“Oh ho! A new person has finally arrived!”
One of the young White men in a suit walked over, greeting him warmly.
From his appearance, he seemed to be a high school student…
“Alright, let’s get down to business first.”
Another squinty-eyed child walked over and extended his hand to Orochimaru.
“This…”
Orochimaru was stunned, completely unclear about the situation.
“You’ll know once you grasp it…”
The last, a Chinese-American youth, smiled and spoke somewhat mysteriously.
“This…”
Orochimaru was startled by the words, looking at the other three with suspicion.
He hesitantly took the hand of the squinty-eyed boy.
And the moment he grasped it, a massive surge of information suddenly appeared in his mind.
“You’re… Zhuge Qing?! And also… me?!”
After a long while, having browsed through the information, Orochimaru looked at the squinty-eyed boy in front of him with disbelief and asked incredulously.
The one opposite him was also him, but he had transmigrated to the One Person Below World, becoming Zhuge Qing, who had a very high demeanor at the beginning but was constantly suffering setbacks in later plot developments.
However, like him, he was only seven years old and had just started first grade…
“That’s right, not just him, we are all “me.””
The initial White youth smiled and extended his hand to Orochimaru.
Orochimaru took a deep breath, grasped the White youth’s hand, and just like before, a surge of information flooded in.
However, the quantity was much greater than “Zhuge Qing’s”…
“Harry Osborn?! You’re… that little Green Goblin?!”
After browsing the information, Orochimaru asked again, incredulously.
This White youth in front of him had actually transmigrated to the Marvel Universe and even became a villain.
“I’m not the Green Goblin yet, alright?”
Harry spread his hands, correcting him.
Although he was Harry Osborn, he had no intention of becoming a villain.
“Alright then, and who might you be?”
Orochimaru nodded, then turned his gaze to the last person, extending his hand.
He, who had transmigrated as Orochimaru, seemed to have no standing to criticize others.
“Ahem, just a heads up~ My memories are a bit extensive~”
The Chinese-American youth lightly coughed, then grasped Orochimaru’s hand.
“Huh? A bit extensive?!”
Before Orochimaru could react, a surge of information several times larger than before directly flooded in.
It was mixed with memories from several different eras…
“Hiss~”
This feeling was like having an iron rod stirred in his brain, making Orochimaru gasp in a cold breath, and it took him a long while to recover.
Seeing this, Zhuge Qing and Harry Osborn chuckled, because they had also been tricked like this before.
“So… you transmigrated to the assassin's creed World?”
After browsing the information, Orochimaru also understood the situation of the third person; he had actually transmigrated to the assassin's creed World, named Reed Hyerick.
He currently worked at Abstergo Industries, and his job was similar to Desmond, the modern protagonist of the series: being experimented on.
This company was an organization under the Templar Order, the villainous organization of the series, whose goal was to access ancestral memories through DNA sequences using a machine called Animus.
Then, they would find the Pieces of Eden hidden by the Assassins in those memories…
The massive information just now came from his ancestors in this World, several legendary Assassins…
“Yes, if it weren’t for the cheat at the critical moment, I would have been done for~”
Reed spread his hands, speaking with lingering fear.
Accessing ancestral memories was not without risks; excessive contact could lead to a confusion between one’s own real memories and ancestral memories, causing a pathological phenomenon of personality split.
If he hadn’t arrived here at the critical moment and anchored himself through his counterparts in the other two Worlds, he might have already gone mad.
“So… what’s the situation now?”
Orochimaru took a deep breath and asked the other three.
He understood the situation; he wanted to know the cause of this phenomenon.
“According to my speculation… we were probably caught in a reactor explosion before we died.
The high-energy particle flow caused our souls to be scattered across various Worlds.
Due to some unknown reason, we still maintain a quantum-level connection, allowing for information exchange…”
Harry Osborn explained that his last memory was of that high-parameter plasma experiment, where the Q value successfully broke through, but it caused the core plasma density and temperature to exceed the reactor’s design limits.
As the project leader, he did not evacuate like the other personnel; to prevent the disaster from escalating, he had to manually shut down the core’s residual heat removal device to prevent a secondary meltdown.
But he didn’t expect a series of chain reactions, which led to him being hit by the leaked high-temperature plasma, and this should be the reason for the current phenomenon.
“You’re saying… souls are quantum-level entities? Can you prove it?!”
Hearing this, Orochimaru’s eyes lit up, and he asked excitedly.
