Naruto, my father's name is Uchiha Madara.

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Guang listened carefully, and all he could hear in the forest were the sounds of wind, birdsong, and insects: "Nothing. There's nothing special."

"strangeness……"

Naruto rubbed his ears: "It sounds like... someone is calling my name? It's very faint... and intermittent..."

"Uzumaki Naruto..."

"here we go again!"

Naruto looked up sharply; this time he heard clearly!

The sound seemed to pierce through space, carrying a strange, electromagnetic-like quality, and resounded directly in the depths of his consciousness!

"The call for my name... is coming from that direction!"

Naruto pointed to a certain depth in the forest, his expression turning serious.

This kind of call that directly affects the level of consciousness is by no means ordinary!

Looking in the direction he was pointing, Guang's expression changed slightly: "That area... is deeper in the upper reaches of the Namga River. It is said to have many ancient ruins, and even some... ominous legends."

"The clan generally does not allow its members to approach easily."

"An ominous legend?"

Naruto's curiosity was piqued.

More importantly, the voice carrying a familiarity he couldn't ignore: "Come on, let's go take a look! Maybe it has something to do with why I was brought to this godforsaken place!"

Before Hikaru could object, Naruto had already taken the lead and was moving quickly toward the direction from which the sound came.

Guang hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and immediately followed.

Now she has no choice but to trust this father from the future, Boruto.

The deeper you go into the forest, the taller and older the trees become, with vines entwining them, almost blocking out the sun, and the air is filled with a musty and mysterious atmosphere.

The call grew clearer and clearer in Naruto's mind.

"Naruto Uzumaki...over here..."

Finally, after parting a dense thicket of bushes, the sight before him made Naruto abruptly stop in his tracks.

A huge, recently formed ruin came into view.

Broken walls and scorched earth, with strange black stones scattered everywhere, as if melted and solidified by high temperatures.

Despite the severe damage and drastic changes to the terrain, Naruto would never mistake it for something else.

The faint, unsettling sense of spatial distortion that lingers here is the very place of the eerie cave and stone chamber that swallowed him yesterday!

"It's here...that cave..."

Naruto muttered to himself, his heart filled with doubt and uncertainty.

So the stone chamber has been teleported here?

I thought it was already destroyed!

And it looks like it went through some kind of explosion and collapse?

The call reached its strongest here, as if whispering in his ear.

Following the voice's guidance, Naruto cautiously stepped into the ruins.

Light followed closely behind, her Mangekyou Sharingan observing her surroundings with extreme vigilance, the lingering unusual aura making her feel extremely uneasy.

Naruto stopped in front of a pile of broken black stones, where the source of the calling sound seemed to be.

He took a deep breath, used the Nine-Tails' chakra, and easily moved several huge boulders aside with his bare hands.

Buried beneath the rubble was a strangely shaped object, about the size of a palm.

It has a dark gold color all over and is shaped like an abstract turtle.

Its back has complex, circuit board-like patterns, and it is currently emitting an extremely faint, almost imperceptible, luminous green light.

The moment Naruto saw this object, his eyes widened in shock, and he exclaimed in disbelief:

"Li?! It's you?!"

Back in the Land of Snow, future Sasuke and Boruto traveled through time using this device.

The light on the turtle-shaped object flickered a few times.

A voice, distinctly electronically synthesized yet tinged with languor and surprise, resounded directly in his mind:

"Oh? You actually know me? I didn't expect that the Jinchuriki of this era would know me??"

Naruto pulled "Li" out of the pile of rubble.

He growled at it, both annoyed and amused, "So, is it your doing that I traveled through time to this godforsaken place?!"

The light on Li's body flickered a few more times, seemingly scanning and analyzing Naruto, before its tone became tinged with dissatisfaction and grievance:

"Hey! How can you slander someone without their knowledge! It's clearly your own fault!"

"At that time, I was taking a nice nap and replenishing my energy in a gap in my sleep."

"Then an absurdly large amount of chakra, mixed with the power of a strange tailed beast, suddenly erupted right next to me!"

