I created a safe zone in the nightmare world.

Chapter 141 The Six Major Teams in the Safe Zone (4K)

The entire safe zone erupted in excitement when news broke that the premium member badges were about to be awarded.

Premium membership symbolizes honor!

Although the safe zone has only been established for a short time, it has already conquered countless nightmares, sparking waves of conquest. There have been major events such as "responding to the call to attack the nightmare zone", "fighting the disaster in Baijiang City", and "sweeping away the strange races under the rally order".

Many members now consider themselves residents of the safe zone and take pride in it.

Membership is not only an identity, but also a symbol of honor for successfully conquering nightmares and stopping the waves of nightmares.

This applies to regular members, and even more so to premium members.

Not to mention that premium members also have numerous vested interests.

"Premium members can team up with nine other members at the same time, and this teaming up is ongoing! With ten people working together, there are so many more Nightmare challenges to conquer! I have a feeling that once the premium member badges are awarded, our safe zone will see an even bigger surge in conquest efforts!"

"Indeed, it's foreseeable that those who obtain these first batch of advanced memberships will accumulate contribution points much faster in the future—it's a snowballing advantage!"

"Not only that, premium members can also receive a premonition of a nightmare half an hour in advance." Although it's only half an hour, it's more than enough!

Let alone arriving half an hour early, even just ten or five minutes early would make members envious.

At least I won't have to worry about falling into a dream halfway through taking a dump anymore.

However, many of the top members are self-aware enough to know that they have no chance of ranking in the top six of the contribution list.

"Even if we can't be among the first batch of premium members, we can still try to join the premium member team. Rounding it off, we can still enjoy the benefits of the 'Dream Premonition'."

Some people think it's not difficult to join a team.

After all, the prerequisite for forming a team is that you must be a member.

The entire safe zone only has a little over a hundred members.

Six senior members, six teams—that accounts for half of the total.

However, some strong individuals are not so optimistic.

"These teams are long-term, and those senior members probably won't lower the entry requirements just to fill the numbers. Besides, I've heard that those veteran powerhouses who are confident of competing for senior membership have already found their teammates."

The premium membership will not be awarded immediately, but will take three more days.

At midnight three days later, the shopkeeper will publicly announce the badges in the mission hall.

Many members have already anticipated that these last three days will be the final sprint for the first and second tier members to increase their contribution points.

That's actually true!

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The senior membership has not yet been officially announced, but some powerful individuals have already recruited several members and begun to form fixed exploration teams.

Powerful individuals like Xuan Jian, Xi Xue, and Chen Baichuan from the Countermeasures Bureau already possessed many teammates and partners with whom they could trust each other.

Many members no longer have the permission to "travel across dream realms," but they still have ways to "team up" and explore and fight together. The way to do this is through the watchtower or the lighthouse camp, using these two places as starting points to explore the nightmare.

However, there is an announcement in the mission hall that clearly states that members can use these two places for transit or resupply, but if a member's exploration or strategy affects the camp and subsequently leads to an attack by the supernatural, the member will be penalized by deducting contribution points.

This deduction is still based on the maximum contribution points.

In severe cases, membership may be revoked.

These are also the requirements that most nightmare camps have for their residents and temporary residents. Campers generally will not engage in combat with the supernatural near the camp, even if the supernatural is something they can deal with or kill.

Members formed teams and explored from these two locations, needing to travel a considerable distance before they could truly unleash their potential.

Around the lighthouse camp, and because there are far more than one exploration team that sets out from here, there are almost no more treasures or nightmare mini-areas to be conquered in the surrounding area.

Even so, even if they can't conquer the nightmare, they can still get contribution points as long as they can find some rare items.

The rare material collection quest for a lighthouse camp is still up in the air. And these kinds of quests, issued by the official safe zone, offer contribution points as a reward.

"Members are pushing forward again, and more and more nightmares are being conquered. Everyone is reaping considerable rewards."

The notification sound for conquering the nightmare would ring in Shi An's ears from time to time.

He has now set his phone to silent mode; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to concentrate during rest or training.

"However, the loot rewards from Deep Nightmare are indeed generous. Even if sometimes the rewards aren't a choice of three out of five, but only two or even one out of five, they're still quite substantial!"

Shi An checked the loot options.

Premium Membership Card!

A rare cursed item!

Spellbook Scroll!

Potion Blueprint!

Even the more ordinary items here would be enough to make powerful individuals envious and fight over them at a safe zone auction.

