Fortress No. 14 of the Kingdom of Rain guards the southern gateway of this country.
Less than twenty kilometers south of this fortress is the country of Sichuan, which is separated from the two great powers of fire and wind. Therefore, it has extremely important strategic significance.
Sansho Hanzo couldn't worry about others, so he entrusted it to his youngest son, and Sansho Koga personally guarded it.
But he didn't know exactly what his youngest son was doing here. If he had some idea, it wouldn't be surprising——
Why are there always outsiders coming in and out here?
The first wave of people who came here were Itachi Uchiha and the two spies from the root.
They disguised themselves as rain ninjas and came here to steal an important experimental report, and they were about to succeed. For the two spies, there was only one "self-sacrifice" task left to solve.
The second wave of people who came here was Uchiha Shisui who discovered Uchiha Flame and many bloody ninja corpses in a laboratory in Amegakure Village.
He came here following Weasel's trail, and also to answer some questions.
The third wave was carrying someone in a dark oilcloth carriage. He had just arrived outside the gate of the fortress.
"Stop."
Wearing a bamboo hat and holding a spear in his hand, Yu Nin stretched out his hand and stopped the carriage with only one driver.
Just looking at the style of the carriage, it must have been driven out from here.
"Are you bringing the children?"
The gatekeeper, Yu Ren, came to the coachman's side, looked around and asked, "Why are you the only one?"
His companion walked to the back of the carriage and planned to inspect the "goods" inside.
"Today is really unlucky."
The coachman raised his head, revealing a face stained with blood and bruises, and said in a muffled voice: "We met a group of rebels. They stayed behind and asked me to bring the people back first."
If you look carefully, you will find that this is the leader of the settlement that Yiyong saved before.
He used to be a member of the Rain Ninja, so it was quite natural for him to say these words, and it was even more natural when he was injured, with a bit of blame and anger. Anyway, with such an unrecognizable face, the other party
It's possible to identify him as anyone.
The key is what's behind.
The rain ninja who walked to the back of the car lifted up the oilcloth, and four pairs of lifeless eyes looked at him in unison, startling him so much that he almost jumped up.
But if you take a closer look, you will see that these are just four children ranging from six to ten years old. The reason why they have similar eyes may be because they are all afraid.
Considering what they are about to face, they should indeed be afraid.
"It's really unlucky..."
Yu Ren put the oilcloth back angrily and shouted in front of him: "There are only four brats."
"The number is a bit small, but considering what you've been through, it's pretty good."
The rain nin in front did not forget to comfort the coachman, and then walked to the gate and said something into the doorway. The huge iron door creaked open.
"Take them to the small door to the south."
"knew."
The driver responded and drove the car forward slowly.
There were some Rain Ninjas in the fortress courtyard, but they had no interest in the carriage. They took one look at it and continued to do their own thing.
"Are you familiar with this place?"
A question came from the carriage, and it was none other than Yiyong, one of the "four" children.
Fortress No. 14 was the destination where the previous group of rain ninjas wanted to kidnap the homeless children and bring them there.
This information was not asked by Giyuu. He did not have any torture skills, and his social skills were extremely poor. The people who pried open the jounin's mouth were those angry vagrants who almost lost their lives and children and were oppressed by the rain ninja.
them.
What did those people do to Yu Ren? Yiyong only listened to a short paragraph before he didn't want to continue. Anyway, he got the information he wanted, and the homeless leader offered help.
According to the jounin, they kidnapped the children because they wanted to create a second ninja demigod through experiments. As for what kind of experiments, he was not a professional, so he didn't know the inside story. He only knew that the rain ninja kidnapped children from surrounding small countries and domestic countries.
There are many, but once you enter this building, very few come out.
Needless to say, just the word "experiment" successfully touched Yiyong's sensitive vocabulary.
He didn't forget how Zhisui explained to him "why Wen's body disappeared".
At least, Yiyong felt that the chance of finding Uchiha Flame in this place was much more reliable than searching for the so-called "angel", so he came up with this plan to go deep into the tiger's den and attack the yellow dragon.
"I used to work at Fortress No. 7 near the Fire Country."
