I Built a Safe Zone in the Nightmare World
我在噩梦世界建立安全区
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About the safe zone
It really doesn't feel necessary to operate behind the scenes. You're just one person after all. Turning the safe zone into a platform seems like the best choice, since one person's strength is ultimately limited. The platform allows for communication, trading, rest, healing, crafting, strategy sharing, and more.
There are two reasons why the book's ranking might not improve.
First, the sense of oppression disappeared early on. The initial gray fog, eeriness, and even the bloody hand created a good sense of oppression. The safe zone effectively provided a buffer for the protagonist's group, and this tension-to-safety tug-of-war was key to keeping me reading. Later, the safe zone became too safe 😆, resulting in almost no tension.
It's a waste of time and extremely boring in the later stages.
The author has developed a path dependency; from the mid-game onwards, it's a repetitive cycle of different groups entering safe zones, experiencing shock, joining, constantly changing maps, introducing new NPCs, distrusting safe zones, experiencing shock, joining, and then repeating the same thing over and over again. It's become tedious, basically experiencing shock twice a week, each time lasting three days.
I feel like we can stop chasing now.
The subsequent pattern is pretty predictable: encountering a new faction, the new faction is shocked, then they conquer the lord to get the coordinates, first a few shopkeepers kill the lord, shocking the members, then the members kill the lord, shocking other factions, and finally, the shopkeeper, who can't be dealt with, performs a miracle, shocking everyone.
Many readers may be confused by the free chapters, such as why the author didn't directly search for safe zones? Why is it always just Baijiang City and not the whole country or the world? This is a common point of contention in the comments, and it's partly the author's fault. It was resolved after the book was released, around chapter 91, significantly elevating the world-building.
It's well-written, but there's a major flaw: the city becomes an isolated island. Where will the rice, flour, and other grains come from? Where will the beef, mutton, and pork come from? Where will the seafood and freshwater fish come from? Unless it's a major agricultural or livestock province, all these things will need to be transported from other cities via logistics.
Well written. Right now, it's a period of accumulation. The longer it goes on, the slower the Nightmare will invade reality. The snowball will build up momentum, and once there are several thousand people, the safe zone will become a safe city, allowing for a reverse invasion of the Nightmare and expansion of territory. The Nightmare, I see it as nothing more than a chicken or a dog. Of course, without a safe zone, Nightmare, please be gentle with me! 😭😭😭
He keeps saying he wants to play the behind-the-scenes genre, but he's always on the front lines. The behind-the-scenes genre is all about portraying a group of characters. I read half of the free chapters and only remembered the bloody handprint. The rest were all just brute-force templates. It was boring.
Lately, people have either been using AI or selling their accounts.
From the moment we started clearing Tiannan City, the story lost its original naturalness and became obsessed with showing off. All sorts of showing off, then trading, arranging observation teams—what's the point? The protagonist is someone who relies entirely on cheating to level up.
After Baijiang City fell into the nightmare, where did they get their food? I remember Baijiang City has over 3 million people; it's impossible for them to produce and consume their own food. They can't expect food to fall from the sky, can they?