Song Yuqing sighed. Although Xu Feng did not elaborate on the dangers encountered in the secret realm, Song Yuqing knew that Xu Feng had brought two spiritual weapons with him when he entered the secret realm before. When he came back, his whole body was clean, even his shirt was gone, and a few finger-sized scars could be vaguely seen on his chest.

Apparently, the secret realm was not as safe as Xu Feng said. It was not possible to just wander around and complete the main task, then pass through the secret realm and return.

"This child..." Song Yuqing shook her head, turned and went into the kitchen, preparing to make a big meal for Xu Feng as a reward.

On the other side, Zhou Zhi and Li Dong couldn't wait to drive towards the City Defense Office.

"Hehe, do you think the director will be worried now, afraid that something might happen to Xiaofeng?" Zhou Zhi laughed.

"Of course. Which father wouldn't be worried if his own son is going to become an apostle of the secret realm? After all, there is a 20% mortality rate!" Li Dong couldn't help but sigh.

Many parents are unwilling to take risks even if their children are qualified to become apostles, because the threshold to become an apostle of the secret realm is too high and the 20% mortality rate scares away many people.

But what they don't know is that the 20% mortality rate is just an entry test. Only after becoming a secret realm apostle, one will truly be accompanied by death. Every time one enters the secret realm to explore, it is undoubtedly a trip to the gates of hell. The mortality rate of official secret realm apostles exceeds 60%, but this data has not been made public.

Ding-ling-ling~ The phone rang. Zhou Zhi looked at Li Dong with disdain. Although he didn't look old, many of Li Dong's habits were no different from those of a man in his seventies or eighties. Even his cell phone was an antique one for the elderly instead of the most popular smart phone.

"Haha, the vice president of Songtao University!" Li Dong glanced at the phone and said with a smile.

"Hey, this old fox thought he could hold out until tomorrow, but now he can't wait to get someone after hearing that Xiaofeng has cleared the single-player secret realm." Zhou Zhi snorted coldly and said, "This time we have the chance, we have to give them a good beating!"

"Hello, Principal Cheng, how are you?" Li Dong answered the phone with a smile and greeted the person on the other end of the phone.

"Yes, yes, Xu Feng has already agreed to go to the city to guard the office. After all, he is the son of the director. We can also take care of him when he goes to the city to guard the office!"

"Yes, yes, we do have a training agreement, but according to the agreement, the candidates for training are to be decided by our City Defense Office. Haha, Xu Feng is no longer included in this year's training plan..."

"Oh, President Cheng, I know that our Songtao University is also a first-class secret university. However, when we left, Shengjing University, Yanjing University, and Xuanbing College all expressed their intention to form a strategic partnership with our City Defense Office. You also know that their target is Xu Feng. As long as we agree, they will immediately sign a training agreement with our City Defense Office. In this way, our City Defense Office can provide targeted training to a top university every year. This condition is still very attractive..."

"Yes, yes, yes, I do work at the Songtao City Defense Office, which is closer to Songtao University, but...oh, can we increase the number of trainees by three more this year? Well, after all, this concerns the future of the director's son. With such a small concession, the director may not..."

"Oh, we can still talk, we can still talk, that's good, that's good, after all, we have been friends for more than ten years... Come to the City Guard Office tomorrow, sure, I'll be waiting for you anytime! Hahaha, no problem, no problem." Li Dong hung up the phone with a smile and cursed softly, "Old fox."

"What? Three more places added? This year or every year?" Zhou Zhi asked curiously.

"Hmph, if it's just this year, do you think I would be willing to pay attention to him?" Li Dong sneered.

He gave tens of thousands of dollars in gifts to Vice President Cheng on the other end of the phone alone. Every time they met, he would nod and bow, trying to please him.

"This time, I'm going to make him spit out everything he ate!" Zhou Zhi gritted his teeth and said, "And I'm going to double it!"

"It's a rare opportunity. If I don't ask for too much, it would be a shame for the gifts we gave me before!" Li Dong's cheek twitched slightly, and he snorted coldly: "That money can at least allow us to take care of a few more disabled brothers and a few families of martyrs!"

China will provide generous subsidies, pensions and consolation money to City Defense Bureau personnel who are injured or killed in missions, provide job opportunities for their families, and provide education funds for their children.

But many times, this money is just a drop in the bucket for a family. It can only prevent the family from starving to death, but it is not enough to provide a better life.

Therefore, the City Defense Office will also provide subsidies to those brothers who retire due to disability. These subsidies are all paid from the City Defense Office’s private treasury, and most of them are saved from the salaries of these leaders.

Every time the City Defense Office explores a secret realm, they will save a portion of the spoils and add them to the small treasury. Although this is against the rules, almost everyone from top to bottom knows it and they all turn a blind eye and don't care too much about it.

In order to allow more people to enter Songtao University, the City Defense Office had used up a lot of funds in the slush fund to give gifts to the leaders of Songtao University. Now they finally had a chance to control them, which made Zhou Zhi and Li Dong very excited.

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On the other side, Vice President Cheng, who had just hung up the phone, also had a red face. He had never thought that he would have the opportunity to intercept a student with S-level talent from the six top secret universities.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

“Hey, the college competition is held every four years, and every time it’s just you six universities playing by yourselves. Other universities don’t even have the qualifications to compete with you for rankings. I didn’t expect that in this college competition, our Songtao University will have the opportunity to become the dark horse and have a chance to play with you six universities!” Cheng Zeqing sat in the armchair in the office, tapping the desk with his fingers rhythmically, a confident smile on his face.

Every first-class university wants to become one of the top universities, but none of them can compare with the top universities in terms of faculty and students. Every year, the top students from all Chinese high schools are divided up by the six top universities, leaving only some B-level or even C-level students for more than a dozen first-class universities to compete for.

In the college competition held every four years, the top six are all from students of the six top universities. Other first-class universities are not even qualified to compete head-on with them.

If Songtao University could recruit Xu Feng, it doesn't mean that it would be able to defeat the Big Six, but it would have the qualifications to stand with the Big Six. After all, even among the Big Six, students with S-level talents are rare, and Xu Feng is fully qualified to compete with them.

"This time, even if we have to pile up resources, Songtao University will have to produce a top apostle..." Cheng Zeqing said firmly in his heart: "It's just that those old foxes in the City Defense Office are not easy to deal with. This time they caught me. In the future... No, I still have to call the principal and let him know. I can't go to tomorrow's negotiation alone!"

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(End of this chapter)