Konoha, private laboratory.
After three days and three nights of collation and summarization, and countless revisions and improvements,
Orochimaru finally broke free from the vast sea of data, simplifying everything into a somewhat complex equation.
This was a pattern derived from the Chakra within all ordinary people in Konoha.
Whether it was correct remained unknown, and Orochimaru temporarily had no idea what its underlying meaning represented.
What needed to be done now was to verify its accuracy.
The computer had no desktop, no visible windows; everything was simple, with white text on a black background, emitting light.
Orochimaru had been using this device for over ten years, understood its principles and structure perfectly, and rapidly typed on the keyboard to create a verification script.
He then loaded the ordinary person Chakra data package into the script to run.
Orochimaru paid no attention to the various numbers flashing across the screen, only quietly waiting for the result to appear.
The machine's computing power was incomparable to Orochimaru's; in just one hour, Orochimaru obtained the final result.
Everything was normal; all ordinary person Chakra data conformed to the pattern.
The direction was right!
After nearly twenty days of sleepless work, Orochimaru finally made progress.
While Orochimaru was extremely excited, his body was also protesting uncontrollably, with increasingly frequent dizziness, nausea, and a heart rate much faster than usual.
All of these were reminding Orochimaru that he needed to rest.
With the final answer in sight, Orochimaru naturally refused to put down his work.
But Orochimaru also understood that if he continued, this body would likely die suddenly!
Orochimaru, with his saintly personality in Konoha, would naturally not choose to use Dead Demon Consuming Seal after his body was spent; if he died, he would truly be gone.
Orochimaru stood up and went to another area of the laboratory.
He took out a large box of bottles and jars, and from it, a large number of bottles.
After some tinkering, Orochimaru had more than a dozen solutions, each over a hundred milliliters, laid out before him.
After drawing some of them into a syringe, Orochimaru jabbed a needle into his arm.
Feeling his body slightly better, Orochimaru pressed on, switching to a smaller syringe, drawing out half the amount, and without hesitation, found a spot on his chest and directly injected it near his heart.
One minute later, Orochimaru, who had regained his vigor, injected the remaining solution into a vacuum flask.
He took out a coil of plastic tubing, found a thin needle, inserted it into a vein on his hand, and then, holding a large bottle, returned to the previous area.
Eating? Sleeping?
Non-existent!
From Orochimaru's practiced movements, it was clear this was not the first time.
In the original story, Orochimaru was successively killed by Hiruzen Sarutobi, Sasuke, and Itachi, yet after enduring the Dead Demon Consuming Seal and the Totsuka Blade, he still managed to live a vibrant life.
This was not merely due to being called a genius; simply labeling him a genius and obscuring the effort behind it would be unfair to a genius.
After the body's alarms gradually subsided, Orochimaru came to the table and immediately opened the Ninja database.
This database was divided into two parts: the majority was data on ordinary Ninja, and the rest was data on Kekkei Ninja.
Most of Konoha's Kekkei were concentrated in the Uchiha and Hyuga clans, meaning the Sharingan and Byakugan.
He naturally started with ordinary Ninja; this time, Orochimaru didn't have to find patterns one by one, only apply the patterns he had already found.
From this, he sought deeper, more fundamental, and simpler patterns.
As time passed, Orochimaru's eyes grew brighter, and a smile slowly began to appear at the corners of his mouth.
Inside an unremarkable cave.
At the bottom of the peculiar 'pool,' Orochimaru (Uchiha Un-chidori) also hadn't closed his eyes for three days and three nights.
He was analyzing the secrets of this 'pool' bit by bit, based on the information he had detected.
After over seventy hours of focused effort, and multiple verifications, Orochimaru finally discovered its pattern.
Slowly walking to a certain spot, Orochimaru extended his palm and injected Chakra into a specific area.
Then, he quickly moved to another spot and repeated the previous action.
Again and again.
Finally, Orochimaru arrived at the center of several locations.
"Well then, let me see what secrets are hidden behind this!"
Excited, Orochimaru licked his tongue and muttered to himself.
After he spoke, Orochimaru pressed his hands to the ground and continuously injected Chakra into it.
As Orochimaru acted, the locations he had previously been at emitted dazzling light, which then softened, and complex patterns appeared at the bottom of the pool, which had originally been of the same color.
These patterns glowed brightly, as if absorbing the light from the other parts of the pool bottom.
Gradually, the light concentrated on Orochimaru's current position, enveloping Orochimaru in a glow.
The increasingly bright light corresponded to Orochimaru's increasingly bright eyes.
Let me see what this seal, laid out with such ancient and complex methods, is trying to hide!
In a flash of light, the entire bottom of the pool vanished, becoming a void.
Only the area in front, emitting endless light, seemed to foreshadow something.
Orochimaru didn't hesitate at all and headed in the direction of the light.
The process was very strange; it was like being enveloped by something akin to water, his entire body in a state of weightlessness. Orochimaru couldn't tell if he was moving by limb movements or guided by consciousness, but he gradually approached his destination.
And as Orochimaru opened the passage.
Moon.
In an empty, unusually desolate palace, a child who looked not much older than Naruto suddenly opened his eyes.
His eyes were hollow, his hair snow-white, and his skin was so pale it looked sickly, even more so than Orochimaru's.
Immediately, an incredulous, childish voice echoed through the empty hall.
"How is this possible, the passage has been opened!!!"
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