The mission assigned to the Laojun, Vina, and Shakyamuni squad this time, according to the scroll, had one minimum requirement: confirm the condition of the Third's body after Orochimaru had taken it, then bring the intelligence back to Konoha.
Tsunade had not written it completely on a whim.
Although Wu Yu could create Right Mysterious Orochimaru's Right Mysterious Clone, and the latter was practically forthcoming about everything with Wu Yu's original body—even diligently, even enthusiastically assisting in developing a Curse Mark Technique meant to control Mysterious Clones like himself—whenever it involved something that might endanger his original self, he became exceptionally cautious.
Tsunade had naturally asked Right Mysterious Orochimaru long ago what had happened after he took the Third during the battle on the day of the Konoha Crush Plan.
Right Mysterious Orochimaru had merely said that old man Sarutobi was dead. As for the details, he just licked his long tongue and brushed her off.
Once he entered that evasive, unwilling-to-answer state, Tsunade could no longer be sure how much truth there was in the answers he had been forced to give.
It would be more reliable to have Wu Yu personally find Orochimaru's original body and confirm it with his own eyes.
That was why the mission scroll had an additional requirement—if circumstances permitted, they could act without restraint and force Orochimaru to reincarnate again if possible, recovering the Third's remains.
Tsunade had already determined from Right Mysterious Orochimaru's words and the intelligence Jiraiya had gathered that Orochimaru's reincarnation technique had a fixed interval between uses. It could not be early or late; after roughly three years, he could—and had to—reincarnate again.
It had been less than half a year since Orochimaru seized the Third's body. What would happen if they forced him now?
Wu Yu knew that