Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

Chapter 141 Blind Surgery
The nurse in white was quite young, looking to be in her early twenties, and was pushing a three-tiered medical cart filled with bandages, hemostats, and other medical supplies.

Seeing the girl standing in front of the door looking 'at a loss', she immediately put down what she was doing, her beautiful big eyes scanning Hui Li up and down, as if she were looking at a fresh piece of pork.

"The eye is disabled, but the body looks healthy. This test subject seems to be doing well and shouldn't die so easily."

"She's still on the older side."

The doctor, dressed in green surgical scrubs, who came out with him, took off his blood-stained gloves, glanced at Hui Li, and shook his head in disappointment.

"The optimal period for inducing the chakra core is one to three years, but this person is at least six or seven years old, so the effect is unlikely to be ideal..."

“Recipients under three years old are too weak. How many died during transplants back then? I think this age is good. The core has begun to sprout, and the body's ability to withstand it is sufficient.”

Another, taller doctor clearly had a different opinion, placing his pamphlet on the instrument cart and joining the discussion.

The two talked as if no one else was around, occasionally pointing their fingers at Hui Li and saying things that were completely incomprehensible to the person in question.

Hui Li lowered her head and looked at the mask and clothing in her hands. Only then did she realize the actual purpose of these things.

Are they blind?
Picking up the owl-shaped mask, Hui Li waved at the two doctors:
"I'm looking for Dr. Chihaya..."

"I still insist on using infants under three years old, preferably newborns, because there have been successful cases. As long as we keep replicating, we can always find a way."

"Even if it is replicated, it will not have that unique vitality. No matter how many defective products are replicated, they will still be defective products."

The heated discussion continues.

The two, completely absorbed in their task, ignored Hui Li. Even the nurse in white who first discovered her couldn't get a word in edgewise and could only pretend to be diligent as she returned to her room, skillfully retrieving two chains and a short black stick.

The chain is made of steel and has five steel rings, each with a special buckle—one large and four small—making it easy to see how to use it.

As for the short black stick, it was about fifteen centimeters long and as thick as an adult man's wrist, with two parallel silver metal tips extending from its end.

Holding a short stick, the nurse with a cold look in her eyes walked quickly toward Hui Li.

"I'm new here..."

Hey!
Move the switch up to interrupt her voice.

Zizi!

A crackling sound immediately rang out between the two metal heads. The nurse pointed the short rod, crackling with electric arcs, at Gray Glass's body, ignoring her words.

"I think the experimental subject..."

hum!
The air vibrated slightly.

Wow!
Bang!

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"

The shrill and piercing screams were like a sharp scalpel piercing everyone's eardrums, and the peaceful hive was instantly thrown into turmoil.

Even the two doctors, who were engrossed in their academic discussion, had to divert their attention and frown as they looked in the direction of the sound:
"what happened……"

As they finished speaking, they swallowed hard, their eyes filled with barely concealed fear.

Under the glaring incandescent light.

The red light, even more dazzling than the lamplight, completely dominated their field of vision.

"Oh!"

The nurse clutched her bleeding forearm, trembling and writhing on the ground. Her clean white clothes were stained with blood, and she looked like a maggot stained with blood.

boom!
The black ninja boots lifted, kicking away the slender, soft severed hand on the ground.

The severed hand flipped over and rolled to them, leaving a bloody trail on the clean tiles.

"Ah ah ah..."

The nurse's screams continued.

The two men looked at the silver-haired girl in front of them, trembling as they backed away, and more and more medical staff came out of the room.

White and green.

Everyone was dressed in roughly the same clothes, but there was no familiar malnourished figure among them.

Seeing the growing crowd ahead, Hui Li flashed a smile, revealing her pearly white teeth, and waved the mask in her hand:
Does anyone know where Dr. Chihaya is?

"There is an intruder!"

Suddenly, someone shouted.

Drop drop!
A sharp and urgent alarm sounded rapidly throughout the experimental department.

Hui Li's smile slowly faded, and a tingling sensation involuntarily coursed through her muscles. She hated people who wouldn't listen to her.

If we accidentally kill everyone here...

Whoosh whoosh!
Three figures dressed in standard Root attire appeared before her in a cloud of dust. Upon recognizing the newcomers, the chakra core within Gray Glass's heart gradually dimmed.

"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding!"

"Lord Hui Li, please don't do it." Die rushed over and raised her hands to calm Hui Li, who was exuding a dangerous aura.

The other two men were shirtless with their muscular upper bodies bare, their lower abdomens bandaged. In their haste to get there, their freshly stitched wounds had been torn open again, and bright red blood was seeping out.

It was Iwakuma and Arashi who were instantly killed by Hui Li right in front of the conference hall.

The two of them, covered in sweat, ran out following behind Die.

They were seriously injured and brought to the Experimental Department and Medical Department for treatment by Butterfly, but they never expected to encounter an enemy attack that had not occurred in eight hundred years.

