Defend shelter

"Is it a human or an animal?"

Holding onto the last shred of hope, Liam looked at Oreo. After receiving an affirmative answer, Liam's heart completely sank.

Going down the steps, Liam pressed his ear against the stone door, trying his best to catch the sounds from outside.

Through the stone door, he could only hear the sound of rain hitting the ground and the stone gate, creating a muffled thud.

Suddenly, a sound different from the rain came through the stone door.

"BOSS...John, I...knock...on...the...door...or...do...we...find...a...way...to...break...the...door...open?"

A broken voice came through the stone door intermittently. Liam couldn't help but tighten his grip on the crossbow in his hand.

The visitors were hostile!

And there were many of them, definitely more than one person.

Outside the shelter.

As the first day drew to a close, the rain not only did not diminish, but it intensified, pouring down even more ferociously.

The sky had not completely darkened yet.

Despite the presence of dark clouds, a glimmer of light still stubbornly remained on the horizon, allowing people to barely make out the ground.

Occasionally, a flash of lightning would illuminate five men wearing raincoats and holding black umbrellas.

These raincoats were different from ordinary grass raincoats, with colorful rags sewn on the outside to cover up any places that might leak.

"This kid is really lucky. I don't know where he found such a shelter, and it even has a stone door." BOSS John spat on the ground, and with his other hand, he summoned a stone axe and knocked on the stone door twice.

Hearing the muffled sound, BOSS John's face darkened.

"This door is very thick, at least ten centimeters. Even if we keep knocking here, we won't be able to open it by tomorrow morning."

"How about we try digging the foundation next to it? It can't all be made of stone, right?" Momo chimed in, looking very experienced.

He even took out an iron shovel from his inventory and waved it in his hand.

BOSS John nodded after hearing this and gave his orders:

"Alright, Momo, Peri, Mech, the three of you find a place to start digging. Four Eyes, you light a torch for them and keep an eye on the stone door, don't let him suddenly rush out!"

"I'll go around and see if there's any other way to get in. He can't possibly not have any ventilation, right?"

Hearing BOSS John's arrangement, the others had no objections and began to act according to the plan.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

The three of them found a spot on the right side of the stone door and began to dig with the shovels in their hands.

"Good heavens, this guy's shelter is as tough as the underground treasure we found before, very strong."

"If this were a team, I really wouldn't dare to mess with them. Even the soil around this shelter is so solid. If it weren't for the rain soaking it, we wouldn't be able to dig it at all."

After digging for three to five minutes, Momo was sweating profusely. He complained while slacking off.

"I say these people are also fools. In this kind of world, they still listen to the instructions of this broken game. I don't believe it. At worst, I'll die with a big scar, and I'll be a good man again in eighteen years. Today, I'll take care of this guy, rest for a day, and then leave!"

"Hurry up and dig, or BOSS John will have something to say later," Peri said without looking up.

"Do you think there will be women in this shelter? Brothers, we finally caught a woman the other day, but she was very tough and couldn't think straight. Otherwise, wouldn't it be great to follow us brothers and enjoy good food and drink?"

Mech laughed lewdly, seemingly reminiscing about their spoils from the past two days.

The three of them chatted while working hard at the mud, pulling it out shovel by shovel.

Thud!

After more than ten minutes, when they reached their physical limits, they finally dug to the wall of the shelter.

At this time, they had already dug out a big hole.

"BOSS John, BOSS John, we dug it out, we dug it out!"

Momo shouted excitedly, calling out to BOSS John, who was standing on top of the hill.

Four Eyes also raised the torch, illuminating the things in the pit.

But with just one look, the five of them were dumbfounded.

"Holy shit, this damn wall is also made of stone. What is this? Did this guy bring an excavator with him when he crossed over?"

"Damn it, I put up with the stone drainage channels, I put up with the stone door, but you're telling me the walls are also made of stone?"

Momo and Mech were covered in mud, standing in the pit, staring at each other in disbelief.

"Get out of the way, let me see."

After telling the two to move aside, BOSS John jumped into the pit with a somersault, splashing mud everywhere.

Taking out his stone pickaxe, he knocked on the exposed stone.

It was still the familiar muffled sound, indicating that the stone was definitely not thin.

"Dig! Dig for me! Dig out the whole area around the door. I don't believe he has so many resources to replace everything around here with stone."

BOSS John's heart hardened, and he took out his stone shovel and joined the three-person digging team.

For a while, mud flew everywhere.

In the heavy rain, the four of them were like hardworking little bees, tirelessly collecting honey in the rain.

One meter.

Two meters.

Three meters.

After digging three meters to the left and seeing that it was all yellow and white stone, the four of them came to the left side of the stone door and started digging again.

Another three meters. The six meters around the shelter's stone door were all dug out and exposed.

The yellow and white stone had a natural pattern on it, as if mocking their overestimation of themselves.

"Damn it, what the hell am I digging for?" Momo threw the shovel on the ground, sat down, and sulked.

From when there was still some light in the sky at six o'clock, they had dug until the moon was high in the sky at nine o'clock in the evening.

