[Root Base]
"You actually came pretty fast," Danzo looked gloomily at the Orochimaru in front of him.
Today, Orochimaru had already entered the Root Base entrance, and only then did their people realize that Orochimaru had silently infiltrated Konoha.
Orochimaru's mouth carried a smile, seemingly in a very good mood, "Someone came to give me money, so naturally I'm in a good mood."
Danzo snorted, "Did you bring the thing?"
Orochimaru took out a scroll and patted it in his hand.
When Danzo reached out his hand, Orochimaru instead withdrew his hand, his face showing a half-smile, "Your days aren't going so well now, right? Still got funding?"
Danzo's eyes were full of viciousness, "Orochimaru, what do you mean?"
Orochimaru said smilingly, "Of course, I'm just worried Lord Danzo might renege on the payment."
Danzo suppressed his emotions and gave a cold order, "Go get the money."
The ANBU member beside responded and immediately went down.
"You've been a bit miserable recently, actually suffering such a big loss."
Orochimaru and Danzo had cooperated before.
But in the end, when people were caught doing human experiments, Orochimaru was discovered and forced to become a rogue ninja.
Danzo had nothing happen to him, and the Third Hokage sat back and reaped the benefits.
It was hard to say clearly what had really gone on inside.
Orochimaru speaking with sarcasm was normal.
The Third Hokage kept Danzo because Danzo was useful, but didn't keep Orochimaru because he couldn't control him.
Danzo heavily struck the cane in his hand, making a crisp sound in the silent Root Base, "If you're here to laugh at me, you can leave now."
Orochimaru sneered, "You don't have many cards left to play, do you? Want to cooperate again?"
"Cooperate?", Danzo's eyes were full of suspicion, the meaning being, 'Would you Orochimaru really have such good intentions?'
At this moment, the Root member who went to get the money had already returned.
In his hand was a scroll handed to Danzo.
"Sir, this is three hundred million."
Danzo gave a signal with his eyes, and the ANBU handed the scroll to Orochimaru.
Just now Orochimaru, who was afraid Danzo had no money, now seemed completely unafraid Danzo would go back on the deal.
Without even checking, he directly accepted the scroll, and with his other hand tossed the scroll containing 100 units of Hashirama cells to the Root member.
His mouth said, "With your technology, there's no way you could possibly digest this many Hashirama cells..."
Danzo waved his hand, and directly had that Root member go down, who then took the scroll to find Fujiwara.
He wasn't a research personnel and couldn't verify authenticity.
"You want so much experimental material, must be because of some technical bottleneck, trying mass testing right?"
"Might as well tell me what the experiment is, maybe we can still cooperate."
After hearing Orochimaru's words, Danzo fell into deep thought. Orochimaru's skills were naturally undeniable.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have cooperated with Orochimaru so many times before.
If they studied together with Orochimaru, progress would definitely be faster.
But Danzo cautiously asked, "What do you want?"
Orochimaru replied leisurely, playing tai chi with Danzo, "Have you ever seen the Mangekyo Sharingan?"
Danzo's face darkened, "You actually have your eyes on the Mangekyo..."
Orochimaru said calmly, "Of course, this legendary power of the Uchiha, I naturally am interested."
Danzo looked coldly at Orochimaru, "Then you can go to the Uchiha compound, Uchiha Rengoku and Uchiha Fugaku both have the Mangekyo Sharingan..."
Just as the two were talking, Fujiwara had already taken out a reagent from Orochimaru's scroll.
He needed to test the quality of those Hashirama cells.
———
[Ninja Academy]
Between class periods.
"Iruka, go notify the other teachers to gather all the students at the practice field. I want to give a speech."
Iruka looked at Rengoku in surprise.
Rengoku had been here for so long, this was the first time he gave an order.
But since Rengoku was the principal, when he gave orders, Iruka could only go carry them out.
Soon, the school loudspeaker broadcast, ["All students, please note, everyone now gather at the practice field."]
["Each class teacher, lead your class to line up in the practice field."]
["Repeating..."]
All the students were confused, but since they were still little kids, they were all very obedient, and soon assembled at the practice field.
The field was quickly packed with people.
Rengoku then walked onto the podium in front.
Because there was no preparation, Rengoku directly took a megaphone from the office.
"Students, hello, I am your principal Uchiha Rengoku. Many of you are curious, what is today's assembly for."
"Then today the principal will give everyone a public lecture."
Student quality in the academy varied greatly, and soon the crowd below started buzzing.
Rengoku didn't care about the noise from the students below, only quietly waited for them to finish talking.
He didn't put on a serious face, but under Rengoku's gaze, those little kids gradually fell silent.
"Iruka, Takada, you two come here."
Seeing the noise stop, Rengoku took out a storage scroll from his person.
And pulled out a very large painting scroll from it.
"You two, one pull the left, one the right. Once opened, stand firm."
Under Rengoku's command, Iruka and Takada in confusion unrolled the scroll.
On it were drawings of the nine Tailed Beasts.
Iruka and Takada were both shocked, their hands weakened, almost unable to hold on.
Rengoku glanced at them, "What, you two can't even hold a scroll?"
Iruka and Takada, seeing the killing intent in Rengoku's eyes, felt bitter in their hearts.
"N-no, Principal sir."
Rengoku cleared his throat and spoke to the curious students below, "So the content of today's public class is: what are Tailed Beasts, what are Jinchuriki..."
Nearby observing ANBU members felt their scalps tingle. Just as two people jumped down, Rengoku's gaze swept over them.
Thud! Thud!
The two fell straight to the ground.
The students below let out cries of surprise. Clearly, some knew what ANBU were.
Rengoku just casually said, "Ignore them, listen to my lecture first."
"In the history of the ninja world filled with constant war, there is a kind of terrifying existence deeply branded into people's minds alongside disaster. That is the 'Tailed Beasts'..."
As Rengoku lectured, the students below gradually showed looks of interest and amazement.
Only a very few students knew what Tailed Beasts were.
But Rengoku's public lecture this time directly shattered the knowledge barrier, letting everyone learn this information.
Seeing that Uchiha Rengoku was determined to reveal matters about the Tailed Beasts, the ANBU members who didn't jump down also had no choice.
They could only quickly go report to the Third Hokage.
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