Golden finger?!

"Yo-ho~ A newcomer has finally arrived~"

One of the white teenagers wearing a suit walked over and greeted him enthusiastically.

Judging by his appearance, he looked like a high school student...

"Alright, let's get down to business first~"

Another boy with squinting eyes walked over and extended his hand toward Orochimaru.

"This..."

Orochimaru was stunned, having no idea what the situation was.

"You'll understand once you hold it..."

The last young man of Chinese descent smiled and said somewhat mysteriously.

"This..."

Upon hearing this, Orochimaru paused, looking at the other three with suspicion.

Half-doubting, he reached out and grasped the hand of the squinting boy.

The moment he made contact, a massive surge of information suddenly flooded into his mind.

"You are... Zhuge Qing?! And also... me?!!"

A long while later, after browsing through the information, Orochimaru looked at the squinting boy in front of him with an expression of disbelief and asked, "How is this possible?"

The person opposite him was also him, only he had transmigrated into the world of Under One Person and become Zhuge Qing, a character who appeared with great flair but spent the rest of the plot either suffering setbacks or on the way to suffering them.

However, just like him, he was currently only seven years old and had just started the first grade of elementary school...

"That's right, not just him; we are all 'me'."

The white teenager from the beginning smiled and extended his hand toward Orochimaru.

Orochimaru took a deep breath and grasped the white teenager's hand. Just like before, a wave of information surged in.

Only this time, the volume was significantly larger than that of "Zhuge Qing"...

"Harry Osborn?!

You are... that little Green Goblin?!"

After browsing through the information, Orochimaru asked again in disbelief.

The white teenager in front of him had actually transmigrated into the Marvel world and become a villain.

"I'm not the Green Goblin yet, okay~"

Harry spread his hands, correcting him.

Although he was Harry Osborn, he had no intention of becoming a villain.

"Fine~ Then who are you?"

Orochimaru nodded, then turned his gaze toward the last person and extended his hand.

He, who had transmigrated into Orochimaru, really had no room to judge anyone else.

"Ahem, let me give you a heads-up~

I have quite a lot of memories on my end~"

The young man of Chinese descent coughed lightly and then grasped Orochimaru's hand.

"Hm? Quite a lot?!"

Before Orochimaru could react, a surge of information several times larger than the previous ones flooded directly into his mind.

It was a chaotic mix of memories from several different eras...

"Hiss~"

The sensation was like having an iron rod stirred inside his brain, causing Orochimaru to gasp sharply, and it took him a long while to recover.

Watching this scene, Zhuge Qing and Harry Osborn laughed, as they had both been tricked the same way before.

"So... you transmigrated into the world of Assassin's Creed?"

After browsing through the information, Orochimaru understood the third person's situation. He had transmigrated into the world of Assassin's Creed, and his name was Reed Hayrick.

He was currently employed at Abstergo Industries, and his job was the same as the modern-day protagonist of the series, Desmond—being used as a test subject.

This company was an organization under the series' villainous faction, the Templar Order, and its goal was to use a machine called the Animus to access ancestral memories through DNA sequences.

Then, they would search those memories for the Pieces of Eden hidden by the Assassins...

That massive influx of information just now came from his ancestors in this world, several legendary Assassins...

"Yeah, if I hadn't gotten a cheat at the critical moment, I would've been done for~"

Reed spread his hands, saying with lingering fear.

Accessing ancestral memories was not a risk-free endeavor; if one made excessive contact, it could cause one's own reality-based memories to become confused with those of the ancestors, leading to the pathological phenomenon of split personality.

If he hadn't arrived here at the critical moment and anchored his self through his counterparts in the other two worlds, he might have already gone insane.

"So... what is the situation now?"

Orochimaru took a deep breath and asked the other three.

He understood the situation, but he wanted to know the cause of this phenomenon.

"Based on my speculation... it should be that we were caught in a reactor explosion before our deaths.

The high-energy particle stream caused our souls to be scattered into various worlds.

Due to some unknown reason, we still maintain a connection at the quantum level, which allows us to exchange information..."

Harry Osborn explained. His last memory was that high-parameter plasma experiment where the Q-value successfully broke through, but it caused the plasma density and temperature in the core to exceed the reactor's design limits.

As the person in charge of the project, he did not evacuate like the rest of the staff. To prevent the disaster from escalating, he had to manually shut down the core's residual heat removal system to prevent a secondary meltdown.

But he didn't expect a series of chain reactions to occur, leading to him being struck by the leaking high-temperature plasma. This should be the reason for the current phenomenon.

