I created a safe zone in the nightmare world.

The tattered map on young Lin Xiao's body records dozens of nightmares.

Including the types of nightmares, the location of the passages, what the main eeriness is, and so on!

This map is very valuable!

It is the key to the survival of a wandering strongman.

The only pity is that these dozens of nightmares do not yet correspond to the nightmare areas that have been explored in the safe zone.

But that's normal.

The dozens of nightmares he once 'overlooked' were just a corner of a vast sea of ​​nightmares.

There are many more areas like this, where dozens of nightmares gather together.

The map recorded by Lin Xiao shows nightmares that go deeper, with more than ten of the dozens of nightmares being major nightmares.

Not only that.

"Does the location of the campfire depicted indicate a campsite?"

"If it's a camp established by lost souls, wouldn't it be possible to recruit more talented individuals there?"

But Lin Xiao has no memories of himself.

Shi An could only keep this conjecture to himself, waiting for the day when the map could be matched with it before bringing it up again.

……

The "Map Drawing" quest for the safe zone has been accepted more than a dozen times.

Powerful individuals like Xuanjian, Xixue, and Fagui can traverse several nightmare zones at once with extremely high efficiency.

Even a fairly ordinary Dreamers squad will accept the 'map drawing' mission.

Even if you don't dare to cross the nightmare zone, you still have the ability to explore the current nightmare and earn some "contribution points as extra money".

These contribution points accumulate, and one day they will be able to advance to become members of the safe zone.

Information was constantly being gathered by Shi An.

Especially in the last two days, since the training grounds opened for business, the strength of the Dreamers in the safe zone has increased dramatically.

An ordinary Dream Faller can train for several hours and at least reach the peak of the Fusion stage.

If one can ignite the glimmer of willpower, it is not impossible to enter the control stage.

With increased strength and the aid of magical eye-catching abilities, the efficiency of map drawing also increased significantly.

"We've recorded hundreds of nightmare areas, but many of them are duplicates."

Repeated records are not without value.

After all, nightmares are dynamic, and some nightmares require comparison from multiple perspectives to truly pinpoint their location.

After recording so many nightmares, a fairly detailed "nightmare area map" was drawn by Miebi.

Narrated by Shi An, illustrated by Ming Yi.

Don't ask why Shi An doesn't draw it himself; he's the shop manager, after all. It's definitely not because his drawings look like ghosts.

But Shi An didn't expect that the Underworld Robe would also have artistic skills.

This is so bizarre!

So, Little Blood, what can you do?

...

Inside the store manager's office, Shi An examined the map in front of him.

Like a painting pieced together from countless fragmented puzzle pieces.

It is not complete either.

The map contains more than thirty nightmare areas, with many areas in between being blacked out.

However, at this point, Shi An was able to match the images with the scenes in her memory.

"This is Nightmare Black Street, the place where I first opened my safe zone and met the man in the black suit."

"This is Nightmare Dormitory, although the eerie things wandering there now are no longer the bloody handprints."

"This is the Nightmare of Ghost Marriages, which is adjacent to three other Nightmare areas."

"And here, is a large nightmare, roughly the place of the Contaminated Spring, although the environment and shape of the entire nightmare area are quite different from what they were back then."

The two paintings gradually overlapped.

Shi An could deduce that the unexplored area above the Nightmare Dormitory was probably which Nightmare.

His gaze then fell on the nightmarish black street next door.

That area was also a large, blackened area, and the dreamers couldn't find the nightmare passage on that side.

But if Shi An remembers correctly...

"In a street-like nightmare, the opening of a manhole cover serves as the entrance to a larger nightmare—a nightmare resembling an ancient village!"

That nightmare was particularly massive.

Shi An's gaze swept across the area that day, and he saw a total of three large nightmare areas.

The nightmare of ancient villages is the most obvious one to identify.

It is also the most mysterious one.

He cast his gaze and stared intently, yet he still couldn't discern the inner workings of the ancient village.

"This means there's a problem, a big problem."

……

Countermeasures Bureau, Meeting Room.

As an official organization, and the one with the largest number of Dream Fallers, the Countermeasures Bureau naturally drew up a map of the Nightmare World long ago.

Even though this nightmare world is unpredictable, and sometimes nightmares can vanish and be reborn like bubbles, with its foundation, the Countermeasures Bureau can quickly complete the new nightmare map.

The official website has given this map a name.

—"Nightmare Hundred Realms Map"!

A nightmare region often contains dozens or even hundreds of nightmare areas.

One area is a nightmare.

Hundreds of nightmares gathered together, forming a large area.

These nightmares are adjacent to each other, making it relatively easy to cross them. However, crossing nightmare regions to travel to more distant places is extremely difficult.

However, in many cases, when someone falls into a nightmare, they may not fall into the same nightmare region.

Waking up and then falling back into a dream is the easiest way to cross regions.

"To shatter the nightmare, we need to destroy it en masse, treating the entire region as a whole!"

"There are three Nightmare Zones closest to Baijiang: 'Ancient Village,' 'Black River,' and 'Deep Mountain.'"

"We've explored about the same extent in all three regions, but the Ancient Village region has seen the most Nightmare Villages being raided recently, far more than the Heihe and Deep Mountain regions."

After the nightmare is defeated, it will recur every few hours.

However, the strategies for dealing with the Dream Fallen are not entirely useless; to some extent, they weaken the power of the nightmare itself.

It would be easier to conquer this nightmare in a short period of time, perhaps two or three days, or seven or eight days.

If you can conquer the same nightmare multiple times within a few days, you might even weaken the nightmare's eeriness to an extremely low level.

It is not impossible to completely destroy a nightmare area using this approach.

However, the cost was too high.

Locking onto a nightmare and forcing the dreamer to enter it frequently requires consuming many precious items.

The cost is high, while the returns are extremely low.

What's the point of breaking free from a nightmare?

Deputy Director Yan of the Countermeasures Bureau spoke up: "Since the Ancient Village region has seen the most Nightmare raids recently, then we'll select this region for this operation! Let's take down the Ancient Village Nightmare in one fell swoop!"

"but……"

Director Yan then asked, "Why are there far more Nightmare walkthroughs in the Ancient Village area than in the other two areas? When our Dream Fallers fall into the Ancient Village area, they mostly appear there?"

Bai Yu, the captain of the second team in charge of this matter, was also puzzled.

He denied it, saying, "No, that's not the case. Just take our Dream Fallers from the Policy Bureau as an example. The number of times they conquered the Ancient Village area was about the same as the other two areas. But the test results show that the Nightmare in the Ancient Village area was conquered far more often."

"It can't be that some unsuspecting dreamers are constantly working to solve their nightmares, can it?"