Deep in the cave deep underground, only weak light sources gathered from nowhere can illuminate the place.

"Madara-sama."

A creature named "White Jue" emerged from the ground and respectfully addressed the white-haired old man sitting on the wooden chair.

"It's Bai Jue, what's the matter?"

The old man woke up from his sleep and immediately discovered the existence of Bai Jue.

"Madara-sama, I don't know if this matter is very important. When I was investigating in the Kingdom of Wind, I found that Sunagakure Village was secretly actively preparing supplies, and there were still a lot of supplies."

Bai Jue told the old man named Madara what he had found out.

After listening to Bai Jue's simple narration, Madara's eyes showed a hint of understanding and he murmured in a low voice:

"I see, is it coming again? War..."

"war?"

Bai Jue tilted his head. With his intelligence, it was difficult to understand why Madara would make such a judgment.

Madara did not explain this to Bai Zetsu, but he believed that with so many years of life experience, Sunagakure Village must be planning the Third Ninja War.

In the ninja world, there is no shortage of careerists.

It has been just over five years since the last ninja war, and a new war will soon come again.

It can be said that the upcoming ninja war this time is a continuation of the unfinished war last time and is something that is bound to happen.

Therefore, Madara was not surprised at all when he received this news from Bai Jue. Instead, he thought that it was reasonable for such a thing to happen and it was not worth making a fuss about.

As long as humans are alive, war is unavoidable, and there will be bloodshed and sorrow.

And this kind of karma is a chain of curses that humans cannot break.

"Ahem... Hashirama, the one-country-one-village system we established back then is just repeating the tragedy of the Warring States Period..."

Seeing the ninja world trapped in war and unable to extricate itself, Madara suddenly thought of many things.

My childhood dream, my promise with that man, looking back now, I feel that the world has been repeating the tragedy of the Warring States Period.

Because the longer we live, the more we understand the sadness of this era.

He faked his death and escaped during the battle in the Valley of the End, and was able to see more clearly the nature of this sad world full of hatred, violence, and pain than his dead friend Senju Hashirama.

The first two ninja wars also proved this. A country and a village are useless. I am just like the dead ninja god. If this continues, nothing can be protected.

Bai Jue stood aside and listened to Madara's muttering to himself, but scratched his head in embarrassment.

Madara-sama is good at everything, but he always likes to miss the past and say some words that people can't understand. And every time he misses the past, he always talks about the existence of 'that man'.

‘That man’ is a very important person to Madara-sama.

Maybe this is a common problem among the elderly.

The older a person is, the more they talk, and the more they like to miss the people and things of the past.

If you think so, Bai Zetsu feels that Madara's current behavior is a normal reaction.

"White Zetsu, is it still impossible to sneak into the Uchiha clan's territory?"

Madara felt pregnant for a while and asked what he was most concerned about, which was how the Uchiha clan in Konoha was doing now.

Is there any successor in this clan who can bear his own 'will' and act under the name of 'Uchiha Madara' in the future to complete a certain plan?

"Yes, Madara-sama. Two White Zetsu were sent last month, but the result was the same as before. As soon as they approached the Uchiha clan, they suddenly disappeared mysteriously. We have no idea what happened there.

"

Bai Jue shook his head helplessly and answered Madara's question.

To be honest, in the hearts of the remaining White Zetsus, the Uchiha clan has long been reduced to an untouchable restricted area.

Bai Jue, who was lurking there, suddenly disappeared mysteriously on his first day of work and couldn't even make a sound.

If you continue like this, not only will you not get any useful information, but you will also lose the number of Bai Jue in vain.

Other than that, it doesn't do them any good.

After hearing this, Madara just nodded and said nothing.

Although he is also anxious to know what is happening to the Uchiha clan now, Madara knows that the more critical a time is like this, the less he can be controlled by anxiety. He needs to think calmly and carefully deal with these unforeseen events in the original plan.

obstacle.

Choosing a suitable 'successor' from the Uchiha clan is just to ensure that the plan can be implemented without fail, and let him regard this as part of the plan.

However, there are many alternatives. After all, in his current state, he is just hanging on for his last breath. It is normal for accidents to happen anytime.

In order to ensure the implementation of the plan, he still has many backup plans that he has not implemented, so that when unexpected situations occur, he can use other methods to remedy the situation.

