When Orochimaru, led by Obito, rushed to Uchiha Madara's hiding place, he failed.
There is no one left in the cave, but there are still traces of someone living here, including robes and weapons hanging on the walls.
Orochimaru took a look around here and realized that he was still late. The other party had already noticed something was wrong and evacuated early.
He found a pool of blood on a stone chair and three dried-up tubes similar to Bai Zetsu's body.
At the other end of the pipe was a huge deep pit, which was dark and empty. Orochimaru sent two pythons down to explore the way.
Next to the pit were discarded the corpses of several White Zetsus. Unlike the killed White Zetsus in Orochimaru's hands, these White Zetsus seemed to have been sucked dry of their flesh and blood by something, leaving only an outer layer of skin. Terrible (see picture).
"I remember, there is a strange plant here." Obito behind him said at this time.
"What plant?"
"It seems to be called the Heretic Golem...those White Zetsus were produced from that plant."
It turned out to be Bai Jue...
Orochimaru was thinking in his mind, and soon the two pythons returned from the pit, crawled to Orochimaru's shoulders and spit out their cores.
"What a pity." Orochimaru said in a low voice.
He turned to look at the empty shell of Bai Jue on the ground, and then swept his eyes across the cave.
"But it doesn't matter, the unknown is interesting." He seemed to be talking to the python on his shoulder, or to himself.
Obito stood in front of the stone chair and looked at the blood stains and tubes on it. He remembered that Madara had told him that if the heretic demon had not provided Madara with chakra, Madara would have died immediately.
Isn't Madara already dead...
Orochimaru stayed in this cave for a long time, and he did find something useful, and it was something that made him excited.
The flesh and blood cells of the first Hokage Senju Hashirama, and some related information.
In addition, he also found several pairs of damaged eyeballs. After reading the detailed information, he found that they were actually Uchiha's Sharingan. However, after careful inspection, Orochimaru found that they were indeed damaged, but even so Orochimaru As if he had found a treasure, Maru also sealed these things into the scroll, and then was swallowed by the python.
I stayed in this dark space for a long time, and when I walked out, it was already dark outside.
The ANBU were waiting outside, and immediately stepped forward when they saw Orochimaru and Obito coming out.
"Hokage-sama!"
"Take everything you can carry back to the village." Orochimaru ordered.
Obito stood aside, still looking lost.
The group of people left.
Obito asked Orochimaru where Lin and Kakashi were, but Orochimaru, who had done everything, no longer wanted to ask about the rest.
But Obito kept begging to meet the two of them, which made Orochimaru tire of it. Thinking about it, he knocked this kid unconscious and took him back to the village and put it in the research institute for careful study.
But this guy is a member of the Uchiha clan after all, and Orochimaru also wants to see the effects of Madara's human body technology on him.
After thinking about it, I felt that it was understandable for me, the Hokage, to go to the front line to express condolences to everyone.
He immediately changed his route to the eastern camp of the Fire Country, and asked the accompanying Anbu to sort out the things that would normally be taken out of the cave and send them back to the village first.
Hearing that the Fourth Hokage was coming, Shikaku and Minato came with all the ninjas in the camp to greet them.
"I've met Hokage-sama!"
Everyone in front of them was kneeling on the ground. Most of the people here did not participate in Orochimaru's succession ceremony. The first courtesy of meeting the new Hokage is indispensable.
Minato, who was kneeling on one knee in front of Orochimaru, said with a smile: "No need to be polite, please get up. It's been a long time since I last saw Minato. You have worked hard on the front line."
Minato lowered his head and responded: "For the sake of the village, my job cannot be said to be hard."
Orochimaru said directly: "I brought you a gift."
Minato was surprised when he heard this, and then a short figure walked out from behind Orochimaru, wearing a black robe, with a wide hood covering most of his face.
He felt that this figure was somewhat familiar.