Among the spoils of war gathered these past few days, there were some that Shi An was particularly envious of.

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for example----

"Dragon Scale Blood Fruit (Rare)"

This is a rare-grade medicinal herb! Rare-grade medicinal herbs are even rarer than rare-grade cursed items. At least, in the shallow layers of the dream realm, one might have the chance to obtain rare-grade cursed items, but one would absolutely never find a rare medicinal herb.

The Dragon Scale Blood Fruit has the effect of greatly strengthening the body.

They are among the more powerful rare-grade medicinal herbs.

Of course, as a product of the Nightmare World, the Dragon Scale Blood Fruit also has rather strong side effects. Consuming this precious medicine will cause one to grow dragon scales, but these are not real dragon scales; rather, they are Dragon Scale Disease, with terrible symptoms such as itching and bleeding.

"But I have purified water in my safe zone, so I don't care about any side effects. I can ignore them by consuming it with purified water."

"However, my physical condition is already close to the peak of mortals. Even if I eat this Dragon Scale Blood Fruit, it won't have much effect. On the contrary, it will cause my blood and qi to have nowhere to be released."

"Many rare-grade medicinal herbs are intended for those in the Transcendent Realm. Ordinary Dream Fallers can eat them if they wish, but they can only take a small portion; they cannot consume more."

Shi An obtained more than just this one rare-grade medicinal herb, but the Dragon Scale Blood Fruit was the most precious.

The valuation agencies all gave it a very positive evaluation.

The evaluation machine even stated: "Dragon Scale Blood Fruit is the main ingredient of a Dragon Blood Potion. Using the Dragon Blood Potion can give extraordinary individuals a trace of dragon-human bloodline, with a small probability of growing truly invulnerable dragon scales."

But Shi An had never heard of this Dragon Blood Potion before, nor had anyone from the Countermeasures Bureau or the Baijiang Research Institute.

"Although the Baekgang Countermeasures Bureau has a deep foundation, it is gradually becoming too much for me to handle."

He had also obtained several architectural blueprints in the past few days, but they were all for ordinary buildings. These buildings were either described in a common way or their functions overlapped with existing buildings.

For example, the lounge he used to long for.

But he now owns a much larger hotel.

Shi An actually tried building the lounge, since he wasn't short of money. However, the building's benefits were limited, so he demolished it.

In addition, there are also blueprints for a bathhouse, a garden, a hot spring, and a meditation room.

There were a few buildings among them that Shi An was somewhat looking forward to.

For example, hot springs and meditation rooms.

Hot springs have special effects.

Meditation rooms seem to facilitate quiet contemplation and spiritual practice.

However, the safe zone has limited building space, and these building blueprints are all disposable, so Shi An can only keep them for now.

"There are two good blueprints for medicines that can be used directly."

"One is the blueprint for a stamina potion, and the other is the blueprint for a purification potion."

The former, along with the Curse Power Potion and the Life Potion, is known as one of the three basic medicines: white, blue, and red. It is the cheapest of the three basic medicines, but its effects are also significant.

The latter, the purifying agent and the purifying water, are not much different in effect.

However, the purifying water has a drawback: it loses its effect shortly after leaving the purifying spring. Therefore, the strong in the safe zone cannot carry a thermos of purifying water with them when venturing into the nightmare world.

A purification agent will suffice. This agent can maintain its purification effect for two to three months, which is already beyond the expectations of members in the safe zone.

If it were available to the outside world, it would be a life-saving medicine that many people would fight over.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

As night falls in the real world, more and more Dreamers gather in the mission hall of the safe zone.

Just like the night of the auction!

Here, the store manager intends to announce and grant six top-tier members their advanced memberships. This would normally be irrelevant to most people, but since six exploration and strategy teams are about to emerge in the safe zone, it will be relevant to many!

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Members usually spend most of their time in the Dream World, so they're even less likely to miss out on the excitement in the safe zone.

Not only in the lobby, but also in the garden outside, all the tables had already been taken.

Some members who arrived late couldn't even find a seat.

"There are so many people! Most of them are high-level members!"

"Does our safe zone have that many members? Wasn't it said that there were only about a hundred members?"

"Hehe, over a hundred? That's data from a while ago. These past few days, the number of members has been increasing significantly every day. You know, many veteran Dreamers already had 80 or 90 contribution points, just one step away from becoming members."

