Become Hokage with Zanpakutō

Chapter 107 Snake Nest
Naoto looked around, it was really a rather hidden natural cave.

Orochimaru did not speak, and after confirming that Naoto had arrived smoothly, he walked towards the interior of the cave. Naoto glanced at the dark cave and followed.

For a while, there were only two footsteps in the cave. After a few minutes, Orochimaru stopped, and there was a dead end in front of them.

Of course, Naoto didn't think that Orochimaru brought him here because it was relatively hidden. He raised his head, his vision was blocked in the dark, and he couldn't see any mechanism at all.

At this time, Orochimaru raised his hands and began to seal, and then put one hand on the rock wall. Naoto felt that his feet were empty, but he reacted instantly and landed firmly on the ground.

He raised his head, and Orochimaru jumped off his head, and then the ceiling closed automatically. What kind of black technology is this?

Naoto looked left and right, and there were dark orange patterned walls on both sides, running through the front and back, and it seemed to be a certain passage here.

"This stronghold is still under construction, and the people here are all my people." Orochimaru said.

"Why does it have to be built underground?" Naoto asked, "What are you doing here?"

Orochimaru still didn't speak, turned around and walked towards the end of the passage. The passage was very complicated, and Orochimaru kept turning. After several minutes, the space finally became spacious.

The huge space under the elevated was obviously excavated by hand. There were candlesticks on the walls on all sides, and the faint light filled the entire space.

However, the vast space is full of iron cages, which are three stories high. There seems to be one or two or three creatures squatting in each cage. That's right, besides various animals, there are human beings.

"These—" It was the first time Zhiren had seen such a situation. Leaving aside the animals, the people locked in the cages were all pale and emaciated, with no expression in their eyes, like breathing corpses.

Even if someone is coming, he doesn't move away from him, at most he glances at Naoto's direction, with a dull expression, like a domestic animal in captivity.

"It's just experimental materials, all of which are insignificant characters," said Orochimaru, "and some idiots who came to assassinate me."

"Experiment—material!?" Naoto opened his mouth in surprise, "Using living people?"

Orochimaru turned his head to look at Naoto, and Naoto's reaction was a bit unexpected. In his opinion, Naoto who can draw the conclusion that "spiritual bodies can also die" should have done similar experiments.

Zhiren is not dead, that is proved through experiments, that is, the conclusion drawn by using other people's spirit bodies, it stands to reason that Zhiren should also—

But looking at Naoto's expression, Orochimaru seemed shocked by such a scene, which is very strange.

"You seem to be very surprised," said Orochimaru, "you haven't even done live experiments, have you?"

Naoto turned his head to look at Orochimaru, he could see the suspicion on the other person's face, could it be said that in vivo experimentation in the ninja world is already a common thing?

If you make the opponent suspicious here, the result will be difficult to predict. It is a long distance from Kusanagi Village, and even if Kyuubi is allowed to come out, no one may be able to find out.

And the best consequence of letting Kyuubi come out is that both sides will suffer. Once the seal is completely released, Naoto believes that Kyuubi will definitely leave him without hesitation.

Now Naoto is wondering whether he should pretend to be ignorant, he looked at the iron cage around him again, then turned to Orochimaru and said, "I haven't done it."

"Oh?" Orochimaru laughed playfully, "You haven't even made a living body, how did you come to the conclusion that the 'spiritual body' can also die?"

Naoto frowned, he didn't want to tell the fact that he used to be a god of death, but he couldn't find any reason to fool him for a while. Orochimaru is not so easy to fool, so he fell into a short silence.

"Come on," Orochimaru sneered and walked towards another passage, "We have plenty of time to discuss this issue."

Naoto's forehead is already covered with cold sweat, getting along with someone like Orochimaru is simply a kind of torture, you never know when the other party will slam you like a snake and inject deadly poison .

Shaking his head, Naoto followed behind Orochimaru again. After passing through this passage, there was another open space, but different from the previous one, the sense of technology here was obviously stronger than the previous place.

Especially the two rows of huge storage tanks placed on both sides of the room. The transparent tanks are filled with liquid of unknown composition, soaking in various alien bodies.

Zhiren was shocked, even more shocked than before. He saw a human-like alien in a certain jar, with horns on its head and wings on its back. It was the kind of fleshy wings, and the blood vessels between the spines were clearly visible. , straight people can even see the blood flowing slowly inside.

Straight people have never seen similar creatures, so they call them aliens.

At this time, the alien in the tank seemed to sense someone approaching. He raised his head, met Naoto's eyes, and suddenly rushed over excitedly and bumped his head against the transparent tank, making a heavy sound.

"What is this-?" Naoto asked.

Orochimaru didn't answer Naoto's question, but asked rhetorically, "Do you still remember the number 7017 you mentioned?"

"Gene fusion, self-healing," Naoto murmured, "You succeeded?"

"No, it didn't work." Orochimaru shook his head, "This is what I researched after I got a very interesting experimental body."

After a pause, Orochimaru walked up to the jar and stretched out his hand to press it, "A special experimental body that can absorb and fix natural energy."

"Natural energy?" This is the first time Naoto has heard this term, could it be spiritual power?But until now, Zhiren has not discovered any existence that can control spiritual power, or is it something else at all?

"Natural energy is similar to chakra, but unlike chakra, natural energy is ubiquitous and does not require artificial extraction." Orochimaru said.

This is also the current research direction of Orochimaru. He wants to obtain natural energy and use it. The matter of the blood successor boundary can be solved by changing the container. Now he only needs to be able to find a suitable container to have the blood succession boundary.

With the addition of natural energy, Xueji's boundary may allow him to reach an unprecedented height beyond his ancestors-immortality!
He is looking for Naoto for one of the links - to fix the limit of blood inheritance, he can't change the container all the time, a good container is the key to his ultimate goal, of course, what Naoto said is "to keep the spirit body alive for more than a thousand years" I'm very interested.

(End of this chapter)