Chapter 39 Water and Fire (End) (7000)

Fort No. 14 of the Rain Country guards the southern gate of this country.

Less than 20 kilometers south of this fortress is the River Country, which is separated by the two great countries of Fire and Wind. Therefore, it has extremely important strategic significance.

Hanzo of the Salamander was worried about others, so he entrusted it to his youngest son, Koga of the Salamander, who guarded it personally.

But he didn't know what his youngest son did here. If he had a little idea, he wouldn't be surprised-

why there are always outsiders coming in and out here.

The first wave of people who came here were Uchiha Itachi and two spies from the root.

They pretended to be 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 be solved.

The second wave of people who came here were Uchiha Shisui, who found Uchiha Enka and the bodies of many bloodline ninjas in a laboratory in the Hidden Rain Village.

He came here following Itachi's trail, and also to answer some questions.

The third wave was carrying someone in a black oilcloth carriage, who had just arrived outside the gate of the fortress.

"Stop."

The Rain Ninja, wearing a bamboo hat and holding a spear, reached out and stopped the carriage with only one driver.

Judging from the style of the carriage, it must have left from here.

"Are you here to send the child?"

The gatekeeper Rain Ninja came to the driver and asked, "Why are you alone?"

His companion walked to the back of the carriage to check the "goods" inside.

"Today is really unlucky."

The driver raised his head, revealing a bloodstained and purple face, and said in a muffled voice: "I met a group of rebels, they stayed behind to cover the retreat, and let me bring people back first."

If you look closely, you will find that this is the leader of the settlement that Yiyong had 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 complaint. Anyway, with such an unrecognizable face, the other party could mistake him for anyone.

The key is what's pulled behind.

The rain ninja who walked to the rear of the car lifted the oilcloth, and four pairs of lifeless eyes looked at him at the same time, which scared him so much that he almost jumped up.

But after a closer look, they were just four children ranging from six to ten years old. The reason why they had similar eyes might be because they were all very scared.

Considering what they were about to face, they should be afraid.

"It's really unlucky..."

The rain ninja put the oilcloth back in a bad mood and shouted to the front: "There are only four little ghosts."

"The number is a bit small, but considering what you have experienced, this is already very good."

The rain ninja in front did not forget to comfort the driver, and then walked to the gate and said something to the doorway, and the huge iron gate creaked open.

"Take them to the small gate in the south."

"Got it."

The driver responded and drove the car slowly forward.

There were some rain ninjas in the courtyard of the fortress, but they had no interest in the carriage. They took a look and continued to do their own things.

"Are you familiar with this place?"

A question came from the carriage, and it was from 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.

This information was not obtained by Yiyong. He did not have any torture skills, and his social skills were even more poor. The angry homeless people who almost lost their lives and children and suffered from the oppression of Rain Ninjas pried open the mouth of the senior ninja.

What did those people do to the Rain Ninjas? Yiyong only listened to a short part and did not want to continue. Anyway, he got the information he wanted, and the help offered by the leader of the homeless people.

According to the senior ninja, they kidnapped the children to create a second ninja demigod through experiments. As for what kind of experiments, he was not a professional, so he did not know the inside story. He only knew that the Rain Ninjas kidnapped many children from the surrounding small countries and the country, but once they entered this building, few of them came out.

Let's not talk about anything else, just the two words "experiment" successfully hit Yiyong's sensitive vocabulary.

He did not forget how Shisui explained to him "why Wen's body disappeared".

At least, Yiyong felt that the chance of finding Uchiha Enhuo in this place was much more reliable than looking for the so-called "angel", so he had this plan to go deep into the tiger's den and attack the dragon directly.

"I used to work in the seventh fortress near the Land of Fire."

The vagrant leader took a breath and touched the wound on his face and replied, "The layout of these castles is similar, I am quite familiar with it."

"It's dangerous."

"I know."

The vagrant leader said, "But you helped us, we have nothing to thank you for, we can only do something for you. I can see that you must have lost someone important, right?"

Yiyong did not speak again, quietly extracting chakra.

The other three "children" were all the results of his shadow clone + transformation technique.

Two minutes later, the carriage stopped at the south of the dark fortress.

The vagrant leader supported the rain-hidden forehead protector on his forehead and knocked on the door. The three transformed shadow clones followed Yiyong out of the car in a daze, standing behind the vagrant leader without saying a word, with 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 homeless leader 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.