The leader of the homeless took a deep breath and touched the wound on his face as he replied, "The layout of these castles are all similar, and I am quite familiar with them."
"This is dangerous."
"I know."
The homeless leader said, "But you have helped us, and we have nothing to thank you for. We can only do a little bit for you. I can tell that someone important to you is missing, right?"
Yiyong said nothing and quietly extracted chakra.
The other three "children" are all the results of his shadow clone + transformation technique.
Two minutes later, the carriage stopped at the dark south side of the fortress.
The homeless leader held up the Yugakure forehead protector and knocked on the door. The three transformed shadow clones all followed Giyuu out of the car in a daze and stood behind the homeless leader without saying a word. They were exactly the same.
expression.
【Is this transformation technique really useful? 】
The latter complained secretly in his heart.
"Has today's arrived too?"
The person who opened the door was a bald man, his eyes seemed to be squeezed through the crack of the door, only a little smaller.
Seeing that there were only four children, his flabby face simply dropped, "That's a lot."
Just when the leader of the homeless was about to explain, the man looked at his face and waved his hand, "Needless to say, I must have been attacked. I'm used to it. Four is four, it's better than nothing..."
Then, his eyes scanned the faces of the four volunteers one by one.
"What, these four children are one family?"
Otherwise, there is no such thing as a look.
All the volunteers nodded at the same time.
The bald man suddenly turned from worry to joy, "That's great, we can do a more detailed control group experiment..."
The homeless leader was speechless.
[Don’t you doubt such an obvious loophole? 】
The bald man leaned down, smiled broadly at the volunteers and said, "Come with me, I'm going to do some examinations for you. Those who pass the test can become ninjas and live in Yuyin Village. Doesn't this sound good?"
"What about the unqualified ones?"
Yiyong's body tilted his head.
"Those who are not qualified will stay here as servants, preparing food for Lord Koga's sansho fish."
The bald man still smiled gently, but Yiyong understood the true meaning of "preparing food".
As for the homeless leader, he suddenly felt a cold current rushing from his spine to the top of his head. His faint anger had been covered up by fear, and he just wanted to leave this place quickly.
"Okay, you go, I'll just take them there next."
With that said, the bald man was about to close the door, but was stopped by the homeless leader with the sole of his foot.
"that……"
He faced the suspicious gaze of the bald man and waved his hand to Yiyong who gave him a warning look.
"If you succeed in becoming a ninja, you must visit us."
Yiyong hesitated for a second or two, then nodded.
Only then did the door close, and the bald man returned to his smile, "Don't worry, just follow me. If you are lucky, you may still meet again."
All the volunteers exchanged glances with each other, but did not speak. They just followed this man, seemingly very obedient.
The two walked through the long corridor inside the fortress, went up to the second floor, and walked all the way to the deepest room. After opening the door, what greeted Yiyong's eyes were two rows of hospital beds with pulleys, and four people wearing white clothes.
A man in a doctor's coat.
Seven children of different ages were lying on the hospital bed, each of whom was wearing a ventilator. There was a monitor on the cabinet next to the bed, which showed the children's vital signs, but Yiyong couldn't understand it.
The men dressed as doctors all wore gas masks and were walking back and forth between the beds, transcribing the data on them.
In addition, there are fifteen empty beds in this room, but most of them have signs of being laid on and look like they have just been moved out.
While the bald man was talking to the "doctor", Yiyong's eyes stopped on one of the children, looking through his skin and bones and observing his respiratory tract.
Then he discovered that what the other party absorbed from the ventilator was not pure oxygen, but also mixed with some kind of thin lavender gas. Those gases had a strong paralysis effect, making the inhaler completely paralyzed, and would also
It continuously invades its body and internal organs, but within a few seconds, some of these toxins will disappear.
Yiyong continued to scan down and found that above the opponent's left kidney, there was a sac that was constantly beating like a heart, which was filled with dangerous toxins. The toxins that disappeared from the patient's body were eventually absorbed by this sac.
Those are not organs that humans should have. They were inserted through an incision in the side of the abdomen.
【What on earth is this doing? 】
Yiyong glanced at the other children and found that the concentration of toxin injected into each child and the absorption efficiency of the poison sac were different, but they were all in different stages of poisoning, and one of them was already very dangerous.
