Forced to sell misery

There was no blood, no fighting, but everything before his eyes was even more hideous and terrifying than all that!

In the gloomy room, a man was tied to an iron chair with his hands and feet. His hands and feet were constantly cramping. Because of his previous painful and vigorous struggle, the hand and foot cuffs that were tied to the chair were all worn out. The degree of hideousness on his face had almost reached the limit of what the human body could achieve!

His eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets. Those eyes turned out to be a pair of three-magatama Sharingan, but they were very unstable. Sometimes they turned into a blurry pattern, and sometimes one magatama disappeared and turned into two magatama.

The man's eyes had lost focus, as if they did not belong to this body at all. The two were completely out of harmony. This strange scene revealed cruelty without the blood.

Jing Ye had to cover his mouth tightly to force himself not to scream.

Suddenly, that person... no, it was those eyes, as if they had noticed Jing Ye's prying eyes, and suddenly turned around to look over!

Jing Ye took a step back unconsciously in horror.

"Who?"

However, even this tiny movement was keenly captured by Orochimaru inside.

Jing Ye's mind went blank and he turned and ran without thinking. Everything he had just seen completely overturned all his cognition.

He had read the original work... knew that Orochimaru was doing some cruel human research, and he was mentally prepared, but... but the scene he saw with his own eyes was simply unacceptable to him.

This is no longer something that can be described as cruel or ruthless...

Jing Ye suddenly remembered a sentence he had seen somewhere before -

Where is hell?

I am in hell!

Jing Ye's hurried footsteps echoed in the empty corridor, and behind him, a swarm of snakes surged!

In the end, Jing Ye fell down and was forced into a dead corner by the snakes with no way to retreat.

At this moment, the group of snakes suddenly stopped, as if they had received some order. Although unwilling, no snake dared to pounce. They just bared their fangs, made attacking gestures, and made unwilling hissing sounds at Jing Ye.

The sound of slow footsteps echoed in the corridor. It was Orochimaru who was chasing out from the laboratory. Wherever this man passed, the snakes retreated.

Orochimaru walked up to Jingye and looked down at him.

"What a naughty child"

"You...don't come over!"

All his pretense and calmness were shattered. Under the multiple stimulations, Jing Ye was almost scared crazy. At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind, that is, escape!

escape from here.

Orochimaru looked at him coldly, watching Jing Ye trembling with fear, as if he was looking at a prey that was forced into a desperate situation. There was no feeling in his cold snake-like pupils, only the excitement of a cold-blooded animal facing its prey.

"Aren't you pretending?"

Jing Ye was stunned.

"You are clearly trembling with fear of me, but you pretend to be calm and always make some strange and unreasonable requests. In fact, you want to escape, right?"

Damn... I was seen through so easily.

"You... are so afraid of me, do you know something?" Orochimaru revealed his murderous intent.

“No…” Jing Ye subconsciously wanted to deny it, but he quickly reacted, “Yes, you covet the power of the Sharingan… and conduct inhumane human experiments…”

"So what?" Orochimaru smiled, as if he didn't expect Jing Ye to naively accuse him.

“Those people are just lowly, pitiful beings… How can they survive in this cruel world?

Let them contribute to my experiment, and I meet some of their requests and conditions, what's wrong with that? "At this point, Orochimaru paused and observed Jing Ye's reaction with interest.

"But... this is wrong anyway!" Jing Ye gritted his teeth and said loudly, and he himself didn't even realize that he was just being stubborn to cover up his hesitation - he couldn't refute what Orochimaru said? !

“As a child of the Uchiha family, you have always been a flower grown in a greenhouse.

What do you understand? You have never seen the cruelty of war, and you have never understood the indifference of conflict. In the face of those so-called righteousness, clan, village... what does a mere life count for? "

Orochimaru's face became distorted. Obviously, these things also touched something deep in Orochimaru's heart.

"you……"

Jing Ye suddenly remembered the Orochimaru he knew——

The white snake is endowed with the beautiful meaning of luck and rebirth.

When he was a child, during a ceremony to worship his ancestors, the Sandaime brought Orochimaru to the grave of Orochimaru's parents. Orochimaru presented his parents with white flowers, and then happened to see a white snake skin next to them.

Orochimaru asked the Sandaime what this was, and the Sandaime told him that it was the shed skin of a white snake, because it was the first time he saw it, and the Sandaime felt the same way, after all, it was rare and a very precious thing. Orochimaru then asked the Sandaime why the shed skin of snakes was white. The Sandaime himself didn't know, because no one would pay attention to such things. However, the Sandaime told Orochimaru that in the past white snakes symbolized luck and rebirth, and it was very lucky to find it here.

This gave the young Orochimaru some insights. After experiencing the deaths of his parents, comrades, and students, Orochimaru realized how fragile life was. He extended "luck and rebirth" to the desire for "immortality", thus going astray step by step.

It was also because he witnessed too many deaths and knew that life is fragile that he went astray. He believed that the human body contains power that cannot be used in a lifetime, so he wanted to gain immortality so that he could learn all the ninjutsu and master the truth of the world.

In Orochimaru's view, the human spirit dies with the death of the body. Therefore, in order to realize the long-cherished wish of immortality, one must graft one's spirit into a new young body within a specific period of time, thus starting a new round of life cycle.

……

"White Snake..." Jing Ye murmured, "Luck and rebirth..."

"What did you say?" Orochimaru's pupils suddenly shrank and he looked at Jing Ye in surprise.

"The white snake of luck and rebirth... Is there really no end to its life?"

Even life that can be reborn will die one day...

Death is the final destination of all things...but who would choose to give up their life just because they will eventually die?

"You are wrong... Even if war is painful and human life is worthless, it is not a reason to look down on them. You are doing research on immortality while you are taking human life lightly. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Jing Ye came out of that mysterious emotion. He looked at Orochimaru with a trace of...compassion in his eyes.

"What did you say?" Orochimaru's face became completely gloomy, whether he was touched by Jing Ye's words or stimulated by Jing Ye's compassionate eyes. With a distorted expression, he grabbed Jing Ye's neck.