Mayuri's card from Naruto

Chapter 10 Psychic Contract
"You passed the test."

Orochimaru dispersed the summoned snakes, freed the struggling Anko, and announced that the two had passed his test.

Stealing the bell was the method used by the Third Hokage to test them. In the words of the Third Hokage, they had also experienced this kind of test when they were apprentices of the Second Hokage.

This assessment method has become the unspoken assessment method of the Hokage series.

Although it is all about grabbing the bell, the essence of this assessment is actually to observe whether the students' behavior meets your requirements through the act of grabbing the bell.

In this assessment of the Hokage series, the strongest person present is the Kage of a village, and the weakest is at the elite jonin level.

As for those who participated in the assessment? Most of them were Genin who had just graduated from Konoha Ninja School and obtained the Genin protection, or at most joined the Chunin.

With such a huge gap in strength, if the examiners in charge of the assessment don't let them off easily, then basically no team will be able to pass the assessment. Take the future Hatake Kakashi for example.

Therefore, those who can pass this bell-grabbing test are basically those who have observed the characteristics that suit their preferences and then let them succeed.

Therefore, each examiner has different requirements, which leads to different ways of passing the test even if the test method is the same.

Some like those who will do anything to achieve their goals, some like those who have a sense of companionship, some like those who are smart and can use their brains, and so on.

For Orochimaru, he never thought that the two could really snatch the so-called bell from him, he just wanted to see the talents they showed in the process. When he saw them, even if they didn't get the bell in the end, he would announce that he passed.

And Lu Nie and the other two obviously gave him a big surprise.

"Did you pass?" Hongdou climbed up from the ground, not caring about her embarrassment, the joy on her face was overflowing.

"Passed!" Orochimaru touched Red Bean's head and led the two of them to the tree where the Ryuchi Cave scroll was placed. He spread it out in front of the two of them and stopped at the last blank space.

"Before signing the contract, I need to give you a piece of advice." Orochimaru looked at the two of them with a intimidating gaze. The pressure attached to his gaze made Hongdou, who was immersed in joy, shudder all over, and her rosy face turned pale in an instant.

"Don't summon the giant snakes in the Ryuchi Cave easily when you are not strong enough. They will not obey your orders just because you are the contractors. They are also a source of danger." Orochimaru reminded.

Kane and Anko nodded.

Orochimaru was just reminding them. With their current chakra, they couldn't summon any large summoning beasts. At most, they could summon some common snakes from the Ryuchi Cave.

Those snakes in the Ryuchi Cave were just cannon fodder, and there were as many of them as needed. As long as ordinary ninjas were not facing a large group of snakes, they could handle it with ease.

"Do you still have strength?" Orochimaru looked at the two of them.

"Yes, Teacher Orochimaru!" Red Bean raised her hand, but everyone could see that she was not in a good condition.

The face of Lu Nie beside him was even paler. The moment when he used the shadow binding technique to forcibly control Orochimaru, and the subsequent somewhat reluctant shadow coffin and shadow seam technique, almost drained all the chakra in his body.

"That's enough for today." Orochimaru also noticed that the two were not in good condition. "Gather here again tomorrow. I will teach you some ninjutsu."

"So what should we do next? Why don't we go to a barbecue bar and have a celebration, Teacher Orochimaru!" Red Bean nodded repeatedly and proposed the next plan.

It can be seen that her admiration for Orochimaru is beyond words and her fanaticism is undisguised.

Orochimaru glanced at Red Bean who was full of anticipation and at Kaname who finally showed some of the Nara clan's lazy and listless demeanor, pondered for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking of, and nodded in agreement.

"Then go ahead."

……

After lifting the curtain of the barbecue restaurant, Orochimaru led Lu Ni and the other two to an empty semi-enclosed private room. But halfway, as if sensing something, Orochimaru paused and stepped forward to lift the curtain of a private room.

Behind the door curtain, a group of three young girls, one with blond hair, one with red hair, and one with white hair, all stopped what they were doing and looked at the person who had lifted the curtain and entered.

