I created a safe zone in the nightmare world.

Chapter 156 Professional Field (4K)

Shi An, the Shadow Incarnation, has returned to the temporary dormitory provided by the Anping District Police Station.

During this period, apart from those with families, most of the other employees in the branch office who were single chose to live in the office.

And Ziran is one of the many employees—there are quite a few in the entire Countermeasures Bureau.

More than half of them are orphans!

The number of deaths caused by natural disasters and man-made calamities in Baijiang City was not outrageously high, but many of the staff in the Countermeasures Bureau were originally disaster survivors who took this path because they experienced nightmare events or lost or went missing family members.

It makes sense that orphans make up the majority of such a group.

Shi An's group, the newcomer guidance group, all chose to stay at the hotel.

Lao Song is an orphan whose family perished in an invasion disaster.

Jiang Yilu and Zhang Yuning are also single. The former is a female college student who came to Baijiang City to attend university, and her family is not in the city; the latter, like Song Qiming, is a survivor of the nightmare invasion disaster.

Li Hao's family also perished in the disaster, but he has a close relative who works in the bureau.

"The General Administration has issued a notice that the situation seems to have improved. They told us to stay at our posts for another two or three days, and then Baijiang will be able to return to order."

Li Hao spoke.

These days haven't been easy for them either. These peripheral clerks don't need to enter the dream realm or reveal their true, mysterious nature, but they still need to perform a lot of auxiliary work on the periphery of the dream realm.

Nightmares kept invading, and even when they were just on the scene maintaining order and pulling the cordon, it was still not an easy task.

They are busy from morning till night, and staying up late is a common occurrence.

"Another accident happened in the third group next door; two clerks were caught in a bizarre incident and died on the spot!"

Jiang Yilu felt a pang of sadness. She said, "Fortunately, these days are finally coming to an end."

Song Qiming laughed and said, "The Level 1 alert might be lifted in another two or three days, but we still have a lot of busy days ahead of us."

He paused, then said, "After this disaster ends, no matter what methods the bureau uses to re-suppress the news and seal memories, there will inevitably be many new insiders, and even 'Dream Fallers.' At that time, our Newcomer Division will probably be the busiest department in the entire bureau."

He can imagine it.

The same goes for the others.

There are still many days of overtime to come.

However, Zhang Yuning said, "Working overtime is fine, at least I don't have to be as anxious as I am now. Compared to these past few days with so many disasters, I've thought about it and realized that being a super-burden isn't so unacceptable."

"yes----"

Shi An also joined the chat.

In fact, most of the staff of the Countermeasures Bureau were unaware of the inside story. They did not know that Baijiang City had almost collapsed, nor did they know that the Book of Harmony had been restarted just a few hours earlier.

"It's finally coming to an end."

Shi An gazed at the first rays of dawn appearing on the horizon and let out a long sigh.

He had been busy preparing a lot, although none of these preparations were ultimately used. But not using them is one thing, not preparing them at all is another.

"Fortunately, the countermeasures bureau is quite capable; it was able to hold up when the sky was falling."

Shi An murmured to himself.

Suddenly, he frowned.

He stared straight at the horizon.

"What's wrong?" Li Hao walked over.

Shi An said, "Look."

As soon as a few rays of dawn appeared, the sky, which was about to brighten, suddenly seemed to retreat.

The faint white light gradually disappeared.

It disappeared abnormally.

Until the long night descended.

"What's going on?!" Song Qiming exclaimed in shock.

The next moment, it was in my ear.

The sound could be faintly heard by everyone in Baijiang, from extraordinary experts to ordinary people.

Some people hear sounds that are indistinct, as if they are hallucinating or an illusion.

But for some, the sound was like a resounding bell echoing through the heavens and earth.

"boom!"

The sound of a tsunami crashing against a cliff erupted in Shi An's mind.

"The Nightmare of the False Man has been born, and the current Nightmare's coverage area is the entire city of Baijiang."

"This nightmare is a gambling nightmare. If the human side wins, the nightmare will subside, and Baijiang City will return to its original state. If the pseudo-humans win, the entire city of Baijiang will be completely transformed into a nightmare."

"Within the scope of this nightmare, the entire city of Baijiang has been transformed into 49 dream domains, each containing a varying number of pseudo-humans."

If the human team identifies the imposters and conquers the nightmare, they win. If they cannot identify more than 90% of the imposters within one month, the imposters win.

