Chapitre 423: Chapter 423 Research Materials Are Important

"Kanpū, are you okay?"

The huge commotion from the Rashomon couldn't be concealed from Shisui and Kakashi, so they immediately rushed over here when they heard the sound.

"Where is Orochimaru?" Kakashi closed his right eye tightly, and the 2-Tomoe Sharingan in his left eye quickly scanned the surroundings, but no figure was seen.

"He ran away, and I'm not sure which direction he is heading to." Kanpū pointed to the traces on the snowy ground, and then put away the Biju Cloak with a regretful expression.

'Just now, when Shisui used Genjutsu to control Orochimaru, it was definitely the best time to kill Orochimaru. Unfortunately, it was wasted. I am afraid that Orochimaru, who has learned a lesson, will have a strategic withdrawal when he sees Shisui in the future, and will never give us such an opportunity again.'

"The other side is the legendary Sannin after all." Shisui said in a deep voice, and at the same time, put away 3-Tomoe Sharingan.

Kakashi threw Kanpū's Flying Thunder God Kunai over, and said: "First, we should confirm Orochimaru's escape route, and then discuss the next action!"

"Do you want to continue chasing it? "Kanpū asked.

Judging from the fight just now, apart from defending passively, Orochimaru didn't have much attacking intentions. Although Kanpū doesn't know why he was doing that, it was difficult for them to keep Orochimaru who wanted to escape!

"Let's ask Hokage-sama first." Shisui narrowed his eyes slightly while speaking, feeling that Kanpū's figure seems to be slightly blurred.

During this period of time, he frequently used the Mangekyo Sharingan, which consumed a lot of pupil power, so his eyesight had begun to decline slightly.

"Shisui, are your eyes okay?" Kanpū frowned slightly when he saw Shisui's condition.

"I'm fine, it's just that the pupil power has been consumed too much." Shisui shook his head slightly, as he didn't want to make the others worried.

Seeing that Shisui didn't want to say anything, Kanpū had no choice but to change the subject: "Then, let me ask Hokage-sama what to do next?"

After saying that, he planted the Flying Thunder God Kunai Kunai under his feet, and then closed his eyes to sense the large number of Flying Thunder God Technique's imprints in the village.

...

Hokage Tower's rooftop.

Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato are standing side by side at the railing, overlooking the village.

The sun is not very bright today, and as far as the eye can see, many buildings are still dotted with white snow, which spreads to the endless snow field outside the village.

"Sandaime, I'm sorry." Minato watched the snow scene for a while, and finally couldn't hold back his voice.

Hiruzen shook his head slightly: "Yondaime, you did nothing wrong. It was Orochimaru who made a mistake, and you are not the one who should apologize."

Minato was silent.

Speaking of which, the two can be regarded as sympathetic to each other. Minato's disciple, Obito also betrayed the village some time ago, so the two people share the same mood.

It stands to reason that they should hug each other to keep warm, but both of them are already adults and don't have such hobby.

So, they just stand here and look at Konoha together.

At this moment, two figures galloped towards the two from different directions in no particular order. They are none other than Tsunade and Jiraiya.

Hiruzen lit up the tobacco pipe and took a deep breath.

"Old man, how did that bastard Orochimaru become a Missing-nin?" Tsunade went on the rooftop and came behind Hiruzen without moving her gaze.

Jiraiya also walked over solemnly. Right now, he was not in the mood to pay attention to the indisputable fact that Tsunade's chest was bigger than before. He came behind Minato and didn't speak. But he believed that Minato could understand what he meant.

"Jiraiya-sensei, Tsunade-senpai, let me explain this matter."

Minato sighed, turned around and said, "Orochimaru captured the village's Shinobi for human experiment. The Anbu found the remains of the missing Shinobi and a large number of research materials of taboo experiments in his secret laboratory! I sent the Anbu to find Orochimaru for questioning, but he ran away halfway."

Jiraiya clenched his fists, and pain flashed in his eyes: "What the hell is that idiot doing?!"

Tsunade's eyes also flashed with pain, and then there was a look of remembrance and nostalgia on her face, obviously thinking of the things between her and Orochimaru when they were a child, but those are already in the past.

Tsunade lowered her head slightly, her eyes became lonely, she then turned around and left without saying a word.

Hiruzen looked at Tsunade's back. At this moment, he thinks that he can figure it out that Tsunade needs some time alone, so there is no start to let her stay her, nor did he offer comfort.

"Minato, the mission to hunt down Orochimaru…" Just as Jiraiya wanted to say something, another figure suddenly shot towards them from a distance.

It's none other than Kanpū.

After he used Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport back to the village, he wanted to teleport directly to Minato, but in case Minato was still staying with Danzo and the others in the conference room, wouldn't he expose his Flying Thunder God Technique to these people if he did so?

So he decisively teleported to the place closest to Hokage Tower, and rushed obediently and honestly with his two feet.

'As expected of the witty me!'

Kanpū finds that his wisdom grows with age, and his future is limitless!

After seeing Minato on the rooftop, Kanpū quickly jumped up.

"Hokage-sama, Sandaime-sama, Jiraiya-sama." Kanpū saluted, and took the time to look at the great writer, Jiraiya.

This Jiraiya is still in his prime. He's tall and strong, without the slightest wrinkle on his face, standing next to him really feels a bit depressing.

But when he thought that this guy is an old pervert, that feeling of depression disappeared instantly.

Seeing Kanpū appeared alone, Minato could not help but sighed in his heart: "It seems that you did not manage to keep Orochimaru."