"That energy directly interfered with my stabilization process, causing me to be forcibly awakened and disrupting my energy circulation."

"My self-preservation mechanism kicked in instinctively, distorting the surrounding space and time! I haven't even settled the score with you yet! You almost crashed my computer!"

Chapter 377 Let's Go Back to the Future Together!

Upon hearing this, Naruto immediately remembered that he was preparing to destroy that energy entity with a Mini Tailed Beast Ball.

Naruto's lips twitched as he thought about this:

"So... it was because my Tailed Beast Ball's energy stimulated you that you were unexpectedly transported to another world?"

"Otherwise what?!" Li replied irritably, "I was sleeping soundly when I was forced to turn on and had to deal with the energy overload. I'm having a hard time, okay?!"

"It's already an achievement that I was able to teleport you to this point in time completely unharmed, without losing any limbs!"

One person and one machine; one shouts at the top of their lungs, and the other responds with an electronic voice.

They actually started arguing right there in the ruins, oblivious to everyone else.

Hikaru, standing to the side on high alert, watched as Naruto angrily argued with a strange turtle-shaped object.

The scene was so abrupt and comical that she was stunned at first, and then couldn't help but burst out laughing.

This was the first time in a long time that she had genuinely laughed out loud.

Naruto and Rei's "argument" was interrupted by this soft laugh.

Naruto then realized there was someone else next to him and awkwardly touched his nose.

Li Ye seemed to only then notice the light, flashing it twice: "Huh? There's another Uchiha girl? Hmm... those eyes... are interesting..."

Naruto cleared his throat and decided to get down to business first: "Alright, alright, let's not talk about the past."

"Li, since you were able to bring me here, you can surely bring me back, right?"

"Hurry up, send me back to my original time! Konohamaru and the others must be frantic with worry!"

Li's eyes flickered steadily for a few seconds, as if performing a self-check.

Then he spoke, his tone becoming more serious: "Theoretically, it's possible. My core function is time travel. But..."

Naruto frowned: "But what?"

"But after being hit by your brute force and reckless chakra last time, my program is very unstable now, and my energy cycle is also a bit problematic."

"The difficulty of accurately pinpointing a specific point in time has increased significantly."

"What does that mean?" Naruto had a bad feeling.

"What I mean is, I can initiate the time travel program, but as to where I will ultimately land and how much error there will be... I can only say that it depends on luck."

Li's tone carried a mechanical helplessness: "It might just be a few days, a few months, or it could be a few years... or even decades."

"Decades?!"

Naruto exclaimed, "Won't Sasuke be older than me by then?!"

"What's the fuss about?"

Li retorted, "That's just the worst-case scenario! The probability is very low!"

"After all, this place is only a little over a hundred years away from your original era."

"The time span is not particularly large, and my basic coordinate calibration function is still working."

"There's a high probability that the error won't be too outrageous; it might only be a few years at most! With a few more tries, we can gradually calibrate it back!"

"Try a few more times?!" Naruto felt completely overwhelmed.

This damn turtle is so unreliable!

Although the process sounds terrible, at least the hope of getting back is in sight.

Naruto took a deep breath, suppressing his urge to complain, and made a decision: "Alright! It's better than being stuck in this Warring States period forever! Rei, get ready, we're going now..."

He stopped mid-sentence and turned to look at Uchiha Hikaru, who had been listening quietly beside him.

Guang was looking at him, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

She overheard their conversation and knew that Naruto was about to leave this era and return to his future.

As for myself, I will remain in this era, facing the endless pursuit of the Uchiha clan, or... die silently in some corner.

Deep in her eyes, an undisguised hint of envy and...loneliness involuntarily surfaced.

Naruto saw the emotion in her eyes, and without the slightest hesitation, he reached out his hand to her, revealing his signature sunny and infectious smile:

"Hikari, come with me! Let's get out of this awful place!"

Hikaru froze, staring incredulously at Naruto's outstretched hand, then into his eyes: "I...go to the future with you? Is...that okay?"

"Of course you can! Why not?"

Naruto asked matter-of-factly, "Ryou, bringing one more person won't be a problem, right?"