Naruto: The villain template of me is regarded as the savior.

Chapter 223: Unfortunately, the dead can't speak

The Sky Fortress suspended above the Dawn City in the Land of Rain is the equipment research and development department second only to the main control room in size.

Figures in white coats and goggles trotted past from time to time, leaving lines as thick as baby arms crisscrossing the ground.

Many researchers in white coats were sitting on the floor, looking through the research data and reports piled up beside them. Most of them looked sloppy and had dark circles under their eyes.

In the experimental site in front of them, there was a row of human-shaped targets made of special materials. No metal could be seen in the entire site, and there was nothing that could conduct electricity.

In front of a huge rubber table about ten meters away from the human-shaped target, a researcher had a strange device on his arm, which looked like a very powerful gun-type ninja tool.

Separated only by a glass curtain wall made of high-strength material, except for the figure standing in the front with his hands behind his back, everyone else was looking at the scene with their fists clenched and a nervous look on their faces.

"The 103rd experiment of the [Thunder Cannon Type I] project begins."

Following his casual order, the researcher in the field raised his arm and aimed his right eye, which was wearing a one-way mirror, at the eyepiece.

Sizzle! Squeak! Squeak!
As the chakra in his body rushed out like a flood, countless invisible "snakes" seemed to appear in the air, and the azure electric current flowed into the firearms and ninja tools with a sizzling sound.

The energy tank on the gun was filling up quickly, but the researchers' faces gradually turned pale.

Feeling that the chakra in his body was about to be completely exhausted, the researcher's face suddenly froze, and the lightning flow that had originally converged in the cannon suddenly stopped.

boom! !

The chakra that was condensed to the limit burst out, and the azure ball of lightning dragged out a beam in the air. The astonishing power and lightning speed set off a frenzy, leaving several shocking wounds on the ground and hitting the specially made human-shaped target in the distance.

The dazzling light instantly illuminated the surroundings like a waterfall. The temperature reached nearly a thousand degrees Celsius in an instant, and snake-like electric currents splashed and danced in the air.

"Ahem! Ahem!"

When the dazzling light faded away, the researcher had been knocked over by the reaction force. His right arm, which was equipped with the thunder cannon, was charred black, and one could even faintly smell a strange meaty aroma.

The human-shaped target he was aiming at left only black ash on the ground.

"It actually, really, really succeeded?!"

The other researchers all stared at the scene with dull eyes, but soon they came to their senses, revealed extremely excited expressions and laughed out loud: "Hahaha! Great! Great!"

"Are you starting to feel complacent now?"

As the nonchalant voice sounded, the originally heated atmosphere suddenly stagnated.

A man wearing square-framed glasses walked into the base, with his name and position written on a badge on his chest.

——【Thunder Cannon Type I】Project Chief Person in Charge·Lei Men Guang.

Several researchers fell silent, scratched their messy heads and looked over to the source of the sound. Some of them greeted him with a playful smile, "Boss, don't be so serious. At least it was successfully launched."

"Humph, a bunch of lunatics. If we don't succeed, someone will die here."

Lei Menguang snorted coldly, looked at the unlucky guy who no one cared about, and said, "Why don't you take him down for treatment quickly!"

"Hey, Boss Leimen."

The researcher who had unhesitatingly asked to undergo the experiment without any precautions and who enjoyed the risk was brought before him and said jokingly, "We are crazy people, and you are the leader of a group of crazy people!"

Lei Menguang glared at him unhappily and waved his hand to signal them to get out of here quickly.

Looking at the charred ground with residual electric current, he narrowed his eyes slightly and murmured softly: "Is this a success or a failure?"

While I was thinking, a gentle voice with a smile came from behind me.

"It's quite lively. It looks like I came at the right time, right?"

Lei Menguang subconsciously stood up and turned around to look, and saw Yunchuan, who was dressed in white, coming over. He was surprised and asked, "Master Yunchuan, how come you have time to come here today?"

"I'm leaving soon, so I'm here to take a look at the situation before I go." Yun Chuan looked at the charred mark and asked curiously, "How is the research on the thunder cannon going? It seems that the power and progress should be pretty good, right?"

