Chapter 1061

After a while longer.

Tieshan suddenly stood up and roared toward the back: "Check every position — see if anyone is still in the territory and hasn't come out. Call them all out!"

"Captain Tie, the rear is all here."

"The middle is all here!"

"Mine's all here too."

"Everyone's here!"

Reports came in from everywhere — everyone had already come out of the territory.

Tieshan roared: "Good. We're about to enter Dark Night City now. Everyone hold on tight!"

The soldiers beside Zhao Chi gripped the wooden railing at the edge of the carriage tightly.

Zhao Chi quickly grabbed on as well.

Suddenly, a thin ray of light appeared ahead, stretching from heaven to earth.

As if the sky and earth had been split apart with a single blade.

Quickly, the ray split open, and a dazzling light shone forth. Zhao Chi immediately squinted.

At this moment, the carriage began to jolt.

Zhao Chi gripped the railing even harder.

But suddenly, the jolting vanished completely.

Even the slight swaying from before was gone.

Zhao Chi realized the carriage was flying.

Flying toward the great, split-open oval light-hole ahead.

Suddenly, a piercing sound rang in his ears.

But it lasted only one second before vanishing, replaced by an utterly silent stillness.

Like tinnitus — he couldn't hear any sound at all.

At this moment, a wave of energy passed through his body.

Then vanished in an instant.

A system prompt popped up:

【Your identity has been confirmed and registered successfully. Welcome to Dark Night City.】

So this is the inspection and registration before entering the city?

That really was fast!

Immediately after, the view before his eyes opened up wide.

The entire caravan drove into a vast, bright space.

Just like when they set out, there was only brown earth all around. The wall of mist stood far in the distance on every side, like a white line at the edge of the sky.

The sun had already set, but the sky was still bright.

Much brighter than that dim space from before.

There were many caravans ahead.

The caravans spread out in a wide stretch, but all moved forward in an orderly fashion.

Zhao Chi noticed the griffins and female elves in the sky had vanished, and the cavalry on both sides was gone as well.

Looking back, the original force of over a thousand people now numbered only a little over eight hundred.

There should have been over two hundred people teleported back to the territory.

The soldiers beside Zhao Chi all stood up, blew a whistle, and the horses behind drew near.

These soldiers all mounted up and rode to the front of the formation.

Aike leaped from the back, landed on Zhao Chi's carriage, and sat down across from him.

His expression was very relaxed.

"How is it, Zhao Chi? You alright?"

Zhao Chi nodded: "I'm fine. It's just my first time experiencing all this — it feels very novel."

Aike laughed: "That's good. I'm going to sleep for a bit — I'm really sleepy."

After saying that, he really did lean against the carriage and fall asleep.

It seemed very safe now.

Zhao Chi paid him no more attention and continued observing the surroundings.

After roughly another half hour, the caravans ahead disappeared one by one.

Tieshan announced: "Everyone listen up. We're entering Dark Night City shortly. Once we're inside, no one is to move around on their own. Follow my arrangements."

"Understood, Captain Tie."

"Yes, Captain."

"Copy!"

Everyone responded in turn.

After another few minutes, Zhao Chi felt a flash before his eyes.

At the same time, a cacophony of noise reached his ears.

Just like teleporting between territories, the entire caravan had entered Dark Night City.

The sky was very dark.

Not a single glimmer of light.

Zhao Chi found it strange — it wasn't even 7 o'clock yet, there was no way there could be no light at all.

But the surroundings were very bright.

There were many large spirit-energy lamps on both sides of the road, like lighthouses, illuminating a vast area.

Zhao Chi suddenly felt a sense of familiarity — it was very much like the previous Fragrant Food Street.

That place was also extremely dark around it, relying on torches and spirit-energy lamps for illumination.

The caravan was now on a large open ground, the surface clearly divided into roads and cargo areas.

Each cargo area was very large; all 300 horse carriages were parked above the cargo area, occupying only a very small portion.

Beside them were large numbers of horse carriages from other caravans, of all kinds of races.

On the left was an exotic-race caravan; their carriages were very small — calling them horse carriages wasn't quite right; dog carts would be more accurate.

The ones pulling the carts in front were large black dogs, and the ones driving in the back were dog-headed people.

It was Zhao Chi's first time seeing dog-headed people, and he curiously looked them over a couple more times.

But that dog-headed person bared its teeth, as if showing a threat.

He turned his head to look beside him.

There were also many caravans of other races.

Elves, beastfolk, humans, goblins — these four basic races still had the most caravans.

The road was very wide.

It could accommodate at least three horse carriages driving side by side at the same time.

There were many soldiers patrolling the road.

Those soldiers wore metal armor, but their builds were all very slender.

Not the kind of slimness women have, but more like very thin frames.

Zhao Chi could see their faces — they were all pitch black.

But their teeth and the whites of their eyes were very conspicuous.

Like facial features drawn individually on a black canvas.

These were dark elves.

But they were all inside their armor, so Zhao Chi couldn't see their full appearance.

Tieshan at this point gave the order: "First squad, unhitch all the horses and take them to the back to be fed. The rest of you come over here, we're having a meeting."

He stood on the open ground beside the caravan; the remaining several hundred people gathered around, encircling Tieshan and Mo Ming in the middle.

Tieshan surveyed the crowd and said:

"First matter — remember to pay your city-entry fee. If you pay late, there will be a penalty interest.

"Second matter — everyone may only move about within Black Crystal Town. You are not allowed to leave Black Crystal Town! Otherwise no one can guarantee your safety!

"Third matter — the number of times anyone may enter and exit the territory cannot exceed five! You are not allowed to take additional items out of the territory! You are not allowed to bring out more than five subordinates!