I created a safe zone in the nightmare world.

The safe zone is located on the island, in the eastern suburbs.

This area is quite far from the island's center, far from the many wonders and cultivation havens, so naturally, the eastern suburbs of the island are sparsely populated. But even in these eastern suburbs, several magnificent buildings now stand.

A huge mill slowly turned, spreading out waves of mysterious power.

This is not a panel building, but a wonder-like structure created by the research department of the safe zone. It is naturally far inferior to a real wonder, but it is still a special building that integrates observation and plant induction.

The team led by Tian Hua spent a great deal of effort to build this mill, including using superior-grade materials, the combined efforts of many extraordinary experts, and also paying a high price to learn from Mo Chui, Granny Qing, and the shopkeeper's wife.

But all of these expenses were worthwhile.

The ability to independently construct a wonder-like building signifies that the safe zone's technological level and cultural heritage have reached the first-class level of the Blue Star civilization.

A lot of farmland was cultivated around the mill, and a group of dreamers were busy working there.

Although the Safe Zone now boasts the exceptionally beautiful Thousand Autumns Botanical Garden, it cannot rely entirely on these special buildings. Building spaces within the Safe Zone are, after all, limited. Therefore, when Tian Hua proposed this project, Shi An immediately agreed.

The purpose of creating this site was not to grow crops, but to conduct research and create experimental fields.

Setting up experimental fields on your own has some advantages over conducting research within wonders.

A magnificent building also stands a hundred meters away from the huge mill.

This building belongs to the Baijiang Research Institute and is the "site" applied for by the Baijiang Research Institute. The reason for building the site in the eastern suburbs is naturally because it is cheaper.

For the same amount of contribution points, the area of ​​the residence applied for in the eastern suburbs is several times that in the central area.

The new laboratory building at the Baijiang Research Institute has been completed for several days now.

Conducting experiments in the nightmare world has both advantages and disadvantages compared to the real world.

The advantages are: some experiments and special energy reactions can only be verified in the Nightmare World, and at the same time, special venues that can only be built in the Nightmare World can be used here.

The disadvantage is that many modern devices cannot be brought into the nightmare world.

Without the equipment, experiments cannot be conducted.

However, the safe zone has various types of basic equipment available for sale. With the only disadvantage gone, all that remains are advantages.

The Baijiang Research Institute naturally moved its experimental facilities here.

After entering the safe zone era, the research projects developed by the institute were overturned several times because many projects no longer had research value.

Today, the Baijiang Research Institute has several major projects.

Professor Luo was leading the team.

"The goal of developing the new generation of team-up items is to mass-produce more team-up items for novice Dreamers to use, so that they can enter the safe zone as soon as possible."

"Another major project is 'Stable Reality and the Birth of Dream Fallers'. We need to gradually reveal nightmare information and select and cultivate more new dream fallers while ensuring stability in reality."

Baijiang City needs more dreamers.

In the era of the safe zone, the more Dreamers there are, the greater their overall power.

Tiannan City has already provided a reference route for this.

Through the land of revelation, people also understood that the present world is where the potential of a civilization lies.

Professor Luo said, "But we don't have the resources and treasures of Tiannan City. We can't semi-publicize the nightmare information while stabilizing the current environment in a short time. Baijiang City doesn't lack newcomers at the moment, so this is a long-term project."

"In the short term, everyone understands that I received a commission from the store manager. As long as we complete this commission, we can gain a lot of contributions and apply to the store manager for more experimental resources."

Which of these researchers of the new era doesn't want to accomplish something great?

The industry is newly established, and everything is in need of development. If they can make any major experimental breakthroughs, they have a chance to go down in history! But right now...

"Our recent research project is to create a mobile phone suitable for nightmare environments! It doesn't need as many functions as current smartphones, just simple messaging and query functions."

The commission was issued by Shian.

Within the safe zone, members who want to buy items or accept quests either have to obtain them or use the control panel on the lobby table. This is very inconvenient.

Shi An had wanted to create a phone specifically for the safe zone for a long time, but he didn't have the capability before.

Now we have it!

The metalworking factory can produce various basic equipment, and the Baijiang Research Institute is also quite advanced.

