For men, beards are sometimes like condiments. If you have a normal face and a little extra beard, sometimes you will feel more handsome for no reason, and sometimes you will be disgusted by others.

Before Mu Zhong shaved off his beard, he still looked a bit like an uncle. Now his face is clean, but it is ordinary and featureless.

But he himself doesn't care, because the difference is just a little bit. If it's too much, it won't be handsome, and if it's too little, it won't be ugly. If it's shaved, at least he feels his face is fresh.

Walking out of the woods, the wooden clock came to the place where it first came to this world.

The huge stone gate still stands there majestically.

Mu Zhong stayed here for more than ten days and gained a certain understanding of the geography near the college. Although this gate is the gate of the college, it does not mean that walking out of this door means leaving the college.

The real interface between the college and the outside world is at the narrow end of this gourd-shaped bay.

It is similar to the narrowest place in the middle of the gourd.

Taking that as the dividing point, inside (in the land direction) is a prosperous commercial town called "Chonglu Town", and outside is the world's top magic academy.

By the way, the bay where the two are located is called "Houtiao Bay".

………

Before the wooden clock reached the dividing point, he saw a steel fortress blocking that position from a distance.

The outside of this steel fortress was built with special metal bricks. As the wooden clock got closer, it was discovered that each of these metal bricks was engraved with densely packed original runes.

He has little knowledge and does not know the function of these bricks, but as long as he is not stupid and thinks about it for a moment, he will know that the "magic content" of these metal bricks is definitely very powerful.

The wooden clock stood by the wall and looked at it curiously for a long time. Because he could observe it at a close distance, the impact of this steel fortress on him was greater than that of the 'Ujian Hourglass'.

Looking up from the bottom, there is a huge object that looks like a fort on the top of the steel wall. Maybe it is really a fort? A magic cannon or something?

The gate of the fortress is a fiery red light curtain, and the appearance behind the light curtain cannot be seen through. On both sides of the city gate, there are two huge steel griffons standing.

With the body of a lion, the head of an eagle, and huge wings on its back, the whole body was as if it were made of steel. He just stood there motionless, and his ferocious and domineering attitude frightened some students who passed by without raising their heads to look directly at him.

Mu Zhong looked a little excited. You know, not long ago, these two griffins were legendary creatures to him. Now he actually saw them up close, and they were steel-reinforced versions. How could he not be excited?

"Well, let me ask."

Mu Zhong spoke. He pointed at the light curtain city gate and asked, "If you don't have a pass, can you just walk out?"

The steel griffon he was talking to opened its eyes, and its sharp gaze swept the questioner from top to bottom: "The fire will burn you to ashes."

Having said that, he closed his eyes and looked like an iron gryphon again.

——The wooden clock is satisfied.

He thought happily: It turns out that this steel griffon is a living creature, and its eyes will shine like a light bulb.

Before coming here, Mu Zhong asked the 'college guide' relevant questions and precautions. He knew the requirements for leaving here.

The light curtain city gate is actually a screening magic circle. People without qualifications will be harmed by the magic circle if they break in without authorization, while those with qualifications can enter and exit normally.

Outside the magic circle, which is the light curtain that the wooden clock sees now, the light curtains on both sides of the city gate are different. The inside is the light curtain of fire, and the outside is the light curtain of ice. These two light curtains are the initial warning to those who have no proof.

, just like now, if Mu Zhong does not have proof on his body, then he will be burned by the fire when he touches the light screen. Nothing will happen if he retreats at this time, but if he persists and continues to break in, the magic circle will really

Burn him to ashes.

Carefully touch the light curtain with your fingertips so that your fingers are not burned off.

——Mu Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, and then strode into the light curtain. After he walked all the way inside, the next moment, he walked out of the light curtain on the other side.

"Huh???" Mu Zhong looked at the road in front of him, his eyes widening.

What about the intermediate process?

After walking into the light curtain, he saw his eyes were blazing red, and then he came out?

Turning around, the light curtain here is dark blue.

Isn't this city gate so thin?

Look up at the fortress.

Above the fortress gate, there were rows of cannon barrels. What he saw there was really a fort.

From visual inspection, the length of the city gate passage was at least five meters, and he walked out in about two steps. Therefore, the most reasonable guess is that there is space magic here.

"It's really a steel fortress..." This is Mu Zhong's emotion from the bottom of his heart.

The visible defenses of the Magic Academy made him feel helpless, let alone others.

For a moment, he felt really proud to be a student of this college.

………

Walking along the road, not long after walking, Mu Zhong saw a wooden sign hanging on the roadside.

The sign reads: [Chonglu Town welcomes you]

Looking up, I saw a cluster of houses a few hundred meters away.

"Eh..."

The wooden clock looked curiously at the row of big trees blocking the front of those houses.

"There is no house beyond the row of trees."

Think about it for a moment: "In other words, that row of trees is equivalent to the line drawn by the college...?"

Power, order, interests and other things, these things have been set here a long time ago. As a newcomer to another world, Mu Zhong is very self-aware. Even if he finds out the clues, he will keep it to himself.

Don’t hesitate to ask people.

Chonglu Town is a very prosperous commercial town. As far as Mu Zhong can tell from the map, this place has neither obvious natural geographical advantages nor unique natural resources.

The reason why this place is prosperous is mainly because of safety, and secondly because of safety and fairness.

………

Orcs, elves, strange creatures, humans??????

Those who do business, those who promote, those who sell things, those who join in the fun??????

"Ah!!" The wooden clock was stepped on by bear-headed men and his feet hurt. He walked to a wall and stopped, saying displeasedly: "This damn place has more people than the vegetable market, ah... it's like a double ten."

A dozen wet markets with special prices!”

Wooden clock...this guy has a connection with the vegetable market.

Since he had nothing to do, he found something to do.

Although there were many people and he was stepped on, he suddenly wanted to investigate the prices in the vegetable market...

--shop--

Three hours later, Mu Zhong was sitting on a step on the street that was out of the way, biting an apple and calculating the price difference between Chonglu Town and the college.

"A pound of eggs costs 4 yuan, a pound of tomatoes costs 4.5 yuan, an apple costs 2 yuan..."

"Calculated..."

"It's actually similar to the ones in the academy."

"The prices of fruits, vegetables and meat seem to be about the same, but in terms of daily necessities, they are extremely expensive..."
Chapter completed!