Chapter 410: Who Is That Person?
Arato recalled his parents' bodies being gnawed by wild dogs, recalled the starved corpses collapsed in the fields, recalled those strangers who quietly became cold remains by the roadside...
All those tragedy fragments he'd previously attributed to "fate" or "coincidence" were connected by a clear thread in this moment.
His sorrow, his powerlessness, his fury finally found a concrete and hateful target.
Rage burned fiercely in his chest, more violent and scorching than ever before.
"Who is it?"
"Who did this?"
Arato shouted loudly, suddenly sitting up from the bed.
Everything just now had actually been a pipe dream.
Arato panted heavily, carefully recalling what had just happened, feeling his violently beating heart in his chest at this moment, along with that pain reaching deep into his soul. He completely couldn't treat what just happened as a dream.
"What's wrong, making such a commotion?"
Zabuza's figure flashed out, bare-chested on top with only shorts on the bottom, gripping his long blade, alertly pricking up his ears to scan the surroundings.
"Ah, big uncle, you came at just the right time. I have questions to ask you."
Arato hurriedly climbed up and explained in detail everything he'd seen in the dream just now.
"A dream?" Zabuza's brow furrowed. Without another word, he quickly formed hand seals, pressed on Arato's forehead, and shouted loudly, "Release!"
"...Big uncle, I'm not under a genjutsu. It really was a dream." Arato looked speechless.
"Hmph!" Zabuza snorted coldly, lecturing irritably, "The shinobi world has all kinds of bizarre ninjutsu. Who dares guarantee they won't fall victim?"
"Maybe there's some genjutsu that takes effect on people in dreams. Being careful is never wrong."
"Oh, I understand, big uncle." Arato nodded, then continued asking, "Big uncle, is this thing real?"
"Was the land very fertile before?"
"Did everyone have food to eat before?"
Zabuza tossed the blade in his hand onto the ground and casually lay down on the floor. From the looks of it, he didn't plan to leave this room tonight.
"Hmph!"
"When I was little in Hidden Mist Village, I couldn't get enough to eat. I had to kill companions to snatch food. You tell me if the land was very fertile?"
"As for what the land was like before I was born, I know even less about that."
"Talking about everyone having food to eat, that would only be in noble families."
"Not only did they have food, they had meat and fish too!"
"On the contrary, these past years, the Uchiha Divine Nation killed off all those nobles, which made life somewhat better for the common people at the bottom."
"Edo Tensei bodies don't need food after all!"
"Oh." Arato scratched his head, also turning over to lie down, facing Zabuza sideways, saying distressfully, "Big uncle, but I always feel what happened in that dream just now was real."
"So what if it's real? So what if it's fake?"
Zabuza's voice remained just as cold, and it was also full of mocking intent.
"You couldn't possibly go settle accounts with that guy, could you?"
"If that thing is real, even thinking with my ass, I can imagine how strong that guy is."
"With your three-legged cat skills, you're worthy of opposing him?"
"Maybe he'd fart and blow you to death!"
"I think you just watched the 'Uchiha Savior Chronicle' movie during the day, so at night you're having wild thoughts, also wanting to be some kind of savior."
The Land of Snow had already disappeared, and Fubuki Nutao had already died, so Fubuki Koyuki had been peacefully working as her movie star all along, no longer forced by those around her to do things like restoring the nation.
And the "Uchiha Savior Chronicle" was a movie that had been popular across the shinobi world in recent years, telling the story of the great Uchiha God saving the world.
Fubuki Koyuki played the villain in the movie, the evil ancient goddess Otsutsuki Kaguya, who was ultimately defeated and sealed by the omnipotent, wise and great Uchiha God.
This film was commissioned by the Uchiha Divine Temple with the script provided, invested in by major merchant guilds, with ninjutsu special effects support from the Uchiha Scientific Academy. Upon release, it immediately broke all box office records and spread widely across the shinobi world.
"I see..."
Arato scratched his head, suddenly feeling that these words also seemed to make some sense. Maybe he really was having dreams because of what he thought about during the day.
Moreover, he was just a small person. Where did he get the qualifications to be some kind of savior?
"Sigh!"
He sighed, closing his eyes despondently.
The room fell completely silent. Moonlight quietly flowed in through the window cracks, rippling little by little over the two of them.
Although the doubts in his heart had been answered, Arato's heart still found it difficult to calm down.
He tossed and turned in bed for a long time, unable to sleep.
A long while later, just as he was hazily starting to feel a bit sleepy, Zabuza on the ground, who seemed to have already fallen asleep, suddenly sighed and warned:
"That dream you had, remember to keep it buried in your stomach. Don't mention it to anyone again."
"What's wrong?" Arato asked groggily.
"If it's just a dream, that would be best."
"But what if... it's not a dream?"
"What do you mean?" Arato started, hurriedly turning over to get up and look at Zabuza on the ground.
Zabuza still kept his eyes tightly shut, looking like he was asleep, but his voice had already gained some ripples.
"These past few years, natural disasters in the shinobi world have indeed increased quite a bit."
"Although the Uchiha Divine Nation side all says this is the aftermath caused by the Rabbit Goddess's resurrection wanting to destroy the world, and the Divine Nation side has been constantly dispatching ninja everywhere to pacify natural disasters, who can judge whether it's true or false?"
Hiss... Arato immediately sucked in a cold breath. "Big uncle, you mean that person is the Uchiha God?"
Zabuza originally didn't want to speak too clearly, but he was also afraid this foolish kid couldn't distinguish importance and would recklessly cause trouble. He could only sigh and explain:
"If that wasn't a dream, most likely it's some powerful existence using some kind of secret technique on you."
"Then why didn't he directly tell you who that person is?"
"Thinking it over, it should be that he doesn't dare tell you, afraid that your scheming is too shallow and you'll let this name slip out, bringing disaster upon you."
"Actually, just thinking about it makes it clear. In this shinobi world, how many people could extract a planet's life force?"
"Even one is too many!"
"Most people in the shinobi world were captured by that 'Infinite Tsukuyomi' and the resurrected Divine Tree. It's confirmed that extinction crisis really happened."
"But as for how Uchiha Yasushi defeated the Rabbit Goddess, very few people know."
"A legendary deity like the Rabbit Goddess even had world-destroying abilities. Is she so easy to defeat?"
"If you say he extracted the planet's life force, then everything makes sense."
"Or perhaps, it was precisely because of this that he became the world's only god."
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