Land of Zhi is a small country with a population of three to four hundred thousand. Eighty percent of its territory is covered by mountains and forests, and almost all of its population is concentrated in rivers and plains.
In the inaccessible forest edge area, Hokuto and his party found an open space to rest.
In addition to his captain, there are four other members in the team.
They are Chunin of the Hyuga Clan, Jonin of the Aburame Clan, one Earth Release Jonin, and one Medical Chunin.
Although the archaeological team only has five people, the five of them integrate combat, exploration, Sensory, tracking, Medical, control, etc.
Jonin, who is good at Earth Release in the team, also knows Sealing Jutsu and Barrier Jutsu. It can be said that their team's ability diversity is everything.
"This guy's body is really strange. After losing his mind, not only did Chakra become extremely terrifying, but his recovery ability was also incredibly powerful. Could it be some kind of unknown Kekkei Genkai?"
Medical Chunin was one of the few women in the team. After using Medical Ninjutsu to stabilize the target, he frowned and stood aside, not daring to get too close, for fear that the other party would go berserk and attack again.
The target she had Medical ed was lying on the ground dying. He was an adult man in his thirties. Half of his face and body looked like swollen hardened trees or stones. His skin was brown and black, and his eyes were half-open and half-closed, vaguely revealing the strange, pitch-black whites of his eyes.
Twisted, evil, bloodthirsty, violent.
All kinds of disturbing auras are present in this man.
It was obviously her first time coming into contact with such a strange body.
"That should be Natural Energy, but it seems that he can't control it freely, so he goes berserk."
Hokuto spoke up. As a powerful ninja from the Uchiha Clan, he still knew a lot of things.
Things like Natural Energy are the preparatory stage for learning Senjutsu. This kind of thing is recorded in the secrets spread by the Uchiha Clan.
Hokuto As he spoke, he stood up and looked at the mutated man who was lying on the ground and dying.
"His breath is getting weaker and weaker. If this continues, he may not be able to hold on for long before he dies. Can we delay it for a while longer?"
Hokuto turns to Medical Chunin.
Medical Chunin shook his head helplessly.
"Before this guy met us, his vitality became extremely fragile due to Chakra's rampage. This kind of rampage obviously happens often... This is not an injury, but his own life is about to come to an end. All I can do now is to ease his pain."
The opponent's body turned dark brown, and half of his body became hardened and swollen. He was completely out of control and was eroding his body all the time. This was the best proof.
Half of his body was already necrotic, and the fact that he was able to survive until now was entirely due to the opponent's will to survive.
No matter how clever Medical Ninjutsu is, it is impossible to reverse life and death, unless it is Reincarnation Ninjutsu.
At this moment, a rustling sound suddenly came from the bushes not far away.
"I found you."
A man wearing a black ninja trench coat and sunglasses appeared, it was Aburame Yuroketsu.
"Did you actually come here in person?"
Hokuto was a little surprised by the arrival of Yuroketsu. He thought that Land of Night would send another Jonin to receive it, but he did not expect that Minister Intelligence Division himself came here in person.
"Because this is a very important experimental subject, it should be related to Natural Energy."
Yuroketsu glanced at the mutated man on the ground, hovering in the throes of death, and said calmly.
"Can you tell at a glance?"
"I heard in the past that there is a mysterious group of people. Their physique can naturally absorb Natural Energy, making Chakra stronger. But due to the uncontrollability of Natural Energy, the ninjas of this group often lose control and go berserk, becoming bloodthirsty and easy to kill... Is this the only one?"
As the leader of the Aburame Clan, Yuroketsu knew a lot of secret rumors about Ninja World. He strongly suspected that this half-dead man came from the mysterious family mentioned above.
Hokuto nodded seriously.
"We have encountered only this person and have not found any other similar targets."
"Did you get separated? Or maybe you left the family alone because you couldn't control your bloodthirsty..."
Yuroketsu didn't think for long before he took out a scroll from his ninja tool bag and walked to the mutant man.
"Solution!"
From the unfolded scroll, a mass of entity Chakra visible to the naked eye began to spread, wrapping the mutated man's body on the ground.
