Remnant bones

"..." The rare silence, the slipping corners of Orochimaru's mouth and the cold breath gathered around him clearly told me that he was really not in a good mood.

He wasn't someone who would hide his emotions, it wasn't that he couldn't, but that he was disdainful. In his opinion, "disguise" is itself a kind of cover-up for being a "weak person" and a means to achieve the goal.He will do anything for his own goals, but he disdains to use "disguise" as a mask to cover up his emotions.

But in front of me, he doesn't need to cover up, nor does he need to use tricks... After all, three years is enough for two people who don't know each other to "get acquainted" with each other...even if it's just an appearance.

His bright golden pupils shrank slightly, devoid of any human emotion, and his eyes were entwined around me like a poisonous snake. His usually low voice was unusually hoarse and sharp at this time: "Do you want to..." leave '?" Leave his...side...

"It's a 'holiday'." Ignoring his doubts and temptations, I repeated my words coldly.After all, he still doesn't trust me... In his opinion, my "promise" is so dishonest?It's really... "sad"...

"...'Holiday'?" The doubts in the eyes flashed, and the gloomy aura of Orochimaru obviously eased: "What do you mean?"

"Literally." I jumped onto the railing sideways and sat down. I didn't pay much attention to his tone.Recently, I have noticed that his mood swings are much greater than before. In fact, I am not surprised that he will have this kind of reaction.Snakes are inherently cunning and suspicious animals. After experiencing certain sensitive events, it is normal for them to be overly sensitive to trivial matters in life.

From my point of view... He doesn't seem to be "happy" with the people from "Xiao" recently...

"I just want to go out for a walk." I have been in this world for so long, I don't want to stay in Orochimaru's base "for the rest of my life". "Time" is meant to be fully utilized by people, especially for "time" like me not many people...

"...with Junmaro?" Squinting his eyes, Orochimaru asked the most critical question.Even for a ninja, this young boy who has just grown up in front of him knows too many of his "secrets".I thought that time can kill people's vigilance and assimilate each other's positions.However, the longer I live with the other party, while getting acquainted with the other party a little bit, there is a kind of anxiety that is getting farther and farther away from the "truth".

Even Orochimaru, who considers himself to have a sophisticated gaze, always feels incomprehensible to him... Jun Malu, I am afraid that it is the only "chip" he can control the other party, and the only one that allows him to test the other party's intentions way.

"No, it's just me." I replied without hesitation, fast enough to make anyone who knew me suspicious.The Jun Mai in front of me is really the "brother" who can sacrifice everything for his younger brother...

"Why?" Seemingly having got a reassuring answer, Orochimaru's tone returned to its previous sinister tone, and the cold aura around him disappeared without a trace in an instant: "Why don't you stay with Junmaro? Your 'Time'...not much..." Don't normal people choose to accompany their family members in their "last time"...

However, it is obvious that when he had this idea, Orochimaru forgot that I am not within the scope of "ordinary people".

"It is precisely because of this that I should leave for the time being." Brushing the hair hanging from my forehead, I vaguely raised the corners of my mouth and raised a helpless smile: "I still have to learn to be alone." It is not a bad thing for him to face... get used to it earlier."

"Because I value the other party, I should think about the other party's future... After all, my 'time' has bottomed out, but his 'time' has not yet started counting down." I don't know why I said this to Dashemaru, even "Friends", there are some things, but they are still "secrets" that can only be hidden in the bottom of one's heart...

Maybe it's because I'm "tired"... I want to find someone who can share my worries...

Against the light, the already extremely dim environment made it even more difficult for Orochimaru to see the expression on my face.We are clearly facing each other, but the distance and darkness make us face each other as if we are facing each other openly, but it seems that there is an invisible "barrier" between us...

On the balcony, there was an eerie silence for a while.

"Hehe...Okay! I agree, but..." The one who broke the silence first was Orochimaru who walked out of the shadows slowly.No one knows what he thinks about the person in his heart. People are separated by not only a layer of fresh flesh and blood, but also cold and illusory air... piercing through the void to find out what another person is thinking , what can be done is a "god", and I... just an "ordinary person" separated by another layer of flesh and blood, nothing more.

"You will come back." Not a question, but an affirmation, or... This is the "prophecy" of Orochimaru.

"Well... I'll be back." Not only because Junmaro is here, but also...this is our only "home".

Looking up, the dense cloud in the sky still didn't reveal even a trace of halo.The light still stays in the sky above the clouds, but no matter how bright it is, it still can't shine under the dark clouds, those people who are struggling in the quagmire of darkness...

