How did you bunch of silly group members also time travel?

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Chapter 248 You must laugh while running the plot; you must run while laughing.

...Where's the chat group!?

Where did such a large chat group go? How did it suddenly disappear?!

This time, Miss Fox was even seriously focusing on the storyline and not chatting in the group, so why did this lousy chat group suddenly collapse at this crucial moment?!

No network connection detected, unable to log in.

“???” (＾?＾)

Miss Fox has never known before that this broken group even needs a network connection.

So, how did the internet connection drop? What technology was used? How was it installed on her? What are the internet fees? And this data plan is terrible; it even disconnects and is in a service area...

Overwhelmed with complaints, Miss Fox is now having a headache!

"Miss Fox, you don't look too well. Is something wrong?" Seeing Miss Fox's sour face, Minato Namikaze also became a little uneasy.

In their brief encounter, Miss Fox gave him the impression of a wise person who was well-versed in history and possessed a wealth of knowledge.

Now, this highly skilled person's expression changed drastically because he mentioned the Dragon Vein, which made Minato Namikaze wonder: "Is there a problem with the Dragon Vein?"

"That's right, Aunt Fox, tell us what the problem is, and we'll work together to solve it. There's always a solution!" Naruto Uzumaki was just going along with the atmosphere and didn't think too much about it.

"Hmph." Even the Hmph Monster made its presence known.

If a normal person were standing here right now, they would definitely be incredibly moved by these three men, or at the very least, they would be touched to some extent.

So here's the question: is the person standing here a normal person?

No, that doesn't make sense at all! Would a normal person have elf ears?!

"...What are you doing? You're not planning to build a harem for me, are you?"

She crossed her arms and backed away, like a vulnerable woman about to be violated: "If you learn some harem techniques, it's not impossible..."

Naruto's eyes lit up. It was the first time he had ever seen a female who didn't dislike his harem technique and even admired it. He was incredibly excited!

"Right, right? The genius ninjutsu I developed is the strongest!"

"...I can confirm the location of the dragon vein. Before we deal with the dragon vein issue, I'll trouble you, Madara-sama, to keep this movie-limited boss, the centipede criminal, company for a while~"

Madara Uchiha casually tossed out a few MP potions, which he caught. He stared at Miss Fox's smiling face for a while before looking away, completely ignoring the Centipede he had suppressed.

Although Centipede had transformed itself, becoming inhuman and connected to the Dragon Vein chakra, making it difficult to completely kill, it wasn't impossible for Madara Uchiha to kill it. However, there was no need. Having secretly developed the Dragon Vein, which possessed the ability to travel through time, within the country for six years, Madara believed that it had more than one trump card for survival. Therefore, why wouldn't he take the more efficient method of severing the Dragon Vein?

He was genuinely concerned about Miss Fox's sudden change in expression.

This shameless golden-haired sprite had been acting silly ever since the negotiations began. Even though she knew that the enemy, the Sage of Six Paths, might be spying on her, she still acted carefree, as if she had no fear of anything and was holding onto whatever trump cards she had. Madara Uchiha just took her for granted.

As a result, Minato Namikaze's expression changed drastically as soon as he mentioned the Dragon Vein. This unpredictable expression was the first time it had ever appeared on the golden-haired elf's face, which really worried Madara Uchiha. Something must have happened to the Dragon Vein, and they would not be able to return to their original timeline for a while!

"Alright, let's forget about Uncle Ban. Come on, I'll take you underground!"

Miss Fox ignored Madara Uchiha's intense gaze; she wasn't going to fall for his affections, simply assuming he was throwing a tantrum. She took the hands of Minato Namikaze and his son, and, manipulating the earth, began their journey to the location of the dragon vein.

The fact that the small, broken group has gone offline means that Miss Fox's escape route has been cut off. Apart from the Dragon Vein, there is no way for her to return to the timeline where the group member Duke is located, nor is there any way to return to the world she first traveled to, or to go back to the previous timeline to chat with the characters in A Certain Magical Index.

