[Hokage] Scales

Suo, Yao and I squatted on the ground, forming a circle, the needle rested on Suo's shoulder, Yao hugged Dougou, and I was empty-handed.

The mermaid floated back and forth beside me, its long brown hair brushing over my shoulders and down over my face, its tail brushing me now and then.

"Why would anyone want to live forever?"

Orochimaru said that he wants to learn all ninjutsu in the world, uncommon ninjutsu, lost ninjutsu, secret technique inherited in the family, forbidden ninjutsu... There are endless ninjutsu, so endless ninjutsu is needed Life to inquire and learn one by one.

Yao glanced at me, "Don't you want to live?"

I nodded, and then shook my head again. I didn't feel right after shaking my head twice, and I got stuck there.

"You feel weird because you just don't want to die when you live."

This sentence is beyond my comprehension, as if I was looking for an excuse, years of training camps that only obey orders and a dull life have already wiped out my ability to think, I squatted there for a long time thinking about it, I didn’t want to die What's wrong?

What does it have to do with my feeling that Orochimaru is weird?

My subconscious mind said something I couldn't understand, even the subconscious mind was smarter than me.

I was still thinking about that sentence when I pushed the cart full of plates of food to send in the experimental subject’s residential area, and absently put the plate in the food window, which attracted some grumpy guys to scold.

Not every experimental subject is voluntary, and the difference between voluntary and involuntary is the size of the residence.

Speaking of living quarters, I actually think it’s more like a prison cell. The iron fence separates the aisle and the “room”. Except for the simple cubicle in the toilet, the rest can be seen at a glance.

The voluntary experimental subjects are not fences, but it is easy to see the inside from the outside. After all, they are here as experimental subjects, not on vacation. There must be an observation window for the observers—usually me, Orochimaru It is rare to see the test subject outside the laboratory—record the numerical changes of physical signs.

I'm a little curious, before there was me as a handyman, could it be that Orochimaru did it himself?

It should be, I found that the room of the chief instructor has a board with data written next to everyone.

The result of being distracted was a trembling hand, some food spilled out, and the people behind the fence yelled curses in a language I couldn't understand, but judging by his volume, tone, and expression, he couldn't be praising.

I looked at the dishes that were still eight minutes full, stared at him for another three seconds, and suddenly felt that it would be good to collect other people's opinions, so I asked him, "Why are you alive?"

He silenced instantly, looked at me with vigilant eyes, as if I was going to cut his throat with a knife in the next second, quickly pulled the dinner plate and hid in the deepest corner of the room, still showing vigilance, the iris color changed Shallow, sharp canine teeth protrude from the lips, and an unfriendly growl comes from the throat.

He tugged so violently that he spilled more food than I dropped.

Seeing that I couldn't get an answer, I continued with my meal delivery work, but I didn't get dazed anymore. It was as fast and efficient as usual, and I could think longer when I finished it early and went back to lie down earlier.

"thanks."

There is only one person who would thank you so politely. I looked down at the thin figure who had started to eat with his back turned to me. The orange hair and the flames jumping on the wall reflected each other.

Libra weighs me, he has only been here for a few months, he seems to have been discovered by Orochimaru to have some special ability, and he voluntarily followed him back, he is a frequent visitor to the laboratory recently.

The beginning of Orochimaru's reduced interest in mixing experiments with humans and animals is related to the arrival of this child. He spent a lot of time looking up classics and materials, trying to research ninjutsu that can cast short-term and best permanent strength on people.

I went back to the room, climbed into the water tank, transformed into a tail and sank to the bottom of the water.

The advantage of being pinched and lifted by Orochimaru is that the posture makes my tail not concave or straight. With a thought, I learned the transformation of the form that has troubled me for a long time. Sure enough, there is no need and no progress.

It's a pity that I didn't lie down for a long time. Waves of unusual vibrations seemed to be getting stronger and stronger, causing the sand on the ceiling to rustle.

A small clod of soil fell into the water, and I resigned myself to crawling out of the water tank. Dashemaru is not around these days, even if he is, I will probably deal with this kind of thing.

Thinking about which of the experimental products could cause such a big commotion, I stopped after walking a few steps with the small dagger in hand.

There was a big hole in the perennially dark tunnel, and the figure in the billowing smoke had a familiar face. The Wuguang Ninja, who was also a survivor of the current training camp, held the shark muscle handle in his hand, and steadily lifted the ninja knife off the ground. The point of the ninja knife, densely covered with thorns, was pointed straight at my face.

Two more people walked out behind him, no surprise, they were also former colleagues.

The leading shark muscle holder said blankly: "Long time no see, He Yu."

×

There was silence everywhere, and I couldn't even hear the slightest movement. I wanted to move my fingers, but I found that my whole body seemed to be hung with extremely heavy shackles, tightly bound to the ground, every inch of muscle could not move, and my body seemed to not exist.

