"You've been fiddling with these messy things lately, have you been lazy in your cultivation lately?"

Glancing around the house, Liuli's tone seemed dissatisfied.

In her opinion, Shiraishi's bizarre research was just a waste of time.

"Just a personal interest. I actually prefer to do research rather than cultivation. ”

As he spoke, Shiraishi picked up a small bag from the table and threw it to Ruri.

After taking it, Liuli frowned.

"What's in there?"

"Good thing, it's my special food pills. The efficiency of restoring chakra and physical strength is a little better than that on the market, and it is easy to digest and does not cause a load on the body's digestive system. ”

With its ability to restore stamina and chakra, the Ryo Pill has always been a stool food that ninjas often eat when they are away on missions.

However, it is full of bitter and unpleasant herbal smell, and many people are not very willing to eat military food pills as a last resort to solve the problem of lack of physical strength and chakra.

Coupled with the fact that it is not easy to digest, eating too much can easily cause indigestion in the human body.

"Bragging."

Ruri snorted, but still put the bag full of special soldier food pills into the ninja bag that was tied to her leg.

"Why did you think of making Soldier Food Pills?"

"Because you can't wait to graduate from ninja school, you're just in need of it."

Shiraishi said with a look of see-through everything.

Ruri glanced at Shiraishi and didn't speak.

Shiraishi paused and then continued to ask, "By the way, when do you plan to graduate?" ”

Ruri replied, "Although your guess is very reasonable, but unfortunately, you guessed wrong this time. ”

"Guess wrong?"

A faint smile appeared on Liuli's face and said, "That's right, I personally would like to graduate from school early, but the elders in the family are not happy with me doing this. Graduating at this time means going to the front line, and for the fledgling shinobi, the mortality rate is very high. ”

Bai Shi understood, nodded and said, "I see, out of the protection of geniuses, just go with the flow and graduate, there is no need to finish your studies in advance." This is also a natural consequence. ”

Once you graduate from school, it means saying goodbye to the comfortable days.

Normal graduation requires six years of study at the ninja school to complete.

And now Shiraishi and Ruri are only third-year students, and they still have a few years to consolidate and grow before they graduate normally.

It is not excluded that there are geniuses in the ninja school who think they are outstanding and graduate early, and then they are arranged to go to the front battlefield.

Shiraishi thinks that the upper echelons of Konoha should have set a rule that children under the age of ten are not allowed to graduate early from ninja schools during wartime......

But when he thought about it, Shiraishi knew he was taking it for granted.

During the Warring States period, it was common for four- and five-year-old children to go to war.

Although the situation in the ninja world is a little better now, it is still not uncommon for children under the age of ten to go to the battlefield.

After graduating from the ninja school, they are already qualified ninjas, and they can't be treated as children.

But in this way, their values will be more or less problematic, and they will easily go to the path of extremes.

"Ruri, the elder of your family doesn't want you to graduate with the strength of the ninja, right?"

Shiraishi suddenly sensed something.

The eight-year-old Liuli already has the strength of the middle ninja, and in a few years, work hard, and may not be able to have the strength of the upper ninja level.

Of course, combat experience may be lacking, but ninjutsu and basic abilities will certainly not be lacking.

Ruri has been taught by the elite of the Uchiha clan since she was a child.

At the starting line, it is already a big step ahead of the civilian ninjas.

After graduating, experience can be built up slowly, but the lower limit of strength is very important for budding ninjas.

The more strength you have on the battlefield, the more chance you have of surviving.

When Ruri heard Shiraishi say this, she immediately rolled her eyes at him.

Does this guy think that Shangnin is a cabbage on the street?

The gap between upper and middle ninja is bigger than the gap between middle and lower ninja.

The so-called upper ninja are ninjas who are very good in one or several fields.

Even if Liuli is arrogant, he doesn't dare to say that he can improve a certain field to the level of being a teacher in the next few years.

The selection of the upper ninja is not at all comparable to the difficulty of the middle ninja selection.

After chatting for a while at Shiraishi's house, the two went to Ichiraku Ramen Shop to eat ramen together and solve the dinner problem before saying goodbye and leaving.

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"I'm sorry, something happened to me suddenly, and I came a little late."

In the dense forest of the mountain behind the school, it was already dark at this time.

It was Ayane who agreed to meet with Shiraishi here.

