A familiar chakra appeared before my eyes, and Anko turned around the corner.

She was dressed casually, her hair was tied up loosely, with a few stray strands falling in front of her ears.

He was clutching a kunai in his hand.

She stopped at the corner of the corridor, her chest heaving, clearly having run all the way down from the third floor.

The two people looked at each other across the corridor.

The red bean spoke first.

"You blew up the basement area..."

She saw the lime on Hyuga Chen's shoulder and the spool end peeking out of his ninja tool bag.

"it's me."

Why...?

Hyuga Chen reached out and pushed his headband up.

The forehead is smooth.

There was nothing there.

Hongdou's gaze was fixed on his forehead.

She stared at that patch of skin for a long time, the kunai in her hand slowly drooping.

His lips trembled slightly.

"...When?"

Hinata Dust looked at her face.

Her expression was somewhat dazed, as if she had just woken up and hadn't fully seen what was in front of her.

Hyuga Chen took out the ninja tool box from inside his coat.

I squatted down, put it on the ground, and pushed it to her feet.

Hongdou glanced down at it but didn't bend down to pick it up.

"Press it on the neck and inject chakra to remove that cursed seal."

Hinata Dust did not say anything more upon seeing this.

Pick up the box from the ground and take out the scroll.

I walked up to her.

Hongdou instinctively shrank back, pressing her back against the wall, but she didn't push him away.

"What are you going to do?"

Open the scroll, align it with the incantation seal, and press it onto the scroll.

Hongdou's body stiffened for a moment under his palm.

The scroll lit up, and the three tomoe glowed hot in the chakra halo. Then a cool sensation seeped from the surface of the skin into the depths of the cervical spine.

She pushed him away by pressing her palm against his chest.

"...Hyuga Dust!"

Then, at the last moment as the chill crept over her cervical spine, her body went limp.

The fingers gripping his collar slowly loosened.

The intense adjustment of chakra during the dissolution of the cursed seal caused a brief fainting spell. It was painless, but the person would lose consciousness for a moment.

Hinata Chen caught her by the shoulder and gently lowered her to sit against the wall.

The kunai slipped from her other hand, and the runes on the scroll had all burned away.

I squatted down in front of her and straightened her head, which had tilted to one side.

Hongdou's eyelids trembled slightly, and her breathing was steady.

The sides of her neck were smooth, and the three magatama marks had disappeared, as if they had never been there.

Hinata Chen gently stroked her cheek, finally remembering that stubborn face deeply.

stand up.

Footsteps of the ANBU gathered at the end of the corridor. The Third Hokage's chakra pressed down from upstairs, its density appearing like a sinking golden fog in the Byakugan's vision.

He glanced at Hongdou one last time in the corridor, then turned and disappeared into the shadows at the end of the side corridor.

After leaving the Hokage Building, Hyuga Chen moved towards the northwest corner of the village, following the shadow of the building.

Unlike usual, Konoha was not on the night of the massacre. The main force of the Anbu was all concentrated on the outskirts of the Uchiha clan's territory, and the alert density in other areas of the village was reduced to less than half of the usual level.

Occasionally, he would run into one or two Chunin who were hurrying past on their way to the Uchiha clan, but no one noticed him.

Root Headquarters. Northwest corner warehouse basement.

After their first meeting at the origin point, he began to pay attention to the locations of Konoha's important facilities.

When you look down from a high place, the underground structure is the easiest to distinguish.

He had scouted the Root headquarters three times: the first floor was the archives, the second floor was the laboratory and the prison, and the third floor was unknown, as his white eyes couldn't penetrate the encrypted barrier of that floor.

The target is the second layer: the intercolumnar cells.

He had repeatedly considered this matter with others during their reunion at the origin.

The rarest thing in the Naruto world is this kind of top-tier biological material. Once we get the sample, we can slowly study how to use it.

Tian Zechen's "rejuvenation" positive energy may have a buffering effect on cellular rejection reactions.

One person, Chen Chen, could attempt to construct a compatibility seal on cells using his Tongtian Talisman.

The alchemical knowledge of the mortal Chen Chen might be able to translate into some kind of reconciliation formula.

Their greatest advantage lies in their ability to integrate resources across the globe; only in their hands can the value of the Hashirama cells be truly extracted.

The night of annihilation is the only chance.

Konoha's entire focus is on the Uchiha clan, and Root has had its remaining forces completely depleted in its pursuit of the Sharingan.

If you miss tonight, you won't get another chance.

There was a smell of rust and ash coming from the abandoned chimney behind the warehouse.

Hyuga Dust climbed down the maintenance ladder inside the chimney, his palms scraping against the rust with a rough, grinding sound.

He climbed to the mezzanine between the second and third floors, braced his feet against the inner wall, and peered out through the brickwork.

The corridor at the base of the building unfolds clearly in Bai Yan's field of vision.

