It was still that dark basement, with crisscrossing corridors like a maze, making it difficult to tell the direction.

On the walls on both sides of the corridor, rows of torches were lit, illuminating the direction in which Mizuki and Orochimaru were heading.

This thing had been prepared long ago and was obviously triggered automatically after the two people entered here.

With Mizuki and Orochimaru's visual abilities, there is actually no need to go through so much trouble. People with this level of strength basically have the ability to see in low light. Only an illusion like the Darkness Walking Technique, which can completely block the vision of the two.

Shuimu came here just to be a witness, and what happens next will not be based on the main body.

As for the power that Orochimaru prepared at last, what Mizuki valued was not its fighting ability, but its possibility of providing faith. However, Mizuki already had his business in the Rain Country, and the androids provided by Orochimaru could only be said to be the icing on the cake, and it was not worth it for Mizuki to give up the important things at hand for this.

In comparison, it might be more beneficial for him to completely refine the Death God that he had just obtained and improve the completion of Yin-Yang Release. As for the artificial human army that Orochimaru had high hopes for...

In front of them was a large underground cave opened up by nature, which was even larger than the base where Uchiha Obito hid the Outer Path Statue that Mizuki saw in the Frost Country.

"No wonder you put most of your resources in Tianzhi Kingdom. Just based on such a large area, it is worth it."

Mizuki felt quite emotional. No wonder Orochimaru gave up the underground laboratory in the back mountain of Konoha Village, which Mizuki relied on, and stopped paying attention to the biological weapons laboratory on Demon World Island in the Sea Country as soon as a disagreement occurred. It turned out that there were such good places.

"Why do you always find such a large underground base?"

Orochimaru replied:

"This is a benefit for people who have lived long enough. The more you experience, the more things you will see. There will always be one or two good things in your memory that may come in handy at some point!"

Well, Mizuki couldn't agree more. An old man who refuses to die is a thief. These guys who have experienced countless ups and downs in the ninja world might have prepared some unexpected tricks at any time.

Especially someone like Orochimaru. Not to mention that he has three burrows, even killing him is a very difficult task. Even if you see Orochimaru being killed in front of you with your own eyes, you don't know whether this weird guy is dead or not.

After walking around in twists and turns for a long time, Shuimu perceived that a life that was dead silent but exuding vitality appeared in front of him.

In various types of transparent culture tanks, whether vertical, horizontal, or lying, there are experimental subjects at various stages of growth, floating up and down in the culture medium.

Although these experimental subjects do not need to breathe in the culture environment, in order to ensure their instinctive response, they will contract and expand the lungs in the chest and abdomen every one or two minutes, and a series of tiny bubbles will appear in the culture fluid.

Only these occasional movements can let people know that these "specimens" floating in the culture medium are living people.

“It’s really an unprecedented event!”

Shuimu, who saw such a scene for the first time, was also deeply moved.

With such a large space and three layers of petri dishes, there are probably nearly two to three thousand test subjects in total.

If so many people all survived and maintained the level of elite Chunin, and then one or two specially trained mature individuals emerged as leaders, this might really be a force that could not be ignored.

You have to know that when the Ninja Alliance was formed, all the front-line combat ninjas had just exceeded 80,000 people. This was the number of ninjas that the entire Ninja World could muster to deal with the Akatsuki organization. And this was even under the threat of a powerful enemy, when they activated the war machine and recruited ninjas with all their strength to reach this number.

If non-combat ninjas and technical officers were included, the number would probably exceed 100,000.

In normal times when there are no major wars, the number of standing ninja troops will be greatly reduced, and it would be good if they could maintain half of their peak period.

According to the usual calculation of 50,000 ninjas, the shares allocated to the five major ninja villages vary. Konoha Village and Kumogakure Village may have a little more, and as for the weaker Sand Village and Mist Village, they may only have about 6,000 to 7,000 regular ninjas.

"With such power, if properly prepared, it is not an exaggeration to say that it can destroy one of the five great ninja villages. You are really well prepared!"

