Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 39 The Gradually Disrupted Daily Life

"Actually, there's just a little bit of hostility, but we can work things out in the future."

"How can we work things out? You and Aoki are a couple. And you seem to still have feelings for me, but it's impossible for us anymore."

"I'm with him only because..."

"Because I was with Chie before, you wanted to quietly walk away, so you just randomly found someone who liked you. Now that Chie and I have broken up, you feel like you have another chance. But you're already someone else's girlfriend, how can you be so fickle?"

Hearing this, Xia Ri froze, seemingly speechless. I quickly shook my head and explained, "No, no, nothing actually happened between him and me, I..."

"You're a nice person, but we're just friends. Let's try to see each other less often in the future."

After finishing speaking, Aburame Shisei prepared to close the door. At that moment, Natsumi stepped on the door, as if she wanted to say something.

He smiled and said, "Summer, do you know? Takigakure Village has always been located behind the waterfall town, and the environment here makes it very difficult for someone with dark skin like you to be born."

Summer took a step back, her expression towards Aburame Shisei strange, even tinged with guilt. Then, she turned and ran away without looking back.

From then on, summer never appeared before him again. For several days in a row, Aburame Shisei's life became unusually peaceful.

Lately, Uncle Shi has been going out frequently, sometimes returning very late, and sometimes not returning at all.

After that breakup, Chie and Shisei completely lost contact. Shisei only occasionally saw her in the fields or woods, and after making some inquiries, he learned that she was preparing to sell the flower shop.

I heard that a family member is sick and they are raising money.

Yu Nu Zhicheng decided to go and see. After all, they had been boyfriend and girlfriend and had even reached the point of discussing marriage. Even if they had suddenly broken up, it would be too obvious for him to just ignore them like this.

Having made up her mind, You Nuzhicheng took some cash and went to the only clinic in the village.

Outside the ward, Chie looked haggard.

When she saw Aburame Shisei arrive, she was slightly surprised at first, but then she returned to normal.

"What are you doing here? Are you sick too?"

Small, secluded villages like Takigakure don't have medical ninjas. Even if they do, there are only one or two, and they are only available to the village's higher-ups.

Ordinary ninjas would come to the village clinic when they were sick or injured.

"No, I came to see you. How is your mother?"

Chie forced a smile and said, "It's alright."

"Is there anything I can help you with?"

He started walking toward the bedside, but was stopped by Chie before he could reach it.

She shook her head and said, "Xiujun, we've already broken up. You don't need to do this."

"It's alright, take this money." Although he couldn't see the person, he still placed a stack of cash in their hand. "The flower shop is in a good location, don't rush to sell it. If you really need the money urgently, give it to me."

"But you don't know how to grow flowers?"

Chie was about to refuse when Aburame Shisei laughed and said, "Then let's sell some other things. I met a merchant when I was doing a mission before, and he was thinking of opening a shop."

After Shisei Aburame stuffed the money into her hand again, he prepared to leave because he discovered that not only Chie's family, but also Natsumi's father was sick.

"This is quite an interesting thing!" Aburame Shisei smiled, then turned and left quickly without observing the other patients in the ward.

The second layer of the insect hive is nearing completion, and the molted form of the scout insect is also at a critical stage; he needs to get back as soon as possible.

The sooner we cultivate the adult insects, the sooner we can gather more information. Right now, he doesn't have enough information and is still too passive.

Three days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Aburame Shisei's scout bug has finally been successfully cultivated.

The new scout insect is similar to the ladybug, but it has a special sound recording system inside its body that can record sounds through vibration, just like a magnetic tape.

They then transmit signals to each other through their antennae, which greatly preserves the integrity of the recorded sound.

Through her daytime work for the villagers, Yu Nu Zhicheng scattered these insects throughout the village.

These insects, capable of eavesdropping on conversations and collecting information, transmit the intelligence back to their underground nests via the swarm network.

In just a few days, Shisei Aburame used his shadow clones to filter information in the basement and quickly gathered a large amount of intelligence about the current situation of Takigakure Village.

Besides that, there were a large number of spies hidden in the village.

These spies included civilians, ninjas, and some had even risen to high positions in Takigakure, participating in events large and small and making important decisions.

The village has fewer than thirty Jonin; in reality, there are twenty-one Jonin and seven Special Jonin. There are only about one hundred and twenty Chunin; the rest are Genin.

Among these people, there were three Jonin spies. He didn't know what faction the other two belonged to, but one of them must be from Root.

There are even more spies holding important positions among the Chunin, probably close to ten, and even more among the Genin and civilians.

Especially recently, with Takigakure planning to go into seclusion to defend the village, coupled with the tense situation outside and their possession of the Seven-Tails, the spies and ninjas hidden within the village have become even more active.

The village's higher-ups were not unaware of the situation, but faced with a village riddled with problems, it was simply impossible to defend against them.

Because some people are no longer able to distinguish between friend and foe.

Therefore, the workload has been increasing recently, especially border patrols and supply escort missions.

More notably, at least four spies from other villages have been secretly dealt with in recent days, but the mission has never made this information public.

"It seems the elders of Takigakure Village are getting anxious too!"

After learning all this, Aburame Shisei couldn't help but sigh.

In fact, he has now figured out almost all the spies within the ninja ranks.

However, he cannot get rid of them all quietly right now.

But he now possesses a very important piece of information, which, if made public, might bring them all together.

That is the current location of the Seven-Tails seal.

That's right, Takigakure currently has no Jinchūriki, and the so-called Seven-Tails has been sealed in a kind of artifact.

The current location where it is sealed is in a temple on the back mountain.

On the surface, it appears to be a shrine dedicated to the gods, but in reality, underground, not only are the Seven-Tailed Fox sealed, but it is also the remnant roots of the Divine Tree and the birthplace of Hero Water.