That's quite a boast!
Lin Nan didn't have much to say, after all, he was speaking the truth.
Orochimaru didn't say anything either, as he had indeed died several times, and was about to die again soon. How irritating.
"Little Lin, you can't say that. I was only involved in the technology. After all, you were already lying in the laboratory before that, weren't you?" Orochimaru cackled.
"Ah, yes, yes, yes!" Lin Nan didn't want to dwell on the topic.
But Orochimaru was insistent on continuing, perhaps with a bit of a provocative intent. "During the Chunin Exams, who was it that told me Danzo's location? I told him, and yet it didn't cause much of a stir. In the end, it was Sasuke who took him down… tsk tsk!"
Lin Nan gave Orochimaru a deep look, and suddenly his Sharingan changed shape.
"Whoa, hold on. Just kidding!" Orochimaru immediately fell silent.
Lin Nan didn't really care.
The resurrected Orochimaru now had a somewhat goofy demeanor.
To be precise, after his resurrection, Orochimaru seemed to have a screw loose. He lost interest in Sasuke, and his personality was no longer as cruel and violent.
It was even unbelievable that he would later work tirelessly in Konoha to save up money for Naruto's wedding gifts.
Back then, Orochimaru was already called "Uncle Snake."
His entire persona had completely changed.
As the old saying goes:
"After you die, I live on as your likeness."
Of course, it's also possible that he had truly found the secret to immortality and had let go of everything.
"During the Chunin Exams, you attacked Konoha and went after Danzo?" Sasuke suddenly asked.
Lin Nan completely ignored him and just kept walking.
Sasuke let out a cold laugh and said nothing more.
However, that laugh clearly conveyed: "You're not all that, are you…"
Whether Sasuke's victory over Orochimaru was decisive or not is a separate discussion. But how decisive was his defeat of Danzo?
In terms of actual combat, it wasn't a particularly close fight.
But what were Danzo's characteristics?
Cunning!
As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows.
Even with Orochimaru's guidance, Lin Nan had almost failed to find Danzo back then.
Yet, Sasuke easily obtained an opportunity to duel Danzo.
Was Danzo weak? Not really, but he wasn't exceptionally strong either.
Countless people could defeat him in a one-on-one fight. With so many enemies, how did he manage to live from the First Hokage all the way to the Fifth-and-a-half Hokage?
It seemed that extreme survival was the path to kingship.
He lived until everyone else was dead, and then the position of Hokage naturally fell to him.
This was likely Danzo's ninja way.
As the leader of Konoha's Root, he was second only to the Hokage, at the pinnacle of power.
Unlike the Hokage, who had to deal with a multitude of miscellaneous documents, Danzo only needed to do one thing: enrich himself under the guise of serving the village.
He himself was like the roots buried deep underground, hidden in the dark, dirty soil, issuing orders but rarely showing himself.
And the time Sasuke defeated him was precisely when Danzo, after thousands of years, finally decided to venture out, and had finally become the Hokage he so desperately desired.
Alas, misfortune struck when happiness was at its peak.
Of course, even so, it was extremely difficult to overcome the numerous obstacles and face this Fifth-and-a-half Hokage.
However, Tobi was clearly capable of achieving this.
Therefore, Sasuke directly engaged him without much trouble.
In a face-to-face confrontation, Sasuke, who could activate Susanoo, against Danzo, who had nearly infinite Izanagi, meaning infinite revival, the outcome for both was quite normal.
This inevitably made Lin Nan recall his own encounter with Danzo.
During the Chunin Exams, Lin Nan had planned to take advantage of the fact that Orochimaru was drawing the attention of most of Konoha's guards to assassinate Danzo.
At that time, Lin Nan had been serving the Akatsuki for four years, had learned an extensive amount of ninjutsu, and had mastered many S-rank techniques, giving him a certain level of confidence.
This wasn't just a reckless gamble for Lin Nan; some things had to be done.
Some debts had to be repaid.
When Orochimaru had asked Lin Nan how it felt to see Konoha's gate again, it truly felt like a lifetime ago.
That year, after waking up in a daze, he found himself in another world. What was more, this world was a highly popular anime in his original world.
Any otaku who loved anime would have been ecstatic.
Lin Nan was also extremely excited. After learning that he was within the Land of Fire, he rushed to Konoha Village.
The reason was self-evident.
However…
Even after a long time, Lin Nan still couldn't comprehend the hellish turn of events when he first arrived in Konoha.
Filled with longing, excitement, and anticipation.
He had run headfirst into a devil.
So, when Lin Nan escaped Konoha and saw the iconic leaf-green gates again, he wanted to get out as much as he had once desperately wanted to get in.
Before, he had rushed in eagerly; now, he was bleeding to get out.
And all this pain, all this suffering, stemmed from that man whose face looked like a backside.
He constantly claimed to be for the village, yet in secret, he engaged in the most shameful and dirty deeds.
Who was Lin Nan?
He had no information about this world and was a traveler from the future.
This made Lin Nan's identity highly suspicious to Konoha's guards.
Lin Nan hadn't felt there was a major problem initially. If they wouldn't let him in, they could just send him away.
The key was that even detaining him would have been acceptable, as long as they could deport him.
But Lin Nan had no identification, which meant he had no home country.
Konoha wanted to let him go, but they didn't know how.
And then that man appeared…
Danzo took Lin Nan away and locked him up in a dark, lightless laboratory.
Most importantly, in the laboratory, there were countless people like Lin Nan, most of whom even had identities.
But whether they had an identity or not was merely a matter of his word.
Thus, a year of tragic human experimentation began.
Even after escaping Konoha and joining the Akatsuki, Lin Nan would often wake up in a cold sweat. That man had undoubtedly become Lin Nan's psychological trauma.
In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person and had never suffered such grievances.
Therefore, revenge was inevitable.
And it had to be a thousandfold, a hundredfold retaliation.
Lin Nan was almost driven to psychological abnormality.
Thus, as Orochimaru began his battle with the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Lin Nan embarked on his quest to find Danzo.
With Orochimaru's guidance, Lin Nan quickly arrived at the Root's base.
But how cunning was Danzo? Would he be at the Root's base?
Of course not.
Orochimaru knew his character well and directly informed Lin Nan of Root's secret passage to the outside.
Lin Nan used the passage to reach the outer areas of the village and finally found Danzo there.
At this very moment, on Orochimaru's battlefield, the reanimated First and Second Hokages had appeared.
Lin Nan's shadow clone, after recording the battle situation, dissipated into a puff of smoke!