Chapter 29: Uncle Explosion Snake’s Gold Coins
The Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi looked grave as he led Kakashi and Sparrow, these two elite jonin, into the dim corridor.
At this time, inside the secret base, the massive explosion also startled Orochimaru, who was immersed in his experiments.
“Hmph hmph, I originally thought you would come even earlier, Sarutobi Teacher.” Orochimaru slowly turned around, his golden vertical pupils flickering under the cold light of the experiment bench.
At this moment, he was still wearing his jonin vest, with the Konohagakure headband on his forehead, and his upright golden pupils looked toward the three people emerging from the corridor.
“Orochimaru… it really is you…” Hiruzen Sarutobi’s gaze swept over the laboratory, only to see culture dishes floating with organs everywhere, as well as various experimental equipment, and the air filled with the smell of disinfectant and blood.
There were even a few ninja corpses wearing Konohagakure headbands.
Although he knew that Orochimaru had become obsessed with scientific research after the Third Great Ninja War, even teaming up with Danzō, he still couldn’t quite believe that Orochimaru would use the village’s ninjas for live experiments!
“You dare trample the Will of Fire…” This utterly heartless behavior made Hiruzen Sarutobi feel ashamed before the previous Hokage.
More importantly, if it got out that the Third Hokage’s disciple was capturing ninjas in the village for live experiments, how would the other ninja clans and civilian ninjas in the village see it? What would they think!
Therefore, Hiruzen Sarutobi must clean house!
Kakashi and Sparrow, wearing white cat masks, body flickered in front of Hiruzen Sarutobi, drew their kunai, and assumed combat stances.
Hiruzen Sarutobi’s hands forming hand seals blurred into afterimages, and his palms slammed heavily onto the ground.
“Summoning Jutsu!”
Bang!
As the runes of the summoning array scattered, after a puff of smoke, the Monkey King Enma, wearing a Konohagakure headband, emerged his burly form from the smoke.
“Hiruzen, the enemy is—” Enma crossed his arms over his chest, but his words abruptly stopped as he clearly saw that pale face in the shadows.
“Sorry to embarrass you, Enma. This time, I must clean house.” Hiruzen Sarutobi said with heartache.
“With just this, you can’t keep me here… Teacher.” Orochimaru formed hand seals with both hands.
A burst of high-frequency sound waves tore through the air like invisible blades, making the eardrums of Hiruzen Sarutobi, the three people, and the beast vibrate, and Hiruzen Sarutobi even fell flat on his butt.
By the time the three people and the beast recovered, Orochimaru had already body flickered to the corridor entrance behind them.
Orochimaru glanced back, his vertical pupils surging with complex emotions as he looked at his teacher, then ran out of the corridor without looking back.
At the same time, the secret base’s self-destruct device was activated, and a large number of explosive tags detonated, with successive explosions engulfing the base.
“Hokage-sama!” Kakashi, Sparrow, and Enma immediately protected Hiruzen Sarutobi.
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On the outer perimeter of Konoha Village, Orochimaru raced through the branches.
‘What laughable indecisiveness…’ Recalling Hiruzen Sarutobi’s actions just now, Orochimaru sneered and tugged at the corner of his mouth.
‘It’s just a pity that there’s no time to transfer the equipment from the other laboratories; it’ll only benefit Danzō.’ Orochimaru didn’t feel bad about the experimental equipment—all the experimental achievements were in his head. As long as he had some time and funds, rebuilding several better laboratories would be easy.
But thinking about so much experimental equipment going to Danzō for nothing still made him somewhat unwilling.
‘That old fox Danzō absolutely won’t let this opportunity slip…’
Pursuers might already be on the way.
Orochimaru continued racing forward.
Soon, he approached Konoha’s village protection barrier.
But once he passed through the barrier, he would be detected by Konoha’s Barrier Division, and at that point, Konoha would know in which direction Orochimaru was fleeing, and the pursuing ninjas would soon catch up.
Chaa—
“Who!”
