Konoha, cemetery, dusk.
The setting sun dyed the entire cemetery dark red, and the shadows of the tombstones were stretched very long, like countless silent souls lying on the ground, looking at the sky.
Tianyi walked in slowly and stepped on the stone road. His white eyes scanned the tombstones standing on both sides. There were names engraved on those monuments, some of which he was familiar with, and some of which he had never heard of.
His footsteps stopped in front of a remote tombstone. The tombstone was small, even a little simple, with no gorgeous carvings, no lengthy epitaph, only one line of words, and a photo.
In the photo is a young girl with a gentle smile and clear eyes, like a wild flower that has just bloomed in spring. It is inconspicuous, but people can't take their eyes away.
Rin Nohara.
Tianyi's eyes fell on her smile and stayed for a moment.
His fingers moved slightly, and a piece of metal flew out, silently cutting into the gap between the tombstone and the base.
After a moment, he took out a piece of bone, took out a scroll from his arms, unfolded it and spread it on the ground, put the bone into the sealing array in the center of the scroll, and Hand Seals with both hands.
"Seal."
The runes on the scroll lit up and the bones were sucked into it. Tianyi put away the scroll, stood up, and took one last look at the photo.
The wind passed through the distant woods, picking up a few fallen leaves and swirling them around his feet. He turned around and left without saying anything, his figure gradually blending into the dusk.
Konoha On the edge of a secret research base somewhere, Tianyi walked through the corridor, the lights were dim, and the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant and formalin.
Various human anatomy diagrams and Sealing Technique-style analytical diagrams hang on the walls.
A white figure walked out of the shadows at the end of the corridor, wearing a white coat and glasses, with a delicate face and a faint smile on his lips.
Kabuto Yakushi.
"Tianyi-sama" Kabuto leaned forward slightly, pushed up his glasses, and a light flashed behind the lenses.
Tianyi waved his hand without saying any greetings, "I'm here to see Orochimaru."
Kabuto didn't ask any questions and turned around to lead the way. The corridor was long and winding, and every few meters there was a sealed door that required chakra verification.
He untied the pockets one by one with skillful movements, obviously he had been here countless times. Tianyi followed behind him, his white eyes scanning everything around him, but he said nothing.
At the end of the corridor, there was a heavy door. Kabuto pressed the button beside the door, and the door slowly slid open, and a stronger smell of disinfectant hit his face.
Inside was a huge operating room, with the shadowless lights on, and the cold white light illuminated the entire room as if it were daytime.
Orochimaru stood in front of the operating table, wearing rubber gloves on his hands and holding a silver scalpel in his hand.
There was a White Zetsu corpse lying on the operating table. The chest had been opened, revealing the pale, bloodless internal organs inside.
Orochimaru's fingers were rummaging around in his chest, his movements gentle and precise, as if he was dismantling a beautiful handicraft.
There were beads of sweat on his forehead, but there was only concentration and obsession in those golden snake eyes.
Kabuto stepped aside without making a sound, and Tianyi didn't speak either. He just stood quietly at the door, folding his arms and looking at Orochimaru's hands.
Tens of minutes passed, and the light from the shadowless lamp cast the shadow of Orochimaru on the wall, motionless.
He stopped what he was doing, frowned slightly, and took out a pair of tweezers from White Zetsu's body. The tip of the tweezers held a group of gray-white, slightly trembling cell tissue.
He stared at the mass of tissue for a long time, his lips moving, as if talking to himself.
"The regeneration speed of the cell wall deviates from the compatibility of the chakra circuit... it begins to decay when the sixth layer is divided, which should not..."
Orochimaru's voice was very soft, but in this quiet operating room, Tianyi could hear it clearly.
"The compatibility problem of chakra circuits is essentially an obstacle to signal transmission at the cellular level. The attenuation you observe is not a problem with the cells themselves, but a mismatch in communication frequencies between cells."
Orochimaru's fingers paused slightly, and he slowly turned his head. The golden snake eyes fell on Tianyi's face, and he narrowed his eyes. There was no surprise, not even surprise.
"Tianyi-kun, you are here." His voice was hoarse and low, as if he was stating a fact that he already knew.
Tianyi walked to the operating table and looked down at the mass of cell tissue.
"You are trying to fuse White Zetsu Cells with ordinary human cells, but when the fused cells divide to the sixth generation, the efficiency of the chakra circuit will decrease exponentially.
This is because the communication frequency of White Zetsu Cells is constant, while the frequency of human cells will attenuate as the number of divisions increases.
When the frequency difference between the two exceeds the threshold, the signal cannot be transmitted."
Orochimaru's pupils shrank slightly and nodded.
He put down the tweezers in his hands, turned around, and stared directly at Tianyi.
A long-lost light flashed in those snake eyes.
"You mean, if I could adjust the communication frequency of human cells to synchronize it with White Zetsu Cells..."
"Then it's not adjusting human cells, it's reprogramming."
Tianyi shook his head, picked up a marker pen from the side of the operating table, and drew a series of dense symbols on the whiteboard next to it, "What you need to do is to implant a gene sequence that can continuously self-calibrate during the cell division process.
It will automatically detect the frequency deviation after each split and make corrections.
This is not biology, but engineering, bioengineering, which treats cells as programmable hardware and genes as codes that can be modified."
Orochimaru's eyes lit up. He stared at the string of symbols on the whiteboard, his lips moved slightly, and he silently recited those formulas and symbols.
"Genetic programming..." He murmured to himself, with a kind of uncontrollable excitement in his voice.
"You treat life like a line of code that can be modified at will.
Tianyi-kun, your thinking... is more dangerous than I thought."
Tianyi put down the marker and looked at Orochimaru.
"What you want is eternity, what I want is power, we each get what we need."
Orochimaru licked his lips, stuck out his tongue, and slowly traced it across the corner of his mouth. A trace of greed flashed in his eyes, but it was more of a deep appreciation.
"As expected of Mr. Tianyi, with just a few words, you solved the problem that had troubled me for months."
He turned around, took off the rubber gloves in his hands, threw them into the trash can, and handed the surgical instruments to his pocket.
Kabuto took the instruments, lowered his head and continued working on the operating table without raising his head.
"Say, Mr. Tianyi, what do you want?" Orochimaru walked to the sink, turned on the faucet, and rinsed his hands. The sound of water rushing was particularly clear in the silent operating room.
Tianyi's eyes fell on Kabuto and stayed for a moment. Orochimaru did not look back, but said lightly, "It doesn't matter, he is my disciple."
Tianyi nodded.
"I want a ninjutsu"
"Impure World Reincarnation!"