Red sand dust

The climate is slightly abnormal. In the eyes of most people in the ninja world, it is just a trivial matter. In contrast, the return of Jiraiya, one of the legendary "Three Ninjas" to Konoha Village, affects all major ninjas. The heart of the village.

The most powerful person in the ninja world today, if you are more rigorous, there is no need to add "one".

When he turns on the Sage mode and uses the art of two lives to combine with Shima Sennin and Fukasaku Sennin, he has a good chance of winning against Pain's Six Paths.

Even the aging Tsuchikage Sandaime Onoki and the menacing "red dust" Daimaru are not sure of this.

As for the fourth generation Raikage and Tsunade, their deterrence in single combat is slightly inferior, while the fifth generation Mizukage, Terumi Mei, and the fifth generation Kazekage, Gaara, are even further behind.

At a time when the threat of the "Akatsuki" organization was often mentioned, the news that Jiraiya had returned to the village concealed the intelligence enthusiasm that the Sand Ninjas were building a large-scale construction project.

In other countries, the preliminary preparations for such a massive project would be very cumbersome, the coordination of all parties involved would be complicated, and the game of interests would take at least a year and a half to clarify.

The Kingdom of Wind is much more convenient. Most of it is barren land with nothing but sand.

Because of this, Daimaru passed through the village and successfully obtained this almost unknown land from the daimyo of the Land of Wind.

Anyway, it is of little value. If someone can buy it, the secular government can only covet it. If you can plunder it, it's worth it.

The land, which was almost twice the size of the Arikawa Country, was taken over by Suna Ninja in the form of installment payment.

Except for two or three barren oasis settlements, the residents of the Kingdom of Wind, with a total of less than 300 people, need to move, and there are no other troubles.

Next, Daimaru led a large group of sand ninjas. They first used sand and ferromagnetic pillars as ribs, and used rocks as the base material to erect a city wall of more than twenty feet to encircle the land they belonged to.

The natural next step is to gradually release the magnetite-rich moon rocks on the moon, use magnetic escape to open the way, and constantly adjust its shape, adding layer by layer in the form of a three-level tower.

The first floor of the base is a basic functional area more than 600 meters high, which basically covers all the facilities needed for daily life. The second floor is an advanced area dedicated to ninjas and serves as the core puppet factory in Sunagakure Village. There is enough space left in the square, and the top elevation reaches one thousand meters.

The third floor is less than fifty meters away, a ten-story comprehensive apartment and commercial real estate complex. In the future, top-secret files, military industry, and secret departments that cannot see the light will be concentrated here to govern the elites of Sand Hidden Village and even the Kingdom of Wind. , will gather here.

Further up, there are six hollow, honeycomb-shaped snow peaks that reach thousands of meters into the sky.

The six long pillar snow peaks responsible for collecting high-altitude condensed snow and melted water are actually condensation towers connected in series. They will continuously supply fresh water to the super Ninja Village complex transformed from moon rocks, and even To nourish the entire dry desert of the Country of Wind.

Not only that, there are many barriers set up inside these snow peaks. The combination of the six is ​​a very powerful defense system.

Of course, it is generally not used. Every time the function is fully turned on, an astonishing amount of energy is consumed.

The overall construction method is to first place six highly stretched cone-shaped snow peaks that are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and then tinker around them from bottom to top to build all the functions and large platforms. .

Around the snowmelt water delivery system, we build it in circles until it is completed.

Ordinary people and lower-level ninjas can only move up and down the lower two floors at most. Only core sand ninjas who are powerful enough to a certain extent and elite ninjas who can fly can swim up and down freely.

In this way, the gap between various classes is fundamentally drawn, which is not conducive to upward and downward mobility.

But then again, in the ninja world, a world with extraordinary power, it seems unrealistic to always be harmonious. With a clear goal, and the upward path linked by Daimaru and Gaara's efforts, it should slow down the solidification of classes. Speed, buy time for the development of "puppet technology" unique to the ninja world, and develop a more popular universal auxiliary puppet as soon as possible.

Of course, all this is only on paper, and even the preliminary framework has not been set up yet.

For such a huge project, if there were no ninjas, no puppet machines, and no giant reincarnation eye to provide a large-scale force field, Daimaru would not dare to think about such a thing.

Even if there is a lot of space in the middle of the snow peak, its weight cannot be shaken by the sand ninjas. They still need to carefully carve it after the giant reincarnation eye is placed.