Orochimaru suddenly leaped from the tree trunk into the air, throwing out several kunai.
The kunai embedded deeply into the tree trunk, and Orochimaru landed on a nearby big tree.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
Applause rang out from a shadow not far from Orochimaru, and Menma, wearing a white three-eyed fox mask, slowly stepped out, with two eerie phantoms floating behind him.
When he saw these three mysterious masked people, Orochimaru’s pupils contracted slightly.
Even Orochimaru, who spent all day in the laboratory, had heard of a mysterious ninja codenamed ‘Shura’ who had recently risen to fame in the ninja world.
Not only did he attack Konoha Village, beating the Hyuga Clan Head’s two brothers—one seriously injured, one lightly—but later he even attacked Cloud Village, causing significant casualties to Cloud Village. After the attack, Cloud Village immediately ceased war with Konoha and issued a bounty as high as seventy million ryo on the mysterious ninja!
“Heh, looks like you’re a Konoha ninja.” A flicker of curiosity passed through Orochimaru’s cold snake eyes.
“As expected of one of the Sannin, Orochimaru, but you only got half of it right.” Behind Menma, the figures of the Third Shinigami and the Celestial Maiden floated in the air like ghosts.
It was normal for Orochimaru to guess this way. ‘Shura’s’ first appearance was in Konoha, the third appearance was still in Konoha, and he had precisely blocked his escape route, clearly very familiar with Konoha’s barrier—most likely a Konoha ninja!
This involuntarily reminded Orochimaru of the mysterious ninja from the Nine-Tails Attack three years ago.
Many details of that chaos had been sealed, but as one of the Konoha high council and the Third Hokage’s disciple, Orochimaru still knew what happened that night.
Although it hadn’t been determined who exactly controlled the Nine-Tails and attacked Kushina.
But the Sharingan in the Nine-Tails’ eyes had been seen by many people.
“Interesting, truly interesting.” Orochimaru stared at the three masked people opposite, his intuition giving him a heart-palpitating feeling toward the Third Shinigami.
“A strong practitioner who could wreak havoc in Cloud Village, yet has been lurking in Konoha long-term, and now precisely blocked my escape route…”
Orochimaru’s mind raced. This brain-burning sensation made him involuntarily stick out his tongue to lick his lips, grinning sinisterly: “So, what do you want? Or rather, what do you want to get from me?”
The mysterious ninja opposite could come and go freely in both Konoha and Cloud Village, so his strength must be extraordinarily powerful.
Therefore, Orochimaru knew he absolutely could not be held up here. He hadn’t yet passed through the village protection barrier. If the two fought, the Third Hokage and the pursuers sent by Danzō could arrive at any time. Then the mysterious ninja could just leave, leaving him in danger.
The longer it dragged on, the more disadvantageous it was for Orochimaru at this moment!
“Roar, so perceptive?” Menma chuckled lightly and stated his condition: “Hashirama Cells.”
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Orochimaru’s pupils shook!
The only one who knew he had Hashirama Cells was Danzō, who was cooperating with him!
“You’re not one of Danzō’s men!” But immediately after, Orochimaru firmly denied his own guess.
“Who I am isn’t important. What’s important is, if you don’t leave now, Kakashi and A will catch up.” Menma’s tone was frivolous, yet he casually named someone that plunged Orochimaru’s mind into chaos.
‘A!’
This experimental subject, who survived after Orochimaru implanted Hashirama Cells and was picked up by Danzō—even Orochimaru, who was cooperating with Danzō, only knew his current codename as ‘A’!
‘This person… exactly how much more does he know!’
Without any hesitation, Orochimaru’s throat surged, and then he reached out his right hand to pull a scroll wrapped in mucus from his throat.
“This is what you want!” Orochimaru’s eyes were sinister as he tossed the scroll, while quickly breaking through toward the village protection barrier.
In the instant he broke through the village protection barrier, Orochimaru turned his head, imprinting the figure of ‘Shura’ firmly in his mind.
He would get this debt back!
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