Escape From Konoha

Late April.

In the desert, strong winds were blowing, sand grains were flying, and a layer of clouds covered the sky. As far as the eye could see, there was a world of yellow sand everywhere.

At noon, the clouds in the sky dispersed, the sun was in the sky, and the endless desert was like a pale yellow sea, with thousands of rays of light shining in front of our eyes.

The oncoming wind is mixed with fine sand and warm air.

There seems to be an invisible hand in the desert, causing the fine dust to push forward tirelessly, peeling off layer after layer of sand, and then quickly covering it with the sand behind it.

In the endless sea of ​​sand, there are three people walking slowly on the desert.

The three of them were wearing light yellow windbreakers for sand and dust, which were quite similar to the color of the desert, so they could be used as good cover.

These three people are exactly Shiraishi, Liuli and Lingyin who came all the way from the kingdom of ghosts.

After some investigation by a special person, the coordinates of Loulan have been determined, as well as some simple information about Loulan Kingdom, which Baishi has also grasped.

After getting this information, Baishi couldn't wait to bring Liuli and Lingyin to claim Loulan's dragon vein power.

"Mr. Baishi, haven't you arrived yet?"

Ayane looked at the scorching sun in the sky, it was obviously not summer, but the air became extremely stuffy.

"According to the tips given in the road map, it will arrive soon."

Shiraishi replied patiently.

Ayane let out a long sigh, traveling long distances in such sweltering heat is not good for a girl's skin.

"If you feel bored, you can go back alone."

Liuli was not as good-tempered as Shiraishi, and said directly to Ayane.

"It's just a joke, don't take it seriously. I just feel like in such a hot weather, the moisture in a certain part of my body is about to dry up. Right, Shiraishi-kun?"

Ayane asked with a smile.

boom!

There was a detonation in the desert.

That is the result of the collision of chakras.

Liuli's fist was blocked by Ayane's raised arm.

On the desert under the two of them, at some point, because of the Chakra eruption just now, a large hole appeared.

"It seems that the lessons I taught you a few days ago are still not enough."

Liuli sneered.

"You can try again."

Ayane narrowed her eyes and smiled.

"As a weak person, you still have to find excuses for your own weakness. It's really pitiful."

Liuli's condescending attitude made Ayane's face twitch unnaturally, obviously angry.

Bai Shi glanced at the two people, shook his head helplessly, and continued to walk forward.

Before arriving here, how many times had the two of them fought against each other along the way?

In short, Shiraishi has lost count.

Just crossing the vast desert like this, the dusty scene gave people an extremely desolate feeling.

About two hours later, Shiraishi stopped on the desert.

He was now standing at a relatively high position and began to look into the distance.

"Where is Loulan?"

Ruri and Ayane lifted their hats and, like Shiraishi, saw the huge building standing in the desert in the distance.

The buildings are extremely densely distributed and are hundreds of meters high. They are mainly white in color. From this direction, these buildings look thin and long.

"It seems that's right."

Shiraishi took out a photo, which was taken by the investigators. The building in front of him was exactly the same as the building in the photo.

"I heard that Loulan is just a small country with a difficult life and that it has gradually declined to the point that no one pays attention to it. But from the look of this building complex, it doesn't look like it is in decline."

Liuli's tone was full of doubts.

Although it cannot be called prosperity, it definitely has nothing to do with poverty.

"This is also the case with the information I saw before. But since two years ago, the situation seems to have changed. According to the information collected by intelligence personnel, a guy named An Lushan came to Loulan two years ago and won the trust of Queen Loulan. He became the minister of Loulan. The reason why Loulan is so prosperous is because of the work of that guy named An Lushan."

When Bai Shi mentioned the name 'An Lushan', the expression on his face was a bit subtle.

Forget it, the Kingdom of Ghosts can even create terms like Terracotta Warriors and Horses, but Loulan's An Lushan and others are not names worth complaining about.

Although Shiraishi still wants to complain about this name.

"According to the information provided by the living dragon, the dragon vein should be underground in Loulan. Ayane, use your Byakugan to see how the situation is."

Shiraishi turned to look at Ayane.

"OK."