I don't even know what kind of posture I am in at the moment, I just remember being hit and flying, I don't know what I hit, and it just became like this.

It seems that this action is very important, not to mention the three out of Wuguang, there are actually five teams of ninjas from Wuyin Village waiting on the ground.

I couldn't hear the sound, my sight was blocked, and I couldn't move, but since I was still alive and no one came to end my life, probably everyone was dragged away by Orochimaru.

Otherwise, I look like I'm dead, and everyone is too busy to make up the knife.

I am so tired, a kind of deep burnout that I have never experienced before. From the inside to the outside and then from the outside to the inside, my limbs, bones, internal organs, and six internal organs are all immersed in unprecedented fatigue.

When I went outside, it was almost dawn and I had a series of fights, so now I feel a little warm on my face, is it caused by the sun?

There was an urge to see the sun with my own eyes, and the temperature on my face gradually increased, and that urge became stronger and stronger, so strong that I couldn't suppress it even though I knew that my eyes couldn't see any light.

When the long-awaited thing is close at hand, as long as the cover is removed, you can face it. Even if you understand that the cover will no longer be harmful to you, how many people can hold back?

A faint but clear voice said: "The opportunity is fleeting, if you don't do it this time, there will never be another one."

The voice didn't repeat itself, it was said once, but every word seemed to be engraved deeply in the brain, and each word was heavier than the last.

The sound did the trick.

Bathed in the sun, the desire to see the sun with my own eyes ignited an inextinguishable fire, burning out the last thread of hesitation, I struggled to raise my hand to remove the blindfold, the shackles were still there, and the tactile sensation was still fading, so I could only use willpower to get rid of it. "Controlling" the movement of the hand, judging from the light that finally pierced into both eyes that I succeeded.

Unexpectedly, there was no pain at all. When the eyes were remodeled, the instructors in the training camp just said that they could not see the sun. I always thought that the result was as painful as the brain control spell.

The brightest scene that used to exist in my life was the various lights that occasionally flashed in my dreams; later, it was the golden pupil of Orochimaru, but none of these can compare to the current scene.

The eyesight can't accept the huge amount of light for a while, everything blurs into bright and dark color blocks, there is no obvious boundary between the color blocks, and occasionally they erode and merge with each other.

There was a lump of black pushing away from other color blocks, and I blinked several times to stabilize the state, and line after line of physiological tears ran across my cheeks, and then I could distinguish it from the two bright spots emitting a different light in the black shadow. Orochimaru.

Three ninjas are three ninjas, appearance is equal to the end of the battle, I resisted all the way until dawn and barely survived, he appeared in a few minutes and settled everything.

After a while, the boundaries between the color blocks became a little clearer, and the shape was no longer changed drastically. Only then did I realize that there was something floating in the air behind Orochimaru, and the shape of that thing looked very similar... That mermaid in my subconscious? !

I squinted my eyes to try to stabilize my vision, which didn't help much, but it did, at least confirming my guess.

The mermaid noticed that I was looking at him, and stopped "swimming", as if his original purpose was to attract my attention.

I still can't hear the sound of the color block in his mouth opening and closing, but I'm sure he's not talking about asking where I am since he appeared.

A little bit of strength gushed out from my fingertips, accompanied by a bone-piercing chill. While dispelling my powerless state bit by bit, it also made me chill inch by inch.

The world suddenly became clear, as if someone lifted the filter around me in one go, everything returned to its proper shape, all the sounds suddenly rushed into my ear canal, exploded in my head, roared, and became a mess group.

I didn't bother to sort out the intermingled buzzing, I opened my eyes wide and looked up at the sky.

It turns out that the sun is not golden, but brighter white than Orochimaru's eyes that can't be seen directly.

Two tears slid down my face, it was not because I was moved, it was purely the physiological reaction of looking directly at the sun too much.

The tears piled up and it was too late to fall, and my vision became blurred again, so I looked away.

I sat leaning against the tree trunk, not far away there were puddles of blood, ninja tools were scattered everywhere, and there were a lot of ninjutsu traces, but there was no corpse at all.

Orochimaru sat next to me, the shade of the trees staggered on his face, the blush from the battle hadn't faded yet, his posture was very relaxed, seeing me looking towards him, he smiled.

At the same time, the repeated words of the mermaid finally fell into my ears.

"I found you, Qinglin."

Probably because of the instinct engraved in my body, I immediately understood my current state, and all the strange symptoms had a perfect answer.

That's it, this is today, I will meet my end.

The coldness in my body grew stronger, I raised my hand and took Dashewan down and placed it on the side of my neck to measure the pulse, recalling all the things after I went to his laboratory as a handyman.

Yao said, I live just not wanting to die.

The strength recovered just now was drained at a very fast speed, and the moment before they dissipated, I opened my mouth and said a word to Orochimaru.

The author has something to say:

end of next chapter