Seeing Naruto's confusion, Wu Di smiled and explained.
"The Sunflower - Acupoint Sealing Technique is one of the finest taijutsu techniques from my hometown."
"It can render its target unable to move in an instant!"
At the mention of taijutsu, Naruto sighed and shook his head in disappointment.
"Huh? So it's just taijutsu?"
"Trash. What a waste of my hundred silver notes!"
Wu Di waved a hand and looked at him with a mischievous grin.
A chill immediately ran down Naruto's spine.
Then Wu Di suddenly shouted, "Sunflower - Acupoint Sealing Technique!"
He extended two fingers and pierced through the air.
Caught off guard, Naruto felt a sharp pain in his chest. Then his entire body stiffened, and he lost even the ability to move.
Wu Di leisurely picked up his teacup, walked over to Naruto, and took a light sip.
"Kid, do you still think this taijutsu is trash?"
"You should know that when experts fight, the difference often comes down to one or two seconds."
"Look how long you've been frozen already!"
Naruto suddenly understood. He rolled his eyes toward Wu Di, only to see that Wu Di apparently had no intention of stopping.
"Think about it again." Wu Di licked his lips with a wicked smile. "If you were broke right now, and a rich guy happened to be walking toward you..."
He did not continue, merely giving Naruto a meaningful look.
Naruto could fill in the rest himself.
Naruto's imagination gradually ran wild.
Drool born of greed trickled from the corner of his mouth, and he could not wait to try it out.
Seeing this, Sakura shuddered.
The onlookers nearby suddenly turned pale as well. They clutched their pockets tightly and backed away.
They were truly afraid that Naruto would suddenly make a move and openly swipe their wallets.
Everyone in the village knew that his father, Minato Namikaze, had died sealing the Nine-Tails.
If Naruto really robbed them of a few hundred silver notes with this move, even if they reported it to the Hokage, they would get no response.
"This is a dangerous place. I'm leaving first!" A villager quickly turned around and slipped away hunched over.
Seeing this, another villager put on an anxious expression. "Right, I just remembered—my wife is having a difficult labor today. I'm leaving too!"
In the blink of an eye, the area in front of the scratch-off ticket shop became deserted again, leaving only Sakura and Naruto.
Naruto said angrily, "Boss, you only froze me. When are you going to release me?"
Wu Di scratched his head.
Only after receiving the information about the Sunflower - Acupoint Sealing Technique did he discover that the manual was incomplete. It only contained the acupoint-sealing portion and no method for undoing it.
However, the end of the book also stated that it would automatically wear off after five minutes.
"Just wait a little longer. Once the five-minute duration ends, it'll undo itself automatically!"
After saying that, Wu Di turned his head and looked around.
He discovered that the customers who had just left did not seem to have gone very far.
The man whose wife was supposedly having a difficult labor was still across the street, chatting and laughing with a middle-aged woman while occasionally glancing this way.
Wu Di could more or less guess that these people had started becoming curious about the scratch-off tickets.
As long as they were all curious, could his days of making money be far away?
Sakura looked at the now somewhat deserted scratch-off ticket shop, sighed, and turned to leave.
Wu Di's eyes shifted. Holding his teacup, he walked out and blocked Sakura's path.
"Little beauty in pink, please wait."
Sakura looked at him warily. The hand hidden behind her back slowly clenched into a fist.
Wu Di waved a hand and said softly.
"Don't misunderstand. I just want to ask you a question."
"At your age, you should have someone you like already, right?"
Sakura froze. Her face instantly flushed red, and she hurriedly denied it. "No, absolutely not."
"Then why is your face red?"
"You must be too embarrassed to admit it!"
"But it's fine. Being embarrassed is perfectly normal."
Wu Di chuckled, then took out two scratch-off tickets from the pile.
"Try your luck. If you scratch off something good, maybe you'll win that person's heart!"
Originally, Sakura had not felt anything in particular about this shop.
But after hearing the owner say that, she suddenly felt tempted.
After searching through her wallet for a while, she discovered that she seemed to have brought only two hundred silver notes today.
"Then give me two one-hundred-silver-note tickets!"
She spoke softly and placed the silver notes on the counter.
Wu Di casually took out two scratch-off tickets worth one hundred silver notes each and handed them to her.
She clutched them in her hands, a faint cold sweat forming in her palms.
She had never gambled before. This was her first time, and aside from excitement, she also felt a trace of nervousness.
Imitating Naruto, she took out her house key and scraped away the gray coating.
Before long, a streak of golden light emerged.
Wu Di's eyes lit up.
Another winner! What was it this time?
Looking closely, he saw a packet of medicinal powder wrapped in talisman paper float out from the scratch-off ticket. The relevant information instantly entered Wu Di's mind.
Seeing the ridiculously melodramatic effect of the medicine, he could not help coughing lightly.
"What... is this?" Sakura asked in confusion.
Wu Di scratched his head and explained, "This thing is called Mind-Locking Spirit Medicine!"
"After you take it home, write the name of the person you like on the talisman paper, then dissolve the medicinal powder into a drink for him."
"Within the specified time limit, your beloved will have no one but you in his heart!"
Sakura's eyes instantly lit up. "Really?"
"Absolutely true. If it's fake, I guarantee a refund or replacement!"
Then she scratched open the next scratch-off ticket.
A few seconds later, golden light flashed.
Across the street, the man chatting with the middle-aged woman widened his eyes. "Damn, another winner?"
The woman asked in confusion, "What do you mean, another winner?"
The man turned his head and casually brushed it off. "Nothing, nothing."
But inwardly, he muttered, Could this shop's winning rate really be this high? I have to go back and check it out later.
Inside the shop, Sakura jumped up and down in excitement.
She had never expected that she would gamble only twice, yet win both times!
How could she not be happy?
Holding the thick book in her hands, she asked, "Boss, what is this thing?"
Wu Di checked the book's information and explained, "This book contains the treasures hidden in everyone's hearts. As long as you open its pages, you can sense the direction of those treasures."
Just then, Naruto broke free from the acupoint sealing and stared at Sakura with shining eyes.
"Sakura, with this book, we can come here and buy scratch-off tickets all the time, right?"
Sakura's face darkened. "I can come here often. What does that have to do with you?"
Naruto was instantly speechless. With a thoroughly rejected expression, he looked at Sakura like a resentful wife.
Just then, behind them.
A boy about their age, dressed in blue-gray clothes and wearing sunglasses, said quietly, "Naruto, Sakura, it's time to go to school."
Naruto turned around, and his body suddenly jolted.
"Right! Today is Ninja Academy graduation day. How did I forget about that!"
"Thanks, Shino!"
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