Ayane opened her Byakugan and began to observe the underground of Loulan City.

"did you find it?"

"There is indeed a very powerful chakra energy deep underground, and a large number of puppet soldiers are guarded there."

Ayane told the truth about what she saw.

"Puppet soldiers?"

"Maybe it's used in war."

Baishi doesn't know Loulan's entire situation and can only make the following guesses.

After all, with such convenient energy as dragon vein, it is definitely impossible to leave it alone forever.

"In this case, let's check the situation first. If we act quickly, we should be able to take away the power of the dragon vein before Loulan's guards react."

Neither Ruri nor Ayane had any objections.

So the three of them immediately took action.

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The largest building in Loulan is upstairs.

In the magnificent hall, Queen Loulan was sitting on the throne, summoning Loulan's minister An Lushan to start the discussion.

"Your Majesty, what is the matter?"

The man named An Lushan is about thirty years old. He has a beard on his face and looks like a shrewd and powerful man.

He also maintained a respectful attitude toward the queen on the throne.

"An Lushan, I heard recently that many residents in the city have disappeared. Do you know what this is?"

The queen conveys her will.

As the queen of Loulan, she has the obligation to protect her domestic subjects.

Among all the ministers in Loulan, An Lushan is the most capable and trustworthy minister.

He has a respectful attitude toward himself, is friendly with his colleagues, and is kind to the people of Loulan, never feeling that he is superior to others.

As long as she told her troubles, she believed that An Lushan would quickly investigate the matter and get to the bottom of the matter. This was a high level of trust.

"Her Majesty the Queen, I have heard a little bit about this matter. In fact, I have sent people to investigate the matter before this. I believe there will be a result soon."

"Then I will leave this matter to you, An Lushan."

"Please rest assured, Her Majesty the Queen, An Lushan is obligated to do so and will definitely live up to your trust in me."

A gentle smile appeared on An Lushan's face, and he respectfully stepped back under the Queen's gaze.

Shortly after An Lushan retreated, a red-haired girl ran out from a side door.

"Mother!"

The girl threw herself into the queen's arms with a happy smile on her face.

"What's wrong, Sarah, are today's classes over?"

"Well, it's over."

"That's good. In the future, you will be the next generation of Loulan Queen. You must work hard to become an excellent queen who thinks about her subjects, Sarah."

The Queen lovingly stroked her daughter Princess Sarah's head and showed a friendly smile.

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The oasis city close to the desert is a place called Loulan.

At this moment, the sky has darkened. Under the dark night, the surroundings of the city are covered by the wind and dust. From a distance, only the dark outline of the city can be seen, full of mystery.

Arriving at the manhole cover of a sewer entrance, according to what Ayane detected, entering from this sewer entrance can lead to the place where the huge chakra energy is.

Shiraishi looked at this oasis city in the desert with the help of moonlight. The pipes in the sky connecting the tall buildings conveyed an extremely abnormal chakra. As the operating energy of the entire city, they formed a set of recyclable energy. Chakra supply system.

Although it was a relatively prosperous city, its defenses were so poor that Shiraishi didn't want to comment.

I thought it would take some time to sneak in, but it turned out that except for the guards composed of ordinary people, there were no other means of defense, and it was easy for the three of them to sneak in here.

"What's next? Do we need to cause a commotion?"

"No, there is no need to use these methods for this level of defense. Solve the matter as soon as possible and leave as soon as possible."

At the beginning, Shiraishi also thought about whether to cause riots here first, and then seek the power of the dragon vein, but after thinking about it, the country's defense strength was not the same, and there was no need to go to that level.

With that said, Shiraishi opened the manhole cover and jumped in first, followed closely by Ruri and Ayane.

Down below, the exhaust pipes are arranged in a criss-cross pattern, and the route is extremely complicated.

Fortunately, with Ayane's Byakugan, there is no need to worry about this at all. He can directly find a correct route to the underground dragon vein and accurately find the location of the dragon vein's power.

On the way there, Shiraishi also saw a large group of ragged, criminal-like people who were jointly pushing a strange device that looked like a giant millstone.

Within it, there is a huge chakra reaction emerging from the ground.

