Naruto: Son of the Fourth Hokage

Naruto stood in front of Sara, pointing at the cheering crowd and asking, "Before that, don't you think those people are strange? You fell, what are they cheering about?"

"Maybe... maybe they just haven't noticed yet..." Sara's tone was weak, and she herself didn't believe what she was saying. When she was upstairs, everyone was watching her, so it didn't make sense no matter how she thought about it.

"Wait a moment, I'll go grab someone and ask." Seeing that Sara was no longer impulsive, Naruto lurked behind the crowd.

It was a true ninja-style lurking, without attracting anyone's attention. Naruto's skilled and professional movements made Minato very gratified.

After getting closer, Naruto immediately noticed something was wrong. These 'people' in the square were all puppets, not a single real person. Someone had deliberately created them to fool this new queen.

This was actually a bit horrifying. In such a large city, at such a grand celebration, there was only one real person, the queen. All the ordinary people had been replaced by puppets!

Naruto raised a finger, and Chakra rapidly gathered at the tip of his finger. Then, he gently moved his finger:

"Micro Rasenshuriken!"

The ultra-small Rasenshuriken flew out, cutting some of the Chakra lines controlling the puppets with a few soft sounds. Several puppets in the middle of the crowd fell to the ground, and one at the very back also lost control and fell.

Naruto caught a puppet and immediately returned to the original spot, placing the puppet down. "Here, you see, these are the 'people' cheering for you. The entire square is full of these things."

"How could this be?" Sara covered her mouth, her face full of disbelief.

Minato advised her to accept reality, "Please put aside your emotions and think calmly. In Loulan, who could do this to such an extent without you knowing?"

Sara knew very well that only the minister 'An Lushan' could do it, or perhaps he should be called Mukade?

Sara bit her lip, "I want to ask him directly why he would do such a thing!"

"Why not listen to what your people have to say first?" Naruto pointed in two directions, "I can sense that real people are gathered in those two places."

"But..." Sara hesitated.

"You are the queen of Loulan, right? Is it okay to ignore them? Maybe they are being imprisoned and suffering." Naruto tried to use a moral kidnapping, and it worked remarkably well.

He really didn't want this Sara to rush off to confront him rashly. If Mukade was stubborn and admitted it directly, then that would be fine, just get it over with.

But if he was cunning and tricked Sara into being his knife or hostage, it would be very troublesome. After all, this little queen seemed very easy to deceive.

So it would be better to directly find evidence and witnesses, solidify Mukade's evil deeds, and then go in for the attack. When the time comes to seal the Dragon Vein, Sara's bloodline power would still be needed.

Sara still cared about her people, and finally agreed to Naruto's suggestion.

Naruto led the way to the first gathering point, which was an inconspicuous small door in an alley. Naruto knocked, but there was no response from inside.

"Let me do it." Shibi, who hadn't had much presence, stepped forward and placed his hand on the door.

Then a swarm of insects crawled in through the cracks in the door, and with a click, the latch opened. Shibi pushed open the door, revealing a group of old, weak, women, and children holding wooden sticks and farm tools.

The people warily looked at the strangers who had suddenly barged in. One Mature Woman stepped forward and asked, "Are you Her Majesty Sara?"

Sara asked, "What's going on?"

"Excuse me, my name is Mako. Please return our families to us?" Mako bowed and pleaded.

The others followed suit, bowing and pleading.

According to Mako's account, one day someone suddenly came to their homes and took all the adult men away, saying it was Queen Sara's order, and they had never returned since.

Now these people were gathered together, wanting to find an opportunity to see the queen and beg her to release their families. They were willing to force their way into the queen's tower for this.

"But I never issued such an order." Sara looked at the room full of the old, weak, women, and children, feeling very ashamed and uncomfortable, as if it was caused by her dereliction of duty.

Minato advised, "Don't blame yourself too much. Mukade must have taken them away under the guise of the queen's orders. Just go and rescue them."

Naruto pointed outside the door, "It seems those people are probably in another place. Let's go take a look."

Before leaving, Sara turned around, placed a hand on her chest, and solemnly said, "In the name of the queen, I assure you that I will bring your families back safely!"

Only at this moment did she resemble a queen. The people in the room were infected by her and looked at them leaving with anticipation.

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Naruto led the group to the base of a tall tower, pointed to a vent on the ground, and said, "It's down here. Do you know what this place is for?"

Sara thought for a moment and said, "This is a transfer station for transmitting the Dragon Vein power to the entire city, but I haven't heard of any underground facilities."

Minato said, "That means the power of the Dragon Vein can be used here. Then this might be where Mukade manufactures puppet weapons."

Sara nodded. She had now begun to accept that 'An Lushan' was Mukade.

So Naruto pried open the metal mesh of the vent and climbed down the ladder first, followed by Sara, and then the others.

After Naruto reached the bottom, he looked around... then lowered his head, pretending nothing had happened.

Sorry, shouldn't have looked up. This Queen Sara was still wearing the long dress she wore to the festival.

After everyone came down, they quickly noticed a complete puppet production line in this large basement.

And the men who had been captured were pushing a machine with handcuffs and shackles, each looking emaciated, surrounded by puppets with weapons acting as supervisors.

Actually, Naruto couldn't understand. He was so good at playing with puppets, stronger and more powerful than ordinary people, and there were so many of them. Why didn't he let the puppets push it and insisted on capturing people?

Sara had been surprised enough today and quickly calmed down, finding the energy source of this factory:

"Please escort me to that place, I can shut down the Dragon Vein power supply here."

"No problem." The four surrounded Sara and walked towards a Technique Formula that looked like a magic circle not far away.

Some puppets discovered the intruders and immediately began to attack, but they were all blocked by the four.

Guarded by the four, Sara knelt on the ground, holding her hands in front of her chest, muttering something, probably some obscure incantation to control the Dragon Vein.

Naruto couldn't help but start imagining in his head: Demons and ghosts, leave quickly... demons and ghosts, leave quickly...

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