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Is it five thousand, or ten thousand? Or more?
Neji couldn't count them.
Following the path paved with ant corpses, Neji could see an underground tunnel stretching beyond the limits of his Byakugan.
This person had actually dug their way into the exam site from outside. What exactly did he want to do?
Underground, Naruto, transformed into Gintoki Sakata, stood atop a mountain of corpses, slaughtering the climbing ants.
The dead ants' bodies further increased the height of the corpse mountain.
The swords retrieved from Orochimaru's base were not as good quality as the Mithril Sword; three had already broken by now.
Naruto hacked away while pondering what to do next.
He had a general direction, but how to play it to ensure his own enjoyment was the most important thing.
Speaking of playing, no one in the ninja world was as good at having fun as Naruto, because they hadn't known how to play since their ancestors' generation.
Naruto's family was different; the very first message written in his family's genealogy admonished descendants to have fun, and to play happily.
The original words were a bit fuzzy, but in classical Chinese, it roughly meant:
"I once thought, a great beast, king of the forest; a flood dragon, overlord of the river. How about pitting the beast against the dragon? Returned grievously wounded, died in melancholic vexation. May future generations take heed."
Translated, it meant he tried to pit a tiger against an alligator, messed up, got injured, and died of vexation.
Not bitten to death, nor from complications, but from vexation.
From this incident, the Uzumaki family realized that not having fun could kill people, so each generation took it as a warning.
This was Naruto's ancestor. Now look at the ninja world's ancestor, Kaguya Otsutsuki.
She didn't know how to play at all.
The only record she left was the Infinite Tsukuyomi, projected from the moon by her eye power, bathing the earth in light, as tampered with on the Uchiha Stone Tablet.
Its purpose was to hang humans on trees, extract chakra, and eventually turn humans into White Zetsu, turning the ninja world into a nursery bed and humans into leeks.
But, are leeks that cannot self-regenerate still considered leeks?
This was one of Naruto's complaints about her not knowing how to play.
Why would you, with nothing better to do, unleash the Infinite Tsukuyomi? Would summoning a red moon have a good outcome?
All you would do is make people lose everything, leaving them with nothing. It would be strange if they didn't fight you to the death.
And maintaining White Zetsu's life also required energy; wouldn't it be a huge loss to sustain life and extract chakra simultaneously?
Couldn't you just use your brain and think properly? Ensure peace with your immense power, allow the population to multiply, teach them how to refine chakra, then change the Infinite Tsukuyomi to be networked, completely free-to-play with in-game purchases.
Then design a quantitative chakra unit, and hang up things like 328, 648 (RMB equivalent for game purchases), and offer some benefits for cumulative chakra top-ups.
With your 5D immersive, 100% simulated online game, complete with life-sustaining vine-pods, would you fear a lack of customers?
This is completely feasible! The Six Paths' intention in transmitting chakra was for people to understand each other, meaning chakra has a function of transmitting information. Information is data. The chakra transmission speed of the God: Nativity of a World of Trees is more than enough for fiber optics, and the moon can serve as a server to store data.
What? The moon can't be a server? If a potato can be a server, why not the moon?
By then, even the dialogue when the "protagonist" (Naruto) and Sasuke fought their way to Kaguya would change.
Naruto: "Why can't I beat Tenten in the game?"
Kaguya, chin resting on her hand: "Young man, don't rush. The root of your problem is that you haven't charged enough chakra."
Naruto: "But I did charge some! Still can't beat Tenten."
Kaguya extended five fingers: "Charge another Five-Tails' worth, and you'll be stronger."
Naruto: "I've already charged a Nine-Tails' worth, and still nothing's dropping. How much do I need to charge for it to drop?"
Kaguya pulled out an Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb: "Boy, if you smash in something this big, it's guaranteed."
With Naruto's ninja way, as long as he's given a goal, he'll strive to achieve it. If he has a goal, he'll definitely go for it. And if he goes, would Sasuke still stay behind?
See? Peace arrives unexpectedly.
If you're worried about the Otsutsuki Golden Grape trio arriving and not having enough chakra to fight, then project a "50% off" tag in green text onto the moon.
Guaranteed to make you plump from too much chakra.
And you don't even need to sustain their lives; they just eat on their own every day. How cost-effective!
Your method isn't really "harvesting leeks"; this is harvesting leeks.
Naruto grumbled about Kaguya in his mind while leaping out of the ant encirclement.
The moment he landed, he bolted, accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in 0.5 seconds—faster than a Tesla.
The ants reacted quickly. Naruto had only run a few steps when they had already bypassed the corpse mountain and were giving chase.
