In Konoha, you get one evolution point every day.

"Lin Fan!!"

Mitokado was practically roaring.

"Yes, yes."

Lin Fan smiled and leaned in to listen: "If you have something to say, then say it. If not, please leave."

He lowered his hand, his smile now tinged with coldness: "This is a military stronghold now. The Hokage has ordered us to seal off this place. No one is allowed to enter except for us."

Before Mitokado Homura could continue his rage, a rustling sound came from the jungle. When Mitokado Homura and the others looked again, they saw no fewer than ten Anbu ninjas wearing Anbu masks and Anbu uniforms standing there.

A peaceful forest, a smiling Lin Fan, a rabbit acting like a fox borrowing the tiger's power, a cold Orochimaru... and ten Anbu ninjas standing in various places.

As the scene came into view, Mitokado Yan's body trembled slightly.

"I...I'm the Hokage's advisor...You can't—slap me!"

Lin Fan's applause interrupted Mitokado Yan's voice.

"Such an imposing official air! If you didn't know better, you'd think Elder Mito was the Hokage."

Lin Fan smiled.

Mitokado En: "? I didn't say that!! Don't try to slander me!!!"

Mitomon Yan took a few steps back and stood in the center of the crowd before he felt a sense of security.

Xiaochun, who was turning over a new room, hadn't lost her mind yet.

"Lin Fan, Elder Yan and I are just here to take a look; we have no other intentions."

Lin Fan smiled.

"I know."

Seeing that Lin Fan had no intention of making a move, Koharu Utatane glanced at the few Utatane clan ninjas she had brought. Apart from two Jonin who were still able to stand, they were all trembling with fear at the sight of this scene, and she couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow.

"Then is it alright for us to leave, Lin Fan's assistant?"

You still refuse to call me Secretary?

Lin Fan shook his head with some regret and waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go."

......

Mitomon and a group of people from the transfer room left.

The secret agents entered the base to collect items that they hadn't had time to inspect the day before.

"Are we just going to let them go like that?" Orochimaru said to Lin Fan at the doorway. "They won't give up."

Orochimaru meant: Why not eliminate the problem completely?

"Wild grass never ceases to grow; the spring breeze brings it back to life."

Lin Fan stood in the shade, "If I capture them now, it will only make me look like a tyrant or a demon. I'm doing this for Konoha."

Lin Fan sighed.

Orochimaru: "???"

—For the sake of Konoha, they arrested Danzo and the Third Hokage? They beat up the Third Hokage's son? They destroyed Danzo's hideout?

"Sometimes I really don't understand you," Orochimaru said helplessly. "What are you planning to do next?"

Lin Fan thought for a moment.

"Let's play it safe for now."

"Eat the roots first."

Orochimaru: "..."

—So you were actually quite steady?

......

With the cooperation of former Root ninjas, Lin Fan and Orochimaru led the Anbu forces to wipe out the remaining Root strongholds.

Outside a root laboratory that is nominally named after roots.

An ANBU infiltrated, and the two Root ninjas responsible for security were instantly killed.

The group rushed into the laboratory in an instant.

Brightly lit, the cold corpses and living people were stored like specimens in research chambers resembling formaldehyde.

It is well known that formalin cannot be stored in living people.

The technology in the Naruto world is more advanced than that of modern times. The so-called research chamber is actually a kind of creation called a nutrient chamber, which is specifically designed to cultivate experimental subjects. A dozen or so unidentified children were inside the glass chamber, seemingly unconscious, relying on absorbing nutrients from the water to survive.

"This is something Danzo created specifically for studying Hashirama cells."

Orochimaru's voice echoed in the empty laboratory.

Lin Fan stood outside a nutrient pod, watching the boy inside for a long time.

Orochimaru thought Lin Fan wanted to know the details of this research project.

So I explained.

"The purpose of this experiment is to slowly introduce diluted intercolumnar cells into the cell."

"However, the current dilution is relatively small. It is almost insufficient to cause cytoplasmic changes."

Orochimaru said.

There was one more thing he didn't say.

That is, Danzo had approached him this month and asked him to personally supervise the experiment—simply put, the experiment couldn't wait, Danzo planned to increase the dosage, and had Orochimaru record the experimental data.

Lin Fan stood there without saying a word.

After a long silence, he spoke.

"Anbu, did you all see that? This is Danzo, this is the crime Danzo committed!"

He turned around.

At this moment, many members of the secret service were still confused and fearful of the higher-ups. Upon hearing Lin Fan's voice, they all looked at him.

"If we had arrived any later, these children might have died at Danzo's hands."

At this moment, Lin Fan was filled with compassion and great love.

The members of the Anbu exchanged bewildered glances, and at that moment, they all gasped in shock—did their assistant already know that Danzo had done such a thing?

At this moment, several people were thinking.

Did the Third Hokage really know nothing about Danzo's actions? Did the two advisors also know?

The group then recalled how smoothly Orochimaru had described the experiment, and a hint of hostility flashed in their eyes.

Faced with hostility, Orochimaru shrugged indifferently.

He doesn't have much to talk about with these people.

The weak being dealt with by the strong is the only true way.

He probably understood that these people simply felt that killing was a way of putting the principle of "the strong prevailing over the weak" into practice, and that capturing the weak and using them as experimental subjects was an insult to the weak—or rather, they were afraid of becoming such "weak" people.

If the game window is displayed, you'll see Orochimaru's reputation ↓ and Lin Fan's reputation ↑.

......

"Release these people. Wait." Lin Fan suddenly called out to one of the secret agents. He saw that the boy's body seemed to be turning into mist.

—So this is the boy named Tianzang.

Orochimaru walked over.

He also saw Tianzang inside the nutrient tank.

"This child, I'm the one who brought him back."

Orochimaru smiled.

Preparing to open the hidden part of the nutrient tank: "..."

As expected, Orochimaru is a bad guy!

"You're quite smug about it." Lin Fan was speechless.

"Will it be okay to leave the child inside temporarily?"

"No," Orochimaru shook his head. "These liquids are actually beneficial to the child."

Lin Fan nodded and glanced at Tianzang's No. 8 cabin.

"Then leave them. Except for compartments 8 and 7, untie all the others according to Orochimaru's instructions."

......

The dozen or so boys and girls who were rescued gradually awoke from their coma. The corridor outside the laboratory was noisy. Lin Fan stood between nutrient tank number 7 and nutrient tank number 8, which was directly opposite number 7, looking at the report in his hand. The report contained data on two people that Orochimaru had found in the laboratory. He had no interest in the data of the others.

Tianzang's data shows an affinity rate of 30%.

The boy in cabin 7 showed a friendliness level of 35%.

"So it was only 35% affinity?" Lin Fan thought of the original Yamato's Wood Release technique, which was less than half the power of the First Hokage.

"35% is already the highest among these people." Orochimaru held reports on the other people and the past. "Previous test subjects also had affinity rates of over 50%, but those people still died in the experimental chamber."

The nutrient solution and the liquid that gently 'moisturizes' the cells are called the nutrient chamber.

but.

—If the purity of the 'cell-nourishing' liquid is increased a hundredfold, then the nutrient chamber can also be turned into an experimental chamber.