Chapter 154 Life

The joy brought by the engagement and the feast did not last long.

The same was true in the village. Just as people were celebrating the victory of the troops, a peace treaty was made public.

This was the result of the peace talks between Konoha and Iwagakure.

Although this peace talk marked the end of the Ninja War, it was achieved at the expense of the interests of Konoha Village.

As the nominal victor, Konoha not only did not get any substantial benefits, but also ceded part of Konoha's interests in the Land of Grass and the Land of Field as a condition for the surrender of Iwagakure.

This excessive request was actually accepted by the top leaders of Konoha.

This caused an uproar in public opinion.

Under the pressure of public opinion, there was even news that the Third Hokage would resign.

However, at this cusp, there was still one thing to do, that is, to hold a memorial service for the Konoha ninjas who died in this Ninja War.

Many ninjas, led by the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, all wore pure black clothes to express solemn mourning.

Che stood next to Zhenhong and Hong, and on the other side were the members of the Uchiha clan.

Fugaku closed his eyes and mourned. An Uchiha clan member beside him lowered his voice and said to Fugaku: "Although the war was finally stopped, too many people were sacrificed. I heard that the third generation wanted to resign. Some people also proposed to promote the captain to the fourth generation. Please..."

"Don't mention it." Fugaku interrupted the Uchiha clan member's words.

Seeing this, Che glanced at Fugaku and thought: "Clan leader Fugaku is really good at hiding his shortcomings. With the power of Mangekyō, he may not be unable to compete with Minato."

"Of course, Minato will definitely win, so hiding your shortcomings is still useful."

As if he had comprehended something, Che nodded.

"Does the lost Sharingan from Kakashi need to be investigated?" The Uchiha clan member suddenly asked again.

"No need. Those were the eyes Obito gave him. Besides, his experience was tragic enough. Don't make trouble again."

"Understood."

"The peace we finally got, even though it was short-lived, must be maintained. This is the responsibility of the Uchiha."

Fugaku looked up at the Fire Emblem Memorial in front of him.

At the same time, the big-eyed cute Uchiha Itachi next to Fugaku also looked at the memorial, wondering what he was thinking.

Just as everyone was mourning for the victims, a cold figure stood among the many tombstones, attracting Itachi's attention.

After the silence, Fugaku led the team to perform patrol missions and had no time to take Itachi back. Itachi happened to come to the tombstones curiously.

The cold figure was a man dressed in black, with a handsome and evil face, black hair covering his eyes, and pale skin.

"There is no point in lamenting for the dead."

"If death has any meaning, it only exists when it can be used."

The man said in a hoarse and magnetic voice.

Hearing the man's words, the precocious Itachi asked seriously, "What is the meaning of life?"

Itachi's hair fell naturally to the bottom of his cheeks. His face was still a little fat, which made him look a little round, but his good looks could be seen, and his temperament was different from that of ordinary children.

Orochimaru thought of a person, Uchiha Che.

But Orochimaru still answered Itachi's question.

"It has no meaning."

"If there is, it only exists when life is eternal."

After hearing such an answer, Itachi looked at the tombstones around him in a daze. These tombstones seemed to indicate that there is no eternal life.

After Orochimaru finished speaking, the corners of his mouth curled up.

At this moment, a voice came, "Lord Orochimaru, don't use your theory to fool the young people of our Uchiha family."

Che came over, chuckled and stroked Itachi's small round face, looked at Orochimaru and said: "And even if you say that there is no point in lamenting for the dead, don't you wear pure black clothes?"

"Isn't this contradictory?"

Orochimaru did not fall into the trap of self-proof, but completely ignored the question raised by Che.

"Che Jun, long time no see, are you interested in accompanying me to the research institute?"

Che did not answer directly, but bowed his head and said to Itachi: "You go and do your own thing."

"Well, goodbye, brother Che." Itachi bowed seriously and said goodbye.

Seeing Itachi leave, Che raised his head and replied: "Let's go, I really want to see the results of Lord Orochimaru's dedicated research during this period."

The two left side by side. On the way, Orochimaru talked about Che's achievements on the battlefield, and Che praised Orochimaru's dedicated research. The two can be said to be quite tacit.

The two came to the research institute. As Orochimaru's senior assistant, Che saw the results that Orochimaru wanted to show at a glance.

"The software transformation technique was successful?"

I saw a test subject whose body parts were stretched to the extreme hanging on the wall, dying, but still alive.

If it were someone else, he would have been torn into pieces.

"This is a death row prisoner. I used a new software transformation technique to transform him. The effect is far better than the previous method."

When Orochimaru talked about his experiments, he would show a completely different state from usual.

But before the two could talk more deeply, Che suddenly felt that he was summoned.

"Reverse summoning?"

So far, Che's summoning beasts are only Sanwei and the group of crows, which means that the crows are summoning Che.

Che then followed the summoning power of the psychic technique and left a sentence, "Let's talk later."

Che then disappeared in Orochimaru's research institute.

Orochimaru continued to talk to himself: "Even if this method cannot make life eternal, it can at least make life less fragile."

On the other side of Konoha, a young man was falling freely in the air on a cliff.

"Life... is meaningless."

Che was surrounded by the humming crows, and suddenly noticed that it was Itachi who was falling freely above.

"Could it be that Orochimaru is going to commit suicide after a few words? Is Fugaku's son so fragile?"

Che wanted to fly up to rescue him, but after thinking and observing for a while, he did not act immediately.

Che wanted to see what this kid wanted to do.

Itachi's body flipped in the air, and Sanwei flew up and screamed, and Itachi seemed to wake up suddenly, took out a kunai and inserted it into the cliff.

But because the speed of falling was too fast, this buffer did not work.

Itachi then took out another kunai and kept inserting it into the cliff with both hands to cushion the impact.

Finally, he landed smoothly in front of Che.

"Brother Che, no one wants to die, right?" Itachi still had a thoughtful expression, "So what is the meaning of life?"

Che understood Itachi's actions just now. He was approaching death to explore the meaning of life.

But it seemed that Itachi only came to the conclusion that he didn't want to die.

Che then gave his answer, "I think the meaning of life is that you can explore the meaning by yourself."