Uchiha Ling began pursuing Danzo, having actually calculated the timing; as a naturally evil Uchiha, she would only resume her pursuit once she had clearly figured out how many minutes the Third Hokage and Minato Namikaze would need to deal with their opponents.
However, even when resuming the chase, Ling slowed down. She had already held back enough; if Danzo still couldn't escape with his life, then Ling had no other recourse.
After Ling ran for about one kilometer, Minato Namikaze was the first to finish his battle, then began leading the remaining half of the Anbu to pursue Danzo.
The Third Hokage, on the other hand, only completely annihilated the remaining Root Wood Release Ninja three minutes later, and continued the pursuit with his Jonin, who had suffered minor losses.
At the current speed, Danzo still had a good chance of escaping across the border without being caught.
The only problem he currently faced was the Ninja stationed at the border; if he couldn't break through quickly, he would still be caught by the Third Hokage.
However, in Ling's view, Danzo's Root from other countries should charge out together when Danzo is about to reach a certain border, breaking through that border outpost to assist Danzo in leaving the Land of Fire.
They would not attack the border Ninja too early and then wait for Danzo to arrive, because border outposts actually watch out for each other with other outposts.
If they attacked too early, that area would be besieged by a large number of reinforcing border Ninja, and Danzo probably wouldn't be that foolish.
If Danzo acted as Ling surmised and encountered no accidents along the way, it was highly possible for him to escape the Land of Fire.
Afterward, Danzo would tie up the attention of the various Ninja Villages, so he would most likely hide in a small Ninja Village, or go to Amegakure and rely on Hanzo's prestige to deter other Ninja Villages.
The Third Hokage, unable to deal with Danzo in the short term, would only focus on finding a way to apprehend Danzo.
This would replace the Uchiha Clan as Konoha's F4—no, wait, Konoha's F3's major headache.
As long as Danzo and Sasori of the Red Sand were not captured, the Third Shinobi World War would continue to be postponed.
This would push back the current point of the Third Shinobi World War, which was about to erupt due to Uchiha Ling's butterfly effect.
It might even delay the outbreak of the war until after Konoha Year 45 in the original timeline, which is two years later.
By then, Ling would definitely have grown stronger and would be fearless of Black Zetsu's indirect targeting during the war, buying herself more time to develop.
"Sigh, it's truly not easy. I, a little girl less than six years old, actually have to stir up the Ninja World's affairs to protect myself and play a long-distance game with the mastermind. I'm really having a tough time!"
Ling sighed mournfully in her heart, as if bearing pressure beyond her age.
However, Ling still felt some joy. Two bombings of Root Ninja, followed by a surprise attack that cost Danzo an arm, directly turned all the remaining Root who fled with Danzo into Ling's stable emotion providers.
Currently, Ling's stable emotion providers numbered sixty-two, which was a huge figure.
Ling naturally didn't want Danzo's remaining Root to die, otherwise that number would decrease, which would be too regrettable.
These were all her benefactors, so to speak; although they hated her, their contributions could not be erased.
Ling was currently about seven kilometers away from Danzo, and the distance was still increasing. Minato Namikaze was five kilometers away from her, and that distance was closing.
As for the Third Hokage, he was already close to catching up with Minato Namikaze, not because he was faster, but because Minato Namikaze had to accommodate the Anbu, who were all injured.
In fact, in Ling's opinion, they shouldn't be pursuing at all; they should cut their losses. Look, they dispatched two Kage-level strengths and two hundred Special Jonin-level strengths to pursue one Danzo, and the pursuers themselves were nearly halved in casualties.
Although Danzo's subordinates suffered greater casualties, the numbers weren't symmetrical; it was really just due to the sunk cost being too great.
The core Konoha intelligence and Forbidden Techniques Danzo carried were the biggest sunk costs. Now, Danzo having his Wood Release Ninja kill half of the pursuing force also counted as a sunk cost.
Ling was already very sleepy; it was deep into the night, with the moon high in the sky. For a little girl, staying up late and not sleeping greatly affects development.
Ling was referring to height development; as for other developments, Ling didn't want them. Ling could tolerate being a petite loli, but she couldn't tolerate being a big-chested loli, nor a big-chested older sister.
If the 'goods' were too large, they might be pleasing to the eye on someone else, but on herself, it was best not to have them.
"Fine branches bear abundant fruit"—one could tell it wasn't a good phrase. Ling pursued while her mind wandered, with half of her attention on the White Zetsu quickly moving with her.
Black Zetsu was truly too cautious; he didn't use the Spore Technique to leave White Zetsu on her, otherwise she would have had a chance to get a White Zetsu body for research.
Speaking of research, although Ling hadn't prepared any scientific research equipment yet, she had already dug out the rudimentary form of a fully enclosed laboratory three hundred meters underground beneath her home.
She also ran power lines from an old, dilapidated house she bought far from her home, near the Death Forest, first vertically down to a depth of three hundred meters, then horizontally extending to the laboratory beneath her home.
As for air, it was circulated through pipes by a blower in that dilapidated hut.
Of course, the power lines and blower were also placed in the basement, and then specifically shielded from Byakugan's perception using Sealing Technique.
This was also a special secret technique of Yanyang Village; thanks to Gennō, this Forbidden Technique that could prevent Byakugan detection existed.
As for other Sealing Technique to prevent Chakra sensing and White Zetsu infiltration, there were also many; Ling had gone to great lengths to create this laboratory.
Thanks to the Technique Reversal Orochi ability, which provided the ability to move freely underground, otherwise, arranging the power lines, pipes, and the fully enclosed laboratory would have been difficult.
All the dug-out soil and rocks were placed in the stomach of the Toad Summon, and then all the soil was expelled at the bottom of the South He River.
She believed no one could discover this laboratory, which was for researching Wood Release, Hashirama cells, or other Ōtsutsuki descendant genes.
Currently, the walls had been laid out with Earth Release and Sealing Technique, and ordinary household appliances were also installed. As long as the problem of experimental instruments was solved, it could be executed quickly.
She wanted to quietly conduct her research and finally amaze Orochimaru; she knew from the start to conduct genetic research, and her progress was even faster than Orochimaru's.
As for how to observe chromosomes, one had to mention a Ninjutsu that Sarutobi sensei kept as his trump card, a Ninjutsu that even Jiraiya couldn't obtain: the Telescope Technique.
By slightly adjusting the optical structure of the Ninjutsu and adding a reflective concave mirror, it could directly be used as a microscope with super high magnification and super high precision.
Ling had tried it before; she could directly see the base pairs in gene fragments, which meant she could directly see macromolecular structures.
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