After they ran out, they discovered that the person exuding murderous aura was actually the freak who had brought them there.

These medical ninjas in the experimental department are all Danzo's treasures. If they were all killed by that fearless monster, they would have no way to explain it to him.

Fortunately, nothing serious has happened yet; it's just that a nurse has been crippled, so it's not a big problem.

Seeing that Butterfly stepped forward to stop Gray Glass, the two quickly deactivated the alarm and turned to comfort the frightened doctors and nurses:

"This is Ash Blossom, Lord Danzo's newly accepted disciple, not an enemy! Nor is he some damned experimental subject!"

After hearing Lan and the other two's explanation, the doctors looked at Hui Li with some skepticism.

Having spent most of their time in the underground base, these people have incredibly limited access to information and have never even heard of Gray Glass.

Lord Danzo has actually taken on disciples?

She's a young blind girl!

Inquisitive gazes focused on Hui Li, but the strong will to survive prevented them from questioning her; they merely whispered among themselves.

"Lord Hui Li, what brings you here?"

Butterfly's emotional intelligence was always on point at crucial moments. Seeing that Gray Glass was in a bad mood, her tone became much more respectful than before.

"My teacher told me to come find Dr. Chihaya, and I haven't met many normal people along the way." Hui Li never expected that the most normal people in the Root were actually the three brothers who came to pick her up this morning.

The two ghostly door gods at the entrance of the conference hall, the panda girl from the equipment department, the aloof and gloomy insect man, and this group of strange doctors who want to experiment on any child they see and don't listen to anyone—where in the entire Root is there a normal person?
In contrast, Lan Du became more handsome.

The thought that Danzo had sent out the three most normal members of Root to greet her even moved Hairi a little.

You're the only one who seems normal!

Butterfly secretly rolled her eyes at this 'normal' blind girl who would chop off someone's arm at the drop of a hat.

If he hadn't intervened, the experimental department would probably be a morgue by now. This guy doesn't need any training; his murderous aura makes him a natural-born Root ninja.

"save……"

The nurse, who was lying on the ground, raised her head, pinched the bleeding wound on her right hand, and whispered for help with trembling lips.

His mask and hat fell off in pain, and his delicate face was pale and bloodless. It was hard to tell whether he was frightened or lost too much blood due to a ruptured artery.

The onlookers had already noticed the nurse's terrible condition, but since she was lying right behind Hui Li, no one dared to go over to help her, fearing that they might accidentally have their limbs severed as well. They could only pretend not to see it.

Upon hearing the other person's plea for help, a slight commotion arose in the crowd, but ultimately no one dared to step forward.

Despair flashed in the nurse's eyes. Driven by her will to survive, she gritted her teeth and crawled towards the crowd, blood flowing from her wrist to the ground and then being smeared evenly on the ground and her clothes, making her look extremely disheveled.

"Get out of my way!"

A lazy voice, as if someone had been woken from a nap, rang out from behind the group.

"Lord Chihaya has arrived." Upon hearing this, the crowd blocking the passage immediately parted to make way for a clear path.

Still wearing that clean white lab coat, Chihaya Toru rubbed her hair as she walked out of the crowd, her sunken cheeks gaunt and her lips pursed, her face full of helplessness.

"You've finished all your work, right? What are you all doing here? Send a few people to carry the wounded to the operating room."

Upon hearing Chihaya's reprimand, several strong men stepped out from the crowd, pushed a medical trolley, lifted the blood-covered nurse onto it, picked up the severed hand that had gone cold from the ground, and pushed her toward the operating room inside.

The others immediately scattered.

Apart from the bloodstains still remaining on the ground, everything returned to its original desolate state.

When Lan and the others saw that the main character had arrived, they nodded to Chihaya Toru, then turned back to nod to Hairi in disappointment, before returning to the ward with the bleeding bandage on their lower abdomen.

Their wounds had just been bandaged, and now they've reopened.

"Oh, you really know how to get into trouble!"

Chihaya Toru looked at the problem child in front of her, her brows furrowed.

When Danzo handed Hairi over to him, he could already imagine the chaotic days to come, but he never expected that the other party would teach him a lesson as soon as he arrived.

"no way."

Hui Li spread her hands, looking quite helpless.

She is too young and looks harmless. When she was weak, this appearance provided her with many advantages, so it is only natural that she should bear the trouble now.

"Why did the teacher ask me to talk to you?"

"Didn't you want to learn medical ninjutsu? If you don't come to me, who else would you go to? Alright, stop standing there, let's talk as we walk!"

Since revealing her identity as a member of Root, Chihaya Toru no longer hides her personality. Normally she acts like a proper person at Konoha Hospital, but now she is completely carefree and casual.

Leading Hairi toward the operating room, Chihaya Toru pulled out a pair of gloves and put them on as they walked.