There were puppet soldiers guarding the area with metallic luster, making Shiraishi a little confused about the situation.

Are these prisoners prisoners of Loulan?

"That device is connected to the machine factory that makes the puppet soldiers."

Ayane explained.

She could see everything here with her white eyes, including the location of the factory that made the puppet soldiers.

"It seems that this country is very ambitious. Is it planning to cause a storm in the Kingdom of Wind?"

Shiraishi smiled.

Although he could feel part of the pulsation of the dragon's veins with his sensory ninjutsu, it was still too simple to think of shaking the Kingdom of Wind, one of the five major kingdoms, with this level of power.

When it is finally exposed, it will most likely fall into the hands of Sunagakure.

Rather than doing this, it would be more appropriate to leave it to him for safekeeping.

Avoiding the puppet soldiers who relied on the power of dragon veins to carry out patrol activities, under the detection of Ayane's white eyes, he easily passed through all the defense lines here and reached the last line of defense.

What stands in front of you is a huge door five or six meters high. The surrounding walls are carved with exquisite images, which should be the cultural symbol of Loulan.

Push open the giant door, continue walking through the corridor, and start exploring the depths.

The puppet soldiers here are getting denser and denser, but these puppet soldiers move more cumbersomely and have a narrow exploration range. The three of them still arrived at the location of Dragon Vein without any effort.

It was a huge quiet room with four huge stone statues displayed around it. In the center of the four huge stone statues, something like an eye was closed, and purple chakra light seeped out from inside.

Around the closed eyes, complex and mysterious incantations are arranged.

Shiraishi knelt down, glanced at these mysterious mantras, and then looked towards his closed eyes. Through the gap, the purple chakra light reflected on his face, giving it a breathtaking splendor.

"Is this the power of dragon veins? There is such a powerful chakra in the seal alone, it is really amazing."

"How do you plan to absorb such a strong seal?"

Liuli came over and asked.

This actually asked Bai Shi. The power of dragon veins was much stronger than he expected.

"Anyway, let's find the 'nucleus' first. The dragon vein has said that the dragon vein is an abnormal energy source formed by the natural energy of the earth. Something like this must have a 'nucleus'."

Shiraishi stood up and said.

"It's hard to find a 'core' for such a huge amount of chakra."

Ayane said something.

Compared with Shiraishi's sensory ninjutsu, her Byakugan can more intuitively feel the internal conditions of the dragon's veins.

"Can't you find it even with Byakugan?"

"No, the chakra density down here is too concentrated. With my current eye power, I can't see the innermost things."

Ayane looked down. Deep in the huge earth veins, there was an extremely brilliant purple light. It was formed by the concentration of extremely terrifying chakra, which hindered the Byakugan's detection.

"It seems that the only way is to force the external device to break open."

Shiraishi touched the closed eyes in the middle of the sealing spell, and the power of the dragon vein was contained in them.

Liuli and Ayane also nodded. This was indeed the only way to expose the core of the dragon's veins.

Just when Shiraishi was about to unseal the external device, the sound of metal footsteps suddenly came from outside the quiet room.

A large number of puppet soldiers poured in and immediately scanned the three intruders. Without any explanation, they fired a large number of kunai with purple chakra from the body's weapon device, penetrating the air quickly, intending to shoot the three into hedgehog.

Shadow blades equal to the number of kunai immediately emerged from the shadow of the white stone. With the sound of metal collision, all the kunai flew away.

Click!

Click!

The Shadow Blade strangely destroyed the joints of these puppet soldiers, turning these puppet soldiers into a pile of scrap metal.

"It will take some time for me to take away the core. Just help me block it outside for a while."

Liuli and Ayane nodded and went outside to help Shiraishi guard and stop the puppet soldiers who would come to cause trouble.

After Liuli and Ayane walked outside, Shiraishi also began to form seals, condensing chakra in his hands, breaking the seal on the outside of the dragon vein, so that the power inside could emerge in large quantities. In this way, the location of the 'core' would definitely be exposed. come out.

At that time, you only need to take away the core.

