() "What's wrong?" Ito Cheng straightened up and looked at Shizune at the door and asked.

"Gang Hands-sama wants to see you." Shizune replied.

"So late? You want to see me?" Ito Cheng asked doubtfully.

"I came to see you before, but there was no one at home at that time." Shizune explained.

"Okay, I understand." Ito Cheng nodded, put on his shoes, walked out of the room and closed the door, and said to Shizune, "Let's go."

"Follow me." Shizune greeted, then burst out chakra on her feet, jumped to the roof of the side, and walked towards the location where Steel Hand currently lives. Behind Shizune, Ito Cheng followed closely.

After a while, the two arrived at Gangshou's residence, and then were led into the room by Shizune.

"I said, what's the emergency? You still need to see me at this late hour." Entering the room, Ito Cheng asked the steel hand who was sitting on his seat and looking down at the information.

"Shizune, go to my room and take out the scroll on the table and give it to him." Steel Hand raised his head and glanced at Ito Cheng who was sitting down by himself, then turned to Shizune who was standing beside him and ordered.

"Yes." Shizune agreed, then turned around and entered the inner room. After a while, she came out again with a scroll, came to Ito Cheng's side, and handed the scroll to Ito Cheng's hand.

"What is this?" Ito Cheng took the scroll and asked the steel hand while opening the sealing rope outside.

"Wow~" There was a sound of paper shaking, and the scroll was unfolded by Ito Cheng.

"Wood Release!?" Ito Cheng raised his head in surprise after seeing clearly what was written on the scroll, and looked at the steel hand in surprise.

"Since you have already used the energy of Wood Release to that extent, it is time to teach you the Wood Release Ninjutsu." Steel Hand put down the information in his hand, looked at Ito Cheng and said softly.

"Thank you very much." Hearing this, Ito Cheng rerolled the scroll and sealed it, thanking him with a smile.

"However, although I gave you the scroll, I hope you can practice the above Wood Release Ninjutsu when no one is around." Steel Hand continued.

"Do you want to keep it as a trump card?" Ito Cheng said, putting the scroll in his arms and actually entering the Rubik's Cube world.

"Yes." Steel Hand confirmed. Then he looked at Ito Cheng and continued, "In addition, starting from tomorrow, you will also have to take over the tasks assigned by the village and carry out them."

"Eh?" Ito Cheng looked at Gangshou in surprise, waiting for her next words.

"You should be aware of the situation in the village. After Orochimaru's attack, the true strength of Konoha Village is no longer commensurate with the name of a big country. So from now on, all ninjas at the chunin level and above are mobilized to take over the tasks in the village. , to create the illusion of Konoha's stable strength, used to deter other countries and cultivate their health." Steel Hand explained in a deep voice.

"It seems that this Wood Release Ninjutsu is not in vain." Ito Cheng patted his chest and laughed at himself. But Ito Cheng was just pretending, so he immediately put away the self-mockery on his face. Nodding, "I understand."

"Okay, you go back." Steel Hand said to Ito Cheng after finishing the matter.

"Then I'm leaving." Ito Cheng nodded. Then he stood up from his seat with his hands on his knees, and then left Gangtou's residence with Shizune seeing him off.

"I'm leaving first, Shizune." Ito smiled at Shizune next to him at the door.

"Be careful on the road." Shizune said.

After saying that, Ito Cheng turned around, waved his hand with his back to Shizune, and walked slowly towards his residence.

"These Wood Releases are different from the records in the Book of Sealings. They seem to be low-level versions of Wood Releases. I guess these are the Wood Releases used by Yamato in the original drama." Ito Shige, who had returned to his residence at this time, re-wrapped the Wood Release Scrolls. Unfolding it, he thought to himself while checking it, "But that's right. With the amount of chakra of the first generation, Yamato's body simply cannot cast that level of Wood Release Ninjutsu."

After that, Ito Cheng rolled up the scroll and took it back to the Rubik's Cube World. He turned around and walked to the bed to sit down and lay down to rest.

The rest of the night was silent, and I slept peacefully until dawn.

"Dang Dang Dang~" In the morning, when Ito Cheng was having breakfast. There was a sudden knock on the door. Seeing this, Ito Cheng put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, stood up, walked to the entrance, and opened the door.

"Ito Cheng. Summoned by the Hokage." An unknown Konoha ninja said to Ito Cheng.

"I understand." Ito Cheng replied.

"Okay, I'll take my leave first." The ninja bowed after hearing this, turned around and walked away.

"Trouble." Ito Cheng muttered as he closed the door. Then he walked back to the dining table and took two casual bites of breakfast. Then he simply cleaned up and left the residence to walk towards the Hokage's office building.

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"This is a B-level escort mission." In the mission explanation hall of the Hokage's office building, Steel Hand leaned on the table with his hands clasped together and looked at Ito Cheng who was standing in the center.

"B-level mission? In other words, you will encounter enemy ninjas. Isn't that a mission that requires the cooperation of the team?" Ito Cheng looked at Gangate in surprise.

