The night is getting darker, but the Anbu's Headquarters in Konoha is still brightly lit.
The Anbu Commander, Eagle, Shikaku and Hiruzen are in a small operating room at this moment, and on the operating table in the middle of the operating room lies a pale, unconscious man with weak aura.
This man was a felon who was originally going to be handed over to the Land of Fire's Daimyo. A few days ago, he was used by Shikaku and was taken to Anbu for experimentation.
And the results of the experiment…
Shikaku, Hiruzen, and Eagle looked at this man with unsightly expressions.
At this moment, Minato pushed the door open and entered.
"For calling me in such a hurry, have you discovered something? Sandaime, Shikaku, Eagle." Minato looked at the three people in the operating room with a smile.
Eagle glanced at Shikaku on the left, and said: "Shikaku, you can say it."
Shikaku frowned and said solemnly: "Yondaime-sama, with the help of Anbu and this patient, we have found the 'cause' of the patient's illness."
"What is it?" Minato asked nervously.
"It has something to do with Chakra!" Shikaku said.
At first, Konoha Hospital suspected that these patients had some unknown disease, but no germs were found in their bodies after testing. Later, they suspected that they were poisoned, but the examination results showed that these patients showed no signs of poisoning!
It wasn't until Anbu found out the commonality that these patients had enrolled in the Academy, which gave Shikaku a hint of inspiration.
After that, Shikaku found this felon and spent a few days working out a method to extract Chakra. In the end…
"The Chakra inside their body were forcibly removed, which have caused a long-term coma and weak aura." Shikaku sighed, "I should have thought of it earlier."
"Those patients are not Shinobi, so everyone wouldn't think about Chakra, it's not your fault, Shikaku." Hiruzen comforted.
Eagle beside him also nodded.
His subordinate saw the culprit attacking the villagers during the day, but this subordinate was not a Sensor Shinobi, so he could not detect the flow of Chakra. He only said that the man in black bit the villager with strange Chakra, and the next moment, the villager fell to the ground.
In the end, it still depends on Shikaku's ingenuity.
Eagle looked at Shikaku with admiration.
"So that's how it is."
Minato's expression did not show the slightest joy, but became more and more solemn, and then he said slowly, "In other words, the ten Root's Shinobi are constantly extracting the Chakra of the villagers. Is Gozu Tenno related to absorbing others' Chakra?"
"It's just absorbing Chakra from ordinary villagers. No matter how much they absorb, it won't be much, right?" Eagle looked at him in confusion.
"If this is the case, Advisor Danzo will not rely on Gozu Tenno to turn around the situation."
Shikaku analyzes, "This Gozu Tenno… maybe it can only absorb the Chakra of these ordinary people with negative emotions at the beginning, but later…"
"It's Shinobi's turn, right?" Hiruzen couldn't help but light up his pipe and take a deep puff.
The operating room is non-smoking area, but who makes Hiruzen senior enough?
Shikaku said: "What I am most worried about is that there is no upper limit to their absorption. If this is the case, then those ten Root's Shinobi will be equivalent to ten Biju in larval stage. So once they absorb enough Chakra…"
The image of ten Biju causing chaos in Konoha suddenly appeared in the minds of the four people present, and their expressions became increasingly ugly.
"Yondaime, what do you think?" Hiruzen put down his pipe and asked.
"Among the ten Root's Shinobi, the Anbu has confirmed one of them."
Minato said, "And I have sent someone to keep an eye on him."
Hiruzen and Shikaku immediately understood Minato's plan. He just wanted to wait for the other party to meet the other nine people and catch them in one go!
But.
Shikaku couldn't help but pour cold water: "Yondaime-sama, what if ten of them contact Advisor Danzo in one-way method, or waited until they absorbed Biju-level Chakra before contacting each other?"
Minato said with a bitter smile: "I have also considered this issue, but… If we capture this known Root's Shinobi now, the other nine will only hide deeper."
"Just catch Danzo directly!"
Hiruzen said with clenched teeth, "I will personally interrogate him!"
Minato smiled bitterly and shook his head. If Danzo can be persuaded by Hiruzen, he wouldn't be where he is today.
As for Anbu's methods, Danzo, as the leader of Root, is naturally not afraid.
The atmosphere in the operating room gradually became heavy.
"Everyone, we should prepare for the worst." Minato said in a low voice.
...
Outside Kirigakure.
Taki looked at the familiar scene and extremely complicated emotion filled his eyes under the big sunglasses.
After leaving the Forest of Death, he went around in circles to the Land of Rain, made a long circle, and finally returned here after changing his clothes!
"Orochimaru, come out."
Taki was guided here by White Zetsu's clone, so Orochimaru must be nearby. He then said with a snort, "Give me my ring back."
"Hehehehe..."
With the cold, hoarse laughter, Orochimaru's thin figure slowly walked out from the shade of the tree. He looked at Taki with a faint smile on his face, and said playfully, "I didn't expect you would dare to show up in front of me."
"I don't quite understand what you mean" Taki pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose.
A sharp arc appeared at the corner of Orochimaru's mouth, but he said no more.
What happened during the capture of Sanbi in Kirigakure led Orochimaru to deduce the truth that Kanpū and Taki are both members of Abyss, so Orochimaru went to report to tattletale to Minato in an attempt to sow discord in the relationship between Kanpū and Konoha, but he didn't expect that Minato already knows about this information.
There is so much information he got from it!
Orochimaru even suspects that the headquarters of Abyss is in Konoha!
If this suspicion is true, will Taki in front of him still be a Konoha's Missing-nin?
The bigger possibility is that like Shisui, he's another Konoha's undercover!
He then thinks of another Abyss's member, Hyōketsu…
He felt that Akatsuki is riddled with holes.
'Once I get the benefits, I must leave Akatsuki as soon as possible!'
Orochimaru secretly made up his mind, and at the same time he opened his mouth, sprayed out the 'Blue' ring, and said: "Your ring."
Taki watched the ring stained with mucus draw a smelly arc in the air, and in the end… he didn't stretch out his hand and just watched the ring fall to the ground.
Orochimaru smiled and stuck out his tongue to lick his face.
Taki's face twitched at this moment. He didn't feel very angry, he just felt… disgusted.
He stomped his feet and called helplessly: "White Zetsu, come out."
"What are you doing?" White Zetsu's clone got out of the ground.
"Clean the ring for me." Taki sighed angrily and then said, "Please."
"…" White Zetsu's clone.