Konoha August 3, 2038.
It has been three months since Konoha officially started war against Kusagakure.
Land of Grass has abandoned Kusagakure, is ready to surrender to Land of Fire, and accepts a series of conditions from Land of Fire----
Not only was Kusagakure beaten to the doorstep by Konoha, but there was no longer any worldly cooperation and the only option was to "wait for death".
Iwagakure Just as Orochimaru expected, in the past three months, although they have been putting pressure on Kannabi Bridge's "Grass Ninja Countermeasure Headquarters", it was just It's just pressure, and there is no intention of a full-scale war. Seeing Kusagakure and the Grass Fruit faction allied with itself, being hoisted and hammered by Konoha----
Grass Ninja Countermeasure Force's actions once again reminded other little Ninja Villages not to think that Konoha was having a hard time in Land of Rain, just because they thought they could also make gestures!
Konoha only dispatches six Jonin, which can isolate Iwagakure's support while beating Kusagakure----
While good news came from Land of Grass, Shimura Danzō was also waiting for his own "good news".
Wood Release Experiments Although it is bumpy, the progress has been advancing!
There are two experimental bodies, the Hashirama Cells content has been pushed to 0.9%------
According to the estimation of Root technicians, as long as the experimental body with a content of 1% appears, the next step can be carried out and cell activation can be attempted.
And today----
This is the day when Hashirama Cells is injected into these two experimental subjects again!
"Do you have to have a meeting at this time? It's just Kusagakure, what do you care about?" Danzo was a little impatient.
Originally, he wanted to go to Laboratory 001 outside the village in person, but because Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly had a meeting, he had to give up.
However, Danzo still looked at the top-secret files at this time. The information about two experimental subjects, one male and one female, was that the male was an orphan from Land of Rain, and the female was an orphan from Land of Grass----
Well, it is reasonable to ask them to contribute for Konoha.
The woman's rejection reaction has already appeared, and her feet have become wooden, but it has stopped inexplicably----
The man had been seriously injured before and was still mute--
Both experimental subjects have flaws, but Danzo still has expectations. After all, this has been selected from hundreds of experimental subjects.
"If it fails again, we can only try to transplant from babies -" Danzo thought to himself.
At the same time, in the 001 laboratory----
"No. 114 also failed, hey." The researcher sighed with regret as he watched the girl in front of him turn into a tree little by little.
The girl seemed to have predicted her fate. At this time, she smiled a little. The tears in the corners of her eyes also turned into wood and hung there like dewdrops.
He immediately collected himself and said, "Okay, bring No. 514 with you."
"Director, that No. 514——has been very manic since he was taken away from No. 114. Do you want——" Root Ninja asked for instructions.
After hesitating for a moment, the researcher said, "There is no need to add any more medicine. We are about to conduct the next test. Don't affect the experimental data."
Ah ah ah, and soon a figure who was struggling and roaring, but wearing a restraint uniform, was escorted over.
Yes, of course it is----Nawaki.
But here, no one knows his identity. They only know that he is Experimental Subject No. 514, an orphan from the enemy country who deserves to pay Konoha's blood tax, and Konoha's secret nourishment----
Nawaki didn't expect this situation at all at first. When he saw the "Anbu" ninja, he thought he was already safe - after all, in his impression, even if the other party couldn't recognize him, he would take him to a safe place. As a result----
Without being able to speak, the only opportunity to reveal one's identity in other ways was missed!
By the time he understood his situation and what these people were doing, Nawaki already understood that if they knew his identity, he would be silenced immediately!
Therefore, even though he was full of resentment, Nawaki gritted his teeth and persisted, looking for opportunities to escape.
During this period, he also saw the dehumanization of these people----
Although he didn't want to admit that these were Konoha's ninjas, and he initially expected them to be an enemy country coming to discredit Konoha, but from the occasional words he heard, he became more and more convinced that this was "Root" and a department directly under Hokage!
Even Nawaki had heard before that Teacher Orochimaru should be one of Root's supervisors. During the past few months here, Nawaki was completely shocked by Konoha's dark side and Will of Fire collapsed. He could not help but think back over and over again what the old man who called himself "Madara Uchiha" said.
Not even mentioning the collapse of faith, just as a person, as a "child", Nawaki was about to collapse in this situation.
The reason why it hasn't collapsed yet is because----
Lily has been comforting and encouraging him - that is, the girl who took the initiative to warn him when he was here on the first day.
The experimental subjects here will soon become numb as if they were walking zombies from repeated tortures and hopeless previews of Future----
But Lily is different. Even in this environment, Lily still encourages and helps other children with the concept of "don't give up smiling at least while you are alive."
He even made a bet with the researchers here to slightly improve the living standards of the experimental subjects here----
The people in the laboratory stopped her behavior at first, but later found that it seemed to improve the stability of the experimental subjects, so they allowed her to do it.