"We Sand Ninjas have a great advantage, that is, there will be many flying ninjas in the future, and they have a natural foundation for developing into high altitudes..."

Seeing that the space battle fortress originally hanging in the sky had turned into a sandstone tower on the ground, Daimaru proudly showed off to Temari beside him.

The two of them rode the climbing flying puppet and approached the top of the snow peak at an altitude of 10,000 meters. The originally reddish-brown condensation tower at the top was wrapped in a thick layer of ice.

"It seems that fresh water diversion pipes need to be built early. Once the water from melting ice and snow pours down, it may submerge the land below into a swamp."

Frozen plateaus like the Himalayas, which provide almost most of the freshwater resources of the entire Asian continent, are not necessary for the Kingdom of Wind, and it is appropriate to slightly reduce the scale.

It just so happens that the moon in the ninja world is far less big than the moon in the previous life, and there is still a huge seal space in the middle. In fact, there is not much room for Daimaru to mess around.

After building this huge "six-column water tower", the remaining scraps are enough to plant a few watershed mountains in several important places to improve the monsoon flow in the Kingdom of Winds.

"Daimaru, is it necessary to be so high?"

After flying around the six water towers several times, Temari asked in confusion,

"I see that at an altitude of four to five thousand meters, the condensed ice and snow are very thick. Further up, the temperature is extremely low, the water vapor is thin, and the ice and snow melt very slowly."

"You can pay attention to these things because you have to use your little brain!"

Daimaru responded appreciatively,

"The purpose of building such a high height is actually to leave room for future transformation..."

After a pause, Daimaru said leisurely:

"Although human beings thrive in the ninja world, sooner or later, they will turn their attention to the boundless universe. Now we sand ninja have begun to conquer gravity, but we have not yet reached the point of rushing into the universe..."

"Outer space?"

Temari asked in surprise,

"Now do we have the ability to explore the outside world?"

"Is it now? What about later?"

The Ningshui Snow Peak, which exceeds 10,000 meters, is actually a ready-made orbital launch tower.

It is very difficult to break through the first cosmic speed by one's own strength, even for the most skilled ninja.

Toneri Otsutsuki does not take off and land through outer space and the atmosphere when traveling between the earth and the moon. Instead, he uses the reincarnation's natural ability to manipulate illusion space to directly distort the distance between the two and "smuggle" from a higher level. .

"In addition, there is another idea, that is, this thing is actually a very good land-based launch pad. Think about it, if a Shukaku is liberated here and fires a tailed beast cannon, how far can it hit?"

The development of hot weapons in the ninja world has been severely suppressed by ninjas. Ballistic missiles and cruise missiles have not yet appeared, and the relativistic basis required for nuclear bombs has not yet been verified. Some early specious conjectures have already begun.

But this is not enough. In fact, ninjas are not very afraid of these external objects. After all, in the ninja world where extraordinary power belongs to oneself, it is more reliable to make oneself stronger.

It cannot be said that this idea is incorrect, but almost every ninja thinks so, and Daimaru cannot go against the trend.

The two were checking the water intake efficiency of the water condensation tower when they saw several fully armed flying ninjas flying up with difficulty and starting to install sand iron pipes coated with a dense copper film.

Temari said with enlightenment:

"This is also a city in the sky that never lands. It is the natural mothership base for air combat troops. It is too easy to take off. Even the largest air combat equipment has enough height for it to adjust its flight posture."

At this moment, two or three kilometers below the two of them, a wisp of warm and humid air from the southwest continued to climb along the windward slope. The temperature gradually dropped, and then turned into small water droplets, forming a heavy rainstorm and falling below. The drinking water pipeline built first is diverted and injected into the reservoir.

Without this layer of interception, this mass of warm and moist air blowing from the warm sea would drive straight into the Country of Rain, where it would meet the cold air from the south and become part of the non-stop rain in the Country of Rain.

Visible changes occur.

Daimaru and Temari remained silent, and even the flying ninja who was still working stopped what he was doing and looked at the dark clouds gradually dispersing below with a complicated expression.

After a long time, Temari broke the silence.

"Daimaru, do you still remember the bet we had in Konoha Village three years ago?"

"Which time? I remember we had too many bets..."

Daimaru was stunned and blurted out the question.

