Naruto God Tree Arrives

Early the next morning, all high-level officials in Konoha received a joint notification from ANBU and Roots, urgently summoning them to a secret experimental base somewhere in Konoha Research Department.

Although the higher-ups in Konoha felt that this notice, which was not issued by the Hokage, was a bit strange, considering the privileges of these two departments, everyone still chose to go.

When a group of senior executives arrived at the outskirts of the remote experimental base, they found that the surrounding atmosphere was extremely unusual.

It turns out that the entire perimeter of the base has been tightly blocked by a large number of Root and Anbu members.What's even more strange is that the two sides actually occupy half of the area. It doesn't look like they are jointly performing a mission. Instead, they look like they are confronting each other, as if a fight will break out at any time.Even though there is a lot of grievance between the two departments, they usually only fight secretly in private. This is the first time that they have openly fought like this.

Thinking back to the rumors that Naoki and Orochimaru frequently visited this experimental base recently, all the senior officials present had a vague feeling that something bad was about to happen this time.

A group of high-level officials walked through the blockade with serious expressions, walked into the scientific research base, and arrived in front of a laboratory in the center.

At the entrance, there were three people waiting for them. These three people were ANBU chief Nawaki, root leader Danzo, and scientific research chief Orochimaru.

Among them, Danzo's expression was as gloomy as ever, and Orochimaru's face also had the same evil smile as before. Only Naoki was not as confident and calm as before, with a hint of worry between his eyebrows.

Seeing the expressions of the three people, all the Konoha senior officials felt even weirder, and the bad feeling became stronger and stronger.

Tsunade, who had the hottest temper among the crowd, couldn't help but asked first: "What's the matter with calling us all here so early?"

Facing Tsunade's question, the three of them all remained silent and seemed to have no interest in answering.

Tsunade frowned and asked directly: "Orochimaru, this is your department, what happened?"

"Haha" Orochimaru shook his head and said, "Don't ask me, I didn't call you here."

"Hmph" Tsunade snorted coldly at the eccentric Orochimaru, then turned to look at Danzo with a serious face and asked: "Why did Danzo-sama appear here and privately ordered the roots to surround it?"

When the senior Konoha officials present heard this, a strange look flashed in their eyes, and the bias of Tsunade's words was obvious.You must know that there are Anbu outside besides Root. Considering the recent whereabouts of Rope Tree, everyone probably guessed that Root is probably looking for trouble, so the two sides are at war with each other.And Tsunade also noticed it, so she preemptively gave Danzo the idea of ​​mobilizing troops privately.

Danzo looked at Tsunade who was questioning him, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and then he said coldly: "I received a report from the Root members that there was an abnormality in this experimental base last night, and a battle was suspected, so I led the Root I didn’t expect the members to come to investigate.”

"But this seems to be a laboratory belonging to the Scientific Research Department, and it has always been guarded by ANBU." Tsunade interrupted Danzo and said, "I'm afraid it's not appropriate for Danzo-sama to lead Nebu here to investigate, and there is also a confrontation with ANBU.

As for Sarutobi-sensei, he should be the one to decide this matter himself, right?"

"Okay, Tsunade," Naoki finally said, "Calling you here is a decision jointly made by leader Danzo and I.

Something big did happen here last night, and it must be dealt with by all the senior officials present.

The situation is urgent, please go in with me first."

"Wait a minute, what is this rope tree?" Tsunade couldn't help but want to step forward and continue to ask, but was stopped by Kato Dan beside him with his hand.

Naoki and Danzo had already turned around and walked towards the door behind them.

"Let's go in, and of course you will know everything." After Orochimaru finished speaking, he turned around and followed the two of them to the door of the laboratory.

All the high-level officials of Konoha followed behind the three of them with full doubts.

When they stepped through the door, they were immediately attracted by the scene in the laboratory. There was a strong smell of blood in the air, various experimental instruments and glassware were broken on the floor, and the surrounding walls were all broken. It is also full of cracks and holes. It is obvious that Dingli has experienced fierce battles.

The most eye-catching thing is that a mess of wooden thorns in the center of the laboratory is releasing the green breath of life, and among these thorns lies a corpse.

After seeing the face of the corpse, all the high-level officials of Konoha couldn't help but screamed: "Hokage-sama", "Hiruzen", "Sarutobi-sensei", "Old Man"

Everyone hurriedly quickened their pace and rushed to the center of the laboratory. They looked at Sarutobi in disbelief. They saw that his body was riddled with sharp thorns, and his whole body was fixed by thorns standing staggered from the ground. In mid-air, the large amount of blood remaining around had solidified and turned into reddish brown, making the emerald green color of the thorns more vivid. What was strange was that there was no sign of pain on Sarutobi's face that had become pale due to blood loss. The open eyes looked dull and empty.

"Old man" Shinnosuke knelt down in front of Sarutobi with a sad face. This scene reminded him of his friend Uchiha Hikari who died tragically a few months ago. He didn't expect another relative to die tragically.

He stretched out his hand to help Sarutobi's body down, but was unable to do so due to the dense thorns, so he quickly took out a kunai and prepared to cut off the obstructing thorns.

"Stop." A hand suddenly grabbed Shinnosuke's wrist, stopping him from looking back and finding that it was his friend Naoki.

So he stared at the other party angrily and thoughtfully and asked: "Why are you holding me back? You want the old man to hang like this?"

"Calm down Shinnosuke" Naoki held the opponent's wrist firmly and said calmly: "The cause of the teacher's death is unknown. The scene may be the only clue and cannot be destroyed."

After hearing this, Shinnosuke finally couldn't help but shed tears, and asked in a choked voice: "Naoki, tell me what happened and why the old man became like this."

Although the other senior officials present were not as excited as Shinnosuke, they all had gloomy faces. The two disciples, Tsunade and Jiraiya, looked paler than Orochimaru, and the corners of their eyes began to turn red.

Although the older generation of Koharu, Men Yan, Tie Feng and others have long been used to seeing separation between life and death, their eyes were filled with deep sadness at this time, and even Danzo's eyes showed a trace of intolerance.