The Shadow's base is now empty, without even a ghost... OK, this description is a bit exaggerated.
Hanyu scratched his head and thought to himself, I have such a big organization, why are there only one or two people on duty today?
But this situation is understandable, because the last batch of Uzumaki clan members came to Konoha, and now Konoha's top leaders are busy settling them, and the Uzumaki ninjas in the Shadow Stream also went to help.
Anyway, the Shadow Stream doesn't have any important tasks right now, and the ninjas who left have all asked for leave according to the rules, and even each leave application was approved by Hanyu himself.
Hanyu is now hanging one arm. If he goes to visit the Konoha high-level officials, he will be an eyesore as a disabled person. And if he goes to help, what can he do with one arm? So he just stayed at the Shadow Stream base.
As a left-behind child, what could he do? Anyway, Hanyu went to study the salted fish.
Samehada is still "alive", Hanyu has confirmed this in the past few days. Although it has been tortured badly, this degree of misery is not enough to destroy the particularly stubborn vitality of this strange creature.
In Hanyu's already inaccurate memory, even the seriously injured Samehada did not need any professional treatment. He just needed to feed it with chakra, and it would recover naturally.
However, the amount of chakra absorbed by this thing is extremely huge, even to the extent that it can suck a Jinchūriki dry, so Hanyu can't put it next to the big slug that stores the chakra of the Two-Tails, otherwise the little bit of tailed beast chakra that he has obtained with great difficulty will definitely be used up.
So Hanyu went to his office and prepared to study this goldfish.
He placed Samehada on his desk and held down the "hilt" with one hand... In theory, this was Samehada's braided tail.
Then, a small slug lying on Hanyu's shoulder began to release the chakra of the two-tail. The chakra flowed along Hanyu's arm to Samehada's body, and soon, this thing began to twist its body.
Hanyu's tongue tip involuntarily pressed against his teeth. For some reason, the more he looked at Samehada, the more he felt that this thing didn't look like a fish. It... looked more like a sea cucumber.
A very old sea cucumber.
What to do? Once the species changes, the nutritional value seems to increase.
At the same time, Samehada may have noticed that the hand holding its tail was unfamiliar, or perhaps it felt some particularly terrifying emotion. In any case, it suddenly stopped moving and began to lie still pretending to be dead.
This shows that it is just a knife, which has no nutritional value and is not edible... From this we can see that although this thing is a fish, its intelligence level is at least higher than that of a Husky.
Hanyu's eyes flashed, and he suddenly thought of an interesting plan, so he put down Samehada, put on the coat hanging beside him, and prepared to go out.
"Keep an eye on this fish. Don't let it escape, and don't eat it."
Before leaving, Hanyu gave instructions to the black cat that was hanging around.
"Meow~" the black cat responded sweetly.
If this black fish is used as food, the black cat will welcome it very much. But if the black fish is here to compete for a pet, the black cat will instinctively feel a sense of crisis.
Haven't you seen that the owner has been fiddling with the fish these days and forgotten about the cat? Now that the pet has lost its ornamental value, the only fate it has is to be put into the pot, right?
Thinking of this, the black cat shuddered, and it bared its fangs. This time it really wanted to eat Samehada.
…
After leaving Shadow Stream's base, Hanyu moved straight towards a certain direction of the village. After a while, he stopped in front of a house with a familiar look.
Then he reached out and knocked on the door in front.
"What's the matter?"
The door opened a crack, and a hoarse, cold and slightly dull voice came out.
Orochimaru's face was still as pale as ever, and at this time he had a scarf covering his mouth and nose.
"So you were there. You didn't participate in Tsunade's mission?" Hanyu asked.
As the saying goes, when you have a problem, find an expert. Orochimaru is the most outstanding scientist and inventor in Konoha, so he is also Konoha's great tool man.
Even though Orochimaru is still just Little Orochimaru now.
"It's a medical mission. Jiraiya and I don't need to participate. And... do you have something to say?" Orochimaru obviously didn't want to pay attention to Hanyu.
However, Hanyu was not polite. He took a step forward, stretched out his hand and pushed hard, which opened Orochimaru's door. Orochimaru obviously wanted to protect his privacy, but... his wrist strength was a little different from Hanyu's.
Hanyu thought to himself, what are you afraid of? This is a room door, not the closet door of the dressing room.
After entering the room, Hanyu took a casual look and found that there was nothing special in Orochimaru's room, just a full bookshelf and a pile of bottles and jars.