The unseen prompting voice echoed continuously in my mind.

Shi An let out a long breath.

"Phew!"

He was extremely surprised.

Has Baijiang City become a nightmare?

Baijiang? Nightmare City?!

This must have been a scheme by a swindler, but he couldn't understand how the swindler had managed to do it.

At this moment, night once again enveloped the entire city of Baijiang.

Although Baijiang has been transformed into Nightmare City, there has been no change in the short term; the only change is the sudden notification sound that just rang out.

Song Qiming hesitated for a moment before asking, "Did you hear anything just now?"

Li Hao's eyes lit up: "Brother Song, what did you hear too? I vaguely heard something about Bai Jiang—a nightmare—"

A fake? But I couldn't quite hear it.

Jiang Yilu said, "I heard it too, but I thought it was just my imagination."

Zhang Yuning hesitated for a moment before speaking: "It seems that the Nightmare of the False Man has already engulfed the entire city of Baijiang."

But—but I'm not sure if what I heard was right.

She was both shocked and frightened.

In particular, it seemed that only he could hear it clearly. But what did they mean by a nightmare engulfing the entire city of Baijiang? That couldn't be possible.

"It's probably true."

Shi An spoke up, saying that the most urgent task was to find out the situation in Baijiang City after the nightmare transformation.

He looked at Lao Song: "Let's contact headquarters first."

Inside the Wanmeng Building in Baijiang City.

Zhu Chenying's expression was grave: "We've probably fallen into a trap. Perhaps, the fake superhumans who have died at our hands since last night were all deliberately created by these fakes. They used seven superhumans, countless fakes, and the invading nightmare as their tools to create this overwhelming nightmare."

His guess is pretty much right.

But it's meaningless; it's just deriving the process from the result.

Even after deducing this process, Zhu Chenying still couldn't see the details of the entire fake man's scheme.

after all!

"The pseudo-humans are far more advanced than us in their understanding of nightmares and the power of their rules!"

"Like this time, it was called a nightmare bet, but in reality—we had no right to say no!"

Zhu Chenying quickly calmed down.

He understood that the most urgent task was to conquer the nightmare and thwart the schemes of the hypocrites.

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Lu Qing said, "Masters, I've lost contact with headquarters. It seems I can only contact other groups in the nearby area."

"That's normal," Zhu Chenying said. "At this moment, our Baijiang City is in a semi-nightmare state. Cell phones and computers can still be used, but only within the current dream realm."

"You mean—?" Lu Qing realized something and said, "I only heard that there was a one-month time limit, and that there are more fake people hiding in the city."

Zhu Chenying said, "I heard more. The entire Baijiang City has now been divided into dream domains. We only need to conquer over 90% of the Nightmare Dream Domains to win. However—"

"I don't know how many nightmares or dream realms were created by the disaster of the false man."

He didn't hear it.

Of course, this is probably one of the difficulties in conquering the Nightmare difficulty.

He added, "Without a doubt, we have been separated and will be unable to contact headquarters in the short term, nor will we be able to reunite with others."

"We need to figure out the current situation in the dream realm and find a way to reach other dream realms. If we don't, or if traversing dream realms is extremely difficult, then we're in trouble."

If each dream realm were completely independent, requiring the fallen dreamers within to navigate them on their own, then perhaps—

Thinking of this, Zhu Chenying's expression became even more solemn.

At this moment, in the core dream realm of Baijiang City's nightmare.

A faceless, fake man with a large, imposing figure sat in the boss's chair.

The deaths of the seven extraordinary pseudo-humans were indeed intentional on its part.

This is a necessary sacrifice.

Even though most of these fake humans were extraordinary, they couldn't understand why they had been discovered by humans until the moment before they died.

"But their sacrifice was worthwhile; this leader seems to understand the meaning of sacrifice in the eyes of humans now."

"And now—"

"The nightmare has already engulfed us. The establishment of my city of the fake humans and the rise of the fake humans to power are only one step away."

It can roughly sense the situation in various dream realms, but of course, it cannot intervene.

This is a nightmare bet.

Humans need to abide by the rules of the current nightmare, and so does it.

In fact, in order to be able to merge into the nightmare, it had to lower its own level of cultivation.

It was a Transcendent Great Perfection Half-Step Transformation Realm cultivator, but now it's only at the late Transcendent stage.

But level of understanding is not important.

