Naruto: I'm really not an evil scientist!

Chapter 246 Space-Time Ninjutsu

"I understand. Thank you very much, Mr. Hiruko." Minato Namikaze bowed to Hiruko, his eyes filled with gratitude.

Naruto does need power. As his father, how could he not see Naruto's longing and anxiety for Sasuke? But without equal power, even if Naruto saw Sasuke, it would be useless and would only cause the two to break up completely.

"Then you should go back and do some mental work with Naruto. He might not accept Sasuke's eyes. Besides, Sasuke's eyesight is poor, and Naruto might even be blind for a while. So you need to prepare him mentally for living in the dark."

Hiruko gave a warning, and for some reason, he suddenly thought of the blind Asura from the toxic milk powder.

Naruto has the Nine-Tails inside him, which allows him to sense human malice. Isn't that a kind of fluctuation?

Or rather, the perception of murderous intent?

The Nine-Tails' chakra also contains human hatred, and this kind of chakra, which can bring a sense of terror, can be easily used to intimidate with killing intent.

Furthermore, Naruto possesses wind-style chakra and is a member of the Uzumaki clan, so sensing air currents isn't difficult for him. In addition, with Sage Mode, he can still strive in that direction.

However, the blind Asura's second awakening Heavenly Emperor is actually modeled after Indra in many ways, which is quite interesting.

Hiruko felt that even if Naruto couldn't summon the cheat-using old man, the Six Paths, this time it would still be a good baptism for him.

"No matter the circumstances, as long as the cost isn't too severe, having power is always better than having none, because those who possess power at least have choices, while those who lack power..."

Hiruko patted Minato on the shoulder, shook his head, handed the jar to Minato, and then turned and left.

His silhouette appeared somewhat mysterious in the afterglow of the setting sun.

This was nothing more than a whim for him, but for Naruto it was a rare opportunity to turn the tide. Hopefully, he can seize this opportunity and not be as arrogant as Sasuke.

"Mr. Hiruko, how should we contact you then?" Minato Namikaze asked hurriedly, not wanting to miss this important opportunity.

"No need to contact me anymore. With Sakura and Tsunade around, transplanting a pair of eyes won't be difficult. Recently, monsters have been causing trouble in the Land of Demons. Minato, you're an old-timer at the GN Drive Tower, so you should know that I'm very interested in these kinds of monsters. Goodbye."

Hiruko waved his hand without turning his head, and then disappeared from Minato's sight with a Flying Thunder God Technique, leaving Minato Namikaze deep in thought.

Sasuke's Sharingan, which shimmered with an unusual light, had long since quietly incorporated the secrets of some of his own cells, seemingly containing endless darkness and power.

If the mysterious figure of the Sage of Six Paths were to truly descend upon the world once more, with his keen insight, he would surely notice the change in those eyes immediately.

If that's the case, why should Sasuke keep fixating on Konoha, a place he no longer cares about?

Minato Namikaze stood on the deserted street corner, his gaze deep, and he couldn't help but mourn for the unfortunate demons who had been caught in the vortex.

The last one targeted by that mad scientist, Hiruko, was the self-proclaimed immortal Zero-Tail. And what happened?

It was completely devoured by the research results of Birukhuna after countless optimizations and modifications, leaving not even a trace behind.

Zero Tail once arrogantly claimed that it would be resurrected from the darkness of people's hearts and never disappear, but now it seems that it was just a joke.

Even if a new monster is born from the hearts of humans in the future, it will never be the Zero-Tail that once existed.

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The Eternal Empire, this land that was once the prosperous Cloud Village, has now become the lair of the mad scientist Hiruko.

He had been here for two days, browsing through the materials that Orochimaru had carefully organized and categorized, enjoying the endless pleasure that knowledge brought.

Orochimaru's work was indeed excellent. It not only improved reading efficiency but also filtered out a lot of useless and distracting information, allowing Hiruko to focus more on the truly valuable content.

However, what interested Hiruko the most in the past two days was the original Raikage's secret technique, the Linen Robe, or more accurately, the mysterious and unpredictable Heavenly Gift Technique that she possessed.

Recalling Sasuke's first meeting with the AB brothers, it was thanks to A and Killer Bee's Heavenly Transfer Technique that they were able to escape at the last moment.