The poison sac in his body was working overload, beating rapidly, as if it would explode inside the child at any time.
"Do it!"
Yiyong couldn't wait any longer. He didn't plan to think about it himself, but asked directly.
He raised his foot and directly crushed the bald man's calf in front of him. When he fell to the ground, he covered his mouth to prevent him from screaming. The other shadow clones also knocked down the men dressed as doctors.
These people were not fighting ninjas, so they hardly caused any trouble to Giyuu.
"Water Whip."
This is the new ninjutsu that Yiyong learned from Yu Nin today. The five water whips tied the five people tightly, unable to move. At this time, all the clones returned to their original appearance and separated to blow the breath from the mouths of the children.
The device is all adjusted to normal oxygen, eliminating the input of poisonous gas.
He glanced around and made sure that the toxins in the body of the child who was most in danger had stopped growing, and then he came to the "doctors" with a straight face.
"There are a lot of ventilators here, I guess there are similar things in them."
Yiyong suppressed his emotions and carefully recalled the words the homeless people used to torture those rain ninjas before, thinking about how to get the answers he wanted from these people.
"If you don't say anything, I will turn on those things as high as possible and put them in your mouths."
The five people all nodded in fear, looking like they were not good at poisoning.
Yiyong waved his hand, and part of the water whip was removed from the mouth of one of the "doctors".
The man took a deep breath and said spinelessly: "I'll tell you everything, just ask."
"What did you do to these people? What was in their bodies and in the ventilators?"
"We implanted the venom sacs of Sanshu fish into these experimental subjects. Those ventilators were mixed with diluted toxins of common Sanshu fish..."
The experimenter explained to Yiyong: "We are testing the adaptability of these experimental subjects and poison sacs. People with better adaptability have better resistance to toxins, and the more efficient the poison sacs are in absorbing toxins entering their bodies."
The higher they are, the more successful they will be as experimental subjects."
"..."
Yiyong frowned, "What's the point of doing this?"
"This, of course, is to replicate the miracle of Sanshouyu Hanzo-sama."
The experimenter showed an expression like "You are so awesome, why don't you understand anything?"
"If these experimental subjects can successfully adapt to the venom sacs and toxins of ordinary Sanshou fish, then we can try to implant them with the same Black Sansho fish venom sacs as Hanzo-sama. In this way, if the experimental subjects can survive, Yu
The country will have a second Hanzo-sama."
His expression gradually changed from fear to pride.
"So you see, we are not doing any boring bad things. If the Kingdom of Rain has two ninja demigods at the same time, wouldn't we no longer have to look at the faces of those big countries?"
Yiyong was not in the mood to discuss with him how to make the Kingdom of Rain strong, but asked:
"Just these kids?"
"That's all you need to survive. Not everyone can adapt to the poisonous sacs of the Sanshou Fish."
An ominous premonition flashed through Yiyong's heart, "How many people died?"
"If you're willing to take the risk, it's Experimental Sample No. 113."
The experimenter's eyes sparkled, and the professional discussion made fear farther and farther away from him. Instead, he ignored the weird looks of others and started discussing with Yiyong.
"You are so powerful at such a young age, you may be able to adapt to the poison better than these ordinary children."
Yiyong closed his eyes sadly.
Since leaving Konoha Village, everything he has seen and heard has made him increasingly uncomfortable.
For example, the person in front of him said such twisted words, but he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him at all. Instead, he was proud of his work results. As long as he is not a human being, but a ghost, Zhiyong can feel at ease.
Discard his words as "nonsense".
But he just wasn't.
This means that in this huge world, there are many people just like him, who regard their immature lives as bargaining chips in exchange for knowledge and power, and they still take it for granted.
"Are any of your experimenters from other countries?"
He thought of Uchiha Yanhuo and Wen.
Although their ages obviously didn't match those on the hospital bed, Yiyong had to give it a try.
"They are all in the Kingdom of Wind, the Kingdom of Rivers, and the Kingdom of Grass, but the Kingdom of Rain has the most. Most of them are orphans. They will be killed sooner or later outside anyway, and their lives will be wasted in vain. At least here we are.
