Inside the monitoring room of the Experimental Building.
"It seems like there's a big operation going on in the clan recently. I heard the clan leader will be personally involved. Damn it, why didn't I awaken my Three-Tomoe Sharingan? Otherwise, I would have had a chance to participate too!"
"Haha, sorry, I received the message yesterday. The operation is the day after tomorrow night. I'm really looking forward to it!"
"Can you tell me? What exactly is this operation? Why are so many people being mobilized? The clan leader is already the Hokage; the entire Konoha could be at his disposal!"
"Although you didn't ask me to keep it a secret, I still can't tell you!"
Not even a little bit?
"Hmm~ Let me think about it, Sarutobi! That's all I can tell you, you can figure out the rest yourself."
"I think I guessed it. I really envy you people who have awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, being able to participate in such an interesting operation!"
"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. And don't say anything about it outside, or one of the guys in this building might hear us!"
"Tch, what's there to be wary of about that guy? Look at him, he's not even working properly right now!"
He then pointed to a screen in the monitoring room, which showed Scorpion working hard.
Scorpion was adjusting a device at the moment, and the sound coming from his ears did not affect his actions in the slightest.
As for why Scorpion could hear the sounds from the monitoring room, it's because he made a listening device himself.
It contains no metal, no circuitry, and is purely a wooden handicraft.
Scorpion made many of them, meticulously planned and calculated, using the most primitive principle of resonance, which enabled him to eavesdrop on sounds from all directions.
This resonance is extremely weak, very difficult to detect, and occurs intermittently.
Even if the signal is received using appropriate equipment, it is difficult to reconstruct the sound without complex conversion.
However, Scorpion made subtle modifications to his body, enabling him to directly reproduce vibrations.
This was something Scorpion did casually, but he never expected to overhear such important information.
In Scorpion's eyes, Qingyue's skill level was far inferior to his own, but some of her overly obvious tricks would still be easily seen through by the other party.
The eavesdropping device that Scorpion made was extremely primitive and rudimentary, but it was precisely because of this that he was able to occasionally overhear some intelligence.
At this moment, Scorpion was also impressed with his own luck, because he could no longer hear anything.
For such a rudimentary device to operate perfectly, it cannot tolerate the slightest error; sometimes, if the door is closed too forcefully, it will break down at some point in the process.
The monitoring room is quite far from Scorpion's laboratory; it involves several detours.
Over all these days, Scorpion has only heard the intelligence from the monitoring room a handful of times.
After receiving the intelligence, Scorpion's actions remained unchanged; he continued to diligently adjust the equipment.
However, other thoughts began to form in my mind.
Having lived in Konoha for several years, Sasori had gained a basic understanding of the various factions within the Konoha.
Based on the intelligence, it seems that the new Hokage Ren, is planning to take action against the old Hokage's family.
Not only will Ren participate in the operation, but it seems that even the ninjas of Konoha are not planned to be used in order to carry it out in secret.
Instead, it only uses the power of the Uchiha Clan as Experimental Building that Ren values highly.
Although the researchers came from all over, all the guards and security personnel were ninjas from the Uchiha Clan.
Scorpion, who frequented the area, naturally knew just how formidable the defenses of the Experimental Building were.
With his current, severely restricted body, escaping is a pipe dream.
However, Uchiha Yushu seemed to attach great importance to that blueprint that came from who-knows-where, and the approval of various materials was extremely swift.
This gave Scorpion an opportunity to escape. Originally planning to find a chance to escape within a year, Scorpion decided to give it a try after overhearing this news.
After all, it's really hard to let such a good opportunity slip away.
Scorpion secretly made up his mind.
There are only two days left, I need to prepare properly!
What Scorpion didn't know was that just a few minutes earlier, in the monitoring room...
The two ninjas were talking to each other in a very formal manner, reading the lines on the white paper in front of them.
A silver-haired man with glasses across from them made a hand gesture, then walked up to something that looked like an ornament, touched it, and spoke.
"Thank you both for your help!"
"Phew~ I can finally speak normally again, Kabuto. But since you discovered there's something wrong with this thing, why don't you deal with it?"
He adjusted his glasses on his nose and said with an innocent smile.
"If we deal with it now, next time it might be something more troublesome and insidious. Isn't it better as it is now?"
"Alright, I'm just following the clan chief's orders and cooperating with you. What's next?"
He said with an even wider smile.
"The necessary preparations have already been made, and the choice has been given to this senior Scorpion. Now we just need to wait."