Orochimaru's laboratory.
It had already become connected to Konoha Hospital, and Orochimaru's staff had grown increasingly numerous.
Quite a few medical ninjas had been requisitioned by Orochimaru to join the research and development of life sciences.
Every time Zhengye came here, he could not help but marvel inwardly at how willing the Third Hokage was to spend.
"Lord Zhengye."
"Lord Zhengye, please come with me. Lord Orochimaru has been waiting for you for a long time."
The two before Zhengye were Guren, whose hair resembled trumpet flowers, and the red-haired Tayuya beside her.
With the expanded facilities, Orochimaru's influence had also been growing over the past few years.
Most of the people he had recruited outside in previous years had been called back.
Of course, Kidomaru, Sakon, Ukon, and Jirobo were not here today.
The life trajectories of those six people had essentially been completely changed.
They had provided Zhengye with a total of twenty-one lottery draws.
The fifteen draws he had left over two years ago had now become thirty-six.
The reason the reward covered seven people was because Yukimaru's life trajectory had also been changed.
Karatachi Yagura had not died, so Yukimaru's ability to control the Three-Tails naturally became useless.
Guren had not gone to kill his mother, and the two of them did not know each other at all.
As Zhengye proceeded onward, he soon saw Orochimaru on the lowest floor of the laboratory.
Though it was the lowest floor, the only difference was its level. The place was still brightly lit, as bright as day, the complete opposite of Orochimaru's former dark cave-like environments.
"Lord Orochimaru, Lord Zhengye has arrived."
Only then did Orochimaru, who was busy before a large medical analysis machine, raise his head.
"Mm. You may leave."
After two years, the scholarly air