He aimed his hands at the external device that resembled closing eyes and pressed it. He saw the surrounding incantations immediately glowing brightly, covering the entire quiet room.

Shiraishi noticed that the originally closed eye device had been completely opened, and it was a strange space wrapped in purple.

There was a thin stream of sweat on Bai Shi's face. Is this powerful force the power of dragon veins?

Even when Ichibi went berserk, he didn't have this terrifying chakra.

Moreover, Shiraishi could also observe carefully that the surrounding space was rapidly distorting, and the strong light made it impossible for Shiraishi to see clearly what changes had taken place in the chakra of the dragon vein.

Then the bright light turned to white-purple, and a large amount of purple chakra erupted from the open eyes like a torrent.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Shiraishi was about to retreat when suddenly several unfamiliar chakra reactions appeared in his sensory ninjutsu.

This was a sudden chakra reaction. This sudden situation reminded Shiraishi of the scene when he confronted Minato. Time and space ninjutsu?

boom!

The violent explosion caused the purple chakra erupting from the eye device to become distorted, as if it was affected by some unknown factor and the wavelength became unstable.

Shiraishi was bounced away by the sudden explosion and hit the wall. A large crater was immediately created, and blood vomited from his mouth.

Shiraishi's eyes were fixed on the dragon vein power device that had been swept away by the billowing smoke. He slowly stood up and felt four unfamiliar chakra reactions in the thick dust.

The seal of the dragon vein has also become stable. It is obvious that Shiraishi's unsealing ninjutsu failed just now because of the abnormal power of distorting time and space.

Such a sudden incident left Shiraishi confused and wanted to figure out what was going on.

The thick dust slowly dispersed, and the four unfamiliar chakra owners were revealed.

Like Shiraishi, he lay staggered on the ground due to the explosion and slowly stood up from the ground.

Three men and one woman.

"Konoha Ninja!?"

Shiraishi clearly saw the Konoha ninja forehead protectors of the four of them, showing a look of astonishment.

Are you kidding? Four Konoha ninjas exploded from the dragon veins?

This is the Kingdom of Wind, not the Kingdom of Fire.

Moreover, the strange reactions of these four people appearing here were obviously caused by some kind of time and space ninjutsu.

what on earth is it?

"Huh? Where is this?"

One of the blond-haired teenagers looked there blankly. Like Shiraishi, he didn't understand what happened.

"Wait!" He suddenly remembered something and ran to the side to see how his companions were doing: "Sakura, Sai, Captain Yamato, how are you?"

"Ahem!" The Konoha female ninja named 'Sakura' seemed to have just recovered.

After that, she got angry at the blond-haired Konoha boy: "Naruto, if you are so reckless next time, I will blow your head off!"

"Yes Yes!"

Seeing Sakura clenched her fist full of angry flames, Naruto nodded in fear.

"What happened? What I just felt was the chakra power of the dragon vein..."

Another Konoha boy named Sai patted the dust off his body, looked around with vigilant eyes, and finally locked his eyes on Shiraishi.

On Baishi's body, he felt an extremely dangerous aura.

This breath is much more dangerous than when facing their root leader Shimura Danzo.

"No matter what happened, let's find out where it is first."

The last one is an adult male, wearing Konoha's Jonin uniform, it should be Konoha's Jonin.

"Captain Yamato, are you okay?"

Naruto asked.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

The Konoha Jonin named Yamato smiled and said that he was fine.

After standing up, like Sai, he locked his eyes on Shiraishi, the only outsider here, showing a vigilant look.

With a flat face, Baishi wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth with his fingers.

"Who are you……"

Naruto blinked and looked at Shiraishi suspiciously.

Bai Shi ignored it and started to form seals on his own.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Seeing Shiraishi's seal, Naruto seemed to think that he was about to use some dangerous ninjutsu to attack them, and was about to step forward to stop them.

Sakura stopped him and said, "Don't be impulsive, Naruto. That's just an Indian style of medical ninjutsu. Judging by his appearance, he should have been injured just now."

Sure enough, as Sakura said, after Shiraishi used ninjutsu in Yuyin, his injuries began to recover quickly, and his face also returned to rosy.