With the security zone now in place and a wealth of technical data accumulated, Professor Luo and his team have found a general path. The next step is to overcome each obstacle until the research and development is completed.

And this process...

"It went so smoothly!"

Professor Luo murmured to himself, glancing at the experimental results a few more times, still somewhat incredulous.

In the past, they would conduct thousands or tens of thousands of experiments without finding the key factor; this was the norm.

What about this time?

In just a few days, the project overcame several difficulties.

Either it just happened to be the right one during the experiment.

Either a researcher suddenly had a flash of inspiration and found the right path.

He had two flashes of inspiration.

Since this laboratory building was built and they moved here, every experiment they conducted seemed to be divinely aided.

"Could this be one of the mysteries of the safe zone?"

"No, no, we're not in any wonderland. It's probably just related to the equipment and environment. Our experimental conditions are indeed much better than before."

"But I still feel that things went a little too smoothly."

then,

What was originally planned to take at least a month or even two to complete was finished by Professor Luo and his team in just one week. "This is the first generation of feature phones, what do you think, store manager?"

Professor Luo brought over several prototypes.

Shi An looked at the professor.

The professor was also his university teacher. When he joined the Countermeasures Bureau, he also attended Professor Luo's new employee training course.

This professor wasn't as famous as Zhu Guanzhu or Director Du, but he was still one of the big shots in Baijiang City.

However, now, the professor is the second party.

He was the real client, the store manager.

Shi An took the phone.

This phone looks similar to modern old-fashioned phones, slightly larger than a regular phone, but much smaller than the old-fashioned "Big Brother" mobile phones.

This is a keypad phone, which, in addition to the communication module, contains several sections for security.

Task section, trading section, forum section.

Because the forum covers a lot of content, this phone cannot be completely replicated; only a youth version is available.

But it's enough.

Shi An's only requirement for this phone was to make it convenient for members to exchange their contribution points for items or cultivation time on a daily basis.

"What about the communication function? What's the maximum communication distance when used in Nightmare Wilderness?"

"It depends on the specific environment. In high-risk environments, the dense fog will cause more severe interference, and some strange phenomena can also interfere with communications."

Professor Luo said, "But aside from some extreme environments, the communication range of this generation of mobile phones is at least five kilometers, and sometimes up to ten kilometers."

It's not that far, but it is, after all, the first communication device independently developed.

Even with the use of certain props, it's still quite remarkable to achieve this.

Besides, this is only the first generation.

For ordinary dream sufferers, or even ordinary superhumans, five or ten kilometers is already quite far.

Shi An nodded slightly.

Professor Luo added, "We also discovered that the communicator signal is enhanced near the watchtower camp. The communication range can reach twenty kilometers around the base station."

"At the same time, as long as they are within the range of the watchtower base station, members can use this communicator to directly contact people in the safe zone island area without having to run back to the island area to call for help."

The first mobile phone in the safe zone was launched, much to the delight of the members.

"Wonderful! Now that we can use cell phones in the Nightmare World, playing 3D games is probably just around the corner." "3D games? You forgot, we've been playing holographic games for ages, except we die a little bit more miserably."

"Speaking of which, could we install something like Tetris on our little A-generation machine?"

"Bro, is it possible that this phone isn't for playing games? Besides, those tables in the lobby have Tetris, Minesweeper, and Spider Poker on their control panels."

"What?!"

That's what they say, but hardly anyone pays attention to those entertainment features.

Isn't he happy practicing cultivation?

The feeling of gradually growing stronger, or the sensation of breaking through to a higher level of magic and experiencing sudden enlightenment—isn't that far more enjoyable than playing a game? "Before, we had no choice; now, I choose the path of transcendence!"

On the other side, in the land of revelation.

The development here is on track.

Tiannan City and Gray Harbor City each built a base here, with hundreds of elites stationed there daily.

A watchtower camp has also been established in the safe zone.

This camp isn't anything special, since there aren't many members of the safe zone who are still active in the Land of Revelation region.

However, the small number of members does not mean that there are few dreamers in the Land of Revelation.

Normally, these places of revelation would become the center of nightmare worlds, a gathering place for those who have fallen into dreams from various civilizations. This place is no exception.

