bookbashuk Chapter 336 It really connected!
Chapter 336 It really connected!
Chapter 336 It really connected!
Tsunade looked up at him.
"You even thought of that?"
Kakashi's eyes crinkled into a smile: "Because I also felt that this idea was a bit dangerous, but it seems to actually work."
Koharu, turning to the next room, immediately retorted unhappily, "You two are both so outspoken. What do you mean by 'a little dangerous'? If this kind of thing were actually made, and it went out of control once, it's hard to say whether it would blow up the enemy or ourselves!"
Chi Quan looked at her.
"So we'll try it outside the village first, not inside the village."
"That's it—"
"And we won't mass-produce it," Chi Quan interrupted her. "At least not in the early stages. We'll start with a small batch, a small-scale operation, just enough to verify the results."
Mitokado Homura asked in a deep voice, "Where do you intend to use it?"
Chi Quan tapped the map lightly a few times with his finger.
"Gorge, bridge, supply convoy, temporary troop assembly point."
Tsunade looked at those spots, her brows furrowing deeper and deeper.
"You're thinking about more than just cutting off supplies."
"It wasn't just about blocking them off." Chi Quan looked up. "Bombing the granary was just a delaying tactic. The allied forces won't disband just because one granary is gone; they'll only pause temporarily and then regroup."
No one spoke for a moment in the office.
Because these words are too direct and too accurate.
Shizune pursed her lips: "What about that last night—"
"It's about saving time," Chi Quan said. "Even if it slows them down by a month, or even half a month, it will be enough for Konoha to do a lot of things."
Tsunade stared at him: "You already knew they would come back?"
"They will come." Chi Quan said without hesitation, "and it won't take long. The three daimyo have already made their presence felt; they can't just back down like this. What happened last night will only make them lose face even more and make them even more eager to get their revenge."
Kakashi slowly nodded.
"That's what I think too."
Mitokado asked, "So how long do you estimate it will take for them to reschedule?"
"At most one month."
Tsunade was silent for a moment, then suddenly said to Shizune, "Go and call over the heads of the sealing team, the ninja tool team, and the intelligence team. Also, send over all the old mechanisms, detonation test pieces, and old Sunagakure files that can be retrieved from the warehouse."
Mute nodded immediately.
"yes.
""
She turned to leave, but then stopped and looked back at Chi Quan.
"Aren't you going to go and rest for a bit?"
Chi Quan said, "In a little while."
Jingyin's eyes clearly said, "I don't believe you at all," but she still went out to run errands first.
As soon as the door closed, Tsunade looked at the pond again.
"You said last night that you would start in three more days, but now it seems you want to fill the next few days completely."
"right."
"You really don't want anyone to breathe."
"When I was breathing, the person on the other end was also breathing."
Tsunade's forehead twitched at this remark, and she only managed a cold laugh after a long while.
"I don't need to tell you this."
Kakashi leaned against the window, turning his head to look at the sky gradually brightening outside.
"But he's right. What we should be seizing now isn't the gains, it's time."
Xiaochun, who was turning over, frowned and finally stopped arguing back, but her face was still unpleasant.
"But we can't actually turn the village into a powder keg."
Chi Quan said calmly, "No."
You had better keep your word.
"Um."
Looking at him like this, Tsunade suddenly felt a headache coming on again.
"Go sit over there for five minutes and don't hover in front of me."
Chi Quan glanced at her.
Why?
"Just because you're standing here, I have a feeling you're about to say something even more infuriating."
Kakashi couldn't help but chuckle softly.
Chi Quan didn't argue, and actually went to sit by the window next to him.
But when he sat down, he didn't close his eyes to rest. Instead, he picked up a few border maps and garrison records from the corner of the table and continued to look at them.
When Tsunade saw this, a vein on her forehead throbbed involuntarily.
"You can't even pretend?"
Chi Quan turned a page.
"What are you pretending to be?"
"Pretending to be you is a bit tiring."
I'm a little tired.
"—Then you should take a rest!"
"Aren't we resting now?"
Kakashi finally burst out laughing.
"Lady Tsunade, I suggest you don't get caught up in this with him. It will only make you more tired."
Tsunade took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to smash someone.
Hurried footsteps soon echoed outside the door again.
Shizune returned extremely quickly, accompanied by several people. The older ninja from the sealing squad carried a scroll, the head of the ninja tool squad carried a long wooden box, two people from the intelligence squad carried newly compiled intelligence reports, and behind them followed a pale-faced researcher who had clearly just been dragged out of bed.
"Lady Tsunade, the person has arrived."
Tsunade hummed in agreement and pointed to the table in front of her.
"Come here, everyone."