For three whole hours, the four of them had been like laborers, digging at the door of someone else's shelter for three hours.

What kind of sin had they committed?

"This guy's shelter is so awesome, why didn't he make it into the top ten shelters? Is this damn game messing with me?"

Mech also looked at the stone wall with a dejected expression, cursing.

In the past three days, the shelters they had dug and broken into were countless, but none had been as troublesome as today.

Not to mention the shelter's door, just the wall itself could be described in two words -

Outrageous!

"Could this also be like the underground treasure we found before? But I clearly saw people living inside?"

Four Eyes chimed in from the side.

"Damn it, you bastards inside, listen up. Hurry up and open the door, or your grandpa here will make you suffer a thousand tortures when I get in later."

The enraged Momo climbed out of the pit, smashing the door with the stone shovel in his hand while cursing.

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

Every strike brought a low hum.

However, the shelter's stone door remained extremely strong, without revealing a single gap.

"Alright, alright!"

"His shelter didn't make it into the top ten, so there must be a weakness somewhere. Get up and take the torches to find it for me. I don't believe this dead shelter can stop us living people!"

BOSS John's face was so gloomy that it could almost drip water.

Putting away his iron shovel and covered in mud from the dug pit, BOSS John also looked at the stone door with malice in his eyes.

At the same time, his mind became active.

"This shelter can be built entirely of stone. There must be some kind of opportunity, or he must have dug up something good to be so rich. If I can pry this shelter open, then take care of this kid and get the secret out of him, maybe..."

As he thought, BOSS John raised his head and glanced at the four people who were still near the pit with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"Hurry up, find where the weakness is. This door is so well sealed, he must need a place for ventilation. Look on the ground."

With a shout, the five people began to act separately.

One hand holding an umbrella, the other hand holding a torch, they carefully observed the ground.

"BOSS John, I found it. There's a piece of glass here, it should be his ventilation opening!" Four Eyes had better eyesight and immediately spotted the explosion-proof glass in the middle of the hill.

"Good, good, good. Burn some plant fibers for me and smoke this bastard to death. Let's see if he comes out or not!"

BOSS John came over with a look of surprise and was overjoyed when he saw the glass embedded in the ground.

At the same time, the way he looked at the other four people also carried a hint of malice that was usually difficult to detect.

A wisp of smoke gradually drifted in along the ventilation duct.

In the shelter lit by torches, the smoke began to spread, gradually reaching Liam's nose as he sat on the stool, resting with his eyes closed.

"Have they finally found it?"

The next moment, Liam opened his eyes, a hint of killing intent on his face.

At this moment, on a dark and windy night with heavy rain, it was the perfect time to uphold justice and kill.

These beasts, not a single one could escape!

Walking to the wall, he put on the whole raincoat, returned to the table, picked up the crossbow, and looked at the hole where the smoke was still spreading.

"I choose to top the leaderboard and turn on the live broadcast function, fix the camera angle above the shelter to a top-down view, and prohibit viewers from arbitrarily observing the shelter."

Opening the game panel, Liam said coldly.

[Record]: Congratulations, player Liam. Your shelter's disaster resistance attributes are far higher than other shelters, automatically reaching the top of the leaderboard.

[Record]: Keep the live broadcast on for more than 15 minutes, and based on your ranking, you will automatically receive a random survival airdrop *1.

[Record]: You can enter the live broadcast page to manage your live broadcast room now!

The game panel's light flashed, and Liam followed the game chat panel, clicking into the disaster live broadcast page.

At this time, a live broadcast room page that was different from the others appeared in the first position.

In the picture, a few flickering firelights were faintly visible.

At the same time, the foreign live broadcast room that was originally ranked tenth was squeezed out.

A live broadcast room marked with the character "华" (Hua, short for Huaxia) ranked first on the page.

And the disaster resistance score below the live broadcast room was more than three times higher than that of the second-ranked Zeus Shelter.

Without paying attention to these details, Liam quickly clicked into the live broadcast page, casually titled it "Upholding Justice," and then began to use the anchor's authority to watch the scene below.

In the dark night, the five firelights were extremely conspicuous.

In an instant, Liam determined the positions of the five people.

"Good, good, good. You're all squatting here by the ventilation duct waiting to die, are you?"

Liam laughed in spite of himself, keeping an eye on the live broadcast room as he came to the hole he had opened by the bed.

Concentrating, the attributes of the big hole were immediately displayed.

[Entrance and Exit Tunnel]

Description: An entrance and exit tunnel that has not been fully opened.

Upgrade direction: Safe Passage

Branches: Expand (5), Open (60), Material (40), Strength (200), Tunnel Door (40)

Introduction: A cunning rabbit has three burrows!

"Choose Expand, choose Open."

As soon as he finished speaking, his survival points dropped by 65, and a green light emerged from Liam's body.

The originally rough hole began to undergo earth-shaking changes.

The hole, which could only accommodate half a person's height, gradually expanded under the system's power until an adult could pass through while bending over.