"Orochimaru?" Jiraiya, with his white hair loose, stood up in surprise when he saw the person coming.

"Lord Orochimaru." The yellow-haired man in the box also pulled the red-haired girl beside him to greet Orochimaru.

"It's Minato and Kushina." Orochimaru looked at the atmosphere in the box and realized that this was a long-lost gathering of master and apprentice. Just as he was thinking about whether he should leave, a little head popped out from behind him.

"Teacher?" Hongdou was just asking a question, but after seeing the people in the box, her face was confused at first, then she looked up at Orochimaru as if she had discovered something but was not sure.

"Teacher?" Jiraiya was sensitive to the way Red Bean addressed Orochimaru. He looked at Orochimaru in surprise and said, "You are the team leader again?"

"Mitarashi Anko, this is Nara Shikagawa." Orochimaru reached out and pulled Shikagawa out from behind him, pushed him to the front, and put his left and right hands on each of their hair: "You just became my disciple today."

"This is Jiraiya, you should stay away from him! This is Namikaze Minato, Jiraiya's disciple."

Orochimaru introduced the two of them one by one, but skipped over Uzumaki Kushina.

Being ignored, Kushina didn't show any abnormality. She had long been accustomed to this kind of neglect. In the past, when she was in a hot temper, she would certainly get angry, but now with Minato by her side, her emotions were particularly stable.

Anyway, she was not interested in Orochimaru, who always had a cold aura about him.

"Hello." Minato Namikaze took the initiative to wave to Kane and Red Bean. Under the gaze of the two, he casually took out two peculiarly forked kunai from his pocket and handed them to the two.

"I don't have anything on me to give you right now, so just take these two kunai." Namikaze Minato touched his hair and said kindly.

Lu Nie was playing with the special kunai in his hand. There were some runes on the kunai. At present, apart from the family's shadow secrets, Lu Nie had not yet learned other ninjutsu knowledge such as sealing techniques, and he could not tell what these runes on the kunai meant.

But he still liked this gift. At least the runes on it would have a certain research value when learning the sealing technique in the future. Looking up at Minato Namikaze, he could feel the power of peace of mind and trust in him. People who are extremely sensitive to chakra can judge a person's character through chakra.

For example, she can judge the stage of a person’s inner emotions by looking at the warmth and coldness of his chakra, the future Karin of the Uzumaki clan.

"Minato-senpai is so gentle!" A somewhat unpleasant voice beside him interrupted Lu Nie's thoughts. He twitched his mouth and looked at Hongdou with shining eyes on the other side, speechless.

At this stage, is Hongdou still a serious love-crazy patient?

"Would you like to eat together? Let's just think of it as a dinner party between our two classes." Jiraiya chuckled and took the initiative to invite.

Orochimaru did not answer immediately, but looked at Luna and Red Bean. Feeling the meaning of her teacher's question, Red Bean nodded quickly and gave Luna a slightly dangerous look.

Lu Nie nodded, not bothering to do so.

The atmosphere in the box immediately became lively again. While grilling meat, Jiraiya kept bragging to Lu Ne and the others about his experiences and stories over the past few years, as well as the customs and habits of various places.

It can only be said that as someone who writes novels and travels around the world to collect information, Jiraiya's story quickly attracted the two women present.

Uzumaki Kushina was unable to leave Konoha Village because she was under surveillance, while Anko was curious and interested in everything she heard simply because she was young. Jiraiya's story was lively and interesting, and he immediately captured the attention of the two.

Even Lu Nie was listening attentively while trying his best to replenish his energy with food.

After eating and drinking, one party spoke happily and the other party listened happily, and both parties left very happily.

After being sent back home, Lu Nie went to his laboratory to feed the hungry green-white insects, and then tried out the psychic technique he had just learned in the open space in the yard.

He bit his finger and smeared the medium of the contract communication - his own blood - on the palm of his hand.

Hai-xu-you-shen-wei!
Summoning from the ground.

After a cloud of smoke exploded, a snake as thick as a baby's arm was summoned here from the distant Dragon Cave.

