Three days later.
There are five underground floors of the experimental base.
There are no windows or vents here, only a cold white lighting ball in the center of the ceiling. There is a layer of gray-green sealing paint painted around it, with runes running around it all the way to the floor.
These seals are used to isolate the transmission of Chakra, whether it is external or internal.
The floor in the center of the soundproof room was cut open, and six metal rings were laid out. There were gray-blue sensor crystals embedded between the rings, a total of 216, each one connected to a wire as thin as a hair, all connected to the recorder in the corner that was as tall as a person.
Scorpio stood behind the recorder, holding the FM wheel in his hand.
Orochimaru stood behind the observation window, holding a pen in his hand.
Senju Chen is standing on the outside edge of the collection array.
In the center of the array, there was a person standing, but that was not Nagato himself, but a White Zetsu Puppet controlled by Nagato through Soul Conversion Device.
The difference from the ordinary White Zetsu Puppet is that its eyes, with purple concentric patterns in circles, slowly rotate under the lighting ball.
"Confirm." Senju Chen said, "Nagato, can you hear me?"
The puppet nodded. The voice coming out of its mouth was that of Nagato, but it was clearer. "You heard it very clearly, Chen-kun. This one is easier to use than the one I experienced last time."
"Because this one was debugged by Xie himself for you."
"..." Xie didn't say anything, and the FM wheel rotated half a grid.
Senju Chen raised a board. On it was what he had written in the past three days.
"I'll explain the process again. If you feel it's inappropriate, you can stop anytime."
"The first step is to use Rinnegan to send out the spell to summon Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. But it can only be sent at the smallest scale."
"What does minimum size mean?" asked the puppet.
"It means you don't summon the entire Demonic Statue." Senju Chen said, "You only summon one piece of it - such as a Black Rod, or a chain. Just one piece. You start the spell, let it respond to you, and then cut it off immediately."
"Why not summon them all."
"Because it is now a tree hundreds of meters high, with roots that penetrate half of the mountain." Senju Chen said very calmly, "If you call it all over, it will arch the ground all the way and grow out from here. We have four floors above and hundreds of employees."
The puppet was silent for two seconds.
"... I understand."
"In the second step, the waveform is recorded by Scorpion's machine. You don't need to worry about it."
"As for the third step." Senju Chen put the board down.
"Nagato, listen clearly." Senju Chen took a step forward and walked to the edge of the array. "Rinnegan's high-intensity output will consume your body's Chakra and increase the burden on your body. Although the puppet you are using now replaces your original body, the mental consumption is also huge. And this continuous high-intensity output will greatly consume your mental power."
"Although Soul Conversion Device will transfer your mental power back to your body when the puppet dies, we don't know the power of Rinnegan and the bottom line of extracting your mental power, so you have to remember that you must not completely consume your mental power. You must retain part of it. I don't want to turn you into a vegetable because of this experiment."
The puppet in the center of the array was stunned.
"Chen-kun." said the puppet, "Thank you."
Senju Chen smiled.
"I don't want to be hated by Konan in the future."
"..."
"Let's get started."
Senju Chen took three steps back and raised his hand.
"Scorpion, get ready."
"Already recording."
"Teacher, look at his true form."
"He is lying very stable." Orochimaru lowered his head and looked at the other monitoring board in his hand, "The heart rate is fast, within the normal range."
"Nagato, start the technique."
The puppet in the center of the array closed its eyes.
One second.
Then it opens.
The first thing is that the lighting ball went out.
It didn't go out. It just dimmed - as if it was being held down by something. Two hundred and sixteen sensor crystals lit up at the same time, gray-blue light climbed up from the floor, and the six metal rings began to heat up in sequence.
Second lap.
The third circle.
Senju Chen stood outside the formation, the sweat on his back immediately falling off.
Not hot.
It is a "direction" that appears in this room.
The walls of the soundproof room were sealed with seals. There were no windows or door cracks, but he clearly felt that something was moving out in a straight line. It passed through the wall, passed through the mountain, and passed through hundreds of miles of soil, heading to the south of Land of Fire.
That's not Chakra.
But like a sentence.
A very old and very short sentence, uttered from a pair of eyes:
A sentence similar to, do you still recognize me?
Scorpion's recorder began to scream. The pointer hit the top of the scale, bounced back, and hit it again.
"The first layer is recorded!" Xie's voice rose for the first time, "The second layer--the third layer--"
"There is clutter on the fourth floor!"
"Fifth floor--"
"Chen-kun," the puppet in the center of the formation spoke, and his voice changed, "It promised me."
"--Cut it off!" Senju Chen shouted, "Nagato, now, cut it off immediately!"
The center of the array lights up a little black.
It's not a shadow. It's an entity that appears out of thin air on the right hand side of the puppet. It's half a meter long, as thick as a finger, and its entire body is dark, with circles of threads on its surface.
Black Rod.
Black Rod is the external extender of Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. In the original work, Black Rod is Nagato. When he summoned "Demonic Statue of the Outer Path" for the first time in extreme anger, he was killed by Demonic Statue. The main body is implanted in the body as a "connector". It is the bridge that establishes connection between Nagato's body, Chakra and Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Through these Black Rod, Nagato can control Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, but as a result, Chakra and vitality were continuously extracted, causing the body to be extremely weak. After using the implanted Black Rod to master the connection with Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Nagato can It is able to utilize the power of Rinnegan to actively create a new Black Rod from the palm of its hand. Black Rod itself is extended from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path body, rather than actively "summoned" by Nagato.
But now it has actually been summoned by Nagato.
At this time, Nagato in the formation was also staring at the black stick summoned in his hand.
Xie shouted, "The waveform only contains the first three layers..."
The second half of the sentence has not been spoken yet.
As a result, the face of the puppet controlled by Nagato in the center of the formation suddenly collapsed.
There is no sound.
First on the right cheek, the skin color changed from white to translucent, and then slid down an inch. Then the neck. Then the shoulders.
Nagato, who was standing in the center of the formation, raised his hand and looked at his palm - his fingers were softening one by one and dripping down.
"Chen-kun?"
The voice is still there, but it's distorted.
"Chen-kun, what's wrong with my body..." As soon as he said this, the entire head of the puppet Nagato melted like a candle.