"Your weekly medical ninja training is canceled. Instead, you'll come to the Experiment Department at Base Two to be my assistant. During this time, I'll teach you medical ninjutsu, and some other things as well."

"Human experiments?"

Following behind him, Gray looked around the underground beehive and filled in the gaps in what Chihaya Toru hadn't said.

"you know?"

Chihaya Toru's eyes showed a hint of surprise, not only because of Hairi's information, but also because of the unusual calmness she displayed when mentioning human experimentation.

In the minds of most people in Konoha, human experimentation is an unacceptable and dark thing. Even when Orochimaru joined Root in his youth, he was somewhat hesitant to mention this taboo.

"I encountered two Shadow Ninjas with Sharingan in front of the conference room on the third basement level."

Having anticipated the root's condition, and having come specifically for the interstitial cells used in human experiments, Hai Li naturally showed no reaction.

"Oh, you mean the Nara twins?"

"What are their names?"

"do not know."

Chihaya Toru slowly shook her head: "The members of Root use code names in the base and outside, and numbered names in the laboratory. Their names in the outside world are generally only known to themselves."

"Then what's going on between you and Aburame Ryoma?"

Upon hearing Hairi's question, Chihaya Toru first smiled mysteriously, then said with a look of melancholy:
“When we first joined, there weren’t so many rules, and… well, never mind.”

"I hate people who don't listen to others, and I hate riddle-makers who only say half of what they mean."

Hearing this, Hui Li, who was listening intently, clenched her fists, wanting to give Chihaya Toru a good beating.

"There's nothing I can do; some people will be upset if they hear this."

Chihaya Toru imitated Hairi's posture, spreading her hands and walking towards the operating room door on her own.

Wow!

The door opened.

Inside, a young nurse, her face covered in sweat, lay naked on the operating table, a white sheet covering her chest. Her right arm stretched out limply, the clean cut revealing the white bone surface.

The medical cart next to it contained sterilized hemostatic forceps, scalpel blades, and other medical supplies, as well as a bloody severed hand.

There was no one else besides them.

When Chihaya Toru walked in, the nurse's eyes were filled with the joy of being saved.

"Grey Glass, do you know how to stitch up wounds?"

"All I know how to do is cut."

Chihaya looked at the nurse's neatly severed arm:
"The cuts were indeed clean and precise."

"Why do medical ninjutsu require stitches? Can't you just heal directly with life force?" Hui Li asked, voicing her long-standing question.

“Vitality is non-renewable, direct use will reduce the patient’s lifespan, and most importantly, it is not stable enough.”

"Stablize?"

“Yes.” Chihaya Toru handed Hairi a pair of medical gloves.

"When treating wounds, medical ninjutsu requires manual control by the ninja. Humans are not machines and can get tired and their attention can be distracted, which is far less reliable than the body's own repair methods."

Since you don't know how to sew, I'll be your assistant.

"The surgeon?"

"You know how to cut, right? Why don't you do it?"

Upon hearing this, the nurse lying on the operating table widened her eyes, her joy quickly turning into overwhelming terror.

"This is my first surgery."

Hui Li hesitated for a moment.

She couldn't even save a fish, and now she's facing a major surgery to reattach her severed arm, so she's still a little uncertain.

"It's okay, I can guide you. Practice makes perfect, you'll get better with practice," Chihaya Toru patted Hairi's shoulder reassuringly, as if encouraging her.

The nurse was almost in tears, but she didn't have the courage to refuse the silver-haired witch, nor did she dare to disturb the seemingly kind Chihaya Tohru.

"Fine!"

Putting on gloves, Hui Li nodded reluctantly.

Practicing directly on living people is an opportunity that can only be found within Root. If she were still stuck in Konoha Hospital undergoing arduous training, she might not have a chance for at least two years.

"The first step is to administer anesthesia."

As Chihaya Toru explained, he inserted the needle into the anesthetic vial and drew out half a vial of anesthetic.

呲!
The medicine mixed with air was expelled from the syringe. After confirming that there were no air bubbles, Chihaya Toru took the syringe and walked toward the nurse.

The nurse's lips trembled.

Having a blind surgeon, performing his first operation, reattach her severed arm, and then administering anesthesia, leaves one wondering if she'll ever wake up.

She suddenly didn't want this hand anymore.

"I once heard that using anesthesia can affect wound healing."

"That's true, but she's terrified of you, so let's get it done!"

The needle pierced the neck.

As the blindfolded Hui Li approached with a scalpel, the nurse's dazed eyes grew increasingly desperate.

Her body gradually began to go numb, and she could clearly feel the cold scalpel cutting open the skin of her arm inch by inch.

"Cut open the wound...find the neurons and activate them with life force..."

My brain is getting heavier and heavier.

Even Chihaya Toh's instructions became indistinct.

boom!
The world was plunged into endless darkness.

(End of this chapter)