As her crisp words fell, the tall man standing before her slowly turned his head, his voice calm.
"That's right. If those people's intel was accurate, this should be the place."
Hearing him, the woman's gaze darkened. A chill appeared on her pretty face as she said coldly, "If I find out Orochimaru was behind all this, I definitely won't let him off easily!"
After saying that, she glanced at the ninjas standing ready behind her and said coldly, "Let's go!"
With that, she took the lead, leaping toward the empty plains in the distance.
Watching the green robe draped over the woman, billowing gently in the breeze, the seemingly calm man's eyes were filled with melancholy.
Especially when his gaze settled on the vast plain in the distance, his expression became exceedingly complicated. He murmured softly, "Aizen... big brother..."
At that moment, beneath the vast plains, within an enormous underground facility unknown to anyone, groups of people dressed in white outfits resembling hazmat suits hurried back and forth. In the transparent observation rooms before them stood children who still looked very young.
However, these children were vastly different from ordinary kids.
Every one of them possessed an exceptionally resolute gaze. Even when the researchers here drew their blood for testing, they never so much as frowned, much less cried and fussed like children from peaceful times.
Inside a massive central observation chamber enclosed in glass, a silver-haired figure stood tall and straight.
He wore a loose kimono, and his exposed skin was exceedingly pale. Two streaks of crimson marked the sides of his eyes, giving him an appearance that was resolute yet tinged with frailty.
His gaze was fixed tightly on the scene within the glass enclosure.
At that moment, inside the seemingly thin, transparent glass enclosure, a