Chapter 148 Leave it alone

Orochimaru stared at Hayama's face seriously for a long time, as if he was thinking about his chances of winning, and suddenly smiled.

"Ye Shanjun, there is no need for us to take action. At least there is no conflict of interest right now, right?"

Ye Shan's eyes flickered. It would be too difficult to defeat Orochimaru without using his full strength. Besides, everyone in the ninja world knew about the opponent's life-saving method. To be honest, he was unwilling to take action here.

To be honest, Orochimaru's secret research on human experiments and dissections had nothing to do with Yeshan, so it was not his turn to make decisions. Yeshan was even somewhat happy about it.

It's not that Ye Shan is too cold-blooded, but the ninja world is like this, the strong prey on the weak. Ninjas are a group of ordinary people with great power, and after years of war, it is natural that some psychologically distorted people will appear. Some time ago, the Sand Village also broke out a scandal of giving puppets life. Does Ye Shan have to take care of it?

Not to mention whether Ye Shan has the ability to deal with these appalling scandals, even if he has the ability to do so, he can't do it. The ninja world is so vast that there are all kinds of strange things, and such things cannot be dealt with.

Not to mention the bloody ninja world, is there less such a thing even on the peaceful Earth in the past? The nuclear weapons developed by the United States, the cloned sheep created by England, the biological and chemical weapons developed by some countries, etc. Which one of them is not a breakthrough for humanity? But have these countries ever been sanctioned? The answer is absolutely not.

Ultimately, strength is what matters. If you don't have strength, you're just seeking death by doing these things. If you have strength, you're doing these things for the better evolution of mankind and for world peace, that's all.

There is no doubt that Orochimaru is very powerful, which is why he continued to conduct experiments even though he knew that this place was exposed.

Therefore, Yeshan would not accuse the other party of being inhumane, nor would he fight over the deaths of a few unrelated ninjas.

There is no so-called justice or injustice in the ninja world, nor is there absolute right or wrong. There is only who has the harder fist.

"This is already the root's territory, please leave." Ye Shan said coldly.

Orochimaru's smile widened when he heard that. He moved a chair over and sat next to the operating table nonchalantly, looking like he didn't want to leave.

"Don't be so cold, Hayama-kun. After all, we are ninjas from the same village. We should still have some friendship when we meet."

"What do you want to talk about?"

Yeshan did not refuse Orochimaru's invitation to chat. In fact, he was also very curious about what this famous ninja in front of him would say that would break the conventional cognition.

Orochimaru glanced at Uchiha Keiji and the other man standing behind Ye Shan with a half-smile and said, "Some things the fewer people who know, the better."

Ye Shan's face darkened and he said, "If you don't want to talk about it, forget it."

As he said this, he turned around and seemed to want to leave.

"Let's not play the game of retreat to advance between you and me. Uchiha Keiji, leave the remaining person outside and wait."

Yeshan stopped and acknowledged Orochimaru's words. Seeing this, the Uchiha ninja turned around and left without any hesitation.

"Ye Shanjun, what do you think is the meaning of life?"

"?"

Ye Shan was full of doubts, thinking that he had come to a philosophy class, and Orochimaru had become a knowledgeable philosopher. Come on, we are all ninjas who fight and kill all day long. It is very restrained not to draw knives when we meet. You actually want to discuss philosophy?

Seeing that Ye Shan was silent with a bad face, Orochimaru chuckled and said, "What's wrong? This question shouldn't be difficult. Don't you want to say a few words, Ye Shan?"

Yeshan thought about it and decided to answer the other party's question from a scientific perspective. After all, Orochimaru can be regarded as a biologist and scientist in Naruto.

"The meaning of life lies in inheritance. Generation after generation lives and dies, but the good genes in their bodies will be inherited and embodied as certain unique biological habits."

Orochimaru clapped his hands and praised, "It's a very interesting answer. It has surpassed most ninjas. Ye Shanjun, you are really not an ordinary person."

"But you are still a human being after all, and you still cannot escape the category of a living being."

"In my opinion, the greatest meaning of life is that it has no meaning."

“Life is colorful and is created by the great power of the Creator, but it is also short-lived. When life comes to an end, no matter how great it was before, it still has no meaning.”

"Just like the first Hokage. No, the example of the first Hokage may not be appropriate. Let's talk about Uchiha Madara. Uchiha Madara was very famous during his lifetime. He once suppressed the Iwagakure Village with his own strength. But once he died, everything he had done was meaningless."

"Therefore, a short life is meaningless. Only eternal life is qualified to have meaning!"

Ye Shan was extremely shocked. He looked at Orochimaru in disbelief and said in a lost voice: "Are you researching immortality?"

Orochimaru smiled and said, "Life is too fragile and too short to satisfy my desire to master all the ninjutsu in the ninja world. Naturally, I want to live forever. Doesn't Ye Shan-kun want that?"

"I don't want to." Ye Shan replied decisively.

"Why? No living thing should be able to refuse the chance of eternal life."

