The Third Hokage had sought out Orochimaru again not long ago, intending to appeal to his emotions and hoping that Orochimaru would make some contribution.
Unfortunately, Orochimaru was unmoved by either soft or hard tactics. Ending his leave was fine, and sending him to the battlefield was fine too, but they were not to set their sights on his experimental materials.
Having failed to obtain the puppets again, the Third Hokage was somewhat angry and repeatedly urged Orochimaru to depart for the battlefield as soon as possible.
As it happened, Orochimaru had also begun considering going to the battlefield.
Because he needed to collect materials.
After the war had gone on for so long, the frontline camps had surely accumulated plenty of enemy corpses. Those were all prime materials for making puppets.
Orochimaru did not yet know that Jingyi had already started working on puppet materials.
By the time Orochimaru returned, Jingyi would probably no longer care for puppets made from ninja corpses.
Orochimaru knew Jingyi was conducting research, but he did not know exactly what he was researching.
Because his reach could not extend into the Anbu.
With puppets guarding the place, let alone Orochimaru, even F4 could not extend their reach into the Anbu.
That evening, after finishing work,
Jingyi encountered an unexpected visitor on his way home.
"Do you have time? Let's have a meal together."
Hatake Sakumo took the initiative to invite him.
"Sure." Why refuse when someone was treating him to a meal?
If he refused this meal, Hatake Sakumo would probably start imagining all sorts of nonsense.
Jingyi knew why Hatake Sakumo had invited him to eat.
They chose an Akimichi barbecue restaurant for the meal.
After sitting down, the two ordered quite a lot.
Once everything had been brought out, Hatake Sakumo placed