"Are you saying... the soul is something at the quantum level?

Can you prove it?!"

Hearing this, Orochimaru's eyes lit up, and he asked with some excitement.

This could indeed explain their current situation; after all, there is a similar phenomenon in the real world, which is quantum entanglement.

Simply put, in the field of quantum mechanics, particles in an entangled state will exhibit strong correlations.

For example, if two people each take a quantum die and agree in advance, "When you roll a 6, I must roll a 1."

Then, no matter how far apart these two dice are, when one of them rolls a 6, the other's value will instantly become 1.

This change is instantaneous and ignores distance...

Just like the information exchange between them...

"Heh~ your top priority right now shouldn't be research, right?"

Looking at Orochimaru's expression, Harry Osborn smiled.

Even if they had transmigrated into different people, they were truly the same at their core~

However, for the time being, their top priority was not to research these things...

"That is true..."

Hearing this, Orochimaru scratched his head. Whether it was him or the others, there were currently other more important things to do.

The version of him in the Marvel world had to solve the Osborn family's genetic disease; otherwise, he would either die young or end up becoming the Green Goblin.

The version of him in the Assassin's Creed world had to escape and break free from his fate as a test subject.

As for the version of him in the Under One Person world, he had to deal with his summer homework...

Uh...

Thinking of this, Orochimaru looked at Zhuge Qing with a strange expression.

"Oh my~ there's no helping it~"

Seeing Orochimaru's gaze, Zhuge Qing felt a bit embarrassed.

After all, it seemed he was the only one without any real troubles. If he didn't want to suffer a setback, he could just choose not to attend the Luo Tian Dajiao twenty years later.

"..."

Orochimaru shook his head; there was nothing to be done about that.

After chatting for a while longer, Orochimaru prepared to leave.

And the moment he had this thought, the sensation of weightlessness struck him once again.

"Hiss~ so this is what that feeling is like?"

In the Naruto world, Orochimaru woke up with a start and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Then he looked at the time on the side; about a minute had passed.

Having had such a novel experience, Orochimaru naturally had no sleepiness left and began to check his own state.

There were no changes compared to before, which indicated that he and his counterparts in other worlds only existed in an information exchange at the soul level.

But that was already enough...

Browsing through the extra information in his mind, Orochimaru smiled.

There was quite a lot of valuable information...

First was the version of him in the Marvel world, who had transmigrated the longest, for ten years already.

Because he had to solve his own genetic disease, the Marvel version of him had switched to studying biology early on.

With the experience from his past life and the support of the Osborn family's resources and wealth, even though he was only 18, he had already obtained two doctoral degrees.

He even had his own biological laboratory and research team...

In other words, he didn't need to relearn biological science from scratch; he was now an expert in this field.

Next is the world of Under One Person, where the current value lies in the cultivation methods for refining essence, energy, and spirit.

Under One Person and Naruto are quite similar, both containing elements like Yin-Yang, the Five Elements, and the Eight Trigrams.

In fact, chakra and qi are very similar in their properties and the phenomena they trigger; both can influence the body and mind, or manifest physical phenomena like fire and lightning.

The difference between the two worlds lies in their cultivation methods and how they utilize this energy...

There is a fundamental difference here: the Naruto world is plagued by constant warfare, so its training methods prioritize forming combat power in the shortest possible time. Ninjas use training methods that are practically exploitative, such as the devilish training undergone by Rock Lee in the original story.

The primary focus is placed on the application of techniques, resulting in a vast and diverse array of ninjutsu.

How strong one can become is basically determined by an individual's talent and bloodline...

In contrast, Under One Person emphasizes the dual cultivation of nature and life, consolidating one's foundation and strengthening oneself step by step, with various techniques being merely byproducts of this process.

There is no inherent superiority or inferiority between the two; after all, the environments of the two worlds are different.

In a world like Naruto where war is constant and the average age of a ninja is under 30, training slowly like in Under One Person is essentially suicide.

To use an analogy, it is the difference between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear reactor; although the basic principles are the same, one releases a massive amount of energy in a short time, while the latter provides a stable and continuous output.

The directions of application are different, and the needs are different, so there is nothing to compare...

Following that is the world of Assassin's Creed, which provides him with the experience of several master assassins, including Altair and Ezio, covering special skills such as stealth, armed combat, assassination, and theft.

These skills are also essential for the profession of a ninja, and with a little adaptation, they can directly turn him into an expert in assassination and combat.

Just like that, the next day arrived.

Orochimaru stepped out with two dark circles under his eyes.

His goal, naturally, was to meet his future teammates and instructor...