Naruto: Starting as the Third Hokage with Tears in His Eyes

Chapter 352 The Tech Enthusiasts Go Online

The departing figure of Tobirama Senju was accompanied by a low pressure that could freeze the air.

Orochimaru followed closely behind, his golden vertical pupils gleaming with a fanatical light that bordered on pilgrimage.

……

Muye Ecological Farm.

The atmosphere was quite awkward under the huge shadow of the three-dimensional wooden building.

Hashirama Senju remained crouched on the ground, drawing circles with his head down, radiating a grayish-white aura of depression, like a giant mushroom wilted by a downpour.

Akimichi Torifu stood by, sweating profusely, wanting to offer advice but unsure how.

Sakumo Hatake remained as calm as ever, silently picking up the scroll that had slipped to the ground and dusting it off.

Just then, a cold, sharp chakra, full of logic and order, was rapidly approaching from afar.

The appearance of this chakra instantly shattered the leisurely yet awkward atmosphere on the farm.

Akimichi Torifu's fat face twitched, and he subconsciously straightened his back, assuming a defensive posture.

Sakumo Hatake's body tensed instantly, and his hand instinctively reached for the white dagger at his waist.

Only Hashirama Senju, who was crouching on the ground, suddenly raised his head like a startled rabbit, his face full of guilt.

"Oh no! It's Tobirama! What's he doing here?!"

Before the words were even finished, two figures appeared in front of everyone in an instant.

Leading the group was none other than Tobirama Senju, whose face was etched with frost.

He landed silently, his short, silvery-white hair remaining perfectly styled in the wind, and his red eyes immediately locked onto the absurdly magnificent wooden tower.

Behind him, Orochimaru curiously looked around. When he saw the hanging garden that seemed to pierce the sky, even with his imagination, he couldn't help but gasp.

"Big brother!"

Tobirama Senju's voice was colder than the winter wind. He didn't even look at his brother; his eyes were fixed on the wooden building as if he were looking at a defective product riddled with fatal flaws.

"This is your great innovation?"

His words were devoid of any emotion, yet they sent a chill down the spines of everyone present.

Senju Hashirama leaped to his feet, rubbing his hands together and forcing a fawning smile onto his face.

"Tobirama, let me explain. This...this is to solve the problem of insufficient land..."

"Solve the problem?"

Tobirama Senju finally turned around, his red eyes flashing with the anger and helplessness a scientist feels when confronted with pseudoscience. "By creating more problems?"

He pointed to the magnificent wooden building and began his machine-gun-like interrogation.

"Has its structural stability been calculated? What is the load-bearing limit for each floor? Have you considered the stress distribution across different floors?"

"This..." Hashirama Senju was speechless.

"What about the irrigation system? Have you considered how to transport water and nutrients to a height of 100 meters? Or are you planning to have ninjas carry buckets of water up there every day?"

"I……"

"The most crucial element is transportation! This is the most critical issue! Whether it's sowing, fertilizing, or harvesting, such a massive volume of vertical transportation could easily exhaust countless mission budgets!"

A series of questions, like the sharpest kunai, pierced precisely and mercilessly into Hashirama Senju's passionate yet innocent heart.

The smile on his face vanished completely, replaced by a blank expression.

"...Is it really that complicated?" Hashirama Senju muttered to himself.

Sakumo Hatake and Torifu Akimichi listened in stunned silence.

They had only vaguely felt inconvenient before, but after Tobirama Senju's systematic analysis, full of technical terms, they truly realized just how impractical and troublesome the First Hokage had created.

Especially Sakumo Hatake, when he looked at Tobirama Senju, it was as if he saw another version of himself, an ultimate form with logic, data, and efficiency etched into his very bones.

Hashirama Senju, under the overwhelming power of his younger brother, suffered another devastating blow.

His tall frame swayed, and his signature greyish-white aura of depression emanated from him once again, more intensely than ever before.

"I... I just want everyone to be able to eat delicious vegetables..."

He hung his head, his voice filled with grievance, and looked like he was about to squat down and draw circles again.

"That's enough, brother."

Tobirama Senju coldly interrupted him, ignoring his brother who had fallen into a state of self-isolation, and turned to look at Sakumo Hatake beside him.

"You're the person in charge here, Hatake Sakumo?"

"Yes, Lord Tobirama."

Sakumo Hatake immediately replied respectfully.

Tobirama Senju nodded and took out a scroll from his ninja tool pouch. It was the same scroll that Hiruzen Sarutobi had sent via his ANBU.

He unrolled the scroll, which contained a report on vertical farming that Sakumo Hatake had just submitted.

"I have read your report."

Tobirama Senju succinctly stated, "The problem is summarized well, but not in enough depth."

As he spoke, he pulled out an even thicker and more complex stack of blueprints from his pocket and spread them out on the ground.

"Your idea is still at the level of solving the problem. But we can devise a completely new, efficient, and sustainable ecological cycle system."

The moment the blueprints were laid out, everyone present crowded around.

It was covered with intricate lines and runes that made one dizzy, encompassing the entire vertical farm, from the underground water veins to the high-altitude platforms, every detail was clearly marked.

"This is……"

Akimichi Torifu was the first to exclaim in amazement, his eyes fixed on an energy loop structure on the blueprint, completely absorbed in it.

"Just a preliminary idea." Tobirama Senju's voice remained cold, but carried a hint of barely perceptible excitement.

"Using the Naga River Reservoir as the main water source, a main water pipeline is constructed using pressure pumps and chakra boosters. A layered drip irrigation network is laid on each floor of the wooden building. At the same time, the Nara family's secret nutrient solution, the Akimichi family's compost, and even the decomposition products of parasites from the Aburame clan are uniformly mixed and integrated into the irrigation system to achieve fully automatic and precise delivery of water and fertilizer."

"At each critical node, the Hyuga clan's Byakugan is used for remote structural monitoring. All data is aggregated in real time and sent to the central control room."

Tobirama Senju pointed to the blueprints and rapidly described his grand plan.

Sakumo Hatake, Akimichi, and Hashirama Senju, who was pulling grass, were completely dumbfounded.

Reservoir water supply? Layered drip irrigation? Remote monitoring? Central control room?

Each of these words is understandable on its own, but when put together, they form a picture of a future agriculture that they could never have imagined.