Suddenly... At least for me and people other than Orochimaru, I announced that I was going to travel the next day, and I was ready to go in the afternoon.

Everyone was in an uproar, but unexpectedly, Jun Ma Lu was not as excited as I imagined.Or...he had already felt something. He was surprised and surprised by my decision, but he had a little more understanding.

In three years, it is impossible for people to remain completely unchanged... It is precisely because they are too familiar that they ignore the little changes in the people around them.

Nine-year-old Junmaro has a precociousness and indifference that other children don't have.Unknowingly, the delicate face that was once covered with pure smiles was covered with a cold mask of "don't get close to strangers".It's not that I'm really so dull that I didn't notice this diametrically opposite change at all.But in front of Dashemaru, Dou, and Chonggo, he is still him, the child with a gentle smile three years ago.

Have you grown up... Inexplicably, I felt a sense of emotion. I stood in front of the gate of the North Secret Office, looking at the still dense clouds in the sky, but my mood was not as heavy as the weather.

I know that the child is not as indifferent as others have seen.It's just because it's a habit... It's my brother's "mistake", ignoring that children of this age are always easily influenced by relatives.With my "pseudo-facial paralysis" as a "model", Komaro didn't learn to be "bad" and that's the problem..."I don't teach you, it's my brother's fault" Is it just this kind of situation...

Although there is nothing wrong with this appearance, but... I turned my head slightly, looked at the corner of the white clothes not far behind me, and couldn't help sighing.Learning to look at a matter from the perspective of the person involved is not a small progress, but the child is still more innocent and cute... Is this... arguing?Still shy?

"Maru." He called softly, the corner of his white clothes trembled, and half of his body was exposed again, but he pretended he didn't hear anything.Two black lines could not help sliding down my forehead, I laughed in my heart, but I still took the initiative to walk forward.

"Aren't you going to say goodbye to your brother?" Jun Malu, who was in a complicated mood, didn't notice my approach, until I hugged him from behind in my arms, he raised his head belatedly.

"Brother..." The emerald green eyes couldn't hide the disappointment. Jun Malu knew that he should smile and watch his brother leave, but he couldn't smile.

He is no longer young. In this base, he has seen countless ugliness and darkness of human nature, and he has also learned to look at everything with a more mature perspective.When he grew up, he was no longer the child who only knew despair and fear. He also knew that although he always said that he wanted to protect his brother, in fact, he was always the one being protected.

He has wasted too much of my brother's time, even... his life.

Because of the genetic disease of the Kaguya clan, my brother buried himself in the gloomy laboratory day and night.Seeing his brother getting thinner day by day, and his physique getting worse day by day, he could only watch... he was very "weak", so weak that he could only follow behind from a distance, watching Looking at his brother's thin but straight back.You can see it, but you can't catch up with it, you can't touch it... Forever, it is protected behind him.

Why are you leaving?Why not take him with you?Why can he always be protected... There are too many reasons why, he wants to ask, but he still can't open his mouth.A protected "coward" is not qualified to stand in front of his brother...

"...I will become stronger..." Breaking away from my arms, Jun Malu stood in front of me, looked at me with firm eyes, and said to me solemnly: "I will definitely become stronger! Once, let me 'protect' brother, absolutely!"

"..." The wordless silence, the beautiful eyes blooming with faith, made me lose my mind for a long time at that moment.Do you want to become stronger for the sake of "guarding"... a good goal!How should I put it, it's the first time I've been the target of being "protected" by others... Really, I'm very happy...

"Really..." I raised the corners of my lips shallowly, and I smiled faintly: "If you don't want to be thrown off, just try to catch up! I won't stop and wait for you!"

Behind him, the huge metal gate could no longer be seen, let alone the small white figure.

With that unhurried pace, leisurely rushing on the road.I stopped suddenly, and raised my white hat, the golden color under the veil flashed by.Looking at the wind-eroded rock not far away, he said indifferently, "I thought you wouldn't come." No wonder I didn't see him before...

"Have you finished saying goodbye? Jun Mai..." Wearing the black cloak of "Xiao" embroidered with blood-colored auspicious clouds, Orochimaru appeared in front of me, with the same sinister smile on his face.However, judging by his appearance, he seemed to be ready to go out.

"Probably." Going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing... Maybe the word used here is a bit wrong, but he doesn't know who will send someone off.When he walked away, he was still conducting experiments on the transformation of all water-type ninjas at the Western Secret Institute!The eyebrows under the white gauze raised slightly, I don't think I have a higher status in his heart than pocket... "What's the matter?"

