The world line β, sixteen years after the Fourth Ninja World War, the desert city of Loulan.

The long years of peace after the four major wars have given the entire ninja world a space for rapid development.

With the development of civilian science and technology, countless new things have sprung up, making the face of the ninja world change dramatically in the past 16 years.

In addition to the Internet, mobile phones, and personal computers that have entered thousands of households, the most representative of them is the railroad that runs through almost the entire ninja continent and connects dozens of countries and regions.

The dramatic changes in transportation modes and the unprecedented development of transportation capacity have made the original major cities in the ninja world more and more prosperous, and many new cities have sprung up along the railway lines.

The desert city of Loulan is a typical city pulled by a thunder car.

The main railway line connecting the country of wind, the country of rivers and the country of fire runs through the great desert of the country of wind, which spans hundreds of kilometers;

During the long journey in the yellow sand, the train needs a place to rest in transit.

The ruins of Loulan, which had been abandoned for many years, were revitalized by the unique underground water source and became a small new town on the main railway line, successfully attracting hundreds of thousands of immigrants to settle here.

The high-rise buildings rising from the ground did not affect the original appearance of the ancient city of Loulan.

The city designers had the foresight to see the cultural value of these ruins, so they perfectly preserved this large area of monuments on the edge of the new Loulan City.

Today, the ruins have been transformed into a tourist attraction, and many tourists choose to get off the train here during the peak tourist season every year, and visit the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan while enjoying the desert scenery.

"Visitors from Sand Hidden Village, please come with me..."

The local tour guide shouted enthusiastically, beckoning a group of newly arrived travelers to follow him into the ruins of Loulan.

At this time, it was not a holiday, it was the off-season for tourism, and he waited for this tour group in the morning.

And this group of a few dozen tourists are all in-service ninjas from the Shayin Garrison, because of the annual vacation travel benefits arranged by the unit group to come to a "two-day tour of Loulan".

The ruins of ancient Loulan, which hides cultural charm, are indeed a good attraction for people who like to search for relics and visit the ancients, and the boundless sand sea outside Loulan City is a beautiful landscape that can shock people's hearts.

But such a scenery is obviously not attractive to the ninjas of the Sand Hidden Garrison, who were born in a desert country and have a dull job.

"The old men in the village who arrange travel and vacation are really getting more and more distracted..."

Walking on the deliberately repaved road, looking at the dilapidated buildings on both sides, a sand ninja couldn't help but complain.

Other fellow travelers also expressed their agreement, and some even said directly:

"I heard from my seniors that they were going to a foreign country, so I thought I could go to the land of water and see the sea."

For a while, this monument was filled with whining voices, which made the tour guide in front of him quite embarrassed.

"You young people are not satisfied, it would be nice to have a vacation as a ninja!"

A middle-aged ninja with gray temples walking in front said with some indignation:

"We had to keep an eye on the village every day to prevent any enemy invasion."

"Haha... The old captain is reminiscing about the bittersweet memories again! ”

A young ninja had no respect for his elders: "What age is this, and you are still talking about the things of the past?" ”

"Humph!"

The elder captain Shayin just snorted coldly, and then sulked alone:

Today's young ninjas think about fun and pleasure every day, and they only know what to pursue for ideological emancipation and personal freedom...

If this had been back then, they wouldn't even be qualified to wear ninja forehead guards, let alone the elite garrison that had blended into the sand.

Thinking of this, the captain sighed again:

The group of young people under his command have the name of middle ninja, but his own retired old shinobi can put them all down with one hand...

It's really not as good as a generation...

In a burst of buzzing chatter, the group finally followed the tour guide to the core of this Loulan monument: the Dragon Vein Altar.

The tour guide explained according to the script:

"This place is called the Dragon Vein Altar by Gu Loulan."

"According to the legend handed down by the remnants of Loulan, this dragon vein contains endless chakra..."

"Hahaha..."

"Brother tour guide, it's okay for you to fool others, we are the ninjas of the sand!"

A young ninja immediately burst out laughing and rudely interrupted the guide's explanation:

"Endless chakra? Hahaha..."

The tour guide looked embarrassed, but he was completely powerless to refute.

Because of the gimmicks of "Endless Chakra" and "Legend of the Dragon Vein", he himself doesn't believe it at all, but he just fools tourists for work.

This is quite good, it is said that some peers just find a stone, and dare to blow it into the "enlightenment stone" that the six immortals sat on back then.

The elder captain of the upper ninja was a little curious about this, and began to take a serious look at the altar that had been completely abandoned:

I saw that between the cracked bricks and stones, there were some strange patterns that had not been wiped out by the years, and it seemed that there was really a bit of a taste of advanced sealing techniques.

But other than that, he didn't see anything out of the ordinary, it was just an ordinary ancient altar.

At this time, a sand ninja who had been keeping his head down suddenly put away the smartphone in his hand and complained rather unhappily:

"In order to save money, I arranged a domestic tour..."

"There's no cell phone signal in this place?"

"It can't be!"