In the past two years, she has also changed from a first-year student to a third-grader, and she is a little taller than before.

Hearing a voice behind her, Ayane, with her hands intertwined behind her back, slowly turned around.

She was wearing a white dress with the family crest of the Hyuga clan, dark blue trousers, long straight black hair all the way to her waist, pure white pupils without any impurities, and the smile on her face gave people a beautiful feeling of brightness and innocence.

"It's okay, I've only been here for a short time. But Bai Shijun delayed a little time because of Liuli, sometimes I really envy her. ”

Although the Uchiha clan has always been vigorous and resolute because of the garrison in charge of Konoha and will give people a sense of arrogance and domineering that bullies people, coupled with their clan's overly power-advocating personality, which has offended many ninjas and civilians, at least this family is not as ruthless and cold-blooded as the Hyuga clan, and will keep their own people in captivity as slaves.

Because of this, Ayane, who is also from a wealthy family, is very envious of Liuli's free personality and life.

If only she had been born into the Uchiha clan.

"Yes, she was taught by her again."

Shiraishi scratched his head in slight annoyance.

"Don't say that, I think it's just proof of your friendship."

Ayane smiled, although she had not been in contact with Shiraishi on the surface since that incident, she secretly knew everything about Shiraishi.

For example, the strength he has hidden has reached the level of a middle ninja.

It has a very good relationship with Ruri, the Uchiha genius.

He is also secretly doing some experiments of unknown purpose.

The sense of belonging to the village is almost zero, and he thinks about the near future, leaving the village and becoming a traitor.

And these things, as the communication between the two deepened, Shiraishi did not hide anything from Ayane.

Shiraishi believes that since they are companions, they should be honest with each other.

At the very least, he had to reveal some of his plans and purpose to Ayane so that she could feel at ease.

"Hmm." Shiraishi felt that the time for private contact was limited, and he couldn't dwell too much on this kind of thing, so he went straight to the point and said, "There's nothing wrong with you over there, right?" ”

"No, after all, I'm just an insignificant member of the family, and the Zong family won't waste too much energy on people like me."

It was originally a self-deprecating word, but it turned out to be very flat when it came out of Ayane's mouth.

Two years later, she had naturally been able to restrain her fluctuating anger a little.

Still, there was a hint of sadness and sigh in her pure white pupils.

As she spoke, Ayane took out a small package from her ninja bag, wrapped it in a cloth tape, and put it in Shiraishi's hand.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Shiraishi took the package and said softly.

"That's what I'm supposed to do, but if it's just blood, it shouldn't be enough, right?"

Ayane asks the question.

As experiments became more formalized, Shiraishi began to work on heavier experiments.

Studying blood is an important part of this.

This blood is Ayane's own, and there are also other members of the Hyuga clan.

These are all valuable materials that Ayane has carefully collected.

Because both Ayane and Shiraishi know one thing, if they leave Konoha in the future, they must break the seal of the caged bird and let Ayane regain her freedom.

Otherwise, once Ayane's traitorous identity is confirmed, the people of the clan will definitely use spells to kill Ayane on the spot.

This is exactly what Shiraishi wants to do.

Unravel the caged bird spell used by the Hyuga clan to control the family, and let Ayane regain her freedom.

If you think about it carefully, with Shiraishi's current ability, it can be said that it is a fantasy.

It seems to see Ayane's hidden worries, after all, this is a matter of life and death, Shiraishi understands Ayane's nervous and uneasy state of mind.

"Blood is only one of the conditions to get started, but it is not a must. How to unravel the curse mark of the caged bird, the answer is not on this. ”

Shiraishi just intends to use the blood collected by Ayane to make some comparisons, so as to get more accurate data and find a very small entry point.

If you can obtain the secrets of the Hyuga clan just by studying blood, then you can't help but look down on the bloodstained ninja clan that has been passed down for many years.

"What's more, more materials are not available now, so we can only wait for the future."

Hearing Shiraishi say this, Ayane was also relieved.

Collecting this blood has made her do her best, and as for the complete human body material, she doesn't have to think about it to know that she will definitely be arrested in failure.

"It's almost time, let's separate here. If you stay any longer, you might be noticed. ”

Shiraishi is worried that the news of his secret contact with Ayane will be revealed, and in that case, not only Ayane, but also himself will be thoroughly investigated.

It would undoubtedly be troublesome for things to evolve like that.