Chapter 100: Tu Ba
"Gurgle… I still want to drink!"
After leaving the tavern, even while being carried in Hyuga Yizhen's arms, Li Jiexuan wouldn't behave. He rolled over and puked a mouthful of filthy vomit straight onto Hyuga Yizhen's face, drenching him from head to toe like a soaked rat…
"Please—this is my last set of clothes!"
Hyuga Yizhen sighed helplessly. These past few days, Li Jiexuan had thrown up on him every single day. He was practically going out naked by now…
"If you can't handle alcohol, then don't drink."
Hyuga Yizhen handed Li Jiexuan over to Yamada Xunzhen, then helplessly stripped off his clothes. His pale, delicate skin gleamed faintly in the air.
A cold wind blew past, making Hyuga Yizhen curl up instinctively…
"So cold!"
The moment the words left his mouth, a nearby window slammed shut with a bang. When he turned his head, the sounds of doors and windows closing rang out one after another—even the tavern behind them tightly shut its doors…
In just a few seconds, every shop along the entire street had closed.
"This!?"
Hyuga Yizhen stared in shock.
"Just probing?"
Li Jiexuan slightly lifted his eyelids, then gently closed them again. The person he was waiting for still hadn't appeared…
But the instant Li Jiexuan closed his eyes, a sharp shuriken shot out from the shadows at the corner of the street, flying straight toward his throat. Yet Li Jiexuan looked as though he were truly drunk—eyes closed, completely unmoving, even letting out two drunken hiccups…
Clink!
Yamada Xunzhen deflected the shuriken with a kunai…
Dozens of ninja dressed like bandits emerged from every corner of the street. The bandit leader stood a full two meters tall, his massive build making him look like a terrifying little mountain!
"Who are you people?"
Hyuga Yizhen stepped forward, shielding Li Jiexuan and Yamada Xunzhen behind him. Protecting Li Jiexuan went without saying, and protecting the medical ninja was also a policy Li Jiexuan had long since set.
"Who are we?"
The towering leader burst into laughter and slammed the three-meter-long spiked club in his hand into the ground, triggering a small tremor.
"You little duck, don't tell me you don't even recognize me—Tu Ba!"
Tu Ba roared with laughter. He had mistaken the shirtless Hyuga Yizhen for a male escort from the Wine Pools and Meat Forests tavern.
"Move it! Blocking this lord's path to money—I'll kill you too!" Tu Ba's men shouted as they closed in on Hyuga Yizhen.
"A duck!?"
Hyuga Yizhen's face flushed red as he was about to make a move.
"Yizu, don't act rashly. Let's break out of the town first!" Yamada Xunzhen rapidly hurled more than ten kunai, forcing open a small gap.
"Don't even think about escaping!"
Countless thrown ninja tools rained down toward Li Jiexuan like a storm.
"Rotation!"
A pale blue chakra barrier flared to life, deflecting every single projectile. When the Rotation dissipated, Yamada Xunzhen had already broken out of the encirclement.
"Rotation—white eyes!?"
Tu Ba's eyes went wide. "The Byakugan? A descendant of the Hyuga clan from Konoha?"
"So this Tu Ba actually has some eyesight."
Li Jiexuan secretly curled his lip…
In truth, Tu Ba had once been a Cloud Village ninja. But after deserting during wartime, he had turned to banditry and looting. Precisely because he knew his stuff, Tu Ba grew even more excited!
Leaving aside the fact that a pair of Byakugan alone could fetch a full thirty million on the black market—if Li Jiexuan had a Hyuga ninja guarding him, he might truly be that prodigy who killed the Wind Shadow at the age of three…
This was the real deal!
A bolt of lightning flashed through Tu Ba's mind:
This guy's head carried a black-market bounty of thirty billion!
"Thirty billion!"
Tu Ba swallowed hard. As long as he pulled this off, he could even carve out a small country and crown himself king!
"Chase them! Don't let them get away!"
Tu Ba had gone completely mad. He didn't take the rumors of Li Jiexuan killing the kazakage seriously at all. What a joke—how could a three-year-old kill a kazakage?
It had to be hype…
That thirty billion—he was taking it, no matter what!
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