Nawaki was also encouraged by Lily and did not give up hope. At first, he was forced to smile again and again by Lily. Later——
Nawaki One night, I discovered that Lily was always crying alone in the dead of night, and then I understood her good intentions in encouraging everyone to smile.
But----
There were still fewer and fewer children, and eventually only Nawaki and Lily were left.
The day of the last experiment arrived. Before Lily was taken away, he finally encouraged Nawaki to smile no matter what, and left him a smiling face.
Lily was taken away first, and Nawaki struggled and went crazy, but it was of no use - he could only hope that the two of them could succeed in the experiment, and they might have a chance to escape during the transfer.
When he was brought to the laboratory again and couldn't wait to make sure Lily was okay------
Only saw one tree----
On the tree trunk is the face of Lily, still the smile that was left to me at the end----
Nawaki was stunned for a moment - of course he understood what this meant. This was not the first time that he had seen an experimental subject become a tree.
And he used the cells of his most admired grandfather to turn each child into this——
Seeing him not struggling, Root's ninja was happy to save the trouble.
And at this moment----
The ninjas who clean up the test site directly cut down the tree. Countless failures have proved that what these failures left behind are just ordinary trees with no value except for burning firewood.
Among Hokage Building, Hokage Office, Hiruzen Sarutobi told everyone the good news that Land of Grass officially surrendered.
"Now that Land of Grass has surrendered, Kusagakure's orthodox Grass Flower has also asked Konoha for help, hoping that we can help liquidate Grass Fruit. It seems that Land of Grass's peace will be realized soon." Hiruzen Sarutobi's mood is a bit complicated.
Of course, most of them are happy.
After all, Konoha won the battle and was about to achieve a small strategic goal!
However, this goal was achieved only after Orochimaru quarreled with himself and insisted on his own opinion. This made Hiruzen Sarutobi inevitably feel a little bit slapped in the face.
Danzo was even more impatient. Thinking of today's experiment, he was even anxious and didn't say anything. He just waited for the meeting to end.
Hiruzen Sarutobi Seeing him being so silent, I was still a little confused.
In order to verify whether he was distracted, Hiruzen Sarutobi specially praised Akaseki a few words----
No response?
Also recognized the combat bravery of Yangyong and other Uchiha Clan------
Still no response?
Hiruzen Sarutobi saw that Danzo never opened his mouth to provoke, and it was immediately confirmed that this guy was not listening to him at all!
Feeling a little annoyed, Hiruzen Sarutobi announced the adjournment of the meeting.
Shimura Danzō immediately returned to Root's headquarters----
"What? Can't be contacted?" Shimura Danzō asked about the experimental situation, but what he got was worse news than the failure of the experiment.
Danzo I don't know why, but the ominous feeling in my heart is getting worse!
"Let's go, I want to inspect it myself!" Shimura Danzō said with a dark face.
After traveling for several hours.
"What on earth is going on!" Shimura Danzō looked at the ruins in front of him and paused his cane angrily.
Several Root ninjas who had arrived earlier to check were so frightened that they half-knelt down in front of the furious Danzo.
However, we could only bite the bullet and explain, "Master Danzo, after Laboratory 001 lost contact, we rushed over. When we arrived--this was already the case."
"Didn't you see the incoming enemy ninja?" Danzo said in a dry voice.
The ruins of the underground research institute in front of me were torn apart layer by layer by tree roots as thick as a person. The solid wall, Sealing Technique, seemed to be made of paper under these tree roots, Vines, and a big hole was dug out in place.
More importantly, the corpses of those precious researchers and Root ninjas mostly had many sharp wooden spears inserted into them, and some were even filled with traces of execution-style killings!
Although I don't know what happened or who the attacker is, it is obvious that the attacker is using Wood Release!
Therefore, Danzo immediately emphasized that the enemy ninja was attacking.
Of course, the first thing Danzo thought of at this time was the news that Akashi Uchiha had sent back - that there were Wood Release ninjas who joined forces with Rinnegan ninjas to attack Chunin of Konoha.
However, Danzo did not believe it at the time, and indeed for a long time, the strange combination reported by Akaseki did not appear again.
Until this time----
"Are there any survivors? Forget it, let's count the bodies—" Danzo looked at the scene in front of him, and he didn't believe there would be any survivors.
The statistics soon came out. Fortunately, everyone was dead!
This made Danzo relieved. If someone was captured alive, he would be even more unable to sleep.
Of course, this statistics does not include experimental subjects——
After all, if the experimental subject fails, it will turn into a tree - it is normal to have no body!
Although the two trees with faces were not found, which made Danzo unable to completely rest assured, it did not prove that there were still survivors left----