Ye Shan sneered, thinking that Orochimaru had gone mad and was actually trying to achieve immortality: "Because it is impossible for any creature to achieve immortality!"

Even the tortoise has a long life, but it still has its end. The birth, aging, sickness and death of all things are predetermined by nature, and no one can change it.

Orochimaru did not comment, but just smiled faintly, but said something that made Ye Shan's heart surge with murderous intent.

"I wonder if you are Baiyun Yeshan or Shancheng Chen now?"

Ye Shan stepped forward and asked, "What do you mean?"

The atmosphere in the room became tense, as if a life-and-death struggle would break out at any time. Uchiha Keiji cautiously moved his right hand slightly, secretly taking out a kunai, guarding against Orochimaru's sudden attack.

"Don't be nervous, Hayama-kun. I'm just curious about what happened in the Land of Whirlpools that day."

"According to common sense in biology, a creature with a pierced heart will surely die, but you survived, while Shancheng Chen, who was unharmed, died. There must be a big secret behind this."

"In order to find out, I looked up the history of the Shancheng clan, and I found some surprising things."

"enough!"

Ye Shan interrupted Orochimaru with an angry shout, and asked in a cold tone: "What do you want to do?"

Orochimaru waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Don't worry, I won't touch Yamashiro Tatsuya's family, at least not now."

"I just got some inspiration from you."

"The life of a living thing is equal to the survival time of its body. Once the body of a living thing decays and dies, its life also dies. This is common sense in the ninja world."

"But humans, as intelligent creatures, are very strange. They actually have so-called souls. The spiritualization technique mastered by Kato Dan is the best proof of this."

"Combined with what happened to you, I came to a bold conclusion: as long as a person's soul is immortal, he or she can still survive even if the body perishes."

"It's like a glass of water. The glass is the human body, and the water is the human soul. Although the water will spill out when the glass breaks, as long as you put the water into a new glass before the glass breaks, you can preserve the water. The only difference may be that the glass is no longer the original glass."

"So immortality naturally becomes something that is very possible, and the meaning of life expands accordingly."

It has to be said that Ye Shan admired Orochimaru very much in his heart at this moment, even though his face was full of murderous intent.

"Where did you learn about the Whirlpool Kingdom?"

Orochimaru smiled, as if he was talking about something insignificant.

"Have you seen this body? He was on the island of Whirlpool Country not far away that day, so he must be aware of your injuries."

"Ye Shan-kun should know how terrifying the Byakugan's ability to see is. It can see clearly at that distance."

Ye Shan suddenly realized that there were two groups of ninjas from the Hidden Mist Village in the Land of Whirlpools that day. Among them, the Yagura team had been destroyed by him personally, but the remaining team survived.

However, Ye Shan was not too anxious, because the incident had already happened, and it was impossible to hide it from some people's investigation. But with his current strength, it was estimated that few people would dare to target Shancheng Chen's family.

Thinking of this, Ye Shan lost interest in talking and turned to leave the room. As for Orochimaru, he could go wherever he wanted and do whatever he wanted, as long as he didn't hang around in front of him.

When Uchiha Keiji saw Hayama leave the room with a gloomy face, he breathed a sigh of relief and followed him out, leaving Orochimaru sitting alone in the room.

"hehe."

Orochimaru uttered these two words without a smile, feeling a little reluctant to expose the laboratory. After all, good research samples were not easy to find.

He originally thought that Ye Shan was the same type of person as himself, both having gotten rid of vulgar interests, but now it seems that he was overthinking, and the other party had no interest in eternal life.

But it doesn’t matter. The value of Ye Shan’s research has been fully explored, and Shancheng Chen’s secret technique has also left him with a lot of inspiration. Immortality is no longer a fantasy, but something that can actually be achieved.

Just as Orochimaru was thinking, he suddenly felt the room shake, and then he saw a fire dragon rushing down from the entrance of the base. He secretly cursed Ye Shan's shamelessness in his heart.

Saying it's okay on the surface but actually setting fire behind the scenes, Yeshan has figured out the deception between ninjas.

The fire dragon came very quickly, sweeping away all the corpses soaked in containers in the base. It soon arrived outside the room where Orochimaru was, and with a long roar, it went in.

It was impossible for Orochimaru to be killed by a simple fire-style ninjutsu, so he dived underground and left the room, without being able to take away many precious research materials.

Soon, the soil around the wellhead rippled, and Orochimaru emerged from the soil while maintaining his seal, but his body was not stained by the dirt at all. At this time, Ye Shan and his men had already left, and Orochimaru, who was furious, could not find the culprit, so he vented his anger on an unlucky tree.

"Haha, Ye Shanjun, we'll see what happens next!"

Ye Shan didn't know about Orochimaru's resentment. He only knew that he had to be more careful about this scientific research madman in the future to avoid any trouble.

The matter was left unresolved, and what happened to the few parties involved would not be reported to the Hokage at the instruction of Yeshan.

He will definitely not report it to the Hokage. Hayama hopes that Orochimaru will continue to indulge in it, because sooner or later he will do something that will anger the village and make him completely lose the chance to become Hokage.