The group of people who had initially seemed a bit confused upon entering changed their expressions slightly upon seeing Chi Quan. The middle-aged man from the ninja tool squad, in particular, was noticeably more cautious when setting down the wooden crate.
Tsunade got straight to the point.
"There's something I need you to do right now. Listen first, don't interrupt, and ask questions only after you've finished listening."
The people in the room bowed their heads simultaneously: "Yes."
Chi Quan pushed the paper he had just drawn over.
"Can you make this?"
The old man from the sealing class took it first, glanced at it, and his expression changed.
"This is... a chain of explosive tags?"
"right."
"Using chakra wires as relays?"
"right."
His brows furrowed immediately: "Theoretically, it's not impossible, but it's too easy for it to explode. If the chakra impact of the first talisman is too strong, the subsequent wires won't be able to withstand it and will break completely; but if the wires are too thick, they will skew the direction of the explosion in the front layer, and the power will dissipate instead."
Chi Quan said, "That's why we need a buffer period."
He picked up a pen and added a short incantation to the paper.
"Seal it here, and turn back here."
The old man's eyes grew brighter and brighter as he looked at the paper, and he couldn't help but pull it closer.
"Wait a minute—if that's the case, it's not entirely impossible."
The ninja tool squad leader also leaned over and whispered, "But what material should the chakra threads be fixed to? Ordinary paper talismans burn too quickly, and once the threads are exposed, they'll break before the second layer can be attached."
Chi Quan said: "Change the bottom."
"Change the bottom?"
"Change the paper base to a thin wood fiber or a heat-resistant fabric layer."
The researcher who had just woken up finally became fully awake and blurted out, "That would make writing the rune on the surface more troublesome. Uneven chakra penetration would cause the detonation threshold to deviate—"
—"
He was halfway through his sentence when he belatedly realized who he was interrupting, and his face turned pale.
Chi Quan didn't pay any attention and just looked at him.
"So you think it can be resolved?"
The researcher paused for a moment, then quickly replied, "We can try, but we need to make a small sample first. We need to test at least three substrates, two types of wires, and four detonation sequences. Otherwise, we won't be able to get a result."
Chi Quan nodded: "Then let's try it."
Tsunade watched as everyone in the room suddenly began discussing the piece of paper, and she raised her hand to rub her temples.
"Let's make this clear first: this is a trial, but the venue is outside the village, at a considerable distance, and the barrier team will be with us the entire time. Anyone who dares to touch this thing in the village, I'll be the first to do it."
Silently added from the side, "There's also a medical team on standby."
The ninja tool squad leader nodded hurriedly, "Understood."
The old man from the sealing team was still staring at the blueprints, muttering to himself, "If we misalign the ink lines of the main and secondary explosive tags by one more layer—"
No, that's not right, that would be too easy for them to interfere with each other—if the threads were made into a loop—”
Kakashi leaned against the window, watching as these people went from being cautious and hesitant to gradually being drawn into the situation by the piece of paper and a few words from Chi Quan. His smile deepened.
This is the most troublesome part of Chiquan.
He's not just good at fighting.
Once he starts seriously thinking about something, it's hard for the people around him not to follow that path.
Even if that path sounds crazy at first.
As the sun rose a little higher, the room was piled with even more files and equipment.
Silently served tea twice, and the third time she simply placed the entire kettle and a plate of rice balls on the table.
Tsunade glanced at the sky outside and finally slammed her hand on the table.
"That's all for now."
Everyone stopped.
Tsunade raised her chin: "List out what you can do first, including the venue, materials, and manpower. Give it to me within half an hour. Then you can go eat, and those who can sleep can sleep for half an hour. We'll start the first round this afternoon."
The old man from the sealing class was clearly still a little unsatisfied.
"But if we go along with it now..."
Tsunade glanced at him.
"If you keep going like this, they'll be blasting the ground this afternoon, not the test specimen."
The old man coughed lightly and quickly swallowed his words.
After everyone left, the office finally became a bit emptier again.
Jingyin closed the door and looked back; Chi Quan was still sitting by the window.
She tried to hold back, but couldn't.
"Now you can finally get some sleep, right?"
Chi Quan said, "We'll go to the training ground in a bit."
Suddenly everything went black.
"You did this on purpose, didn't you?"
Tsunade raised the back of her hand to support her forehead, her voice slightly unsteady.
"Jingyin, don't talk to him anymore. It's faster to knock him out and carry him to bed than to try to persuade him."
Silent paused for a moment, then seriously considered the feasibility.
Chi Quan looked up and said, "You can give it a try."
Mute immediately and give up.
"----never mind."
Around noon, the open space on the west side of Konoha, which was usually used for high-risk experiments, was quickly cleared.
The barrier team began setting up the outer perimeter.