Visible to the naked eye, the mutated man's breathing has stabilized and his painful sounds have become much quieter.
But everyone did not relax because of this. This situation is treating the symptoms but not the root cause. The other person's life has 'naturally' come to an end. No matter how clever Medical Ninjutsu is, it can only keep him alive for a while.
"Even General's Chakra... this guy is hopeless."
Yuroketsu looked a little embarrassed and felt that the matter was difficult.
If this situation continues, it is very likely that the opponent will die first without being sent to Yayoi's hands.
"Sorry, everyone, there is no time to reminisce now. I have to take him back as soon as possible."
Yuroketsu nodded towards everyone, immediately grabbed the man on the ground and disappeared.
If you go faster, you might reach Nightview City with your last breath left.
The physical value of a living ninja and a dead ninja are not at the same level.
"Okay, let's set off. The ruins of Land of Zhi need to be explored as soon as possible."
Watching Yuroketsu leave, Hokuto clapped his hands to draw everyone's attention back.
The discovery of the mutant man is just an exception. Their main job is to 'protect' the relics that have survived from ancient times.
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In the laboratory, a hardened stone that was barely recognizable as a human appeared on the operating table, resembling a tree, and showing an extremely strange dark brown color.
Yayoi and Nene stood aside and witnessed with their own eyes the whole process of a large living person slowly transforming from a human body into such a strange dead thing. The things discovered during this process were recorded in detail in a super-large computer in the form of data.
This humanoid hard object is none other than the mutated man sent back from Land of Zhi by Yuroketsu not long ago.
When the mutated man arrived at him, he was almost breathing his last breath. He spent a lot of effort to replenish the other person's life, and forcibly postponed the other person's death time by a week.
During this week, he and Nene spent a lot of time studying this extremely precious experimental object, understanding each other thoroughly from the inside out without missing a single trace.
"What an amazing physique. Not only can it absorb Natural Energy independently, but it also seems to have developed a natural 'skill'..."
Nene couldn't help but marvel, but it couldn't be heard at all in his voice.
Yayoi nodded, he knew that this was the prototype of Cursed Seal Jutsu.
In the original work, Orochimaru developed a series of Cursed Seal Jutsu such as Heaven Cursed Seal, Earth Cursed Seal based on the research on this physique.
Although the power of Cursed Seal does more harm than good, and there are various risks when using it, it must be said that this is a good idea with many merits.
"It's a pity that only this experimental subject is still dead..."
Nene sighed with regret.
It's not that the corpses of ninjas can't be studied, but because the research value of living people is higher, and more and more accurate things can be obtained.
"It seems that the research can only go so far, but if we can get more results about Natural Energy, it is worth the money and the effort is not in vain."
Yayoi looked at the humanoid foreign object on the operating table. The original human shape could no longer be seen. It looked a bit like a stone transformed from Senjutsu's failed practice.
But Yayoi knew that this was not the same thing, because the humanoid foreign object in front of him contained a large amount of Natural Energy that had not collapsed.
"If you want to extract substances and cultivate them, the only time is now. After a while, the Natural Energy in this corpse will disappear and turn into ordinary stones."
Nene is not interested, the data has been obtained, and the value of this experimental subject is useless.
"It's no longer needed, just take it and destroy it."
Yayoi waved his hand, he was also not interested in the body that was about to turn into stone.
With the help of the Tsuchigumo Clan's relationship, he has gone very deep into Natural Energy's research.
Compared with Natural Energy, the natural Cursed Seal Jutsu prototype completely presented by this corpse during his lifetime is what Yayoi feels is the most important thing.
That's right, he wants to use this natural Cursed Seal Jutsu prototype to develop his own Cursed Seal Ninjutsu.
Of course, this is just a reference in principle, and there is no need to intercept the other party's body tissue cells, preserve them alive, and integrate them into Cursed Seal Jutsu.
Because the tissue cells of this corpse are highly erosive, although not as good as Hashirama Cells, they are still very risky.
And he has always stayed away from this kind of thing with high risk of use, thinking it is a failure.