Since the general intelligence about the future had been revealed, it was now time to deal with An Lushan, that old bastard. Unfortunately, Sara didn't believe An Lushan was that kind of person.
In her memory, Lou Lan had prospered with An Lushan's help, and the people adored him; he was not at all the rogue Ninja Naruto had described.
"Are you talking about this kind of celebration, full of puppets? There isn't a single real person; it's quite terrifying, isn't it?"
A water sphere appeared in Second Body's hand, showing the cheering "people" at the Lou Lan celebration, who were merely puppets with rigid movements.
"Impossible, you're lying to me! I'm going to see for myself, and besides, you are the more suspicious ones!"
Sara ran off directly to find An Lushan, leaving the eleven of them looking at each other. Finally, Minato decided to have Naruto, Second Body, and Pakura protect Sara, while they went to find An Lushan and the Dragon Vein's location.
Before leaving, Minato also gave Naruto a Flying Thunder God Kunai. Although Second Body and Pakura, two Kage-level Ninja, were by his side, he was still somewhat concerned about his son from another world, who was five years younger than him.
Second Body, Pakura, and Naruto quickly chased after Sara, who had already gone far. Unfortunately, she was familiar with the terrain and rode the elevator very fast. However, Second Body's perception ability easily found her.
At this time, she was being held by the remaining women and children of Lou Lan, but Sara and these people seemed to not know each other, indicating that Sara was indeed greatly marginalized.
The appearance of Second Body's trio startled these women and children. After all, they had secretly watched Second Body and the others fight An Lushan's puppets and knew they had no power to resist.
However, the leading woman still made it clear that they were looking for Sara to ask the Lou Lan Queen to return their husbands, but Sara was completely bewildered.
The celebration in the center of Lou Lan city didn't end even at night. Second Body brought them in front of these puppet civilians and cut the strings of several puppets, which finally made Sara understand the reality.
At this moment, a puppet Lou Lan Queen Sara walked out onto the high tower balcony, greeting the puppets below just like Sara. Second Body didn't know how others felt, but she was utterly speechless.
An Lushan created a puppet Lou Lan Queen and puppet civilians to hold a celebration with only puppets. Who was this for? Even with foreign enemies present, An Lushan could still focus on controlling these useless puppets, playing a game of house that only he enjoyed.
Even kindergarten children in the senior class wouldn't be this childish. However, if it was purely meant to scare people, then she would retract her statement, as ordinary people would indeed be frightened.
After Naruto's Talk no Jutsu, Sara finally decided to rescue the captured men. Led by Sara, they arrived at an exhaust vent below a high tower.
Going down through the winding passages from there, they soon saw the huge production line that relied entirely on human power. One could only say that whoever designed this human-powered conveyor belt production line was a liberal arts major.
In a city with infinite energy and automatic elevators, it was absurd and completely illogical to still rely on human power to operate the production line.
However, if one considers that An Lushan set up the human-powered production line to alleviate the severe employment pressure in Lou Lan and benefit the people, then it becomes very reasonable.
Of course, this was just Second Body's dark humor. Whose job involves working sixteen hours a day or more, year-round, with shackles on their feet, and robots supervising them with whips?
So Second Body guessed that An Lushan was either purely stupid, too lazy to design an automated production line, or purely evil, wanting to torment others in this way.
However, Second Body felt that An Lushan was definitely both stupid and evil, a slave owner more wicked than a capitalist. Therefore, Second Body decided to fire the first shot of the red revolution in the Ninja World, starting with striking down An Lushan.
Naruto took Sara to cut off the Dragon Vein branch energy of this puppet production factory, while Second Body and Pakura began to apply Exploding Tags to these puppets.
Controlling the Exploding Tags to slowly and secretly attach to the puppets was very simple. Neither the puppets nor An Lushan discovered it, and soon over a thousand Exploding Tags were applied.
With the factory's Dragon Vein energy cut off, the main villain An Lushan appeared, directly controlling the puppets to combine. It seemed he intended to use force.
Second Body wasn't concerned about the conversation between Sara and An Lushan; she only wanted to find the chakra metal smelting furnace and the raw chakra metal ore.
Naruto looked at the surrounding puppets and told Sara to take the civilians and escape, while he was going to complete his mission: capture An Lushan.
"Are you really An Lushan? You've gained quite a bit of weight."
Naruto knew how to hit a nerve. Compared to An Lushan six years ago, An Lushan at this time was indeed much more corpulent.
"The Konoha Ninja said unnecessary things by the Lou Lan Queen. I haven't seen you in six years."
An Lushan no longer feared the Konoha Ninja. Now he had an army of tens of thousands of puppets, and he himself had completed his puppet Transformation. As long as he had Dragon Vein energy, he could achieve Immortality and grow stronger with each battle.
"Hmph! To me, it was just yesterday. I don't know when you got fat. Since you admit you're An Lushan, then I won't spare you."
Naruto's logic was extremely muddled. Not only An Lushan laughed, but Second Body also started laughing. If An Lushan didn't admit he was An Lushan, then Naruto wouldn't capture him?
While Sara and Naruto were verbally sparring with An Lushan, Second Body had already found the raw chakra metal ore and some chakra metal ingots.
There were over a thousand catties of raw ore, but it would be good if two hundred catties could be refined from it. Additionally, there were over a hundred chakra metal ingots, each weighing one catty. In short, Second Body had struck it rich.
She took everything, implementing a scorched-earth policy, not even sparing some chakra metal components of the puppets on the production line. A rough estimate showed that Second Body had acquired no less than five hundred catties of chakra metal during this trip to Lou Lan.
It was priceless. One catty of chakra metal could probably buy two of Asuma's heads. Second Body's current amount of chakra metal was enough to exchange for a thousand of Asuma's heads, and there weren't that many Elite Jonin like Asuma in the Ninja World.
"You mentioned An Lushan; I've long forgotten that low-class name. Now, I am His Excellency An Lushan, Minister of Lou Lan."
An Lushan's expression distorted, and he immediately used Puppet Performance, controlling hundreds of surrounding puppets, intending to directly eliminate Naruto and Sara.
Unfortunately, Second Body and Pakura, who had arrived, directly used Exploding Tags, instantly shattering these hundreds of puppets, bringing An Lushan's maniacal laughter to an abrupt halt.
Like a cackling duck having its neck suddenly squeezed, An Lushan never expected his most triumphant moment to be ruined.
"Damn Konoha Ninja! Even the Lou Lan Queen who tried to stop me was killed by me. What are you!"
An Lushan directly exposed himself, making Sara understand the cause of her mother's death. From a status perspective, the Lou Lan Queen was indeed far more noble than a Ninja. However, Second Body was not someone who cared about class or noble bloodlines; she was a proletarian warrior of the Ninja World.
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