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Chapter 107 False Memories

Ning Yuan knows Konoha very well.

This understanding goes beyond what he gleaned from watching the anime. Over the course of two weeks, his constant interactions with Tsunade and Orochimaru broadened his knowledge of many things beyond the anime itself.

For example: the registration process for summoned beasts.

If a ninja obtains a summoning beast, he can simply report it and have his strength tested.

Although spirit beasts possess intelligence, it is not very high. Even the immortals of the three holy lands appear to the outside world as simple and naive.

Especially the slug, which uses a girlish voice!

Therefore, it is unlikely that summoned beasts would be used as spies. Who would dare to use a spy who can be bribed with a meal?

However, Hiruzen Sarutobi still arranged for ninjas from the intelligence department to read Bai Zhuzhu's memories.

Upon arriving at the Hokage Building, Hiruzen Sarutobi immediately assigned three tasks.

First: Have the intelligence department's ninjas take Juju away to investigate her memories.

Second: Send the secret agents who followed Ning Yuan and Xi Ri Hong yesterday and the day before to the place where they captured Bai Zhuzhu to investigate Bai Zhuzhu's life traces and determine whether she is a newcomer or has always lived there.

Third: Dispatch two ANBU squads to patrol the village and its outskirts to see if there are any other ninja beasts.

Rubbing his temples, Hiruzen Sarutobi let out a long sigh of relief, and then began to review the various tasks to be handled that day.

Konoha doesn't have 200,000 people yet, at most 100,000. 100,000 people can't really do much each day, but Hiruzen Sarutobi has to review every single detail, so he always has endless things to deal with.

It wasn't that he was power-hungry, but rather that the systems of Konoha were all established by Tobirama Senju.

Who was Tobirama Senju? He was an exceptionally intelligent man with top-notch research abilities and considerable political acumen. He managed to develop a system for governing a village from scratch.

Although this plan has many imperfections, it suits him very well.

But what he could do, people in later generations might not be able to do either. What he could finish in half a day, Hiruzen Sarutobi had to stay up from morning till night.

To be fair, Hiruzen Sarutobi was indeed quite good. He was fair in handling civil matters, and he could treat all the ninja clans equally, including the Uchiha clan.

From the perspective of ordinary people, Hiruzen Sarutobi, if not comparable to Zhuge Liang, was at least Zhang Juzheng.

Moreover, Hiruzen Sarutobi's absolute power had another advantage: it effectively curbed the growth of corruption. Since all the power was in Hiruzen Sarutobi's hands, he could be the only one to be corrupt, and at most he could share a little bit with the other three advisors.

However, from the perspective of the ninja clan, Hiruzen Sarutobi's behavior is very annoying. You want to have everything to yourself, while we have nothing. What's the point of a dignified ninja clan being treated like a commoner ninja?

Hiruzen Sarutobi's desire for the Hokage position made the geniuses very uncomfortable living within this system.

As luck would have it, the vast group of time travelers are all geniuses!

As a result, nine out of ten Naruto fanfics are about hating the Third Hokage. Even Ning Yuan, a transmigrator, was determined to see the Third Hokage as a villain as soon as he arrived.

Now it seems I wasn't wrong. Why does my Zhuzhu need to have its memories investigated, while other people's summoned beasts don't?

Do you not trust me?

Konoha's intelligence department is divided into two parts: the Intelligence Department and the Secret Intelligence Department.

The former is responsible for general intelligence, and the personnel handling it are all ordinary ninjas with meticulous minds. The person in charge is named Narita, a ninja who rose to the rank through his strength, and has nothing to do with his surname Sarutobi.

The latter was responsible for intelligence related to ninjas and spies. Its core members were ninjas from the Yamanaka clan, and the person in charge was named Yamanaka Hiroshi, who had a son named Yamanaka Inoichi.

Ning Yuan's exclamation was because Yamanaka Hiroshi had used the Mind Transfer Technique on Bai Zhuzhu.

After entering Bai Zhuzhu's consciousness, Yamanaka Hiroshi saw Bai Zhuzhu's brain, which was also a collection of Bai Zhuzhu's memories, without any obstacles.

He breathed a sigh of relief. The fact that she hadn't been on guard at all likely proved that Bai Zhuzhu was alright.

However, his word doesn't count; he needs solid intelligence.

With his hand pressed against Bai Zhuzhu's brain, Yamanaka Hiroshi began to read her memories.

