12 years old!!!
That means!?
Nawaki is going to die this year??
And it's highly likely to happen in a mission in the near future?
Hiroki's eyes widened in shock. This was the second plot event he had encountered since transmigrating. Compared to the first event—the Cloud Ninja invasion—the impact of this one was far more direct.
--Death.
If the only impact of the Cloud Ninja invasion and the kidnapping of Kushina in the original story was to provide the catalyst for Kushina to fall in love with Namikaze Minato, then Nawaki's death in this event signaled that a war was imminent.
The Second Shinobi World War.
This was a very specific war in the shinobi world! Hiroki was rapidly searching his memory, flipping through the information he had retrieved from his recollections.
First, the direct impact of the Second Shinobi World War was the rise of the Sannin, the deaths of Nawaki and Dan Katō, Tsunade developing hemophobia, the rise of White Fang, and the death of Sasori's parents.
And after this war ended, within a mere three to five years, the even more brutal Third Shinobi World War would begin, starting with Sasori assassinating the Third Kazekage!
...There isn't much time left.
For the first time, Hiroki realized the gravity of this situation.
But at this moment, he couldn't say anything. Could he just go and say that a war was about to start? There was no way; he had no way to explain the source of his information.
Besides, Konoha should also be aware of the signs that war was approaching...
However, despite those thoughts, the mission still had to be carried out.
Finding "Tora," the lost pet cat of the Land of Fire's daimyo's wife, seemed to be a mission that had appeared in the original story as well. But Hiroki found it hard to believe that the daimyo's wife Naruto and his team encountered in the original story was the same one he was dealing with now.
Perhaps there wasn't just one cat; after all, Hiroki had never heard of a cat living for twenty or thirty years.
The one they were looking for was a tabby cat with golden fur and silver markings; its stripes looked very much like tiger patterns, hence the name Tora.
Not long after Orochimaru explained the mission requirements, they spotted the fat cat.
"Found it!"
Nawaki pointed at the fat, colorful cat on a wall at the street corner and announced with a confident look, "Hmph, even if it's just finding a cat, I'm the first one in our squad to find it!"
It was a tabby cat that looked like it wasn't to be trifled with, lazily lying on the wall, looking down at the three of them with an expression that suggested they were idiots.
"So what if you found it? It's in such a high place, how are you going to get it down?" Kushina retorted, unconvinced. She looked up at the wall, which was at least three meters high, and felt a bit troubled.
Orochimaru stood silently to the side. It wasn't until both children turned their pleading gazes toward him that he spoke slowly: "One of the most basic abilities of a ninja is the control of chakra. By concentrating chakra on the soles of your feet and adhering to the surface of an object, you can achieve vertical climbing."
As he spoke, he walked onto the vertical wall as if he were taking a stroll, stepping up one by one until he stood steadily, horizontal to the wall.
"The principle is simple. Try it yourselves." After saying this, he stood on the wall and watched them quietly.
"Wow! That's amazing!" Nawaki's eyes lit up instantly. He was the first to rush forward, mimicking Orochimaru's movements. With a shout, he gathered chakra into his feet and lunged at the wall with all his might.
"Bang!"
He ran about two steps before the chakra under his feet dissipated due to unstable output, and he slid down in a sorry state, landing hard on his backside.
"Hahaha, you're so pathetic!" Kushina mocked, then took a deep breath herself, carefully attaching chakra to the soles of her feet.
She was steadier than Nawaki and managed to stand on the wall, but her chakra control was still too crude. When she applied too much force, she left a shallow dent in the brick, and the recoil sent her bouncing off.
Neither of them was willing to admit defeat. They tried again and again, failing each time, and soon a pile of messy footprints and holes appeared beneath the wall.
Hiroki didn't rush to try.
He simply closed his eyes and stood in place, seemingly sensing something.
In reality, he had silently entered his consciousness space and opened Windows.
As a programmer, compared to the reckless approach of just using his feet and hoping for a quick mastery, Hiroki felt that writing code was much faster.
He remembered that in the original story, Uchiha Sasuke, who was called a genius, and Uzumaki Naruto, who was also a genius, took about a week to learn how to climb trees.
He didn't want to spend that much energy.
As it happened, he had just copied Shadow Clone yesterday. After returning home, he tried having his Shadow Clone help him unpack the newly copied [Vacuum Sphere], and it actually yielded some results.
The template for Vacuum Sphere was roughly composed of the following parts.
--Code Framework--
├──Core Execution Module
│├──ChakraCollection.bat
│├──WindAttributeConversion.bat
│├──CompressionForming.bat
│└──LaunchControl.bat
├──Parameter Configuration Module
│├──ChakraFlowTable.config
│├──Wind Style conversion rate.config
│├──Pressure threshold setting.config
│└──Ballistic calculation.config
├──Physiological interface call
│├──Lung system interface.dll
│├──Throat control interface.dll
│├──Meridian system interface.dll
│└──Balance perception interface.dll
└──Feedback system
├──Chakra flow perception.dat
├──Ninjutsu formation tactile.dat
├──Success confirmation signal.dat
└──Failure warning mechanism.dat
--Code Framework--
Among these, Hiroki determined that the Chakra flow perception file could be directly reused; this code also appeared in Lightning Style: False Darkness, and the two were almost identical.
However, there were slight differences in the [Chakra Collection] code.
It is worth mentioning something about Chakra here.
Although Chakra manifests similarly to internal energy, it is actually quite different from the internal energy or qi found in martial arts novels. This substance is extracted and used instantaneously; Chakra that is not consumed immediately will rapidly dissipate and be wasted.
Therefore, because the two techniques differ between Wind Style and Lightning Style, and their scales also vary, the parts of the body used to collect Chakra in the code are also different.
But this did not prevent Hiroki from reusing the code.
The art of Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v!
Hmph~ Creating a ninjutsu is nothing more than this~!
Hiroki let out a cold snort, and lines of code poured out in an instant.
--Code--
//Chakra control core extracted from Vacuum Sphere
//Original target: Throat → Lungs → Oral cavity
//Modified target: Dantian → Legs → Soles of feet
Function PreciseChakraOutput(TargetPart: String, OutputPower: Float){
//Original code: Call throat meridians
//if(TargetPart=="Throat"){
//ThroatMeridians.Activate();
//SetFlowRate(OutputPower);
//}
//Modified: Call foot meridians
if(TargetPart=="LeftSole"||TargetPart=="RightSole"){
FootMeridians.Activate();
SetFlowRate(OutputPower * 0.3);//Reduce power to avoid breaking walls like Kushina
}
}
Function MaintainStableOutput(){
//Original code: Maintain continuous output of Wind Style Chakra
while(NinjutsuNotFinished){
RealTimeChakraAmount=DetectCurrentOutput();
if(RealTimeChakraAmount<TargetValue * 0.95){
IncreaseOutput(FineTuningAmount);
}
if(RealTimeChakraAmount>TargetValue * 1.05){
DecreaseOutput(FineTuningAmount);
}
Wait(10ms);//Check every 10 milliseconds
}
}
function EmergencyTermination(){ //If chakra control fails, cut off output immediately MeridiansInSoles.close(); ClearChakraBuffer(); } --Code--
Just after finishing the copy and completing the code, Hiroki suddenly realized a very important problem.
That was, what should the target amount of chakra output be? How much was needed to adhere to the surface instead of crushing the wall?
And what were the units for chakra?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his gaze toward Orochimaru.
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