Base
Being a ninja and harming a client is an extremely dangerous thing.
Neither the ninja villages nor the ninja world would tolerate a ninja harming a client at will.
Of course, the usual consequence is a spot on the wanted list, but not many people are actually willing to go to the trouble of a full-scale siege.
This is why everyone prefers to issue tasks through ninja villages. Rogue ninjas don't care about clients at all. If Bai hadn't stopped him, Momochi Zabuza would have killed Kado long ago.
Ninjas from ninja villages mostly worry about the village's reputation. The larger the ninja village, the less likely it is for a ninja to harm a client.
Lin Ke simply didn't care.
He became a ninja to gain more power and control his own destiny. After witnessing the twisted aspects of the Naruto World, he was no longer satisfied with just surviving.
After confirming that none of his three subordinates had noticed him using Genjutsu on TateDera through Uchiha Fugaku, he set off from the mansion again.
Before leaving, Lin Ke used Earth Flow Severance to cut out a huge cavity under the Redwood Forest. The shadow clones were working diligently, reinforcing the cave while transferring things from Kado's lair into the underground.
Such as the entire electrical system, lighting system, generators, seats, desks, sewer pipes, beds, and so on.
After all, it used to be Kado's lair, and the overall layout was decent enough to be used as a Base directly. However, it was too conspicuous, so it was better to create one separately.
The infrastructure could be used as is. Dismantling it and stuffing it underground was nothing for the shadow clones' mobility.
With more than a hundred shadow clones working together, the entire Redwood Forest was filled with eerie shadows.
By the time Lin Ke arrived, the transfer of items was almost complete. Almost everything usable in Kado's lair had been dismantled and sent to the underground Base.
Not even a light bulb was left.
As for the original owner, Kusabi? After using Genjutsu to interrogate him for information and confirming that he had no relatives and no one would come looking for him, he was quietly lying in the underground Base, waiting for further research.
People who hung out with Kado couldn't possibly have not done a few bad things. Lin Ke wasn't a soft-hearted person to begin with, and facing a real scumbag, he naturally had even less psychological burden.
This Kusabi was the first to shout about destroying the village and looting valuables after Kado died and Zabuza fell.
Both bold and greedy.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have thought about leading others to re-establish the Black Market and cause trouble again.
Lin Ke used Earth Style: Subterranean Voyage Technique to reach his own Base, released Earth Flow Severance to close the passage from above, and then began working with the shadow clones.
He would probably return to the village tomorrow, so he wanted to get the Base roughly done tonight, and then modify the details little by little later.
Once his three subordinates returned to the Sand Ninja Village, he probably wouldn't be leading a team for a while. Konoha was so close to the Land of Waves, so he could just come over on the way to a mission.
Actually, he could ignore whether the client, TateDera, received the money, but doing so might cause trouble later. After all, if this old man pursued Kusabi's death for the money, it would be a hassle. It was better to spend some money to save trouble.
After working until the second half of the night, Lin Ke stopped. He went up and roughly shaped the Base, but many details still needed to be addressed, and it was completely uninhabitable. It was terribly dark and humid, and didn't meet the conditions for a Laboratory at all.
He dragged the still unconscious Kusabi over, wondering how to use this experimental material.
The Five Elements Sealing was definitely out of the question. This kid didn't even know Ninjutsu, and it was questionable whether he could even extract Chakra.
He hadn't yet figured out what kind of medical experiments to do. In the future, he might work towards body modification, such as height extension surgery.
So, should he just throw him into the Underworld Swamp? Lin Ke pondered for a moment. It seemed like that was the only place to go. He had never really tried throwing a living person down there, and Kado's entry into the Underworld Swamp made him a little concerned.
[I can't put this technique in the Base, what if it produces those stinky muds again...]
He took Kusabi out of the underground Base and returned to the place where he had tested the Underworld Swamp last night, releasing an Underworld Swamp.
The disgusting-looking Kado emerged again, no different from yesterday, as if he was a permanent resident.
But strangely, the smell wasn't as bad.
"Splatter!"
Kusabi was thrown over and landed in the swamp, splashing some ordinary mud. Then, Kado, who was standing like a piece of wood, suddenly 'swam' over and hugged him.
"Ah!"
Kusabi screamed and woke up. After seeing Kado's terrifying face, a look of horror appeared on his face as he struggled violently.
"Pfft! Pfft!"
The cysts on Kado's body kept rupturing, and yellowish-brown pus flew everywhere, accompanied by tiny wriggling worms, covering the swamp. An arm broke off during the struggle and hung down limply.
Probably because he was too scared, coupled with all kinds of disgusting things raining down on him, Kusabi fainted directly and was dragged into the swamp at an accelerated rate.
[There are no special effects; Kado's binding ability can be broken even by ordinary people...]
Lin Ke shook his head. He thought that Kado, who had become like a puppet, would have some special abilities, but he didn't expect him to be similar to a chang gui (tiger's ghost).
Even an ordinary person's Kusabi (wedge) could break an arm with a single forceful impact, making them seem even more fragile.
"Glug glug~"
After waiting for a while, the equally disgusting Kusabi also floated up, and at the same time, the familiar stench permeated the air.
[After the souls of the dead are swallowed like the living, they will form a 'chang gui', or rather, an Underworld Army?]
Lin Ke took two steps back and observed carefully. [Kado didn't smell that bad, but the Kusabi thrown in reappeared with that stench.]
Interesting.
He didn't rush to cancel it, waiting quietly on the side. Even though it had long exceeded his Chakra usage, the Underworld Swamp still existed. It wasn't until dawn, a full three hours, that it disappeared.
And what's even stranger is that when the two 'chang gui' sank into the swamp, the stench quickly disappeared. After the Underworld Swamp dissipated and turned back into ordinary ground, there was no stinky mud left behind.
[Can I make a guess that the stinky mud is the 'energy' that maintains the continued existence of the Underworld Swamp?]
Lin Ke had his shadow grab a rabbit and throw it over, and then carefully examined the ground. It was the same as the ground after he first experimented with the Underworld Swamp in the village, it had returned to its original state.
[Throwing in souls and living people can create a stench and extend the duration of the Underworld Swamp, but does that thing have other uses...]
He seriously suspected that the stinky mud had other uses, and was not just for maintaining the existence of the Underworld Swamp.
Could eating it be converted into energy? Ugh, a bit disgusting.
Lin Ke shook his head, he'll find something to test it with later. That's it for today, time to head back.
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