The diluted Sansho fish toxin can allow them to die painlessly from paralysis, and at the same time, they can contribute to this country."
The experimenter stated more and more excitedly, "And once the experiment is successful, they will have the opportunity to become the strongest ninja in the world..."
"Is there anyone from the Fire Nation?"
Yiyong interrupted him.
"No." The experimenter was quite certain.
They don't dare to take the risk of being discovered by the ninjas of the great powers (Wind Country:?).
[It seems I can’t find it here...]
Yiyong pondered for a while, a little disappointed and a little lucky. At least their bodies were not used to feed the Sanshou fish.
At this moment, the complexity of his mood far exceeded the range of words he could express.
At this time, a girl on the hospital bed suddenly coughed. Yiyong hurried over. After scanning his eyes, he found that the remaining sanshui fish toxin in her body had been completely absorbed! And the poison sac in her body had not been removed.
No abnormal overspeeding occurred.
"Has she gotten rid of the paralysis effect of the toxin?"
The experimenter exclaimed in surprise, and those who didn't know thought he was the girl's family.
"It's only been a few hours. She, he is the one we are looking for, the most perfect experimental sample!"
Yiyong felt a little disgusted in his heart, so the shadow clone controlled the water whip to seal his mouth, while the main body carefully removed the girl's oxygen mask. Then, his dull eyes shrank slightly, and he suddenly froze in place.
[This is the one with the old tea seller at the entrance of Yuyin Village the day before yesterday?]
"Hydrangea."
He called out the girl's name.
But the latter just frowned as if feeling something, and showed no tendency to wake up.
[So, that old woman has...]
Thinking of the smiling old man, the lazy donkey and his granddaughter together, the poor but warm scene, Yiyong felt his blood vessels hurt as if strong acid was flowing through them.
But while he was in a trance in front of Hydrangea's hospital bed, an accident happened.
Among the four experimenters, the one who had been the least active secretly untied the water whip and ran towards the alarm button on the wall in the center of the ward.
Without raising his head, Yiyong immediately formed a water blade at his fingertips and launched it cleanly, directly penetrating the experimenter's vest.
Different from the previous manslaughter, this was the first time that Yiyong took the initiative to extinguish the fire of human life.
The action even precedes his brain's command.
But something weird happened.
This person was still one step away from the alarm button, but the piercing alarm still sounded, making people extremely anxious.
"what happened?"
Yiyong raised his head warily, not understanding what was happening.
But immediately, there was a frightening rumbling sound above his head, as if something heavy had fallen on the ceiling, dust fell like heavy snow, and even the lights were half extinguished.
"It's the upper level! It's the alarm from the upper level!"
The guy who talked the most was twisting and moving, and the shadow clone moved the water whip away from his mouth, "There is an intruder up there!"
"What's up here?"
Yiyong asked.
"It's Sansho Koga-sama's office. All our experimental data is there!"
The experimenter looked more regretful than losing his own child, "Let me go, I want to go up and have a look! If the experimental data is lost, all our efforts during this period will be in vain!"
After hearing this, Yiyong was slightly surprised. Although he didn't know who was invading this place, he seemed to be able to take advantage of this opportunity and take these children out safely.
【Whoever it is, thank you in advance...】
"Take off their oxygen masks!"
Yiyong picked up the hydrangea and called to the three shadow clones: "Take two of you each, let's rush out from here!"
After saying that, he took one step towards the door of the ward, intending to leave this place.
If you're lucky, you might be able to catch up with the homeless leader who has left this fortress.
But God did not fulfill people's wishes, and sudden changes occurred.
There was a sudden loud explosion on the ceiling, which was as clearly audible as an explosion in Yiyong's ears!
He raised his head, his face was no longer paralyzed, but he opened his eyes as wide as possible. The side of the ceiling near the exit was actually breaking bit by bit!
Immediately afterwards, the moment the second explosion sounded at the same location, he turned back and shouted to the shadow clone: "Get back!"
"Click——"
The smoke and dust went first, and one end of the ceiling seemed to be unable to withstand some kind of heavy pressure and fell down directly!
Yiyong's dynamic vision can be seen clearly, the end near the door comes first, and the end behind the back.
