Collecting Venom

Among the treetops.

The rustling sound of friction arose as Umino Sasuke and his group of four stepped on the giant trees, leaping and rushing towards their assigned defense zone.

"Captain, we finally had a chance to connect with Lord Toribo and the others, why are we in such a hurry to go back?"

Tejudo looked puzzled, feeling that the Captain was acting abnormally today.

Born into a family of tool merchants, Tejudo had been influenced since childhood and was naturally very familiar with the ways of dealing with people and building relationships.

This time, they finally had an opportunity to build some rapport with the Jonin of the Akimichi Clan, but it was missed due to the Captain's unusual behavior.

"Didn't I say? Hurry back to patrol."

Umino Sasuke slapped the back of Tejudo's head irritably, almost knocking him off the branch.

Umino Sasuke was in such a hurry to return, or more accurately, to leave, certainly not to go back to patrol. It was entirely because he had stimulated his tear glands with Chakra earlier, and he had used a little too much force, stimulating his eyes so much that tears were still streaming down his face, and he couldn't stop them at all.

Continuing to stay there would not only easily expose him, but also be very embarrassing.

"Tejudo, you guys go back and patrol first, I'll go replenish some supplies."

"Captain, no! What if the Sand Ninja just happen to choose our defense zone?"

"Don't worry, Aburame Shibi released a lot of Kikaichū to our defense zone, there won't be any danger."

Umino Sasuke persuaded Tejudo and the others, gave them some instructions, and then, carrying the Spoils of War Sealing Scrolls, stepped on the giant trees and leaped towards the rear of the defense zone.

Having run only five kilometers, Umino Sasuke turned back to the right rear, and after traveling less than two kilometers, finally arrived at the base of a somewhat hollow giant tree.

He pushed the Sonic Radar Technique to its limit, ensuring that there were no Ninja nearby, as well as no Kikaichū from the Aburame Clan, before distributing Chakra to the soles of his feet, climbing up the giant tree, reaching a gap in a tree hole, and quickly drilling inside.

The giant tree was hollow, and the tree hole led directly down.

Passing through the narrow tree hole, the space below became increasingly spacious.

At its widest point at the bottom, it was almost the size of a living room.

Zzzzzz...

As soon as he entered the bottom of the cave, he heard the noisy sound of a large number of Water Bats.

This underground cave was one of his laboratories, although it was very rudimentary and lacked equipment, it was advantageous in its secrecy.

Without knowing Earth Release, it was rare to find such a hidden cave on the front lines of the battlefield.

If he hadn't happened to contract a Summoning Beast Water Bat, he really wouldn't have been able to discover such a hidden place.

This underground cave was likely originally the nest of a burrowing snake, and after its nest was taken over by its natural enemy, the Water Bat, it fell into his hands.

The entire laboratory was very rudimentary.

Calling it a laboratory was not as accurate as calling it a bat farm.

In the middle of the underground cave was a wooden workbench, on which were placed a set of dissection tools, three iron cages containing Water Bats, and a dozen bottles of saline solution.

These saline solution bottles did not contain Sharingan or Hashirama Cells, but only the internal organs of low-level Summoning Beasts, mostly Water Bats.

"This vitality is really good, they haven't starved to death."

Umino Sasuke glanced at the three Water Bats in the cage, and seeing that they were still alive and vigorous, he didn't pay much attention to them. He directly took a saline solution bottle from the wooden table, placed the Water Bat Summoning Beast that had been cut into two pieces by the hedgehog head into the bottle for preservation, waiting for future dissection and research.

"They all say the Sand Ninja's Puppets are very valuable, I wonder what price these Puppets of mine can fetch?"

Umino Sasuke undid the Spoils of War Sealing Scroll and began to sort out his gains.

Except for the Chunin-level Black Ant Puppet, which was relatively well-preserved, the other three Puppets were quite badly damaged.

Especially the Special Jonin spare Puppet that was smashed by the Heavenly Blade Chaos heavy giant hammer, which was basically scattered into parts.

On the other hand, the Special Jonin-level Puppet that was cut in half by the Fuma Shuriken, although cut into two pieces, had its parts relatively well-preserved, and this Puppet was a relatively rare Red Scorpion Puppet, so it seemed to be worth a lot.

As for the remaining Chunin-level Puppet, a quarter of it had been blown apart by Explosive Tags, making it a semi-crippled Puppet.

"I'll keep this Red Scorpion Puppet, and sell everything else."

Special Jonin-level Puppets were relatively rare. This Red Scorpion Puppet was only cut in half, and if he learned the Puppet Technique in the future, it shouldn't be difficult to repair.

Moreover, a Special Jonin-level Red Scorpion Puppet was still very rare.

"It's settled then."

Umino Sasuke decided to keep the Red Scorpion Puppet for further processing, while the other three damaged Puppets and parts were all packed into a Sealing Scroll.

After dealing with the Puppets, Umino Sasuke then came to the other end of the Cave, moved the wooden frame, opened the wire mesh, and carefully slipped into a smaller, connected Cave.

This Cave was not large, but it was relatively long, extending upwards. The Cave walls had a large number of fist-sized air holes, and some light could even penetrate through the air holes at the top.

And the stone walls of this Cave were covered with densely packed Water Bats. Most of these Water Bats didn't have Chakra, only about a hundred had Chakra fluctuations.

As soon as Umino Sasuke entered this Cave, he was besieged by these Water Bats. He quickly undid a Sealing Scroll, and a large pile of various freshwater fish immediately fell out.

Zzzzzz...

The Water Bats smelled the fishy smell and pounced over even faster, like locusts crossing the border.

Umino Sasuke grabbed a relatively large fish and quickly retreated, pulled up the wire mesh, and pushed a thick wooden frame over to block the wire mesh, preventing the Water Bats from entering his laboratory.

There were constant sounds from the wire mesh wooden frame, and it gradually subsided after a full ten minutes.

Another ten minutes or so passed before the entire cave fell silent, without a single sound.

During these silent ten minutes, Umino Sasuke did nothing but feed the large fish to the three Water Bats in the cage and collect some of their venom, quietly waiting.

"The poison resistance is stronger again; this time, it's prolonged by several minutes."

Umino Sasuke pushed open the wire mesh of the wooden frame, looking at the Water Bats lying unconscious on the ground, filled with emotion. The Ninja World with Chakra is truly unreasonable. The Water Bats' poison resistance changes daily. If he didn't have a large number of Water Bats for poison testing, he would have been helpless against them long ago.

Umino Sasuke stopped overthinking and quickly found all the Water Bats with Chakra fluctuations, then took out his Tools/Weapons, quickly extracted the venom, and packed it up to take away.

In the end, he collected nearly 500mL of Water Bat No. 7.