Chapter 236: Exploring the Unknown
It had been two weeks since they had arrived in the Land of Snow.
In the early morning, the two of them set out from the capital, following the most deserted route deep into the interior of the Land of Snow.
The weather was extremely harsh, the temperature extremely cold. It was an icy and snowy world that no one had ever been to, where even the tracks of animals were rare.
Just in their second hour of travel, the clear, sunny sky suddenly changed color, and a blizzard came out of nowhere. One moment it was sunny and breezy, the next the weather had changed abruptly. A blizzard raged, and a vast expanse of snow came covering the ground.
After persisting in the blizzard for several hours, the two finally stopped their advance and found a wind shelter to rest for a while.
By the orange light of the fire jutsu, Sasuke remembered Sakura's description of Shikkotsu Forest and asked about it.
"Is the savage world a world with a harsh environment like Shikkotsu Forest and this icy and snowy land?" he asked.
"The harsh environment of Shikkotsu Forest is mainly because of the existence of the Slug Sage. Who knows how many years it has been alive? Over thousands of years, it has long since transformed the environment to be suitable only for its own survival. Originally, that place should have just been a huge forest or swamp, right?" Haruno Sakura said.
She drew a rough sketch on the ground with an ice stick. "If we call the world outside the territory of the five great nations, the world that humans rarely go to, the savage world, then the area corresponding to that world may be many times larger than the area of human activity. The reason why humans have not occupied those places, apart from the harsh environment, may also be because the wild beasts living there are too powerful."
Sasuke thought for a moment. Taking Mount Myōboku and Shikkotsu Forest as examples, if humans wanted to occupy these two places, the difficulty would be no less than conquering one of the five great nations! The strength of the Slug Sage's main body might be even higher than the Nine-Tails. The toads of Mount Myōboku were also unfathomable. Gamabunta was just the tip of the iceberg of their strength...
Regions that were both dangerous and offered no benefits were everywhere in the savage world. No wonder the five great nations were so engrossed in internal strife and rarely ventured into the wilderness...
"Indeed," Sasuke sighed.
The two terms that Sakura had mentioned, the civilized world and the savage world, had made him think about these issues from the perspective of humanity as a whole for the first time. In this grand context, his personal grievances and affections seemed exceptionally small.
However, thinking about these issues was still too strenuous for a boy who had not yet left his chuunibyou age. Sasuke just thought about it for a moment, and then changed the subject. "Are we going too deep? If we just want to find a place where people rarely go, then the places before were already desolate enough."
Indeed, the interior of the Land of Snow, this icy and snowy world where it was freezing cold and water turned to ice in an instant, had probably been visited by very few people in thousands of years. It was a true no man's land.
"Actually, the location we found just now was already secluded enough," Sakura said faintly. "The rest of today's journey is actually on the way. I want to go as deep as possible into this land to explore the unknown."
"Uh... so that's what it is!" Sasuke pouted, feeling that it was very boring. "Is there any meaning to this?"
"Exploring the unknown is the joy of life!" the girl said with a laugh in the flickering firelight. "Aren't you curious what the end of the world is like?"
"If the end of the world is just this kind of icy and snowy land, then there's no meaning to it... and besides, we should be on a spherical planet, right? There's no such concept as the end of the world!"
Just then, the howling of the cold wind outside the cave suddenly weakened. Haruno Sakura walked out of the cave. The storm outside had, without them realizing it, stopped without any warning.
She squinted at the sky. Even at noon, the sun was only shining obliquely on the earth.
Have we entered the polar circle? I wonder if there is a polar day, a polar night, and an aurora here? Sakura thought to herself.
She also wondered, if they went further in, would they encounter a creature like the Slug Sage? However, this kind of icy and snowy environment was a dead end for life. There were no plants or animals, and it was not suitable for the survival of large creatures. In this world, even with the omnipotent chakra and natural energy, living beings still had to eat to maintain their lives. There were no magical creatures that could live on wind and dew as in xianxia novels...
