The eastern end of the Sunset Mountain Range can touch the Qinglan River, the Qinglan River flows from north to south, and the intersection of mountains and rivers flows down the river for 20 kilometers is the Qianfan City in the five cities of Sunset, counting from the Qianfan City, the Qinglan River flows more than 300 kilometers and flows into the endless Hanhai.

At the confluence of the Qinglan River and the Endless Hanhai, there is a big city, which is a fairly famous coastal city in the southeast of the Donghua Continent.

The prosperity and wealth of the coastal city occupying such a geographical advantage can be imagined, although she is only a bronze-level big city, but in addition to the area, it is comparable to most silver-level big cities, if it weren't for the generations of city lords who have been just bronze warriors, they would have been promoted to a silver-level big city long ago.

It stands to reason that the conditions of Coastal City should have been upgraded to a silver-level city a long time ago - the city lord could not be upgraded, and there would be a silver general who would snatch the position of the city lord, but in fact, Coastal City was built for more than 500 years and became a big city for more than 300 years, she has gone through 5 generations of city lords, and each generation of city lords is a bronze general, and she has always been a bronze-level city.

And these 5 generations of city lords are all surnamed Gao, and they are all a family, so you can imagine the Gao family.

As a bustling coastal city, Marina City has always been vibrant and lively, and today's Marina City is a little more lively than in the past, especially the square in front of the Central Main World Hall (1) is very crowded and noisy.

In front of the World Temple, there are four things that Red Maple City does not have-small and medium-sized teleportation arrays, and teleportation arrays are divided into miniature, small, medium, and large according to their size.

It costs a lot of money to build a teleportation array and maintain the operation of the teleportation array, but even the poorest city will also have a miniature teleportation array, and the world city will build one set for free (one for teleportation and one for positioning) when the city is built, and the cost of maintaining the operation of the teleportation array is not high, and any city can afford it.

The miniature teleportation array can transmit small objects such as letters and books, and with it, each city can receive notifications and orders from the World City in a timely manner.

The cost of each level of the teleportation array will increase geometrically, and the world city will no longer build small and above teleportation arrays for free, and the cost of building and maintaining operation is not a small burden on small and medium-sized cities, so almost all small cities, including the vast majority of medium-sized cities, do not have small teleportation arrays, and only a very small number of wealthy or really necessary small and medium-sized cities have small teleportation arrays.

The biggest essential difference between a small teleportation array and a micro teleportation array is that the former can already teleport people and slightly larger objects, so it is possible to generate profits - as long as the geographical location is advantageous enough or there are special products that can generate high profits, etc., so that a certain number of people can use the teleportation array, and the profit of the teleportation fee charged is higher than the operating cost of the teleportation array.

However, there are still very few cities where the teleportation array can make a profit, and it would be good to dilute the operating costs a little.

Incidentally, every big city has a small teleportation array, and it would be ridiculous to be a big city if there is no small teleportation array, and unless there are other nearby cities with small or above teleportation arrays, the World City stipulates that large cities must have small teleportation arrays.

Medium-sized teleportation arrays are also rare in big cities, and the cost of building them can basically be afforded by every big city, but the huge cost of maintaining its operation is not something that most big cities can easily afford, and there is not enough teleportation traffic, and generally big cities are reluctant to build medium-sized teleportation arrays.

The medium-sized teleportation array is undoubtedly larger than the small one, and it can simultaneously teleport several humans or relatively large monsters, large equipment, etc.

As for large and above teleportation arrays, they are even rarer, not to mention the cost of horror, even if you have that money, there is basically no need to build it.

If it is possible to make a profit by building a small teleportation array, and indeed a small number of cities are profitable, then it is almost impossible to think about making a profit by building a medium-sized teleportation array, because the use of a medium-sized teleportation array is too expensive, and the number of people who use it is naturally very small, so that even if you earn a lot more than a small teleportation array every time, it is not enough to make up for the huge cost of daily maintenance.

However, what grade of teleportation array to build in a city is not only to consider whether the teleportation array itself can be profitable, but more often to see whether there is a need, just like Binhai City, every month to take out a large amount of money to fill the gap of the teleportation array, but the other benefits obtained by using the teleportation array every month are many times more than this money, such as the sale of precious ** sea beasts (sold to soldiers in other cities at a high price to make war beasts), which accounts for a considerable proportion of the financial revenue, this alone is much more than the loss of the teleportation array itself.

In addition, it is necessary to take into account some intangible influences such as urban politics and status, just like today: only Binhai City has a medium-sized teleportation array in this area, so the World City Academy Palace will take it as a transit when picking up students, and the influence and status of Binhai City can be slightly improved.

Before the Spring Festival, many people like to come to the World Hall Square to sit and chat, and many people bring their children to watch the excitement, speaking of which, the medium-sized teleportation array has been used more than ten times a year, and the average is only once a month, and the momentum of the medium-sized teleportation array is much larger than that of the small one, so there will be some onlookers every time someone uses it.

