Naruto: Building the Strongest Uchiha Starting with Gacha Pulls

Chapter 107 White Zetsu's Fingers

The next day.

Gen Uchiha was awakened by the sounds of people gathering outside the camp.

"Ugh————"

I still feel a bit tired, and my injury hasn't fully healed.

This was the first time Uchiha Gen had felt so tired since he obtained the Tsunade character card.

When you get really tired, even someone with a thousand hands can't handle it.

I got out of bed, used my palm magic to heal the injuries I hadn't had time to treat last night, and then bandaged them to prevent the wounds from reopening and affecting my movement. Then I put on a new set of clothes and went outside.

In late spring, the temperature in the Land of Rain rises, but it becomes even more humid.

The continuous drizzle, combined with the temperature, made the air feel sticky.

"Lord Yuan, you're awake!"

A young ninja assigned to the entrance saw Uchiha Gen, shouted, and hurriedly ran away into the distance.

This is----

Before long, Orochimaru gracefully arrived from afar, his demeanor still as noble and composed as a serpent king.

But he also carried a venomous and cruel aura, as if he were about to cruelly hunt down his target.

"You almost died."

Orochimaru stared at Uchiha Genju's bandaged body, his voice calm yet laced with barely suppressed rage.

"Yes, if it weren't for these eyes, I would have really perished there. It's also thanks to Senior Duan that Yan Jun and the others wouldn't have been able to come back alive. Even so, some teammates still lost their lives in this mission."

The three-tomoe Sharingan appeared in Uchiha Gen's eye sockets, shining with a captivating red light.

"You were lucky; someone died, so the responsibility falls entirely on you."

Orochimaru took a list from his clothes and placed it in front of Uchiha Gen.

The list displayed a string of red names, many of which had an X next to them.

"After yesterday's battle, I've been investigating spies and have identified quite a few suspects. I've also narrowed down a few targets. Take a look at these people and see which ones you've had contact with."

Is it suspected that this was caused by a spy leak?

Gen Uchiha glanced at the list of suspects and felt a surge of warmth in his heart.

Orochimaru was really serious about it; even after a major battle, he stayed up all night to catch spies.

It must have taken a lot of work to catch so many people in one night.

"Thank you for your trouble, Orochimaru-sensei. I have something I'd like to show you regarding the mastermind behind this."

Gen Uchiha turned around and went back into the house, taking down a sealed cloth bag from the table with a few simple sealing incantations engraved on its surface.

Uchiha Gen hadn't even finished reading the sealing technique textbook that Uzumaki Mito had given him. The content was too complex, and he simply didn't have time to study it in depth. He wasn't even a beginner in sealing techniques; he had only learned a few of the simplest seals at the beginning, and even those seals couldn't be maintained for long.

Sealing a living person is definitely out of the question; even a ninja academy student who has just learned how to refine chakra might be able to break through the seal.

However, he only used it to temporarily seal a section of White Zetsu's finger inside, isolating it from chakra so that the White Zetsu's main body wouldn't sense it.

"This thing—was the Sand Village Jonin who attacked you bio-modified?"

When Orochimaru saw this white finger, whose composition was different from that of ordinary living beings, his eyes immediately lit up with interest.

Scientists are always full of curiosity about the unknown.

"It may not even belong to the human realm; its essence may no longer be that of a person."

Gen Uchiha picked up the kettle, poured Orochimaru a cup of lukewarm tea, and then carefully recounted the course of the battle to Orochimaru.

"A unique secret technique that allows one to blend into the soil and trees, a stealth ability that even the Byakugan cannot detect, and an extremely strong ability to possess and disguise oneself."

Orochimaru examined the severed finger with a look of surprise.

"The mastermind is not from Sunagakure. Their puppets are very strong and their biological abilities are also quite good, but they don't have the ability to create or cultivate such a strange creature. If they did, our intelligence would have been completely exposed long ago."

Gen Uchiha couldn't openly say that Madara was still alive, hiding in some corner, plotting against the entire ninja world.

Without a reliable source of information, and with his power and status not so high that it didn't need explanation, it was already quite impressive that this severed finger could prove the existence of a capable mastermind secretly causing trouble and having their eyes on him.

Moreover, the body tissues of White Zetsu have extremely high research value, and there is no one in the entire ninja world more suitable for research than Orochimaru.

"Don't carry out these kinds of reconnaissance and long-range independent combat missions for now. Only after you have mastered the power of the three-tomoe Sharingan and mastered at least one other attribute's nature transformation will you have enough self-defense capabilities."

After Orochimaru put the severed finger back into the sealed bag, he made hand seals and added layer upon layer of seals on top of it.

"I'll take this and study it first. I'll let you know when I have the results. Apart from needing your Jonin-level combat power on necessary large-scale battlefields, your usual tasks are training and reducing the burden on me and Tsunade."

"Reducing the burden?"

Uchiha Gen was somewhat curious.

He understands how to lighten Tsunade's burden, he's done that kind of work many times, but what does it mean to lighten Orochimaru's burden?

"Tsunade has gone out on a mission and won't be back for a while. You'll still be in charge of the medical affairs in the camp. I also don't have time. I have to be the main force in the battle, commanding the army, helping you with this research, and I also have my own things to do. How can I possibly manage? Zixiao is alone and has her own tasks. The rest will have to be shared by you."

Gen Uchiha nodded slowly.

Ultimately, this is because Orochimaru's team was still small, and he only had a few capable, trustworthy, and reliable people under his command, so he had to pull himself in first to fill the gap.

"I understand, Orochimaru-sensei, but I might need you or Senior Zixiao to guide me at the beginning. I don't have much experience with these things, and I might not be able to do very well starting from scratch."

"Go find Zixiao this afternoon, he will tell you what to do. Alright, I won't keep you from recovering any longer. Even if the people on this list have nothing to do with what happened to you, now that they've been identified, there's no reason for them to be let off the hook."

Orochimaru retrieved the list and sneered.

He had been holding in a lot of anger and hadn't been able to vent it yet, so now it's just that these people are unlucky.

After seeing Orochimaru off, Gen Uchiha first went to the medical area to check on the injured, and then treated several of his teammates before finally finding Mitarashi Shishou in Orochimaru's office.

"Senior Zixiao."

"No need to call me senior anymore. You'll be a Jonin soon, so just call me Zixiao."

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