"Why, these four children are one family?"

Otherwise, what 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 the Hidden Rain Village. Doesn't this sound good?"

"What about the unqualified ones?"

Yiyong's true 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 Giyuu 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. The 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're lucky, you may still meet again."

All the volunteers exchanged glances with each other, but did not speak. They just followed the 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 doctors-looking men in white coats.

There were seven children of different ages lying on the hospital bed, each of them 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 heart-like sac that was constantly beating, filled with dangerous toxins. The toxins that disappear from the patient's body are eventually absorbed by this capsule.

That organ was not an organ that a human being should have. It was 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 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 people dressed as doctors.

These people were not fighting ninjas, and they caused little trouble to Giyu.

"Water whip."

This is the new ninjutsu that Giyuu learned from the rain ninja today. Five water whips tied the five people tightly, unable to move. At this time, all the clones returned to their original appearance, and separately adjusted the respirators on the children's mouths 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 ventilators here, I guess they have similar things in them."

Yiyong suppressed his emotions and carefully recalled the words that 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 those things on to the maximum 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 anything, just ask."

"What did you do to these people? What was in their bodies and in the ventilators?"

"We implanted the poison sacs of Sanshu fish into these experimental subjects. Those ventilators were mixed with diluted toxins of ordinary 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 There will be a second Hanzo-sama in the country.”

His expression gradually changed from fear to pride.

"So you see, we are not doing anything boring and bad. 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 discussed 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."

Jiyong 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 person but a ghost, Yiyong can feel at ease and discard his words as "ghost talk".

But he just wasn't.

This means that in this huge world, there will be 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 Enhuo and Wen.

Although their ages clearly didn't match those on the hospital bed, Giyuu had to give it a try.

"There are them in the Kingdom of Wind, the Kingdom of Rivers, and the Kingdom of Grass, and the Kingdom of Rain has the most. Most of them are orphans, and they will be killed sooner or later outside anyway, wasting their lives worthlessly. At least here we have The diluted Sanshou fish toxin can allow them to die painlessly while being paralyzed, 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?"

Giyuu 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, feeling a little disappointed and a little happy. At least their carcasses weren't used to feed the sansho fish.

At this moment, his complex mood far exceeded the range of words he could express.

At this time, a girl on the hospital bed suddenly coughed. Yiyong hurriedly walked over. After scanning her eyes, he found that the remaining sanshotoxin in her body had been completely absorbed! The poison sac in her body did not beat at any abnormal speed.

"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. The shadow clone controlled the water whip to seal his mouth, while the main body carefully removed the girl's oxygen mask. Then, his lightless eyes shrank slightly and he suddenly froze in place.

[Is this the one with the old tea seller at the entrance to 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 only felt pain in his blood vessels as if strong acid was flowing through them.

But just as 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 even raising his head, Yiyong immediately formed a water blade at his fingertips and launched it cleanly, directly penetrating the experimenter's vest.

Unlike the previous manslaughter, this was the first time that Yiyong took the initiative to extinguish the flame of human life.

He took action even before his brain gave the order.

But something strange happened.

The man was still one step away from the alarm button, but the piercing alarm still sounded, making people extremely anxious.

"What's going on?"

Yiyong raised his head vigilantly, not understanding what was happening.

But immediately, a terrifying rumble suddenly came from above his head, as if something heavy fell on the ceiling, dust fell like heavy snow, and even half of the lights went out directly.

"It's the upper floor! It's the alarm on the upper floor!"

The guy who talked the most twisted and turned, and the shadow clone moved the water whip away from his mouth, "Someone is invading up there!"

"What's going on up there?"

Yiyong asked.

"It's the office of Mr. Koga, the Salamander. All our experimental data are there!"

The experimenter looked more sorry than his own child was lost, "Let me go, I want to go up and take 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 the invader was, he seemed to be able to take this opportunity to take these children out safely.

[No matter who it is, thank you in advance...]

"Take off their oxygen masks!"

Yiyong carried the hydrangea and ordered the three shadow clones: "You each take two, let's rush out from here!"

After speaking, he took the lead to the door of the ward and planned to leave this place.

If he is lucky, he might be able to catch up with the vagrant leader who has already left the fortress.

But things don't go as planned, and changes suddenly occur.

A loud explosion suddenly came from the ceiling, as clear as if it exploded next to Yiyong's ears!