This white chick is only 1 year old, so its memories are dull and unremarkable. From a young age, it did nothing but eat and sleep, occasionally avoiding passing ninjas.

Its habitat wasn't particularly remote, but there were a few oddly angled trees that blocked the view from all directions, so it grew so big without being discovered by ninjas.

Until a few days ago, a boy and a girl sneakily approached me from behind, threw stones at me, and then grabbed me by the body.

"This..." Hiroshi Yamanaka's lips twitched. He realized that the two children had absolutely no skill in catching pheasants, but it was this simple and unpretentious operation that allowed them to catch the silly bird.

Another important factor is that pheasants don't live in trees, which is why the two children were able to catch them so easily.

If this pheasant lived in a tree, it would never have been caught so easily.

Afterwards, the pheasant was taken home, and the boy with the white eyes examined Bai Zhuzhu's stomach, then discovered with a look of surprise that Bai Zhuzhu had chakra inside her.

Then, the little girl first named Bai Zhi, and then took out a textbook to teach Bai Zhuzhu to read word by word. A day and a half later, the two of them somehow obtained a contract scroll, and the little girl and Bai Zhuzhu signed the contract.

Then, there's the story of Bai Zhuzhu being ridden to school, only to be intercepted by Sarutobi Hiruzen halfway there.

"These two kids are incredibly lucky!" Yamanaka Hiroshi's lips twitched after watching the whole thing. What kind of luck is this? They just randomly grabbed a ninja bird in the forest and caught one. And although the ninja bird has chakra, it seems like it doesn't even know it and doesn't know how to use it!

Just like that, two kids took advantage of us!

"I could do that too!" Looking at the enormous ninja bird in front of him, Hiroshi Yamanaka's mouth watered.

Our mountain clan doesn't have any decent summoning beasts. It would be so convenient to have a ninja bird!

This pheasant is so big, it could carry a person!

In the past, you had to find a specific angle to release a Mind Turning Technique, but now you can just fly in the sky and release it however you want.

"What a pity." Hiroshi Yamanaka sighed. No matter how good something is, it belongs to someone else.

He silently recorded the information, sealed it away, and then had it sent to the Hokage. He also cast a spell to relieve Bai Zhuzhu's mental stress and then waited for her to wake up.

Stealing someone else's summoned beast is a major taboo. Hiruzen Sarutobi dared to do such a thing because he had the village's honor to uphold. Hiroshi Yamanaka would never dare to do it.

However, it's perfectly fine to befriend Bai Zhuzhu. Who knows when you might need her in the future? She could be a lifesaver in a critical moment!

Little did he know that the information he obtained by reading his memories had been tampered with.

From the very first day after Ning Yuan transmigrated, he began to ponder how to counter the technique of reading memories.

Just like the first thing you learn when you enter Hogwarts is Occlumency.

It is very difficult to tamper with memories, but it is very easy to create false memories; illusions can do it.

Human memory is simply a collection of information obtained through the five senses.

If illusions are used to interfere with Bai Zhuzhu's five senses, then everything Bai Zhuzhu sees, hears, smells, and that forms memories will be created by Ning Yuan.

So when Bai Zhuzhu was captured by Ning Yuan, she was already unconscious. After she woke up from her unconscious state, Ning Yuan placed a curse mark on her, and from that moment on, all her memories were false.

Even Bai Zhuzhu herself probably thought that she originally had chakra, but she just hadn't discovered it before.

What? You mean extracting chakra memories?

Hiroshi Yamanaka actually saw this part of his memory, and even noticed that Shirai Zhuzhu hadn't succeeded at first, but he didn't pay attention to it.

White Pearl is a ninja beast. What's wrong with a ninja beast extracting chakra?

As for why it didn't succeed before?

Because this white chick is only 1 year old, its chakra has just been born. It may not even know that it has chakra, let alone how to extract it.

This is a normal process of getting used to it gradually!

Just like breathing, it's a basic human instinct. Who would specifically remember when they breathed and how many times they breathed?

Bai Zhuzhu herself didn't quite remember, and Yamanaka Hiroshi paid even less attention to it, not even writing these things into the intelligence report.

Although he was in charge of the intelligence department, he was not Hiruzen Sarutobi's confidant; he was just someone whose abilities were suitable.

So he had no idea what kind of information Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted, he simply recorded what he saw and submitted it.

(End of this chapter)