I created a safe zone in the nightmare world.

Chapter 140 Members Aiming for Advanced Qualification (4K)

Li Feng's promotion has given Xiao Xue, Ming Yi, and Zhuo Ling, the three mysterious figures, even greater motivation.

However, the Three Evils have not yet reached the level of the extraordinary ritual.

"For a third-level expert to trigger a transcendent ritual, it could take anywhere from one or two days to several months or even one or two years."

As for longer than one or two years?

It's not that they don't exist, it's just that most people who fall into dreams don't live that long.

Before the City Fall Cataclysm, the number of Dreamers was far less than it is now.

"In any case, Lifeng has already broken through to the extraordinary realm, and I now have extraordinary combat power that I can directly assign."

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"Of course, Chen Jianghuai is also a superhuman combatant. However, he is still healing. The life force depleted after being eroded by the pseudo-superhuman is not so easy to recover."

"But then again, I can't let Lifeng deal with ordinary nightmares, as that would easily attract even more terrifying supernatural and bizarre things."

Shi An pondered.

He still felt lingering fear when he thought about the eerie ship he had encountered before.

Li Feng had killed several strange beings, and taking advantage of the open space outside, he had thoroughly tested his power, causing quite a commotion, which attracted the attention of a terrifying being.

This also indirectly shows that even those in the transcendent realm still need to be cautious in the nightmare world and are far from having the right to run rampant.

"However, it probably depends on the region."

"Chen Jianghuai's fight with the fake superhuman did not attract any supernatural or strange phenomena. This may be because the area around the Firestone Mine is a low-risk zone and relatively safe; or it may be because the lighthouse's light blocked the supernatural or strange phenomena's gaze."

In short, even Transcendent Realm experts must tread carefully once they fall into a dream state; their situation is not much better than that of Refinement Realm experts.

Conquering the Nightmare Zone, guarded by extraordinary and eerie gatekeepers, is virtually impossible.

Shi An stroked his chin.

"Speaking of which, the period when the Dream Fallen has the best chance to conquer Nightmare is actually in the early stages, when the Dream Fallen is still in the control stage or the newly advanced refining stage."

"Once a Dreamer reaches the advanced stage and enters the deeper layers of the Nightmare, the difficulty of conquering it increases dramatically. Even if a Dreamer has trained to the peak of the Third Refinement Realm, they rarely attempt to conquer Nightmas. This is because it is too difficult, and the targets are not easy to find."

"Once a Dreamer enters the Transcendent Realm, their actions are more likely to attract extraordinary and bizarre events, making it even more impossible to conquer Nightmare."

Thinking about this, Shi An felt something was very strange.

Why is it that the stronger a Dreamer becomes, the harder it is to conquer nightmares?

Nightmares are difficult to conquer, but that's for other dream sufferers.

Those who have fallen into the Dream in the safe zone, especially those active in the shallower layers, have become increasingly adept and efficient at conquering nightmares.

The members active in the deeper levels, although they encountered many setbacks at the beginning of their quest to conquer the nightmare, and some teams even experienced injuries,

Despite the setback, the members gradually adapted to the environment deep inside.

They began to conquer the low-risk nightmare areas one by one, which were within their reach.

The impact of the safe zone is expanding in both shallow and deep layers.

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The mission hall in the safe zone was bustling with activity.

Compared to the previous three or five isolated tasks, there are now dozens of tasks available for Dreamers to accept in the commission section.

A small number of them came from the official authorities of the safe zone.

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With the presence and patrols of the watchtower area and lighthouse camp, there is the collection of XX materials, the drawing of nightmare maps, and so on.

These are all long-term tasks.

There are also some long-term commissions from large organizations such as the Countermeasures Bureau, the Wizard's House, and the Hakue Research Institute.

As the official body of Baijiang, the Countermeasures Bureau naturally coveted powerful figures like Li Wei, the bearded man, and Cheng Ping. The head of the personnel department within the bureau repeatedly tried to recruit these strong individuals.

Director Huang of the Personnel Department is no ordinary person. He holds a position equivalent to a captain in the General Administration and is himself a peak expert in the Third Refinement Realm. However, he is not as skilled in combat as the captains of the Action Department.

However, when Director Huang finally managed to enter the safe zone and personally invited Li Wei, Cheng Ping, and the bearded man, he was still refused.

He was rejected without hesitation.

Director Huang did not come away empty-handed; he recruited several powerful civilians at the Refinement stage for the action team.

Several of them!

This result seems good, but compared to the hundreds of powerful members in the safe zone, it's nothing.

It should be noted that among these hundred or so members, more than half are people who have experienced dream-induced delusions.

Is this reasonable?

