Starting with Wood Release, he survives in Konoha Hospital and becomes a big shot.

Sikong Zhen frowned slightly as he looked at the dilapidated state of everything and the filthy environment.

When the poor people living here learned about the background of someone like Sikong Zhen, their faces were filled with nothing but fear.

Not many people here know about the previous battle, and they don't even know Sikong Zhen. But while they don't know Sikong Zhen, they do know the others.

The Dark Army Captain Yagura, and the rising star Kisame Hoshigaki.

They usually don't get to see such important people, but today they saw them all, and these people even went into the slums where they lived.

Under the fearful gaze of the crowd, Sikong Zhen finally arrived at a low-lying house.

A little girl, about five or six years old, was playing at the door. When she heard the noise, she looked at Sikong Zhen, who was walking slowly towards her, with a panic.

"Kid, where are your parents?" Sikong Zhen asked with a light laugh, his gaze fixed on the house.

"Who are you?" the little girl asked timidly, her big eyes looking at Sikong Zhen with curiosity.

"I am Sikong Zhen," Sikong Zhen said with a light laugh.

Clang...

A sound came from the low house, and then a woman rushed out, picked up the little girl on the ground, and looked at Sikong Zhen and the others with a terrified expression.

"I'm sorry, sir, the child doesn't know any better..." the woman said in a panic.

She assumed the little girl had offended Sikong Zhen and the others, so she didn't dare ask any more questions and quickly apologized to Sikong Zhen.

Looking at the woman in front of him, Sikong Zhen frowned slightly.

Although her face was covered in dirt, her eyes were dull, and her hair was disheveled, Sikong Zhen could still see a familiar feature in her features.

"You..." Sikong Zhen began, but for a moment he didn't know what to say. After a long while, he said, "You only have this one child?"

"Yes, sir, I only have this one child. If she has offended you, I apologize and hope you won't..." the woman said fearfully.

"It's nothing, I just..." Sikong Zhen hesitated for a moment, "You should have another child, right? It's a boy?"

Sikong Zhen finally chose to ask directly.

The woman's expression changed, but she quickly nodded and said, "Yes, sir, but he has already passed away."

"Passed away?" Sikong Zhen asked, frowning.

“Yes, it died when it was very young,” the woman replied.

Sikong Zhen's conversation with the woman was nonsensical, leaving Kisame Hoshigaki, who was listening nearby, completely bewildered. He couldn't get a word in edgewise and could only listen with a puzzled expression.

Meanwhile, Yagura Karatachi frowned, scrutinizing the woman, trying to discern something from her.

However, Yagura was also helpless.

The woman was disheveled and looked like she had a serious illness. Her face was unrecognizable, and her hunched body made it impossible to discern anything.

"How can this detect ghosts..."

Yagura thought to himself.

Even if he did remember the woman who brought the child to school, he wouldn't recognize her now.

"How did your child die?" Sikong Zhen asked.

The woman bit her lip, seemingly unsure of what to say.

"It's nothing, I just want to know what's going on. Just tell me what you know," Sikong Zhen said.

"He...he..." the woman began several times, but ultimately didn't know what to say.

"My brother has joined the Dark Division." Just then, the little girl being held by the woman spoke up.

"Joined the Dark Side?"

At this moment, not only Sikong Zhen, but also Yagura Gouju, Kisame Hoshigaki, and even Zabuza Momochi all changed their expressions.

How did this get involved with the Dark Guard?

The woman's expression changed immediately, and she quickly covered the little girl's mouth.

“Don’t talk nonsense. Your brother accidentally fell into the river and drowned,” the woman said immediately.

"What's your brother's name?" Sikong Zhen ignored the woman and asked the little girl directly, his terrifying aura emanating from him.

The woman was so frightened by Sikong Zhen that she dared not cover the little girl's mouth anymore.

"My brother's name is Xing," the little girl said after a moment of silence.

“Star,” Sikong Zhen murmured softly.

At the same time, Yagura's expression changed.

"Why is it called Star?" he asked directly.

"Because my brother has a star-shaped mark on his chest," the little girl said.

"Star mark?" Sikong Zhen frowned in confusion.

"It's that child."

Upon hearing this, Yagura Karatachi said with a determined expression.

If he couldn't be sure about what was said before, or even verify it, now he can confirm that the older brother the little girl was talking about was the child he had taken from Yakushi Nonou.