Well, this is a person who loves knowledge and experiments.
Fortunately, Hanyu did not find a half-dissected person here, otherwise he would have been struggling over whether to call the police. After all, there was still some affection between the two of them - so should he call the police directly, or pretend to help Orochimaru conceal it and then call the police?
Orochimaru will be able to rebel against Hanyu one day, but the problem now is that "one day" has not come yet.
"As you can see, I'm not doing any dangerous experiments worth reporting, so...now is it time to tell me what you want from me?"
Orochimaru actually also knows Hanyu.
"It's like this, Orochimaru, are you interested in cell engineering? Have you done any research on it?" Hanyu sat casually on a chair and flipped through a book on the table.
The content of the book is irrelevant. At this moment, what Hanyu is actually thinking is… "I wonder if Orochimaru's Jiraiya observation diary is still being updated…"
"Cell engineering?"
"Yes, I'm not talking about transplantation or grafting, let alone genetic engineering. I'm just talking about cell engineering, such as... cloning technology, cloned sheep, cloned donkeys or... cloned fish?"
In Hanyu's impression, these technologies seem to be Orochimaru's specialties, but he doesn't know whether he is conducting these researches now. Orochimaru's "starting point" was the story of the immortal white snake that shed its skin told to him by the Third Hokage, so he has always been very interested in various life technologies.
"How...did you know that?"
"?"
Orochimaru used a tone that sounded like "Are you spying on me?", which made Hanyu a little confused.
Hanyu thought to himself, why should I monitor you if I have nothing to do? If I had that time, I would go see Tsuna... Well, there was nothing to do. If I had that time, he would definitely be cultivating himself.
Orochimaru saw that Hanyu didn't seem to have done anything, so he motioned for Hanyu to follow him.
The two walked into a room further inside, where there were obviously more bottles and jars, and placed in the center of a laboratory table was a transparent fish tank.
Two almost identical little fish were swimming in it.
Several fish were also dissected, and it was obvious that this was what Orochimaru had just done.
If Hanyu got so many fish, he would just be planning to make fish soup for the next meal, but Orochimaru is different from Hanyu. Combined with his reaction just now - it shows that he is really cloning fish and has even succeeded.
Well, it was a coincidence that Hanyu just wanted to enter the aquaculture industry.
He has mastered the cloning technology at such a young age. He is worthy of being Orochimaru who has mastered the core technology. When Hanyu was his age, he was just playing in the mud... But it seems that he was not playing in the mud, because at that time he had already charged towards the Sand Village.
"Has anyone ever told you that you're a genius?"
"A lot of people have said that."
Since it was the truth, Orochimaru admitted it without hesitation.
"What is the success rate of cloning?"
"It's still very, very low."
"It's very low..."
Orochimaru pulled down the face towel and continued, "Somatic cells have poor self-reproduction capabilities, and the genetic information contained in a single cell is incomplete. How to complete this information and stimulate the activity of somatic cells is the key to the success of the experiment."
Hanyu seems to think that cloning is very simple, just like copying, so Orochimaru has to correct this idea.
"You don't need to talk to me about technical issues. If it can be successful, it can be successful. So I just happen to have a task for you... It's like this. I recently bought an old salted fish , and you try to asexually multiply it.
You are a genius. A genius will definitely succeed as long as he puts in effort and time.
If you fail, I will submit all the test reports you have done over the years to the Third Hokage. Although there are no major problems with those experiments, many of them are quite borderline.
So... you probably won't be punished, but every experiment you conduct in the future will be under the supervision of the village. After all, the Third Hokage still cares about the physical and mental health of his disciples. "
"…"
It has been said that cloning requires cell activity. Even embryonic cells may not be successful, let alone old salted fish?
Besides, you are an adult, why do you like to tell tales?
Young Orochimaru almost choked back a mouthful of blood. Was this a mission? This was clearly coercion. If all his experiments had to be monitored, then what was the point of doing experiments? He might as well just raise crickets.
Well, Hanyu's meaning is very simple. Either help me with my work or destroy the future of a scientist. Choose one of the two. He has always been such a cheerful person.
Orochimaru can clone a fish, so there is no reason why he cannot clone Samehada. If he fails, it only means that he didn't put his heart into it, so of course he should accept the punishment.
Besides, it would be much better to let Orochimaru continue to research cloning fish than to let him research cloning humans.
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