Listening to Orochimaru's emotion, Uchiha Chen nodded.
"No one is immortal, right?"
"Yes. Nothing is eternal. Even existences like Sage of Six Paths have disappeared in the long river of history." Orochimaru sighed.
"Aging, and then dying without leaving a trace, life is really an empty thing. Now that I am just twenty years old, I have already deeply felt this thing." Orochimaru said.
"Chen, how do you view life?" Orochimaru asked suddenly, squinting his golden snake eyes.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Uchiha Chen did not directly answer this question.
In his opinion, Orochimaru's enthusiasm for him was indeed a bit too much.
How could a twenty-year-old Jonin ask a nine-year-old kid such a question.
"Haha... It seems that I asked abruptly." Orochimaru smiled a rare smile, with a hoarse but magnetic voice.
"I had a strange feeling when I first saw you. I felt that you were different."
"I've been observing you for a long time, and I feel that you are a little out of tune with this world. Although you are just a child, I feel that you have a mature soul. This is really interesting."
Uchiha Chen Be alert, Orochimaru This is too sharp.
"I feel like you are like a gust of wind that will eventually move the whole world. So, I think your answer should be interesting."
Orochimaru paused and continued, "From the day my parents died and I became an orphan, I have been prepared for death."
"But even if I am like this, the moment I go to the battlefield to fight, I will unconsciously feel very small. This is a completely different feeling from fighting during a ninja mission."
"Death, death is everywhere. When you look around, there are corpses all around. Some belong to the enemy, some are ours. Some are even your contemporaries and good friends."
"And what do you get in exchange for those many sacrifices? Just a lot of experience and knowledge in war."
"Life is such a boring thing."
Orochimaru poured himself another glass of wine.
"Yes. We are all ordinary people. All people are pursuing happiness, but not everyone will achieve happiness." Uchiha Chen nodded.
Orochimaru's eyes were calm and a little sad. After repeating the words Uchiha Chen said, he seemed to think of something he had lost but could never find again.
After a moment of silence, Uchiha Chen picked up the dish in front of him with the chopsticks in his hand and asked.
"Is the war about to begin?"
"Yes, some places have become a mess. The friction between Land of Rain and Land of Grass is getting more and more serious." Orochimaru said
"Both Land of Wind and Land of Earth have begun to station a large number of troops on the border. If they are allowed to continue to station a large number of troops on the border, once a war breaks out, Konoha will immediately be at a disadvantage."
"Then why did you come back under such circumstances?" Uchiha Chen already had a guess, but still asked with squinted eyes.
Orochimaru smiled and said in a hoarse voice, "It was Third Hokage who called us back. Jonin The mission statement has been issued."
As he smiled, he picked up the peanuts in front of him with his chopsticks and put them in his mouth.
"We want to come back as Squad Leader Jonin for you students." Orochimaru said in a hoarse voice.
"Squad Leader Jonin? But we are only in fifth grade and haven't graduated yet." Uchiha Chen asked in confusion.
"Yes. It's just because you haven't graduated that I'm taking you on a mission now."
"Once the war starts, no one will have time to take care of you like a nanny. At that time, you children will go directly to the battlefield."
"You Genin are the future of Konoha. That's why Third Hokage Old Man spent a lot of effort to bring us back. I just want you to experience the first war when there is no war."
"Once a war breaks out, Genin will always suffer the heaviest casualties in the war."
"Because there is no psychological experience and no adaptation time. We create such an experience just so that your first experience of blood is not in a war. It is always good to have less death."
Uchiha Chen nodded.
"So, Lord Orochimaru, are you my Squad Leader Jonin?"
"That's right. It was originally ordered by Tsunade. However, Uchiha Clan's clan leader temporarily requested that it be replaced by me." Orochimaru said pointedly.
Uchiha Chen said nothing.
Uchiha Yama Ah... what a big trouble.
"What about Teacher Tsunade?"
"After she went to the teacher for comment, she broke Hokage Office's door into pieces."
"..."
"In the end, Tsunade extorted two thousand taels from the teacher and went directly to the casino."
"..."
"Oh, that's it. It seems that in the eyes of teacher Tsunade, I am worth only two thousand taels." Uchiha Chen said helplessly as he touched his hair.
At this time, the boss of little Tavern served another roast chicken.
"Well, I'm so sorry. It cost you money. You treat me much better than Teacher Tsunade." Uchiha Chen laughed sheepishly.
However, there was no look of embarrassment on his hands. He picked up the chopsticks and wanted to eat the chicken.
"Don't worry. This chicken is not prepared for you." Orochimaru said, "These are reserved for distinguished guests."
"Dignified guest?"
Orochimaru did not answer Uchiha Chen's question, but silently bit his finger, "Summoning Jutsu!"
When Hand Seals finished, Orochimaru pressed his bloody hand on the ground, and then white smoke came out. When the smoke cleared, a small white snake more than one meter long was revealed.
It's just that the snake has two small purple horns on its head.
"Here." Orochimaru picked up the chicken.
The little snake's mouth suddenly opened, then became bigger and bigger, and it swallowed the whole chicken.
Yep, I'm not afraid of choking to death!
After White Snake finished eating the chicken in his mouth, he showed a satisfied expression.
It first glanced at Orochimaru, and then looked noncommittally at Uchiha Chen who was regretting the roast chicken.
But the look in his eyes made it look like Uchiha Chen was just a piece of trash in the wrong place.
"..."
"Is this kid? He's a little too young." After glancing at Uchiha Chen, White Snake began to speak.
It licked its lips with its tongue and stared directly at Uchiha Chen.
"It doesn't matter, I will need this Scroll sooner or later." Orochimaru shook his head and said, "Give it to me."
White Snake didn't speak, but still spit out a sealed roll of Scroll from his mouth.
"This is Summoning Contract, write your name here in blood."
After pulling Scroll apart, Orochimaru pointed to a blank space above.
"Summoning Jutsu's Hand Seals, I think you should already know it from Jiraiya's stupid apprentice.
"Starting from tomorrow, you will go on missions with me. This contract can be regarded as a gift from me, the teacher."
After writing it, the snake swallowed the contract again, and then Reverse Summoning Technique went back.
Then, Orochimaru also turned into smoke and dissipated.
Damn it, it's Shadow Clone again.
Uchiha Chen touched the corners of his eyes and smiled.
However, his smile immediately solidified.
A terrible thing suddenly occurred to him.
Orochimaru left without paying...