If you run inside, there is still hope.
At this moment, Yiyong didn't care about throwing the poisoned children.
He and the shadow clone retreated to the wall directly opposite the exit. While roughly placing all the children on the ground, they shouted: "Get ready!"
Finally, the ceiling on the inner side was unable to support itself and collapsed with a loud bang. The three clones only bought Yiyong a moment of time before exploding and disappearing due to excessive pressure.
Yiyong was desperate and almost violently switched the breath of water to the breath of fire with special strength. He used his shoulders and back to resist this unreasonable disaster, but he was still pressed to the ground by the weight of the mountain and knelt down on the spot.
His eyes almost jumped out of their sockets.
This is a war fortress. What separates the layers are complete and thick stones.
At this moment, the floor, ceiling, and Yiyong formed a lying triangle with an extremely acute angle.
If the ceiling is compared to a person doing push-ups, then Yiyong is now that person's arm. After the terrifying weight is added, all the ideas in his mind become meaningless puzzle pieces and paint, which cannot be formed at all.
For a whole minute, Yiyong couldn't hear anything because of the tinnitus. Apart from the weight on his shoulders, he couldn't feel anything except pain. He could only keep breathing repeatedly, constantly creating chakra to send to his shoulders and support the weight.
thigh.
After a long time, the black cloud in front of his eyes gradually dissipated, and he could still see the still heaving bodies of the seven children in front of him. As for the experimenters in the middle of the room, they should have been killed.
【If no one else comes to remove this thing, we will all die here.】
Yiyong was pinned down and couldn't move at all.
He can separate a shadow clone or a water clone to exert some force, but his chakra is currently the only guarantee to maintain this narrow safe space. Unless the power of the clone can be determined to lift this ceiling, otherwise he is just accelerating everything
human death.
If the shadow clone uses ninjutsu or sword skills to break the ceiling that is pressing on him, then it must be ensured that no fragments will fall on these children and kill them. Otherwise, Giyuu will be the only one to survive.
It will be more painful than death.
【Should we wait for the rain ninja to come? 】
Yiyong's vision gradually blurred, and he felt his shoulders sink a millimeter.
Suddenly, a terrible idea born of despair came to mind.
[Since the breathing of water is running unbalanced, it will turn me into an ice sculpture jellyfish, then if I run the breathing of fire unbalanced...]
【Can you completely turn yourself into a lava stone statue that is strong enough? 】
【This way you can keep going.】
[At least these children are important "experimental subjects" to Yu Ren, and they will be saved...]
But this thought also fell into darkness as Yiyong's eyes gradually closed.
【But even then, what is the fate waiting for them? 】
[It turns out that my thoughts are out of control...]
This small space, which should be the last hope, suddenly fell into a terrifying stillness, and Yiyong's breathing gradually became weaker, because more and more blood was quietly drained from his body, and it had flowed into a stream.
It wasn't until an unknown amount of time passed that a voice suddenly sounded in his heart, as if it was gently shaking his shoulders.
This sound reminds people of the sun, which makes people feel uplifting and warm, just like the bowl of mushroom tea that Yiyong didn't drink, gradually filling his heart and stomach.
[What one person cannot accomplish, two people can achieve incredible things together.]
Yi Yong opened his eyes and his breathing rhythm gradually returned to normal.
【Now is the time to let me come out, Lord Shuizhu!】
[Let me work with you to give these children a bright future! So that one day they can become the pillar of support for others. 】
"Speaking so loudly in other people's hearts..."
The corners of Yiyong's mouth curved slightly, but the tears flowed down his cheeks together with the blood on his head, staining the skirt of his clothes red.
Chakra flowed on its own under his control, replacing the seals, and a shadow clone suddenly appeared. Half-kneeling, he took out a handful of Uzumaki Naruto's hair from the lining of Giyuu's clothes.
The shadow clone dipped in the blood flowing out of Yiyong's knees, and his hands simultaneously emitted bursts of brilliant red light. He stamped onto the narrow ground and called out loudly for the first time the name that could bring people the fire of hope.
"Psychicism!"
"Pillar of Flame·Purgatory Anjuro!"
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