Three days later.

Early morning.

Su Chen said goodbye to Yumo and Qiao Yue, and went to the Dawn City with An Kang.

The road to Dawning City is not easy, and there is a high chance of encountering strange beasts along the way.

Ankang didn't drive, but drove a motorcycle to carry Su Chen, following the route in his mind.

Su Chen had never walked this route before, and the unknown pitch-black area of the map mode became wider and wider along the way.

The motorcycles driven by Ankang have been precisely modified.

This not only strengthens the power, but also reduces the noise generated during driving.

An hour later.

Arrive near the City of Dawn.

Along the way, I encountered a lot of strange beasts, but none of them exceeded the third realm.

This group of low-level beasts couldn't catch up with the motorcycle at all, and they were left behind in a few seconds.

"How far away."

"Ten kilometers, the next road is a dark road, the motorcycle can't be used, and you can't make a sound."

As he spoke, Ankang lifted the lawn, revealing a rounded stone plate.

An Kang pushed lightly, making a soft noise as the stone plate moved, revealing the dark stone staircase.

"Ten kilometers of secret passage!"

"Well, if you have any questions, ask now, enter the secret passage, and can't speak."

"Why can't you speak?"

"There is a high probability that there is a top-notch beast on the top of the secret passage, and any slight noise may reveal its location."

"Is this secret passage safe?"

was said by Ankang, Su Chen felt very unreliable.

"Safe, the secret passage is blessed by the formation, which will isolate the smell and small energy fluctuations, once the secret passage is discovered by the alien beast, ninety percent of the formation will be destroyed."

"The current formation is good, which means that this secret passage is safe."

"The more you ask, the more unreliable it is, don't ask, let's go straight away."

"Okay."

Ankang hid the motorcycle, closed the stone plate, left a seam, pulled the filament of the artificial turf, and covered the top of the stone plate.

In order to ensure that the sound does not spread, after covering the lawn, Ankang moved the stone tray to cover the last crack.

As the stone disc closes, the dark passage automatically lights up.

Su Chen didn't ask.

Looking at the two rows of faint lights, he probably understood what was going on.

The underpass leads directly to the end point, and there is no fork in the middle.

Su Chen followed Ankang all the way straight, and it didn't take long to come to the end of the passage.

At the end of the passage there is a blue film that isolates the entire passage from top to bottom.

This blue film, which emits a faint glow, is a defensive barrier that covers the entire Dawning City.

The City of Dawn is able to withstand an army of millions of alien beasts, and this barrier is indispensable.

An Kang made a gesture and told Su Chen not to reach out and touch the blue film.

Su Chen, the defensive enchantment of Dawning City, had heard of it, so he naturally wouldn't reach out and touch it, so as not to be consumed by energy.

Ankang reached out and pressed down on the stone wall next to the barrier.

There's an ingenious mechanism on the stone wall.

As Ankang pressed, the hard stone wall recessed inward.

Su Chen stared at the blue enchantment, not noticing any changes.

Su Chen waited for a long time, and the blue enchantment suddenly flickered, and then a figure appeared in Su Chen's sight.

This barrier not only blocks energy, but also vision and sound.

Su Chen followed An Kang into the interior of the enchantment.

As Su Chen stepped into the inside of the enchantment, the enchantment that disappeared behind him reappeared.

"What's going on this time?"

The usher, who opened the barrier for his well-being, asked.

"Here's a testimonial."

An Kang handed the three recommendation slips in his hand to the usher in the white robe.

The white-robed man lifted his hood and took the recommendation sheet with both hands.

"I remember that Tianzi No. 3 Fortress should have not provided a recommendation form for more than ten years, right?"

"Twelve years."

The white-robed middle-aged man looked at Su Chen carefully.

"Is that him?"

"Yes."

"Why don't you recommend Edsin, he has a higher success rate."

Edxin is an insider at Twilight Corporation.

Aside from the three family leaders, he was the only one who knew the secret path to the City of Dawn.

The white-robed middle-aged man has had a few one-sided encounters with Edxin.

In his eyes, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't think that Su Chen's potential was stronger than Edxin's.

"He's more amazing than Edsin, and you'll understand."

"It's a coincidence that you came, the most recent interview is tomorrow, 1,000 people are vying for ten places, I hope your vision will not be wrong."

"A thousand?"

Su Chen didn't think that there were so many recognized human fortresses near Dawning City.

"Last year, the policy changed, and you outsiders will participate in interviews with insiders, which is much more difficult, good luck."

Tianzi No. 3 Fortress has not recommended geniuses for more than ten years, so it is naturally unclear about the changes.

In the past, interviews were conducted one-on-one, and if you passed, you could enter the City of Dawn, and if you failed, you would be sent back to the human fortress.

Now it is different, and it is a system of elimination.

Even if you're excellent, you have to be in the top 10 to qualify.

The difficulty factor has multiplied several times.

You must know that the participants in the city of dawn have no power behind them, and they basically have no shortage of resources, and their talents are unlikely to be bad.

If you want to stand out among a thousand geniuses, you can only be a genius among geniuses.

The relationship between the middle-aged man in the white robe and Ankang is not bad.

