CH 307

Aoba slowly pushed open the stone door in front of him.

Rumble...

The sound of the stone door rubbing against the ground slowly rang out. Suddenly, the smell of a rotting corpse appeared again behind the stone door.

However, this time, the smell was not as dense as the one in the previous room.

In a split second, Aoba once again controlled his chakra to surge toward his nose, directly sealing off his sense of smell and taste so that he would not be affected by this rotting corpse stench.

Although the smell was filtered out, this feeling still made Aoba somewhat uncomfortable.

There were not many corpses in this room. There were only three of them.

This time, Aoba did not check their bodies. He directly walked in front of them and raised his right hand to touch their heads. He began to read their memories.

"Ding Dong! Memory Reading Succesful! Obtained: Fire Release..."

"..."

Three consecutive electronic prompts rang out. All of the ninjutsu given to Aoba was fire-release ninjutsu. Moreover, they were all fire-release ninjutsu that Aoba had already obtained.

To a certain extent, Aoba felt that he had already mastered almost all of the fire-release ninjutsu. Of course, except for the fire-release ninjutsu that required the use of Mangekyo Sharingan.

After Aoba read the memories of these people, he directly walked out and closed the stone door again. He leaned against the wall and pressed his hands on his temples, then began to check the memories of these people bit by bit.

"Hiss..."

Aoba suddenly took a cold breath because when he checked it, he was shocked. These three were all members of the Nara clan. At the same time when Konohagakure was established, the Nara clan led the Akimichi clan and Yamanaka clan to join Konohagakure together.

Of course, there was also the powerful Sarutobi clan that had come with them.

It was just that...

These three corpses were all high-level members of the Nara clan. After joining Konohagakure, they had planned to fight for a higher position for the Nara clan in the village.

They proposed to let the people of the Nara clan become the adviser of the Hokage so that the intelligence of the Nara clan could give full play to their advantages in the most suitable position.

But at that time, the one who was the adviser of the First Hokage was Tobirama.

After several consultations, Tobirama found out that the real purpose of these three people from the Nara clan was not to make the village better but to seek benefits for the Nara clan.

This concept was contrary to Tobirama's philosophy.

It was because of this reason that Senju Tobirama, who does not rub the sand in his eyes, decided to make these three people from the Nara clan disappear from the world.

"The Second Hokage is really capable!"

After checking the last memories of these three people, Aoba couldn't help but sigh. Before they died, they were all invited out by Tobirama and killed mercilessly on the spot.

At this time, Aoba looked at the memories from the two rooms. Then, he realized something that he had not thought of before.

These secret rooms were not built by Danzo, but they existed when Konohagakure was just established.

From the looks of it, almost all of the people who died here died because of the village, but the person who did it was Tobirama.

Some things were done during the First Hokage era, and some things were done after he inherited the Hokage position.

In other words...

Aoba thought of Hokage's Anbu building next to the Hokage Building.

The first floor of this building was where Hokage's Anbu lived, and the second floor was Danzo's office.

Then...

Before Danzo became the boss of Root, who did this place belong to?

When Aoba thought of this, the answer in his heart was clear.

The Second Hokage Senju Tobirama!

"Sigh..."

Aoba took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled. His brain was working quickly, and based on what he knew, he deduced something that he had never thought of before.

"If I'm not wrong..."

"When Konohagakure was just established, Senju Hashirama from the Senju clan became the First Hokage of Konohagakure. At that time, the First Hokage was soft-hearted, and his style of handling things was mostly gentle, so he needed an iron-blooded helper to be his advisor..."

"As the younger brother of the First Hokage, not only did he set up the Ninja School, he also set up the Anbu department. As the person who set up the Anbu department, it would not be an exaggeration to become the first leader of Konohagakure Anbu!"

"In other words..."

"The office Danzo currently uses is Senju Tobirama's!"

"The one who threw the corpses here is Senju Tobirama!"

"Senju Tobirama is the first generation of darkness in Konohagakure!"

"Before he became the Hokage, he was Shimura Danzo of Senju Hasirama. The light of the outside world was borne by Senju Hasirama, and Senju Tobirama silently did those shady things..."

When Aoba thought of this, he instantly understood. No wonder he chose Hiruzen to become the Hokage. It was not because Hiruzen was very suitable for the Hokage position but because he found that Danzo was more suitable for Anbu!

The person who admired Tobirama the most was indeed Danzo.

It was precisely because Tobirama felt that Danzo really wanted to become like him that he chose Hiruzen to become the Third Hokage.

As more and more details were discovered by Aoba, a secret that had been hidden for a long time, as well as a secret of Konohagakure that cannot be known to the world, gradually appeared in front of him.

Where there was light, there was darkness.

Where there was Konoha, there was Root.

Hokage must maintain a strong image, so there must be people with ruthless skills to do some shameful things.

Hiruzen and Danzo were also the same.

If not for Danzo's assistance and constantly helping Hiruzen eradicate his dissidents, Hiruzen definitely wouldn't have a stable position today.

In the same logic, although the powerful Senju Hashirama did not need to use any means to eliminate his competitors, there would always be some sinister people. This was something that could not be avoided.

There were so many people in such a large village; how could they be united as one?

This was something that was impossible. Even clansmen in a clan would not have the same thought. When the forest was big, there would be all kinds of birds, let alone the hearts of people.

Then...

There needed to be someone who secretly eliminated those who had a different heart.

"This means that Senju Tobirama can't beat Uchiha Madara. Otherwise, the Uchiha clan would have been long gone. However, what he did was a classic "Boiling Frog". By the time the Uchiha realized it, it was already beyond cure. This is like a malignant tumor. It has to be removed to save your life!"

