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It was already dawn in the early morning, and the lights at Shikaku's house in Nara had been turned off all night.

There was a huge map that took up half of the room, and refreshing drinks were scattered around the map.

Shikamaru rubbed his eyes. His dark circles were heavy and he frowned. Shikamaru kept pulling his hair with his hands. On the chessboard, there were very few chess pieces under his control and they were surrounded by dense gray chess pieces.

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"Lost again." Shikamaru dropped the dice in his hand and reached behind him to touch it. He touched it all and found that the drink had been finished.

"Stop it first." Nara Shikaku's dark circles were not much lighter than Shikamaru's. He stretched tiredly, and Shikaku realized that it was already dawn.

Everything started two days ago. The gift Shikamaru received was a box of chess pieces, which were war chess with complicated rules and tactical deductions.

On the back of the sandbox diagram of the war chess, there is only a brief sentence - assuming that all the ninjas who have passed away in history and a hundred thousand tireless helpers and the world become enemies, and the living and the dead fight, what are the chances of winning.

These were the inexplicable words left by the fourth Tsuchikage. Shikamaru vaguely felt that the powerful Tsuchikage must have a hidden meaning behind his actions.

The war chess map is very ordinary, it is just an enlarged map of the ninja world, but it is marked in great detail.

However, the red and blue sides of the confrontational war game only have the "Army of the Dead" that the Tsuchikage calls a comeback - deceased ninjas who are immune to all ninjutsu except the sealing technique. The number is unknown; plus a hundred thousand people who are tireless and have powerful hidden powers.

A special enemy with camouflage abilities that neither the Escape ability nor the Byakugan can see through.

However, the chess pieces of the Army of the Living were empty, and Shikamaru needed to make them himself.

In the first simulated battle, Shikamaru participated in the battle with more than 10,000 people from Konoha headquarters, and the group was destroyed.

In the second game, Shikamaru combined the terrain and complex tactics to deal with it, and the result was an even worse loss. Because the person controlling the chess pieces on the opposite side was Shikamaru's father, Shikaku had a much greater advantage than Shikamaru, and he was more experienced. Awesome operation

The more there are, the easier it is to be caught.

At the end of the second round, father and son Shikamaru and Shikaku fell silent.

"Shikamaru, if we really have to face such an enemy, it will be a disaster."

"Father, how much do you know about the Fourth Tsuchikage?"

"Uh" Lujiu was stunned for a moment.

"…not too much."

Shikamaru played with chess pieces one after another, not much bigger than a bean. Each of these small chess pieces represented more than one ninja.

"The Fourth Tsuchikage, the legendary miraculous ninja, has turned the tide of the battle at an absolute disadvantage countless times. The Ninja Alliance, an incredible alliance of ninja villages, was also established under his leadership."

"So, dad," Shikamaru threw the chess pieces in his hand back on the sand table, "don't underestimate that guy Tsuchikage, he won't be so boring that he only gave me a war chess for the game."

Shikaku's thoughts were similar to Shikamaru's. Master Tsuchikage must be conveying some secret and important information.

But there are many doubts. Why did you choose Konoha? There are so many ninjas in Konoha, why did you choose Shikamaru?

After thinking about it, Shikaku smiled. He remembered his identity. During the three ninja wars, as Konoha's top think tank, Shikaku formulated most of the battle plans.

The battle plan of Kanna-kun Bridge, which caused the Iwa ninja to suffer heavy losses, was made by Shikaku.

Shikaku is fully qualified to say, "I was present during the three ninja battles, and I commanded Kanna Kunqiao."

As one of the most outstanding strategists in the ninja world, Shikaku feels that he is worthy of being entrusted with secrets.

Furthermore, the Nara clan has many geniuses with high IQs, so they are indeed very suitable for playing brain-burning war games.

"There is a strange thing," Shikamaru said, pointing to a small pile of chess pieces, "the number of ninjas who have come back from the dead, the Tsuchikage gave is about five thousand."

"But Dad, from the beginning of each ninja village to the present, we have experienced several wars, and the number of ninjas who have died must be more than five thousand."

