Next Target
Chapter 186: The next target, the Land of Rain, Amegakure.
"Swish, swish~"
Under the torrential rain, the woman with blue-purple hair flying in mid-air silently gazed at the village below, where a massive crater had suddenly appeared.
Although she could only hear the sound of rain, she seemed to hear the village and the country crying.
"Boom!"
Rainwater gathered, forming an artificial lake in the crater, but the lake quickly exploded, with blood and pieces of corpses surging into the sky with the waves, before gradually subsiding.
The once vibrant village was now utterly silent.
"Pain..." The woman with blue-purple hair landed on the water, looking at the man in the Black and Red Cloud Robe staring at the lake in front of her, her voice low. "Zetsu has already impersonated Hanzo as planned and completed the Three-Country Summit."
"Next, we will cooperate with Stone Village as planned to prevent Konoha Village from continuing to grow stronger." The man called Pain looked at the rippling lake, his face constantly distorted by the movement of the water. In his eyes, there was still an uncontrollable rage, mixed with a hint of pleasure.
"The revival of the Three-Tails will take time. Before we start capturing the Tailed Beasts, we cannot allow Konoha's power to expand too much."
"Continue to gather information on the Jinchuriki."
"You're really having fun, aren't you?" Space twisted, and a man wearing a swirl mask appeared, stepping on the water. "Pain, you are the leader. If you cannot let go of hatred of this magnitude, and you only have this much capacity, you will surely be easily defeated by others in the future."
The woman with blue-purple hair looked at the masked man with a wary gaze, pursing her lips without saying a word.
Pain raised his head, the circles of his Rinnegan showing no emotion. He said calmly, "Konoha Village's Lin Ke has already caused Sasori to defect from the organization. He is a threat."
"That won't do." The three tomoe in the Sharingan eye exposed by the masked man trembled slightly.
"Itachi has already decided to make him his prey. If we interfere without permission, we may lose another 'companion'."
"Sasuke is growing quickly, it shouldn't be too long before he can awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan..."
Pain listened expressionlessly, without refuting.
"The time is not yet ripe." The masked man reached out and pressed his mask, his body gradually twisting. "It is not yet suitable for us to step onto the stage."
Watching the mysterious figure disappear, the woman with blue-purple hair hesitated, but ultimately just stayed by her companion's side.
"Drip, drip"
Pain lowered his head again, the rain falling harder and harder, constantly disrupting the surface of the water. He could no longer see 'his' face clearly.
The emptiness that remained after the successful revenge made him inexplicably recall many past events, until some memories stung him, bringing him back to reality.
I am not Nagato, but a god who corrects order
He no longer recalled those meaningless trivialities, his eyes filled with persistence and almost fanatical emotions.
"Let's go, Konan." — Konoha Village.
"It's so quiet..."
Lin Ke thought he would be ambushed on the way back, or that Hanzo, or someone pretending to be him, would attack them, but he didn't expect to return safely all the way.
"Do you think there are many madmen who dare to attack the Hokage?" Kakashi complained from the side.
Well, that's hard to say.
Lin Ke thought about it and didn't argue. In any case, it was always good to be able to return safely.
It was always better to be able to develop in peace without fighting.
After the Third Hokage returned to the village, he rushed to the Hokage Office to work as soon as possible. With the end of the Three-Country Summit, there were even more things to be busy with next.
Kakashi waved his hand casually, and his Body Flicker Technique disappeared on the spot.
It took more than a day to travel from the Land of Rivers to Konoha in the wild. Lin Ke first went home to take a shower and change clothes, then went to the Training Grounds to take a look. Sasuke was practicing hard, so he practiced with him for a while, helped him with two shots of Mystical Palm Technique, and then lay on the stone to chat for a while, and made an appointment to have dinner at home in the evening.
Then, he routinely visited his teacher Nara Shikaku, and only realized that Teacher Nara Yan Shui was also there when he entered the door.
The two of them were sitting on the tatami playing Shogi.
"Teacher, Yan Shui Teacher." Lin Ke greeted honestly, then sat down next to them.
He was completely uninterested in playing Shogi, but he could still understand some of it from what he had seen and heard.
"You're back." Nara Shikaku greeted with a smile, then looked down at the chessboard and said casually, "People from Sand Ninja Village will be here in two days, and your three subordinates should be going back. Don't take any missions these days."
"Yes." Lin Ke sat properly.
"Checkmate." Nara Shikaku, while absentmindedly chatting with his disciple, easily won at Shogi, then said, "You've been slacking off quite a bit lately."
Nara Yan Shui stretched his hands, saying, "Can't help it, staying at home for too long, my body and brain are getting stiff."
He was now a properly retired Jonin, retiring young to laze around at home, which was exactly the good life Nara Shikamaru dreamed of.
