After meeting with Yu Jianyun, Qian Wendao, Old Johnny, and Qin Siyang stopped considering leaving the Safe Zone to explore ways to break through.
As things stood, the Safe Zone's only three people at origin sequence level five were all lined up on the same side.
The others who had embarked on the origin sequence path were also their own people.
Even with Zhong Dingming, it was hard to say whether he truly counted as an "enemy."
Although he had once led the Reincarnation Church, he had never committed atrocities as horrific as those of the World-Destroying Church. Most of his followers had carried out shady dealings as [Deceivers].
Although he had killed Guan Fuhai, he had also killed Royt.
Even if they waited until Zhong Dingming reached origin sequence level five and then killed him, there was no guarantee that doing so would break through the domain sequence bottleneck.
Now, the Safe Zone had gone entirely on the defensive. They could only wait for enemies from outside to appear, then find an opportunity to kill one and achieve a breakthrough.
In short, the path to actively pursuing a breakthrough had been completely blocked. All they could do was passively wait for invaders.
So Qin Siyang and Qian Wendao shifted their main focus to the Safe Zone's defense and development.
Meanwhile, undercurrents continued to stir within the Safe Zone.
The redrawing of the War Readiness Zones had far-reaching consequences, exceeding those of any policy the United Government had ever issued.
Successfully mobilizing the people within the Safe Zone to move to their designated areas might have seemed to mark the completion of this enormous plan, but it was really only the first step in establishing the entire defense system.
It was much like every reform in human history: success was