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In the first part, we assign to each positive integer $n$ a digraph $\Gamma (n,5),$ whose set of vertices consists of elements of the ring ${\mathbb{Z}}_n=\{0,1,\cdots ,n-1\}$ with the addition and the multiplication operations modulo $n,$ and for which there is a directed edge from $a$ to $b$ if and only if $a^5\equiv b(modn)$. Associated with $\Gamma (n,5)$ are two disjoint subdigraphs: ${\Gamma }_1(n,5)$ and ${\Gamma }_2(n,5)$ whose union is $\Gamma (n,5).$ The vertices of ${\Gamma }_1(n,5)$ are coprime to $n,$ and the vertices of ${\Gamma }_2(n,5)$ are not coprime to $n.$ In this part, we study the structure of $\Gamma (n,5)$ in detail. In the second part, we investigate the zero-divisor...