As time passed, more Dreamers arrived after their long journeys and set up temporary camps around the area. The numerous mineral deposits within the Land of Revelation were also being mined in an orderly manner according to their allocation.

Several squads are stationed here in the safe zone, rotating every now and then.

Those who arrived one after another were mostly Dream Fallers in the Refinement Stage and ordinary Transcendents, as well as leaders of various major forces. Seeing that things here were finished, they naturally went home.

Director Du returned to Baijiang City.

Master Yunwu and Director Liuyan returned to Tiannan City.

The three giants met.

"The most important thing next is to find those coordinates. We need to figure out what exactly this world's catastrophe is," said Zhen Yue, the commander of the city's defense forces.

Master Yunwu nodded slightly.

Liu Yan pretended to be listening. She didn't want to deal with mundane matters, but she had no choice, since she was one of the only three giants.

Luo, the garrison commander of Zhenyue, said, "By the way, I heard you met the shop manager of the safe zone?"

"Yes, I really can't see through that shopkeeper." Master Yunwu said, "At first glance, this shopkeeper seems to be only at the Transcendent Realm, or even only at the mid-Transcendent Realm, but he undoubtedly possesses the methods of the Ascension Realm. He crushed the Steel King's Steel Pillar with just a glance."

At this stage, all those who have advanced to the next level are only in the early stages of advancement, but no one can say for sure how strong they are or what methods they possess.

Even if Steel King can't fly and seems unremarkable, who knows if he has any amazing trump cards up his sleeve?

Therefore, despite occasional conflicts between Tiannan City and Gray Harbor City, the higher-ups have always maintained restraint.

Now there's an extra store manager for the safe zone, but that might not be all good.

Zhen Yue said, "During my time stationed in Tiannan, I've heard many rumors about the Safe Zone. I've also heard that Dai Xin has established a deep partnership with the Safe Zone, and some of our Dream Fallers in Tiannan City have been frequently traveling to the Safe Zone lately."

The Cloud Mist Master thought of the three cities of Baijiang City, Lindong City, and Yunwu Shangren.

The dreamers in the three cities seem to frequently visit the safe zone, and gradually come to regard themselves as residents of the safe zone.

Master Yunwu's lips twitched.

He didn't have any objections to this.

Tiannan City couldn't offer much help to the three cities of Baijiang, but the Safe Zone possessed spatial wonders that allowed the three cities to escape their survival predicament and truly embark on the path of development. It's normal for the Dreamers of the three cities to feel a sense of identity and belonging to the Safe Zone.

However, Tiannan City is different; it is the top power in this nightmare world.

Master Yunwu said, "Since Xiao Dai has already been to the safe zone, I'll call him over and ask him. To be honest, I'm quite curious about how that shopkeeper managed to develop a camp to this extent with limited manpower."

quickly,

Acting Director Dai Xin, First Corps Commander Xu Chen, and Third Corps Commander Fu Zhixuan were all present.

They were all high-ranking officials in Tiannan City who truly understood the safe zone.

"What do you think of the safe zone?"

The hermit asked.

"The safe zone is a sacred place for cultivation!"

The straightforward Xu Chen blurted out.

Dai Xin sighed, rubbing his forehead. Was it appropriate to say that in front of his former boss?

But since things have come to this, Dai said, "The store manager in the safe zone is very generous and has no prejudice against any faction. Even I have benefited from being in the safe zone, and my strength has improved a lot compared to before."

Master Yunwu was taken aback.

Dai Xin is at the half-step advancement realm. At his level, it is extremely difficult to improve even a little bit.

Not to mention there are quite a few.

"In what areas will it be improved?"

When his former leader asked him this question, Dai Xin did not answer directly.

He simply took a deep breath, and then...

"boom!"

One wisp, two wisps, three wisps... wisps of a special purplish-black incantation appeared, swirling around him, causing his aura to rise accordingly. Dai Xin incorporated one wisp of this aura, and then threw a spear.

boom!

The lightning spear tore through the gray mist and clouds, leaving a crack-like trail of lightning high in the sky, which shimmered and lingered for a long time.

"This is·……"

Master Yunwu and Zhenyue's gazes sharpened.

Liu Yan was also startled.

"Is that an excellent-level spell???"