My Hidden Road

After leaving the "fortress town", Naoto set out to walk in the direction of the Land of Earth. The scenery on the road had completely changed, from the continuous drizzle of the Land of Rain to the high mountains and canyons.

Naoto hadn't seen any pedestrians on the long mountain road for a long time. When he noticed something was wrong, he stopped. Logically speaking, the situation was tense now and there should be Iwagakure ninjas patrolling and guarding him, but why didn't he see anyone?

"Has it been discovered or is it a trap?"

Naoto murmured, turned around and walked behind him. He could not go any further. Once he was found to have a dead end, he would give Hanzo the information he had obtained and let him analyze it himself.

I don’t know how Hanzo wants to start a war with Iwagakure. The Earth Country is surrounded by rocky mountains and has a solid defense. To attack Iwagakure rashly, he only needs to hide in the mountains to make it difficult for Hanzo to find the main force for a decisive battle. Instead, he can use the topography.

Use earth escape to counterattack.

Attacking the Kingdom of Earth will not be as easy as attacking the Kingdom of Fire. The latter's territory is vast and indefensible and can only be resisted with manpower. Naoto, who walked back, carefully recorded the landforms in front of him to prove that he was not perfunctory. Hanzo's details

The mission is to find out the distribution of Iwagakure's troops, but how to find it in the vast mountains?

Naoto who was walking back did not stop and continued to move forward. A young man from Iwagakure walked out from the bend of the long mountain road. He looked ordinary. When he saw Naoto, he was not too surprised. He just glanced at him more when he passed by.

.

"Hey, wait a minute."

Naoto stopped and slowly turned his head, "Excuse me, is something wrong?"

The Iwagakure young man frowned and walked up to Naoto, looked at Naoto carefully with a sullen face, and finally shook his head as if he had admitted his mistake.

"warrior?"

"Yes, from the Iron Country." Naoto replied respectfully.

The young man from Iwagakure suddenly waved to the mountain opposite. A black flag waved on the top of the mountain, and then dozens of figures appeared. Naoto was horrified when he saw this scene. Hiding on the top of the mountain, no wonder he didn't see anyone along the way.

.I didn’t see anyone coming down from the top of the mountain. Is there a secret passage hidden in the rock?

"It's a young man who is a wandering samurai from the Kingdom of Iron." The young man from Iwagakure shouted.

The black flag on the top of the mountain opposite fell, then a white flag was raised, and then fell again a moment later. Naoto observed that no new flag was raised for a long time.

It is indeed very convenient to use flags to transmit information on high mountains with inconvenient roads. Naoto admires the people who came up with this method. They use the simplest method to solve the most difficult information transmission. Black is an intruder warning, white should be the danger is lifted, so it is inevitable

There are one or two more flags that represent other meanings.

"juvenile."

Naoto came to his senses and responded: "Is something wrong?"

"Leave here and go home as soon as possible. Otherwise, no one will know if you are killed." The young man from Iwagakure said kindly.

"Is there any danger here?"

The young man from Iwagakure said impatiently: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, be careful of your head moving, and get out of here as soon as possible. Really, my trip was in vain."

Get out of here, you hear me?”

Naoto nodded: "I understand, I'm leaving right now, it's really weird..."

Naoto was relieved to be able to leave, and took a few steps forward. Suddenly an arm was put on his shoulder, and the Iwagakure young man still had some unfinished thoughts.

"Take out your belongings and let me check them."

"yes."

Naoto held the long sword on his waist, and the Iwagakure young man suddenly became nervous and took two steps back. This distance would not allow him to escape if there was a conflict with the samurai.

"Slowly put the sword on the ground, along with other items on your body, and then squat down, you know?"

"Master Ninja, I am not a bad person."

Seeing the cowardly Naoto, the young man from Iwagakure became a little more courageous. He walked over and picked up the sword, "Do as I say, or else you will suffer the consequences!"

"I do what I do."

Naoto slowly took off his backpack and poured out the contents. They were just ordinary things. The only thing worthy of attention was a map. The Iwagakure youth picked up the map and looked at it, then continued to look for other things.

"What are maps used for?"

Naoto replied cautiously: "I picked it up yesterday at a hotel in a small town not far away. If you like it, you can take it. Don't be polite."

"You talk too much, get out of here!" The young man from Iwagakure dropped the long knife on the ground without giving him the map in his hand.

Randomly stuffing the things on the ground into his backpack, Naoto picked up the long knife and walked backwards, turning back every step of the way to vividly portray the timid and fearful young man. As he watched Naoto disappear into the long mountain road, the Iwagakure youth held the map.

Flicking around, what is written densely on it?

Of course he didn't recognize it. Apart from the necessary underlining and marking, Naoto used Chinese Pinyin to write his annotations. He himself struggled to read it, let alone others.

Holding the map, the young man turned around and walked towards the top of the mountain. He disappeared beside a cliff road. There was an abyss under the cliff. I don’t know how he disappeared. After a while, the young man appeared in a rock cave. There were several people there.

The Iwagakure ninja lay on the stone wall and looked down, but the observation point was blocked by gravel bushes and was difficult to distinguish.

"Toda, what are you holding in your hand?"

A tall, thin young man with a ponytail and a Iwagakure forehead protector on his forehead walked over with a long sword beside him and a ninja sword tied behind his back.

"Captain Leech, it's something belonging to that young samurai. It seems to be a map." The ninja named Toda said.

"What are you doing with other people's maps? Be careful about the secrets here being discovered. Just let ordinary passers-by pass by and don't embarrass them."

"But the symbols on it are very strange. They are all letters."

"show me."

Demon Leech took the map and started looking at it nonchalantly. Later, he discovered that the altitude line and other markings on the map had been re-marked, and he gradually became suspicious. He walked to a stone table and compared Naoto's map with the map on the table.

Leech was surprised to find that the wrongly marked places on the original map had been corrected, and some of the corrected areas were basically consistent with what the village had spent a lot of time and manpower delineating.

"Idiot, act quickly and catch that boy back to me. The letters on this map should be secret words. Don't you use your brain to think about the problem?"

Toda was very displeased at being scolded, but he was only a chuunin, while Demon Leech was a jounin and the captain, so even if he was scolded, he could only bear it silently.

"He said he picked it up from a hotel room in town and it wasn't his."

The demon leech roared, "Find the boy, and at the same time go to the town to inquire about the hotel where the boy stayed last night, and find the people who stayed there before!"

"yes!"

The Iwagakure ninjas in the cave were all busy, and the demon leech looked at the map foolishly.

If what the boy said is true, then someone must have hidden it for safety, thinking of coming back to retrieve it later. In this case, the owner of this map has gone deep into the mainland to continue to spy on intelligence, and will come back in the next few days to retrieve it.

map.

But if not, it belongs to that young man. As long as he catches him, everything will be fine!