Author: The kitten who stole cat food

Putting back his scattered thoughts, Shiraishi forced Hashirama's cells, which had gradually become active due to the failure of the inhibitors, to start evolution again.

Thanks to Level II [Cell Adaptability], in the past eight days, the erosion rate of Hashirama's cells against him has only increased by 1.4%. Although it is still eroding his body, the speed is much slower.

In addition, in these eight days, the fusion degree of his cells and Hashirama's cells increased by a full 8.1%, and [Wood Release] and [Chakra Affinity] were also improved a lot.

Just as he expected before, everything was moving forward smoothly.

If there were no accidents, it would take less than a month for him to completely survive the dangerous period and master the ability of Wood Release.

However, nine times out of ten things in life will not go as planned.

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In a flash, another ten days passed, and the experiment entered its third month.

On this day, Orochimaru arrived at the experimental area on time.

Compared with before, this place is much emptier.

Without him, in these ten days, eight more experimental subjects went out of control.

Now, there are only forty-six surviving experimental subjects left.

As usual, Orochimaru injected the cell inhibitors into the experimental subjects one after another with ease.

After a while, he came to the culture tank No. 36.

Looking at the green white stone inside, Orochimaru let out a light sigh and murmured to himself: "It's not out of control yet!

Haha~, interesting, really interesting!

I wonder if you can hold on this time?

I’m really looking forward to it!”

After that, he injected a new cell inhibitor into the life-support equipment.

After observing for a moment and confirming that the experimental subject was fine, he went to the next culture tank.

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Bang~

With a dull crash, the door to the experimental area closed, and Shiraishi opened his eyes.

Feeling that the Hashirama cells in his body were more active than before, he frowned slightly and muttered to himself: "What's going on? The system is showing my status."

The familiar translucent panel emerges instantly:

[Host: Shiraishi

Age:2／59↓

--Basic properties--

Strength:0.1

Agility:0.1

Constitution:0.1

Intelligence:0.8↑(3.0)

--Special enhancement--

Cell adaptability:Ⅱ(0.6%)↑

Chakra Affinity: Water: I (19.5%) ↑ Earth: I (20.1%) ↑

Wood Release:Ⅰ(31.6%)↑

--Abnormal state--

Warning 1: The unknown agent is taking effect, and the activity of xenogeneic cells is reduced by 70%. The estimated duration is: 9 days, 11 hours, 52 minutes and 13 seconds!

Warning 2: Xenogeneic cells are being eroded (91.9%), estimated time of loss of control: 10 days, 21 hours, 47 minutes and 26 seconds!

Warning 3: Xenogeneic cell fusion is in progress (18.5%), estimated time required: 84 days, 23 hours, 6 minutes and 34 seconds!]

With just one glance, Shiraishi saw the 70%.

"No wonder I feel that Hashirama's cells are more active than before. It turns out that the inhibitor this time can only reduce the activity of Hashirama's cells by 70%."

Shiraishi asked doubtfully: "Is this the development of drug resistance?"

But soon, he rejected this idea.

Without him, combined with Orochimaru's words before leaving, we can basically conclude that this was intentional, or that this was part of the experiment.

After thinking about this, Bai Shi raised his head and glanced around.

Just at this moment, there was a sound of glass breaking.

Not far away, a twisted vine burst through the culture tank and crawled around, but it only took a few breaths before it withered completely.

Feeling the rapidly weakening breath of life, Shiraishi knew that another experimental subject had died.

"Sure enough, I'm not the only one who changed the inhibitor.

The experimental subject just now probably couldn't adapt to this sudden change, so he lost control.

In the next few days, I'm afraid more people will lose control.

I don’t know how many people will survive after this round.”

Shaking his head secretly, Shiraishi turned his attention to himself without thinking any more.

Although he is on the verge of losing control, with his current cellular adaptability, he should be able to survive.

This can be determined from the estimated time of loss of control by the 'system'. As long as Orochimaru replenishes inhibitors in time after ten days, he will be able to successfully survive this crisis.

If this crisis can be overcome, his situation will get better and better.

To survive this crisis, Orochimaru cannot be replaced with a new inhibitor within a short period of time. Unfortunately, he cannot control this.

According to the normal experimental thinking, Orochimaru will definitely continue to increase the activity of Hashirama cells, thereby further stimulating the potential of the experimental subjects.

In the end, the experimental subject either died or successfully fused with Hashirama's cells and gained the true power of wood escape.

Now it depends on how often Orochimaru replaces the inhibitor. If it is not so tight, there will not be much danger to Shiraishi.

But if he wants to increase the activity of Hashirama's cells next time, even with the help of the 'system', he may have to explain it here.

"It's useless to think too much, it's better to seize the time to evolve!"

After saying something to himself, Shiraishi started a new round of evolution.

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Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was time to replenish inhibitors.

Seeing the corrosion rate increased by nearly 3% on the panel, Shiraishi felt extremely heavy.

Now he could only hope that Orochimaru would stop increasing the activity of Hashirama's cells and at least give him some time to breathe, otherwise his situation would be very bad.

Fortunately, Orochimaru is not that crazy, and the inhibitor this time can still suppress 70% of the activity of Hashirama cells.

Seeing this, Shiraishi breathed a long sigh of relief and said to himself: "This crisis is finally over."

There is no doubt that this is the biggest crisis he has encountered since traveling through time.

He had a hunch that this would be a turning point in his career in the ninja world.

Without wasting time, Shiraishi immediately started a new round of evolution.

With evolution time after time, the adaptability of Shiraishi's cells continues to increase, and the degree of fusion between his cells and Hashirama's cells increases.

As the degree of cell fusion increases, his [Wood Release] ability is simultaneously improved, resulting in more and more chakra, and these chakras can further increase his evolution speed.

In this way, a virtuous cycle is formed.

In this cycle, his condition is getting better and better, and the erosion of Hashirama's cells is getting lower and lower.

Without any surprise, his change quickly attracted Orochimaru's attention.

Time comes more than a month later, the fifth month since the experiment started.

In front of culture tank No. 36, Orochimaru and Danzo stood side by side.

Looking at Shiraishi, who was just like an ordinary child, the two of them had different expressions.

Danzo's face was filled with joy, and his eyes revealed an unconcealable desire. He was using Shiraishi as a tool to realize his ambitions.

Orochimaru's face showed an unabashed desire to explore. It was obvious that in his eyes, Shiraishi was still an experimental material.

Fortunately, Shiraishi didn't wake up, otherwise when he opened his eyes and saw these two faces, he would probably be scared to death on the spot.
Chapter completed!