Aoba sighed silently. Coincidentally, when he crossed over, his birthplace was in Anbu, and he could see the Ninja World from another angle.

Whether it was the Modern World or the Ninja world, behind the bright and beautiful scenery, there were often ugly things that people could not see. This was like some famous big cities. Some special streets would make people feel that they lived in another world, but there were many dirty things in the world that could not be seen by people living in the light.

After Aoba arrived at the Ninja World, he was shocked at every moment when witnessing the filth of the Ninja World.

Even though Konohagakure looked like the most peaceful village among the Five Major Ninja Villages. Various incidents of theft and robbery were constantly being staged every day, and the village was full of spies who were constantly placed in by other forces.

It was just like what Aoba had seen in the past.

Now, the warm sunlight that Konohagakure's ninjas felt was because many people who lived in the dark have endured another part of the darkness for them.

Aoba can't really comment on Tobirama and Danzo's approach if it was right or wrong. However, if he formed a fetter, whether it was for his friends or for the village, and encounters those threatening existences. If it were him, he would also get rid of them and eliminate future troubles.

Then, Aoba stepped forward again and walked toward the next secret room.

There were more or less corpses in each stone room, and they gave off an uncomfortable stench.

Aoba did not let any of them go and read the memories of these ninjas in turn.

Just as he had guessed, these people were all people who had joined Konohagakure. Almost every clan had them, and they all had a common characteristic, which was that they all had some ideas for Konohagakure.

"The things that Senju Tobirama did..."

Aoba suddenly took a deep breath, and his pupils contracted slightly. A strange thought emerged in his mind.

"Does the First Hokage know?"

This question instantly lingered in his head and could also refer to Hiruzen.

'Does Hiruzen know what Danzo had done?'

'No way!'

Aoba slowly shook his head. The appearance of the First Hokage Senju Hashirama appeared in his mind, the one who was very warm and loved by everyone.

No matter how gentle he was...

In the end, Hashirama was a leader who had killed his way out of the Warring States Era.

Aoba absolutely did not believe that any leader of a generation would be a merciful person. After all, even if he was facing his good friend, he could still stab his heart from behind, and he could also do the same thing.

Moreover...

Hashirama should know that Tobirama had developed such a heaven-defying forbidden technique as Edo Tensei.

Developing such a technique. I'm afraid that there will be more living sacrifices than Orochimaru learning this technique!

Aoba's original perception of Hokage has undergone some changes all of a sudden.

'Sure enough!'

'A person who could sit in the position of Hokage.'

'Who could be a real innocent little cutie?'

As Aoba pondered, he had already walked to the last room at the end of the corridor.

The few rooms in front were already empty.

Of course, Aoba did not find any corpses related to Hiruzen and Danzo. Obviously, these corpses had nothing to do with Danzo. But it was still rare to find something that had nothing to do with Danzo.

"This is the last room."

Aoba raised his hand and pushed open the stone door in front of him.

After the stone door opened. This room was even more spacious than the previous one. There was a huge box in the middle of the room, and there were taut ropes on the outside of the box.

"This is..."

Aoba widened his eyes. He suddenly had a familiar feeling. This was the feeling he had never seen in the few rooms earlier. But now, this room had it.

He had seen a room like this before.

He had also seen the boxes in this room.

To be precise...

It was a coffin!

"It turns out that the place Black Zetsu said at that time is here!"

Aoba pursed his lips and became nervous, but he still walked quickly to the coffin.

Standing next to the coffin, he could clearly see that it was covered with a thick layer of dust.

"This is an empty coffin..."

Aoba's breathing became hurried. He felt that if this was an empty coffin, his guess was correct, but if there was someone inside, then he was wrong.

Suddenly, Aoba held his breath. His hands touched the edge of the coffin lid.

He immediately used Chokeijugan no Jutsu(Ultralight-Weight Rock Technique) and directly changed the weight of the coffin lid. In an instant, the coffin lid seemed to have no weight, and he gently lifted it up.

All of a sudden, the contents of the coffin suddenly appeared.

Aoba immediately looked into the coffin.

"Sigh..."

Aoba immediately heaved a heavy sigh of relief. As he expected, this coffin was empty.

"This is the coffin that used to hold Uchiha Madara's corpse!"

Aoba could not help but sigh, and then he closed the lid of the coffin again. When he was watching Naruto before, he saw Black Zetsu explain what happened to Madara in the past.

This was something he had learned early on.

Before he died, Madara predicted that Tobirama would not dispose of his corpse and would use his body to study the secrets of Sharingan, so he had Izanagi in his right eye in advance and let him successfully dodge the fatal blow.

That was exactly what Senju Tobirama likes - doing human experiments.

Well...

In fact, he already had a deep understanding of Uchiha's Sharingan ability.

Who knows how many Uchiha clan members he had studied?

However, those corpses were not discarded here.

Aoba did not leave the secret room directly. He walked toward the door and raised his right hand to press down on the wall.

Hum!

Aoba's chakra flowed into the wall through his palm. After that, a black circle appeared on the wall. It was Aoba's Flying Thunder God Formula.

Aoba placed a coordinate mark here. In the future, as long as he wanted to, he could come here at any time.

"Wait..."

Aoba thought of something strange again. Suddenly, his face changed slightly. He suddenly turned his head and stared at the coffin that had nothing inside.

"Uchiha Madara's body disappeared. Did the First and Second Hokage not suspect that Uchiha Madara was not dead?"