All of the above are absolutely unacceptable to Miss Fox!

Even if my inventory is full of game consoles and electronic gadgets bought from Academy City, if there's no place to swim, I might as well just kill her! Turning her into a plush ball would be better than this!

There's no going back, no matter how hard she tries, she can't go back. She could have endured the initial loneliness if she hadn't had that little broken group where she could be the dragon king of the group!

So no matter what, we absolutely have to go and see the Dragon Vein!

"correct!"

Of course, before leaving, Miss Fox didn't forget about Madara, who was going to stay behind to take on the enemy alone. She wouldn't forget to make a funny face at Madara—"Hehehe!!"

"..."

Madara Uchiha's eyelids twitched involuntarily a few times.

However, seeing that this embarrassing elf was still in the mood to be silly before leaving, there shouldn't be any problems. He just needs to focus on dealing with the guys here.

What did that shameful elf call this guy again? The movie-exclusive boss?

Madara Uchiha couldn't understand it, guessing it was some kind of knowledge he didn't know: "That's really a strange title."

"Hmph, you really think those guys can sever the dragon vein and connect with me?"

The crackling sounds finally stopped. It seemed that Centipede knew it couldn't break free from Susanoo's suppression, and it started chatting with Madara Uchiha: "Only the Queen of Loulan can control the Dragon Veins. Only their bloodline has this ability. And now, only Sara is left in that family. If you think that the puppet army created over six years only consists of this Centipede fighter, you're sorely mistaken! Konoha Shura!"

Click bang!

With a slight exertion of Susanoo's bone claws, the invincible centipede puppet crumbled as easily as a potato chip in an otaku's hand.

Madara Uchiha showed no emotional fluctuation whatsoever, remaining completely unmoved. He seemed to be saying, "Go on, I'm listening," but whether he actually took it seriously was another matter entirely.

He's not stupid. That shameless golden elf didn't care about this at all. No matter how serious the movie-limited boss's words were, he wouldn't distrust the shameless golden elf, who was at least his companion, and instead believe this guy who wanted him dead.

"Here, trash has no right to speak!"

Chakra surged forth, causing the Susanoo's arm to grow exponentially. The immense power broke through the defensive limit of the Dragon Vein Chakra, enveloping the entire Centipede Puppet and forcibly squeezing it towards the center, twisting it into a ball!

"Hahahaha! Just you wait, Konoha Shura! I am immortal and invincible! Even if you can restrain my main body, I can still use my Dragon Vein Chakra to infuse my will into other puppets! Without you, they can't protect Sara at all! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!"

The setting for Chapter 249 is subject to change and will be confirmed later!

The roots of the Loulan Kingdom, the dragon vein hidden deep underground, a place that has been visited by few for decades, has now welcomed three uninvited guests.

They didn't use the main entrance, followed the proper procedures, or ask the owner; they simply and abruptly made a hole in the wall, entering from the outside without any warning.

"Ugh, there's another hole here..."

Upon entering, one discovers that this dragon vein is a stone pillar bathed in a large amount of purple chakra, towering in the center. The purple dragon vein chakra is shooting upwards through an eye-like object, providing a continuous source of dragon vein energy to the centipede, which is the source of the centipede's confidence as the movie-limited boss.

In such an environment rich in chakra, Miss Fox almost vomited as soon as she landed.

"Miss Fox, are you alright?" Minato Namikaze rushed forward to help her up. He thought that Miss Fox had exhausted herself carrying them down from the ground to the Dragon Vein, and since she didn't have any chakra left, there might be some consequences.

"It's nothing, just a bit of acclimatization issues..."

He waved his hand, refusing Minato Namikaze's offer of help.

I don't know how much the planet Naruto hates the Otsutsuki God Tree, to the point that even a spirit like Miss Fox has a physiological aversion to chakra.

While it's not incomprehensible, she's just an ordinary transmigrator whose profession is the Earth Goddess. She shouldn't have gone to such lengths to turn her original plan of obtaining chakra and using it as a medium to access space-time ninjutsu into what it is now.