There were fewer people on duty tonight than he had anticipated. There were only two people patrolling the first floor, their pace regular. They weren't elite members like Aburame Torune, but ordinary members of the Root organization.

The second-floor corridor was empty, the light was on at the laboratory entrance, but no one was inside.

The chakra characteristics of the culture tanks and constant temperature cabinets were consistent with his prediction: in the innermost constant temperature cabinet, the chakra of several sealed culture media had a woody bluish-green color.

It is different from all other samples.

"It's definitely intercolumnar cells."

He used a kunai to pry open the iron grille of the mezzanine ventilation opening and flipped down into a storage room at the end of the second-floor corridor.

When landing, my knees were slightly bent, my breathing was controlled in a steady mode translated from the Quanzhen Fetal Breathing Method, and my heart rate did not increase.

He moved quickly down the corridor, his white eyes' full field of vision allowing him to see all movement in the corridor ahead, around the corner behind, and on the floor above.

This feeling is completely different from when he was still a caged bird. The wedge-shaped blind spot used to force him to frequently turn his head to fill the blind spot whenever he moved in an unfamiliar environment, and the act of turning his head itself was a flaw.

No, it's not necessary now.

A full 360-degree view, like stepping from a cramped, single-windowed prison cell into an open space.

There are four tubes of interstitial cells in the constant temperature chamber.

Hyuga Chen took it out and checked the seal, confirming that it was not damaged, and then put it into the side pocket of the ninja tool bag.

The scroll of the Book of Seals occupied the main pocket, the Hashirama Cells were placed in the side pockets, and the two were separated by a shuriken.

Zip up the zipper and turn around.

Byakugan's field of vision detected new chakra approaching from the east end of the corridor.

It's not the steady, low-speed patrol kind; it's more dense and moves much faster.

Danzo.

We returned earlier than expected.

Danzo's chakra appears completely different to normal people in his Byakugan vision.

Beneath the bandage wrapped around his right arm was a Hashirama cell transplant. The chakra in that section was an unstable mixture of woody green and human blue.

There was also an abnormal chakra reaction on the left side of the abdomen, which was compressed to a very small size, indicating some kind of sealing technique.

He was approaching the second floor, without any attendants with him.

Hyuga Chen did not leave through the main gate.

Pushing open the back window of the laboratory, one sees the gap between the drainage pipes between the outer wall and the inner rock wall at the base.

The space was narrow, just enough for one person to squeeze through sideways. He climbed out of the window, braced his hands against the walls on either side, and began to dangle his body upwards.

The Complete True Fetal Breathing Method suppresses breathing to almost no sound, and chakra is absorbed into the palms and soles of the feet.

They climbed over the warehouse wall and returned to the ground.

The cold air rushed into my lungs, carrying the earthy smell of the night.

He crouched for a moment in the shadow of the back wall of the warehouse to make sure there were no ambushes around.

Moonlight peeked through the gaps in the clouds, shining on the wild grass at my feet.

Get up.

Run towards the low wall in the northwest corner of the village that has been in disrepair for many years.

They went straight into the woods.

The pine needles made a soft cracking sound underfoot, and branches brushed past my face.

After running for about fifteen minutes, the Leaf Village behind them could no longer hear any sound.

He stopped under a crooked cedar tree, took out a soldier's ration pill from his ninja tool bag, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it.

I sat down against the tree trunk.

He placed the ninja tool bag on his lap, unzipped it, and checked his contents.

The sealed scroll of the Book of Seals, four tubes of intercolumnar cell samples, a sealing disruptor, a few remaining shuriken, and two detonating tags.

Hinata Chen leaned against the tree trunk and rested for a while.

Brush the pine needles and dirt off your knees.

Continue north through the dense forest where the moonlight cannot reach.

We must cross the border of the Land of Fire before dawn.

The scent markings of parasitic insects are valid for three days, and the tracking will not be canceled even on the night of the extinction.

Once Danzo confirms that Hashirama's cells and the Book of Seals are in the same person's possession, the personnel he sends will be no less than elite members of the Anbu.

The markings must be washed off or moved a sufficient distance away within three days.

He touched the smooth skin on his forehead; the main family was unaware of this for the time being.

When Hyuga Tetsu discovers he is missing, he will try to remotely activate the Caged Bird, but pressing the button will have no effect.

The caged bird's failure has never occurred in the history of the Hyuga clan.

The main family will be in chaos for a while, but it won't last long.

The name Hinata Chen will be listed as a defector.

"Let them remember the name however they want. The caged bird is gone."

Continue north.

After walking a long way, he stopped and looked back.

The tree canopy, layer upon layer, had long since obscured the direction of the leaves.

He couldn't see the Hokage Rock or the Hokage Building; all he could hear was the wind whistling through the leaves and his own breathing.

He turned around.

He never looked back.

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