick as a bowl, but lost the ability to divide and regenerate. The worm eggs cannot hatch naturally and must be exposed to constant pressure in an artificially maintained environment of constant temperature and humidity.

The hatching rate can only be two to three percent if the light is sufficient.

Through simple domestication, the three types of bugs have been combined to form a metal mineral mining system, which can mine extremely low-quality metal minerals at extremely low costs.

Aburame Tetsumaru controls the worms by hatching them, providing feed and insect food, spraying pheromones, etc. He named the combination of three kinds of bugs, the Mineral Zerg.

It is completely controlled by Aburame Tetsumaru, and is a resource that belongs exclusively to him and is not affected by the outside world.

By the time the holiday was over, the population of the mineral bugs had expanded to the limit expected by Aburame Tetsumaru, including 300 burrowing worms, 4,700 giant mole crickets, and 15,000 gold-eating bugs.

Centered in the yard of their home, the mineral Zerg excavated underground in a radius of 400 meters, building a complex cave maze with a depth of 500 meters and a total length of about 17 kilometers.

Fortunately, a hematite vein was excavated. Even though it was a waste ore with a low quality and no mining value, the gold-eating insects were able to extract 70 kilograms of pure iron from this non-waste ore every day, which could completely satisfy the oil demand.

The demand for female iron pills.

Aburame Tetsumaru didn't want anyone to know about this metal income, because his thinking was completely different from that of the feudal ninjas in the ninja world. He stood as a worker and was very dissatisfied with the feedback after donating the ant candy.

You don't care about money, do you? I won't tell you about the new source of wealth. I will enjoy it myself.

It's a pity that this idea was not implemented. In the final analysis, the power of Aburame Tetsumaru was not sufficient and the technical coverage was not wide enough.

First of all, the slough of the gold-eating insect is composed of a mixture of various metals and must be smelted. To keep it secret, the only way is to expand the furnace in the basement and smelt it by yourself every few days.

Can one person complete 70 kilograms of metal smelting in a day? What about when the scale becomes larger in the future?

And how to solve the problem of fuel for metal smelting?

Secondly, the large amount of metal obtained will eventually be used for the cultivation of psychic insects. How do you explain it when Aburame Tetsuwan produces tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even larger insects?

After much deliberation, in the end the only option was to take out all the shells of the gold-eating bugs, hand them to the Sarutobi family for smelting, purification and separation, and then scrape them together.

Fortunately, you don't have to pay any money from start to finish.

After figuring out the source of metal materials, the breeding and cultivation of bugs were soon on the right track.

Aburame Tetsumaru finally relaxed and took a good rest for a few days, enjoying delicious food, sleeping in, and sharing her experiences on the front line with her father who was home on vacation.

Having experienced the baptism of the battlefield, Aburame Tetsumaru can understand his father's instructions. As a veteran who has experienced two wars, he has much richer experience than Aburame Tetsumaru.

The environment of various countries, the specialties of ninjas in various countries, the advantages and disadvantages of the ninja armies of various countries, combat experiences, high-level ninjas in Konoha, famous high-level ninjas in various countries, Aburame Tetsumaru carefully absorbed his father's experience, recorded notes, and recited them repeatedly.

After learning and absorbing his father's experience, Aburame Tetsumaru made a choice between the psychic technique and the shadow clone technique, which he had struggled with for a long time, and temporarily gave up the shadow clone technique.

Aburame Tetsumaru had earned a lot of merit on the front line, and could have exchanged it for C-level psychic skills long ago. The reason why she didn't exchange it immediately was because it would be useless to exchange it on the front line.

Spiritualism is divided into two types according to the channeling target. One type of channeling target is the blood pact psychic beast, and the other type of channeling target is items.

The psychic technique itself is not different. The handprints and techniques are exactly the same, and the effects are exactly the same. The caster uses the psychic technique to sense the target's chakra, and the chakras of the two resonate, and then convert the target into the psychic technique.

In front of the practitioner.

The psychic beast has its own chakra. The key is that it also has a certain amount of intelligence. It can distinguish whether the caster is its contractor and actively respond to the psychic to complete the channeling.

