I created a safe zone in the nightmare world.

Chapter 102 Upgrade Conditions, Expanding Ideas (3K)

Inside Training Room Number One, Shi An decided to stop training and opened the control panel.

"Safe Zone"

Rank: LV3

"Employees: Bloody Handprint, Funeral Robe, (Empty Position), (Empty Position)"

"Buildings: Purifying Spring, Wizard's Alchemy Workshop, Training Ground, Inn, (Vacant Space)"

"Upgrade requirements: 2 Faith Points, 300 Dream Crystals, 1000 Fallen Dream Visitors, and more than 20 Nightmare Zones affected by the Safe Zone."

Having 20,000 faith points is a lot, but nowadays, members and prospective members in the safe zone are increasingly focused on conquering nightmares, so it's not difficult to accumulate that amount.

Three hundred dream crystals are no problem at all.

Training rooms, hotels, purified springs, and many other basic necessities within the safe zone, as well as commissions from commissions, and so on!

Even though the safe zone is just starting out, there are still plenty of revenue streams.

For example, the commission issued by Team Leader Song last time offered a reward of 150 Dream Crystals. The large-scale missions later issued by Captain Niu on behalf of the Countermeasures Bureau will offer even higher rewards.

Right now, Shi An has almost three hundred Flowing Dream Crystals in his pocket, not to mention the future.

Shi An stroked his chin. "The first and third requirements for upgrading to LV4 will take some time, but the fourth one is the most difficult."

According to the data, there are currently only two Nightmare zones affected by the safe zone.

Heihe Region and Deep Mountain Region.

In the other shallow nightmare areas, there may also be prospective members and members active in the safe zone, but the number is probably too small to meet the requirements.

As time goes by, the number of members in the safe zone increases, and as members gradually delve deeper into the nightmare, Shi An believes that meeting the fourth condition will not be difficult.

This period might not even be very long, maybe just a month or two.

But Shi An couldn't just wait idly; he had to speed things up.

The scene of Bai Jiangcheng being trapped in a sea of ​​nightmares remained vivid in his mind.

"By building watchtowers and expanding the safe zone's reach," the area of ​​influence will naturally increase dramatically; this is the most convenient and fastest method.

As the most important treasure dropped in Core Nightmare difficulty, Shi An believes that the Watchtower's role is irreplaceable.

To put it simply, he has now discovered that the Dreamers that the "Safe Zone Self-Search" can invite are of limited strength.

Back then, Fa Gui and Xuan Jian were at the top; now, Yang Linna is basically among the top new customers.

Because the area for attracting customers in the safe zone is currently limited to the vicinity of Baijiang City.

"If I can build the watchtower in the deepest nightmare, then I can bring in the captains of the Countermeasures Bureau and turn them into clients of my safe zone."

These powerful individuals are the backbone of Baijiang City and the main force in resisting the invasion of nightmares.

Shi An desperately wanted to give them extra training to make these strong individuals even stronger. Only in this way could the entire Baijiang City continue to hold on under the nightmare tide.

Only when he was the head store manager could he continue to slack off and live a peaceful life.

"So the question is, how do we build a watchtower in the depths of the nightmare?"

"The first step is to enter the deeper areas and send out staff such as Little Blood or Hades Robe to light up the blueprints and start construction."

"But without the watchtower, and without opening a passage to the deeper levels, how am I supposed to send Little Blood there?"

It's a dead end.

Shi An fell into deep thought.

"In the shallower levels of the game, it's easy to cross between regions if you're strong enough. But is there a passage from the shallower levels to the deeper levels?"

Shi An is unaware.

He thought it might be possible, but there was no information available to refer to.

Even the Countermeasures Bureau and the Baekgang Research Institute don't have anyone researching this area.

Who would bother figuring out how to get to the more dangerous Gomeng area?

After some thought, Shi An assigned the task to Lin Xiao, the most capable fighter and survivor among the human employees in the safe zone.

Although this kid has lost his memory, he is still passionate about fighting.

People like Yang Linna, Wu Qing, Wu Yue, and the cook Lu En are Dreamers who dislike fighting.

"When there are more employees in the safe zone in the future, we can separate clerical and military personnel."

"For now, let Lin Xiao scout ahead first, and then let Fa Gui use his sorcery to fly with his eyes to assist."

"Well, besides that, we also need to find and conquer those high-value nightmares that have never been conquered before."

Shi Anke didn't forget that she still had one building space left, as well as two strange employee contract slots.

The eccentric employee is actually his top-tier expert.

The combat strength of the safe zone can also see a significant boost.

"Hint: You have successfully completed Nightmare XXX, Conviction value +50."

Another rather unique nightmare has been conquered.

Shi An glanced at it. Since there were no employees to contract or architectural blueprints, then—

He chose a rare-grade cursed item.

He has enough spells for his own use now, but the extra rare spells can be used to train his employees or sold.

The former, Fa Gui and Lin Xiao, are currently in the initial stage of refining. They need to fuse their second natal curse artifact to continue their progress.

This natal cursed item not only needs to be of a high enough grade, but it also needs to be compatible with oneself.

