'What the hell? Infected with poison?'
'Could it be they're planning to cultivate me into a Poison King?'
Takumi was never disappointed by Orochimaru's experiments.
After all, the Shinobi World's top scientist conducting human experiments was commonplace.
Judging by this, his father this time should be Orochimaru.
[You are placed on an operating table. A male and a female assistant perform a physical examination on you.]
[A tube of blood is drawn from you and injected into an instrument. Your physical data displays on the screen. Orochimaru looks at it and shows a shocked expression.]
[Despite not having Hashirama's cells implanted, your vitality is extremely tenacious.]
[Your cell activity is comparable to cancer cells. They can survive 80-degree heat, -30 degree cold, bacterial and viral infestation, and special light irradiation.]
[Everyone in the lab is amazed. They feel your vitality is beyond reason strong, even comparable to the Shodaime Hokage, Senju Hashirama!]
[Orochimaru and the male assistant are excited because you are the first successful individual in his experiments so far. His idea might succeed.]
[The female assistant takes advantage of the chaos to flick your 'little water bottle'.]
"Damn..." Takumi's eyes narrowed, 'What was that idiot female assistant playing at?'
'Believe it or not, I'd spray her in the face.'
Takumi made a cup of tea, sipping it slowly while continuing the simulation.
[After this, you begin to receive Orochimaru's meticulous care.]
[From their conversations, you roughly understand that Orochimaru, inspired by Hanzo of the Salamander from the Land of Rain, decided to create the most powerful humanoid viral weapon in the entire Shinobi World.]
[Your mission is to be infected with all the poisons of the Shinobi World, turning your body into a massive poison library. Even Hanzo's poison would be like a common flu to you.]
[Therefore, whether your vitality is tenacious enough becomes the key factor for success.]
'Just as I guessed...' Takumi rested his chin on his hand.
He had suspected he might be used for experiments.
And it turned out he was right!
However, although it seemed a bit miserable, Takumi was still looking forward to the subsequent development.
[You remain soaked in the cultivation pod, injected with nutrient solution and trace amounts of toxins daily.]
[Because you are still an infant, the toxin dosage is very carefully controlled. Each time after injection, Orochimaru personally checks the data.]
[Day after day, a year later, you finally 'graduate' from the cultivation pod.]
[You are placed on the operating table again. The two assistants draw your blood for testing again.]
[The female assistant glances at your 'water bottle' and exclaims in surprise: "This! It mutated?!"]
[After checking the data, Orochimaru shows a satisfied but somewhat creepy smile. The toxin level in your body already exceeds the lethal dose for an ordinary person, but your vital signs remain stable. You have withstood his experiment.]
[Orochimaru lifts you high like a father, but you cry loudly and urinate on his face.]
[Orochimaru isn't angry, he just laughs heartily. Everyone else also looks pleased, their eyes shining as they look at you. You are the culmination of all their efforts.]
[The next day, Orochimaru's face rots.]
"Pfft!"
Reading this, Takumi spat out his tea!
'Damn.'
'That was too sudden!'
'Orochimaru got disfigured by my pee?'
Takumi was starting to get a bit nervous.
'Just how much toxin had Orochimaru and the others injected into me?!'
'I was just a baby, yet I had such destructive power?'
'What would happen when I grew up?'
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[Orochimaru sheds five layers of skin before the skin on his face returns to normal.]
[However, despite being disfigured, he doesn't blame you at all, holds no resentment inwardly, and instead cherishes you even more.]
[Because he knows your potential is limitless. You can definitely become an existence surpassing Hanzo of the Salamander!]
[Thus, a more scientific, more gradual 'Poison Human' plan begins.]
[You wear specially made gloves and clothes. Orochimaru prepares a special room for you.]
[Because you, the test subject, are different from others, as you are extremely dangerous, Orochimaru dares not relax in caring for your body and mind.]
[You have a monitoring device on your wrist that can record your toxin strength at any time.]
[Your room is specially made. The water you drink, the food you eat, all contain scientifically measured amounts of toxins. Even your toilet isn't connected to Konoha's septic tank, but one is specially built for you, with dedicated personnel for research and analysis.]
[Orochimaru visits you every day, treating you like a child. You understand his motives, of course. Since you are an experiment created secretly behind Konoha's back, Orochimaru only wants you for his own use.]
[Through contact, you gradually discover that Orochimaru might not be as evil as he seems. His driving motivation is all for science. You also readily accept his goodwill.]
[By age 5, the poisons developed by Orochimaru can no longer satisfy you.]
[No matter how much Orochimaru increases the dosage, even if you eat poison like food, you show no signs of life-threatening danger. But your toxin strength has also stopped increasing.]
[You have hit a bottleneck.]
[However, at this point, you want to see just how poisonous you can become. You guess that perhaps years of daily poison exposure have made your spirit somewhat deranged.]
[You think, since your body is already a walking poison, you might as well go to extremes, break the pot completely, and see how broken you can make it.]
[You want to become the Poison King.]
[So, you proactively suggest to Orochimaru that you want to try infecting yourself with toxins from the biological world, beyond just pharmaceutical poisons.]
[Upon hearing your plan, Orochimaru and the other lab assistants are utterly shocked and try to dissuade you.]
[After all, toxins produced by living organisms can be dozens, even hundreds of times stronger than synthetic toxins!]
[For example, a type of Clostridium botulinum in pork secretes botulinum toxin, the most toxic substance in the world. Just 7/100,000,000th of a gram can kill a person. Doing the math, half a kilogram of this stuff would be enough to kill all of humanity.]
[King Cobra venom: 1 gram can kill 15,000 people. Death can occur within minutes of poisoning. Highly hazardous.]
[Pufferfish toxin: Ingesting just 0.5 milligrams can be fatal.]
[Everyone strongly dissuades you, feeling it's still too early for you to handle such powerful toxins.]
[They don't want to see years of research effort go to waste.]
[But your mind is made up.]
[After talking through the night with Orochimaru, he agrees to your choice.]
[You will set out into the Shinobi World to actively seek out poisonous creatures.]
[One deep night, wearing an anti-poison mask similar to Hanzo's, fully dressed, you quietly leave Konoha.]
[You begin searching for poisonous creatures in the forest.]
[Having watched many animal documentaries in your previous life, you have a rough idea where to find such poisonous creatures.]
[Primeval forests, deserts, deep seas...]
[In short, following the principle that the more remote and uninhabited a place is, the more likely you are to encounter highly toxic organisms.]
[You start your search in the forests of the Land of Fire.]
[You turn over damp stones, dig up centipedes from under the soil. You deliberately provoke them, luring them to bite you.]
[Biological toxins are indeed not ordinary. Just a few centipede bites make you feel dizzy and vision blurred.]
[The discomfort lasts a few hours before you withstand the toxic attack.]
[Your ability to detoxify so quickly stems from two aspects.]
[First, your tenacious vitality, your cockroach-like constitution, makes you hard to kill.]
[Second, the immune system you've built up through years of continuous poison testing.]
[Your immune system is completely different from an ordinary person's. You can rapidly secrete various cells to resist toxins. Even your ordinary cells are stronger than common viruses.]
[In other words, if a flu virus entered your body, you wouldn't even need to activate your immune system, as your ordinary bodily fluids and cell fluids could kill it.]
[Your body makes viruses tremble in fear.]
[Two days after the centipede bites, you dig up some new bugs one after another.]
[Centipedes, ants, land leeches...]
[As long as it can bite, you lure it to take a bite out of you. You even suspect you might have some masochistic tendencies.]
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