The man in black robe lifted his hood, revealing a smiling face: "Minato-sensei!"
"Obit...Obito?"
A figure suddenly jumped out of the crowd and ran to the water gate.
"Kakashi, your new look looks good."
Obito was very satisfied when he saw both of them looking in disbelief, and greeted them familiarly.
He also thought that when they reunited after life and death, they would hug each other excitedly, but that was too affectionate, and neither he nor Kakashi was like that...
Just as this thought flashed through his mind, Kakashi suddenly pounced on him.
"Hiss~ It hurts, it hurts! I'm still injured! Kakashi, you're going to strangle me! I can't breathe! Ho...ho..."
Obito screamed in Kakashi's arms. Seeing this scene, Minato's excitement slowly calmed down and he laughed.
Minato looked at Orochimaru and asked: "Hokage-sama, Obito is..."
Orochimaru said: "It's very troublesome to explain it completely. I'll let Obito talk to you later."
He knew that Obito would definitely listen to Minato's words more, and when Minato asked him what he should and shouldn't say, Obito would definitely tell his teacher everything.
Orochimaru never thought of covering up the matter at first, and it didn't matter even if Minato knew about it.
"Obito, your arm..." Kakashi suddenly spoke at this time.
Obito looked indifferent: "Didn't he get hit by a stone?"
Kakashi was silent, looking at Obito's closed left eye and the scarred right face, he felt deeply guilty.
Obito couldn't wait to ask again: "Kakashi, Minato-sensei, where is Lin?"
Minato pondered: "Lin..."
He looked at Orochimaru: "I am planning to tell Lord Hokage about Lin, let's go and see it first."
Everyone dispersed, Orochimaru, Minato, Shikaku, Kakashi and Obito entered a tent in the camp together.
"Lin!" Obito exclaimed when he saw the scene in front of him. He wanted to step forward but was grabbed by Kakashi.
There was a sealing formation carved on the ground in the tent. Lin was sitting in the center of the formation with her eyes closed tightly, and beside her were four ninjas who were performing spells.
"What's wrong with Lin?" Obito asked anxiously.
Kakashi and Obito talked about what happened to them, from when Lin was kidnapped by the Mist Ninja and became the jinchūriki of the Three-Tails, to when Minato-sensei arrived and rescued them, and put the Four Elephants seal on Lin's body.
Suppress the tailed beast and bring her back to camp.
Minato said: "The problem of the tailed beast is easy to solve, but I found that the enemy has cast a spell on Lin's body, which has been unable to be removed. These few are all sealing masters in the camp, and they have been taking turns trying to help me.
Lin has tried to remove the spell, but so far there has been no progress."
Orochimaru was slightly surprised: "Is there a technique that even you, Minato, can't remove?"
Minato's sealing technique was inherited from the Kingdom of Uzumaki, which is famous for its sealing techniques. His attainments in sealing techniques are definitely unparalleled by others.
Minato pondered: "The chakra left when the spell was applied was too strong, and it was connected to the tailed beast chakra. The three tails continuously provided chakra for it, so I couldn't do anything."
Converting the tailed beast's chakra to one's own use can also be done with sealing techniques. For example, the Bagua seal formed by the double four-image seal on Kushina can use the chakra that the Kyuubi usually overflows to
Convert it into your own chakra.
Orochimaru nodded and said: "Send it back to the village first, I will find a way."
This is the Jinchuuriki of the Three-Tails, and it will be taken over by Konoha in the future. Orochimaru finds it interesting when he thinks about it.
It was a true strategy again, although it was also an unexpected surprise, but the result was this. From Orochimaru's point of view, it was his lucky star.
Obito couldn't help but say: "Lord Hokage, you must save Lin."
Minato said with relief: "Lin is fine. This spell won't hurt her, but I don't know what its specific use is yet."
Orochimaru smiled calmly: "Don't worry, I'm the Hokage. How could I give up on my companions in my village?"