"Huh...never mind."

Taking a deep breath, Miss Fox looked at Minato Namikaze beside her. "It doesn't matter."

"?" Minato Namikaze typed a question mark, completely bewildered.

"Water Gate, the source of the dragon vein is right here. How can we deal with this?"

At the location of that giant eye, in different directions, stood a soldier statue. The statues had no faces, but emitted light that focused on the giant eye.

What's amazing is that the eye is a semi-circle that protrudes from the ground. When the four beams of light shine on it, they don't scatter but instead concentrate into a purple beam that shoots into the sky, transporting the dragon vein chakra that is infused with liquid from all around to power the centipede puppet Gundam above. The accumulated dragon vein chakra doesn't seem to be consumed at all.

"I don't know if it's endless, but just looking at it, I feel that the chakra contained in this dragon vein is really huge. What do you want to do?"

This was still after being consumed by the movie-limited boss, Centipede, for six years. Judging from her feelings alone, Miss Fox couldn't even detect where the bottom was, and even suspected that this dragon vein might really be the result of all the planet's energy conversion.

"The dragon veins provide Centipede with a continuous supply of chakra, and the puppet-making factory built beneath the Loulan Kingdom provides Centipede with a constant stream of replacement and repair parts. Combined, even if Senior Shura of Konoha wanted to kill Centipede, it wouldn't be an easy task..."

Minato Namikaze said calmly, showing no sign of urgency despite the arrogance of the centipede, as if he had everything under control: "However, I was prepared. In fact, before we started the mission, Shiya, Choza, and I actually acted separately."

"Hey, so that means Dad has a companion on this mission?" Naruto asked curiously.

Ever since learning that Minato Namikaze was his father, Naruto Uzumaki has called him "Dad" very naturally, though anyone with eyes could see the complex emotions in his tone. Miss Fox, however, didn't seem to notice. Minato, unaware of Naruto's childhood, only sensed that Naruto's future relationship with his parents wasn't good, but he dared not say or ask.

In short, based on his own personality, he treated Naruto Uzumaki in a very normal way: "Yes, before entering the Loulan Kingdom, I gave him a mission. Dingza, Shimi, and I would openly protect the Loulan Queen to attract attention, while he would destroy the Centipede's puppet manufacturing factory. By now, he should have completed his mission. All we need to do is cut off the connection between the Dragon Vein and the Centipede."

"The one in charge of destroying the puppet manufacturing factory is your teacher, Kakashi," Miss Fox added.

"It's Kakashi-sensei!?" Naruto exclaimed. "Wait, isn't Kakashi-sensei younger than me now? Why is he on a mission with Dad!?"

"Haha, because Kakashi is very outstanding. Don't underestimate Kakashi just because he's only a teenager. He's already a capable ninja who can stand on his own." Minato Namikaze laughed proudly.

After all, it's a student I taught. Even if the person praising me is my future child, I still feel a great sense of accomplishment.

"Naruto, you call Kakashi 'teacher,' so in the future you'll be training under Kakashi?"

“Indeed, your son is training under Kakashi.”

"Yeah, Kakashi-sensei always arrives late, and he's always engrossed in a book written by a perverted sage, but he won't let me read it!"

"Kakashi...is late?"

Minato Namikaze was stunned. He couldn't imagine Kakashi being late at all; it was more like another Uchiha student of his often did this... Could it be that Kakashi had caught Obito's habit?!

No, after this mission is over, we need to correct Obito's habit of being late!

"..."

Miss Fox's expression was somewhat strange, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated, as if she didn't know whether she should say something in this situation. She couldn't just open her mouth and say something like, "Actually, Konoha isn't as good as you think. There are so many suspicious things about the Third Hokage, who seems like a good person."

