Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"Oh my, you really like to assign me some difficult tasks, Lianjun."

A huge and empty experimental site was dug out of the underground of the research institute. Orochimaru was currently standing in the center of the experimental square. While arranging the forbidden technique that only he had mastered, he casually said to the person who was sitting there. The clone of Kaguya Rei, who was meditating with her eyes closed, complained:

"Do you know how much inspiration and preliminary preparation will be lost if someone interrupts the experiment in the middle?"

"I don't know, but it's definitely not as much as what you can get in this reincarnation of the filthy earth."

Kaguya Rei replied calmly.

"Oh, you really think highly of me, Lianjun."

Orochimaru licked the corner of his mouth and at the same time drew the last stroke of the Earth Reincarnation Technique. He stared at this forbidden technique that he had acquired for a long time but had no time to study and practice. He bit his finger and said:

"If I target a big shot like the First Hokage right from the start, I'm not completely sure that he can obey my instructions properly, right?"

"So the death row prisoner I provided you is just the kind of garbage that relies on his status as a ninja to commit crimes and commit crimes, but it is not enough to support the first Hokage to exert one thousandth of his power."

Kaguya Rei looked at the death row prisoner who had been subjected to illusions early and didn't even know his future fate, and his tone was unwavering:

"Exchanging the life of a piece of garbage that doesn't care about dying, in exchange for the opportunity to communicate with the former God of Ninja, even if you can only get a few words about the past from his mouth, the value is far more than what this piece of garbage has been from birth to now. The total value created.”

"Is the truth of history really important to you?"

Orochimaru took out the kunai with the charm and cut a piece of fresh flesh and blood from the Hashirama tissue in the petri dish as raw material. He asked Kaguya Rei in a tone that he didn't quite understand:

"Mortals pursue the truth of history because they need to use the so-called concealed things to give their actions a layer of legitimacy, and in this way, they can gain the favor and support of more mortals who recognize this legitimacy... ...But for you, who is at the pinnacle of power in the ninja world, the truth of history can actually be whatever you like, right?"

"Even you can't understand my persistence in history and the truth, Orochimaru?" Kaguya Rei's tone was filled with a little helplessness and desolation, "I originally thought that you who pursue the future are more or less Someone who can have some sympathy with me..."

"You also know that what I am pursuing is the future, Lianjun..."

Orochimaru licked the kunai with the charm in his hand, then stabbed it into the brain of the living sacrifice, and said with a calm expression:

"For a future with infinite possibilities, the right and wrong that have been decided in the past have no meaning. It can neither help me lock the future into a more controllable range, nor can it make me understand the true meaning of ninjutsu. To make more progress in the exploration and reinterpretation of the past...then for me, what is the value of the past that must be clarified?"

"You really have a very standard scientific and engineering viewpoint."

Kaguya smiled, stood up from where he was sitting, and began to walk in the direction of Orochimaru, "But that's right, if a crazy scientist like you starts to care about humanities, history, and philosophy, If you do research, then you lose that purity.”

"Humanities, history, philosophy..." Orochimaru chewed these words, an inexplicable light flashed in his narrow and gloomy eyes, "Is this what you want to explore, Rei-kun?"

"Yes, I want to let the ninja world, which has experienced countless wars and pain, but still has not given birth to true reflection, gain the ability to think deeply about these things."

Kaguya Rei nodded, looked down at the death row prisoner who had begun to wail in pain, and whose appearance gradually transformed into Senju Hashirama wearing the armor of the Warring States Period, and said calmly:

"Why are ninjas born? Why do ninjas fight with each other? Why do we, who have chakra, become captives of money? Why are ninja villages that can independently launch wars, but are passive parties who must look at the eyes of the big names of various countries? Why do ninjas The war between the two countries will never see an end? Why are those who want to achieve peace through mutual understanding doomed to failure?"

"Only by thinking clearly about these questions, can the ninja world truly get rid of the influence left over from the troubled times of the Warring States Period. Only by obtaining the answers to these questions, will the ninja village not be the only place where people who have mastered chakra can The destination you can think of.”

"Can't you just give them the answer, Rei-kun?"

While Orochimaru formed the seal to control the reincarnation of the dirty land, he asked Rei Kaguya the question he had always wanted to ask:

"With your wisdom, vision and speaking skills, it shouldn't be difficult to make up a set of answers that can convince everyone... In this chaotic era, there are not many people who can see through everything you weave through their own thinking. ."

"Indeed, if I just want to give them an answer, I can just stay in Kirigakure for a year or two and do research, and then call Shisui and Nagato over and tell them the answers I came up with after thinking about it. Although it is just a family statement, it should be enough for them to believe it."

Kaguya Rei laughed silently. He looked at "Senju Hashirama" who was standing up unsteadily and looking at his hands and the surroundings with confusion. He sighed and said:

"However, this kind of answer is meaningless... An answer based on personal thinking, a set of philosophy without rigorous enough logical inferences that can be demonstrated and reproduced by later generations, is not enough to change the entire ninja world. .”

"Just like the will of fire left by the first Hokage to Konoha, initially, it may be a simple and kind wish to protect the village and treat everyone in the village as family, but when Uchiha Madara attacks At that time, the will of fire held by the first Hokage has become that anyone who wants to destroy the village will be eradicated, even if this person is his family."

"Thoughts will also continue to deteriorate and gradually deviate in the process of inheritance, eventually becoming something that deteriorates and collapses."

"If you only present an idea that is like a castle in the air at the beginning, with only answers but no argumentation process, then it will not be long before it becomes the hands of those who are qualified to interpret it, and is used to oppress those who cannot, or are not worthy of interpreting it. A tool for like-minded people.”

"Orochimaru, you must have felt something, right? Especially when the Third Hokage took away your qualification and reason to continue to stay in Konoha on the grounds of 'violating the will of fire'..."

Having said this, Kaguya Rei paused for a moment, then he opened his arms and smiled sincerely at Senju Hashirama, who was already looking at him:

"Welcome back to the present world in the fifty-first year of Konoha. I am Rei Kaguya, the Fourth Mizukage. I am very happy to have the opportunity to communicate with you face to face in this era. The first Hokage, Senju Hashirama-sama."

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