The essence accumulated over decades is truly breathtaking.

"When you're alone outside, you need some protection!"

"Unfortunately, it's still useless!"

Mizuki said bluntly.

"If you had the idea of ​​going all out to capture Konoha Village three years ago, the Sand Village wouldn't have been defeated so miserably!"

"I naturally have my own plans..."

“Really?”

Mizuki shrugged indifferently. Mizuki no longer cared whether Orochimaru cared about Konoha and wanted to bring a sense of urgency to the harmonious village, or he just couldn't stand the actions of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Times have passed, and those who deserved to die are already dead. There is no point in digging up those meaningless things.

Mizuki strolled in the laboratory, observing each experimental subject.

"Huh? The sources of these experimental subjects seem to be very complicated!"

Looking around, these experimental subjects had different appearances and hair colors. Their apparent ages ranged from six or seven to early twenties. Shuimu even felt familiar fluctuations in some of the experimental subjects.

"Some of the test subjects actually have Sharingan?"

No wonder Orochimaru was not interested in second-hand Sharingan. He already had some in his hands and even used them as experimental subjects.

"A lot of things happened on the night when the Uchiha family was exterminated, and a lot of changes happened afterwards. The Sharingan was the spoils of war at that time. You should already know the origins of these, right?"

Mizuki nodded to show that he understood. It was not surprising that Orochimaru, who had a private transaction with Shimura Danzo, had such a collection. If the power of these Sharingans could be exerted... No, it would definitely have an effect, otherwise it would not have been collected here by Orochimaru.

Those who can enter this laboratory must be extremely valuable semi-finished products. Those cannon fodders of Team 7 and Team 10 led by Mizuki and Hatake Kakashi, who were sent by Kabuto Yakushi to chase and intercept Mizuki and Hatake Kakashi on the sea of ​​​​Water Country, cannot be compared with Orochimaru's treasures here.

With so many powerful clone corps, I'm afraid that only strong people like Uchiha Obito who have time-space ninjutsu and are not afraid of siege, and Mizuki who have large-scale natural disaster-level map cannon ninjutsu can ignore them. Even the shadows of the five major ninja villages will be beaten to death.

Orochimaru said with some regret:

"It's a pity that I died before I could be of any use, and I don't know if I will be of any use in the future."

“Maybe!”

In fact, if this force is invested in the Fourth Ninja War, although it cannot determine the outcome of the war, it can alleviate the pressure on the Ninja Alliance to a certain extent.

The problem is, how can we send the clone army to the battlefield in a fair and just manner? Orochimaru does not have a very good reputation in the ninja world, and it would indeed be not worth it if Mizuki was implicated.

But this problem can be studied slowly later, now...

Mizuki looked up and glanced at Orochimaru.

"These, is that all?"

"As you can see!"

"That's good!"

Regardless of whether Orochimaru was telling the truth or not, Mizuki was actually quite satisfied with this number.

Even if Konoha Village fully mobilized its war machine, it only had 20,000 to 30,000 official ninjas. The number of clone corps was far beyond Mizuki's expectations.

Mizuki no longer hesitated and began to form seals.

From the very beginning, he used space-time ninjutsu to assist Kazuhiko's Impure World Body in separating the Onigashima Island from the Ninja World, then used space transfer many times, and finally gathered the power of the God of Death. Just in case, he also activated the Sage Mode for a long time.

Even though Mizuki had the Breath Condensation Technique to collect chakra all the time, he was still a little stretched.

He formed seals meticulously, activated his own chakra, conserved the strength in his body, then clasped his hands together and spread them out. A tiny butterfly appeared in the palm of Shuimu's hand, and then turned into light spots all over the sky, spreading in all directions. If you look closely, you will find that these light spots are like small butterflies shrouded in faint light, accurately sinking into the heads of the experimental subjects according to the positions set by Shuimu.

"Is this the sleepover you're so proud of?"