The orphan of a hero is reviled as a second-class resident; the war advantage clearly lies with Konoha; even the powerful Hyuga clan, despite being in the right, couldn't save their leader, requiring his younger brother to die in his place. These are just a few examples. None of this can be simply dismissed as the Third Hokage being old, soft-hearted, or cowardly. Especially considering the early setup that the Third Hokage was the ultimate mastermind, Danzo's character was created solely to scapegoat the Third Hokage—the plot holes are huge!

emmmmm...

"But thinking about it, conspiracy theories don't seem to be a good idea. After all, the later settings show that the Third Hokage was good and Danzo was evil... Oh well, let's stick with the later settings." After all, even Naruto Uzumaki was given the option of being the Child of Destiny and the reincarnation of Ashura in the later stages, which negated all his efforts and beliefs in the early stages. Naruto and Shippuden can only be viewed as two separate works.

You tell Neji that hard work can change your destiny, but in the end, it's not that your hard work changes your destiny, but rather that your hard work is what saves the world. Perhaps the author didn't even know how to make it work for Neji, so it feels very abrupt.

"What's wrong, Miss Fox?" Minato Namikaze noticed that Miss Fox was lost in thought. "Is there something you want to say?"

"No, it's nothing."

Miss Fox pointed at the dragon vein and said, "Need any help? I'm really good at taking things apart!"

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Chapter 250 Title

The square in front of the Loulan Queen's Palace.

After a brief battle, this once iconic place of the Loulan Kingdom is now dilapidated. The Queen's tower is broken and crooked, and the square is full of potholes and charred stones.

Madara Uchiha's Susanoo in its skeletal form still easily suppressed the centipede puppet. Its powerful eye power enveloped the centipede puppet, pressing and twisting it into a ball. Even the specially treated puppet wood was cracking and deforming. It was believed that once the centipede puppet was released, all the materials on its body would be unusable.

"It's useless. So what if you destroy this work? My puppet reserves are far beyond your reach!"

Centipede was not flustered.

Having lurked in the Loulan Kingdom for six years, endlessly enslaving male laborers to work for it, possessing an entire underground factory to produce puppets, and having the dragon vein to continuously provide chakra, it is invincible: "Konoha Shura! Do you have enough chakra reserves!?"

Uhhhhhhhhh——

The centipede draws in even more dragon vein chakra to contend with the eye power of Susanoo!

Even with all the Dragon Vein Chakra, it couldn't resist Susanoo in the slightest. But Centipede didn't care. The Dragon Vein Chakra was inexhaustible, while Madara Uchiha's chakra was not infinite. Since Konoha Shura couldn't kill it, it had enough time to fight against this power and break free from the seal on its body. At that time!

"Konoha Shura!!"

The Leaf Village's Shura is still the stepping stone for its centipede-like master to reign supreme in the world!

Under the cover of dense dragon vein chakra, behind the centipede puppet twisted into a ball, a spider-shaped puppet struggled out, tearing through the outer wooden planks under high pressure.

Like waste that had been squeezed to the point of being unusable, the spider-shaped puppet excreted from the centipede puppet and fell to the ground, but strangely, it made no sound and could not be found.

"..."

Madara Uchiha raised an eyebrow. Did this ninja really think the Sharingan was blind, or did he think he was stupid?

Just as he raised his hand to do something, the fox lady's funny face suddenly flashed into his mind. After a brief moment of thought, Madara Uchiha lowered his hand, pretending not to have seen it.

"Humph!"

...

The people of Loulan have all been replaced by puppets by An Lushan, and An Lushan wants to kill her?

No, no, none of this is true. Minister An Lushan clearly came to Loulan six years ago to help his mother govern the country. He was a kind person who watched her grow up! He was not the person those ninjas slandered, the one who wanted to take her life and secretly used the dragon vein to try to rule the world and start a war!

I will prove An Lushan's innocence!

With unwavering resolve, Her Majesty the Queen of Loulan tirelessly traversed the city, searching house after house for evidence that the people of Loulan had not been replaced by puppets.

"..."

Choza and Shimi, Minato Namikaze's companions on this mission, both hid behind the Queen of Loulan, quietly protecting her from the shadows.