The yellow wind howled, and flying sand cut like blades. Neji never slowed for a single step, but the anxiety in his heart had piled up to the point where he could barely control it.
Because he had realized that something seemed wrong.
Along the way, he had encountered several Sand Shinobi-escorted convoys. Every one of them had a Jonin-level escort and three Chunin.
"What is this? Was the Sand Shadow Village this loaded in history?"
After keeping far away from the nearest convoy, Neji stopped and fell into doubt.
Afraid of affecting history, Neji had not summoned Katsuyu to learn about the current era. Besides, his name had not yet been recorded on the summoning scroll at the Wet Bone Forest in this time period, so he could not summon her even if he wanted to.
And since he had not dared to rashly approach any of the convoys he encountered, he had no clue what point in time the two of them had landed in.
"Wasn't the Sand Shadow Village's strategic resource the Fourth Kazekage's gold dust? What are they transporting now? With so many shinobi escorting it, it definitely isn't ordinary. And it's being hauled out from deep in the desert... Did something happen in Loulan? The Dragon Vein..."
Neji took a deep breath and pushed his Breath Concealment Art to its limit. As Inner Qi circulated through him, he suppressed every trace of Tsunade's presence on his back as well.
"Thinking won't get me anywhere. I need to see what happened to Loulan."
Neji murmured to himself, then sprang forward once more.
At last, Neji arrived at Loulan's marked location on the map. Yet what he saw through the Byakugan shocked him speechless.
It took him a while to recover. Then he roared inwardly, *Where was