After recovering from his injuries, Shiraishi began to look at these four Konoha ninjas who gave him a strange feeling.

Naruto, Sakura, Sai, Yamato... Shiraishi can be sure that when he was in Konoha, he had absolutely no impression of the existence of these four people.

But looking at the ages of these four people, even the oldest jounin, Yamato, is only a few years older than me, and I don't know anything about such a Konoha jounin.

"Um, where is this place?"

Finally, Jonin Yamato took the initiative and asked Shiraishi for information about this place.

"Don't you know where this place is?"

Shiraishi asked instead without answering.

"Of course, we came to chase a Sunagakure rebel named Baizu, and we ended up here inexplicably. By the way, who are you?"

Naruto couldn't help but jump out and started yelling.

Is he an idiot who gets easily overheated? Shiraishi made this definition in his mind.

Jonin Yamato and the Konoha female ninja named Sakura both patted their heads in annoyance.

If he leaked the information so easily, could he be said to be the most unexpected ninja?

This will undoubtedly put them into an embarrassing situation when they can't even tell the difference between friend and foe.

"Pursuing Sunagakure's traitorous Ninja Hyakuzu?"

When Shiraishi heard this answer, his mind was filled with all kinds of questions.

Are the Konoha ninjas chasing the Sunagakure rebel ninja? Is this a new popular joke?

When did Konoha's business expand to the point of cleaning up rebellious ninjas in other villages?

Moreover, it was now during the Third Ninja War, and Sunagakure was fighting fiercely with Konoha.

Are these people treating Sunagakure as a fool instead of joining the battle and chasing Sunagakure rebels here?

This kind of lie, which a three-year-old could see through at a glance, was actually used to deceive him.

Unlike the idiot on the outside, he is actually very sinister on the inside. Shiraishi gave a new definition to the Konoha ninja named Naruto.

"Ah, yes." Jonin Yamato sighed helplessly. Since the topic had come to this point, there was no need to hide it anymore, so he said: "We were entrusted by the Hokage to come to Loulan to pursue a Sandgakure named Baizu. Rebellious ninja. But for some reason, abnormal chakra suddenly emerged from the ground and swallowed us up. When we reacted, we were here. Excuse me...can you explain the situation for us? Also Your identity?"

"It's really strange."

Shiraishi smiled.

"strangeness?"

Yamato and others looked at Shiraishi, always feeling that there was some special meaning hidden in his smile.

"Isn't it strange that you, as Konoha ninjas, don't recognize me? You are definitely not Konoha ninjas. Who are you? Pretending to be Konoha ninjas and coming here to disrupt the situation, what is your purpose?"

Shiraishi moved towards the four of them with a terrifying pressure.

Seeing Shiraishi's unkind look, Yamato and others knew that the man in front of them was an enemy rather than a friend.

Wait, this person looks like where I am... At this moment, a flash of light suddenly appeared in the mind of Konoha Jonin Yamato, as if he suddenly recalled something.

"Are you...Qianba Shiraishi?"

Yamato's face showed nervous sweat.

Although he has become younger, Yamato still remembers some of the general appearance.

He was a defecting ninja who had left Konoha twenty years ago.

In recent years, he is a super S-class dangerous person who has used the Kingdom of Demons as his home ground and disrupted the peace of the ninja world.

"There's no need to talk to me in such a questioning tone. It was only two months ago that I left Konoha. Thinking about it this way, you are indeed not ninjas of Konoha. Forget it, it doesn't matter. Put your souls away from Konoha." If you drag them out of your body, you will know who you are."

A cold gleam appeared in Baishi's eyes.

"You three, back off quickly! This is not a ninja you can handle!"

Yamato anxiously shouted to Naruto and the other three, while he immediately formed seals.

"Wood escape · the art of the great forest!"

A large number of trees suddenly surged out from his arms, surrounding Shiraishi from all sides.

Wood escape! ? Who is this guy? Bai Shi's eyes widened in surprise, and his heart suddenly became turbulent.

I couldn't believe that this guy pretending to be a Konoha ninja actually used the long-lost Wood Release Ninjutsu.

Could it be those Bai Jue accomplices?