"By the way, what is that guy Fei doing? Why don't you see anyone else here?"

Ah Fei is also a member of the White Jue. Different from other White Jue, Ah Fei is the only White Jue who has a "name".

Madara is quite concerned about him. With Fei's ability, most ninjas in the ninja world are no match for him.

After all, Fei inherited the Wood Release Ninjutsu from that man, Senju Hashirama. Even if it cannot be compared with Senju Hashirama himself, for the ninjas of today's era, that level of Wood Release is enough to cope with it.

"When I came back, I saw that guy outside experiencing defecation. He said that he must know what it feels like to defecate today, and he wrote a thousand-word testimonial at the end."

Bai Zetsu answered Madara's question truthfully.

At the same time, he looked at Madara with hopeful eyes. In fact, like Fei, he also wanted to know what it felt like to defecate.

Who told them that they had no excretory system?

Every time during surveillance, I feel itchy when I see the surveillance target going to the toilet, and I really want to know what it is like to defecate.

Madara-sama, who has gained the power of all things, can be said to be the most powerful ninja in the ninja world. He should know what it feels like to relieve his bowels.

After all, he is the strongest ninja in the ninja world.

Although Bai Zetsu doesn't understand the inevitable connection between being the strongest in the ninja world and defecating.

I just feel that if it was Madara, he would definitely know the answer to this kind of thing.

"..."

Madara stared at Bai Zetsu without blinking, and Bai Zetsu looked at Madara with innocent and harmless eyes.

The atmosphere just fell silent.

In the end, Madara turned his head first, looked forward and whispered:

"After the war starts, send people to Konoha to investigate. If you still can't infiltrate the Uchiha clan by then, transfer the center to Nagato."

After Madara gave such an order, he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep without answering the question Bai Jue was wondering about.

Now he can only stay awake in this place. Once he leaves here, he will be an ordinary old man at the mercy of others. He spends most of his time in dormancy, consuming the vitality in his body to a minimum.

Bai Zeze saw Madara closing his eyes and resting again, showing a regretful expression.

He also knew that Madara needed enough sleep time now. After Madara closed his eyes, Bai Jue temporarily gave up on learning from Madara what it felt like to defecate, and then disappeared into the ground to go about his own business.

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On the operating table, Shiraishi's eyes were full of interest as he carefully observed the humanoid creature covered in white skin.

Although it is incredible that there are such strange life forms in the ninja world, Shiraishi is more curious about how this kind of creature survives and maintains life activities.

In fact, even if this kind of guy didn't sneak into the underground of the Uchiha clan, Shiraishi was still curious about this kind of existence.

Shiraishi is now more concerned about the life form itself than the people behind the scenes.

If its secret can be analyzed, Shiraishi feels that it will be of special significance to him to understand the nature of chakra.

Because compared to normal humans, the internal life structure of this creature is more like a plant, that is, a true 'vegetative'.

The root of this plant-like life characteristic should be the power of wood escape.

Therefore, Shiraishi does not feel any guilt at all when conducting human experiments on this creature.

Because it's like studying plants, and Shiraishi, as a human being, naturally cannot empathize with plants.

Whether this creature can feel pain and have so-called human values ​​is still a question worth discussing.

"It's a pity that this meager wood escape power cannot reproduce the real wood escape..."

Shiraishi looked at the life energy stored in the test tube, which contained a meager amount of wood escape power.

Extraction technology is not difficult, but what is difficult is how to adapt the human body to it. Even the lowest amount of wood escape power is a power that is difficult for ordinary people to control.

Even if this difficulty is overcome, the reappeared wood escape power is very weak. It can be used to cultivate flowers, plants and trees, but it is completely useless in battle.

Moreover, if it is to cultivate flowers, plants and trees, and conduct human experiments that can lead to death, the energy, resources and final rewards invested will also bear the risk of experimental failure, which is completely disproportionate.

But from another perspective, by neutralizing the medicinal properties of other medicinal materials, new varieties of breeding medicines can be produced and sold as medicines for commercial profit, which is a good choice.

In this ninja-themed era, the power of ninjas is important, but money is also important.

Most ninjas work hard to perform tasks, but they also run for money and life. This is also a true portrayal of the ninja world.

After extracting the life energy with the power of wood escape from the white creature, Shiraishi sealed it in the corresponding location, and then looked at the alarm clock on the table next to him.
To be continued...