Chapter 45 Orochimaru Changes Research Direction!

No heartbeat!

That's right, the puppet crow has no heartbeat.

No matter how much it looks like a living thing, a puppet is still a puppet. Shigeru will not focus all his thoughts on the puppet. After all, it is just a transitional tool and not worth too much attention.

The smile on Orochimaru's face completely disappeared.

"Is this a puppet?"

"Right."

Shigeru deliberately picked up the cup with his hand and showed Orochimaru clearly that he was not controlling the puppet.

Like a living creature, but a puppet, and not controlled by Chakra threads...

Orochimaru's eyes suddenly lit up. This puppet was worthy of in-depth study.

Get it!!

Although he wanted to take the puppet away, Orochimaru endured the impulse.

After all, this puppet still belonged to Shigeru. He was only showing it, not offering it to be taken.

If he wanted to take the crow puppet, there would likely be a price to pay.

"Hahaha, I knew I picked the right person. Shigeru-kun, you are quite an interesting fellow."

"I'm enjoying myself as well."

Shigeru raised his hand, and the puppet crow jumped away from Orochimaru's grasp, landing on Shigeru's palm and tilting its head to look at Orochimaru.

Orochimaru's breathing grew rapid as he stared.

The puppet is actually alive.

This was amazing.

Orochimaru, who has always sought eternal life, felt like the door to a New World had opened for him.

Such puppets must be captured—at least one.

Before Orochimaru could say anything, Shigeru spoke first: "I'm short of money."

This wasn't a joke. Shigeru was genuinely short on funds. Even if Orochimaru's debt was wiped out, he still wouldn't have enough.

In addition to paying off Orochimaru's debt, most of Shigeru's money went into buying various materials and parts, which weren't cheap. He had invested nearly his entire fortune into puppet-making.

From the time he started crafting puppets until now, he'd lost track of how many he had made.

In short, there were a lot—at least several hundred.

Shigeru planned to work hard to gather another batch of puppets to create his own puppet army.

If he ever got the chance, he'd love to show the puppet masters of Sand Shinobi Village what a real puppet army looked like!

The so-called puppet army in Sand Shinobi Village was just a team formed by several puppet ninjas.

Shigeru's puppet path was to have one man form an entire army.

It wasn't just about quantity, but quality too.

As for how Orochimaru would study the puppets, Shigeru wasn't worried.

Without the Chakra of the Rinnegan, no matter how much Orochimaru studied, he wouldn't figure out the secret.

Of course, if Orochimaru managed to come up with something good through his research, Shigeru would simply say, "You're impressive!"

Short of money?

Now Orochimaru had his own problem—he was also short on money.

This was no joke. Orochimaru's income was mostly invested in building his base and buying various equipment. Building a research base cost a lot of money, plus there were the expenses of daily living and experiments.

It had completely drained Orochimaru's funds.

He couldn't afford much at all.

"I'll find a way."

With the terms clear, Orochimaru wasn't going to haggle. He just needed to find a way to make money.

How he would do that, however, was no concern of Shigeru's.

After leaving the border camp, Orochimaru rushed to Konoha as fast as he could. It usually took others two days, but he made it in one.

Orochimaru didn't care about exhausting himself if it saved him time.

Back in Konoha, he headed straight for the Hokage's office.

"Teacher."

Orochimaru, uninvited, gasped slightly as he closed the door behind him.

The Third Hokage looked up, puzzled. "Orochimaru, is there something you need?"

As the Third Hokage's favorite disciple, the Hokage knew Orochimaru's nature well. Unless something important came up, Orochimaru almost never sought him out.

"I think I can try the research project you mentioned last time, but I'll need financial support from the village. I need money."

There was a reason the Third Hokage favored Orochimaru. In everyone's eyes, Orochimaru was a well-rounded genius—knowledgeable and outstanding in all aspects, developing into the perfect ninja.

"Research project?"

The Third Hokage was stunned. He had once suggested that Orochimaru focus his research on something to help develop the village—something that would benefit the people.

But Orochimaru had rejected the idea.

Developing daily necessities wasn't too difficult for Orochimaru, but it held no interest for him.

Who would have thought that the Orochimaru who had refused so decisively would now be raising the subject himself?

Though curious about his disciple's sudden change of heart, the Hokage was glad to see him take on the project.

He knew very well how capable Orochimaru was.

"If you're willing to take on this project, I'm very happy. It's been ongoing, but progress has been slow. If you take it on, I'm sure it will move forward. Don't worry about the funding."

No one knew what the Hokage and Orochimaru discussed after that, but soon Orochimaru entered the village's R&D base, and within a month, a household refrigerator bearing the White Snake logo was born.

With the village's promotion, it quickly became popular among the villagers.

Orochimaru hadn't developed household appliances just to make quick money.

Shigeru was a bit confused when he heard the news.

"Pfft... Hahaha..."

Shigeru couldn't help but laugh when he thought about Orochimaru frantically trying to make money, even lowering himself to take on projects he once scorned.

What was this strange feeling of joy?

Orochimaru in a white lab coat, developing electrical appliances, was as comical as Tsunade becoming an anti-gambling ambassador or Jiraiya writing sappy young adult romances. The contrast was absurd.

Despite the confusion, Shigeru felt that Orochimaru had done something remarkable by making a refrigerator. Who knew what other household appliances might be coming next?

Not far off, Shigeru thought.

Once these basic household items became widespread, life would definitely become more convenient.

If they kept at it, the ninja world might even enter a new phase of development.

It turned out that the technology tree of the ninja world could indeed be developed—it was just that the researchers had been going down the wrong paths.

Once they calmed down, these researchers would definitely surprise everyone.

There was an old joke in the ninja world.

Other nations often thought of the people of the Land of Lightning as uncivilized brutes—unreasoning muscleheads.

Their brains were full of muscle, it was said.

And yet, the Land of Lightning had developed advanced technology.

Far surpassing other nations.

Shigeru couldn't understand how people could laugh at the people of the Land of Lightning for being muscleheads.

"I just hope Orochimaru doesn't get too lost in the world of civilian R&D."

After all, R&D could be addictive. The money came quickly compared to biological research, which almost always cost money.

What Shigeru didn't know was that Orochimaru was more energized than ever.

Fully invested, he was obsessed with his new field of research.

In the past, he'd hardly touch such projects and had looked down on them. But now, having been short on money and seeing the quick profits, his perspective had shifted.

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