Members of the Cang Long Society were being pursued and eventually fled into a safe zone.
This was a very small safe zone, originating from a doomsday zone, a survivor human encampment.
The Cang Long Society wanted to occupy the encampment to resist the summoned ones pursuing them, and there were a large number of armored vehicles within the encampment, which they could use to escape.
However, the original inhabitants of the encampment were naturally unwilling, and then the Cang Long Society resorted to slaughter.
Ultimately, the Cang Long Society used the occupied encampment and the defensive weapons within it to counter-kill many pursuers before finally escaping in armored vehicles.
Afterwards, people analyzed the incident.
There were two reasons why the Cang Long Society could destroy that survivor human encampment.
First: That survivor human encampment had only slightly over two hundred people, with low combat power, mainly ordinary people armed with weapons.
Second: Although the encampment had some early future technology weapons, the Cang Long Society entered the encampment first as refugees and then went on a killing spree within it. Those defensive future technology weapons were not utilized.
Normally, even though this was a very small safe zone with overall weak strength, it was not something that two teams could destroy. There were some coincidental factors involved.
However, this opened up a new perspective for many people.
Safe zones were not necessarily safe, nor were they impossible to occupy.
To put it more directly, the term "safe zone" did not truly exist on the world battlefield. Except for the special nature of virtual game restricted zones, which could be considered truly safe zones, all other safe zones were areas that the summoned ones considered safe.
It was merely that the original inhabitants possessed considerable strength, capable of maintaining order, making it difficult to kill people easily, or resulting in severe consequences if one did.
But the world battlefield had not explicitly stated the existence of safe zones.
The Cang Long Society's attack on the safe zone and their success broadened everyone's horizons, primarily in two aspects.
First, as long as there was sufficient strength, or a strategy and plan, the "safety" of a safe zone was not unbreakable.
Second, if a safe zone could truly be destroyed, then immense benefits would be gained, possibly even surpassing conquering restricted zones or mingling within safe zones.
After all, after destroying a safe zone, everything within it could be taken at will.
Some even believed that safe zones were essentially advanced restricted zones, just difficult for a single person to breach, but perhaps not for a faction or a large alliance of summoned ones.
But the number of people was not an issue, because the rewards were enormous.
Even when divided among everyone, there were still profits to be made.
This sparked ideas in many people.
Subsequently, four more safe zones were destroyed.
The scale of these four safe zones was also not large, and their armed forces were not strong. The safe zone destroyed by the Cang Long Society at least had some connection to future technology, while the latter four were very rudimentary safe zones.
Even the mainstream military force in these four zones came from ordinary firearms.
Of course, even if such safe zones were destroyed, they were not of much use. What good would it do to gain two hundred AK-47s and two hundred M4s?
Let alone Bai Ye's level, most people were not afraid of them.
But the significance was not in the benefits, but in the act itself, which made many people start to set their sights on safe zones.
Bai Ye's view on this matter was: "Damn it!"
With memories from his previous life, Bai Ye knew very well that the current situation was normal, even inevitable.
Because Bai Ye had experienced this situation in his previous life.
This was an inevitable process of the world battlefield transitioning from its mid-to-late stage to its late stage.
Firstly, the benefits obtained from safe zones were indeed as described. In the later stages, the Cang Long Society and the Evil Spirit Group achieved a dominant position and even rapid development precisely because of this reason.
The reason was simple: only factions could move against safe zones.
Unless one's faction reached the first-rate or even top-tier level, becoming part of the elite at the apex of the pyramid, it was impossible to destroy a safe zone. Most people could not accomplish this; it was not something that one or two individuals could handle.
Moreover, in the later stages, zone occupation became mainstream.
How did the "Twin Whites of the East District" come about?
It wasn't that Bai Ye was strong enough to dominate the East District and make the area his own, but rather...
At that time, Bai Ye and Bai Lu divided the major districts of the East District equally. They destroyed all the safe zones within their respective areas, which allowed them to occupy the zones and earn the title "Twin Whites of the East District."
The situation in the other three districts was similar. The ability to occupy a zone fundamentally meant the capability to destroy safe zones. If you couldn't even handle a safe zone, how could you claim an entire district for yourself?
So, what about most of the summoned ones?
The most direct method was to join a faction.
The Cang Long Society and the Evil Spirit Group were the primary choices, followed by smaller factions that could hold their own territory or become subordinates of top experts like Bai Ye, Bai Lu, or Situ Chicheng.
To put it more directly, the late stage of the world battlefield was a war for resources.
The resources on the world battlefield were limited, and this became increasingly true as time went on. Zone occupation was essentially resource occupation.
At that time, the Evil Spirit Group and the Cang Long Society were like two warring superpowers, while individuals like Bai Ye were like regional warlords.
However, as of now, Bai Ye felt it was somewhat absurd.
The current progress of the world battlefield was transitioning from the early-to-mid stage to the mid stage, as everyone was gradually gaining the qualifications to explore those advanced zones.
Black-quality items had become mainstream. Red-quality items held considerable value but were no longer considered rare. Gold-quality items, however, remained a symbol of experts.
Without one or two gold-quality items, one wouldn't dare to claim to be an expert.
Under these circumstances, there was no shortage of resources. It was far from the point where territorial plunder and occupation were necessary, and wars between zones should not have occurred.
It was like having plenty of candy; why fight so hard for it?
Since there was enough to share, there was no need to fight to the death.
But the aftermath of the "Summit War" event caused a leap in this progression, directly bringing safe zones into the purview of factions.
What frustrated Bai Ye the most was that he didn't want to follow the slow pace of his previous life, taking ten years to reach the end of the world battlefield.
Therefore, Bai Ye was helping the Evil Spirit Group develop rapidly to contend with the Cang Long Society. And the confrontation between factions would inevitably escalate into the struggle for safe zones and zone occupation.
As it stood, the results were indeed quite good. The Evil Spirit Group's development was much faster than in Bai Ye's previous life, and their confrontation with the Cang Long Society was significantly more intense than before.
But...
Despite all his efforts, Bai Ye found that the chaos caused by a single "Summit War" and the impact of an accidental destruction of a safe zone were far greater...
Bai Ye had a phrase in his heart that he didn't know if he should say.
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