He picked the fastest and strongest ant running at the front, jumped into the air, and landed steadily on its back.
The ant was very strong; carrying a person was no problem. The other ants, ignoring their companion, swarmed him.
He pulled out kunai with both hands, flipped them a few times in his grip, reversing them, and thrust them forcefully into the ant's back.
The ant cried out in pain and ran even faster. At the same time, its large mandibles pulled back, trying to snap shut on the person on its back.
Keeping his left hand still, he used his right hand to release the kunai, leaned forward, grabbed the ant's upper mandible, and pressed it down, like a seasoned driver, one hand on the steering wheel, one hand shifting gears, controlling the ant's direction and speed.
He extended his "seasoned driver's hand" to check the wind speed, estimating that this ant could reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour.
The animals in the Naruto world are truly abnormal, especially these mutated ones. It's like using an old lady's foot-binding cloth to slap Darwin in the face.
Feeling the speed was decent, Naruto maintained it, not accelerating further. Because The Fast and the Furious taught him, over eight movies, that driving too fast makes you lose hair.
Riding the ant at the front, with a massive black horde of ants chasing behind, the scene couldn't help but remind Naruto of a certain movie.
Fearing the ants might lose him, Naruto even turned back and gave the ant colony the middle finger, activating his taunt skill.
"Grandson!"
The taunt was incredibly effective; the ant swarm chased him like crazy.
Riding the ant at the front, with a massive black horde of ants chasing behind, the scene couldn't help but remind Naruto of a certain movie.
Uzumaki: Ant-Man.
Just as Naruto was enjoying the thrill of the wind slapping his face during the straight-line acceleration, a sharp right turn appeared in the passage ahead.
The ant no longer had time to slow down.
He forcefully pulled the ant's mandibles, urging it, "Turn, turn!"
Seeing that he couldn't stop, Naruto flipped off the ant, using chakra on his feet to adhere to the ground and change direction.
Man and ant had no synergy, skidding sideways for several meters before almost drifting.
Above ground, Hyuga Neji was dumbfounded.
Because after this turn, this person was about to encounter Tenten.
On the other side of the passage, Tenten and Ajisai were walking side by side.
Although they were enemies before, now that only the two of them were trapped underground, if they didn't help each other, they might well die down here.
"Be careful, something's coming. And quite a lot of it, it seems." Tenten took out a kunai, slowly backing away.
"Mm." Ajisai nodded.
The Sand Shinobi examiner had said there were many creatures underground, and she had encountered them before.
However, what neither of them expected was that the first thing to appear was a person sliding on an ant, speaking words they couldn't understand.
"Deja vu!" (Dae-ja-hu, a phonetic approximation of 'deja vu' which sounds like "catch shrimp" in Chinese, but is often used as a meme for drifting, particularly the "De Ja Vu" song from Initial D)
Naruto, transformed into Gintoki Sakata, singing a drifting anthem, failed his drift.
The ant's tail scraped the wall.
But no big deal; no referee to deduct points.
Controlling the ant to keep running, Naruto shouted, "Tenten, run!"
Rumble, rumble...
The rapid approach of the ant swarm behind them caused vibrations that shook the long-accumulated dust from the floor of the dilapidated temple, sending it airborne.
It also knocked over several stone lampstands behind Tenten.
"You know me?" Tenten asked.
She was certain she had never met this person.
In the time it took for her to say that one sentence, Naruto had already run five meters, leaving him less than twenty meters away from her.
Behind Naruto, the first ant in pursuit failed its driving test, crashing directly into the wall at the sharp turn.
Bang... Bang... Bang...
A series of ants crashed into the wall, shattering it...
The remaining ants, buffered by the impact and dampened by the ant shells, struggled to get up and continued chasing Naruto.
"Why are you leading them here?!" Tenten turned and ran, not forgetting to complain.
Not many people in Naruto complained often, including the Second Hokage, Suigetsu, and White Zetsu, but when it came to the most complaints, it was Tenten.
She complained when facing the God Tree, and she complained when facing the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki.
Even her remembrance of Neji after his death was expressed in the form of complaints, though her tone was full of sorrow.
Perhaps this was her unique way of de-stressing.
Coupled with her distinctive voice, it was incredibly charming.
Tenten was trained by Guy, so her stamina was impressive. Even while running and occasionally overcoming obstacles, she was faster than the ants.
Looking at Tenten running ahead, Naruto thought of Kaguya Otsutsuki again.
I told you, developing games in the ninja world has potential!
Don't even mention Fruit Ninja.
Even Tenten is playing an escape game in a temple in the style of parkour.
Seven people played one game, but she played two by herself.
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