"That experimental subject who was about to explode last time, was he called Kimimaro?" Nara Shikaku reset the Shogi board, looking sideways at his disciple, "He has body tissues transplanted into him, and I heard that it's those strange body tissues that prevent him from refining Chakra, and constantly absorb external energy, giving his body powerful regenerative abilities."
"The Medical Team mentioned that they hope you can come back and help with experiments after you return."
"I understand." Lin Ke was also quite curious about Kimimaro's physical condition.
Nara Shikaku nodded and continued, "The Cipher Department has cracked some of Orochimaru's computer data, which may be related to the experimental subject. I don't know the specifics, but if you're interested, you can go to the Cipher Department and ask."
"Okay." Lin Ke sat obediently, not expressing any extra thoughts.
Nara Shikaku picked up a Shogi piece, thought for a while, and placed it, saying, "Thank you for the hard work at this meeting."
"It's nothing, and I don't think I can protect the Third Hokage." Lin Ke said modestly.
Nara Shikaku entered the rhythm of playing Shogi, quickly pushing Nara Yan Shui on the other side into a desperate situation, and still managed to say:
"The village probably won't assign you any special long-term missions next. Do you have any needs in terms of training?"
Lin Ke thought about it, and it seemed like he didn't have any special needs. The Third Hokage could be said to have opened up all the Ninjutsu to him in terms of Ninjutsu, and if he felt that he wasn't learning Taijutsu correctly, he could go to Might Guy at any time.
He couldn't say he was short of money, right? But it didn't seem like he was that short of money either, he still had a lot of wool from the Pure Land waiting to be sheared.
"Shikaku, please have a little mercy!" Nara Yan Shui sighed, he had lost two Shogi games in just a few minutes.
Nara Shikaku smiled and said, "Do you want to stay for dinner tonight? Yoshino was still thinking about you the other day."
"I have dinner plans with a friend." Lin Ke replied, his teacher's wife, Nara Yoshino, was very strict with her husband and son, but she was very tolerant of him, a child who was too sensible and obedient.
Nara Yan Shui shouted, "No, no, change people, Lin Ke, let's play a game!"
Nara Shikaku smiled and gave up his seat.
After Lin Ke provided Nara Yan Shui with some emotional value as a novice, he left the Nara Clan and went to the Cipher Department.
Yurika, the Cipher Department's decoding expert whom he had met once, was fiercely discussing something with her colleagues. Seeing him come in, she stood up and said, "Are you here for Orochimaru's data?"
She was asking, but her feet were already walking towards the rows of bookshelves, and after a while, she pulled out two folders.
"Here, this is all that could be cracked, the other parts are impossible."
"Remember to return them after reading."
The Cipher Department is only responsible for cracking codes, they don't care what to do with the cracked content.
Lin Ke carried two large folders and sat down at an empty table nearby, flipping through the cracked data.
A lot of it was constantly repeating experimental data, such as what the No. 1 experimental subject did, what was used, what state it was in, and what the cell cross-section looked like.
Basically, it was a lot of controlled experimental content, he flipped through the data twice, slowly chewing it down.
Roughly, he could see that the experimental subject transplanted with the Original Body's flesh and blood tissue had super regenerative ability, could suppress Chakra, permanently improve physical fitness, and had deformed internal organs.
After all, it wasn't like an experimental report, just some data stored in the computer, so the summarized things might not correspond to reality.
Lin Ke's head was dizzy, his medical knowledge level and practical ability were completely mismatched, it was okay for him to treat others, but it was a bit of an overestimate to ask him to chew on experimental data and digest it.
But since it was determined that the experiment was related to the Five Elements Sealing, he couldn't completely ignore it, it would be best to find a professional to help.
Orochimaru and Yakushi Kabuto were definitely high-end people in related technical fields, involving many strange terms, some were marked and translated with the help of the Medical Team, and some were helpless by the Cipher Department and the Medical Team, so they pasted the screenshots of the text in the computer.
Obviously, the Medical Team couldn't reach the height of those two people, and it was estimated that the only person who could match Orochimaru's wavelength was the big fat sheep.
Decided, next I'll go find Tsunade, I need to think about how to trick Tsunade into my hands...
From today onwards, I'll pull Nawaki out to get to know him well, build a good relationship, and then use Hermit Purple to find the location of the big fat sheep
By the way, find a way to get the necklace, and try to change Tsunade's life, increasing the possibility of contacting the two Hokage
Multiple gains
Lin Ke closed the folder, it wasn't impossible for him to seriously start learning from scratch, but the problem was how many years would it take him to slowly chew down such professional things, it was better to directly take a shortcut as usual.
He didn't believe that Tsunade wouldn't understand Orochimaru's experiments. With his assistance, it definitely wouldn't be difficult for Tsunade to catch up with her technical skills.
When the time comes, he could raid Orochimaru's base for a wave of information, or simply get his hands on that [Original Body]
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