The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 18 Harvest and Surprise

Although Hideki has confirmed that there must be a large number of rare plants with chakra conduction properties in the Valley of the End.

However, trying to accurately find them among the wide variety of plants is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Therefore, Hideki had already used the power of brainstorming to invent a more efficient screening method.

I saw that he had arrived at an open space on the edge of the Valley of the End.

Hideki first marked his position on the map, and then controlled the black cat that had been exploring the way ahead to jump onto a large rock.

"Then let's start from here and begin the material exploration in the Valley of the End."

Hideki declared in his mind.

Then he placed his right hand in front of his chest and formed the Tiger Seal, and began to refine more chakra.

As he moved, the chakra line connecting him and the black cat began to become clearly visible due to the surge of chakra.

After infusing the black cat puppet with enough chakra, Hideki officially began to use his own ninjutsu.

"Practice: Radar Perception Technique."

The next moment, the lifelike little black cat suddenly rolled its eyes, stood up, tilted its head back, and opened its mouth to an exaggerated size large enough to swallow a basketball.

Immediately afterwards, a series of machine parts popped out of its mouth with a click, and eventually unfolded to form a pot-shaped antenna device.

Finally, the black cat's head began to rotate 360 ​​degrees at a constant speed, as if it was sending and receiving some signals at the same time...

Although the shape is a bit strange, this is a new invention that Hideki made in order to find chakra materials more efficiently.

The inspiration for this new invention actually came from Hideki's radar in his previous life.

In his previous life, humans had already developed the technology to use geological radar to search for oil and mineral resources.

The principle is to utilize the property that high-frequency electromagnetic waves have different propagation and attenuation speeds when encountering different media. By transmitting electromagnetic waves underground and capturing and analyzing the returned reflected waves, the underground situation can be understood.

Hideki's Black Cat Radar uses a similar principle.

However, because it is looking for materials that can conduct chakra, the machine emits chakra waves instead of electromagnetic waves.

Yes, chakra is similar to electromagnetic signals and can be transmitted in the form of waves.

In fact, this characteristic of chakra was also mentioned in the original work.

When the Six Paths of Pain attacked Konoha, Shizune, after analyzing the black sticks on their corpses, clearly pointed out that the enemy was controlling the Six Paths of Pain through chakra waves.

As an ambitious puppeteer, Hideki was naturally envious of Nagato's ability to wirelessly control puppets.

It’s a pity that the key black stick is the top-level chakra conduction material made of Yin-Yang escape, and Hideki has no way to get it.

Although Hideki tried to use other materials instead, he was ultimately unable to replicate the technique due to limitations in chakra and sealing techniques.

Even if the puppet can be made to move, the obvious operating delay and huge chakra consumption still make this technology unable to be put into actual combat for the time being.

But Hideki did not gain nothing.

With the help of the brainstorming technique, he relied on his powerful chakra control to figure out a set of techniques for using chakra waves.

Just like a radar, Hideki can control the vibration of chakra and freely emit chakra waves of different frequencies and intensities outside the body.

He can then receive and sense the reflected chakra waves to understand the general situation around him.

Although there is no evidence, Hideki seriously suspects that in the ninja world, most of the perception ninjutsu actually uses this principle.

Just like other perception ninjutsu, Hideki's radar perception technique can actually only detect the surrounding terrain and nearby creatures with chakra fluctuations.

With Hideki's current ability, it is still difficult to distinguish the subtle changes that occur when chakra is reflected by chakra-conducting materials.

So Hideki had to rely on the power of technology to invent this Black Cat Radar.

Its first function is to replace Hideki in performing the radar perception technique, thus preventing him from being attacked by surprise while concentrating on performing the technique.

But more importantly it also has a built-in chakra signal amplifier that allows Hideki to easily discern the slightest changes in chakra reflection waves.

The reason why Hideki is confident that he can find chakra conducting materials in this vast Valley of the End with countless species is because of this black cat radar.

Although it is also limited by the materials, chakra amount and sealing technology, as well as for considerations of perception accuracy, the detection range of this Black Cat Radar is not large, with a radius of only about fifty meters.