The sealing team, the ninja tool team, and researchers moved materials back and forth. Wooden crates were opened, revealing different sizes of detonating tags, experimental papers, and...
Old mechanical parts and rolls of chakra conduction threads so thin they were almost transparent. Some people were unrolling scrolls to draw arrays on the ground, some were fixing test boards on stands, and others were arguing heatedly over a large, hastily drawn diagram.
"The main explosive tag should be on the central axis, otherwise the impact will be off-center!"
"The central axis will completely crush the second layer; it needs to be offset by half an inch!"
"Half an inch is too much, it will fall apart!"
"That quarter!"
"Are you cooking a meal? You're only giving me a quarter of it!"
A gust of wind blew by, making the pages on the ground rustle.
The old man from the sealing team grabbed the drawings and yelled at the researcher, "Stop talking, draw them!"
The researcher flinched at the shout and quickly lay down to redraw the lines.
Not far away, Shikamaru and the others arrived.
When Ya saw the situation over there, his eyes widened in surprise.
"No way—is it really going to be that big?"
Shikamaru glanced at the piles of equipment and the layers of barriers spread out, and his eyelids twitched.
"I knew that the 'research' he talks about is usually not insignificant."
Neji stood to the side, his gaze sweeping over the barely visible, transparent threads between the explosive tags.
"Those are chakra threads?"
Shino adjusted his sunglasses.
"It doesn't look like ordinary puppet strings; it's thinner and more brittle."
Tianzang said in a low voice, "The fact that it's brittle indicates strong conductivity. It also means it's harder to control."
Tooth couldn't help but click his tongue: "What if these exploded in a chain reaction amidst a group of enemies—"
Shikamaru said lazily, "Don't worry about the enemy yet, worry about yourselves first. If anyone stands in the wrong position during the explosion test, we'll be the first ones blown up."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Chi Quan walked over from the other side.
Ya looked at him.
"Are you asleep or not?"
"I closed my eyes for a while."
"That's not called sleeping, is it?"
"almost."
Tooth had nothing to say.
Kakashi followed slowly behind, holding a book in his hand, but he didn't turn the pages.
"In the first round, let's look at the structure first, not how powerful it is." He said, glancing at the test panel over there. "Let's break through first."
Chi Quan nodded and walked to the long table that had been temporarily set up.
Three sets of test specimens have been laid out on the table.
The first group is the simplest, consisting of only five detonating tags strung together in a line.
The second group consists of nine cards, arranged in a fold-back shape.
The third group is a small loop, with the main explosive tag in the center and three layers of explosive tags on the outside, making the lines dizzying to look at.
When the old man from the sealing class came over, he was holding a thin brush dipped in ink.
"The first group is the most stable, the second group might fail, and the third group—to be honest, I don't think we can succeed on the first try."
Chi Quan glanced at him: "Then let's bomb the first group first."
The barrier team raised their hands in the distance to signal: "The area has been sealed off."
Tsunade didn't come in person, but she sent Shizune to keep an eye on things. Shizune stood behind the safety line, holding a clipboard, her expression more tense than ever before.
"Let's double-check before we start. Everyone's backed up behind the line, right?"
"Refund."
"Medical team?"
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"exist."
"A backup barrier?"
"Two layers have been built."
Shizune nodded and took a breath: "Then—okay."
The first set of specimens was placed on a thick stone slab at a distance.
The one responsible for detonating it was none other than the young researcher who had interrupted earlier. He was visibly nervous, his hands stiffening, and his voice tightening as he gathered chakra at his fingertips.
"I...I've activated it."
Chi Quan stood behind: "Don't rush, cross the line in one go."
The researcher swallowed hard, nodded, and channeled chakra into the first main explosive tag.
The next instant, a very thin ring of white light appeared around the edge of the talisman.
The first one detonated.
boom!
The sound wasn't loud, but a cloud of ash exploded on the stone slab.
Almost immediately after the first blow, the connecting thread suddenly lit up, and the second, third, and fourth sheets were pulled up in succession. The explosion was as if a hand had pushed it along a fixed trajectory. It was not an ordinary, scattered four blows, but a series of continuous impacts.
When the last one was blasted, a corner of the entire stone slab was cracked.
There was a moment of silence on the sidelines.
The researcher himself was stunned: "It...it's done?"
The old man from the sealing class had a bright look in his eyes and immediately lowered his head to take notes.
"It's connected! It's really connected!"
Tooth, standing behind, widened his eyes: "And this is only five?"
Shikamaru also dropped his previously lazy expression.
"It's much more powerful than five cards alone."
Tianzang whispered, "The explosion point has been drawn into a line, so they won't explode separately anymore."
Chi Quan stared at the cracked stone slab, his expression unchanged.
"The second group."