The lab doors were closed, and work went on all day. Occasionally, Sasori, passing by carrying things, would stop and peek through the window on the door.
He mostly saw people in white coats going back and forth. Sasori wasn't tall enough, so he had to stand on his toes to barely see the white sheets inside.
Besides the researchers coming and going, there were also various instruments with flashing lights.
If it weren't for the occasional murderous screams coming from inside, you wouldn't be able to tell what was happening to Hidan.
After taking a couple of glances inside, Sasori shook his head helplessly and left.
Hatake Satoru spent his time either slacking off or supervising the progress of these matters, as they needed to speed up the testing of various instruments.
While he didn't need to be involved in every little thing, Hatake Satoru had to make many key decisions.
He wasn't as relaxed as before because Hidan was the only living thing they could test with Limitless. Although he was immortal, they had to monitor the reactions between various instruments and drugs.
And how long it took for several drugs to complete a cycle before they could start testing a new drug.
All of these things required his decision-making.
Not only was Hatake Satoru quite busy, but Hidan himself was also going through hellish trials almost every day.
Sasori was excluded from this plan. Although he could know about the progress, he couldn't directly enter the lab to contact Hidan.
"It's not hard to understand, is it? It's to avoid suspicion."
Hatake Satoru was reaching into a pile of candy wrappers on the table to find any remaining candy. After a crackling sound, he tore open a wrapper and popped the candy into his mouth.
His tone was so casual, as if he were talking about something ordinary.
"Deidara is fine, but Hidan's situation is different. We'll talk about it later."
"Besides, you can't help much with these things right now. Why not focus on improving your puppet techniques? If you can only control non-living things, it's a big weakness."
"Even if you're immortal in a way, you're still easy to catch and attack."
Hatake Satoru puffed out one cheek and casually flipped through some papers and scrolls with summaries.
He wasn't making excuses. The more time he spent with them, the more he realized one thing.
Hidan and Deidara were both very honest young men. Once they were turned to their side, they wholeheartedly believed in Hatake Satoru.
Deidara, needless to say, didn't mind as long as it didn't interfere with his art, and he could even help with things. It was easy to turn Deidara over.
As for Hidan's situation, it was more complicated, or you could say it was just a lucky coincidence.
As long as he saw Hatake Satoru as an evil god, there wouldn't be any major changes.
Plus, Hatake Satoru had confiscated all of Hidan's weapons and other miscellaneous items, which made his fighting ability much more ordinary.
Although these two also had their own strategies and ideas, neither of them was like Sasori.
Sasori was cautious and overthought things. In short, he was more reliable than those two, but he was generally pretty chill and didn't cause any trouble.
But you shouldn't underestimate the brainpower and experience of a man in his thirties.
Sasori was basically the only one who didn't have absolute trust and loyalty in Hatake Satoru. Although he went along with the nonsense from time to time, he still had his own thoughts.
Wasn't it Sasori who had been secretly setting up spies everywhere?
In every way, Hatake Satoru decided to keep them at a distance, just to avoid suspicion.
Although the possibility was small, he didn't like adding unnecessary trouble to himself. He didn't want a harem drama to start.
"Ah... yeah, I'm aware of that."
Sasori seemed thoughtful, but he didn't have any objections.
After all, trust between people is like a thin film, mostly invisible, but it still exists.
"The data is shared, it's just that you can't contact him in person."
This suggestion was already quite conservative, but the real reason was that Hatake Satoru didn't care about the results of the instrument experiments at all.
After all, they still had to discuss things with Sasori after the experiments were over.
He just didn't want those two to talk. Sasori was too clear-headed. Hidan was already being tortured to the point of death.
If he explained to Hidan that Hatake Satoru wasn't an evil god at all,
Even if Hidan didn't believe it, people in extreme situations might choose to believe something else.
So Hatake Satoru forbade verbal communication.
In fact, other than him and Hozuki Mangetsu, most of the researchers were also forbidden from talking.
Before that, Hatake Satoru had already collected almost all of Hidan's data.
Rather than collecting it, you could say that he already knew those things.
Hidan's pain tolerance was unusually high. To recreate the effects, Hatake Satoru increased the pain nerves in his newly arranged body to twice that of an average person.
To get as close as possible to recreating the effects of this pain on ordinary people.
That's why Sasori would occasionally hear screams. Normally, with Hidan's tolerance, this kind of thing would be nothing.
Hozuki Mangetsu would go in to take orders from Hatake Satoru. After all, even if he was busy, Hatake Satoru had a hundred ways to slack off and be lazy.
To minimize his workload.
Hozuki Mangetsu was responsible for recording various effects and organizing them. He did most of the paperwork.
In a way, he had been a Mizukage before, so he was surprisingly skilled at this kind of thing. It was all quite strange.
On the first day of testing, Hozuki Mangetsu looked very pale, almost like he had just crawled out of a grave.
"Totally no good, it's not working at all."
"Can that kind of thing really save people? It looks more like it could kill someone."
"And that person won't die, and he won't faint. It all seems very wrong."
Seeing Hozuki Mangetsu like that, Sasori felt a subtle sense of "it's a good thing Hatake Satoru isolated me."
After all, he had always disliked Orochimaru doing human experiments. Of course, even if we ignore this project, he still hated Orochimaru.
He couldn't stand ordinary people being experimented on, and he probably wouldn't be able to stand Hidan being experimented on either.
It's hard to say.
However, after Hidan was tortured for a few months, Hozuki Mangetsu basically got used to that life.
He was even responsible for organizing data on Sunagakure and Konoha. After all, they just jotted down a lot of things on the fly.
"If you can't beat them, join them."
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