In the midst of the lush woods, Tsunade is stepping on the canopy of trees and hurrying forward.

After coming out of Yugakure Village, Tsunade immediately contacted Miya Castle, who also informed the place where he would meet Orochimaru.

The meeting place is a forest surrounded by mountains in the territory of Kawano Country, and Tsunade is on his way to the agreed location.

Soon, Tsunade came to a three-way intersection.

At the intersection of the three forks, a stone statue of the land stands on the edge of the road.

Tsunade walked in front of the stone statue and pressed it hard, and the stone statue was pressed down, and when Tsunade let go again, the stone statue returned to its original position.

The next thing Tsunade has to do is wait, waiting for Orochimaru to come out and see him.

After some time, an emaciated figure came out of the shadows of the woods.

"Tsunade."

"Orochimaru..."

The two greeted each other and confirmed each other's identities.

Although the upper half of the person's body was blocked by the shade of the trees, and the lower half of the body was also blocked by the bushes, Tsunade could recognize the person as Orochimaru just by this unique hoarse voice.

Orochimaru didn't step into the light, but asked, "That scroll, did you bring it?" ”

Tsunade didn't answer, just took the scroll out of his arms and held it to his side.

"Turn it on."

Tsunade smacked his lips slightly unpleasantly, but still did Orochimaru's instructions, unfolded the scroll in his hand, and then showed Orochimaru the inside of the scroll.

Inside the scroll is a sealing circle, and in the middle of the circle is a striking "wall" character.

"Come with me."

Without further confirming the authenticity of the scroll, Orochimaru's figure turned around and left directly, and Tsunade quickly put away the scroll and followed.

...

After a while of wandering through the woods, Orochimaru finally led Tsunade to a cave halfway up a nearby mountain.

In the light at the entrance of the cave, Orochimaru removed the hood from his head and took off the black cloak on his body, revealing the flaxen-colored kimono and the purple string around his waist.

"You also know my current situation, it's not very convenient to move outside." Orochimaru waved his hand helplessly, but his tone was a little funny.

"In that case, why did you leave the village in the first place?" Tsunade asked.

"Didn't you leave the village too?" Orochimaru sneered and asked rhetorically.

"I was..."

Tsunade was about to explain, but Orochimaru immediately stopped: "I don't have much time, what about those brains?" Take it out. ”

Instead of asking Tsunade what he wanted to help him with as he imagined, Orochimaru directly asked Tsunade for his brain.

It seems that Orochimaru did know these things for a long time.

"Is it because of that curse mark on the red bean?"

Tsunade asked as he channeled the two metal cylinders from the scroll.

"It's just a half-finished product..."

Orochimaru didn't explain too much, but in fact, Orochimaru did see what happened to the red bean through the curse mark.

After the end of the Second Ninja World War, the three ninjas parted ways, and Orochimaru officially devoted himself to the pursuit of all ninjutsu and immortality in the world.

In the process of traveling the world and collecting ninjutsu, Orochimaru discovered Shigego.

His physique is very special, and he is able to actively absorb natural energy and enter a pseudo-immortal mode with a principle similar to the Jiraiya Immortal Mode.

Later, Orochimaru extracted Shigego's bodily fluids and wanted to give this power to other ninjas in the form of spell seals.

However, most of the ninjas in the experiment could not withstand the violent energy of the spell mark and died, and only Red Bean survived.

And the curse mark of the red bean is also different from the ordinary spell mark, which is endowed with Orochimaru's own soul mark.

Given a soul mark, the two are in a state of soul communication to some extent.

It's just that this way of communication is that Orochimaru occupies an absolutely active position.

Since the red bean was marked with a curse mark, the curse mark often has a faint pain because of the dream of the big snake pill, and the temperature of the hot hand is emitted, precisely because the soul mark in the curse mark has reacted to the existence of the big snake pill.

And the advantage of the soul mark for Orochimaru is that if the Orochimaru body suffers a death threat, the soul will not disappear, and the soul will be stored here in the red bean because of the existence of the soul mark.

Of course, if Azuki is threatened with death, Orochimaru can also sense the safety of the soul mark, and then know the situation on Azuki's side.

It's just that these abilities are only known to Orochimaru himself.

...

Tsunade gives Orochimaru two metal cylinders, Mitarai Azuki and Abe Heiji's brain.

As for Abe Ishitaro's crazy brain, Tsunade also brought it with him, but he didn't give it to Orochimaru.

Although the names of the two metal cylinders in front of him were not marked, and the human brain could hardly see the difference, Orochimaru still directly picked up one of the metal cylinders, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and there were words in his mouth.

"Red Bean..."

Although his voice was muffled, Tsunade clearly saw a hint of an uptick at the corner of Orochimaru's mouth.

That's a smile in the truest sense of the word.

Seeing that the former apprentice only had one brain left, Orochimaru did not show any sad emotions, but a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Although Tsunade knew that Orochimaru was definitely not laughing at what happened to the red bean, because Orochimaru didn't care about the red bean at all.

Orochimaru's smile was more likely to be simply happy, glad that he could see with his own eyes that such a fragile life form as a human being could exist in this way.

But Tsunade still felt sick.

After looking at the brains in the metal cylinder for a while, Orochimaru picked up both metal cylinders and turned to walk into the depths of the cave.

And just as Tsunade was about to follow up, Orochimaru turned around and said, "Are you sure you want to come in?" ”

"It's bloody."

Orochimaru's words made Tsunade stop, after all, his phobia is very serious, and if he sees the picture of the operation with his own eyes, he will definitely not be able to stand it.

And after the operation, nothing will necessarily happen, and now you have to maintain your combat effectiveness.

As a result, Orochimaru alone entered the depths of the cave with two metal cylinders, leaving Tsunade to wait outside alone.

...

"I see..."

"I've seen them all!"

In the gloomy bushes, a pair of eyes in a black mask were staring at the cavern halfway up the mountain.

Cave **, Orochimaru has just entered the depths of the cave, leaving Tsunade alone to stand near the entrance of the cave and wander left and right.

"The damn Orochimaru, how dare you do such a thing behind your back."

A voice even darker than Orochimaru's voice rang out from under the mask, and at the same time, a scorpion tail made of a mechanism slowly stretched out from behind to the front.