Red sand dust

Among the five major countries in the ninja world, the Land of Fire is not the largest, and is only slightly larger than the Kingdom of Water.

However, the area of ​​livable land is larger than that of the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Earth combined, and the vegetation coverage rate far exceeds that of other countries.

Precisely because the land is fertile and the output is rich, the Fire Country has a relatively high concentration of residents. Among the scattered villages and towns, there are large tracts of virgin forest where few people live.

On the surface, this relatively wealthy country has only one ninja village - Konoha Hidden Village, but in fact, in the vast "Green Sea", there are many secret ninja villages, families and settlements.

As long as they don't do evil, the ninjas of Konoha Village don't bother to care about these settlements that are constantly killing people and are no different from wandering ninja groups.

But if someone spends money to encircle and suppress them, they will be the targets of Konoha Village's generous rewards, the unlucky ones known as bandits.

Of course, very few of them also have big backgrounds.

For example, the Nara family's medicinal base, the Hidden Mountain Village that has a protection agreement with Konoha Village, and various well-backed societies.

As the former wealthy family of Konoha Village, the Kurama family will certainly not be treated the same as those down-and-out guys. Now that they have made a lot of money, not only do their children still maintain their identity as Konoha ninjas, but they are also cooperating with the secular world of Konoha Village. By.

Although money cannot do everything, many things can be solved with money.

Nearly three hundred kilometers southeast of Konoha Village, it is not too far from the sea. Following a wide river, you can enter the sea in less than two days.

Where the tributaries of the river converge, there are several commercial towns.

One of these towns seems inconspicuous, but its architectural style is very unique, obviously different from the others.

It’s just that the style is unique, but the key is that some places actually don’t conform to ordinary people’s living habits.

But it doesn't matter to the ninja.

Those towers that are too tall for legs and feet to climb cannot stop the ninjas who fly over the walls.

Underground where no one is paying attention, at the bottom of a very vast space, there is a laboratory with a very high level of protection.

During his vacation after the mission, Kurama Yakumo rarely came here to check the progress of the research.

Surrounded by a group of researchers wearing white and light blue overalls, Kurama Yakumo, who had a calm face, bent slightly, leaned forward, and carefully looked at several biological samples soaked in the culture container.

"Is this the result?"

Some non-human monsters seem to have been catalyzed by strange factors, and have undergone various abnormal mutations, resulting in their original appearance no longer visible.

"Perhaps our technology is insufficient and progress is quite slow, but it is not without merit..."

A middle-aged doctor wearing glasses and very much in line with the style of a traditional researcher answered plausibly.

Because he was not a ninja, he had to rely on ninja assistants who did not have enough biological knowledge for many chakra-related research. As a result, many of his ideas went awry, and it was normal for the research to not progress smoothly.

"Tell me about it? If it satisfies me, I can consider letting you continue your research for two months..."

Kurama Yakumo spoke ruthlessly and calmly, as if replacing the person in charge of the laboratory was a trivial matter.

In fact, the researcher in front of me, who is worried in his heart but pretends to be calm on his face, is already the fourth researcher.

The first three, including a ninja, under great pressure, finally chose to take the risk and try it on themselves. They suffered a lot of erosion and damage. Although they all survived, it is estimated that it will be difficult to return to normal life in the rest of their lives.

After clearing his throat, the person in charge of the laboratory replied loudly:

"Although the cloning technology was not up to par, it failed at the cell separation and fusion stages, and died before even reaching the stage of activation and development. It can be roughly confirmed that the cell activity of this thing is extremely high, but it is not a complete life, nor is it a complete life. It’s like a biological weapon that has been deprived of some important functions..."

"Are they humans?"

"Don't be ridiculous, Boss, except for the appearance, this thing doesn't look like a human in any way. In essence, it has nothing to do with humans. If we have to define it as a human being, it is appropriate to call them 'vegetative'..."

The person in charge of the laboratory shouted exaggeratedly, as if he wanted to liven up the atmosphere.

"The essence of those cells can be clearly understood under a microscope. If I have enough time, I wonder if I should bury them. Will they take root and sprout and produce a bunch of weird human-shaped 'fruits'... …”

"Sure enough, it's not human..."

Kurama Yakumo nodded in understanding. Daimaru treated them so roughly, obviously using them as tools.

"Specifically, what else?"

"If you can hand over the owner of this kind of cell to me for careful study, there may be more discoveries! At present, it can be roughly confirmed that these cell samples have extremely poor ability to survive alone after leaving the main body, but when transplanted into The survival rate in others is extremely high..."

The person in charge of the laboratory who was talking seemed to have remembered some miracles and couldn't help but dance and exclaimed,

"Just a small group of cell tissue can cure many diseases of congenital defects, which is much more powerful than stem cells. This is a miracle in the history of medicine..."

"Okay! You go down..."

Kurama Yakumo waved his hands in disinterest.

It's all the same old tunes.

Strong vitality, healing injuries, what are these?

After spending such a high price, what Kurama Yakumo wanted was how to extract this power and activate the power of wood escape within it.

After sending away the former laboratory director who was unwilling to give in and wanted to continue explaining, Kurama Yunhai stepped forward to comfort him:

"It doesn't matter if you fail. Let's find another doctor..."

"I'm a little discouraged, uncle. The level of this thing is too high. Not only does it require extremely high attainments in biology and medicine, but the ninja level cannot be too low. The matching problem cannot be solved by the cooperation of several people..."

Researchers in different fields look at problems from different angles. Now the Kurama family's laboratory needs top geniuses who are good in all fields and can control all parties to thoroughly study the White Zetsu cells.

"Actually, I also know that it is most effective to hand it over to Tsunade-sama. The fifth generation disciple Sakura and I are very familiar with each other. It is not a big problem to introduce him, but then it will be out of my control..."

The Kurama family is indeed not weak. There are few ninja families richer than them. They can't beat them in the secular world. It's not a problem to have both sides. But for Naruto, it's really not enough.

It was a shame that the White Zetsu that was finally obtained from Daimaru was handed over to the village for research.

"If it doesn't work out, let's go find Daimaru again. I heard that he has recently started to open up wasteland in the south. He must be short of money..."