This could indeed explain their current situation, as there were similar phenomena in the real World, namely quantum entanglement.
Simply put, in the field of quantum mechanics, entangled particles exhibit strong correlations.
For example, if two people each hold a quantum die and agree in advance, “When you roll a 6, I will definitely roll a 1.”
Then, no matter how far apart these two dice are, when one of them rolls a 6, the other’s number will instantly become 1.
This change is instantaneous and disregards distance…
Just like the information exchange between them…
“Heh~ your top priority now shouldn’t be research, should it?”
Looking at Orochimaru, Harry Osborn chuckled.
Even if they transmigrated into different people, they were truly the same at their core!
However, for now, their top priority was not to research these things…
“That’s true…”
Hearing this, Orochimaru scratched his head; whether it was him or the others, they all had other more important things to do at the moment.
His counterpart in the Marvel Universe had to solve the Osborn family’s genetic disease, otherwise he would either die young or become the Green Goblin.
His counterpart in the assassin's creed World had to escape and avoid the fate of being a test subject.
As for his counterpart in the One Person Below World, he had to deal with summer homework…
Uh…
Thinking of this, Orochimaru looked at Zhuge Qing with a strange expression.
“Oh dear~ I can’t help it~”
Seeing Orochimaru’s gaze, Zhuge Qing felt a bit embarrassed.
After all, it seemed like he was the only one without much trouble; if he didn’t want to suffer setbacks, he simply wouldn’t go to the Luotian Grand Ceremony twenty years later.
“…”
Orochimaru shook his head; this was something that couldn’t be helped.
After chatting for a while longer, Orochimaru prepared to leave.
And the moment he had this thought, the sensation of weightlessness struck again.
“Hiss~ So this is what it feels like?”
In the Hokage World, Orochimaru suddenly woke up with a jolt, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
Then he looked at the time next to him; about a minute had passed.
With this novel experience, Orochimaru naturally lost all sleepiness and instead checked his own state.
There was no change from before, which indicated that he and his counterparts in different Worlds only engaged in information exchange at the soul level.
However, this was already enough…
As he browsed the extra information in his mind, Orochimaru smiled.
There was indeed a lot of valuable information…
Firstly, his counterpart in the Marvel Universe had transmigrated the longest, for ten years already.
Due to the need to solve his own genetic disease, his counterpart in the Marvel Universe had early on switched to studying biology.
With his past life experience and the resources and financial power of the Osborn family, although he was only 18, he had already obtained two Dr. degrees.
He even had his own biological laboratory and research team…
In other words, he didn’t have to learn biology from scratch; he was now an expert in this field.
Secondly, in the One Person Below World, the valuable information currently was the cultivation methods for training essence, qi, and spirit.
The One Person Below World and the Naruto World were very similar, both having elements like Yin-Yang and Five Elements, and Qimen Dunjia.
Even Chakra and Qi were very similar in nature and the phenomena they caused; both could affect the body and mind, or induce physical phenomena like Fire and lightning.
The difference between the two Worlds lay in the cultivation methods and the ways of using this energy…
There was a fundamental difference here; the Naruto World was constantly at war, and its training methods focused on forming combat power in the shortest possible time. Ninja would train using almost exploitative methods, such as Rock Lee’s devilish training in the original work.
The main focus was on the application of Ninjutsu, hence the diverse and varied Ninjutsu.
How strong one could become was basically determined by one’s talent and bloodline…
One Person Below, on the other hand, emphasized dual cultivation of body and mind, strengthening the foundation, and gradually strengthening oneself step by step, with various techniques being merely by-products of this process.
There was no superiority or inferiority between the two, as the environments of the two Worlds were different.
In a World like Naruto, where wars were constant and the average age of a Ninja was less than 30, training slowly like in One Person Below would basically be seeking death.
To use an analogy, it’s the difference between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear reactor; although the basic principles are the same, one releases a large amount of energy in a short time, while the latter provides stable and continuous output.
The application directions and needs are different, so there’s no real comparability…
After that came the assassin's creed World, which provided him with the experiences of several Master Assassins, including Altaïr and Ezio, encompassing special skills such as stealth, melee combat, assassination, and thievery.
These skills were also essential for the Ninja profession; a little adaptation would immediately turn him into an expert in assassination and combat.
And so, the next day arrived.
Orochimaru left with two dark circles under his eyes.
His goal, naturally, was to meet his future teammates and instructing teacher…