But psychic items are troublesome, and you need to make a fuss about psychic items.

The first is an item that can contain chakra, such as the Seven Great Swords of Kirigakure, which can solidify the sealing technique, and activate the psychic technique by writing a psychic scroll corresponding to the sealing technique, but it can only channel in one direction.

The second is to build a huge sealing magic circle, place the psychic beast in the large array, and you can summon the items. The cost is huge, but like the psychic beast, it can come and go, such as the psychic Luo Sheng.

Door (set by the second author).

Aburame Tetsumaru wants to channel various insects to meet his unique logistical supply needs.

As an insect user who uses insect formations as a combat method, Aburame Tetsumaru's control limit has reached 4,000 insects. At the same time, the number of self-disciplined insects with extremely simple functions such as mine bugs can be deployed, and the number can exceed 15,000.

Such a huge scale can only be practiced in Konoha Village, because the total weight of fifteen thousand insects exceeds two hundred kilograms, which is twice the weight limit of Aburame Tetsumaru itself and cannot be carried at all.

Fortunately, there are ready-made ninjutsu in the ninja world. The black technology of channeling, which can deliver materials, lives, and even wisdom across time and space, can fully meet Aburame Tetsumaru's needs.

Even large toads weighing more than ten tons were summoned, let alone several kilograms of insects.

What? Psychicism requires massive amounts of chakra?

Sorry, although I, Aburame Tetsuwan, don't have as much chakra as Huang Mao at this stage, what worries me the most is that I can't use up my chakra.

Nothing wrong.

However, although the psychic insect can absorb chakra, its intelligence is equal to zero and cannot actively respond to the psychic blood contract. Therefore, it can only be achieved through the second method. The target of the psychic is the insect nest, and the insect hides in the insect nest, conducting indirect

Psychic.

This requires spending money to build a sealing magic circle, and then learning the adjusted psychic technique based on the secret contract set in the sealing technique.

This is not a huge project that Aburame Tetsumaru can handle alone. He has no way to find the ninjas of the sealing class. Apart from providing money, the whole thing can only be handled by the family.

Therefore, the psychic sealing circle can only be the property of the family. I need to convince my father and elders to pay for the construction. After the construction is completed, I have to pay "rent" for use.

This economic routine has truly reached the pinnacle of feudal society, and only Blue Star Real Estate developers can smile with contempt.

I first convinced my father, and then visited Elder Zhihui Aburame again.

Aburame Tetsumaru is really a little embarrassed. In the past few months since she returned to Konoha Village, she has been asking the elders for help every now and then. It is really rude.

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"The size of the psychic array that you girls want is so huge!"

A captain of the sealing team carefully read through the plan scroll and couldn't help scratching his head: "It will cost a lot of money."

Several old men from the Aburame family breathed a sigh of relief. If they could spend money to solve the problem, there would be no problem. Then they were all stunned and looked in a trance.

"It turns out that there are times when our Aburame family doesn't worry about money."

With money and the backing of Konohagakure, complete materials, complete technology, and abundant manpower, the Aburame family quickly started their biggest project after building the village.

First, they demolished the buildings in the clan's forbidden area. Aburame Zhihui and several other elders took matters into their own hands, making loud noises while doing so, while laughing and talking loudly.

"I have long disliked this dilapidated house. It can finally be demolished."

Then fifteen earth escape ninjas were invited to lift up the entire ground and dig down for a full seventy meters.

Next, layers of boulders with sealing techniques were filled in. The boulders were stacked to a thickness of ten meters, leaving a space of thirty meters in length, width and height in the center.

After reserving various large and small passages, the core space was capped, and then covered with huge stones for ten meters. Then the family's secret storehouse was built. On top of the secret storehouse, a layer of ordinary warehouses and a layer of training rooms were built.

After the ground is paved, the foundation work is completed.

Next, according to the plan, the sealing team built the psychic sealing array on the bottom floor, and the family ninja built the secret vault and warehouse.

A two-story building still had to be built on the ground and a wall built. Ordinary craftsmen in the village were hired to do the construction. They also needed to complete the construction of the underground training room.

After intensive construction, all the projects were completed forty days later. Not only did the Aburame family spend all their savings, they also owed a total debt of 70 million.