He raised his head, his expression was no longer paralyzed, but he opened his eyes to the extreme. The side of the ceiling near the exit was actually breaking bit by bit!

Then, the moment the second explosion sounded at the same position, he turned back and shouted to the shadow clone: ​​"Retreat quickly!"

"Crack——"

The smoke and dust went first, and one end of the ceiling, as if it could not bear some kind of heavy pressure, fell directly!

Yiyong's dynamic vision can see clearly that the end near the door is first, and the end near the inside is behind.

There is still hope if he runs inside.

At this moment, Yiyong didn't care about falling and bumping the poisoned children.

He and the shadow clone retreated violently to the wall opposite the exit, and while roughly putting all the children on the ground, he shouted: "Get ready!"

Finally, the ceiling near the inside was also unable to support itself, and collapsed with a bang. The three clones only bought a moment of time for Yiyong, and they exploded and disappeared due to the excessive pressure.

Giyuu was desperate and almost violently switched his water breathing to the power-specialized fire breathing, using his shoulders to resist this unforeseen disaster, but he was still kneeled on the spot by the weight of the mountain.

His eyes were about to jump out of his sockets.

This is a war fortress, and the layers are separated by complete and thick stones.

At this moment, the floor, the ceiling, and Giyuu formed a lying extremely acute triangle.

If the ceiling is likened to a person doing push-ups, then Giyuu is now the person's arm. After the terrifying weight was added, all the ideas in his mind became meaningless puzzles and paints, and could not take shape at all.

For a whole minute, Giyuu could not hear anything because of tinnitus. Apart from the weight on his shoulders, he could not feel anything other than pain. He could only keep breathing repeatedly and constantly producing chakra to send to his shoulders and thighs that supported the weight.

After a long time, the black cloud in front of his eyes gradually dissipated, and he could still see the seven children in front of him still rising and falling. As for the experimenters in the middle of the room, they should have been crushed to death.

[If no one else comes to remove this thing, we will all die here. ]

Giyong was pinned down and could not move at all.

He could create a shadow clone or a water clone to help, but his chakra is currently the only guarantee for maintaining this narrow safe space. Unless he can be sure that the clone has the power to lift the ceiling, he is only accelerating the death of everyone.

If the shadow clone uses ninjutsu or swordsmanship to break the ceiling that is pressing on him, it must be ensured that no fragments fall on these children and crush them to death. Otherwise, Giyong will survive alone again, and he will only suffer more than death.

[Should we wait for the rain ninja to come? ]

Giyong's vision gradually blurred, and he felt his shoulders sink a millimeter.

Suddenly, a terrible idea that grew out of despair came to mind.

[Since an imbalanced water breathing will turn me into an ice sculpture jellyfish, then if I lose balance in the fire breathing...]

[Can I completely turn myself into a strong enough lava stone statue?]

[This way I can keep going.]

[At least these children are important "experimental subjects" for the Rain Ninjas, and they will be saved...]

But this thought also fell into darkness as Giyuu's eyes gradually closed.

[But even so, what fate awaits them?]

[It turns out that my thoughts are no longer under 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 lost from his body, and it had already flowed into a stream.

Until I don't know how long it had passed, a voice suddenly sounded in his heart, as if pressing his shoulders and shaking him gently.

This voice reminded people of the sun, making people feel excited and warm, just like the bowl of mushroom tea that Yiyong didn't drink, gradually filling his heart and stomach.

【What one person can't accomplish, two people together can do it to an incredible degree. 】

Yiyong opened his eyes suddenly, and his breathing rhythm gradually returned to normal.

【Now it's time for me to come out, Mr. Shuizhu! 】

【Let me and you, give these children a bright future! So that one day, they can also become the pillars of others. 】

"Speaking so loudly in other people's hearts..."

Yiyong's mouth curled up slightly, but his tears and the blood on his head flowed down his cheeks, staining his clothes red.

Chakra flowed under his control, replacing the seal, and a shadow clone suddenly appeared. He half-knelt and took out a handful of Uzumaki Naruto's hair from the lining of Giyuu's clothes.

The shadow clone dipped the blood flowing from Giyuu's knee, and his hands emitted bursts of brilliant red light at the same time, and suddenly pressed it against the narrow ground, calling out the name that could bring people the fire of hope for the first time.

"Spiritual Summoning!"

"Flame Pillar·Rengoku Kyojuro!"

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