After the war, the Raikage's brain, which could not escape, was ruthlessly imprisoned by Sasuke and became a prisoner.

The Heavenly Delivery Technique, a rather bizarre-sounding ninjutsu, is classified as a space-time ninjutsu that can instantly teleport a target to a designated location at the speed of light through high-speed movement. However, it has a fatal flaw.

Due to the intense friction generated by high-speed movement with the air, the ordinary human body simply cannot withstand such a violent impact, and will often be torn to pieces during the transmission process, resulting in death.

Therefore, this ninjutsu is generally only used to teleport objects, and rarely used on living beings.

However, there was once a powerful figure in history who successfully used the technique of teleportation to move his position; that was the Third Raikage.

This sparked Hiruko's keen interest in this ninjutsu.

Since it's a space-time ninjutsu, why would it generate friction with the air?

But if we say this isn't a space-time ninjutsu...

How then can friction at the speed of light be explained?

Let alone the Raikage, even Kaguya, who possesses an immortal body, would have to lie still for a while and wait for her to heal herself at this speed.

And those objects would be even less likely to be safely transported to their designated location under such intense friction.

Therefore, the space-time properties of this ninjutsu should indeed exist, but there is some unknown defect that makes it easy to cause problems when teleporting living beings.

Hiruko secretly pondered that if he could thoroughly master this ninjutsu, it might be possible to upgrade the Flying Thunder God Technique and reach the level of instantaneous teleportation and obstacle-ignoring, like the perverted Shirai Kuroko in the "Sandwich Maid" series.

After all, the basic principle of "spatial movement" is that the "object being moved" will push aside the "object at the target location", regardless of the object's material.

In theory, Shirai Kuroko could even cut diamonds with paper, but no one has ever tried it.

So, could the ninja world also develop in this direction? After all, the Heavenly Sending Technique is perfectly feasible; sending someone to heaven is entirely possible.

Thinking of this, a hint of madness and excitement flashed in Hiruko's eyes.

Even if this goal ultimately fails, we can still use the flaws in the Heavenly Delivery Technique to launch an attack.

It's entirely possible to study this flaw and then amplify it to enable unlimited teleportation to the enemy.

Each teleportation should inflict massive damage on the enemy's body until it completely collapses.

Moreover, the Heavenly Delivery Technique, if used properly, is an extremely terrifying ninjutsu.

If you can teleport your enemy to an altitude of 10,000 meters or to the depths of the ocean, then any human ninja will basically be doomed.

Even if they are powerful beings outside the human realm, so what if they are teleported to the stars of the universe?

The invincible ultimate life form, Lord Kars, was banished just like that, wasn't he?

Ultimately, it gave up thinking altogether and became a speck of dust in the universe.

As for the Otsutsuki clan, who possess spatial abilities and are capable of interstellar colonization, that's another matter entirely.

In Hiruko's mind, countless scenarios of using the Heavenly Gift Technique in battle had already appeared, each filled with endless possibilities and variables.

"As expected of you, Hiruko."

Just then, Orochimaru's alluring figure quietly appeared at the prison gate. He wickedly flicked his tongue, his eyes filled with thirst and greed for knowledge. "You can actually learn this strange space-time ninjutsu just by hearing about it, and you can easily do things that ordinary people cannot do."

The fact that Hiruko could quickly learn and master this strange space-time ninjutsu based solely on the verbal explanation from that woman from Kumogakure is truly astonishing.

Orochimaru had previously secretly preserved Hiruko's DNA sample in the Solar Furnace Tower, so this was not difficult for him.

For example, when they were in the Solar Furnace Tower, Hiruko in the research room would also lose her hair due to staying up late, and those fallen hairs became an excellent opportunity for Orochimaru to collect samples.

For example, Hiruko often drew blood to use her own biological samples for experiments, and Orochimaru would always find an opportunity to secretly smuggle some of the remaining biological samples.

After all, for this scientific madman, nothing is more important than knowledge and research.

Orochimaru harbored a crazy idea—to use cloning technology to create a body of Hiruko as a spare body that he could use at any time.

However, reality has repeatedly dealt him heavy blows.