Orochimaru watched Mizuki perform ninjutsu with great interest. Although Mizuki did not say much about this jutsu, it did mean that no one had noticed it. Tsunade and Kurenai Yuhi were not the first. Although Orochimaru did not pay attention to it at first, after Sakura had revealed a clue and Mizuki had used it several times, it was impossible for Orochimaru not to pay attention to it.

Mizuki shook his head.

“I’m not proud of it, but it’s really important to me!”

"Of course I understand this. You got the Eight-Headed Art from me, right? If not for this, your art wouldn't be perfected to this extent. It's really amazing that your mental obsession can grow to this level. It's a pity that you and I are on different paths!"

Having experienced several brutal ninja wars, Orochimaru inevitably has many of his ninjutsu, techniques, and ideas oriented towards improving combat effectiveness and preserving his life.

Although Mizuki also experienced the Third Ninja World War, to be honest, he was just a supporting role from beginning to end, and the Ninja World War did not have much direct impact on him.

The younger Hatake Kakashi and even Uchiha Itachi have experienced more than Mizuki. What's more, Mizuki is a time traveler who lived in a peaceful era in his previous life. He had anticipated many things that would happen next. Apart from the crisis of lack of vitality that he felt at the time, he had the advantage of intelligence like a God's perspective and was able to move forward step by step and overcome danger step by step.

This also led to the fact that Shuimu did not actually attach importance to improving combat effectiveness in the short term, but was committed to using the power of the village to overcome difficulties.

Everything is considered in the long term, and actions are taken from the perspective of being able to deal with the threat of Uchiha Madara and the world-destroying crisis of the resurrection of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

This state of mind is naturally very different from the actions of predecessors like Orochimaru.

Orochimaru watched Mizuki's Sleeping Beauty slowly begin to take effect before he began to ask:

“How are these experiments?”

Although these are rare and valuable good things, that’s all there is to it.

Each clone represents a possibility, and is a testing ground from which Orochimaru can reap the rewards time and time again.

But all this is unpredictable, and no one can say for sure how the future will develop.

Although Orochimaru felt a little distressed that Mizuki had interfered with these good things that he had collected over decades, it was just heartache, not to the point of causing him serious harm.

Orochimaru's greatest wealth is not these material possessions, but his own unparalleled intelligence and the rich knowledge and experience accumulated over decades. As long as this is still there, even if everything else is lost, Orochimaru will sooner or later make a comeback, and even be stronger than before.

The experimental subjects who were cast into Xishuixiang by Shuimu were still not awake. Shuimu did not make any changes to their almost blank minds. He simply implanted the belief in Xishuixiang deep into their souls and asked them to keep it. As for the next actions, Shuimu did not need to handle it.

"Nothing has changed. However, I still hope that you will not try to study the mental abnormalities of these experimental subjects and then reversely crack and influence my mental obsession. Since I did not attack your Yamata no Orochi, I hope that you will also abide by the rules and not do anything to make me unhappy."

Mizuki didn't think that Orochimaru could fully understand the role of Xishuixiang. Although Orochimaru's knowledge was much better than his in many aspects, there was only one thing: Mizuki's sealing skills were much stronger than Orochimaru's.

But this does not guarantee that Orochimaru will not come up with some special methods to influence his spiritual obsession in disguise. The final battle is imminent, and Mizuki wants to be foolproof and cannot leave any loopholes that may lead to failure.

Orochimaru frowned, then revealed his signature ugly smile.

"I see. Everyone has some secrets that they don't want others to know."

Seeing that Orochimaru had made a promise, Mizuki didn't care whether he would keep it or not. He left Orochimaru alone here and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave.

In the dark underground laboratory, only Orochimaru and a group of experimental subjects that he once treated as treasures were left.

"I'm back here again, and everything has changed. Fortunately, I still have a chance to start over, but..."

Orochimaru felt a little regretful when he thought of his once right-hand man Kabuto Yakushi who had become a powerful man whom he could not control.

"Some trivial things, no one helps, I can only do it myself..."