"I clearly offer excellent benefits to the Bureau of Strategy—besides, the powerful members I invited are not selfish individuals; they are all heroes who care about Baijiang and are willing to help in times of crisis. So why did they refuse so decisively?"

Director Huang had only just arrived in the safe zone; he hadn't even had time to obtain a membership yet. He simply met with Li Wei and a few others as soon as possible.

He didn't understand.

Li Wei said, "Director Huang, if you stay in the safe zone a little longer, you might figure it out."

After seeing Director Huang off, a few people remained in the private room.

They are all renowned strongmen in the safe zone.

Li Wei, Old Wang with a bushy beard, Li Wang, baseball cap, Xu Qian, Cheng Ping.

Li Wei laughed and said, "Director Huang's offer is very generous. He even promised that if we can reach the peak of the Third Refinement Realm, he will allow us to form a new detachment of the Action Department and enjoy the authority and privileges of a captain. Aren't you tempted at all?"

Or is it because there are many people present that you have reservations? Actually, the store manager doesn't mind us working in a large organization.

The man in the baseball cap said, "Of course I know the manager doesn't mind. The manager has never restricted our freedom—wait, what—"

"Old Li, do you feel like you're trying to persuade us? You're practically hoping we'll agree to Director Huang's conditions!"

Old Wang stroked his stubble and said, "Old Li isn't up to any good. He's just hoping we'll get jobs in the Countermeasures Bureau. That way, he'll have a few fewer competitors."

Baseball cap and Riki-Wang still had some doubts.

Old Wang said, "The store manager doesn't mind, but you don't even consider how busy the Countermeasures Bureau is. We occasionally act as external support and do odd jobs for the Countermeasures Bureau, which is fine. But if we really joined the Countermeasures Bureau's action team, we wouldn't be as free as we are now."

Old Wang continued, "Actually, that's fine. We've all been corporate slaves before, and we don't really crave freedom that much. It's just that if we join the Countermeasures Bureau, we'll have to be on duty most of the time. Once we're in the Nightmare World, we'll also have to cooperate with the team a lot of the time. We won't have much time to conquer the Nightmare and increase our contribution in the safe zone."

He glanced around and chuckled, "Everyone here is probably aiming for senior membership, right? But as far as I know, veteran member Chen Baichuan and Captain Fen, who is at the peak of the Third Refinement Realm, are not currently in the top tier in terms of contribution points."

Chen Baichuan is quite senior among the members, on par with them.

Captain Burning Fire has had his membership for some time now. With his peak Third Refinement Realm strength and his position as the captain of the Countermeasures Bureau, he should be able to accumulate contribution points very quickly.

Has it fallen significantly behind now?

Xu Qian and Cheng Ping understood immediately.

Xu Qian said, "It seems that the Countermeasures Bureau is indeed very busy. Once we accept Director Huang's invitation, we naturally won't need to think about trying to become one of the first batch of senior members."

However, no one can see how many contribution points a member has unless they disclose it. There is no contribution point ranking within the safe zone, yet Lao Wang still knows the approximate contribution values ​​of Chen Baichuan and Fenhuo.

Their intelligence capabilities are not to be underestimated.

Director Huang returned to the lobby and glanced at the tasks on the task board.

Many of these came from their policy bureau.

Because he repeatedly failed to recruit powerful individuals from the common people, the Burning Team made a suggestion—to alleviate the pressure on their personnel by issuing commissions to allow some powerful individuals from the common people to carry out tasks in the real world.

This method of delegation was not pioneered by burning fire.

In fact, the Countermeasures Bureau Headquarters has a precedent of employing "unofficial strongmen." There are some tasks posted within the Headquarters, and you can also check and receive some commissions by logging into their official website.

Alas————

These powerful figures in the private sector don't even glance at the commissions published on the State Administration of Radio and Television's official website.

However, as long as the task is posted on the safe zone task platform, members will be able to claim it.

After all, the rewards offered by the Bureau of Policy and Strategy are very generous, and even without contribution points, they are still attractive to strong individuals in the community.

The fact that the task had to be posted on the safe zone platform left Director Huang somewhat helpless.

"It's possible that these strong individuals have become accustomed to taking on missions from the safe zone, and they trust the safe zone platform more."

While sighing, he had to admit, "The safe zone platform is very convenient. After all, all the Dreamers have to pass through here to enter and exit, and they don't have to make a special trip to the headquarters to collect their rewards."

"Most importantly, these powerful individuals from the safe zone nowadays, unless absolutely necessary, spend most of their time in the nightmare world. They either cultivate in the safe zone or go to conquer the nightmare, returning to the real world only once or twice a week."

Since the people are not in the real world, and the nightmare world and the real world are not interconnected, their commissions to the Bureau of Policy's official website naturally don't even get many views.

