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Chapter 84: Scorpion's Black-bellied Attribute

If Xiao Chong, who can't learn anything well, has some talent in painting, when it comes to music, he has become a complete loser.

The shakuhachi, a Japanese-style musical instrument that sounds somewhat similar to the flute, is as stiff as a stick in the hand of a small insect.

"puff--"

Xiao Chong exhausted all his strength, and his cheeks were bulging like a toad. No matter how hard he tried, the Shakuhachi just made an unpleasant popping sound.

With the bugs around, the scorpions can no longer play a piece of music completely.

Xion completely recorded the music score he got from Uehara. The beauty of art is always the same, and all kinds of extremely beautiful music with different styles convinced Xie.

Xie doesn't doubt what motivated Uehara to compose these pieces of music. After all, Xie thinks the most beautiful one of them is "Original Scenery of Hometown". This name fits Uehara's name very well.

Uehara was playing a tune again, and this time the melody was completely different from anything Xion had ever heard.

"What is this?" Xia took the notebook early.

"The last..." Uehara stopped mid-sentence.

The original name of the music was "The Last of the Mohicans", which was originally a piece of music by Indian immigrants to accuse the colonists of massacre and loss of civilization.

The style of music is sad and pathos, endlessly remote and desolate.

"One day, I died,

Those who hate me dance gracefully,

Those who love me shed tears like dew.

The next day, my body was buried deep underground with its head facing west..."

Uehara whispered the lyrics while Xie listened quietly.

No wonder there is such a sad feeling, is it left behind by a certain ninja family that was destroyed? Xia thought so.

"What's the last thing?" Xie opened the cap of the ballpoint pen.

"Nothing." Uehara sniffed, his passive skill - the ability to make up stories, was activated again.

"I accidentally discovered this music score during a mission. Like you, I also don't know the name of the music score."

"What's behind the last one? The paper is damaged. I don't know what it was originally supposed to be."

"Those are a few very strange ninjas. They are very different in age. There are old people and very young children..."

"When we arrived, those ninjas were already lying in blood."

"So, I don't know the name of the music either."

Uehara's story made Xie and Xiaochong stunned for a while. From Uehara's few words, Xie had already imagined that an originally powerful ninja family was gradually withering away in the endless wars in the ninja world.

Remember the glory of the past and fight to the last moment to protect the glory of the family.

Finally, everything came to an end. Just like the desert after the storm in the Kingdom of Wind, no footprints will be left.

"Then... let's call it "The Last", how about it?" Xie came up with a name for Uehara. Instead of using gorgeous words to describe it, it would be better to express his original intention in the simplest way.

"...Okay." The last one? What the hell is this name? Uehara curled his lips.

Xiao Chong on the side looked at Scorpion, then looked at Uirahara with wide eyes, his eyes frequently switching between the two.

What an incomprehensible look was this. Uehara felt very unhappy and slapped Xiao Chong on the head. "Is something wrong, Xiao Chong?"

Uehara Pike - What's going on, little brother?

He looked at Xiao Chong with such an expression.

"Then Uehara didn't compose this music yourself, right? You haven't released the score to the public yet, right?"

"It didn't pass, what's wrong?" Uehara frowned.

Xiao Chong crossed his arms, as if that was the case, "Then can you just give me this score? After you sign my name, it will be created by Mr. Xiao Chong!"

This guy is so thick-skinned, oh my god...

"Okay, I'll give it to you." Uehara shrugged helplessly.

Is this okay? Scorpio opened his mouth in surprise, not knowing what to say.

"I can give you the music score. However, you have to give it its due value."

"Ah?" Sitting on the stone, Xiao Chong scratched his head blankly, "Are you trying to sell the music score at a good enough price?"

"No." Uehara smiled sinisterly, "Music like this that can be passed down is very suitable for writing some touching background stories."

"For example, the person who left this piece of music was one of the ninja families that were destroyed by the White Fang of Konoha..."

It seems that the sinister Uehara was right to send him to the Propaganda Department casually after Iwagakure deprived him of his position as Intelligence Minister.

This guy, if he gets the chance, he will be a black man in Konoha.

Everything related to White Fang touched Xie's nerves, and he unreasonably took the music score from Xiao Chong's hand.

"Hey..." Xiao Chong was very angry.

"I'm going to write a story, do you want to come together?" Scorpion's eyes began to contain elements that could be called sinister.

