Chapter 167 The Future of Puppetry

"Did Scorpion come over to me just now?"

After hearing this, Bai Ye was slightly surprised.

Since he recruited Xie into the Akatsuki organization, Xie has spent all day studying puppetry in the Akatsuki organization's laboratory, leading a life of a homebody who never steps out of the door.

In addition to having people deliver three meals a day to the experiment, I usually apply for experiment funds myself.

If he hadn't been very senior and had secretly controlled the chambers of commerce in the Land of Rain and neighboring small countries, he would certainly not have been able to support the money-burning research on puppetry with the Akatsuki organization's budget funds alone.

However, in the past six months, Scorpio has also provided many useful research results and puppetry inventions.

These puppets used to kill people do not have much power in Bai Ye's eyes, but if they are used in construction, production and transportation, they can often play a good role.

Bai Ye also looks forward to the day when Scorpion can create large puppets and remotely control puppets.

Sanshouyu Hanzo nodded, and then said:

"It seems that there has been a new breakthrough in puppetry, but I am already old and can no longer understand those new puppets. I think I also destroyed many puppets back then..."

Seeing Hanzo, the Sanshouyu, begin to reminisce about the past, Bai Ye quickly said: "Teacher Hanzo, please don't talk about those rubbish things about old sesame seeds and rotten millet. You should think about how to train new people for me."

After being interrupted from casting a spell, Sanshouyu Hanzo was not annoyed and said with a smile:

"I have almost trained those Anbu elites you asked me to train. Their upper limit is jonin. No matter how carefully they are trained, they cannot reach the Kage level you mentioned."

"This child Xie is different. He is the grandson of Chiyo. If you can really convince him, you will have many helpers for whatever big things you do in the future."

Byakuya stared at Sanshouyu Hanzo for a while.

This old man who led the rise of Yuyin Village actually started to think about himself. Did he really regard himself as a disciple?

However, as a time traveler, Bai Ye is very aware of the weaknesses of these plot characters.

There is no need to worry about Sanshouyu Hanzo.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye chuckled and said: "Thank you for the reminder, teacher, but both Xie and Kakuzu are ninjas I recruited. I want to know what they want and will not let them leave easily."

Hearing this, Sanshouyu Hanzo was slightly startled, and then said: "Do you know what they want? Can you tell me."

"sure…"

Bai Ye nodded slightly, and then said in a faint tone: "Xie lost his parents when he was young and lacked care from his relatives, so he became addicted to the puppet method. As long as you give him a little care, you can make him surrender."

"Although Kakuzu loves money, in the final analysis it is because he is afraid of betrayal. After he failed to assassinate the first Hokage, he was betrayed by the ninjas of the same village and was forced to become a traitor."

"I will not abandon him voluntarily, and he will certainly not betray me and my money."

Hearing Byakuya's analysis of Scorpion and Kakuzu, the smile on Hanzo's face stiffened a lot. It was not difficult for a ninja of his status to analyze their current personalities and weaknesses from Scorpion and Kakuzu.

But the question is, is Bai Ye's intelligence ability too outrageous?

It had only been seven or eight years since Scorpio's childhood, and Bai Ye knew that it was relatively normal, but decades had passed since the Kakuzu incident, and Bai Ye probably hadn't been born at that time.

At this time, Bai Ye's eyes fell on Sanshouyu Hanzo and said lightly:

"As for Mr. Hanzo, you should care most about the Hidden Rain Village and the Country of Rain. As long as Yahiko and I can lead the development of the Country of Rain, there is no way you will betray us."

The smile on Sanshouyu Hanzo's face completely disappeared, replaced by a look of helplessness.

His thoughts are indeed like this, and Bai Ye has completely seen through them. However, it is not difficult to understand the weaknesses and weaknesses of others. Being able to help others realize their dreams and ideals is the most difficult thing in the ninja world.

And Bai Ye happens to have such an ability.

But he couldn't help but speculate in his mind about Bai Ye's true identity. Bai Ye's identity could never be as simple as a Uzumaki descendant.

The Uzumaki ninja's chakra did exceed that of most ninjas, but Byakuya's chakra amount was simply too exaggerated.

Moreover, it is impossible for Uzumaki ninjas to master the Wood Release Blood Successor, which is a power that belongs exclusively to the first Hokage. Even if it appears in other people, it can only be a ninja from Konoha.