"Indeed, but with your strength, a mere B-level mission shouldn't be a problem for you." Steel Hand said calmly.

"Um~ Okay, tell me the specific mission content." Ito Cheng was stunned when he heard this and said helplessly.

Then Shizune explained the details of this mission to Ito Cheng. Although Shizune talked a lot, she could sum it up in one sentence: escorting a big businessman named Akai Kanata to the Bear Country to complete a secret deal.

Later, Ito met the target he wanted to protect on this trip, a balding middle-aged man with a slightly overweight body, Akai Kanata.

"Only one person?" Akai Kanata, who saw Ito Cheng, said to the steel hand with some dissatisfaction, "Hokage-sama, what I offered is a bounty for a B-level mission. Why do you only send one person to protect me?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Akai, he is very powerful and can definitely deliver you to your destination safely." Steel Hand said, "And even if you don't trust his strength, you must believe in Konoha's credibility."

"Okay, for the sake of Konoha's long-standing reputation." Akai looked at Ito Cheng up and down, nodded reluctantly, and then gave the steel hand a slight salute and said, "Goodbye."

Immediately, Ito Cheng left the mission explanation hall, walked out of the Hokage's office building, joined the team that had been prepared, and headed for Konoha Village.

"Old country of bears, I just happened to drop by the Star Ninja Village to see what the so-called star is. By the way, there is also the peacock magic. See if I can use the embodiment of Nen or the transformation system. Come out." Ito Cheng, who was sitting on the top of the van arranged by Akai Kanta, touched his chin and said thoughtfully.

Then he crossed his legs and began to meditate.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Not long after Ito Cheng sat cross-legged, the big businessman named Akai Kanata shouted to Ito Cheng, "I paid you to be a guard, not to rest." Yes, please pay close attention to your surroundings."

"Really, if I had known that Konoha would send a guy like this, I might as well just hire a wild ninja. It's cheaper." Then Akai Kanata muttered in a low voice.

Hearing Akai Kanata's words, Ito Cheng turned his head slightly, squinted his eyes and looked at Akai Kanata over there, and then when he wanted to reprimand loudly, he suddenly pressed all the murderous aura in his body towards Akai Kanata.

"Plop~" Feeling the murderous aura approaching, Akai Kanata sat down on the car floor, his face was pale and he was sweating, and at the same time, a light yellow liquid with a strong fishy smell flowed out from his crotch.

"If you are yelling at me, I will kill you immediately, and then go back and report that the mission failed." Ito Cheng retracted his gaze, closed his eyes again and sat up to meditate, and looked indifferently at Akai Kanou, whose eyes were filled with fear. Say more.

"Yes, yes." Akai Kanata trembled subconsciously when he heard the words, and said in a trembling voice, and then rolled and crawled back into the car.

Since then, Akai Kanata has become more honest and no longer cares about what Ito Cheng does, and he also serves him well. In this way, after four days of trekking, the team finally left the Country of Fire and entered the Country of Bears.

Not long after they entered the Bear Country, a three-person ninja team from the Rain Ninja Village appeared in Ito Cheng's perception. Seeing this, Ito Cheng didn't waste any time. He directly transformed into a shadow clone and stayed in the team. Then his real body jumped up and rushed into the woods nearby, rushing towards the three rain ninjas.

Ito Cheng was very fast, so he arrived at the hiding place of the three rain ninjas in a short while. However, Ito Cheng, who was all at the chuunin level in terms of personal strength, did not bother to use sneak attacks and directly attacked them. .

"Water Release - Like Rain and Dew Senbon." After one of the rain ninjas saw Ito Cheng's figure, he immediately jumped back, threw the ninja umbrella in his hand into the air, and shouted loudly while forming seals with his hands.

While he was forming the seal, the other two rain ninjas threw out kunai and shurikens to intercept Ito Cheng's actions and buy time for the companions behind him to cast their ninjutsu.

Seeing the ninja tool that was shot, Ito Cheng's body immediately spun. While dodging the attacks of shuriken and kunai, he reached out to grab the kunai that was shot, and used it to resist the hand that could not be avoided when he turned around. Shuriken, then reached out to grab it, grabbed the shuriken whose speed had been offset, and threw it back as he turned around.

At this time, the rain ninja who was preparing the ninjutsu finally cast the ninjutsu, and then saw countless slender senbons transformed from liquid flying towards Ito Cheng's body one after another.

Ito Cheng's body flashed, turning into a tree stump and disappearing from the eyes of the three rain ninjas. Then, before the three rain ninjas noticed him, he appeared behind one rain ninja and cut it off with a touch of kunai. The other person's throat.

"He~he~" The rain ninja whose throat was cut tightly covered the wound with both hands and fell to the ground with a look of reluctance, making a painful sound.

After finishing off one rain ninja, Ito Cheng stepped in front of another rain ninja as if shrinking to an inch. When the other rain ninja looked frightened, a kunai pierced his heart and killed him.