The fireball in the cave had just run out of chakra and had been extinguished.
Sasuke walked out of the cave and pressed his cloak under a rock.
"I don't have much chakra left. Let's call it a day. My main body is still training that Super Railgun you mentioned! If you want to explore the world, let's wait until our strength is strong enough."
"Hn... I don't have much chakra left on my side either. Then let's leave it at that!"
The two of them then formed hand seals together—
"Shadow Clone, Release!" "Ice Clone, Release!"
They turned into two puffs of smoke and disappeared on the snowy ground, leaving only two lonely windbreakers.
At the same time.
In a remote corner of the Land of Snow, Sasuke was trying hard to control the electrical current in his hand to form the rail of a railgun.
There were several ways to realize a railgun. And the method Sasuke was using was precisely the simplest and most powerful one, the electromagnetic railgun!
This form was different from the complex coilgun and the multi-stage accelerated reconnection gun.
The caster only needed to create two parallel current rails in the air with opposite current directions and clamp the kunai or projectile in the middle of the rails.
When the ninjutsu was activated, the powerful electrical current created by the chakra would flow in from one rail, then pass through the steel kunai, and flow out from the other rail. The powerful current would generate a powerful magnetic field, and the powerful magnetic field would in turn interact with the current, generating a huge thrust that would push the kunai forward and launch it at high speed.
The key to this ninjutsu was the current rails.
The intensity of the current directly affected the magnitude of the thrust on the kunai, so the greater the current, the greater the power of the ninjutsu in Sasuke's hands!
To condense such a powerful electrical current was already an extremely difficult matter, let alone adding shape transformation to it to turn it into a completely straight current rail.
For any Lightning Style ninja, this was an extremely difficult matter.
However, what was interesting was...
Sasuke's Lightning Style: Chidori Short-Sword happened to perfectly satisfy these two conditions.
It condensed a powerful electrical current and had a straight shape.
The so-called current rails, at a glance, weren't they just two Chidori Short-Swords put together!
It was precisely because he had thought of this that Haruno Sakura had given the Super Railgun to them not long after she had known that Sasuke and Kakashi had completed this ninjutsu, the Chidori Short-Sword.
Judging by Kakashi and Sasuke's naming habits, perhaps this move would be called by them—
"Lightning Style: Chidori Super Railgun"!
From this perspective, the new ninjutsu that Haruno Sakura had given them, the rail-type railgun, being considered an advanced version of the Chidori after adding shape transformation, a Lightning Style ninjutsu with long-range attack capability, also seemed reasonable?
Of course, in terms of the specific details of the ninjutsu, there was still a certain difference between the Chidori Short-Sword and the Super Railgun.
BIRI BIRI—
The powerful and unruly huge electrical current, under Sasuke's chakra control, was gradually bound into two straight and slender rails. Seeing that the prototype of the railgun was initially formed, Sasuke was suddenly stunned.
"Hmph!" The long experiences of the shadow clone suddenly flooded into his mind. Sasuke frowned, and the ninjutsu in his hand immediately dispersed. He couldn't help but press his forehead.
He searched through the memories brought back by the shadow clone. The thoughts about the world had made Sasuke pay attention for a moment. The rest were directly skipped.
"Human civilization..." In the snow, the black-haired youth muttered to himself.
He soon shook his head, stopped his boundless thoughts, and continued to train his ninjutsu.
Snow Country Castle, Sakura's Laboratory.
The pink-haired girl was carefully operating an instrument, observing a heart that was gradually taking shape, floating in a nutrient solution, in front of her.
The information from the ice clone made her stunned for a moment.
"They only went that far?" The corner of Sakura's mouth curled up slightly as she said to herself, "What a pity. They didn't find anything more... but the snow scenery was still quite magnificent!"
She savored the magnificent scenery outside the cave after the storm had subsided for a while, and soon her gaze shifted back to the instrument.
"It seems... there's been some progress."
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