Lu Nie felt the chakra that had recovered in his body begin to dissipate again, and at the same time, he had a mysterious connection with the summoned snakes.

The summoned snakes coiled on the ground, and under Lu Nie's gaze, they quickly coiled their bodies into a mosquito coil shape. Their heads were raised, and their forked tongues kept sticking out of their mouths, making hissing sounds. Their golden eyes swayed and then collided with Lu Nie's gaze.

Lu Nie felt that he could control the summoned psychic snake in front of him, and the other party's low IQ was not enough for it to think and object.

This should be the most common and the most poisonous snake at the bottom of Longdi Cave.

After testing his control over it, Lu Nie felt a little disappointed, because although the snake was obedient enough, its brain was not enough to understand the slightly complex commands Lu Nie gave it.

Attack a target.

Go look for living things around.

The simpler the command, the faster it executes. On the contrary, if the command is a little more complicated, such as adding a ninja or beast tag when searching for living things, it will be at a loss for a long time.

Conclusion: Summoning them is useless except wasting chakra. If you want to cause damage, you must consume a large amount of chakra at once to summon a sea of ​​snakes, forming an indiscriminate disaster of poisonous snakes.

Then Lu Nie continued to experiment several times until he exhausted all his chakra. Only then did he gain a deeper understanding of the spiritual arts of Ryuchidong based on reality.

The more chakra you consume, the more powerful dragon snakes you can summon. Including giant snakes that are huge and destructive! Among these snakes, there are superior snakes with intelligence.

They understand human language and can communicate with humans. But at the same time, they also have the right to resist the contract communication. During the experiment, Lu Nie once summoned one, but it was rejected.

The Orochimaru team gathered at the assessment site on the second day. As soon as Lu Ne saw Orochimaru, he asked him his questions and inferences, wanting to confirm them with Orochimaru.

Orochimaru glanced at him and said in approval, "The truly powerful ones in the Ryuchi Cave are those snakes that have wisdom and can communicate with humans. But most of these snakes have their own tempers and personalities. If you want to summon them to fight, you must first satisfy their desires."

"In other words, signing a summoning contract is just a threshold. If you want to summon those powerful intelligent snakes, you also need to reach a certain contract with them. Is that right, Mr. Orochimaru?" Lu Ni asked for confirmation.

"Yes! For example, the Ten Thousand Snakes I summoned, the summoning condition I agreed with it is that it responds to my call and fights for me when needed. Correspondingly, after the battle, I also need to offer it sufficient sacrifices." Orochimaru affirmed Lunie's verification and gave an example.

"Sacrifice?" Hongdou was a little confused.

"It's a human!" Orochimaru said the sacrifice calmly, his hoarse and magnetic voice made Anko's skin break out. "Many snakes like to eat humans. But there are no humans in the Ryuchi Cave."

Hongdou shuddered again.

"If you want a giant snake with the fighting power of Wanshe, you must go to Longdi Cave and negotiate with one of them in person. During the negotiation, you must have the strength to guarantee your own safety! Otherwise, even if you are a contractor, there is a high possibility that you will become blood food for the snakes there."

Orochimaru said meaningfully: "Equal strength is the basis of negotiation."

"Is spiritualism so dangerous? Then..." Hongdou was a little conflicted for a moment.

"It's just that the Ryuchi Cave is special. If you have contracted with Myoboku Mountain and the Wet Bone Forest, then you generally won't encounter too much danger when you go there.

The personalities of those toads are much better than those of snakes. And Tsunade's slugs have the best temper among them."

At this point, Orochimaru simply explained a few more words to Lu Nie and the others. He also compared the holy places of the other two summoning beasts among the three ninjas. Finally, he narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Lu Nie, and added with a cold smile on the corner of his lips.

"Although Longdi Cave adheres to the cruel law of natural selection, if you have the ability, you can conduct any research and experiments on the snakes in Longdi Cave! Don't worry about the accusations and retaliation from the immortals of Longdi Cave."

(End of this chapter)