Chapter 252
"When will you give me the third heart you promised me?"
After discussing the cooperation between the two villages, Kakuzu finally couldn't help but ask his own question. Although he now has two bloodlines, he only has two lives after all. It is still too dangerous in this ninja world.
In the past, he was a bounty ninja, wandering around, with little ambition and enough strength. But now he is the financial manager of the Hidden Rain Village and even the Rain Country. In recent years, his bounty in the black market has increased!
Kakuzu, vaguely aware of the danger, had to think more about his own safety.
"Come with me." Lu Nie brought Kakuzu and the other two to the technical development department. In his own laboratory, Lu Nie pointed to the transparent jars placed on a row of shelves in the corner.
The inside of the jar was filled with a liquid with a hint of green. Inside the liquid, the hearts seemed alive, trembling gently under the observation of the human eye.
Seeing this scene, Kakuzu was speechless for a moment.
"Are these all bloodline hearts?" Kakuzu turned his head stiffly and looked at Luna.
There were at least dozens of hearts in front of him, neatly arranged one by one. Others had no idea what he felt, but he was indeed shocked and greedy.
This is equivalent to dozens of lives!
Ever since Di Yuanyu was arbitrarily modified by Lu Nie, his appetite has become extremely picky, just like a person who has tasted the ultimate delicacy and finds it difficult to swallow other foods and refuses to eat them.
There is a kind of stubbornness that doesn't care about the life or death of the symbiont!
Now Kakuzu doesn't even know whether Diyuanyu has developed a rudimentary self-awareness.
If Lu Nie had not set any threshold in this regard, even if he lost a heart, they would thoughtfully prepare a new one for him. The only requirement is to protect the "money-making machine" Xiaonan. Any horn who was caught in the pain point would have run away long ago.
The reason why he was running for the Hidden Rain Village now was because of an emotion that he couldn't even explain. After all, he only needed to protect Xiaonan, and managing money and being responsible for the finances of the village were beyond his scope of cooperation.
Although at the beginning, he was indeed going for the money.
"The ones with labels." Lu Nie gestured to Jiao Zu to go forward and pick one.
Kakuzu stood in front of the cabinet, looking from top to bottom at the heart properties marked on the bottom of the jar. The two hearts in his chest suddenly beat a few times, and his breathing became heavier.
In addition to the two bloodline hearts of Steel Release and Melt Release, Kakuzu also discovered several hearts of other attributes in it.
Flame escape heart.
Explosive Heart.
Molten Heart.
Wood Release Heart.
And most of these hearts are placed on the cabinet in plural numbers.
Finally, Kakuzu's eyes fell on the jar marked with the Wood Release Heart. Looking at the slightly trembling heart inside the jar, his emerald eyes were filled with desire.
"You can even make this kind of heart?" Kakuzu turned around, pointed at the Wood Release Heart and asked Rokune in surprise.
Although it is known that Wood Release has reappeared in the Konoha ninja, a heart is a heart, and an awakened bloodline is a bloodline. Could it be that these Wood Release hearts were dug out from some dead Wood Release ninjas?
Has any Wood Release ninja died in Konoha recently?
Kakuzu felt a little confused.
He didn't expect to see something like this here!
He even suspected that this was what Lu Nie had deliberately set up for him to see!
Who could refuse Wood Release Bloodline? Especially someone who had once assassinated the First Hokage and witnessed his power!
For a heart collector like him, this heart is no less than a treasure that a collector has been dreaming about!
Take it!
Must get it!
There was a voice in his head that gradually resounded in his mind, hypnotizing and brainwashing him over and over again. His mental dam called reason was crumbling under the repeated washing.
"Strictly speaking, I didn't make it." Lu Nie took a look and replied, "I just made some improvements to it and preserved it."
"It wasn't you who made it?" Kakuzu raised his eyebrows. He vaguely sensed a kind of "freedom" from it.
"They are clones of Tsunade-sensei." As if he hadn't noticed the strangeness that Kakuzu had revealed subconsciously, Lu Nie explained softly, "These are a few Wood Release Hearts that have flaws but have not been destroyed.
To be exact, it should be a Yang-attributed heart. It was only after my later transformation that it gained the power of Wood Release. But don't expect it to have the power of the first generation.
Compared to Wood Release, its greatest function is to enhance a person's physical fitness and self-recovery ability, and to increase the amount of a person's chakra.
Overall, this is a powerful auxiliary blood heart."
"I want it!" Kakuzu insisted.
"Do you have any money left?" Lu Nie looked at Kakuzu who had a serious face, then looked at Nagato who was a little restless, and asked curiously.
"The Hidden Rain Village is the Hidden Rain Village, and I am me! I have always kept public and private accounts very clear. The Hidden Rain Village is about to go bankrupt, but what does that have to do with me, Kakuzu?" Kakuzu said righteously, expressing his dissatisfaction with Kakuzu's doubt of his financial strength.
The Earth Resentment in his body seemed to have sensed the new blood heart, and under his emotional fluctuations, it began to become active.
"Actually, Senior Kakuzu is fine. The Hidden Rain Village also borrowed a lot of money from him." Seeing Kakuzu's gaze, Nagato touched his head awkwardly and said in a low voice.
"I have no objection. All the hearts displayed here can be sold to you." Lu Nie said.
Anyway, when he first transformed these blood hearts, he was also thinking of making use of waste. He put them out for Kakuzu to see, just like a merchant puts his goods out for buyers to choose from.
Black blood vessels like the ground resentment rushed out from under the cracked skin at the corners, twisted together in mid-air to form a cone shape that directly pierced the body of the jar, and then scattered randomly inside the jar, wrapping up and surrounding the trembling heart in the jar.
In just a few breaths, the Earth Blade had already connected the new heart and retracted it back into the body. As the new bloodline heart was implanted, something seemed to be moving under Kakuzu's clothes on his back, and a bulge appeared faintly, then collapsed.
A sapling grew out in Kakuzu's open palm, slender and weak.
Kakuzu's eyes lit up slightly. He could already feel that some changes were happening to his body, and he could feel that every aspect of him was getting stronger.
Especially the amount of chakra, the Wood Release Heart seems to be showing a trend of becoming the core of his chakra.
(End of this chapter)