Hokage that started as a commoner ninja

Chapter 56 Escorting the Caravan

On a country road in the Land of Fire, with trees on both sides, a group of more than twenty carriages passed slowly.The four members of Mu En's team, pretending to be drivers, lined up on the carriage.Hyuga Akizuki was at the head of the convoy, Mu En was at the rear, Inuzuka Shida and Kurama Huiyun were in the middle.

The task of Mu En's team this time is to protect the caravan's safe arrival at the capital of the Kingdom of Waves.The Kingdom of Waves is a small island country across the sea from Konoha, in the east of Konoha, between the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Water.The domestic situation is complicated, and it is the forefront of the national power competition between the land of fire and the land of water. There are constant domestic wars and the people's livelihood is dying.

Since there is no ninja village in the land of waves, the daimyo lacks strong military support, and the rule of the country is already extremely fragile.All powerful groups in the country, including daimyo, hire ninjas to maintain their power. Except for a small number of ninjas who belong to wandering ninjas, the rest are basically from Konoha or Kirigakure.

In this mission, the confidentiality level of the caravan's information is extremely high, even the parties involved in the mission such as Mu En's team are within the scope of confidentiality.In addition, this mission was personally designated as S-class by the third Hokage.Judging from all these appearances, Mu En would not naively think that this mission is really as simple as escorting the caravan.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Mu En asked the team members to be more vigilant and not to be sloppy in the slightest.

In a state of high alert, Mu En and the caravan walked non-stop for four days before arriving at a pier by the sea.In the past four days, except for driving away two bandits who robbed their way, they have not encountered any decent enemies, let alone ninjas from other villages.

At this time, Mu En thought that he was thinking too much, and this was a simple escort mission, but Mu En also knew that this was an illusion.The reason why the trip has been safe for four days is that on the one hand, the mission information is well kept secret, and potential enemies may not have grasped their intelligence information, and on the other hand, Konoha’s strong patrol measures on the border this year have made it difficult for the ninjas of the enemy village to sneak into the country of fire quietly.

"Master Ninja, our merchant ship needs to arrive at the pier early tomorrow morning, so we can only rest here for one night today." At this time, a hunchbacked old man came over and said to Mu En.This old man is the steward of this caravan.Although he was surprised that Mr. Ninja was only a child, he didn't dare to have too much doubt. After all, ordinary people like them can say exactly about ninja.

"Okay, I understand." After Mu En expressed her understanding to the little old man in charge, the little old man left.In Mu En's eyes, this old man has put on makeup, his beard is glued on, and his hunchback is fake. He should be in his 30s.This further proves the fact that this task is not easy.

At night, somewhere in a secret place on the pier, two men were having a secret discussion in the dark.

"It's that caravan. The third son must be in that caravan." One of them said.

"Are you sure?" Another man's voice sounded, "This kind of thing is not a joke. If you provide wrong information to Mr. Ninja, it will be a matter of losing your life."

"Of course I'm sure that that fellow Xiangtai has been inseparable from the third son all this time. Although he is dressed up as an old man this time. However, based on how familiar I am with him, even if he turns into ashes, I will not admit his mistake. The third son must be in that caravan." The first voice said bitterly.

"Okay, I'll use the method Master Ninja explained to pass the news back."

Half an hour later, a fish was released by the pier, and it quickly disappeared into the sea with information in its mouth.Mu En didn't expect that their information would be passed on by two ordinary people in this way.

Early the next morning, the merchant ships of the caravan docked at the dock, and more than [-] vehicles of goods were quickly transferred onto the ship with the help of the dock workers, and then the entire caravan sailed away towards the vast sea on the merchant ship.According to the old man in charge, this voyage will take a whole day, and if there is no accident, he will be able to reach the country of Waves the next day.

A crippled man on the coast watched the merchant ship disappear into the sea, and murmured to himself: "Xiangtai, you crippled one of my legs, so it's not too much for me to kill you. Don't blame me, blame yourself, who made you mess with Ninja-sama."

"Hey, this mission is really troublesome. It's a carriage and a boat." Standing on the deck, Inuzuka Shida felt refreshed looking at the vast sea. He couldn't help but take a long breath and said, "However, this is the first time for me to take a boat on the sea, and it feels really good."

"Yeah, I used to be on patrol, and I saw the sea from the shore, and it was the first time I sailed on the sea by boat!" Kurama Huiyun was also a little excited.

"Hey! Where is Akizuki, what is Akizuki doing?" Inuzuka Shida didn't hear Hinata Akizuki's response, looked around, and couldn't help laughing: "Akizuki, you must be seasick!"

Hinata Akizuki was lying on the side of the boat vomiting towards the sea at this time, looking depressed, even after hearing Inuzuka Shida's ridicule, she didn't have the energy to refute.

Hearing Inuzuka Shida's ridicule, Mu En couldn't help being taken aback. With the physical fitness of a ninja, seasickness should be very rare.But since it appeared, Mu En had to temporarily remove Hinata Akizuki from his combat power list during the battle.Mu En had a strong premonition that if there were any twists and turns in this mission, then the enemy would definitely not give up this day and night at sea.

At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, the setting sun struggled not to set, but a thick layer of mist suddenly appeared on the sea.In Mu En's induction, a group of ninjas were charging straight ahead not far away.

"Shitian, Huiyun is on guard on the boat, I will come as soon as I go." Mu En suddenly said to Inuzuka Shida and Kurama Huiyun.

Without the slightest hesitation, the two stood up and stood on guard.Hyuga Akizuki also struggled to stand up, but it was hard to say how much fighting power he could display given his lack of energy.

The caravan searched for the big ship. Once the ship broke down, no matter what secrets were hidden under the mission, the mission would end in failure.Therefore, Mu En's idea is to keep the enemy away from the merchant ships and win the battle quickly.

Mu En jumped up from the bow of the ship and rushed towards the enemy ahead.

I saw that the spiritual light on Mu En's body flashed away.A moment later, when Mu En met the enemy, a dozen or so enemies were killing each other as if they couldn't see Mu En.

Walking on the battlefield, watching the enemies in front of him fall one by one, Mu En didn't feel the slightest sense of excitement in his heart.Because, such a large-scale "fog concealment technique" is obviously not something that cats and dogs in front of me can display. The real enemy is still hidden in the dark.

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