The things they create are not bizarrely shaped, like monsters from hell.

They are simply of poor aptitude, unable to even perform the most basic ninjutsu.

Some even suffered direct genetic collapse, turning into a disgusting mass of minced meat.

Even though he painstakingly eliminated all unstable factors and barely managed to piece together a human form, it completely lacked the strange talent of Hiruko's original form, as if it were an empty shell missing a soul.

Now, after undergoing a series of transformations, Hiruko seems to have completely controlled his own body, and can even perform the amazing feat of transforming his hair into real snakes.

Those lively strands of hair, like vibrant venomous snakes, exuded a dangerous aura.

Orochimaru's attempt to collect his gene sample was incredibly difficult. Every time he tried to get close, it seemed to trigger Hiruko's keen senses, causing him to return empty-handed.

Orochimaru had no choice but to temporarily abandon his idea of ​​cloning Hiruko, his heart filled with resentment and helplessness.

"Anyone can do what I do with just a little talent." Hiruko humbly formed hand seals, but a hint of smugness lingered at the corner of his mouth.

He kept using the Heavenly Transmission Technique to randomly teleport the iron bars of the prison gate up and down, left and right.

The iron fence traced eerie trajectories in the air, sometimes disappearing and sometimes reappearing, as if playing with space itself.

Wherever the iron fence teleported, Orochimaru's eyes were fixed on it. This whole operation almost blinded him with its sheer brilliance.

His eyes gleamed with envy and longing, as if he had seen the most precious treasure in the world.

"This isn't something that can be done with just a little talent." Mabui, a female ninja from Kumogakure, watched from the side, her lips twitching. She thought to herself, "Hiruko is just showing off."

Didn't you see Orochimaru's envious, bloodshot eyes? As the Raikage's secretary, Mabui is extremely sensitive to information about the ninja world, and naturally, she has read the Naruto manga.

She also learned about Orochimaru from the manga; he was a mad scientist who would stop at nothing to pursue power.

Orochimaru yearned to learn all the ninjutsu in the world; this was his unwavering original aspiration. Even his arduous pursuit of immortality was initially motivated by the desire to have enough time to learn ninjutsu.

The Heavenly Delivery Technique, as a rare space-time ninjutsu, was naturally coveted by Orochimaru. Unfortunately, unlike Hiruko, he couldn't learn it by simply observing and demonstrating it from a few words of explanation. He could only watch helplessly from the sidelines.

"Hiruko, with your talent, I think you should be able to improve and reduce the learning difficulty of this technique, or even create a new space-time ninjutsu."

"I'm really interested in space-time ninjutsu, whether it's Konoha's Flying Thunder God Technique or Kumogakure's peculiar Heavenly Delivery Technique." Orochimaru bluntly stated, his eyes gleaming with anticipation.

That bastard Biruko is completely clueless. All he does all day is freeload off my research results. I gave him a few hints, and he just shows off to me here. It's infuriating.

"I still need to study this further. Don't worry, I won't forget you if I make any progress," Hiruko said after a moment's thought. Even if Orochimaru hadn't said anything, he would have continued to study it anyway.

After all, in the original world, Minato was initially impressed by his blueprint for spatial logistics.

Once he gets back, he will definitely establish a delivery organization that can overcome spatial limitations.

He couldn't possibly sacrifice his own flesh and blood, or the Kamui space he had painstakingly created, to Konoha. So he would definitely have to find a way to reduce the difficulty of learning and using space-time ninjutsu, or even develop a device that could teleport.

This was not difficult in Hiruko's view; it was simply a matter of inscribing ninjutsu onto certain tools, and the effects of the technique could be released directly by injecting chakra.

While psychic abilities can achieve spatial teleportation, it's impractical for establishing a spatial logistics network.

Are you suggesting that if you start a courier company, you'll have your employees sign blood contracts with every item they deliver? Even if you agree, the owner of the item might not.

Moreover, each summoning requires biting your finger. It's fine during battle, but during a regular eight-hour workday, constantly bleeding yourself to summon is unbearable.

"Then I'll wait for your good news." Orochimaru gave Hiruko a deep look, his eyes filled with complex emotions—expectation, resentment, and a hint of helplessness.

Then he turned and left.