"By taking advantage of the rules of the Nightmare's Descent, many of our people have already entered Baijiang City and replaced humans. This is much easier than the previous arduous process of sneaking into Baijiang City."

Of course, as a price, these pseudo-humans will have to stay in their respective areas for the next month.

Conversely, while it is extremely difficult for humans to cross the dream realm, it is feasible.

If humanity were to combine all its strength and conquer each nightmare one by one, could it complete the game within a month?

At first glance, this seems to be a possibility.

But this was a trap it deliberately set.

"Humans need to find 90% of the fake humans in our race, but the number of fake humans in our race is not fixed."

Since the pseudo-humans have entered Baijiang City in large numbers, they will reproduce and constantly seek out human prey to replace them.

Can the speed at which the human Dreamers conquer others keep up with the speed at which their races are converted?

"and----"

The false leader was well aware of human nature: "Human society prioritizes stability. Once stability is lost, the entire human society will collapse overnight."

"Previously, the stability of human society was barely maintained thanks to the Countermeasures Bureau. But now, Baijiang City has been divided into forty-nine independent areas. Under these circumstances, how long can you humans hold out?"

One month is the time limit for the Nightmare Rules.

However, if human society collapses and the anchor that sustains the present world is completely lost, then naturally these pseudo-humans will win.

Now, however, there is regional isolation, widespread anxiety, and the proliferation of falsehoods—

The leader couldn't see any possibility of failure.

"Hehehehehe."

Countermeasures Bureau, Baijiang Headquarters.

Yan Xiangtian's expression was solemn.

After the nightmare enveloped the entire city of Baijiang, the number of invading nightmares actually decreased in the short term, but he could imagine that strange things were already growing in places he couldn't see.

Even more troublesome is————

"One-month deadline."

"But Baijiang City definitely can't hold out for a month!"

He saw Baijiang City's weakest point. And it wasn't just Baijiang; any city would be in the same predicament.

We must conquer the nightmare as soon as possible!

Or find a way to access other dream realms.

Although Director Yan and the museum owners could not be contacted, they both made similar judgments.

However, they also concluded that "this time, Baijiang City is probably in real trouble."

Inside headquarters, the alarm rang once again.

The men in black trench coats were well aware of what had happened.

The disaster was not over.

An even more terrifying disaster struck.

As Dream Fallers, and even powerful ones at that, they heard the sudden notification voice very clearly not long ago.

"Nightmare: The Plague of False Humans! We need to conquer this nightmare!"

"Conquering just one dream realm isn't enough; we need to conquer at least 90%. However, we don't even know how many dream realms there are, how to find the imposters, or what the key to conquering them is. This is getting difficult!"

Among the three teams, a group leader had a somber expression.

He racked his brains, but couldn't come up with any way to break the deadlock.

Director Yan and others, can you think of a solution?

He looked at his companion beside him. The companion was dazed, but his furrowed brows slowly relaxed, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Old Cai, do you have a solution?"

"I actually have a way."

"Is there really a way??"

The team leader had only asked casually, but the team leader next door, Cai, seemed very confident.

Old Cai is indeed confident.

At that moment, he was tightly clutching a card in his hand.

The card hummed softly.

A faint guiding light appeared in his field of vision, visible only to him.

"The safe zone has actually appeared!"

"That makes sense. Since nightmares are looming over Baijiang City, it's only reasonable to open the gates to the safe zone within Baijiang City!"

'

Old Cai wasn't the only one who thought of this.

After their initial surprise and initial shock, many members of the safe zone tried to activate their membership cards.

Many of the elite members of the Countermeasures Bureau still looked solemn or even heavy-hearted, while the members gradually began to smile.

In combating the nightmare of invasion and protecting the safety of the people of Baekgang, they were indeed far less capable than the black-coated officers of the Countermeasures Bureau.

But, "When it comes to navigating nightmares, that's our area of ​​expertise!"

"No one knows how to conquer Nightmare better than us members of the Safe Zone!"

"Let's go, let's go!"

At this moment, Yan Xiangtian was still thinking of a solution.

Some of the elites from the Countermeasures Bureau began to explore the boundaries of the Dream Realm.

And the safe zone lobby —

A member who had recently joined the "Falling Dream" group suddenly widened his eyes.

The door was pushed open, and many powerful members entered.

Seeing the familiar lobby and atmosphere, the members felt completely at ease.

"We're back in the safe zone!"

"Now, let's move on to the area we're most familiar with!"