This thing is much more advanced than the "Kunai Gun" used by the Sky Country before. The technical content of the "Kunai Gun" is not high. As long as you understand its structure and have enough materials, you can easily imitate it.

Not only does it have the disadvantage of slow kunai reloading speed, but it also has the weaknesses of slow firing rate and insufficient power.

It is not much different from the power of most ninja-throwing kunai, and its flexibility is far inferior to that of ninja-throwing kunai. No matter how convenient it is, it still cannot achieve any effective results and can only catch the enemy off guard.

The Aerial Ninja Village had no choice but to develop this kind of ninja tool. After all, they could not use other ninjutsu while controlling the flying ninja tool.

After the previous invasion of Konoha, the five major ninja villages must have been prepared, and the threat of kunai guns has been greatly reduced.

Such ninja tools are undoubtedly very outdated nowadays.

In order to change this small ninja tool, it has undergone several improvements over the past few years. First, the firing speed of the kunai gun was increased, and then in order to increase the penetrating power of the kunai, a device that attaches wind attribute chakra was added.

That is, the "Wind Gun" that the Sky Corps has currently put into use and mass production has increased its power and speed to a level that ordinary ninjas find difficult to guard against.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the opponent is unaware that he or she is being targeted. If he or she is prepared, with the dynamic vision of most ninjas and the speed of the instant body-flickering technique, they can still barely avoid it.

Moreover, the "Wind Gun" requires the user to possess wind-attribute chakra, while the "Thunder Cannon" can be used directly as long as the user has sufficient chakra.

The extremely large attack range and not-too-slow firing rate are enough to form a covering strike leaving the ninja nowhere to dodge.

"Well... no, it can't be said to be successful yet." Lei Menguang nodded subconsciously at first, but soon shook his head and held up the frame, and said calmly: "Now it can only be regarded as a preliminary verification of the feasibility of the device, and there are still a lot of problems that have not been solved."

After that, he picked up the arm cannon on the table, and under the curious gaze of Yunchuan, he skillfully disassembled the ninja tool and explained: "At present, the main body of scientific ninja tools is generally divided into three parts, namely the outer shell, inner shell and core."

"Because lightning chakra is the most destructive, the shell of the thunder cannon is made of the hardest and most heat-resistant metal as you can see, so that it can be guaranteed not to be easily damaged during long-term use."

"But the inner shell is different. The biggest feature of the inner shell is that it can amplify and conduct chakra. Therefore, the inner shell needs to be made of very precious chakra conducting metal."

Leimen Guang picked up the so-called "inner shell", adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said: "The thunder cannon is a ninja tool that consumes a lot of chakra. The better the conductivity of the inner shell material, the higher the conversion rate of the output chakra."

"However, chakra conduction metal is an important strategic material for the entire ninja world. We currently have very little chakra conduction metal left, and the conversion rate can barely reach 60%..."

Yunchuan took the black "inner shell" and said thoughtfully: "So, if you want to use this thing, it requires a very high amount of chakra from the user, and it is not yet possible to mass-produce it?"

"Yes, although it is more flexible and convenient than the previous energy cannon of the Sky Ninja Village, according to our test results, if the energy is 100%, even the great country jonin can only fire two to four shots."

Lei Menguang nodded calmly, took Yunchuan into another laboratory, and said, "In addition to the restrictions on materials, the core currently used by the thunder cannon also has very demanding production conditions."

As they were talking, the two looked at several red-haired figures in the laboratory, one of whom was Uzumaki Isshi who had not been seen for a long time.

In his left hand, he held a blue cube about the size of a walnut, which gave off a strange aura.

In his other hand he held a long, slender knife and carved carefully without blinking.

His movements were slow, but his hands were steady, and his body was as motionless as a sculpture. Only a few fingers controlled the small carving knife. Every stroke of the knife was calm and firm, and even the rhythm did not change at all.

Gradually, a light appeared in Uzumaki Kazuya's eyes, and even Kaminari Mitsuru, who was watching beside Kumokawa, slowly clenched his hands into fists behind his back.

Finally, when the last line was slowly carved, Uzumaki Issuke stopped moving, the serious light in his eyes slowly faded, and a trace of fatigue appeared on his face.