Kanpū converged his thought and reported immediately: "Hokage-sama, after leaving the village, Orochimaru went to the underground laboratory. When we arrived, there was only one survivor left. After that, we attacked Orochimaru, but he didn't seem to have the intention to fight against us, and he escaped after a while. Kakashi and Shisui were on the move to confirm his escape direction, Hokage-sama, shall we continue to chase?"

Minato's face is ugly. He really didn't expect Orochimaru to go to the laboratory after escaping from the village. This mistake indirectly killed those Anbu's Shinobi!

Minato is very regretful.

"Minato, leave the mission to capture Orochimaru to me!" Jiraiya took the initiative to offer his help.

"But Jiraiya-sensei, you and Orochimaru…" Minato recovered, and hesitation flashed across his face.

"He and I are indeed companions, but it is because of this that I want to bring him back!" Jiraiya said seriously.

Looking at his expression, Minato knew that it was not good to stop him, so he had no choice but to nodded: "I understand, Jiraiya-sensei, pay attention to safety."

"Don't worry, I'm the Sage from Mount Myoboku. I will never lose to Orochimaru!"

Jiraiya laughed, and then looked towards Kanpū: "Take me to the underground laboratory you mentioned!"

Kanpū looked towards Minato.

Minato held back his grief and said solemnly: "The mission to hunt Orochimaru will be handed over to Jiraiya-sensei. You, Shisui and Kakashi will bring back those Anbu's bodies. Oh, and don't forget the research materials in the laboratory!"

Kanpū's face fell when he heard this: "Um, Hokage-sama, the underground laboratory collapsed."

Minato didn't seem to care: "Then use Earth Release Ninjutsu to dig it up, you must bring back the research materials! So is the remains of our companions!!"

"I understand!"

Upon hearing this, what else can Kanpū do? He can only jump off the rooftop with Jiraiya.

With Jiraiya following, Kanpū can't use Flying Thunder God Technique and can only gallop towards the laboratory.

On the way, Kanpū originally wanted to get close to Jiraiya and get a good impression. Unfortunately, the blow from his friend suddenly became a Missing-nin made Jiraiya very cold all the way. Kanpū felt that doing good impressions at this time might be counterproductive, so he rushed over depressedly.

When the two arrived at the entrance of the underground laboratory, Kakashi and Shisui had already packed the bodies of their Anbu's companions, and the survivor had also woken up.

"Shisui, Kakashi, Hokage-sama has entrusted the mission to hunt Orochimaru to Jiraiya-sama, and we are responsible for bringing back the bodies of our companions and the research materials in the laboratory."

Kanpū said with a guilty conscience, "Those materials…"

"Don't worry about the research materials, they are all here." said the surviving Anbu's Shinobi.

Long before Orochimaru arrived, they had searched all the research materials in the laboratory and sealed them in the scroll.

After Orochimaru's arrival, the first thing he did was to kill them and look for Sharingan. At that time, this Anbu's Shinobi didn't want the Sharingan to fall into Orochimaru's hands, and was worried that Orochimaru would take away the research materials after he got the Sharingan, so he squeezed the Sharingan and destroyed it!

This scene really stimulated Orochimaru deeply and made him focused all his attention on this Anbu's Shinobi.

After killing all the other Anbu's Shinobi, Orochimaru left him alive to torture him fiercely!

Fortunately, Kanpū's group of three arrived in time and stopped Orochimaru's atrocities.

At this time, this Anbu has taken out the sealing scroll hidden in the pockets of his other companions, which contains all the research materials in the laboratory.

Kanpū finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

"Where did Orochimaru run to?" Jiraiya crossed his arms near his chest, and started speaking after Kanpū's affairs had been dealt with. As the Sage of Mount Myoboku, Jiraiya believed that there's no problem to chase after Orochimaru even after he ran for an hour.

Shisui and Kakashi looked at each other, and the latter said: "We have checked all suspicious traces nearby, and confirmed that Orochimaru is heading towards the Land of Rain."

"The Land of Rain?"

Jiraiya slightly nodded, and said, "I understand."

After saying that, Jiraiya's figure disappeared in a flash.

"So fast!" Kakashi's brow was raised.

"Well, he is also one of Konoha's Sannin after all." Shisui said.

"Let's clean up here, we will also…"

Kanpū fell to Kakashi while speaking.

"Hey?" Kakashi was startled, and subconsciously flashed away.

Plak!

Kanpū fell face down on the snow. Fortunately, the snow is thick enough, otherwise, he might lose his current appearance.

"Kanpū?" Shisui lifted Kanpū up, only to realize that he had passed out.

Everyone looked at each other in shock, all of them are a little dazed.

'Why did you get dizzy all the time?'

"Let's go back first!" Kakashi coughed dryly.

Kanpū, who fainted, was receiving the memory of his shadow clone, Yuki Hyōketsu, in his dream at this moment.

...

After Hyōketsu rushed to Amegakure, he found that Amegakure's advisor was missing, so he had an idea and prepared to take Amegakure first, and then wait for Nagato to come to the to fight the opponent openly, and then take refuge under him.

The plan went well!

Relying on the continuous Chakra from the power of Ryumyaku and Ice Release Kekkei Genkai, Hyōketsu defeated nearly a hundred Amegakure's Shinobi in less than half a day and suppressed Amegakure by non-violent means!

After that, Hyōketsu didn't care whether these Amegakure's Shinobi were sincerely submissive or not, and went straight to occupy the steel building that represented the highest authority in Amegakure, and waited there quietly.

After waiting in Amegakure for three days, on the fourth day, a group of orange-haired men in red cloud robes with a black background entered Amegakure.

And among these people, there are two people wearing ordinary black robe. One of them is Uchiha Obito, who is wearing a vortex mask, and the other has black and white face, Zetsu!