In Konoha, you get one evolution point every day.

"Let's put the testing aside for now."

Orochimaru thought for a moment, realizing that things were in complete chaos and there was no time to test a mere Mist Release technique.

"What do you plan to do to this child?"

Orochimaru looked at the nameless boy in cabin number 7.

Lin Fan also looked over.

"I intend to keep him as a test subject for Wood Release."

Wouldn't Konoha be missing a real estate tycoon without Yamato?

Orochimaru: "? Are you serious?"

"The Wood Release experiment is no ordinary experiment. If it fails, it will cause irreversible damage to the human body..." Orochimaru suddenly noticed that the vital signs of the boy, Tenzo, on the instrument in chamber 8 were becoming more stable. He paused for a moment, then said, "Whatever makes you happy."

Forget about science for now, let's listen to Lin Fan first.

......

Hokage Building.

Lin Fan led Orochimaru into the office.

"Lin Fan!" Lin Xiaobai jumped from the coffee table into Lin Fan's arms. "Did you miss me?"

"I want to." Lin Fan replied, waving to Tsunade who was sitting in the office chair: "All the small bases that Root has scattered out have been dealt with, and we've also discovered the 'victims' of the Wood Release experiments."

Lin Fan patted Lin Xiaobai's rabbit head.

Orochimaru, standing to the side, added, "For now, those 'victims' will be temporarily transferred to the Konoha Orphanage. I'm sure the 'shrine maiden' will take good care of them."

"That Danzo guy..." Tsunade gritted her teeth after hearing everything: "Orochimaru, is this what you did in your previous experiments?"

Orochimaru was a little embarrassed and looked at Lin Fan for help... At this moment, Lin Fan went to the sofa and lay down, like a member of the crowd.

Damn it, you betrayed me!

Orochimaru looked up again.

A blond figure magnified in his eyes.

Suddenly, he felt a powerful force in his abdomen. Then, Orochimaru's eyes widened, and with a loud bang, he punched another hole in the repaired Hokage Gate, followed by the wall.

The ANBU stood on either side, motionless, their six eyes meeting. The two men remained silent and continued their guard duty. Orochimaru coughed up blood.

"Damn it." Orochimaru was also helpless. He had already done a great service, so why did he still have to be beaten?

Tsunade stood there, having vented her anger somewhat.

"Lin Fan, do you think our teacher knows about what Danzo did?"

Lin Fan opened the magazine on the table, and Lin Xiaobai followed along while he was in his arms. When he heard Tsunade's voice, Lin Fan looked up.

"I don't know. Why are you asking me, even though you've been around for three generations?"

Tsunade nodded.

That makes sense!

......

Tsunade and Lin Fan arrived at the Anbu prison.

Standing in front of the door where Hiruzen Sarutobi is imprisoned.

The inspection window of the iron gate opened, and an old man was reading a newspaper inside.

Hearing the noise, the old man looked away from the newspaper and raised his head slightly.

"You've arrived. I thought you'd forgotten about this old man."

Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice was devoid of anger.

"Open the door," Tsunade said to the ANBU at the door.

The officer in the shadows nodded and opened the door with the key.

The door was pushed open, and Tsunade and Lin Fan walked in.

Lin Fan glanced at Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was wearing shackles, and then, with Lin Xiaobai on his shoulder, they stood by a relatively clean wall, with Lin Fan taking out a bag of sunflower seeds.

Hiruzen Sarutobi: "?"

—What are you doing here, kid?

Lin Fan took out a handful of melon seeds and handed a small pinch to Lin Xiaobai.

"Want it?"

Lin Xiaobai picked up a melon seed, puzzled, and asked.

"How do you eat this?"

"Oh, that's easy, I'll teach you."

Lin Fan is teaching Lin Xiaobai how to eat sunflower seeds.

The Anbu brought over a stool for Tsunade to sit on.

After Tsunade sat down, the door closed again.

After the Anbu had gone some distance, Tsunade said:

"Old man, do you know what Danzo did?"

"...He conducted Wood Release experiments on a group of innocent ordinary people."

When Tsunade uttered the words "Wood Release experiment," she kept observing Hiruzen Sarutobi's changing expression.

The latter has no emotions.

Clearly, he knew.

"You know that?!"

Tsunade was furious. How many people had died from these experiments? Besides not wanting her grandfather's body to be desecrated, she didn't want even more people to die because of her grandfather's body. It was an insult to her grandfather's reputation.

Seeing that Hiruzen Sarutobi remained silent, Tsunade excitedly stood up, grabbed Hiruzen's prison uniform collar, and lifted the old man into the air: "Why won't you answer me!"

"...Konoha needs Wood Release ninjas."

