At Chihane's suggestion, Orochimaru had now invented a refrigerator as well.
For a scientist as gifted as Orochimaru, all he needed was a rough explanation of the principles, and he could work backward to figure out a machine's construction.
With refrigerators available now, the villagers' lives were sure to become more convenient.
Besides electric lights and refrigerators, Orochimaru had invented many other things for Konoha that were far ahead of their time, too many to list here.
"Chihane, this is the last time. We've already spent a great deal of time on these things."
"It's time I returned to experiments that truly matter."
While Chihane was still basking in his delight, Orochimaru suddenly spoke to him with a serious expression.
If Orochimaru hadn't been the Hokage, he certainly wouldn't have spent every day with Chihane, wasting his precious time on things he had no use for himself.
Over the past year, in order to improve the villagers' quality of life,
Orochimaru had suspended the research that mattered most to him: Ninjutsu for immortality.
But now that their goal of making the villagers' lives more convenient had largely been achieved,
Orochimaru believed it was time to resume the immortality research he had temporarily halted.
Besides, his mind hadn't been idle while he worked on these machines over the past year.
He already had several ideas about immortality. All that remained was to verify them, one by one, through repeated experiments.
At that thought, Orochimaru suddenly said to Chihane with a hint of regret, "It's a shame none of you can join me in researching and exploring Ninjutsu for immortality. This forbidden ocean of knowledge is far vaster than simply increasing your strength."
"No matter how strong you become, Chihane, won't you be nothing more than a pile of bones a hundred