"How many ninjas have there been in Konoha since the first generation?" Shikamaru frowned and thought. "How many are there in other villages? Add them all up..."

"At least one hundred thousand." Lu Jiu said weakly.

"One hundred thousand..." Shikamaru also had a headache.

Another doubt arose, since so many ninjas had been killed in the ninja world, why only about 5,000 people became enemies.

If a scary guy masters the method of controlling dead people, is it because he doesn't have enough control over too many people?

In this case, the limited number of five thousand people must be the most powerful ninjas in the past, including the shadows and jounin of each village, including the powerful ninjas of the Blood Successor family.

Shikamaru couldn't breathe smoothly at the thought of becoming an enemy with a legion composed of more than twenty shadows and thousands of Jonin.

In the early morning, everything was quiet. On the cold stone steps of Nara's house, Shikamaru lay down to rest. He hadn't closed his eyes for two days, and he would fall asleep soon after lying down.

When he was half asleep, Shikamaru was woken up by his father, "Shikamaru, someone seems to be calling you."

Who is it, so early in the morning?

Shikaku watched Shikamaru get up and walk out of the house feeling slightly sleepy. Soon, Shikaku heard an indistinct conversation, and then saw Shikamaru coming back with something in his arms.

Dad kept looking at his arms, "Toys." Shikamaru reluctantly took out the things in his arms. He put the little mouse on the steps, and then pulled the mouse's tail. The spring was pulled, and the little mouse squeaked.

Ran away at once.

Such a childish toy made Lu Jiu laugh silently.

"I was just saying casually. I said that Naruto has a gift box as big as it is. If there are many gifts, just give me one." Shikamaru shook his head, "That guy took it seriously."

"He gave me this big rat and asked me if I liked it. If I didn't like it, he would give me something else."

"This guy is really stupid and touching."

The little mouse hit the corner and stopped moving. The Nara family's morning cat saw it and wanted to catch the little mouse. Shikamaru chased the cat away and picked up the toy.

"Shikamaru, we seem to have overlooked one thing." Shikaku said, teasing the cat.

"Jinchūriki." The two looked at each other and said in unison.

Naruto's sudden visit made the dizzy two people notice their negligence.

In a war with a huge disparity in power, the Jinchūriki plays a vital role.

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In the forty-fifth game of the war game, the blue Konoha ninja troops controlled by Shikamaru still failed after being unable to resist for a long time. The addition of the Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki was not enough to tilt the balance of the war, because the power represented by the chess pieces in Shikaku's hands was too strong.

Well, with just one First Hokage, the advantages of all Chuuriki will be equalized.

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In the fiftieth round, Shikamaru finally changed his mind. He made new chess pieces that represented the other four major ninja villages and most of the smaller ninja villages except Konoha. In this way, Shikamaru had nine jinchūriki in his hands.

Add five shadows and a huge ninja coalition force of nearly 100,000.

Shikamaru finally maintained a stalemate for a while, and then the headquarters of the Ninja Alliance was raided by the first Hokage, Uchiha Madara, the first Raikage Mizukage Tsuchikage and more than twenty dead Kages. The enemy's beheading operation was successful, and the Ninja Alliance

Without the command center, it is difficult to form a unified action, and they will be defeated individually.

Lost again.

In the Ninja World War in the original book, the command center of the coalition forces was destroyed by the Ten-Tails' tailed beast jade. The war game deduction must be simulated and repeated over and over again.

Shikamaru had unknowingly deduced another possibility.

After forming the ninja coalition, Shikamaru thought he saw a chance of victory, but his father poured cold water on him.

"Although I don't know who the enemy is, if I am the enemy, if we want to launch a war that subverts the entire world, the shadows and jinchūriki of each village must be the first target." Shikaku possessed him and reached out to pull out a few chess pieces.

Pick it up and throw it out of the map.

"Come again." Shikaku signaled Shikamaru to rearrange the chessboard.

Shikamaru opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. The jinchuriki was gone, and half of the shadows in each village were also taken away.

The Ninja Alliance still has a less ugly number of ninjas, but... no matter how you look at it, it's a defeat.