Although he was not optimistic about Su Chen, he still completed the procedures for Su Chen to enter the Dawning City as quickly as possible.

After completing the temporary procedures for entering the Dawning City, the white-robed middle-aged man waved his hand at Ankang and left.

"What do you have to do with him?"

Ankang has been running Tianzi No. 3 Fortress for many years, and rarely comes to Dawning City, Su Chen doesn't quite understand what the relationship between the two of them is.

"A former subordinate, I spent a lot of money and trusted a lot of connections to stuff him in."

"I thought that he had a good talent and was expected to be an extraordinary person in three years, but I didn't expect that fifteen years later, he would still stop at the seventh realm."

It's my own person for a long time, no wonder the attitude is so good.

"Come with me, I'm still familiar with the outer city of Dawn."

Su Chen kept up with Ankang's footsteps.

"The City of Dawn is divided into an outer city and an inner city?"

"There are a total of five areas in the City of Dawn, which are the Outer City, the Inner City, the Noble District, the Extraordinary District, and the Imperial City."

"There are nobles and emperors in the City of Dawn?"

"Yes."

"Can the emperor control the following?"

"The emperor is the one who stands out from the kings, and if nothing else, he should be the strongest of the human race."

"After the death of the emperor, his heirs will not inherit the throne, and the kings will continue to compete for hegemony to produce the strongest."

The emperor of Dawning City was different from the emperor in Su Chen's cognition.

To put it bluntly, whoever is the strongest will be the emperor.

When the strongest person is the emperor, there must be countless interests and events behind it.

This is not something that Su Chen should be concerned about now.

Su Chen followed An Kang around a few forks in the road, walking for about five minutes.

Su Chen's sight saw a set of stairs and a gorgeous red wooden door.

Pushing open the wooden door, Su Chen was in the outer city of the Dawning City.

"Identity."

Outside the wooden door, stood two warriors in black heavy armor.

The heavy armor covered his whole body, and Su Chen couldn't see their expressions.

Although the appearance cannot be seen, the realm can still be perceived.

The two heavily armored warriors guarding the gate are both in the Fifth Realm.

Their aura was strong, and they were significantly stronger than the Fifth Realm warriors Su Chen had seen before.

An Kang glanced at them and reached out to hand them the temporary pass provided by the white-robed middle-aged man.

The heavily armored warrior glanced twice and returned the pass to Ankang.

"Do you need a guide, charge a silver coin."

One of the heavily armored warriors spoke.

"No, I don't."

An Kang said that he didn't need it, but he reached out and took out the two silver coins in his pocket and put them in the palm of the heavily-armored warrior who spoke.

The heavily armored warrior who took the silver coin moved away, stretched out his arm, and made a gesture of please.

An Kang nodded at him slightly, and quickly left here with Su Chen.

"Tolls still have to be paid? The currency here is silver? ”

All kinds of doubts appeared in Su Chen's mind, and he couldn't help but ask.

"This is not a toll, it is a guide fee, if you lead the way, you must give it, and if you don't guide the way, you can give it or not."

"What will happen if you don't lead the way and don't give it."

"They'll report you for smuggling, and someone will investigate it, and that's not something two silver coins can solve."

"Isn't this just a toll?"

"It can be understood that way."

An Kang thought about it and felt that it seemed to be the reason.

"As for the currency, is the currency here common to the entire Dawning City, or to the whole world."

"The currency here was created by the City of Dawn and only circulated in the City of Dawn, and without the City of Dawn, the purchasing power of the currency here outside is almost zero."

"The main currencies in circulation in the City of Dawn are copper, silver, and gold coins, which have been passed down because they are easy to manufacture and easy to preserve."

"What proportions."

"According to the rules of the City of Dawn, ten copper coins are equal to one silver coin, and ten silver coins are equal to one gold coin."

"However, this is only a superficial rule, in fact, the purchasing power of copper coins is very low, and in the outer city, the purchasing power of fifty copper coins is equal to one silver coin."

"How much Dawning City currency do you have?"

"Twelve gold coins, six silver coins."

An Kang paused and continued, "You need ten gold coins to buy an admission ticket for the interview. ”

"You have to pay for food and housing, and you have enough headaches." Su Chen didn't want to hear about money.

"As long as you are selected, it is particularly cost-effective to spend ten gold coins, and you don't have to spend a cent on subsequent expenses."

"You're sure I'm going to stand out."

"What a master, those so-called geniuses, in front of you, are all mediocre."

"By the way, after being selected, do you know how to arrange it?"

"In the past, those who were selected would join the Devil's Recruit Battalion, and after they came out, they were generally senior commanders or adjutant generals."

"I really don't know what's going on now."

"Okay, it's useless to ask you, go to the residence first."

The Ankang Arrangement Residence is the largest and most luxurious hotel in the outer city.

The best hotel in the outer city, the best room, one room for one person, a day of stay is only a silver coin.

If Su Chen hadn't learned about the salaries of ordinary people in the outer city from Ankang, he would have mistakenly thought that the silver coins were worthless.

The average person here averages a hundred copper coins a month.

According to the regulations, it is worth ten silver coins.

In fact, it is only worth two silver coins.