Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"One of the choices? Interesting..."

Looking at the unfamiliar scroll of unknown origin, Kaguya Rei narrowed his eyes and quickly searched in his mind for targets who might have handed him this information.

There are only a few psychic scrolls that I take out for others to contact me when necessary. Excluding Terumi Mei, who has no need to use this method to contact me in this village, the remaining few scrolls are also It was only in the hands of Nagato and the three tool men whom he had high hopes for, but the handwriting on the scroll did not match the handwriting of any of the three of them.

And if it weren't for Nagato and the others, it seemed that there was only one person who could find him in this way...

"Hmph... Is this the so-called cooperation between heaven and earth?"

Seeing Kaguya Rei suddenly laughing without warning, Uchiha Shisui couldn't help being startled. Seeing his hesitant expression of "Why is the Prime Minister laughing?" but not daring to speak, Kaguya Rei put away the scroll. After entering the sleeve, he asked knowingly:

"Are you curious, Shisui?"

"It's impossible to say you're not curious." Uchiha Shisui put down the dumplings in his hands that he couldn't eat anymore, pursed his lips and sighed: "What happened this time? It's not like Kirigakure is in Konoha. Did the lurking spy steal the sealed book that records many forbidden spells?"

"The first part is wrong, but the latter part is somewhat close to the truth."

Kaguya Rei drank all the tea at hand, squinted her eyes and smiled:

"If this operation goes well, your level of hard work day and night may be reduced a lot, Shisui."

A big question mark popped up on Uchiha Shisui's head.

What does this have to do with me?

Kaguya Rei didn't say anything more, just speeded up and swept away his share of food, sent Uchiha Shisui back to his residence, then withdrew and returned to Mizukage's office, and started to give him food happily. The person who sent the scroll wrote a reply.

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"Lord Orochimaru, what have you been doing recently..."

Mitarashi Anko lay on the table glumly. Even though her favorite red bean soup was placed in front of her, she was not interested in eating and drinking at this time. Seeing this, she came over to eat sweets with her. Yuhi Kurenai reached out and touched Mitarashi Anko's forehead in surprise, and then asked doubtfully:

"Anko, are you okay? I've never seen you look so depressed and lost... Did you accidentally make Lord Orochimaru angry?"

"If it were, I wouldn't feel sorry for myself here, Hong."

Mitarashi Anko said sadly while stirring the red bean soup in front of her with a spoon:

"If Lord Orochimaru is angry with me, it at least means that he still has some expectations for me. Even if I get a severe lesson for this, I can know from Lord Orochimaru why I made him angry. Next time This way you can avoid making the same mistake again..."

"As for being left aside like this...I don't even know what I did wrong."

"Well, well, Lord Orochimaru is an important figure in the village after all. There are some confidential things that we really can't do with Anko..."

Yuhi Kurenai reached out and stroked Mitarashi Anko's hair, comforting the lost girl very gently, "Besides, you are a disciple trained by Lord Orochimaru himself. Since you are sure that you have not made any mistakes, you should have more confidence in yourself. Okay?"

"I still feel uneasy."

"Illusion, it's an illusion. As long as you maintain your daily routine and ensure that you can practice and study consistently, even a genius like Lord Orochimaru won't be able to abandon you, Anko, right?"

Mitarashi Anko looked at Yuhi Kurenai who was already planning to feed herself, but finally opened her mouth obediently.

I hope that the nightmare I had last night, in which I was locked in a dark room with no light or hope and no way to escape, was really just a nightmare.

Anko Mitarai thought this as she looked at the Uchiha and Hyuga clan members who had gathered together for some unknown reason outside the store and started an argument with angry expressions.

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"Failed again... Now, the last bit of experimental material has been used up."

Looking at the abnormally developed and twisted mass of meat in the huge petri dish in front of him, Orochimaru sighed and silently pressed the button to drain the nutrient solution.

As the carefully prepared special nutrient solution was emptied, the twisted mass of flesh and blood in the petri dish began to grow unscrupulously in a more violent and disorderly manner.

The bloated flesh and blood showing the texture of wood burst the shell of the petri dish, greedily rushing towards the only living creature with powerful chakra around, and while twisting and growing, it also shot out pale bone spears from the flesh and blood, trying to He nailed Orochimaru to the spot and turned him into food for him to devour.

"Four Purple Flame Formation."

The three shadow clones who had been prepared emerged from the ground, and together with Orochimaru himself, they used the powerful Four Purple Flame Formation, trapping all the distorted flesh and blood in the barrier.

The wooden distorted flesh and blood began to burn violently the moment it touched the Four Purple Flame Formation, but the figure of that side being burned while growing crazily looked extremely permeable, and the bone spears shot out from the flesh and blood core were even more... With unimaginable tenacity, he not only withstood the burning of the Four Purple Flame Formation, but was only one step away from breaking through the barrier and shooting through Orochimaru's body——

"Wind Escape·Breakthrough."

Without changing his expression, Orochimaru released the Wind Release in the Four Purple Flame Formation, which intensified the fire. For a time, the entire underground laboratory was filled with a strong burning smell.

The violent purple flame turned into a huge flame tornado under the influence of the storm, finally suppressing the rapid growth of the distorted flesh and blood, causing it to twitch and shrink in the flame whirlwind until it was completely reduced to ashes, and then No life at all.

"It's really fascinating... After your cells were combined with the cells of the first Hokage, they turned into something so ugly and terrifying, so greedy and uncontrollable that they even needed to add a large amount of life-inhibiting toxins to the nutrient solution. , so that the product of the combination of your cells can barely grow in a way close to natural life..."

"Rei-kun, what happened to you and the First Hokage to make your cells become so...abnormal?"

The golden snake eyes reflected the charred blackness on the ground. Orochimaru took a deep breath, put away the experimental records of the last experiment he had done with Kaguya Rei's blood that he had collected earlier, and then walked out of the building. He secretly built an underground laboratory using the funds from the roots, and activated a spell to completely bury it in darkness:

"Earth Escape·Burial Flow."

The flowing earth opened its mouth like a living creature, swallowed the underground laboratory in one gulp and chewed it up vigorously. Experimental equipment worth millions disappeared silently amidst the ravages of the earth, along with Orochimaru. Everything that has been done here has been buried in the deepest part of the earth, and will never see the light of day again.

Looking at the Fourth Hokage Yanyan being carved in Konoha Village from a distance, Orochimaru caressed his psychic snake and said to himself with a gloomy smile:

"Namikaze Minato... Unlike Mr. Sarutobi, you probably won't provide any support or tolerance for my research... In this case, it would be better for us to go our separate ways before we completely break up. "

"I really want to see how you will treat the subordinates who once followed me after I choose to leave the village...Exile? Demotion? Or will they all be swept into the roots of the old man and stay with him in Konoha? What about rotting away in the dark?”

"Ah, thinking about it this way, I really can't bear it... Do you want to give them some more time to mentally prepare?"

While talking to himself like this, Orochimaru raised his head, facing the bright moonlight, and looked in the direction of the sea east of Konoha.

There is the most dangerous escape route among the many escape routes he has prepared for himself, but it is also the most likely to support him in completing his research on the art of immortality, solving the problems of lifespan and aging, and moving towards the ultimate goal of understanding all knowledge. of one.

"Sa, let me see your measure, Lianjun..."

"Let me see, as the strongest and youngest fourth-generation Kage in this era, what are you looking at and what are you chasing?"

There should be a second update before twelve o'clock...

By the way, today I used the novel AI to tinker with the character design of the protagonist, and in the process, some very interesting things appeared...