In the distance, in a corner of the hall.

Luo Susu was staring wide-eyed as she browsed the various sections on the safe zone platform.

She had been with the safe zone for a while, but had been busy building the camp recently. She was responsible for patrolling and also for going out to find certain rare materials—after all, as a local, she was much more familiar with the area than the other Dreamers.

She had been to the safe zone before, but only briefly handed over some work.

I only had time to relax today.

Through the safe zone platform, she could also learn about the current situation in the real world, although this real world only referred to the city of Baijiang.

On the platform, there are quite a few commissions posted by individual members.

Most of them are strategy guide commissions.

Looking for people, forming teams!

"D36 District Nightmare Strategy Team Looking for a member. We are currently missing one player, a strong scout."

There were even comments from the dreamers below this task assignment.

"Do you need a tank-type Refinement Stage cultivator? I'm really tough! I can withstand at least a minute of this bizarre, torrential attack!"

"Any strategy guides looking for a support/healer character? I have a really high healing output."

"Healers are no good in this version. Post-battle recovery is barely acceptable, but in-battle recovery? I'd rather spend money to buy a health potion."

Luo Susu's eyes widened: Why can't the wet nurse work?

She was actually a half-milk.

Restoration-type Dreamwalkers have always been treasures of various camps and factions, so why are they being neglected here in the safe zone?

"Oh, right, the Dreamers here can return to the safe zone to rest and recover at any time, and it's okay if they get injured. Then everything will be fine."

Luo Susu then looked at other sections.

There are trading sections, information sections, and so on.

The information section was particularly lively.

While it's still quite difficult for members to conquer the deeper nightmares, it's becoming increasingly easier for those who have fallen into the nightmares to conquer the shallower ones.

This includes some Dreamers who have only recently arrived in the safe zone and are still quite new to the game.

Because the information section contains a lot of nightmare walkthroughs!

Nightmares may change, but when the same nightmare is experienced a dozen or more times, the entire nightmare naturally becomes no secret to those who fall into it.

A veteran "nightmare sufferer" said, "The core of this nightmare lies in the dormitory's lights-out time and avoiding the eerie sounds by listening to footsteps. As long as we pay attention to the footsteps and the time, we can pass the nightmare without taking any damage."

The newbie gaped in disbelief: "Can you really beat Nightmare mode like this?"

The shallow nightmares are constantly being conquered. Although the rewards decrease sharply after the same nightmare is conquered multiple times, the cumulative effect of conquering them still provides Shi An with a lot of faith points and loot.

He accumulated more and more membership cards.

Various common materials and magical items were also piled up in the warehouse.

He could only occasionally slip some cursed items and materials into the mission rewards, just to clear out his inventory.

"A lot of the strategy information comes from Jiang Peng. Although this researcher is not good at combat and has not even conquered the Nightmare difficulty himself, his contribution to the safe zone is indeed commendable."

The research institute has a lot of talented people.

Director Huang wants to recruit some strong individuals from the private sector, while Shi An also wants to poach some talent from the research institute.

He wants to upgrade the equipment in the safe zone.

He wanted to develop a device similar to a mobile phone, allowing those who had fallen into the dream world to log in to the safe zone platform anytime, anywhere. Otherwise, browsing the commission and forum sections was still too cumbersome for members.

"In addition, a new medical department can be set up in the safe zone, recruiting those Dream Fallen with healing abilities to work there. Hmm, we could have Luo Susu in charge."

"After all, the number of life potions is still limited, and the value of the support-type Dream Fallers is more evident in logistics."

Most importantly, there's the strategy for dealing with deep nightmares, as those who fall into dreams are too easily injured.

Unlike the shallower levels, they now have to frequently clash and fight with the bizarre, making injuries inevitable.

"During this period, there have been dozens of powerful members who have stepped into the deeper levels. They usually form teams of four or five, and sometimes they will gather more than ten powerful members to work together to conquer the nightmare."

Although this kind of alliance among members requires the consumption of the member's "cross-dream domain permission", it can only be used once a week.

This greatly limits the efficiency of members' strategy.

However, over this period of time, the members still managed to conquer a total of eleven deep nightmares.

Even though they were all the most ordinary nightmares, Shi An still gained a lot from them.

Therefore, he announced the specific criteria for "premium membership" some time ago.

They also stated that only six premium memberships would be awarded in the first batch.

The top six members by contribution value will be granted status.

Now, "it's time to reveal the VIP membership."

"And this will create six more ten-person teams in my safe zone. Taking on Nightmare difficulty as a team will greatly improve efficiency."

While it may seem like a recognition and reward for the members' hard work, in reality, it's still a huge win for him in the safe zone.