Building a skyscraper to survive, all the female colleagues in the company begged me to carry them.

Attacks without potions target those with potions; those with potions defend themselves against those without; and those who manage to grab potions become targets for others...

The covered bridge instantly turned into a battlefield.

Swords flashed and blood splattered.

Someone was pushed off the covered bridge and fell into a thicket of thorns, where sharp thorns pierced their body, causing them to scream in agony.

Someone was killed with a single blow, and their body lay in a pool of blood.

Someone had just managed to grab the medicine, and before they could even celebrate, another person stabbed them in the throat.

"Go ahead and rob it! We're all going to die anyway!"

"Hand over the medicine!"

"Go to hell!"

Liu Lingqing turned pale with fright and gripped Huang Tang's arm tightly.

Those players understood perfectly well: they were going to die either way, but if they could manage to snatch the sobering potion, enter Thorn Castle, and find the materials to upgrade their houses, they might still have a chance to survive.

If you don't fight and compete, you'll only be waiting to die!

Some daring players even set their sights on Huang and Tang.

Huang Tang shielded the terrified Liu Lingqing behind him, silently pulled out a hunting rifle from his system space, and aimed it at the crowd.

Although this gun can only kill wolves, the others don't know that.

In this map, all players' weapons are unusable.

The appearance of the shotgun instantly created a deterrent effect!

"I don't care how you fight or snatch," Huang Tang said softly, his eyes fixed on the crowd, "but who dares to lay a finger on us..."

He raised his gun and aimed it at the nearest player who had red eyes.

"There is only one way out: death."

Those players who had originally intended to do something malicious instantly stopped moving.

With a shotgun in hand, Huang Tang is now the only truth on this covered bridge!

The melee continued, but everyone deliberately avoided Huang Tang and Liu Lingqing.

Half an hour later, the covered bridge became quiet.

More than a dozen corpses lay on the ground, their blood staining the stone slabs red.

Apart from Huang Tang and Liu Lingqing, only seven players remained standing.

One of the potions was crushed in the chaos of battle, and its original owner also died.

Huang Tang glanced at the remaining seven people.

Each of them was covered in blood and had fierce eyes.

Those who have survived to this day are undoubtedly formidable characters.

"If there are no other problems," he turned around, squeezed Liu Lingqing's hand, "let's keep going!"

The nine people crossed the covered bridge and arrived at the castle gate.

The two stone doors are very heavy, and their surfaces are covered with reliefs of thorns and roses.

A cold wind blew through the crack in the door.

Let's push together!

Huang Tang turned around and called for help.

With the combined efforts of the nine people, the stone gate slowly opened with a dull thud.

It was pitch black inside.

I can't see anything.

Huang Tang took out two doses of sobering potion from the system space and handed one to Liu Lingqing.

"I drank it."

The two drank it all in one gulp.

The medicine was cool to the touch, sliding down my throat like a refreshing spring flowing through my body.

That feeling... was like putting a thin layer of armor on the soul.

After waiting for a while, I felt no discomfort.

"That's fine," Huang Tang said.

Seeing this, the remaining seven players also drank their own potions.

Huang Tang took out two flashlights from the system space, keeping one for himself and handing the other to Liu Lingqing.

The remaining seven players also had a considerable amount of supplies.

In the battle on the covered bridge just now, the other homeowners turned into treasure chests after they died.

The supplies inside the treasure chest naturally became the spoils of victory for these people.

Huang Tang felt a little resentful when he saw that the flashlights the people behind him had taken out were all brighter than his own.

"OK!"

"You were all looting the loot boxes yourselves without taking me with you. You're all courting death!"

Huang Tang took Liu Lingqing's hand and said, "Stay close to me."

The beam of light illuminated the interior of the castle.

Then, everyone was stunned.

The hall was packed with sleeping people.

Yes, there were servants dressed in medieval attire, carrying long-extinguished candlesticks, frozen in place, still in their walking posture.

Yes, there were fully armed guards, holding long swords, leaning against the wall, their breathing barely perceptible.

Furthermore, a noblewoman dressed in an elegant long dress was curled up on a bench in the corner, her face serene.

……

They were covered in a thick layer of dust, making them look more like living statues.

Among them were players who had just entered Thorn Castle.

Unfortunately, they didn't have any sobering potions, nor were they chosen ones.

They were afflicted with the Sleeping Curse as soon as they entered, and probably didn't even get a clear look at what the inside of the castle looked like!

Liu Lingqing's gaze fell on the guard closest to her.

The dust was so thick that even facial features were blurred.

She reached out her hand, curious about just how thick the dust could be.

"Don't touch it!"

Huang Tang grabbed her wrist.

Liu Lingqing was startled: "What's wrong?"

"Don't act rashly in unfamiliar places," Huang Tang said in a low voice. "Who knows what will happen if you touch these things."

Liu Lingqing also has another advantage: she is obedient.

Huang Tang wouldn't let her touch him, and he would never have any more thoughts about it.

but.

Liu Lingqing isn't the only one with this kind of curiosity!

A man in camouflage reached out and touched the dust off the guard's body.

"It's just a layer of dust, what's the big deal..."

Before he could finish speaking, something unexpected happened.

The guard's body trembled violently, a crack appeared in his chest, and a thorn covered in barbs shot out from it, instantly piercing the chest of the man in camouflage.

"ah--!!!"

Screams echoed through the empty hall.

Blood flowed down the thorns, and the man in camouflage looked down at the spike piercing his chest, reaching out to the crowd for help.

"Help...help me..."

The others were so frightened that they backed away, and no one dared to step forward.

Huang Tang stepped forward and took out the short knife he had seized from Little Red Riding Hood from his system space.

Knife up and down.

"puff."

He severed the neck of the man in camouflage with a single stroke.

The body lay on the ground, blood everywhere!

Having lost its purpose in life, the thorn retreated back into the guard's body, waiting for the next person with "curiosity".

The guard remained standing, as if nothing had happened.

The entire room fell silent.

Everyone stared at Huang Tang with complicated expressions.

Huang Tang flicked the blood off his knife, his face expressionless: "He's not going to live. I'll give him a quick death."

On the ground, the corpse of the man in camouflage began to glow, slowly coalescing into a bronze treasure chest.

The homeowner being killed will turn into a treasure chest.

This is also a rule that Huang Tang learned in the previous Anywhere Door.

Huang Tang walked over and opened the treasure chest.

There was some steel, wood, canned goods, and a few bottles of water inside.

Their family's wealth wasn't particularly large, but it wasn't small either.

He unceremoniously took it all into the system space.

The other players' expressions changed when they saw this.

This guy was all smiles as he sold medicine a moment ago, but now he kills people without batting an eye.

They were nothing like the kind people they had been before.

Several players who initially harbored ulterior motives quietly abandoned their inappropriate thoughts.

Liu Lingqing's face was pale, and her legs felt weak.

She was the one who almost reached out to touch the guard just now.

If Huang Tang hadn't stopped her, she would be the one lying on the ground right now!