The tour guide brother who was chatting awkwardly all the way finally found a place to refute, and immediately replied:

"This Loulan monument is just outside the new Loulan City, how can there be no signal?"

As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone again and wanted to prove it to the other party: "Look-"

The tour guide's face turned red: "It's strange, there was a signal just now..."

At this moment, it was only a very brief moment, and the captain of the upper ninja felt an unspeakably large chakra, which made him suddenly recall the terrible images he had seen in the four ninja wars.

At this moment, he felt as if the whole world had froze, and his subordinates had not even noticed it.

In just the next second, a strange white light suddenly appeared in front of everyone, and a clear human form condensed in a few breaths.

"Who are you?"

The captain of the upper ninja immediately spoke up and shouted at the figure in the white light

Unlike his subordinates, who were a little panicked, the older captain of the upper ninja quickly entered a state of readiness, and in the blink of an eye, a sharp kunai appeared in his hand.

The white light finally dissipated, revealing a middle-aged man wearing an old shinobi uniform that had been retired by Shayin for more than ten years, and a piece of Shayin forehead guard with a middle line on his head.

"Yes, is it a traitor?"

Several young subordinates couldn't help but exclaim.

As members of the garrison in peacetime, they usually do almost all the work of the chengguan, and the defection ninja is almost a legend to them.

A layer of cold sweat oozed from the forehead of the captain of the upper ninja, and the person in front of him should be a traitor in his village, but he who has been paying attention to the movements of the village can't recognize the identity of the person at all.

Orochimaru didn't care about the movements of the ants in front of him at all, just carefully looked at his body, looked up at the surrounding environment, and couldn't help muttering:

"There is nothing wrong with the body, the location is still the ruins of Loulan..."

"But compared to the ruins just now, the appearance is very different."

"Did I really make it to the futuristic world?"

At the moment of life and death, Orochimaru chose to try to cross the dragon vein to find a glimmer of life.

Although forced to follow the same path as Hyakzu, Orochimaru did not approve of Hyakzu's idea of "changing the past", so he secretly modified the direction of that space-time technique into an ambiguous future.

Orochimaru has always believed that the past is unchangeable, but he has a keen interest in the unknowable future.

"Hey! Who the hell are you! ”

Seeing that Orochimaru had been in a daze, a sand ninja gradually regained a little bit of courage, and shouted at Orochimaru with a fierce look.

Orochimaru cast a cold gaze on him: "Ninja? ”

Although none of these ninjas wore forehead guards because they were on vacation, Orochimaru was still keenly aware of the presence of chakra in their bodies.

"A bunch of garbage..."

Orochimaru glanced at them disdainfully for a week, and finally stopped at the old shinobi:

"It's a bit of strength, but that's not it..."

"What did you say!"

Hearing Orochimaru's words of contempt, the anger of the Sand Hidden Ninja was touched in an instant.

Orochimaru grinned slightly, revealing his unique evil smile:

"It just so happens that the soul damage caused by reincarnation has not been completely repaired."

"Let you be my tonic..."

As soon as the words fell, Orochimaru's body squirmed, and it instantly swelled in the frightened eyes of the Sand Hidden Ninjas.

Immediately after, a large white phosphorus snake with a length of dozens of meters appeared in front of them.

The white phosphorus snake's movements were so swift that everyone only felt that an afterimage flashed in their eyes, and the unstoppable body of the big snake broke into the crowd and swallowed two unresponsive sand ninjas with their mouths open.

"Monster, monster!"

The Sand Hidden Ninjas, who had been in peace for a long time, couldn't help but be terrified, and the civilian guide was even more frightened by this terrifying sight and knelt on the spot and wept bitterly.

However, Orochimaru's killing has only just begun...

A moment later...

The only person still alive in the entire ruins was the captain of the Shinobi, who was already seriously injured and unable to move.

Looking at the huge snake head that was slowly approaching, the elder Shagakure Kamishinobu finally remembered a famous figure back then:

"Orochimaru?"

"Oh?"

The white phosphorus snake fluttered with a scarlet snake letter, and a few hints of interest flashed in the snake's pupils: "You actually know me?" ”

It seems that the time distance between my own domains is not too far...

So, let me get to know the world well!

Orochimaru opened a huge snake kiss, swallowed the other party in one bite, and launched the secret technique in an instant:

[Soul Melting Technique]!

The weak soul body of the sand hidden upper shinobi was like a small bread in front of Orochimaru, and it was effortlessly devoured by Orochimaru.

His memories flooded into Orochimaru's brain in an instant.

These novel memories made Orochimaru's eyes can't help but shine with excitement:

This world...

No presence of Tam ?

The collapse of Konoha , the Akatsuki Organization, the Five Shadows Conference, the Fourth Ninja World War...

Madara Uchiha, Ten Tails, Kaguyahime, Infinite Moon Reading...?

Orochimaru raised the huge snake head, and through the gap of the abandoned ancient Loulan building, he looked at the new Loulan City standing not far away:

There are tall buildings, there is a lot of traffic, and a long train of railroad minecars is whizzing past the edge of the city...

Such a scene was very different from any city in Orochimaru's memory.

"Interesting..."