Chapter 275: Hero Trial Begins
"Ahhh..."
Despite the anesthesia, under intense pain and powerful chakra surges, the trial hero immediately awakened from unconsciousness, screaming miserably.
However, Yasushi had prepared for this. He'd had people use steel-forged shackles to secure the body. No matter how much struggling occurred, escape from the experiment table was impossible.
The victim could only scream futilely, watching his own body gradually lose control as it turned wooden bit by bit.
Though the screams couldn't escape, only echoing within the laboratory, considering the first test subject dying so easily would truly damage his "divine doctor" reputation, Yasushi decisively waved his hand, ordering:
"Inject coagulant. Also... mm, one shot of adrenaline—ten times the dosage!"
"Eh?" The assistant immediately startled again. "Ten times the dosage? Did I hear wrong? Can his heart withstand that?"
Yasushi immediately grew angry, glaring as he barked:
"Are you the divine doctor, or am I?"
"I tell you to inject, you inject! Even if he dies, it won't be blamed on you!"
"My deepest apologies!" The assistant hastily apologized, not daring to speak further. Hands trembling, he drew ten times the adrenaline dosage and injected it into the "trial hero's" body.
This injection took effect quickly. The man's heart began pounding loudly. On the nearby instrument screen, the heartbeat rapidly exceeded dangerous levels, reaching an ultra-high speed of over three hundred.
This method had absolutely no effect on cell fusion. Instead, it caused the test subject's mental collapse under pain, losing all resistance to Wood Release cells.
In an instant, branches successively grew from the man's body surface, transforming his torso into a massive tree cluster.
However, Yasushi showed no anxiety whatsoever. He simply pressed his palm lightly against the man's body surface, randomly grabbed some agents, and haphazardly injected them.
Then the nearby assistants immediately witnessed in amazement as those just-sprouted branches suddenly seemed to lose nutrition—as though drained—withering, drying, and falling away.
"Oh, how impressive! Truly worthy of being called a divine doctor!"
A group of medical ninja gaped in astonishment, praising him. Though completely unable to understand how he accomplished this, the results were obvious—the "trial hero's" heartbeat had returned to normal, and the Wood Release speed had been suppressed.
The assistant responsible for medications hastily began checking substances, reverse-engineering the drugs and quantities Divine Doctor Sora Jakuen just used, carefully recording everything in a notebook.
Actually, Yasushi understood nothing about cell transplantation—he was purely cheating.
He'd obtained all Hashirama cell transplantation data from Orochimaru, briefly studied it, then came here to deceive people.
He never planned to let Konoha Village people truly obtain this information. Everything was complete fabrication. Then relying on his understanding of cell transplantation and control over Wood Release cells, he merely kept these people temporarily from being devoured by Wood Release cells.
As for why Wood Release cells obeyed him so well—naturally because he'd had Mizuki replace the "Hashirama Wood Release cells" with "Uchiha Yasushi Wood Release cells."
If cell fusion succeeded, he naturally couldn't control the newly fused Wood Release cells.
But before fusion succeeded, Yasushi could control these external Wood Release energies at will.
It could be said that once invaded by "Uchiha Yasushi Wood Release cells," whoever Yasushi wanted to live would live, whoever he wanted to die would die.
"Very well, continue the trial." Yasushi clapped his hands, again randomly issuing several orders. "Cut open the meridians in his body, bury wooden branches inside, observe the effects."
These orders sounded completely unreliable, but having witnessed results firsthand, assistants no longer dared criticize any of his methods. They only humbly began learning, carefully contemplating, hoping to progress somewhat.
Divine Doctor Sora Jakuen didn't hoard knowledge either, displaying his entire "life's learning" before everyone, allowing them to observe and study. As for how much they could learn—that purely depended on their qualifications and comprehension.
Yasushi wasn't some sadist. He hadn't come here to torture these people through experimentation.
If not considering that having someone die immediately upon taking the stage would too greatly impact subsequent plans, he'd be too lazy to waste time on these people!
So after tormenting them for a while, Yasushi felt he'd performed adequately. He directly detonated the Wood Release within the man's body, transforming him into a large tree.
"Alas, truly regrettable. The trial failed."
Yasushi wore a dejected expression, waving for assistants to carry this "Konoha hero" down and toss him in a body bag.
After signaling assistants to clean the operating table, Yasushi again became energetic, calling out loudly:
"Invite the next Konoha hero to begin the trial!"
Thus the second test subject was sent to the operating table and secured.
Yasushi held the scalpel, smiling at assistants:
"The previous trial method failed. This time we'll use a new trial method."
Then he engaged in another round of fabrication, smoothly sending this one to meet Third Hokage as well.
Just like this, "Konoha heroes" came and went from the experiment table. After one day, dozens of "consumables" were nearly completely consumed.
Just as numerous assistants grew dejected, a nearby instrument that had been constantly beeping since the beginning suddenly fell silent.
"Hmm?" Everyone turned to look, seeing the instrument's various indicators suddenly stabilize. All data colors changed to represent safety—green.
"Success?"
Everyone hastily crowded forward, craning their necks toward the "trial hero" on the operating table.
Indeed, they saw this "trial hero" currently wore a liberated smile on his face, having fallen into deep sleep.
"Everyone, among today's trial heroes, finally one true hero has passed our trial!"
"I believe the data obtained from him will definitely grant us more experience."
"With this successful example, our trials will definitely succeed more easily in the future."
"Before long, all village shinobi can benefit from our Hero Trial, completely restoring Konoha Village's glory!"
"Now, let us cheer loudly!"
Yasushi raised both hands high, shouting with passion.
"Excellent!"
Numerous medical ninja immediately cheered along. Many had tears streaming down their faces, embracing each other fiercely.
Before this, the vast majority hadn't actually believed this so-called "Wood Release Sacred Body Hero Trial" would succeed. They'd simply had no choice but to follow orders after higher-ups made this decision.
But now right before their eyes, they'd personally forged a Wood Release ninja!
This represented that this plan they originally disbelieved actually possessed some feasibility.
In other words—could something like a village full of Wood Release ninja also have possibility of realization?
Yasushi watched them cheer with a smile. After the crowd calmed slightly, he waved and ordered:
"Immediately notify Lord Mizuki. Tell all village residents this good news. Let them share this happiness with us."
"Incidentally, notify everyone—tomorrow the new Wood Release ninja will publicly appear in the village, demonstrating Wood Release ninjutsu. Everyone is welcome to come verify authenticity firsthand."