After a long silence, Hiruzen Sarutobi finally spoke.

Tsunade released Hiruzen Sarutobi, whose body collapsed onto the not-so-clean bed.

Tsunade turned away, no longer looking at Hiruzen Sarutobi.

—You've disappointed me so much, Hiruzen-sensei.

Lost in thought, she saw Lin Fan still eating sunflower seeds, and she became furious.

"Let's go!"

"Okay." Lin Fan nodded, glanced at the somewhat forlorn old man over there, and then left with the rabbit.

......

The two returned to the Hokage Building.

Standing before the gate that had been repaired once again, Tsunade paused for a moment and said to Lin Fan, "Go do it. No matter what you do, I will stand behind you."

Lin Fan was stunned.

Seeing Tsunade's emotions, he could understand a little. After all, Hiruzen Sarutobi was her teacher. It was like how Minato Namikaze entrusted Naruto to the Third Hokage, who only provided basic care, while turning a blind eye to the villagers' bullying...

In an avalanche, no snowflake is innocent.

"Lady Tsunade, what are you saying? Everything I've done is for Konoha."

Lin Fan smiled and said to Tsunade, while the two Anbu members pretended to be deaf.

Tsunade rolled her eyes at Lin Fan in an annoyed manner.

"Then please have my secretary fetch me a pot of your secret brew."

"Okay." Lin Fan replied nonchalantly, then left the Naruto Building with his hands behind his head.

After Lin Fan had walked away, Tsunade let out a disappointed sigh, then pushed open the door and went into her office.

......

"Lin Fan, what did that violent woman say she wanted to do?"

Lin Xiaobai's voice came very close.

Lin Fan snapped out of his thoughts.

He glanced at the surrounding streets and answered Lin Xiaobai.

"This is too complicated, you don't need to listen."

Lin Fan patted Lin Xiaobai's head.

He didn't want Lin Xiaobai, this innocent rabbit, to be corrupted by the bad things adults did.

Lin Fan was walking towards the izakaya.

Several Konoha ninjas around him pretended to buy things, but they were actually keeping an eye on Lin Fan.

Lin Fan didn't care. He could tell which clans these ninjas belonged to just by looking at their clothes. Sometimes he was speechless. For example, Konoha's White Fang always had white hair on his head. He was the only one with white hair in the entire Konoha Anbu. Sometimes he didn't know what the point of Konoha's White Fang wearing that mask was.

"Brother Lin Fan, are you here to buy something too?"

"Brother Lin Fan, it's been a long time."

As Lin Fan passed by a flower shop, he bumped into Kurenai Yuhi and Anko Mitarashi, who were walking out of the shop. Inside the flower shop, the girl from Class B, Yamanaka, gave him a slight smile.

"It's you guys." Lin Fan stopped in his tracks, and the people nearby also stopped.

"I almost forgot, it's the weekend today."

"How's it going? Even without me and Kakashi at school, your grades haven't dropped, have they?"

"No, I didn't," Kurenai Yuhi said.

"You underestimate us too much." Mitarashi Anko hugged Yuhi Kurenai and said, "After you left, Hyuga Masahiro took first place... By the way, I've always had a question, I wonder if I could ask Lin Fan-nii."

Has the younger generation finally learned of the village's internal strife? Sigh. There's nothing we can do. Ultimately, we're just too powerful. These elders have finally chosen to acknowledge...

Where did Kakashi Hatake go?

Lin Fan: "..."

Hongdou pinched her chin.

"When I passed by the Hatake clan before, I never saw Kakashi. We all wondered if Kakashi had moved away from Konoha."

"Yes, that's right." Kurenai Yuhi nodded.

Lin Fan scratched his cheek.

Oh, that's the problem. That's so boring.

Just then, his exceptional hearing suddenly picked up a familiar voice as someone haggled with a shopkeeper over a shuriken. He glanced back at the ninja tool shop, and despite the sunlight reflecting off the glass, his sharp eyesight allowed him to spot the white-haired figure inside!

"Well, I think it would be more appropriate for you to ask the white-haired guy at the ninja tool shop. Oh, right, I have something to do, so I'll be going now."

Lin Fan ran away with Lin Xiaobai. Kurenai Yuhi and Anko Mitarashi couldn't stop them. Seeing this, several people nearby stopped pretending and rushed out to chase after them.

"Why is Brother Lin Fan running so fast?" Yuhi Hong asked, her face full of confusion.

"It seems like they just followed some suspicious people. Could they be planning to attack our brother Lin Fan?" Hongdou frowned.

Kakashi walked out happily, carrying a bunch of discounted ninja tools.

Great! With so many ninja tools, the training ahead will be much easier.

At that moment, two shadows loomed over.