Hyuga Kyou's face changed when he heard the words, but he quickly returned to normal, and replied respectfully: "Everything went well in the assessment, Sandai has arranged for me to enter the Anbu."
As soon as he finished the special Jnin assessment on his front foot, Orochimaru knew it on his back foot. This somewhat surprised Hinata mirror. Obviously, he was not the only spy planted by Orochimaru in the village.
Orochimaru put down his wine glass, stared at Hyuga Kyou with a stern expression and asked, "King, your recent growth has exceeded my expectations. Do you have any secrets? Or is it that Baiyan's research has yielded results?"
Hyuga Kyou's recent strength improvement is very significant. Those who don't know him may think that this is just a normal awakening of blood. After all, Hyuga Kyou is in the age group whose strength is rapidly improving, such as Kai, Asma and others. During this period, their strength is also improving rapidly, which can be said to change every day.
But Orochimaru is different. He knows Hyuga Kage very well, and knows that Hyuga Kage does not belong to the kind of ninja with extraordinary talents, so Hyuga Kage's recent performance aroused his suspicion.
Hyuga Kyou naturally wouldn't admit anything, he shook his head: "Kekeiji's research didn't happen overnight, you should know this better than me."
Orochimaru narrowed his eyes noncommittally: "Is that so..."
Orochimaru knows that Hinata Kyou has only participated in the research for a few years, and it is unlikely to produce results in such a short period of time, and he has also checked Hinata Kyou's laboratory, which is all the most basic genetic testing data, and there is no part involving in vivo experiments.
Just imagine, there is no in vivo experiment, let alone the results.
Of course, Orochimaru didn't know that Hyuga Kyou had actually done a live experiment, and the subject of the experiment was himself, so naturally there was no relevant experimental data.
After a while, Orochimaru smiled and said: "It seems that I was wrong before. You not only have the potential to become a scientific researcher, but also have the potential to become an excellent ninja."
"Thanks for the compliment!"
As if he suddenly remembered something, Orochimaru smiled instead: "I met an interesting guy recently, and he asked me for your information."
"who?"
"The Red Sand Scorpion of Sand Hidden." Staring at Hyuga Kyou, Orochimaru asked word by word: "Have you seen it?"
Hyuga Kyou nodded calmly: "It is true that we met once."
Obviously, Scorpio and Orochimaru have joined Akatsuki during this period, and Orochimaru is one of Konoha Sannin, so it is only natural for Scorpio to ask him for information about Hyuga Kyou.
For this, Hyuga Kyou had expected it, so he didn't show any surprise.
Seeing Hinata Mirror's expression as before, Orochimaru continued: "He seems to want to kill you very much, how did you provoke him?"
Hyuga Kyou believed that with the pride of the scorpion, he would not tell Orochimaru in detail about the fact that he was deflated, so he briefly talked about the action of Konoha cleaning him, but omitted the incident of accidentally winning the puppet of the Third Kazekage.
After the speech, Hyuga Kyou said with a smile: "A little person like me escaped his life from him, maybe it made him feel very embarrassed."
Orochimaru laughed out loud upon hearing this.
What Hyuga Kyou didn't know was that although Orochimaru and Scorpion temporarily formed a duo, they didn't get along happily.
They are also obsessed with immortality, one is taking the path of biotechnology, the other is taking the path of mechanical technology, and they have both touched the threshold of immortality in their respective fields. It is conceivable how sharp their differences in scientific views will be.
After laughing for a while, Orochimaru said: "Although I didn't tell him about you, he must have other sources of information, so you have to be careful, he is a paranoid guy, I don't want to see you among the puppets in his collection."
Hyuga mirror immediately smiled wryly: "It's really not a pleasant experience to be hated by such a strong man."
The land of the Uchiha clan.
Seeing Zhishui's figure, Itachi, who was wandering on the side of the road, hurried up to meet him: "Brother Zhishui, did the assessment go well this time?"
Shisui stroked Itachi's head: "Well, it went well."
"So, Brother Zhishui, you are already a very good ninja?" Itachi was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately asked: "What is the content of the assessment, tell me quickly."
Zhishui immediately talked about the interesting stories during the Jonin assessment.
Itachi listened carefully for a while, then suddenly asked: "Brother Zhishui must have easily defeated all opponents, right?"
Shisui's face froze, and then he shook his head lightly: "In the last round of the competition, I lost to my opponent, but Naruto-sama thought I performed well, and in the end he gave me permission to be promoted to Special Jonin."
Itachi said in shock: "Losing? This...how is this possible!"
Shisui, the title of Uchiha's first genius, was not boasted by Uchiha himself behind closed doors, but was backed by his record.
Shisui possesses the strength of Jōnin, and it has long been recognized in the Uchiha clan, so Itachi never expected that someone could beat Shisui in this special Jōnin test.
"I never thought I would lose." With a helpless smile, Shisui continued: "You know the person who defeated me, and that is Kagami-senpai from the Hinata family."
Itachi was stunned for a while: "Senior Mirror..."
Itachi has been far more sensitive than ordinary people since he was a child. He is good at observing and can always find details that others can't notice. Because of this, when he encountered Yun Yin's Ninao Jinchuriki last time, he keenly noticed that Hyuga Kyou was not too afraid of him.
At that moment, he guessed that Hyuga mirror was definitely not an ordinary Chunin.
At this time, Shishui said seriously: "Itachi, there are endless strong people in the village. We can't be blinded by the power of Sharingan, and we must always remain humble."
Itachi seemed to understand half-understood, but nodded seriously.
Looking at the clansmen coming and going in the distance, Zhishui asked a little depressed: "What did you see from them?"
Itachi observed carefully for a while and said, "Proud!"
"Yes, they are proud of being born in the Uchiha clan." After a pause, Shisui said in a deep voice, "But this pride is too much, too much for us to bear!"
In the previous contest with Hyuga Kage, not only did Shisui not have the ability to use the kaleidoscope Sharingan, he even had reservations about conventional methods.
The reason for doing this was not only because he was aware of the village's suspicion of Uchiha, but also because he clearly felt the undercurrent inside Uchiha.
Even other ninja villages know about the serious damage to the village's vitality, let alone the Uchiha clan living in the village.
There has never been a lack of careerists in the Uchiha clan, but there were too many strong men in the village such as Sannin, Fourth Generation, Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, etc., Uchiha could only choose to lie dormant.
But now there is only one Jiraiya left among the Sannin, and most of the time he is not in the village. The fourth generation and Nine-tailed Jinchuriki also died in the battle.
Shisui has no ability to extinguish the raging ambition in the clan, all he can do is to try his best to contain it, so he chose to lose to Hyuga mirror in the selection, the purpose is to let the clan understand that there are countless masters in the village, and blind ambition will only completely destroy the Uchiha clan...
(end of this chapter)