"Chirp~" A clear sound came from afar, and I saw a little green shadow flying quickly in the sky.

"Wow, that big bird is back again!" a child's voice rang out somewhere in the square.

"Does the big bird look good, do you want to sit?"

"Beautiful! I want to sit!"

"That baby, you have to work hard, and when you grow up, you will be admitted to the school palace and be able to sit in the big bird. ”

"Uh-huh!" a five- or six-year-old boy nodded sharply.

"Got someone again, and it seems to be from the Sunset Mountains in that direction. Most of the people in the square gathered in groups to chat, except for the grandparents and grandchildren who were talking, there were a few people on the side.

"Sunset Mountain Range, it is said that someone over there has been admitted to the Three University Palaces this year, and I don't know if it's true or not, if it's true, it's amazing!" (The news circulates slowly around the New Year, and only scattered news that is difficult to distinguish between true and false is circulating.) ）

"Is there such a thing? That's really amazing, but even if I think about it, it's just that I'm lucky this year, barely admitted to the bottom of the ranking, which is like our coastal city every year people are admitted, and this year there are 3 people, the best score of the Gao family is ranked 55th, and it is difficult to have better grades than us in all big cities." ”

Although Binhai City is a bronze-level big city, at least one student is admitted to the three university palaces every year, and sometimes there are even 3 or 4 students, which is much stronger than other bronze-level big cities (2), so the superiority of the people in Binhai City is quite strong, and they look down on many big cities, let alone small cities.

"That's, what if you go to the small town and get in, no one takes care of you there, the strength is not strong, and the resources are insufficient, I don't know if I can graduate, I don't know when my luck will fade, hehe~"

"Ahem, ahem! Caution, maybe there is an adult from the school palace nearby, in case you hear it, you must be unhappy. ”

Whether it is the new students of the Three University Palaces this year, or the senior brothers and sisters who are responsible for picking up people, they are extremely important to the Three University Palaces, and the crowd is crowded in this square, in order to prevent accidents, there are often seniors of the School Palace secretly supporting them in the transit city. As for why they don't let these seniors directly pick up people, first, letting the seniors pick up people will inevitably lose their value, and they are unwilling; second, they also want to give those senior brothers and sisters a chance to exercise.

The face of the person who spoke in front turned pale, and he suddenly didn't dare to say more.

More than ten meters away, there was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man lying on a recliner leisurely basking in the warm winter sun, and the corners of his mouth, who had a comfortable face and seemed to be asleep, suddenly showed a trace of ridicule, and muttered in a low voice: "Foolish people, two of the top ten in the overall score, one is the second in the overall score, has the prototype of the power of the throne, and enters the seventh floor of the Tower of War, such a person is also qualified to discuss?!"

The words fell, and an invisible wave spread.

The five or six-year-old child who was next to the person who was talking about it suddenly had a stomachache, the degree of pain was not light or severe, and the little boy didn't think about whether he should cry at this level of pain, and the pain disappeared, as if it was just an illusion just now, and the water in his eyes that had just been a little watery disappeared immediately, and he looked at his stomach with surprise, and then touched it, and found that the pain was really gone.

"Baby, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, I seem to have been bitten by a mosquito just now, I'm killing mosquitoes~"

Is it really okay? Naturally, it is impossible, the middle-aged man just used his spiritual power to probe into the child's abdomen, and hit it in his dantian, although the middle-aged man's spiritual power has not yet turned from virtual to real, and he cannot do the real illusory interference with reality, but it can concentrate on a certain point for oscillation impact, which will have a certain impact on the real thing.

After the child's dantian is hit by the spiritual power of a middle-aged person, there will be no danger to his life, and even the early cultivation will not have much impact, but after cultivating the qi cultivation technique, he will find that it is extremely difficult to cultivate the internal qi, basically it is impossible to become a warrior in this life, even if he is lucky enough to become a warrior after all the hard work, he will find that the qi sea is smaller than others and it is more difficult to open up.

The middle-aged man continued to murmur as if he was nothing: "I don't know if that kid has a relationship with those two people, the person who has the prototype of the throne power and has obtained the Yuan Energy Crystal, as long as he does not fall, the bronze warrior is almost a certainty, and silver is not even impossible, it would be a pity that such a person did not take advantage of his lack of real rise at this time and had such a good opportunity to make friends." ”

Speaking of this, a wry smile appeared on the middle-aged man's face: "But with his temperament, he is really indifferent, and wasted all my painstaking arrangements." ”

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(1) Ayutthaya began to have multiple world halls, in addition to the central main world hall that must be in the center of the city, there will be more or less sub-world halls in other places.

(2) There are 96 big cities in the world, and there are generally only more than 300 students of the Three Great Palaces every year, and it is normal that there is no one in a single bronze-level big city, and no one has been admitted for several years in a row.