Chapter 051: Laboratory

Time passed day after day, and the days till the awaited battle against Sunagakure was also getting closer little by little.

For a period of time, each ninja on the frontline was nervous, after all, this battle with Sunagakure meant that a large number of ninjas would end up dead, and no one could guarantee that they would survive such a battle.

Just two days ago, there were even several ninjas defecting from the Konoha camp, but they were soon dealt with by Anbu.

The life in the medic team was very easy. With Tsunade's strong medical-ninjutsu as support, the casualties among the patients in the medic team camp was reduced by a lot. So Asahi was free to spend most of his time, except when he was needed for the treatment of serious injuries.

The weak Asahi would not waste any time that could be used for training, and so once he was free, he would find a quiet place to train by himself. 

With the battle against the Sunagakure coming up, medical-nin would also participate, although as a support force they only needed to follow the army, but if the battle became one-sided, or if there defenses were broken through by sand ninjas, medical-nin must also fight the enemy. 

So at this time, even if a little strength could be gained, it was possible to change his destiny. 

Earth-nature chakra transformation was not yet mastered by him. It would take a long time to really complete this training. At this time, Asahi, whose strength was grown steadily, was not in a hurry about it. He's still doing basic training every day and making sure that his foundation was solid. 

Although the shadow clones could transfer the training experience back to the main body, Asahi's current chakra reserves were simply not enough to support the use of [Shadow Clone] for training. And here in the frontline, there might be accidents at any time. Asahi must ensure that after training, he still had a part of physical strength and chakra left. 

"Huh?" A slight weird feeling spread through his body. 

During training, he suddenly felt anxiety in his heart. He stopped all movements, and looked all around. 

*Hiss*

*Hiss* 

A purple snake crawled out of the grass, came in front of Asahi, showing a scroll, and then slammed itself into the ground, releasing smoke and with that, the snake disappeared. 

Since Tsunade had arrived at the frontline, in order to avoid making Tsunade aware of the relationship between him and Orochimaru, they never met. This time, Orochimaru asked his summoning to pass some message, so Asahi presumed that there must be something important that he needed him to do. 

Although he was a little upset, he still picked up the scroll, unlocked the seal, and checked the content written by Orochimaru. 

The scroll didn't explain what the mission was, it just said to let Asahi go somewhere, and Orochimaru would meet him there. 

The agreed location was some distance from the campsite, but with a ninja's speed, half an hour was enough to reach there. 

When Asahi arrived at the agreed place, he discovered that Orochimaru was already there waiting for him. 

"Orochimaru-sama, you summoned me here?" Asahi asked in confusion, but he was still very alert.

"This place is my laboratory's site." Orochimaru's hoarse voice filled with complacency when he answered him, "Asahi-kun, are you interested in visiting my lab?" 

"I'm looking forward to it, Orochimaru-sama! Even if I can gain only a trivial part of your knowledge, as far as I'm concerned, it is a valuable asset." Asahi said sincerely, with a touch of excitement in his heart. 

Orochimaru's laboratory must have very valuable information. If he could take a look, it would definitely be a great help for him. 

Asahi was currently studying the nature change of Earth-attribute chakra. If this training was successful, Asahi would start to train high-level Earth-style ninjutsu. Though he has ideas for ninjutsu, but with Asahi's current understanding of ninjutsu, developing a jutsu on his own was almost impossible. 

Orochimaru was undoubtedly a genius in terms of research. If he could get his instructions, it would definitely help Asahi develop ninjutsu on his own. 

Orochimaru's research data was undoubtedly very valuable. It's just he doesn't know how much Orochimaru intended to let him see. 

"Let's go in together." Orochimaru made a hand seal. 

As Orochimaru lifted a genjutsu-barrier, a dark and faint cave appeared in front of them. After entering, there was first a dark tunnel. There was a lot of water in the long tunnel, and it seemed also a kind of sewage. A peculiar pungent odor was around, but Asahi, excited in his heart, was completely ignoring these. 

"This is a temporary laboratory I set up. The battle against Sunagakure is about to end, and the experimental materials here will also be transferred. There are several very important experimental materials that need your medical expertise to help themselves hang on to their lives." Orochimaru briefly explained while walking. 

From Orochimaru's words, he understood that the purpose of getting called this time was to help Orochimaru's experimental materials in terms of medical treatment.

This also meant that Orochimaru had now started his human experiments, and he estimated that many people have must have already died in his experiments. 

He was just wondering what ninjutsu was being developed by Orochimaru now? 

"Is Orochimaru-sama studying a forbidden jutsu?" Asahi asked. 

"Oh? Are you interested in forbidden jutsu too?" Orochimaru said playfully. 

"Yes! For a commoner ninja like me, forbidden jutsu will undoubtedly allow me to catch up with those clan ninjas with Kekkei Genkais and Secret Jutsus. Especially now that we are still in war, a forbidden jutsu can let me survive on the battlefield!" Asahi said bluntly. 

Now that Orochimaru understood his pursuit of strength, Asahi simply opened up to discuss conditions with Orochimaru. Deliberate concealment might also make Orochimaru more vigilant. Rather than telling him his pursuit, it's better to let him understand his purpose. 

Walking to an iron gate, Orochimaru made twenty hand seals, pressed his hand on the gate, and then with a burst of smoke, the gate slowly opened a gap, and he gently pushed it open. The laboratory for his human experiments was revealed to Asahi.

In addition to some basic facilities and equipment in the laboratory, there were some fixed racks on the left and right sides, and there was a dead person on each shelf. Looking at their distorted expressions, apparently when they were on the verge dying, they must have suffered great pain.

And the bodies of those who died were not rotten at all, apparently they had been kept by Orochimaru with a special chemical.

There was a chill in Asahi's heart, and the fear of having to associate with such a person in the future started to overtake him. 

However, this road was chosen by himself, he had no way to go back now. 

There was nothing on the test bench in the middle of the laboratory, it was clean and tidy. 

Walking to a prison, he saw the three people being held in the prison. Their eyes were numb and there was no light in them, even if they saw him and Orochimaru, there was no fluctuation, not even fear. 

And these three people were already dying, and it seemed they might die at any time. 

'They should be the ones I need to treat.' Asahi thought. 

"Those three, don't let them die." Orochimaru's hoarse voice sounded, without any slight attention to their life in his tone, but rather regret that the experimental materials were about to be lost.

"Understood!" Asahi answered, then opened the prison's iron door and walked in to treat them. 

Seeing these three people's state, he could only sigh silently. 

He started healing their injuries, although they could now hang on to their lives and were saved from death. But that would be even more unfortunate for them, because they still have to live to accept Orochimaru's experimentation. 

About an hour later, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Orochimaru, "It's done!"

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