About four or five seconds.
The White Zetsu Puppet turned into a puddle of mucus from head to toe, spread out in the center of the six metal rings, and was still squirming slightly. A layer of tiny bubbles floated on the surface of the mucus, which burst and then swelled up again.
The piece of Black Rod in mid-air lost its support and fell into the mucus, making a "pop" sound and splashing around in a circle.
The lighting ball lights up again.
"How is Nagato's body!" Senju Chen asked hurriedly
"He's back." Orochimaru replied, "He was bounced back, all the converters alarmed, and he was vomiting blood."
"Heart rhythm."
"Quickly but falling. But conscious and able to speak."
Senju Chen stepped into the formation and squatted down.
He didn't watch that episode Black Rod.
What he was looking at was the puddle of slime.
I picked a little bit with my fingers and brought it to my eyes.
The mucus was still moving on his fingertips and had not stopped active.
But it seems to be flowing in one direction.
Senju Chen turned his palm in a circle.
The mucus just rotated in his palm, always heading in the same direction--
Southwest.
Land of Fire South.
It is the direction of Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Orochimaru came down from the observation room, stood next to him, squatted down, and looked at him for two seconds.
"It's not broken up by magic." Orochimaru stretched out his hand and picked a little, "If it was broken up, White Zetsu Cells will automatically reorganize. We have tried it more than a hundred times, and it will crawl back on its own within a minute."
"Then what is this now?" Senju Chen asked doubtfully.
Orochimaru wiped the slime on the back of his hand and watched it slide along the skin in the southwest direction, "It should be affected by the call of the main body and wants to return."
"Return!" Senju Chen stood up slowly, his face a little unsightly.
"Teacher, White Zetsu is the product of that forbidden object. In other words, all cells of White Zetsu may have the 'right of ownership' engraved on them."
"And the waveform just now -" Senju Chen pointed at the six metal rings on the floor, "Should be regarded as the highest authority command of Demonic Statue of the Outer Path."
Orochimaru stopped talking, but he understood what Senju Chen meant.
"So what happened just now was not that the puppet used by Nagato couldn't withstand that technique." Senju Chen continued.
"But that White Zetsu Puppet felt a voice similar to that of its master or mother."
"Then it resigned?"
"No, it's not resignation."
"But it was actively recycled."
It was quiet in the soundproof room.
The gray-green sealing paint on all sides ate up all sounds, except for the recorder's heat sink.
Senju Chen stood there, motionless.
Through this experiment, he discovered something.
From now on, as long as Nagato is present, or these eyes are present, he can eliminate all White Zetsu Puppet on the spot.
What has he done all these years?
He used Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as a factory and White Zetsu as consumables, mass-produced puppets, stuffed them into Soul Conversion Device, and gave them to Land of Waterfalls batch by batch, his own experimental base, and those outside. The member who came out was "Twins". His entire combat strength foundation, and even most of his confidence not to take the entire Shinobi World seriously, actually accounted for a large part of this White Zetsu Puppet assembly line.
But today he suddenly discovered that the main gate of this assembly line actually grew on a person's face!!!
"..."
Senju Chen suddenly felt like laughing.
"Teacher, before, Might Guy controlled the puppet and defeated Zabuza." Senju Chen wiped the slime from his heart, "I was quite proud at the time. I felt that I turned people's talents into something that can be copied."
"But I just found out today."
"My whole set of replicable things actually has a switch."
"And that switch has never been in my hands from beginning to end."
Xie added coldly from the side, "He doesn't know yet."
Senju Chen looked at him.
"He didn't know he had this ability." Xie said, "He was focusing entirely on 'cutting off' during the technique just now. When the puppet disintegrated, he just thought he had lost control."
Senju Chen said nothing.
"If we deal with him now, or even take away his eyes." Xia said very calmly, as if he was talking about a disposal plan for a scrapped puppet, "Then our system will have no natural enemies."
Orochimaru also said nothing.
This old guy would never express his stance at a time like this. He would only watch. What he wanted to see was never the result, but the moment when people made a choice.
Lighting balls in the soundproof room buzzed overhead.
Senju Chen bent down and picked up the piece of Black Rod from the pool of mucus.
Black Rod was very heavy. The threads on the surface felt a little cold on his fingertips.
He held it and stood upright.
"I want to tell him."
"Then what." Orochimaru asked.
"I also want to see his choice." Senju Chen said
"Then you have to bet that he will never betray you for the rest of his life." Xie couldn't help but said.
You must know that this base has the most research on White Zetsu, and 70 to 80 percent of it can be carried out based on it.
Whether it is the consumables used for research or the production of puppets, the quantities are extremely large.
It can even be said that once the White Zetsu production line is gone, the entire base's research projects will have to be suspended.
If Senju Chen tells Nagato the truth, it would be equivalent to completely handing over the initiative to an outsider.
If Nagato betrays them, all their hard work over the years will be in vain.
Senju Chen turned Black Rod in his hand half a circle, then turned around and walked towards the door.
"Where are you going?" Xie asked.
Senju Chen stopped at the door.
"Tell him the truth."
Third floor, soul diving laboratory.
Nagato was half lying on the switching table, his face was so white that there was no blood. Konan was on the edge of the table, taking a wet cloth away from his mouth, and there was blood on the cloth. Yahiko was standing on the other side, holding the edge of the table with both hands. He looked up and saw Senju Chen coming in.
"Chen-kun! Nagato him--"
Senju Chen didn't stop.
He walked to the edge of the stage, put the piece of Black Rod in his hand on Nagato's chest.
Nagato Open your eyes.
The circles of purple lines all shrank once when seeing Black Rod.
"... What is this." Yahiko asked
"This is what he summoned just now." Senju Chen said, "It was successful. You called one section, and it came one section. But the waveform was not completely collected, but the first three layers were collected."
Nagato's breath trembled: "Then why does my puppet--"
"That's what I'm here to tell you."
Senju Chen sat down by the stage, his posture was very casual, as he usually did when chatting with them.
Neither Yahiko nor Konan moved.
"Nagato." Senju Chen said, "The puppet just now was broken."
"It's back."
"... what do you mean?"
Senju Chen looked into his eyes.
"It means that when your eyes shout about that taboo, all the things in my base that grow from that taboo will hear it."
"They will recognize you."
"They will put down what they are doing and return to their mother's body involuntarily."
Senju Chen Finish the last half of the sentence.
"That is to say--"
"Nagato, I have more than 30,000 puppets here now, and the only nemesis is you, or your eyes."