Could it be that besides being a Uzumaki ninja, Byakuya also had connections with Konoha ninjas, and even went to Konoha to launch the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

When Sanshouyu Hanzo came to his senses again, Bai Ye's figure had disappeared.

Sensing the remaining chakra in the air, Sanshouyu Hanzo stopped thinking about it. After sighing softly, he picked up the thermos cup he carried with him.

Some things cannot be studied deeply. He still wants to keep this old life and see how Byakuya develops the Rain Country and what kind of storm it will stir up in the ninja world.

In the forest near the laboratory, Bai Ye found Xie who was assembling a puppet.

Xie was very immersed in his work. It was not until Bai Ye deliberately made a noise that he turned around, looked at Bai Ye with extremely complex eyes, and said in a calm tone:

"Bai Ye, you're here."

"Didn't you ask me to come here?"

Bai Ye shrugged his shoulders, then walked to Xie's side, bent down and began to observe the humanoid battle puppet assembled by Xie.

This time Xie assembled a human puppet, and the corpse came from the black market bounty.

However, based on the corpse, Scorpion spliced ​​a lot of special metals and made a lot of decorations, which looked no different from a living person.

After looking at the human puppet, Bai Ye gave an evaluation:

"Not bad, it has improved a lot compared to before. The human puppets you made before were too scary. Now they are more artistic. It would be better if they could be made more handsome."

"In addition, it is still too difficult to find suitable human puppet materials. I hope you can make some heavy puppets. Nagato always complains that the breakage rate of heavy puppets is too high."

"Heavy puppets have no artistic soul, I don't like them very much..."

Although Scorpion is still a flesh and blood body, his tone is not very emotional. After a pause, he continued: "Bai Ye, I heard about the Nine-Tail Night. You did a good job."

"How did you know about the Nine-Tail Night? I shouldn't have told you this news."

Bai Ye frowned. Why did everyone suspect that he was the one who caused the Nine-Tail Rebellion?

"I have subordinates outside, they told me, and you said last time that Konoha will pay the price soon, so this Nine-Tails Rebellion is inseparable from you."

Scorpion looked at Bai Ye with indifference, but his mood was not as relaxed as he looked, and it was very complicated.

To a certain extent, Konoha was also the murderer who killed his parents. Bai Ye's action this time obviously vented his anger for him. In addition, he was shocked by Bai Ye's courage.

Although Konoha and Sand Village are both the five major ninja villages, there is a big gap in their strength.

He relied on sneak attacks and poisoning to barely defeat the Third Kazekage and made him into a puppet of the Kazekage.

And Bai Ye dared to break into Konoha with his own strength, and killed the Fourth Hokage and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. This strength was beyond his imagination. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the strongest ninja in the ninja world.

Bai Ye enjoyed Scorpion's gaze, but he felt that he still needed to clarify.

"Don't get me wrong, I didn't cause the Nine-Tails Rebellion, but the ninja who started it was indeed a ninja in the organization. When the time is right, I can take you to meet him."

"No need."

Scorpion shook his head slightly. He was not interested in the ninja Bai Ye was talking about.

And even if the Nine-Tails Rebellion was started by other ninjas, Bai Ye, as the leader of the Akatsuki organization, could not be separated from the relationship. Maybe it was Bai Ye who issued the order.

Scorpion continued to assemble the human puppet. After installing the human puppet, he said to Bai Ye:

"Leader Bai Ye, this is the remote puppet you commissioned me to develop. As long as the puppeteer is within a hundred meters, the puppeteer can remotely control the puppet."

After that, Scorpion began to demonstrate the ability of the remote puppet in front of Bai Ye.

After Scorpion made seals with his hands, the human puppet on the ground stood up shakily, and then followed Scorpion's instructions and began to move continuously in the open space, attacking the target placed on the ground.

There are two ways for the human puppet to attack. One is to use the shuriken and senbon carried in the body, and the other is to use the chakra in the human puppet to perform the ninjutsu in his life.

With a whoosh, one of the targets was beaten into a sieve by the senbon storm.

The rest of the targets were destroyed by the wind escape and fire escape, leaving only a trail of ash in the original place.

After completing the attack on all the targets, Scorpion was about to stop performing the technique, but was stopped by Bai Ye: "Scorpion, you continue to control the puppet, this time I will be the opponent of the human puppet."