It's not easy to find.

The latter, rare-grade cursed artifacts are extremely rare. Once the safe zone releases the news, Shi An believes that the Countermeasures Bureau, the Wizard's House, and...

Organizations like Jiyi Martial Arts School will send representatives to bid.

Time passed slowly.

Lin Xiao, the explorer who was entrusted with high hopes, had not yet made any progress.

Shi An knew this couldn't be rushed, so he waited patiently.

As real time approached dawn, fewer and fewer dreamers remained in the safe zone, gradually returning to reality.

Shi An also gave its employees time to rest, letting them arrange their own shifts.

During the break, Yang Linna did not return to the dormitory. She saw that there were still empty seats in the training room, so she booked one for herself at the employee price.

Stepping inside, the same intense focus I had felt in the training field just hours before surged back up.

She was originally a genius among the dreamers, and at the peak of her control period, she spent more than ten nightmares in the process.

At this point, as she returned to training, her accumulated knowledge and experience quickly transformed into her own strength.

Lina was becoming increasingly clear about how to create her own innate spell.

Finally, "buzz"

With a certain opportunity, she activated the humanoid phantom manifested by the cursed object, which was completely condensed and materialized, transforming into a figure that was exactly the same as herself in appearance, physique, and clothing.

Illusory clones!

She soon entered the Refinement stage, reaching the end of the fourth stage of the Dreamer, and stepping into a brand new stage.

"Innate spell, refinement stage, and that's it?"

"I've become much stronger all of a sudden! Maybe today, or at the latest tomorrow, I'll be able to master my innate spell."

This is because she has to go to work and rest to maintain sufficient energy, so the time she can actually use for training is only two, three, or four hours a day.

The time was short, but the improvement speed was frighteningly fast.

"Once I reach that stage, tackling another nightmare will be a piece of cake!"

Recalling the hardships she faced in conquering Nightmare back then, Lina felt a surge of excitement.

But she quickly slapped herself.

"No! I almost died at the hands of the supernatural due to an accident. Although I'm much stronger now, I'm still very vulnerable if I encounter an accident."

She felt that she needed to have at least a tiny bit of risk tolerance before she could step out of her comfort zone.

Well, if I can't improve my cultivation level any further, then I'll focus on mastering my innate spell until I reach its pinnacle.

After mastering two, three, or four more common spells to perfection, then you can try to conquer the most ordinary nightmares.

She estimated that it was about right.

Several employees were keeping an eye on the safe zone, and now Shi An could also project the entire safe zone into his mind, allowing him to keep a close watch on it at all times. Of course, he had nothing to worry about.

After having soy milk and fried dough sticks at the breakfast shop downstairs, Shi An rode her electric scooter to work.

Although more and more powerful individuals have entered the safe zone, and Shi An has also reached some cooperation agreements with the Countermeasures Bureau, obtaining a considerable amount of information that is highly confidential to most of the Dream Fallers, but—

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The job of guiding new employees still brings Shi An some news from time to time.

The former's intelligence tends to focus on the macro level, while the latter's information is more specific to a particular event.

Besides, in the safe zone, he's the store manager, and there are many things he can't ask because of his persona. But in reality, he's a newbie, Shi An, and he asks questions on the spot whenever he doesn't understand something, never leaving his confusion for tomorrow.

He loves his new colleagues because they are very nice to talk to and he hears a lot of interesting gossip there.

In the office, Li Hao was excitedly telling everyone, "Let me tell you about the strange incident on Xihe Road a while ago." The investigation revealed that it wasn't actually caused by supernatural forces, but rather by the Dreamers.

"In the past six months to a year, the number of people suffering from dream-induced delusions has been increasing, and cases of crimes committed by dream-induced delusions are also becoming more and more common. I don't know why, but more and more people in Baijiang City are falling into dream-induced delusions."

As he spoke, he also became distressed.

Shi An, however, understood the reason.

Bai Jiang has fallen into a sea of ​​nightmares, constantly affected by them. With nightmares everywhere outside, the probability of an ordinary person being entangled by nightmares increases tenfold or even a hundredfold.

At this moment, Lao Song walked over and called to the whole group, "Let's go, let's go, we've been given a mission from above. We need to guide a group of newcomers who have a very high probability of falling into the dream world."

The main purpose is to explain matters related to those who have experienced dream-induced delusions to newcomers, and to guide them away from going astray.

I've done this job several times since I joined the company.

He usually teams up with a colleague in the group, with the two of them responsible for one newcomer.

It's quite rare for the entire team to be involved this time.

and----

"Is this a newcomer who hasn't yet fallen into the dream realm, but the department predicts will definitely be plagued by nightmares?"

This time, their work location was not at the home of a certain newlywed dreamer.

Instead, it was the Countermeasures Bureau, Baijiang Headquarters.

Jiang Yilu said, "I haven't been to the Baijiang General Bureau yet, looking forward to it.jpg."

The group traveled in an official vehicle belonging to their workplace to the Baijiang General Bureau.

A dozen minutes later, a magnificent building came into view, a landmark of Baijiang City.

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