Having tasted the benefits of chemical gene splicing, Aburame Tetsumaru naturally began looking forward to more advanced gene-editing techniques—operations at the level of base pairs.
First, Insight's precision had to break through the nanometer scale and enter the picometer range. Only then could it identify and accurately record them.
Then, even if Insight reached that level of precision, he would still need tools capable of manipulating base pairs. Chemical tools would not work; they were far too crude for base pairs.
At Aburame Tetsumaru's current highest level, how far he could go depended on the quality of his observation and manipulation tools. There was still hope for the observation tools, but the manipulation tools were the greatest challenge.
But those were matters for the future. Now, he had a new target: desert Giant Insects.
Orochimaru's suggestion had been to find real Giant Insects for reference. Intelligence indicated that Giant Insects existed in the desert, and that intelligence had been reported by Hatake Sakumo. Its reliability was extremely high.
This was lifesaving rain at just the right time. Wonderful.
Aburame Tetsumaru had always thought that after the war ended, he would have to apply for several years of travel to search for the Giant Insects summoned by the Naraka Path, or secretly infiltrate Turtle Island, Kumogakure's forbidden ground.
After Orochimaru's reminder, he finally remembered that the Land of Wind's desert contained Giant Insects. There were at least two kinds: social ants over eight meters long, and Four-Tails Giant Scorpions over forty meters long.
Both insects perfectly met his expectations. They were simply perfect.
The several Giant Insects he had now had grown so large only because he had forcibly piled up the genes of palm-sized insects. Their life systems were incredibly fragile and relied entirely on symbiotic insects and Chakra Runes