svetikya Chapter 952 The Road Is Getting Narrower and Narrower
Chapter 952 The Road Is Getting Narrower and Narrower
Konoha Village.
Orochimaru's basement.
"Hehehehehe..."
Orochimaru's hoarse laughter echoed in the laboratory.
"Great, really great, this is good stuff."
"Hahahahahaha..."
Orochimaru's eyes lit up when he saw the cells in the petri dish dividing and proliferating wildly.
"It complements the water of life perfectly, which can greatly shorten the cultivation time of living organisms."
"We must tell Qianyao that this Hero's Water is very valuable, and we must get our hands on it all."
"I've already mixed these proportions to test on my own body. You go and mix them with the Water of Life first."
Just as Chiyo had thought, the Hero's Water was very useful to Orochimaru.
Orochimaru was overjoyed, as his experiments had just hit a bottleneck.
Kabuto also participated in the experiment and learned that this substance was no less effective than the Water of Life, and that the two could complement each other. No wonder Orochimaru was so happy.
Immediately mix the water of life and the water of heroes.
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At this time, Uchiha Chiyo's clone did not return home, but was inspecting the clan.
After Hiruzen Sarutobi left, the Uchiha clan became the most prominent clan in Konoha.
It is even the largest clan in the ninja world.
Over the past decade, from the emergence of Uchiha Senyo to the return of the Fourth Hokage to power.
Konoha is overwhelmingly superior to other ninja villages in terms of martial prowess.
There was never again a time when the Uchiha clan suffered such heavy losses on the battlefield as during the Third Shinobi World War.
After all, the current ninja world has far more resources than population.
Many places in the Land of Fire were never developed before because of their remoteness.
Now that the national highway has been extended from Konoha, more and more places are becoming habitable.
Now that there's no fighting, the Uchiha clan has started to reproduce.
To be precise, it wasn't just the Uchiha clan; other ninja villages in Konoha were also having a lot of children.
Throughout Qianyao's journey, all the participants have been young children, generally under ten years old.
Most of them were three or four years old; these were basically the children that Minato Namikaze wanted when he started his reforms.
Should I get married and have children?
Standing atop a tree, Qianyao watched a group of children running around and had an idea.
He hasn't married Karin yet, and they haven't taken the final step.
However, the wedding can be brought forward.
As Qianyao was pondering these things, Orochimaru's voice clearly rang out in his mind:
"Qianyao, the Hero's Water is very valuable; we must get our hands on it all."
"The Hero's Water can cause cells to divide rapidly, complements the Water of Life, and releases the contents of the gene chain..."
Orochimaru's body was given to him by Chiyo, so it's natural that they can communicate now.
However, for fear of disturbing Orochimaru's experiments, Chiyo generally does not use this method to contact Orochimaru.
Orochimaru's initiative in contacting them shows his excitement.
Qianyao didn't understand the technical details, but he understood that "it allows cells to divide rapidly, which can complement the water of life."
Qianyao could still understand these words and knew that Hero's Water was useful, so he was also aware of the situation.
He interrupted Orochimaru's long speech:
"I'll find a way to get the Hero's Water, but is the amount I brought this time enough for your experiments?"
Orochimaru seemed a little unsatisfied, but still replied, "The more Hero's Water, the better."
"With the Hero's Water, the survival rate of the embryo can be greatly guaranteed when creating a body embryo."
"And it can accelerate embryonic development."
"If combined with the Water of Life, it can quickly cultivate a mature body. If only I could get more..."
Seeing Orochimaru's enthusiasm, Chiyo couldn't help but pour cold water on his enthusiasm.
"The condensation of Hero's Water is slow, unlike the Water of Life, which can be several tons or at most a few dozen liters. Don't be too greedy."
Qianyao remembered that the Hero's Water of Takigakure Village was produced by the giant tree in the village, but it could not produce much for a hundred years.
The Hero's Water we have today is the water that has been stored in Takigakure Village for many years.
"Um……"
Orochimaru was somewhat displeased upon hearing that Hero's Water was scarce, since no one would complain about having too much of such a valuable resource.
"Take whatever you have first. With this, I can try to create a human embryo much faster."
Qian Yao asked curiously, "It seems you failed. But, are you planning to have a male or female body?"
Orochimaru's broadened perspective was thanks to Chiyo, and now that Chiyo was talking about it, he started to chatter.
"Whether male or female, people are inevitably driven by the desire to reproduce."
"This is an obstacle to my pursuit of truth."
"I tried to create a perfect body, so that it is neither male nor female."
Qianyao was completely stunned.
Creating a third sex!? As expected of Orochimaru.
“But I’ve tried twice already, and such a body is unlikely to survive from the embryonic stage.”
Orochimaru's tone still carried some distress, after all, creating such a body required collecting a large number of cells.
He has to put in a lot of effort just to fuse cells and cultivate them into an embryo.
Not to mention modifying or editing at the genetic level.
Hearing Orochimaru's distress, Senyou thought for a moment and then said:
"Orochimaru, have you forgotten what I told you before?"
Orochimaru nodded in confusion.
You mean?
Qianyao looked up at the sky, an image of a man with an Indra hairstyle flashing through his mind, and said in a deep voice, "Humanity."
“You strive for perfection in everything, and you consider reproduction and lust to be burdens.”
"Then what do you have left?"
Do you prefer to eat? Or do you prefer to drink?
"Don't forget what you promised me?"
Orochimaru once said that he would remember to maintain his humanity, but in all these years of tireless research...
However, he stripped away even more of these things, because when he was doing experiments, he wished he could not even eat or excrete, let alone anything else.
"Nothing in this world is perfect. If you insist on pursuing perfection, then there will be countless flaws in it."
"You can choose not to indulge in carnal desires or appetite, but if you don't have these things at all, there will be even fewer things that can evoke your emotions."
“You said before that you would pay attention, but once you reach a certain level, it will be difficult to stay interested in these things.”
"The road shouldn't get narrower and narrower."
As the chief scientist of their Konoha faction, Chiyo was very concerned about Orochimaru's physical and mental health.
He just remembered what Natsuki had warned him about last time, so he reminded Orochimaru of it.
Orochimaru remained silent, seemingly deep in thought.
For people with strong logical thinking skills, logical self-reflection is very quick.
“That makes sense, my path is indeed getting narrower and narrower.”
After a long silence, Orochimaru uttered those words.
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