In Konoha, the largest violent group in the ninja world, the Aburame family is on the third level of the power structure. They have no shortage of powerful connections, but they have no business talent and have no money. They have been troubled by the lack of money for a long time, and they are constrained in everything they do.

Aburame Tetsumaru looked at Shihui, Shishuang and other elders, waving their hands expressionlessly in front of outsiders, spending hundreds of thousands or millions, and when they turned around, they showed disbelief and dull expressions on their faces.

He secretly used slime to take pictures of the expressions of the seven elders, and then kept them secretly. This thing was discovered before the elders passed away, and Aburame Tetsumaru, the instigator, might be beaten to death.

In fact, now the various ninja clans and chambers of commerce in Konoha Village and even the Land of Fire are actively looking for opportunities to lend money to the Aburame family, because the family now has a net income of millions of taels every month, and everyone

Want a piece of the pie.

Therefore, when the Aburame family wanted to start a big project and expressed that they were short of money, powerful people from all walks of life in Konoha and even the Fire Country took the initiative to help, providing money, effort, people, and technology.

What fascinates several Aburame elders is not only "having money to spend as they please", but more pleasure comes from tasting this power of "doing whatever you want" for the first time.

So, money is indeed just lubricant, but without it it is really annoying.

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Aburame Tetsumaru carefully placed the last insect nest and looked back. The psychic hall that was thirty meters long, wide and high a few days ago had changed beyond recognition.

The current channeling hall is a circle with a diameter of 24 meters and a height of only eight meters. In the center is a four-meter-high six-sided stone pillar with countless sealing runes engraved on the pillar.

In the middle of the cylinder is a list of psychic contracts engraved, and there are currently thirty-five names of Aburame ninjas.

The sealing runes on the cylinder extend all the way to the ground, spread out into twelve tree-like structures, covering the entire floor of the psychic hall, and extending up to the wall to a height of three meters.

Elevated passage boards are laid on the floor of the hall for people to move around and avoid touching the runes.

According to the sizes of large, medium and small, there are three annular channeling areas inside and outside on the ground. There are twelve large channeling slots in the center, 360 medium-sized channeling slots in the middle, and a thousand small channeling areas on the outermost periphery.

Souls.

Aburame Tetsumaru looked around and saw that there was nothing in the center. He only had eighty-four two-meter-high insect nests placed in the middle. More than a hundred groups of items, scrolls, and swords were sparsely placed on the outside.

, bundles of kunai, a mess of everything.

Well, the forty half-meter-high small insect nests in the more than one hundred groups still belong to Aburame Tetsumaru.

Aburame Tetsumaru laughed. One of the large insect nests was loaded with secret weapons, one was filled with supplies and medicines, one was filled with ninja tools and research equipment, and the remaining eighty-one insect nests were dormant with one hundred and one insects.

One hundred and fifty thousand psychic insects.

This army of millions of bugs contains nineteen species of bugs, covering six combat types: detection, camouflage, attack, defense, interference, and field control.

It was Aburame Tetsumaru who finally selected these nineteen kinds of bugs after strict screening based on more than half a year of combat experience and eliminating bugs that were impractical or had duplicate functions. He proudly named these nineteen bugs the Legion Zerg, the third after the Mineral Zerg.

Two insect groups.

Being able to summon millions of bugs at any time, unless he encounters an AOE ninja like a Jinchuriki, Aburame Tetsumaru feels that he has achieved his small goal of escaping from elite Jonin or even Kage.

However, millions of bugs have also wiped out Aburame Tetsumaru's wealth. Now only the eggs and newly hatched nymphs are left in his home and pasture. The next batch of bugs will not mature until three months later.

After setting up the insect nest, Aburame Iron Pill left Aburame's forbidden area.

Now the Aburame family's forbidden area has walls, gates and many guards, and it is a serious forbidden area.

Today's next task is to go shopping, shopping, eating a big meal with my parents, and take a hot spring bath with my father.

Tomorrow, Aburame Tetsumaru will return to the Land of Rain. The war has accumulated new energy in a gentle rhythm, and a new collision fighter has been brewing and matured.

(End of chapter)