The surface of the hole began to become smooth, and the cross-section on the stone wall turned into a perfect circle.

Following the hole inward, the soil inside seemed to melt away, rapidly disappearing.

After a few seconds, the green light retracted, indicating that the transformation was complete.

Lowering his head, Liam tentatively walked in.

Although there were no steps, the soil in the safe passage had been compressed and was very hard, and the slope was gentle. In no time, Liam reached the end.

At the end was a simple wooden board. With a little effort, Liam pushed open a hole.

Shifting his gaze, Liam found the location of the wooden board in the live broadcast page.

It happened to open at the front of the acid rain lake.

If one didn't know about the hole and didn't observe carefully, they would definitely not discover it.

Pushing open the wooden board door, Liam stepped out of the shelter.

The crackling acid rain fell on the raincoat and crossbow, giving the arrowheads a touch of "deadly" color.

Crouching on the ground, Liam carefully moved forward.

He kept an eye on the bright spots on the screen while also paying attention to the road ahead.

Liam was extremely cautious.

Coupled with the black raincoat, he was like a grim reaper wielding a death scythe in the dark rainy night, making people shudder.

One step.

Two steps.

Gradually, not only did he see the firelight in the live broadcast, but the firelight also appeared as a dot in front of Liam's eyes.

"The one with glasses?"

With the help of the firelight, Liam, who was in the dark, saw the face under the firelight.

Without making a sound, Liam began to move his feet to the left.

The first strike was the most deadly, and he had to make sure he could attack the person who seemed to have the highest combat power among the five.

His gaze shifted, and the second firelight appeared.

"Scarred face, thick neck, looks very arrogant..."

The best way to judge a person's combat power was to observe their neck and arms.

Anyone with a thick neck was either a trained fighter or had a lot of strength. Such people were much more difficult to deal with than ordinary people.

"It's you..."

Faintly hearing the scarred man's cursing, the coldness in Liam's eyes intensified.

Lying on the ground, he carefully set up the crossbow on the ground, aimed at the scarred man who was shaking his head, and gently pulled the trigger of the crossbow.

Whoosh!

Thud!

A sharp sound rang out in the rain, and before Liam could savor the beauty of this sound, he saw the scarred man in the distance clutching his chest and stumbling to the ground.

By the light of the torch that had fallen to the ground and was about to go out, Liam saw the crossbow bolt embedded right in the center of the scarred man's chest.

This was a crossbow bolt that had been coated with acid rain!

Even if it only hit the chest, one hit was enough to be fatal!

"Ahhhh!!!"

Screams rang out from the distance, carrying a strange sense of tragic beauty in the rainy night due to the environment.

In the live broadcast, the four torches instantly became flustered.

However, the four people's movements were very uniform.

None of them chose to save the scarred man. Instead, they all hid. One of them was even smart enough to put out his torch immediately and disappear into the night.

"You're so smart, it seems you're forcing me to take care of you second."

The one who put out the torch was Four Eyes.

He immediately rolled and threw the torch near his teammates to divert attention.

Unfortunately, the red cloth on his back was so conspicuous in the live broadcast!

Without making a sound, Liam began to cock the crossbow with both hands on the ground!

With the powerful raincoat, he didn't have to worry about raindrops falling on him. On the other hand, the four people on the opposite side had to hold their umbrellas all the time, squatting in place, making them perfect targets.

In fifteen seconds, Liam loaded the second crossbow bolt and began to slowly crawl on the ground.

Four Eyes, who thought he had found an excellent hiding spot, gradually came into view as Liam moved.

Set up the crossbow!

Aim!

Shoot!

Another black crossbow bolt shot out, hitting Four Eyes below the neck.

The tremendous impact instantly knocked Four Eyes to the ground.

A flash of lightning illuminated the scene.

Four Eyes saw Liam's position, his expression as if he had seen a ghost. He wanted to stand up and shout.

Unfortunately, the trickling black blood from his neck blocked his words.

Three to five seconds later, Four Eyes died.

At this time, all five torches had been extinguished, making it difficult to distinguish their positions.

Lying on the ground, Liam cocked the crossbow while using the anchor's advantage to zoom in and observe the positions of the others.

"Gotcha~"

Under the mask, a smile crept onto Liam's lips.

"Maybe I can understand why some people want to turn on the full map perspective when playing shooting games."

A slightly funny thought flashed through his mind, easing the tension of killing two bandits in a row.

Thirty seconds later, the crossbow was cocked.

Moving his position, searching for the target, aiming, and shooting.

Another cold light flashed, and Mech was hit in the back of his kidney. The tremendous kinetic energy pierced through his abdomen and out of his stomach.

The immense pain made Mech stand up and shout:

"Don't kill me!! Don't kill me!! I don't want to die!!! Go kill BOSS John, he killed 7 people! I didn't kill anyone, he forced me to do it, I want..."

In the rainy night, Mech ran while weakly falling to the ground on the hillside.

The acid rain carried by the arrowhead and shaft almost instantly corroded.