Orochimaru looked at Zero without speaking, but first helped Kimimaro up, checked his wounds, and after confirming he wouldn't die, had the Sound Four carry Kimimaro back into Otogakure for treatment.
After doing all that, Orochimaru looked at Zero with a smile and said, "May I ask what brings you all to Otogakure?"
"We're not here for Otogakure, we're here for you. There's no need for such a big show for others."
Orochimaru extended his tongue and licked his thin lips, making his face even more eerie. Orochimaru continued to ask, "Aren't you afraid of death? What do you want with me?"
"You cannot kill us. The Master sent me to find you. Compensation or cooperation, the choice is yours."
"Haha, you really aren't afraid of death. But I'm very curious about who your Master is. And what is this 'compensation' you speak of?"
Orochimaru looked at Zero with a sinister smile, while also asking about the parts he found confusing.
"The Master is naturally the Master. You'll know once we cooperate. As for compensation, it's simple. You hijacked our goods, and we found you. Don't you think you should compensate us?"
Orochimaru heard this, turned his head to look at the Sound Four. The Sound Four felt a chill down their spines under Orochimaru's gaze and cautiously said, "It might be some people in the village who didn't follow rules and hijacked their goods. I'll go retrieve the goods now."
After hearing this, Orochimaru felt a strong dislike for those who had joined him. However, because he needed test subjects, many wandering ninja and samurai followed him in the village, and he had agreed, even granting them power. But they had already established a ninja village, and they were still going out to plunder goods. They were truly useless.
"Then who are you people?"
"You don't need to know who we are. Now, you choose the outcome, compensation, cooperation, or battle?"
"You're asking to die!"
Orochimaru finally lost his patience. He finished speaking and charged at Zero, also wanting to test Zero's skills this time.
"Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!"
Instantly, several large snakes charged at Zero. Zero saw Orochimaru charging and immediately picked up her sniper rifle. Without aiming, she fired a shot.
"Boom!"
A large crater appeared in front of Orochimaru. The large snakes were instantly shattered by the energy bullet, filling the crater with blood, making it look very gruesome.
Orochimaru saw this and was surprised, then charged at Zero again.
Zero watched Orochimaru charge, loaded a special bullet, and fired another shot at Orochimaru. Orochimaru instantly felt a chill down his spine and quickly dodged, but it was still useless. So Orochimaru could only use a ninjutsu, choosing to take the hit head-on.
"Triple Rashomon!"
As Orochimaru's ninjutsu activated, three giant gates of hell rose from the ground. Orochimaru stood behind the gates of hell and used a summoning jutsu.
With a puff of smoke, a huge snake with purple stripes appeared out of nowhere. This was Orochimaru's strongest summoning beast, Manda.
"Orochimaru, what do you want with me this time?"
"Manda, block this for me."
"Boom!"
As Orochimaru's words just fell, a loud bang suddenly echoed. Manda then felt an energy explosion, and pain all over his body.
Orochimaru looked at the scene before him in shock. The first two layers of the Triple Rashomon were completely shattered, and the third Rashomon had a large hole in it. Manda's body was also covered in wounds, with one bullet hole being the most obvious.
It was well known that the Triple Rashomon symbolized absolute defense, and Manda was also very powerful. Yet, the opponent's single attack caused this situation.
Actually, under normal circumstances, Zero couldn't break the Triple Rashomon, but Zero used some tricks.
Zero, as a sniper robot soldier, although her direct combat ability wasn't strong, her solo killing ability with various weapons was definitely the strongest.
Kisuke, seeing Zero's lack of tactics, equipped Zero with various new types of ammunition.
Normally, Zero could control the energy output of her gun, creating energy bullets of varying power. But in certain situations, energy bullets didn't provide the same benefits as solid bullets.
For example, Zero used a solid bullet for this shot, a specially developed C1-Armor Piercing bullet for Zero, which had terrifying armor-piercing capabilities. Besides armor-piercing bullets, there was also the B1-Explosive bullet, which could increase the damage power of energy bullets by tens of times, and Kisuke's final trump card for Zero, the N1-Annihilation bullet. The N1-Annihilation bullet's firing data was like a 500-gigaton TNT explosion, leaving nothing alive within a hundred-meter radius.
"Orochimaru, what are you doing? Why do I get beaten up as soon as I'm summoned?"
Orochimaru didn't look at Manda, but at Zero. Without turning his head, he said, "You go back first. I'll send the sacrifices to you later."
"Orochimaru, this time I want 100 sacrifices, remember that."
Manda finished speaking and disappeared. He had also seen the situation just now. Revenge was probably out of the question, so he'd better retreat, or he'd get beaten again.
Zero put away her sniper rifle and looked at Orochimaru with a smile, saying, "Do you want to keep fighting? If so, I'll gladly continue to the end."
Orochimaru looked at Zero's put-away sniper rifle with curiosity. Without further ado, he spoke openly, "You can take the stolen goods later. What is this cooperation you want to talk about?"
Zero looked at the surroundings and asked Orochimaru, "Should we talk here? We have a lot to discuss, you know."
Orochimaru smiled, and without being mysterious, invited Zero to his secret research base underground in Otogakure to discuss the terms of cooperation.
For Orochimaru, he would first see how the cooperation worked and if it benefited him. If not, he would just abandon Otogakure, take a few key people, and leave directly. These people wouldn't be able to find him anyway.
Orochimaru had many bases. As for the outcome, it depended on how this negotiation went.
As the special robot soldiers entered Otogakure one by one, Orochimaru stood on the city wall, watching the robot soldiers, each expressionless, walking in perfect unison. He also noticed some clues.
As the top biological researcher in the Naruto world, Orochimaru naturally noticed that these soldiers were not like normal people. In his understanding, these robot soldiers should be clones or artificial humans.
At the same time, he was greatly shocked by the power that had arrived. It took a lot of manpower and resources to create clones and artificial humans. And the amount of money needed for so many people was extraordinary, not to mention that these soldiers had a certain level of strength, which would make the cost even higher.
"Your soldiers are very useful, aren't they?" Orochimaru looked at the robot soldiers with admiration and said to Zero.
"Our soldiers are, of course, the most useful. And there are even better ones. You'll understand once you cooperate with us."
Zero looked calmly at Orochimaru, and when Orochimaru heard this, his pupils suddenly constricted.
"I am very honored to cooperate with your side," Orochimaru said with a smile. Although he was quite shocked and doubted Zero's words, as long as the cooperation benefited him, he didn't mind cooperating with this unknown force.
When all the robot soldiers had entered Otogakure, Zero led Zabuza and Orochimaru to the secret underground research base in Otogakure to negotiate the terms of cooperation.
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