"Hehe... just want to ask you to help with a few things, and..." He took out two scrolls and threw them to me, one big and one small, he pointed to the exaggeratedly big one-person high scroll, and chuckled Said: "Give me a 'gift' before leaving, let's sign it!"

The smaller one is just a normal size, and I casually hung it on the strap behind my waist.But the big scroll surprised me a little, I remember... this is the contract scroll of psychic art!

The contract scrolls of psychic arts are generally important items that are passed on secretly by each family.Necromancy itself is not difficult to learn, and is even taught in some ninja village schools.However, the key to not everyone being able to use psychic techniques lies in this contract scroll!

Each contract scroll can only conclude a contract with one kind of psychic beast, and the scroll used for signing this contract is the contract scroll of psychic art.There are only two ways to obtain this kind of scroll, one: go to the place where that kind of psychic beast lives, pass the test given by that kind of psychic beast, and after getting its approval, you can get along with other members of the clan. The patriarchs made the covenant.Second, um... In a certain respect, it is not much different from the first one.If you really want to say it, the former is a discussion and transaction, while the latter is the most direct threat of violence.Defeat the patriarch of the psychic beast family by force, force the whole clan to submit, and sign a contract with the patriarch.

There is no blood relationship requirement for signing the contract scroll, as long as you sign your name on the scroll with your own blood and press your fingerprints.Then when using the psychic technique, you can summon the psychic beast of this family.And this kind of combat contract is temporary, when the task sent by the contractor is completed, the psychic beast can return to the place where it lives.Similarly, the strength of the psychic beast is randomly summoned according to the strength of the contractor.Usually, the stronger the psychic beast, the more difficult it is to instruct. If the strength is not enough but the psychic beast is forcibly summoned to exceed its own strength, in this case, there are many cases of being backlashed by the psychic beast.

I know the psychic beast of Orochimaru, it belongs to the spirit snake family.Among the spirit snakes summoned by his maximum strength, the most powerful one is the "ten thousand snakes" whose strength is comparable to his.That Ten Thousand Snakes has a rather difficult personality, and every time it is summoned, it needs a living sacrifice, but in terms of strength, it does have that capital.Not to mention its attack power, just its huge size of hundreds of meters...it can crush many people to death...

The only thing that makes me wonder is... since they are snakes, why do they attack like... pythons.A purely physical attack, where did the most chilling snake venom go?

It's strange, but the movements of my hands have not slowed down.Opening the scroll, I bit my finger through the space behind Dashemaru's name, wrote my name in this life with blood, and pressed a handprint.Some sign, no sign, no sign.Originally, my coming out this time was not just for traveling, walking in this troubled world, strength is the only means of self-protection.What's more, this is not a pie that fell from the sky... I don't think the task he gave me will be so easy!

Licking the wound on my finger, I tied the scroll and tossed it to him with a cold look.The things that should be explained are all explained, you should get out of here!

"Hehe...then I'll go first, I wish you a smooth journey..." With a chuckle, Orochimaru's tall and thin figure turned into scattered sparks in the wind.

Fire escape... I rarely see him using this type of ninjutsu. If he is right...he has dual attributes of fire and earth!Habitually rubbing the jade finger of my right thumb, a cold smile flashed in my eyes. I'm afraid he wouldn't have thought that it was just a evasion technique, but I analyzed his natal attributes.But...it took me three years...this can be regarded as "fifty steps laughing at a hundred steps"... half a catty.

Although it is very likely that there will be no chance to fight against him in the future, it doesn't hurt to know more about the opponent's strength and be more cautious.

I didn't leave right away, I looked at the wound I had bitten on my hand, and suddenly decided to try the psychic technique that I just signed a contract with.When I knew that Orochimaru's psychic beast was a spirit snake, I thought about it more than once.It's a rare opportunity now, I've always liked that kind of elegant and cruel cold-blooded animal, and I didn't know that a spirit snake of that level would be summoned... I admit, I couldn't help being curious!

Recalling the handprints I wrote down from the literature, after I connected the number of seals smoothly and quickly, while the injured wound was still bleeding, I slammed it on the ground: "Secret technique. Spiritual technique."

There was a soft "bang", accompanied by a puff of smoke that appeared out of thin air.

However, when I saw the objects on the ground clearly, my whole body turned into petrified gorgeously...

Looking at the smooth "spherical object" in front of me with black lines all over my head, if my other eye is okay: "This is... a snake egg!?"

I am embarrassing...