Konoha starts from the root

In the blink of an eye, five days passed.

Bai Ye finally completed the adjustment of the laboratory sealing barrier, and once again subdivided the radiation intensity of the original Room [-] into ten levels.

Just when he had just completed the last inspection of the sealing technique, Xiang Phosphorus found him: "Bai Ye, the second batch of experimental subjects has arrived."

Bai Ye heard the words and responded: "Okay, let's go."

Afterwards, the two left the laboratory together.

A few minutes later, on the second underground floor.

Baiye met four root ninjas and the ten experimental subjects they escorted.

He skillfully used the Soul Locking Curse to seal part of the memories of these four root ninjas, and then let them leave.

As for the ten experimental subjects, after he put the soul-locking curse seal on them, he threw them to Xiang Phosphorus.

Before the experiment officially starts, these ten people will have to undergo a comprehensive physical examination and then create a file.

After two months of practice, Xiang Phosphorus is already competent for these tasks.

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At the same time, outside Bai Ye's base, a vague face of a person suddenly appeared on the trunk of a tree.

Following his gaze, he saw four root ninjas just walking out of the base.

After a few breaths, the face on the tree trunk disappeared again.

No one noticed his presence.

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Late at night, the Hokage Building and Sarutobi Hiruzen's office were filled with smoke.

Suddenly, a "dong dong dong" knock sounded.

"Come in."

In addition to the vicissitudes of life, Sarutobi Hiruzen's voice also contained deep weariness.

A ninja dressed as an ANBU pushed open the door, stepped forward, knelt on one knee in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen, and greeted, "Sandaime-sama."

Sarutobi Hiruzen then took off his pipe, smiled, and said, "Tenzo, it's you! What's the matter?"

Tianzang immediately replied after hearing this: "I am reporting to the Third Generation Master that there has been new progress in the severe punishment prison."

When Sarutobi Hiruzen heard this, the smile on his face completely disappeared, and he said in a serious tone: "Really? Tell me carefully."

"Yes, Lord Third Generation. More than a month ago, I was ordered to investigate the disappearance of prisoners in the heavy-duty prison. There are various signs that the perpetrators were root ninjas. I have reported this to you before."

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded and said, "Not bad, what now?"

Before, after he learned about this situation, he immediately asked Shimura Danzo, and the other party did not deny it, but said that there were some tasks that these ninjas needed to complete.

As for what the specific mission was, Danzo remained silent.

He knew that Danzo often did some shady things, but he also firmly believed that Danzo would not do anything that would harm Konoha, so he did not get to the bottom of it.

And this is precisely the tacit understanding between the two of them, so he did not forcefully accept all the power from Danzo Hokage after he was dismissed from his position as assistant.

However, just in case, he still asked Tianzang to lead people to continue the investigation in secret.

He thought there would be results soon, but he never thought that the twenty prisoners would disappear without a trace.

It stands to reason that the ANBU has already mastered the information about these people and wants to investigate their whereabouts. Not to mention finding them all, at least they should be able to find a few.

However, the strange thing is that the ANBU found no trace of anyone.

This made him suspicious, so he asked Tenzo to deepen the investigation, including but not limited to monitoring Shimura Danzo's movements.

Sure enough, just a few days ago, Tianzang suddenly reported that Genbu was secretly selecting prisoners again.

When he heard the news, he immediately issued an order not to alert others, but to keep an eye on their movements.

After several days of tracking and monitoring, Tianzang finally came to report the investigation results today.

Only to hear Tenzou continue to say: "Unlike last time, this time Genbu selected ten prisoners, including 5 genin and 5 chunin, and sent them all to an underground base outside the village a few hours ago. .”

Hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi took a puff of his cigarette and asked, "How much do you know about that base?"

Tianzang answered meticulously: "I have looked through the files and found no relevant records. It is most likely one of the root's secret bases."

Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly fell into deep thought, puffing on his pipe.

To be honest, he was not afraid of anything else. He was just afraid that Shimura Danzo would start conducting human experiments again.

Orochimaru's defection due to human experimentation caused a huge uproar, and Konoha really couldn't afford to go through it again.

Although Tenzo was unable to reveal the involvement between Shimura Danzo and Orochimaru because the Tongue-Eating Seal had not been lifted, Sarutobi Hiruzen had long been vaguely aware that Danzo and Orochimaru's human experiments were inextricably linked. .

However, for the sake of peace in Konoha, he just pretended to be confused and did not pursue the matter further.

Now, the prisoners taken away by Shimura Danzo were all alive and dead, and it was hard not to remind him of Orochimaru's past experience.

The atmosphere in the Hokage's office was extremely solemn. Except for the sound of Sarutobi Hiruzen smoking, there was no other sound.

After a long time, Sarutobi Hiruzen said: "Tenzo, take a squad with you, closely monitor the base, and try to figure out the situation inside, but be careful not to alert the enemy for the time being."

Tianzang immediately responded: "Yes, the Third Generation."

Having said that, he left.

After he left, a figure suddenly appeared.

"Do you want me to spy on Danzo?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Kakashi."

Kakashi didn't say anything and turned around and left.

At this time, Kakashi is more like a root ninja than a root ninja.

Looking at Kakashi's back, Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't bear it. After sighing, he said to himself: "It seems that he must leave the ANBU as soon as possible. If this continues, sooner or later he will be completely swallowed by the darkness."

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On the other side, in the headquarters of 'Root', is Shimura Danzo's office.

"Lord Danzo, someone from ANBU is indeed investigating the matter of the heavy punishment prison, but I have no way of knowing who is responsible." A ninja dressed as ANBU knelt on one knee and said.

This person is one of the few root ninjas who have entered the ANBU directly under the Hokage and are still surviving.

When Hiruzen Sarutobi dismissed Shimura Danzo from his position as assistant to the Hokage, he mixed half of the root ninjas into the ANBU.

After that, these people performed high-risk field missions, and there are not many left alive today.

After listening to his report, Danzo frowned slightly and thought to himself, "Hiruzhan, you really didn't give up."

Just like Sarutobi Hiruzen knew him, he also knew Sarutobi Hiruzen very well and knew that with his cautious character, he would never give up easily.

Thinking of this, he put the index and middle fingers of his left hand together and lightly pressed on his right eye.

After noticing that the mental fluctuations in his right eye were active, he immediately said in his heart: "Sir Baiye, be careful of Sarutobi Hiruzen, he is investigating the whereabouts of the prisoner."

A few breaths later, Bai Ye's voice appeared in his mind: "I know."

Hearing Bai Ye's response, he put down his left hand.

Immediately, the right eye transformed by the illusory body also entered the dormant state again.