"You guys, do you really want me to admit defeat personally?"

Temari spat lightly,

"You said you wanted me to be able to satisfy my hobby of ornamental plants in Sand Hidden Village..."

"Is this happening?"

Daimaru recalled for a moment, and then replied with some uncertainty,

"Is it the time when I went to the hot springs to brag, or the time I treated you to a big dinner?"

"Asshole, if you use your accumulated consumption coupons to order, is that called a treat?"

Temari's face turned red.

The most irritating thing in the world is that the important things that are always on your mind are forgotten by others.

Is this a solemn promise made by the guy in front of me to please him, and this is the result?

With the clear reminder, Daimaru suddenly understood:

"I remembered, there is such a thing. Isn't it just to turn Sand Hidden Village into a place where birds sing and flowers smell? In fact, it has been initially achieved. It is neither economical nor economical to continue to heat and depressurize the residual sewage of multi-stage flash evaporation. It leaves a lot of stains, blocks the pipes, and increases the burden of desilting work, but it is still qualified as irrigation water for nourishing potted green plants..."

Over the past six months, there has been a lot of greenery in the gray-yellow Sand Hidden Village, but it is still a long way from the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.

Looking at this situation now, it is not a big problem to turn the desert into fertile grassland within a radius of two to three million square kilometers. The basic conditions for agriculture and animal husbandry have been met.

As for further greening, the sand ninjas need to continue their efforts.

With regard to the changes in this desolate desert, if an energy-saving irrigation system is rolled out, mechanized agriculture and animal husbandry, and industrial fertilizers are used to improve the soil, ideally, hundreds of millions of civilians can be fed and four to five million ninjas can be supported. Considering the society The cost of operation and the success rate, if discounted in half, are over 200,000.

After calculating the elimination rate of chuunin and jounin, it is estimated at one-third that the number of ninja troops above chunin that can be brought to the battlefield is nearly 70,000.

Of course, this is a militancy, a desperate attack on troops without considering the consequences, and the old and weak who have been relegated to the second line are also taken into consideration.

In the near future, the ninja alliance will only number 80,000. Those are the elites selected from the best. The major ninja villages should have left a certain number of seeds and guards behind to go to the battlefield.

But to this extent, the war potential of Sunagakure Village has almost tripled, which is almost the same as that of Konoha Village today.

"The land area of ​​the Kingdom of Wind is almost twice that of the Kingdom of Fire, and is larger than the combined area of ​​any two major countries except the Kingdom of Earth. In the past, it was despised because of the reality of being too desolate, but now it seems , if the potential of the inland is completely squeezed, even if it is worse than the Kingdom of Fire, it should be comparable to the Kingdom of Thunder. In addition..."

The part that Daimaru did not go on to talk about is the Awaji Village on the south coast. If developed along the coastline, coupled with the valuable Naruto Village, and the control of sea and air transportation lines in the entire Greater Bay Area, it will radiate the land of tea and the country of bears. , facing the Kingdom of Thunder and the Kingdom of Water across the sea, opening up all sea communication lines.

There is even an ambition to seize the country of Sichuan.

If all this is realized, the foundation of the entire Sunagakure Village will most likely exceed that of Konoha Village in the future.

It may not be as good as the inheritance of ninjutsu, advanced ninjas, core ninja clans, and resource control, but in terms of impact on the status of Konoha Village, it may surpass Kumogakure Village.

The battle for supremacy in the ninja world will change from the two tigers of Konoha ninja and Kumo ninja to a three-legged confrontation after joining the Sand ninja. The Mist ninja and Iwa ninja will become important weights to balance the three major forces.

Some time ago, Gaara asked Daimaru if he must compete with the Leaf Village, and Daimaru's answer was in the affirmative.

If we don't take advantage of the growing threat from the "Akatsuki" organization and expand our power during the Fourth Ninja War, there will be no next time.

After the ninja world has regained balance, every move of the Suna Ninja will attract the attention and even interference of the five major powers. It is too difficult to make big moves.

"Is this what you want, Daimaru?"

Temari asked with some emotion.

Even in my dreams, I never imagined that Sunagakure Village would become what it is now.

"If you don't try, how will you know if it works?"

Daimaru replied calmly but firmly,

"At least it looks promising now! In addition, the promise made back then seems to have been exceeded. Even I was a little surprised. I didn't expect that the boast I once boasted would come true..."