Author: The kitten who stole cat food

"Is this... a success?"

It was Danzo who spoke, and there was a slight tremor in his voice.

As a ninja who has witnessed the power of the God of Ninja World with his own eyes, he is well aware of the power of Wood Release.

It is precisely because of this that he is convinced that such power is enough to support him in realizing his inner ambition.

Hearing Danzo's inquiry, Orochimaru replied calmly: "We can't say it's successful yet. The current first-generation cells are only 30% active. Who knows what will happen in the future?"

Having said this, he injected a new cell inhibitor into the life-support equipment.

Seeing the lavender liquid flowing into Shiraishi's body along the hose, Orochimaru licked his lips and said softly: "Baby~, come on, let me see where your limit is..."

Seeing Orochimaru like this, Danzo frowned and said solemnly: "Orochimaru, I don't want him to die inexplicably, do you know that?"

As if he didn't hear the warning in Danzo's words, Orochimaru just replied calmly: "You don't need to worry about the experiment."

After that, he went straight to the next experimental subject.

Looking at Orochimaru's back, Danzo snorted before following him.

In the past month or so, basically, an experimental subject has gone out of control every two or three days. Therefore, there are currently only twenty-seven surviving experimental subjects.

Therefore, it did not take long for Orochimaru to complete the examination and inject new cell inhibitors into all experimental subjects.

After doing this, he left the experimental area with Danzo.

Different from the past, this time Shiraishi did not wake up immediately, but took two or three hours to wake up slowly.

Glancing at the empty experimental area, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Ever since he received special attention from Orochimaru and Danzo, he no longer dared to pretend to be asleep in front of these two people. He always calculated the time and evolved in advance.

In this way, after the energy is exhausted, he will enter a dormant state on his own, thus avoiding the risk of exposure.

After withdrawing his thoughts, Shiraishi felt the Hashirama cells in his body.

Sure enough, as he expected, the activity increased again.

"System, show my status."

As soon as Shiraishi thought, a familiar panel immediately appeared:

[Host: Shiraishi

Age:2／59↑

--Basic properties--

Strength:0.8↑

Agility:0.7↑

Physique:1.5↑

Intelligence:1.1↑(3.0)

--Special enhancement--

Cell adaptability:Ⅱ(10.1%)↑

Chakra Affinity: Water: Ⅱ (30.5%) ↑ Earth: Ⅱ (31.1%) ↑

Wood Release:Ⅱ(10.3%)↑

--Abnormal state--

Warning 1: The unknown agent is taking effect, and the activity of xenogeneic cells is reduced by 60%. The estimated duration is: 9 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 15 seconds!

Warning 2: Xenogeneic cells are being eroded (24.9%), estimated time of loss of control: 921 days, 11 hours, 17 minutes and 51 seconds!

Warning 3: Xenogeneic cell fusion is in progress (61.8%), estimated time required: 72 days, 14 hours, 8 minutes and 20 seconds!]

In the past two months, due to the increase in the activity of pillar cells, the progress of cell fusion has been slower than expected, reaching only 61.8%.

As the inhibitors were replaced again, the activity of the cells between the pillars increased. It can be predicted that the fusion speed will further decrease in the future.

This can be seen from the time calculated by the 'system'. If the previous inhibitor was used, it should not take more than a month to complete the fusion, but now it takes more than seventy days.

However, this is not important.

Nowadays, Hashirama's cells are only 40% active. It is impossible for him to lose control in a short period of time.

Without worries, this is a stable place for development.

After glancing at the various attributes on the panel that were rising steadily, Shiraishi had an idea and started a new round of evolution.

As for the direction of strengthening, it is still [cell adaptability].

With the positive cycle again and again, his [Cell Adaptability] is improving faster and faster.

When I was first promoted to Level II, it took eight days to increase the progress by 0.2%, but now, it can increase by more than 0.3% almost every day.

Based on his growth rate, Shiraishi estimated that it would only take about three months for his [Cellular Adaptability] to be upgraded again, ushering in a new transformation.

By then, let alone 40% active Hashirama cells, even if they are 100% active, his body will be able to accept and adapt.

Once Hashirama's cells are completely fused, the only differences between him and Senju Hashirama are combat experience, ninjutsu, and chakra capacity.

Among them, the amount of chakra can increase with age.

As for the other two items, I believe Danzo will be happy to help.

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In the dim experimental area, time passed quietly. Except for the fewer and fewer experiments, there was no change here.

Two months later, Orochimaru once again replaced the cell inhibitor with a new one. This time the inhibitor could only suppress 50% of the activity of Hashirama cells.

There is no doubt that this is a watershed moment. Experimental subjects that did not have sufficient fusion in the early stage quickly got out of control.

Accordingly, once it survives this time, not only will it be possible to completely fuse the pillar cells, at least it will not lose control easily again.

In his previous life, Yamato managed to get through this stage, but because there was no follow-up and lack of potential, Mudun was much inferior to Hashirama and gave people a lifeless feeling.

But it's different now. Because of Shiraishi's existence, Orochimaru did not hastily announce that the experiment failed, so he also noticed the lucky guy Yamato.

Therefore, he and Yamato became the only survivors in this experimental area.

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In a flash, the time came to the eighth month of the experiment, which was one month after the replacement of the '50% active' cell inhibitor.

Just as Shiraishi expected, within three months, his cell adaptability underwent another transformation.

Just after waking up from evolution, Shiraishi opened the panel, and familiar words immediately appeared in front of his eyes.

[Host: Shiraishi

Age:2／60↑

--Basic properties--

Strength:1.1↑

Agility:1.2↑

Physique:2.1↑

Intelligence:2.4↑(3.0)

--Special enhancement--

Cell adaptability:Ⅲ(0.1%)↑

Chakra Affinity: Water: III (64.1%) ↑ Earth: III (64.8%) ↑

Wood Release:Ⅲ(42.5%)↑

--Abnormal state--

Warning 1: The unknown agent is taking effect, and the activity of xenogeneic cells is reduced by 50%. The estimated duration is: 3 hours, 22 minutes and 41 seconds!

Warning 2: Xenogeneic cells are being eroded (10.4%), estimated time of loss of control: ∞!

Warning 3: Xenogeneic cell fusion is in progress (91.6%), estimated time required: 1 day, 5 hours, 26 minutes and 31 seconds!]

Seeing the infinite out-of-control time on it, Shiraishi was completely relieved.

At this moment, he felt more relaxed than ever before, and the boulder in his heart finally fell.

From now on, he no longer has to worry about losing control.

Level III's [Cell Adaptability] is far from that of Level II. If Orochimaru hadn't just injected a shot of Hashirama's cell extract yesterday, his cells would have engulfed all the Hashirama cells in his body.

Even so, just one day later, the erosion level of Hashirama's cells dropped to 10.4%.

At this rate, if Orochimaru doesn't re-inject him with Hashirama cell extract today, it won't be long before the Hashirama cells in his body will be cleared.

However, this is not something to be happy about.

The reason is simple. So far, the Hashirama cells he has fused have been partially destroyed by Orochimaru's special cell inhibitor.

In other words, these intercolumn cells are degraded versions.

In this way, if there is no follow-up, his wood escape ability will probably be the same as Yamato in his previous life, and he can only engage in "real estate".

Although in the future he can also gradually improve the ability of [Wood Release] through active evolution, but since he can do it for free now, why should he bother with it?

Just as he was thinking this, the door to the experimental area was suddenly pushed open, and Orochimaru and Danzo walked in.
Chapter completed!