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The next morning, all the senior management of Konoha received a notice from the joint union of Anbu and Root, and urgently summoned them to a secret experimental base in Konoha Research Department!

Although Konoha's senior management felt that this notice was not issued by Naruto, considering the privileges of these two departments, everyone still chose to go.

When a group of senior executives arrived at the outer periphery of the remote experimental base, they found that the atmosphere around them was extremely unusual!

It turned out that the entire base had been strictly sealed by a large number of roots and secret members. What's even more strange is that the two sides clearly occupy half of the area, and it doesn't seem to be jointly carrying out tasks at all. Instead, it seems like they are confronting each other, as if there will be a fire at any time. Even if the two departments have a lot of grudges, they usually only fight secretly in private, and it is the first time that there is such an open fight like now.

Thinking of the rumors that Yoshiki and Orochimaru frequently visited and left the experimental base here recently, all the senior executives present felt that the storm was coming. Something must have happened this time!

A group of senior executives walked through the blockade with serious expressions and walked into the scientific research base to the most central laboratory.

At the entrance, three people were waiting for them for a long time. These three people were the Minister of Angu, Fushu, the Chief of the Root, Duanzang, and the Director of the Research Department Orochimaru!

Danzo's expression was as gloomy as ever, and Orochimaru's face also had the same evil smile as usual. Only Rose Tree was not as confident and calm as before, and there was a hint of worry between her eyebrows.

Seeing the expressions of the three of them, the Konoha senior executives felt even more strange, and the bad feeling became stronger and stronger.

Tsunade, who was the hottest among the crowd, couldn't help but ask first: "What's wrong with calling us all here so early?"

Faced with Tsunade's question, Yoshiki and the other two were silent, and they seemed to have no interest in answering.

Tsunade frowned and asked directly: "Orochimaru, this is your department, what exactly happened?"

"Haha..." Orochimaru shook his head and said, "Don't ask me, I didn't call me!"

"Hmph!" Tsunade snorted coldly at the sarcastic Orochimaru, then turned his head to look at Danzo with a serious look and asked, "Why did Lord Danzo appear here? He even ordered the roots to be surrounded!"

The Konoha senior executives present heard this and saw a strange look flashing in their eyes. Tsunade's words were very obvious. You should know that there are also dark people outside in addition to the roots. Considering the recent whereabouts of Rose Tree, everyone probably guessed that the roots were probably coming to cause trouble, so the two sides were at a strife. Tsunade also saw it, so he took the initiative to put Danzo in a hat of privately mobilizing troops.

Danzo looked at Tsunade who questioned him, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and then said coldly: "I received a report from the root members. There was an abnormality in this experimental base last night, and a battle was suspected to have occurred! That's why I led the root members to investigate but I didn't expect..."

"But it seems that this place belongs to the laboratory of the scientific research department, and Anbu has always been guarded by Anbu!" Tsunade interrupted Danzo and said, "It is probably inappropriate that Lord Danzo leads Keto here to investigate, right? And there is a confrontation with Anbu?

What about Mr. Sarutobi? This matter should be decided by him personally, right?"

"Okay, Tsunade!" Yoshiki finally spoke at this time: "It is the common decision of my leader Danzo to call you here!

A big thing did happen here last night, and it must be handled by all the senior executives present!

The situation is urgent, let's go in with me first!"

"Wait, what's going on? Rose Tree..." Tsunade couldn't help but want to go forward and continue asking, but was stopped by Kato next to her.

Yoshiki and Danzo had already turned around and walked towards the gate behind them.

"Let's go! After entering, you will naturally know everything!" After Orochimaru finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the gate of the Qu Laboratory behind them.

The group of Konoha senior executives followed behind the three of them with full of doubts.

After they crossed the door, they were immediately attracted by the scenes in the laboratory. The air was filled with a strong smell of blood. Various experimental instruments and glassware were broken all over the ground, and the walls around them were covered with bumpy cracks and holes. It was obvious that they had experienced a fierce battle.

The most eye-catching thing is that a messy wooden thorn in the center of the laboratory is releasing the green breath of life, and a corpse is lying among this thorn!

After seeing the face of the corpse, the group of Konoha's senior officials couldn't help but scream: "Master Naruto!" "Hizon!" "Teacher Sarutobi!" "Old man!"

Everyone rushed to the center of the laboratory and looked at Sarutobi in disbelief. He saw that his body was covered with holes by sharp thorns. At the same time, his whole body was fixed in the air by thorns standing erected from the ground. A large amount of blood stains around had solidified and turned reddish-brown, making the thorns' emerald green color even more vivid. What was strange was that Sarutobi's face, which had turned pale due to blood loss, had no pain on his half-open eyes, and his half-open eyes looked dull and empty.

"Old man!" Shinnosuke knelt in front of Sarutobi with a sad look on his face. This scene reminded him of his friend Uchiha Hiroshi who died tragically a few months ago. Unexpectedly, another relative died tragically like this.

He stretched out his hand to help Sarutobi's body down, but he was blocked by the dense thorns and had no idea how to start. He hurriedly took out a handful of unpreparedness to cut off the thorns that were in trouble.

"Stop!" One hand suddenly grabbed Shinnosuke's wrist, preventing him from looking back and finding that it was his friend Yoshiki.

So he stared at the other party angrily and thoughtfully and asked, "Why do you want the old man to just hang up like this?"

"Calm down! Shinnosuke!" Qiangshu held the other person's wrist firmly and said calmly: "The reason for the teacher's death is unknown, and the scene may be the only clue and cannot be destroyed!"

Shinnosuke finally couldn't help but shed tears when he heard this, and asked in a choked tone: "Rose Tree! Tell me what's going on? Why did the old man become like this!"

Although the other senior officials present were not as excited as Shinnosuke, they all looked gloomy. Tsunade and Jiraiya's two disciples looked paler than Orochimaru, and their eyes began to turn red.

Although Xiaochun, Men Yan, Qifeng and others, who were older, had long been used to separation from life and death, their eyes were full of sadness at this time, and even a hint of unbearableness appeared in Tuanzang's eyes.
Chapter completed!