However, when he subconsciously raised his head and looked behind him, he saw Yunchuan's curious face approaching him. He was stunned at first, but quickly reacted and hurriedly stood up to salute: "Master Yunchuan, you..."

But before he could stand up, Yunchuan raised his hand, pressed his shoulder, and pushed him back into his seat.

Yunchuan pointed at the researchers who were immersed in their own world and completely ignored him and said with a smile: "You don't have to be so reserved in private. You should learn from them what it means to be informal."

As he spoke, Lei Men Guang picked up the cube and placed it in the palm of his left hand, slowly injecting the soft, tiny amount of attributeless chakra in his body into it.

In an instant, the cube emitted a more obvious blue light, and the soft pale white halo turned into electric current visible to the naked eye.

"Interesting, this is the 'core' of the thunder cannon?" Yunchuan raised his eyebrows, "You have already been able to use the sealing technique to this extent."

Just now, he could feel the chakra in Uzumaki Isshiya's body flowing like water, which was injected into the carving knife and gradually engraved complex patterns on it from the tip of the knife.

This feeling is very similar to how Yangyan Village makes explosive talismans. One side is drawing on special talisman paper, and the other side is engraving on special ore.

It now appears that the function of the technique engraved on this "core" is to transform attributeless chakra into lightning attribute chakra, so that those who do not possess lightning attribute can also use it.

"Yes." Kaminarimon nodded. "As you can see, the core is the key among the keys, and it can even be said to be the foundation of scientific ninja tools, but the process of engraving the technique is extremely complicated and tedious."

"We also found this technique that can transform attributes based on the sealing techniques books left by the predecessors of the Uzumaki clan after continuous attempts."

Uzumaki Isshiya on the side explained helplessly: "Even so, there is no shortcut to the engraving technique. The engraving process takes about five hours, and there can be no errors or pauses in the middle."

"Among all the Uzumaki people who have become researchers, I am the only one who has an 80% success rate in making it."

Yunchuan also noticed that his hands were shaking at this time, and it was obvious that this was not an easy task for him.

It takes five whole hours, and during the whole process, you have to control the chakra in your body like the flow of water. If the amount of chakra output is too little or too much, all the previous efforts will be wasted. The requirement for chakra control is simply abnormal.

"Can we produce a thousand within three years?" Yunchuan asked after pondering for a moment.

“This…” Lei Menguang pushed his glasses, and finally shook his head with a wry smile, “Although I don’t want to admit it, if I can’t break through the limitations of materials and technology, it might be a bit difficult to produce a thousand in three years.”

Hearing this, Yunchuan's eyes flickered slightly as he searched his already unclear memories, vaguely remembering some things that were almost forgotten.

"If I remember correctly..." He slowly raised his head, his eyes flickering, "The level of heavy industry in the Snow Country is close to that of the Rain Country, and the chakra technology seems to be well developed as well."

The Snow Country is located close to the polar regions, and it is mostly snowy all year round, with very few warm days.

Although the local agricultural industry and per capita GDP are less affected by the weather, the Snow Country still has its own ninjas, and seems to have chakra armor that can enhance ninja chakra and use A-level ninjutsu multiple times.

"The Snow Country? I seem to have heard of it before, but I didn't expect that they were also researching chakra technology..."

Leimen Guang was a little surprised, but soon understood, and laughed at himself: "That's right, after all, we are a poor country, and we don't have any ninjutsu. We can't train any powerful ninjas, so we can only 'take shortcuts'."

After making a self-deprecating remark, he adjusted his mentality and thought: "If they really created a chakra armor that can use A-level ninjutsu multiple times, maybe they really found a chakra conduction material with a higher conversion rate."

"Okay, in that case, I'll have someone run it."

Yunchuan nodded without hesitation, and suddenly laughed as if he remembered something: "By the way, the Sky Corps team has been out for a while. When they come back, remember to ask them about their experience."

"Of course, this is excellent actual combat data." Leimen Guang couldn't help laughing, "It would be even better if we could know the experience of the Sand Village ninja, but unfortunately..."

"The dead can't speak."

　This chapter is just to supplement the settings, so that the later parts won't be too abrupt. There should be two chapters tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)