"Wait for me!" Xiaochong hopped on one foot, grabbed the shoe that was half buried in the sand, and quickly caught up with Scorpion.

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Grandma Chiyo is very happy with the changes in Xiehuang day by day, but now she is a little worried that Xiehuang will abandon the practice of puppetry.

"Xiao, have you been learning music knowledge from Uehara recently?" Granny Chiyo asked as she came behind Xiao.

"Yeah." Scorpio, who was writing something, replied to Chiyo without raising his head.

"It's good to learn more interesting things, but don't forget the puppetry..."

"No practice is wasted."

Xie took his left hand out from under the table, and the two little dolls were playing and chasing each other around the table and stools.

A little mouse the size of a table tennis ball with a ninja sword and a dagger, and an old blue cat the size of an apple holding a samurai sword.

The classic chase battle between Tom and Jerry is vividly and perfectly performed in the hands of two dolls.

With a clanging sound, the ninja tools in the hands of the mouse and the cat began to collide.

The cunning little mouse always hides behind the stool legs to sneak up on the old cat. For its tiny body, the stool legs are as huge as pillars.

"Kakakaka." The little mouse was very mean, and he deliberately chopped a few times on the legs of the stool.

The old cat smiled ferociously and clicked...

The stool leg broke, and Xie Ah, who was concentrating on writing a story, screamed, lost his balance and fell straight to the ground.

Grandma Chiyo couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing at Scorpion's embarrassed look. Really, don't you know how to help him?

Xie lay on the ground with a blank look on his face, staring at the ceiling in a daze. After a long time, he rubbed his head and got up.

"Scorpion, you made a mistake. Are you unfamiliar with the puppet control skills?"

"No." Xie picked up the two stopped mouse dolls and twisted the mouse's tail a few times to wind it up. "I think the puppet wants to get rid of my control. It is about to have a mind of its own."

Xie put down the doll mouse, and the little mouse was spinning rapidly like a top, waving the dagger.

Xie threw a small paper ball and smashed it up. The spinning doll's speed obviously reached full speed. Then, it chirped like a mouse, and suddenly jumped up and hit the paper ball in the direction from which it flew.

Xie Zhi had already withdrawn his hand, and the puppet's passive defensive counterattack failed to find its target. It squeaked twice and spun back to its original state.

Can a puppet have a mind of its own and want to escape the fate of being controlled?

Scorpio was thinking about something strange. Granny Chiyo shook her head and left.

When Xion began to think about the possible antagonism and bond between the controlled puppet and the puppet master who cast the spell, there was no longer a puppet master in the ninja world who could match Xion's magnanimity.

Uehara's world also had such worrying ethical issues. When a robot has thoughts and emotions, can it still be treated as a tool?

It seems too silly to rely solely on variables generated by mechanical contact to control counterattack behavior.

Xia frowned and picked up the doll. What's a better way to use it?

What is the biggest difference between ninjas and other objects?

Scorpio is stuck in an unsolvable problem.

…

"temperature."

Scorpio's problem was half-explained, and Uehara gave a solution.

This is a bit shocking, but it is precisely caused by the difference between the two worlds.

Xie wants the puppet to use the ninja chakra that escapes in the air after the ninjutsu is released as instructions for the puppet to counterattack, but to combine the puppet with ninjutsu, at least high-end ninjutsu that can sense chakra is required, and also

Made a lot of modifications to the puppets.

"Temperature?" Xion raised his voice and asked Uehara again.

"That's right," Uehara patiently explained to Scorpio, "one of the differences between living things and dead things is temperature."

"Objects with temperature will emit infrared radiation, even if you use invisibility to hide yourself."

"Also, in addition to the difference in the amount of chakra between the clone and the main body, which can be sensed by the sensing ninja, the temperature is also different."

"Instead of considering using extremely high ninjutsu to implement the defense and counterattack system, why not try a simpler method?"

"Or use sensory ninjutsu combined with another method?"

Uehara is not smart, and the miscellaneous information he saw and heard in another world can be called a treasure.

In Uehara's previous life, people there did not have chakra and sensory ninjutsu, but they relied on scientific power to develop equipment that was not sensory ninjutsu at all, such as ultrasonic waves, sonar, infrared detectors, and fighter jets that could also rely on electromagnetic waves to lock on to opposing fighters.

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Repeat below. I’m going to sleep now and will correct it tomorrow morning. I’m so sleepy. I owe you another free chapter and I’ll make up for it on Sunday.