"...Your ideas are bold, but they lack clinical data to support them."
Tsunade's emotions gradually calmed down. She began to examine Orochimaru's theories from a doctor's perspective. "For example, you mentioned using Lightning Release chakra to stimulate cardiac resuscitation. In theory, it's feasible. But the intensity of the current, the duration of the stimulation, how to precisely act on the heart without damaging other organs? These are all problems."
"These can all be solved through experiments," Orochimaru said immediately. "We can start with animals, like pigs. The organ structure of pigs is the closest to humans. We can establish a control group, gradually adjust the output power and duration of the Lightning Release, and record the experimental data each time..."
"Experiments? You make it sound so easy!" Tsunade interrupted him. "Do you know how much it costs to build a standard biological laboratory? Those sophisticated instruments, the sterile environment, and the large number of experimental subjects... This is simply not something we can afford."
"The teacher will solve the money problem," Orochimaru's tone was exceptionally certain. "As for the experimental subjects... didn't the war just end?"
Tsunade's heart skipped a beat. She heard the dangerous implication in Orochimaru's words.
"Orochimaru, I'm warning you, don't use people for experiments!"
"Of course I know that," Orochimaru licked his lips, a cunning glint in his golden, serpentine pupils. "I mean, the bodies of the enemies we captured on the battlefield. They're going to be cremated anyway, so we might as well make use of the waste and let them make a final contribution to the cause of medicine."
Tsunade: "..."
She found that she couldn't refute him.
Looking at Orochimaru's pale face, which was slightly flushed with excitement, Tsunade felt for the first time that although this guy's thinking was very dangerous, he... wasn't so bad after all.
At least, in the exploration of medicine, they had a common pursuit.
"Alright, even if everything you say is right," Tsunade rubbed her throbbing temples. "Talk is cheap. We can't just talk on paper here forever. We need to find a place to turn these theories into reality."
The corners of Orochimaru's mouth also turned up slightly, revealing an extremely rare, sincere smile.
"The teacher said that the newly built Konoha Hospital will have a dedicated research department for us to use."
"And the budget... is sufficient."
Tsunade's eyes lit up in an instant.
She could almost see a new, great era of medicine about to begin in their hands.
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Due to the arrival of the war reparations, a small high-level meeting was held again in the Hokage's Office.
When Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura walked out of the office in a daze, Shimura Danzo's impassioned construction declaration was still echoing in their minds.
"Homura, was I just hallucinating?" Utatane Koharu held her forehead, feeling her worldview had been strongly impacted. "Danzo... is he really going into construction?"
"I think... we might all be hallucinating," Mitokado Homura said, pushing up his glasses, his eyes under the lenses filled with confusion. "Those words he just said, about the village's shield, about the heroes' home... why do they sound so familiar?"
Familiar? Of course they were familiar! Weren't these all the slogans Hiruzen usually used to appease the people in various public occasions? They had always thought these were just nice words Hiruzen said as Hokage to create a pro-people image.
But today, when these words came out of the mouth of the most unfeeling person in all of Konoha, Shimura Danzo, the meaning was completely different.
Especially when Danzo, with an almost fanatical look in his eyes, described a future where everyone had a job and everyone had dignity, Koharu and Homura even had an illusion—the one standing there was not Shimura Danzo, but the young First Hokage.
"Hiruzen... what on earth did he do to Danzo?" Koharu couldn't help but ask the question that was on everyone's mind.
Mitokado Homura was silent for a long time before he said in an extremely complex tone, "Perhaps, we have never truly understood Hiruzen. And... we have never understood Danzo either."
After the meeting, Danzo did not leave first as usual.
Instead, he stayed until the end and took the initiative to ask the clerk in the Hokage's Office for the most detailed map of Konoha, which included all the streets, buildings, and underground pipe networks.
The clerk looked at this advisor who had always been known for his coldness, and was surprised to see him give a smile that could be described as friendly.
He hurriedly took out a huge map scroll from the archives, which was almost as tall as a person, and respectfully handed it to Danzo.
Danzo took the map as if he had found a treasure.
He did not go home, but went directly back to his advisor's office in the Hokage building.
Then, he locked himself inside.
He stayed there for the entire night.
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