It Must Be an Accident
Several hours later, in the Laboratory.
The high-level members of Konoha Village gathered together, quietly watching Orochimaru, under the supervision of Sarutobi Hiruzen and Namikaze Minato, unfold the technique, while Lin Ke infused Chakra into the Scroll.
The Incantations on the Scroll bloomed with faint light one by one, but even after everyone cautiously retreated, no other changes occurred.
[The technique has been activated, but it is not being used automatically]
Orochimaru watched the light on the Scroll gradually dim, until the Chakra remaining on it was exhausted and it returned to stillness.
[Nothing happened?]
He frowned. This was not in line with common sense. If merely infusing Chakra caused no changes, why had Senju Tobirama disappeared?
According to Lin Ke's description, the Second Hokage himself did not perform any hand seals, release Chakra, or even touch the Scroll. He simply stood at a distance of about several dozen centimeters and watched from afar. How could he have used the technique?
Perhaps there was some kind of trigger-based trap...
Almost everyone present had the same thought.
Namikaze Minato, standing closest, performed hand seals and released a Shadow Clone, letting the clone touch and move the Scroll. Each slight movement affected the minds of everyone watching.
What kind of technique could it be? What were the trigger conditions? And what was the effective range of the technique after it was triggered?
In any case, no one would underestimate Senju Tobirama's caution and logic. They tried to guess at the unfathomable depths of this Forbidden Technique master, which naturally led to a whole bunch of strange and bizarre speculations.
However, after repeatedly having the Shadow Clone manipulate it for a while, still nothing happened. Just when everyone thought there might be some hidden issue, Senju Hashirama raised his hand and said, "Um, is it possible that Tobirama didn't consider so much and just used the technique?"
"Impossible!" X2 Orochimaru and Sarutobi Hiruzen said in unison. As master and disciple, and having both studied the Second Hokage's manuscripts, they still held the Forbidden Technique master in high regard.
But one test after another came, and even Shimura Danzo volunteered to act as a daredevil to personally test it, but still nothing happened.
This was...
"It must have been an accident."
"Yes, he triggered it accidentally."
"..."
Orochimaru wore a mysterious smile on his face, his expression quite playful as he watched the four elders of Konoha make excuses for the Second Hokage.
Senju Hashirama covered his face with one hand, sighing incessantly, "That guy Tobirama actually used an unknown Ninjutsu rashly, really..." He really didn't want to speak ill of someone behind their back, especially his own brother.
But this kind of behavior was simply courting death.
The others tacitly skipped over the matter and restarted the experiment.
Lin Ke re-infused Chakra to activate the technique on the Scroll, and Orochimaru threw a rabbit, specially made for experiments at the Seventh Training Ground, over to it.
After the rabbit touched the glowing, activated technique, the Incantations on it twisted and compressed row by row, eventually forming a vortex that sucked the rabbit in.
They then took several ordinary wild animals of different sizes and species and experimented again, but the results were no different from the initial rabbit.
"It's a trigger-type technique. As long as it's activated with Lin Ke's Chakra, anyone can use it, but the preservation time is very short."
Orochimaru made a summary, pondering the order of the activated Incantations he had just seen, and the different effects compared to the order when releasing Space-Time Ninjutsu, summarizing and categorizing them in his mind.
"I understand." Among the three researchers, Namikaze Minato was the first to speak. He had a look of realization on his face, and pointed to the Scroll without the activated technique, saying, "This part is the related search Incantation, this part is the positioning, and this part is the space transfer..."
He recounted his findings, the principle wasn't overly complex, just that the Jutsu was too unfamiliar.
Following Senju Tobirama's manuscript, and through on-site comparison, it was easy to understand the meaning of the fully unfolded Jutsu.
The Flying Thunder God Technique itself also had a fuzzy positioning function, such as transferring a Tailed Beast Bomb out of thin air, but it was too vague, relying entirely on the sensing ninja's own perception.
This new Space-Time Ninjutsu actually had the ability to automatically search and locate space.
Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded and said, "Also, I noticed just now that when the rabbit came into contact with the Jutsu, the first part activated was here." He circled a section of the Jutsu that Senju Tobirama hadn't understood, and said, "I suspect this part is for communicating with the mind."
Communicating with the mind, transferring the user's needs to the corresponding location? No, there should be other meanings, but it's definitely on the right track.
Orochimaru listened, recorded, and also expressed his own opinions. The three of them chatted lively, and you couldn't tell that there were two dead people and a prisoner among them.
Lin Ke only understood bits and pieces, standing next to them as a tool for providing Chakra. He could vaguely understand the train of thought, but he really didn't understand the Jutsu.
Originally, he planned to have Namikaze Minato make him the external brain that Senju Tobirama had made before, but after the two, one human and one ghost, looked at each other for a while, they realized—
They both didn't know how to make it?
That was a bit awkward.
What Chakra linking to the mind, and finally linking to the brain, neither he nor Namikaze Minato understood very well, or rather, they couldn't open their minds well?
Anyway, the idea of learning the Flying Thunder God Technique through an external brain failed. When he had time, he should honestly learn his Wind Release, there was still a lot to learn.
Back to the main topic, the experiment unfolded again in full swing, Tsunade and the two Advisors quickly left to handle the village's affairs.
Senju Hashirama, Uchiha Sasuke, and Utakata stood by and watched as if they were listening to a heavenly book, messing around for a whole day, their effect was not even as great as Lin Ke, who provided Chakra.
The preliminary research results came out, and Sarutobi Hiruzen's guess was correct. The operating logic of the Jutsu was to communicate with the mind, search for the location, determine the coordinates, and then teleport over.
Three cobblers are equal to one Zhuge Liang, not to mention Orochimaru, who could improve Forbidden Techniques, plus a scholar and an expert in Space-Time Ninjutsu. With Senju Tobirama's manuscript, their progress was rapid.
In just four or five days, they had tested it on ordinary wild animals, snake-type Summoning Beasts (courtesy of Orochimaru), and death row inmates.
The space teleported to was too far away, and the Summoning Jutsu couldn't pull them back at all, which cut off the path of leaving Chakra behind as a connection, then using the Jutsu to teleport over to find Senju Tobirama, and then summoning them back together.
In the original manga, Naruto and his group in the Amenominaka space needed the power of all the past Hokage to summon them back. Lin Ke even suspected that Senju Tobirama had crossed over to another world. To summon him back, the Chakra required would probably be astronomical. He didn't know if the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki or Kaguya could do it, but Konoha Village definitely couldn't.
But why did it consume so little Chakra to teleport over there?
Orochimaru's explanation for this was that Lin Ke's Chakra was very special.
Anyway, after going around in circles, they returned to the original plan: to have Lin Ke take someone to teleport to the other side, to find Senju Tobirama, and then find a way to use the Jutsu to return.
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