Because that child did indeed have a star mark on his chest.

You should still remember me, right?

Yagura Karatachi stepped forward and walked up to the woman.

He wasn't sure if the woman remembered him, but at this point, it was the only thing he could do.

After all, compared to women who don't have many memorable features, Yagura Karatachi is much more memorable.

With a baby face, a height of less than 1.4 meters, green hair, and purple pupils, you only need to remember one or two of these distinctive features to identify him.

"You...you are..."

At this moment, the woman finally took a closer look at the person in front of her.

"You're the one who gave me my child!"

The woman finally recognized the man in front of her; he was the one who had handed the boy over to her on that rainy night and then turned and left.

"Where is that child? How did he join the Anbu? When did he join the Anbu?" Yagura asked, somewhat frantically.

At this moment, he was even more concerned about the child's whereabouts than Sikong Zhen.

Because he controls the Dark Division.

He had tried to find the woman before, but he couldn't. Later, he had too many things to do and couldn't afford to waste any more time on it, so he gave up.

But now, this woman is telling him that the child has joined the Dark Guard. What does this mean? Has he come full circle and ended up back under her command?

But he had no idea.

Sikong Zhen's expression also changed repeatedly.

A yellowed photograph had appeared in his hand at some point. It showed three people: a woman and two children, a boy and a girl.

After recognizing Yagura, the woman stopped hiding her identity and told him when he joined the Dark Division and what happened afterward.

"Joining the Dark Organization at such a young age, could it be..."

Xing joined the Dark Division when he was very young, only three years old. What could a three-year-old child do if he joined the Dark Division?

Without even thinking, Kisame Hoshigaki and the others already knew where the child had gone.

spy!

And they were child spies.

"Give me the information," Yagura Karatachi said to someone not far away.

That man was a Jonin who controlled intelligence on personnel in the Anbu (Anbu headquarters); all the scattered spy information was in his hands.

As for whether the little boy was dead, Yagura and the others were unsure.

Because once child spies leave, the story given to their families is that they are dead.

But whether he is truly dead or not, only the Anbu (secret unit) knows.

Even though the mortality rate for child spies is extremely high, there is still a possibility that the child might survive.

"You said that boy has a star mark on his chest? What kind of star mark is it?" Sikong Zhen suddenly asked.

“It’s just a star,” the girl replied.

Upon hearing Sikong Zhen's question, Yagura Gouju, while flipping through the documents, said, "That child does indeed have a star mark on his chest, but that mark doesn't usually appear. It only shows up when his body temperature rises, such as when he has a fever."

Sikong Zhen's pupils contracted slightly.

Before he could ask again, Yagura's face lit up with joy, and he exclaimed, "Found him! That child was indeed a child spy, sent to Konoha. According to intelligence records, he was adopted by the director of the Konoha Orphanage, Yakushi Nonou, and named Yakushi..."

The next moment, Yagura Karatachi suddenly looked up and said incredulously.

"Pharmacist Star Extreme!??"

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Chapter 281 Meeting

"Yakushi Hoshiki???" Kisame Hoshigaki blurted out, his expression changing several times in an instant.

When Yagura saw this name, he was extremely shocked because he had heard of it before. It was the disciple of Tsunade, one of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha. Before the age of six, he had already mastered extremely powerful medical ninjutsu and had a considerable reputation in the ninja world. If it weren't for the incident with Root, he might have already made a name for himself in the Third Shinobi World War.

"Wait... The Root was destroyed by the Yaotian Organization, and no one has ever seen the body of that Pharmacist Xingji. Could it be..." Yagura suddenly realized something, his purple pupils suddenly contracted, and he was shocked beyond words.

But no matter how shocked he was, it couldn't compare to the change in Kisame's expression at that moment.

"Yakushi Hoshiki, how is this possible..." Kisame Hoshigaki could hardly believe it was real.

Others may not know the truth, but he certainly does.

Within the Yaotian organization, the divine messenger codenamed Ziwei is none other than the Pharmacist Xingji.

That means the Ziwei Divine Messenger is the child that the woman in front of her adopted, the child that Yagura Karatachi snatched from Sakumo Hatake and Nono Yakushi.

Although Zabuza Momochi was not quite clear about what had happened, he realized from the changes in everyone's expressions that this Yakushi Hoshiki was probably not a simple child.