With his computer stolen, Naruto had no choice but to ask Grey Wolf to build him another one.
However, what made Naruto a bit awkward was that his family's materials were running low.
After all, while building a computer was simple for Grey Wolf, he couldn't create something from nothing; making a computer still required materials.
Looking at the room where even the electric kettle had disappeared, Naruto sighed helplessly, thinking, "Once I'm strong enough, I'll definitely pin that old dog Danzo to the ground and beat him, avenging my electric kettle!"
Meanwhile.
Deep within Konoha's underground, in Root.
Danzo sat with his eyes closed on a chair in the underground hall, like an underground king.
A masked Root Ninja, holding a laptop, knelt on one knee before Danzo and said, "Hokage-sama, this is what the Third Hokage and the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki use every day; it's called a laptop!"
"A laptop?" Danzo opened his single eye, looking at the computer held by his subordinate, and said, "Bring it here, let me see!"
Danzo had been very busy this past month, extremely busy.
First, there was that Blood Release Ninja who had attacked Hiruzen Sarutobi several times.
Danzo was very eager for such a Bloodline Limit that could assassinate unseen.
Although he didn't know the specific abilities of Blood Release, the fact that he could escape from Hiruzen Sarutobi's hands so many times indicated that this Blood Release Ninja was very valuable.
Root's usual tasks were the dirtier missions.
Don't let the current peace in the Ninja World fool you; small conflicts break out on the borders from time to time.
Besides small conflicts, various infiltrations and assassinations were also common.
Therefore, having such a powerful Blood Release Ninja with assassination capabilities was very important to someone like Danzo, who liked to stir up trouble in the shadows.
Apart from the Blood Release Ninja, another thing that concerned Danzo was the 'laptop' that Hiruzen Sarutobi used daily.
After investigation, it was found that besides Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki Uzumaki Naruto also used it every day.
The investigation suggested that laptops were actually used for playing games.
But Danzo didn't believe that; he didn't think Hiruzen Sarutobi spent every day with this laptop just playing.
After decades of acquaintance, while Danzo didn't agree with Hiruzen Sarutobi's philosophy as Hokage, he had to admit that Hiruzen Sarutobi was indeed a competent Hokage.
Danzo came to a table and began to have the Root Ninja teach him how to use the laptop.
Although Hiruzen Sarutobi said not to let Root continue monitoring Naruto, would Danzo listen? If he listened, he wouldn't be the darkness of konoha!
Because of the presence of the Blue Bird, Root's daily monitoring time was very short, but they still figured out how to use the laptop.
Plug in, connect peripherals, power on, wait.
When the computer screen lit up, the Root Ninja said to Danzo, "Hokage-sama, each of these small icons leads to a different screen when clicked!"
Immediately, the Root Ninja began to teach Danzo how to use the keyboard and mouse.
Both the Root Ninja and Danzo were quite intelligent; they figured out how to operate the computer with just a quick look.
Danzo took the mouse and randomly clicked an icon.
He clicked on dark souls iii.
Entering dark souls iii, Danzo followed the beginner's tutorial and began to play the game.
Before long, the screen turned black and white.
YOU DIED.
Looking at the black and white screen with red text, Danzo fell into contemplation.
"This game is indeed not that simple..."
"No wonder Hiruzen Sarutobi spends every day playing on his computer; this game is very difficult, and to complete it requires great perseverance, insight, and the ability to find opportunities."
"Hmph... It seems that although Hiruzen Sarutobi is old, his desire to become stronger is still there."
"To become Hokage... I won't lose to you."
With that, Danzo restarted the game.
At the same time.
On the other side.
The Third Hokage, with slightly flared nostrils, suddenly sneezed.
"Eh? Is the flower Ninja on the screen thinking of me! Don't worry, I'll conquer you soon!"
With that, Hiruzen Sarutobi continued to do conquest missions and fall in love with the Kunoichi he had already conquered.
Naruto didn't know that at this moment, Konoha's two giants were already being corrupted by games.
But even if he knew, he could only shrug, after all... this was their own doing; who told them to steal his computer!
It even left him without a kettle to boil water!
To live up to Grey Wolf's creativity, Naruto decided to go out and collect scrap today.
For Grey Wolf, as long as it was material, he could craft whatever he wanted; going out to collect scrap, or discarded appliances, was the best option.
Naruto casually took some money from a ramen cup and walked out of his house.
After leaving his house, Naruto still had no intention of putting away his computer; Naruto didn't care, whoever wanted to steal it could steal it, he had as many as he wanted of these things.
Naruto first went to Ichiraku Ramen, exchanged some change with Teuchi, then bought some scrap from Teuchi, and only then ran to the street to start shouting for scrap.
"Scrap collection! Whether it's damaged kunai and shuriken, discarded appliances, or various scrap metals, just bring them to me, and I will give you a reasonable price!"
Naruto shouted along the street for a round, then found an empty spot and placed a wooden sign he had already prepared in front of him.
Naruto's shouting was quite effective; soon, two Konoha Chunin in vests came to the stall and pulled out kunai with somewhat dull blades.
"Kid, do you buy these kunai?"
"Yes, I'll buy as many as you have! As for the price, I can give you half the price of a brand new kunai!"
Hearing this price, both Chunin were a bit tempted.
After all, selling an unusable kunai for such a price could be considered very fair.
If they took it to a Ninja tool shop, the price would usually be pushed down to about a quarter.
"I've sold it!"
With that, the two Chunin began to take out all the somewhat damaged kunai and shuriken they had on them.
Naruto, of course, happily accepted them.
With the first business completed, the onlookers who had been watching also went home to get their unused scrap to exchange for money.
Just then, a few familiar rascals walked over curiously.
Seeing these rascals, Naruto's eyes rolled, and he smiled at them, saying, "You guys... do you want to exchange scrap for money?"