Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 276 Orochimaru's Admonition

"Thank you for Orochimaru's generosity!"

Sasuke Umino's lips curled into a smile as he looked into the deepest part of the laboratory, at the temperature-controlled incubation tank shrouded in multiple sealing barriers.

Inside the culture tank, a large mass of emerald green flesh, radiating a rich aura of life, was constantly wriggling, greedily absorbing chakra and nutrient solution. This was the Hashirama cell sample obtained from Orochimaru.

When he learned that Orochimaru and Danzo Shimura were working together to create Wood Release ninjas, he keenly seized the opportunity to obtain Hashirama's cells.

He simply expanded Orochimaru's laboratory in the Land of Waves and provided him with information that the Sharingan could suppress Hashirama cells, and in return, he easily obtained Hashirama cells from Orochimaru.

Orochimaru obtained this information and obtained a pair of Sharingan from Danzo Shimura. After conducting some tests and verifications, he discovered that the Yin Release power of the Sharingan could indeed effectively suppress the corrosive power of Hashirama's Yang Release cells, with an effect far superior to the snake venom suppression methods of Ryuchi Cave.

Having obtained such useful information, Orochimaru was not a stingy person. In return, he not only generously gave him a small sample of Hashirama cells, but also promised to find an opportunity to get him a pair of Sharingan in the future. Although it would most likely be a one-tomoe Sharingan, it was still a pretty good unexpected gain.

This small sample of Hashirama cells, originally only the size of a fingernail, has grown wildly like a greedy cancer cell under the nourishment of a large amount of chakra and a special nutrient solution, and has now expanded nearly a hundred times.

Moreover, it wriggled continuously in the culture tank like a living thing, emitting a chilling vitality and corrosiveness.

He naturally conducted some research on these intercolumnar cells, especially experiments on the fusion of intercolumnar cells, but all of them yielded little result.

In the underground laboratory No. 0, the strangely shaped organs and tissues in those rows of culture tanks are the results of the intercolumnar cell fusion experiments. The corrosive power of the intercolumnar cells is simply too strong, and all fusion experiments have failed.

Even the bone marrow hematopoietic cells of the Thousand Hands Rope Tree were not spared; they were all eroded and could not form an effective fusion.

After spending tens of millions of taels of silver, they obtained a large number of strangely shaped cells and tissues.

Of course, this experiment did not cause him to lose money; on the contrary, it made him a fortune.

Although the experiment failed, the organs of the summoned beasts that had been eroded by Hashirama's cells were not destroyed directly. Instead, he reused them to extract the Life Yang No. 1 medical agent.

The Life Yang No. 1 medical potion works similarly to the talisman of Mount Myōboku, only less powerful. It is still much stronger than the Palm Healing Technique. The key is that it can be used at any time during battle, making its effects quite remarkable.

Such a good product, of course he didn't sell it directly for money, but chose to use it himself. In order to recover the cost, he just kept diluting it with water and handed over the super weakened version of Life Yang No. 1 to Kado to operate.

Even the super-weakened version of Life Yang No. 1 is still an extraordinary medicine. It didn't initially appear on the battlefield, but was used as a longevity health product for nobles.

When it comes to the lifespan of nobles, the value is naturally extremely high, making it unaffordable for ordinary ninjas. Therefore, it is not popular in the market and is currently only circulating among nobles.

Kado had a very good business sense. He didn't just use scarcity marketing; instead, he used this longevity elixir as a bargaining chip to engage in political and business transactions with the nobles and expand the market.

As a result, trade routes that were previously difficult to open even with vast sums of money can now be easily secured with just a few small vials of longevity elixirs, and the Wave Country caravan has once again entered a period of rapid development.

The rapidly developing Land of Waves also faced new challenges. Many forces in the ninja world began to covet this longevity elixir, and a large number of spies and agents came to the Land of Waves. Some forces even hired pirate organizations to forcibly plunder it.

Fortunately, the Land of Waves has Kakuzu, a Kage-level powerhouse, in charge. He recently used Life Star One to create many Chunin subordinates, which helped them thwart the covetous attempts of these forces.

Now, after incorporating the Heroic Water of Takigakure Village and increasing the amount of meteorite radiation and Five-Tails flesh into Life Star One, Life Star Two has finally been developed.

With Life Star II and Life Sun I providing nourishment, the Land of Waves began training special Jonin-level guards. Once they donned their flying armor, they could be used as genuine Jonin.

In this way, the crisis in the Land of Waves was resolved, and the Land of Waves caravan took the opportunity to recover a large amount of debt.

With such a foundation, Sasuke Umino was able to confidently assemble a puppet production line in the Land of Waves and start a business selling ninja prosthetics and puppets.

Konoha and Sunagakure are not benevolent people. If they lack strength as a foundation and rely solely on the rules of the ninja world, seeing the lucrative business, these two great ninja villages might very well become envious and secretly harbor evil intentions. "With the human puppet modification technology, the prosthetic limb production factory for ninjas in the Land of Waves has finally been established."