But compared with the clumsy method of our predecessors who tried to plant one plant at a time, the efficiency has been more than a thousand times improved!
But Hideki was not satisfied with this.

From the curious appearance of this radar, we can know that it is actually a temporary modification of the original black cat puppet used for combat by Hideki due to limited materials. As long as he can find more suitable materials, or make breakthroughs in chakra volume and sealing techniques, Hideki will continue to make better radars to improve the detection efficiency of materials.

After all, materials are the foundation of puppetry, and this radar that constantly helps Hideki discover new materials is the engine of Hideki's grand blueprint...

At this time, Hideki had just sensed and analyzed the returning chakra waves, and was marking possible discoveries on the map.

Then he returned the Black Cat Radar to its original form and prepared to inspect each location one by one.

At the first place, Hideki found nothing.

This situation is not uncommon. If several plants with barely rudimentary meridians in their bodies are gathered together, it may lead Hideki to misjudge.

The same thing happened at the second and third places, which made Hideki start to feel depressed.

Fortunately, when he arrived at the fourth place, he finally got something.

What Hideki found was an ordinary-looking nightshade.

However, when he used the chakra line to probe into its interior, he found that there were already one or two formed meridians in its body.

According to Hideki's previous experience in searching for materials in various places, this is usually enough to make it exhibit some extraordinary plant characteristics.

Therefore, in his classification standard for chakra conductive materials, this nightshade can probably be classified as a C-level plant.

However, when Hideki explored its physical properties through chakra, he did not find anything particularly outstanding about it.

So Hideki simply marked its location on the map and picked some fruits and leaves, waiting to do further tests when he returned.

In the following time, Hideki continued to carry out boring exploration work like this.

After checking the marked locations, he moved to another place to detect again, and then continued to check, repeating this process over and over again.

Since this is in the wild after all, Hideki must retain enough chakra to deal with various emergencies, so it is estimated that he can only conduct ten detections at most during each visit.

It’s a pity that Hideki’s luck in lottery draws is not good, and there is no guaranteed prize in these ten consecutive draws...

So many times, what he found were like the first few places, plants that could only be ranked E in his material classification standards and could not be used as chakra conduction materials at all.

There are also a few plants that can be classified as D-level plants, but they also cannot be used as chakra conduction materials. At most, we can see if we can find a place where they can play a role based on their evolved characteristics.

In fact, C-level plants like Solanum nigrum are already a very good harvest for Hideki.

It was not until he checked the results of the ninth detection that Hideki finally showed a hint of excitement.

Because this time what he sensed was not on the ground, but buried underground.

If it wasn't a rare plant with meridians in its roots, then what was buried there might very well be what Hideki was expecting...

You must know that after the Thousand-Armed Buddha statue was shattered by Uchiha Madara, it was scattered all over the Valley of the End.

The Wood Release chakra within it escaped and created this paradise for plants.

But in fact, the fragments themselves are also rare treasures.

As a fragment of a Buddha statue made with fairy chakra, it goes without saying that it has extremely excellent physical properties and chakra conduction capabilities.

Even if its performance has been greatly reduced due to the passage of time, it is still an excellent material for making puppets for Hideki now.

So Hideki naturally quickly came to the place where the wooden block was suspected to be, and began to control the black cat puppet to start digging.

The thing was not buried too deep, so it was dug out by the black cat in less than a minute.

Although it looks like just an ordinary piece of wood the size of a fist.

However, Hideki picked it up as if it were a treasure and carefully wiped off the remaining dirt on it.

Then he injected chakra into the wood, and after confirming that it was what he expected, an excited smile finally appeared on his face.

However, at this moment, a huge change suddenly occurred.

Suddenly, a puppet with the appearance of a mantis and an extremely ferocious look jumped out from the bushes nearby!

Immediately afterwards, a sharp cold light flashed by.

Before Hideki could even react, the head, still with a smile on its face, had already flown high into the air.

The next moment, blood spurted out from the broken neck. When the head fell to the ground, a large area of ​​land had been dyed bright red...

(End of this chapter)