Bai Ye stretched out his hand and made the seal of opposition towards Scorpion.

"I didn't expect that the leader Bai Ye would be so naive..."

Scorpion snorted lightly, but still stretched out his hand to make the seal of opposition with Bai Ye. The seal of opposition is a mark that only students of the ninja school will use, indicating that the two sides will be opponents from the next moment.

On a real battlefield, it is impossible for the enemy to cast the seal of opposition. This is purely a sense of ritual.

Bai Ye nodded, and then said: "Life should have more rituals. Besides, we are companions now, not enemies as before."

After saying that, Bai Ye instantly moved to the center of the open space and took a fighting posture.

Scorpion did not doubt him, and immediately manipulated the human puppet to attack Bai Ye. He also wanted to test the performance of the human puppet. It was naturally better that Bai Ye was willing to be a sparring partner.

Facing the human puppet's thousand books, shuriken and even poison gas attacks, Bai Ye dealt with them very easily.

However, he did not counterattack the human puppet, but silently defended and dodged, helping Scorpion test various data of the puppet.

A few minutes later, the human puppet suddenly braked in mid-air and then fell to the ground.

Bai Ye waited for a while, and after confirming that this was not Scorpion testing the puppet's camouflage technology, he walked to Scorpion's side.

Scorpion looked at the human puppet on the ground, recorded the data with a serious face, and murmured:

"Whether it is the endurance time or the sensitivity of the control, the chakra stick is far inferior to the chakra line."

Hearing this, Bai Ye also nodded.

He could indeed feel the weakness of this human puppet. Compared with other puppets of Scorpion, this human puppet was only at the strength of a Chunin at most, which was a bit unfair to the ninja in his lifetime.

However, there was nothing he could do about it.

Remotely controlling the puppet through the chakra stick itself had the problem of chakra transmission speed, just like WiFi and network cables in the previous life. The speed of WiFi was definitely not as fast as that of network cables.

But the chakra rod has an advantage that the chakra thread cannot match, that is, it gets rid of the shackles of the thread, completely liberating the puppets and puppetry, allowing both sides to become relatively independent combat forces.

At this time, Bai Ye seemed to remember something, and while picking up the human puppet on the ground, he said:

"Scorpion, did you just use the chakra stored in the human puppet itself to replace the chakra transmission from the chakra rod?"

Xie nodded and then said:

"Yes, I stored chakra in the human puppet's body in advance. Otherwise, relying on the speed of the chakra rod, I would not be able to support the consumption just now."

"And I'm different from you and Nagato. I can't make a black rod. I can only use this chakra rod mixed with chakra metal to replace the black rod."

"However, this also brings new problems. This method can only be used on human puppets. Ordinary puppets cannot use this method at all. Even if chakra is stored in advance, it will be consumed quickly after leaving the main body."

"Of course, I have no burden in making human puppets. The same cannot be said for your subordinates, and the organization may not be able to find so many corpses..."

At this point, Xie had already imagined the scene in which he created thousands of puppets for the Akatsuki organization.

This scene made him, a self-proclaimed puppet maniac, feel a little chilly.

After hearing what Xie said, Bai Ye also fell into deep thought.

Xie was right, the difficulty of storing chakra on a flesh and blood body was not at the same level as storing chakra on an ordinary puppet.

Even a fairy like Nagato chose six corpses as the Six Paths of Pain.

There are only two ninjas in the ninja world who are truly capable of long-distance transmission of chakra. One is the rebel ninja Hyakuzu Sunagakure, and the other is Toneri Otsutsuki.

The former uses the power of dragon veins. In the Loulan built on the dragon veins, the puppet can be manipulated regardless of distance, which is to force the puppet to hold up.

The latter is the last Otsutsuki on the moon and possesses the power of the Great Tenseigan.

The level of the Great Reincarnation Eye is no weaker than the Samsara Eye.

Of these two ways, one is to annex the ancient Loulan Kingdom in the Kingdom of Wind, and the other is to go to the moon and face the last Otsutsuki on the moon.

If it could really be done, the technology of remotely controlling puppets would no longer be important.

At the moment, it seems that we can only expect Scorpion to continue research and develop more efficient transmission technology, or solve the chakra storage problem of ordinary puppets.

However, the technology provided by Scorpion is enough for now, so there is no need to rush.