After the brief contact just now, these key pieces of information were linked together. Although he didn't want to believe it, Shiraishi knew that only one guess could explain the current situation.

There was a new situation on the other side. A Konoha ninja named Yamato restrained the tailed beast-turned-Naruto with the wood release ninjutsu. Sai immediately drew a large number of ink creatures on the scroll and turned into a tiger and rushed over.

Boom boom boom!

These tigers did not charge at Shiraishi and the other three, but instead charged towards the ceiling above, immediately raising smoke and dust in the quiet room, and falling gravel.

When the smoke disappeared, the four Konoha people there disappeared and ran away.

"Don't you need to chase them? The identities of those four Konoha ninjas are very suspicious."

Ayane asked.

"I have some guesses about the origins of these people, but..."

Shiraishi didn't pay attention to the four Konoha people who escaped. He walked back to the dragon vein sealing device and stopped, squatting down to touch and sense it.

"If those people really come from there, they must have been triggered by some kind of medium to come here...the power of the dragon vein?"

Shiraishi shook his head and denied it.

The power of the dragon vein has stabilized, and the medium can be said to have 'disappeared'. In this case, the four Konoha ninjas should return to where they should go.

But those four Konoha ninjas did not disappear from this world immediately, which means that when they came here, there was another medium that caused this to happen.

There were footsteps outside, and someone was approaching here quickly.

Shiraishi winked at Ruri and Ayane, and the three disappeared from the spot, leaving only a mess after the battle.

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Standing on a tall white spire, Baishi overlooks the night view of the entire city.

People in Loulan were singing and dancing on the street, as if they were holding some kind of celebration.

The city surrounded by desert has its own characteristics when viewed from this angle.

“What a peaceful place.”

Liuli and Ayane, who walked next to Shiraishi, also saw this scene and looked at the night market scene in front of them in surprise.

"It is indeed an unexpected place. Regarding the matter of dragon veins, I need to investigate first. There is something I must confirm."

Shiraishi said to the two of them.

"So what do we need to do?"

"Watch those Konoha ninjas and don't let them leave Loulan. Now is the critical period of the Ninja World War. If they go to the outside world, they may interfere with the original order of this world and cause the time and space of this world to collapse.

Leaving aside space, as for things on the level of time, it’s best not to touch them if you can.”

Shiraishi thought for a while, if the four Konoha ninjas really returned to the present from the distant future through time and space magic, they could not leave it alone.

Time and space ninjutsu is the most difficult to reach in the chakra system, and the risk of failure is completely unknown, which often brings very serious consequences.

Therefore, whether for the sake of the order of another world or the security of the world he is in, it is necessary to restrain these people in Loulan until he can get things done.

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It won't be long before dawn.

Yamato took Naruto, Sakura, and Sai to hide in a ruins in Loulan.

After Sakura used medical ninjutsu to heal the injury on Naruto's chest, she applied medicinal powder and wrapped it with a bandage.

"Really, Naruto, can you not be so impatient next time?"

Sakura said angrily to Naruto at this time.

"Sorry, but thinking about Kakashi-sensei, I..."

Naruto covered his wound and smiled bitterly.

Sakura's expression also became silent.

At some point the atmosphere became depressing.

Finally, Sakura raised her head, looked at Yamato, and asked him: "Captain Yamato, what is going on? How can that Chiba Shiraishi be so young?"

Recalling the Shiraishi she had just met, there was a big difference between the terrifying man in her impression, especially the age.

"Even if you ask me, I don't know what happened."

Yamato scratched his head and didn't know what the scene in front of him was about.

"But don't be so impulsive, especially you, Naruto, all the nine-tails chakra in your body has escaped."

Fortunately, he had the restraint of his wood escape at that time, otherwise the situation would have been really dangerous.

"I know, but when I think about Kakashi-sensei..."

Naruto's face showed unwillingness and anger, and he clenched his fists.

Yamato glanced at Naruto and said: "I understand your mood, but this is not the reason for your anger. Kakashi-senpai has already..."

"Oh, was it hiding here? I finally found you."

A voice intervened, interrupting the communication between Yamato and others.

Sai immediately took out the scroll and planned to draw something.

Liuli and Ayane appeared calmly and walked over from the front, looking at the four people in Konoha with interest.

"You are……"

Yamato's face was full of nervousness.

Naruto and Sakura also got into a fighting stance.

Liuli didn't care about these people's alertness and walked directly towards the four of them.

The four of them were forced by an invisible momentum, and none of them took action first.

Liuli walked to them, bent down, and picked up the medicine that Sakura had just applied to Naruto.

It was an opaque white plastic bottle. Inside was some healing powder that could be applied externally, and most of it had been used.

On the bottle, there is the unique mark of Aster Flower Company.

"The date is March twenty years from now, and there is also the unique nameplate of the Aster Flower Company. It seems that you really come from the future."

Liuli's words were shocking, causing the four nervous Konoha people to immediately freeze on the spot.

What do you mean? Twenty years later?

"Don't look at us so nervously. In your time and space, maybe the relationship between us was very bad, but that was just what happened in your parallel time and space, and has nothing to do with the current time and space."

Liuli put the medicine bottle into Sakura's hand and said to her: "Don't throw away the used things. A piece of garbage you throw out at will may change the order of this time and space. Especially this kind of identifiable garbage

thing."

"What, what do you mean?"

Sakura found that her mouth was a little dry.

"It means that from your perspective, this is the world twenty years ago."

Ayane came over and explained.

"Twenty years ago!?"

All four people in Konoha stared at Ayane with wide eyes and disbelief.

"How is that possible? In the world twenty years ago, this was too..."

"Nothing is impossible. In your era, which generation was the Hokage?"

Ayane asked.

"Fifth Generation."

"We still have the third generation Hokage in power in Konoha. The three of us left Konoha in this world only two months ago."

"Then now is..."

Even the well-informed Yamato was a little stunned.

"The Third Ninja War has just begun."

Ayane's words made the four of them unable to say another word.

In their minds, the Third Ninja War has ended long ago, but now Ayane tells them that the Third Ninja War has just begun.

Is this really the ninja world of twenty years ago?

Yamato was the first to react, pointing here and asking: "Where is this place?"

"Loulan."

Ruri's words made Yamato sit upright on the ground.

In his time, Loulan was already in ruins and turned into a ruins-like city. So what happened to the Loulan in front of him?

And thinking of Shiraishi's young face... Yamato has already believed the fact that the four of them came to the ninja world twenty years ago.
To be continued...