Sasuke Umino already had a plan: instead of immediately producing mechanical puppets, he would use the puppet production line he had seized from the Land of Wind to manufacture ninja prosthetics, so that they could be used on the ninjas on the front lines in the Land of River as quickly as possible.

There are quite a few disabled ninjas on the front lines of the Land of Rivers who have lost limbs. Those who have lost limbs are relatively better off, as they usually choose to continue serving. Those who have lost limbs, a small number of them will choose to be fitted with simple steel limbs, while most will choose to retire and return to Konoha Village to live out their remaining years.

Now, with ninja prosthetics at the level of human puppets, their ninja careers can be completely saved, and their strength can even be enhanced.

These ninja prosthetics are all enhanced. As cloned flesh and blood prosthetics, they can also incorporate the mechanical prosthetic technology of human puppets. Putting mechanical missiles in the arms is not out of the question.

Of course, all of this depends on the ninja's own wishes. If they want the original, they can just replace the internal alloy skeleton, and the surface will still look like a flesh and blood body with little change. If they need to modify it, then there are all sorts of options.

Adding sharp blades and hidden weapons to prosthetics is a mainstream trend, and adding missiles is also a good option. As for adding ninjutsu scrolls, due to insufficient technological reserves, it can only be left for future development.

Compared to simple prosthetic modifications, modifying Ruritama's human puppet is much more complex. It requires not only maintaining the corpse's vitality and chakra meridian neural network, but also creating a chakra regeneration core for it. The technical requirements are quite high. The key is to process it as soon as possible to prevent the corpse from stiffening and losing its vitality.

Fortunately, the puppet production line was assembled and debugged by Hiruko's team, and the work behind enemy lines in the Land of Wind was handled by Hatake Sagumo. He only needed to use the Flying Thunder God Technique every day to return to the desert of the Land of Wind and liberate one or two oases with Hatake Sagumo. In fact, most of the time, he didn't even need to take action himself; Hatake Sagumo alone was enough. This gave him plenty of time to modify Ruritama's corpse.

To forge a chakra short sword for his son Kakashi, Hatake Sagumo went to great lengths, saying he wanted to give him more time to assemble and debug the puppet production line. He took on the role of a beast of burden, handling many tasks by himself.

Sasuke Umino returns to the desert of the Land of Wind every day, seemingly not to help, but more to collect spoils of war.

With a large share of the spoils, Hatake Sagumo was working with great enthusiasm.

I only sleep three hours a day. All I do is either chop people up or on my way to chop people up.

With each oasis liberated, Hatake Sagumo felt he was about to become a billionaire, and his wealth was growing every day.

The Land of Wind may seem poor, but that's only relative to the common people. The chieftains, elders, and nobles live in extreme luxury. The most common items seized are gold, silver, jade, and silk from the Land of Fire. There are also many antiques and paintings of various kinds. Even though Hatake Sagumo is not good with money, he knows that this is a huge fortune.

If he were to venture deep behind enemy lines alone, he could at most fill one or two small sealed scrolls, and any excess spoils would have to be discarded. However, with the addition of Umino Sasuke's Flying Thunder God Technique, he can now collect all the spoils.

Apart from distributing some food and daily necessities to the civilians in the liberated oases, they could have completely emptied these oases like locusts, taking even miscellaneous items such as carpets and golden tents.

What Hatake Saigumo considered junk actually had greater value.

These miscellaneous supplies, once moved to the Land of Waves and refurbished, could be sold back to the Land of Wind by Gato at a high price. The profit would be no less than that of gold, silver, and jade artifacts, and he could also earn a large profit from the price difference with Hatake Sagumo.

While Hatake Sagumo was liberating oases one by one, Umino Sasuke spent most of his time holed up in the underground Zero Laboratory, working overtime to modify Ruritama's corpse.

Moreover, he also released a large number of shadow clones to assist him. Apart from the research project on the Hashirama cell regeneration nucleus, which was personally handled by the main body, he basically handed over all other matters to the shadow clones.

In just a few days, based on the knowledge related to the captured puppet scrolls and combined with the mechanical modification technology provided by Hiruko and Orochimaru, he had already carried out the initial mechanical puppetization of Ruritama's corpse.

Now, Ruri-tama's injured tissues, useless organs, and even bones have been removed, and high-strength alloy bones and reinforced puppet organs have been implanted. The nerve bundles and meridian node networks in his activated body have also been preserved quite well. This is thanks to the Yang Release activation effect of Life Yang-1, which bought him a lot of time for modification.

Compared to Ebizo and Sateran, who had been immersed in the field for a long time, his research on human puppets was indeed a bit lacking. However, he also had his own advantages. With the support of two tech giants, Hiruko and Orochimaru, he was much stronger than Ebizo and Sateran combined in the field of modifying mechanical puppets.

With Orochimaru's support in particular, it was like adding wings to a tiger.

Because of this, Orochimaru also advised him not to put the cart before the horse. He should only dabble in the research and modification of the mechanical puppets and not spend too much energy on it. Studying the true essence of ninjutsu is the key.

(End of this chapter)