After that, Orochimaru's underground base completely turned into a palace of madness that never turned off the lights.
For Yamato, these days of work have simply subverted his view of ninjas.
His daily job is to record... record how these monsters, whom he has only seen on the Konoha S-level wanted poster, "research and dismember" those white humanoid creatures that are also monsters.
"Sample No. 13, after the injection of Lightning Release Chakra, the cell wall showed an instantaneous hardening of 3.14%, and then a chain collapse occurred. Conclusion: It cannot simply withstand the high intensity of Nature Transformation."
Amado stood in front of a row of flickering screens, adjusting his goggles and calmly recording the data. In front of him, White Zetsu was fixed by a metal bracket. His body was shattered inch by inch like dried mud and turned into fly ash. The whole process did not make a sound.
On the other side, Scorpion's ten fingers were beating flexibly, and Chakra Threads was connected to a half-modified White Zetsu. White Zetsu's right arm had been replaced with a metal prosthesis full of barbs and sharp blades, and Scorpion was trying to make it swing its arm.
"Click... click..."
The metal arm was raised stiffly, but the white flesh at the joint was squirming violently, as if it had a life of its own and was desperately trying to squeeze out the foreign object. Finally, with a heart-breaking tearing sound, the entire metal arm was forcibly "vomited" out by the new flesh and blood, and fell to the ground.
"The rejection reaction is too strong." There was a trace of impatience in Scorpion's hoarse voice, "Its cells regard all non-homologous substances as 'invasions', and its repair instinct is far greater than its command obedience. This thing cannot be made into a puppet for the time being."
Orochimaru is more direct.
Like an elegant gourmet, he used a scalpel to cut off a small piece of White Zetsu tissue and put it into a beaker containing some strange green liquid.
"Hehehe... that's so interesting."
Orochimaru looked at the beaker. The tissue multiplied dozens of times in just a few seconds, almost overflowing the beaker. His golden vertical pupils were full of obsession.
"Almost infinite ability to divide, but no sign of decay. Its life form is closer to plants than animals."
"Little Chen, where did you find these creatures?"
Senju Chen was leaning against the wall nearby, playing with a Flying Thunder God Kunai in his hand. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Teacher, this is a business secret."
I can't tell Orochimaru and the others about Demonic Statue of the Outer Path yet, but this White Zetsu's living body is consumed a bit quickly.
After only a few days here, more than 20 White Zetsus have been consumed, which is why Orochimaru and they are relatively restrained.
Otherwise, if these three lunatics were let go, all these White Zetsu would probably be wiped out on the first day.
However, the teacher did not disappoint him. In just a few days, he had a thorough understanding of several core features of White Zetsu.
Amado discovered its "plasticity" and "instability".
Scorpion has proven its "repellency" and "repairability".
Orochimaru has an insight into its "vegetative" and "infinite proliferation" nature.
These are the characteristics displayed by Black Zetsu in the original work when he used the army of White Zetsu. Now, these characteristics are spread out and placed in front of the top brains of Shinobi World.
It depends on how they use these features in the future.
"Chen...Lord Chen..." Yamato held a thick record book and came over with a pale face, his voice was trembling, "Mr. Amado just... disrupted and reorganized the cell series of a living sample, and then that thing... turned into a puddle of squirming mud..."
He really couldn't call the actions in front of him "research". It was clearly a crazy deconstruction and blasphemy of life forms.
"Just get used to it, Yamato." Senju Chen patted him on the shoulder, as if he had been there before, "You have to think of them as a group of children who got new toys, but their toys are more special. Your task is to note down how they broke the toys, do you understand?"
Yamato nodded in understanding, and glanced at the still squirming beaker again. His stomach was churning, and he quickly lowered his head and continued taking notes, not daring to look at it again.
Senju Chen looked at Yamato and felt a little funny in his heart. It was really difficult for a pure-minded ninja to observe an experiment of this level.
Not to mention this era, even if it were placed in the modern era before he time traveled, it would not be acceptable to ordinary people.
However, this is also a kind of training for him. In the future, Yamato will often interact with teachers and others, which can be regarded as an early adaptation.
"Little Chen, come here and take a look at this." Orochimaru suddenly waved to him.
Senju Chen walked over and saw another White Zetsu lying on the experimental table in front of Orochimaru. Unlike other similar ones that had been dismembered or modified, this White Zetsu was intact, but his eyes were closed tightly, and he seemed to be sleeping.
"I tried to inject a trace of Mental Energy into its body to simulate the process of 'Living Corpse Reincarnation'." Orochimaru licked his lips, with a strange light shining in his eyes, "Guess what happened?"
"It digested your Mental Energy?" Senju Chen raised his eyebrows and made a rough guess.
"It's more interesting than that." Orochimaru's smile became weirder. "It didn't digest or reject it, but... wrapped it up. Just like an oyster wraps up sand to form a pearl, it regarded my Mental Energy as a 'nucleus', and then began to wrap its own cell tissue outside."
With that said, Orochimaru used a scalpel to gently open White Zetsu's forehead. No blood flowed out, and a white sarcoma the size of a rice grain, exuding weak Chakra fluctuations, was clearly visible at the wound.
"It's trying to... breed a new 'consciousness'?" Senju Chen's eyes also became serious.
"That's right! A consciousness that is based on my Mental Energy, but belongs to it!" Orochimaru's voice suddenly rose, full of fanaticism, "It is not a simple container, it is a 'matrix'! A creative body that can give birth to all things! Just give it a 'seed', and it can grow any 'fruit' you want!"
"That's it..." Amado came over at some point. He pushed up his goggles, and his eyes under the lenses were frighteningly bright, "I understand! I have been trying to rewrite its genetic information from the outside, which is wrong! Its core logic is not 'passive modification', but 'active absorption and assimilation'! We should not treat it like a piece of clay to knead, but should treat it like a field, and we only need to be responsible for sowing it!"
"Seed..." Scorpion muttered to himself, his pair of puppet prosthetic eyes staring at the white tumor, the green light flashing crazily, "If... if I use the puppet's core as a 'seed', implant it into its body... let it grow the flesh and blood meridians that best fit the core... that's..."
"The eternal Human Puppet who is truly alive and can evolve infinitely." Senju Chen finished the second half of the sentence for him.