"In just three days, the top two groups are sprinting, but aren't the ordinary Dream Fallers doing the same? However, this means the competition to join this first batch of teams will likely be even fiercer!"

Some members were discussing it.

At this moment, a Dreamer with two cursed swords hanging from his waist walked into the hall.

He was accompanied by several equally imposing and powerful individuals.

"It's the Xuan Sword!"

"It's said that this big shot is likely the veteran member with the highest contribution value so far! I heard that Boss Xuanjian has already led a team to conquer at least three Deep Nightmare levels!"

"Not only that—"

Another powerful member with extensive connections and well-informed backgrounds spoke up.

"Although Xuan Jian has not yet officially entered the Second Refinement Realm, several of his spells have reached their peak. A Second Refinement Realm deputy captain of the Countermeasures Bureau personally admitted that Xuan Jian's combat strength is above that of the others."

Xuanjian has practically secured a VIP membership.

Moreover, Xuanjian already has six or seven regular members, all of whom are strong fighters from the Jiyi Martial Arts School.

Most members, however, would prefer that a strong individual from the community emerge.

After all, this way they have a better chance of being included in the first batch of teams.

"Old Wang, I think there's some hope."

"Boss Ye has also assembled a team and offered very generous compensation. It's just a pity that Boss Ye entered the safe zone relatively late, so he probably won't have much of a chance this time."

"Speaking of Cheng Pingping, the Heavenly King, he's one of the top members, and I think he has the potential to compete."

"What about the Countermeasures Bureau? Among our safe zone members, there are probably twenty or thirty of them who are the elite of the Countermeasures Bureau, right?"

However, the countermeasures bureau staff are very busy.

Although they outnumbered each other, their contributions to the safe zone could not be traded or sold.

Sharp-eyed members could see that the Countermeasures Bureau would likely have a hard time winning a premium membership this time.

"However, after all, it's the Countermeasures Bureau, the largest and strongest force in Baijiang City. The Countermeasures Bureau itself possesses numerous treasures and offers top-notch benefits. Perhaps the Countermeasures Bureau isn't that keen on this competition for senior membership?"

Time quickly reached midnight.

Shi An, dressed in a silver-white coat, walked out from the passage behind the stands, carrying the Night Concealment Mask and the Fearless Insect Armor, two outstanding cursed artifacts.

He looked around and nodded to everyone.

"My initial intention in establishing the safe zone was twofold: first, to prevent those who have fallen into nightmares from being killed by nightmares; and second, to encourage those who have fallen into nightmares to no longer fear them, but to treat nightmares as challenges and enemies to be conquered and defeated."

"During this period, everyone has encountered countless nightmares, and the safe zone's current size is inseparable from everyone's help."

Despite what the store manager said, the members all knew what was going on.

"It can't be separated from everyone's help"? But their actual contribution to the development of the safe zone is not much.

Will conquering Nightmare difficulty help the safe zone develop? No!

The development of the safe zone actually relies entirely on the store manager's efforts.

However, as our strength increases, we will surely be able to make some real and meaningful contributions to the safe zone!

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Shi An didn't know what his members thought, so he briefly said a few words before getting to the point.

"We will now begin awarding premium member badges."

Shi An took out a round badge with a silver finish.

He announced, "The first senior member, Xuanjian!"

Xuan Jian couldn't help but smile. He stepped forward and accepted the badge with both hands. "Shopkeeper, I, Xuan Jian, will always remember my initial declaration: I will face the nightmare head-on, conquer the nightmare, and forge a new path for the nightmare!"

Shi An then announced the second senior membership.

It is Xi Xue.

This was expected.

Both of them are powerful individuals with strong backgrounds and extensive experience.

However, the third senior member was unexpected.

"Jiang Peng!"

Shi An said, "Researcher Jiang has delved into nightmares many times, investigated nightmares, and written many nightmare strategies. I believe his contributions are evident to many people."

The top members may have overlooked this.

However, many newly promoted members, or non-members who have fallen into nightmares, were able to gradually conquer the nightmares by relying on Jiang Peng's strategy posts.

The others also suddenly realized.

Although Researcher Jiang may not be the most capable, his contributions are truly remarkable!

"The fourth senior member —"

Old Wang!

"The fifth senior member —"

Li Wei!

"The sixth senior member —"

Chen Baichuan.

At this point, the first batch of six premium memberships has been distributed by Shi An.

Six core teams were subsequently formed.

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