"Wait a minute, isn't this too..."

Xiao Tangqiu was just about to ask if this was too crude, but Duan Hongzhen had already taken the painting down.

——A door half a person’s height suddenly appeared behind the portrait!

"Door! It's the door! We can get out!"

Tang Mianmian screamed with excitement.

Xiao Tangqiu didn't expect Shen Yuan to find the door so easily, nor did she expect the door to be hidden so simply and crudely behind the portrait. After a moment of hesitation, he and Tang Mianmian became excited.

Duan Hongzhen had already crawled out first. Although the door was only half a person's height, it was wide enough for an adult man to pass through.

After Xiao Tangqiu went out, he found that there was a dark corridor behind the door, which was even darker than the corridor outside their room. He soon found out the reason. There were at least candles in the corridor outside their room, but this corridor not only had no candles, but was also extremely opaque, as if it were a large, airtight iron box.

"This place is a bit like a basement," Tang Mianmian said bluntly. "When I first started working as an extra, I didn't have money to rent a house, so I lived in basements. Basements feel similar to this place."

Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly: "Basement? Could this be the underground secret room of the ancient castle?"

When he had seen the portraits of Lili Marlene, he had begun to wonder if they had returned to the castle. Could it be that the secret passage behind the church statues led directly to the castle? Why had Lepnobet built such a secret passage between the castle and the church?

At this moment, the aloof girl suddenly spoke up. She said coldly, "Yes, this is the underground secret room of the castle. We couldn't find a way down before, but we didn't expect to find it by accident now."

Xiao Tangqiu turned on the flashlight and shone it across the corridor. He immediately discovered that there was another door on the opposite side. It was also a small wooden door half a person's height. There was obviously another room behind the wooden door.

"There's a secret room here too!"

Tang Mianmian was instantly excited: "Great! Maybe this is Lepnobet's room! Let's go in and take a look!"

Xiao Tangqiu couldn't help but get excited, but the cold girl dampened their enthusiasm with one sentence, pouring cold water on them: "It's almost midnight."

Xiao Tangqiu reacted immediately and realized that they had to rush back to the room before midnight!

"What should we do?" Tang Mianmian suddenly became anxious, "We don't have time!"

Shen Yuan said decisively: "Go back now and come back tomorrow."

Xiao Tangqiu nodded: "This is the only way. Let's go back to the room first, remember the route, and come back to check out the rest of the rooms tomorrow."

Since they had to get back to the room before midnight, they had to temporarily put aside the other secret room and continue looking for a way out. Fortunately, when they continued walking along the corridor for a while, they found a staircase leading to the upper floor.

Duan Hongzhen was still in charge of leading the charge. When he climbed to the top of the stairs and pushed open the door, a statue suddenly appeared in front of everyone - it was the statue of Lili Marlene in front of the castle!

They really returned to the castle through the secret passage!

It was already late at night, and darkness enveloped the castle before them. Everything seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness, even the moon had disappeared.

As everyone walked towards the main gate of the castle, Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously looked back. There was neither moon nor stars in the sky outside the castle. It seemed that there was only endless darkness, and it seemed like an abyss that swallowed everything.

In the endless darkness, it seemed that there was only their group of people and the ancient castle before them, nothing else...

Duan Hongzhen pushed open the gate of the castle and entered first.

Everyone finally returned to the castle. Before Xiao Tangqiu could breathe a sigh of relief, he immediately discovered something was wrong. The new players were actually staying in the hall and did not return to the room. Moreover, the hall seemed to be filled with a smell of blood.

The remaining three survivors of another team of old players also stayed in the hall with serious expressions. They seemed relieved to see them return.

"Son! My son!" As soon as the middle-aged woman saw them coming back, she rushed towards the little boy and tried to snatch the child back. "You human traffickers! Give my son back to me!"

The little boy screamed and turned to grab Xiao Tangqiu's back: "You are not my mother! You are not my mother!"

The middle-aged woman's expression was distorted with excitement. She resorted to the trick of scratching Xiao Tangqiu's face angrily, "It's all your fault for corrupting my son! Give my son back to me!"

Xiao Tangqiu grabbed the middle-aged woman's hand and asked expressionlessly, "You said he's your son. What evidence do you have?"

The middle-aged woman was stunned for a moment, but soon she roared with confidence: "He is my son! What evidence do you need! You bad guys dare to steal my son! I will beat you to death!"

"You said he's your son, so tell me his name, how old he is, and what school he goes to?" Xiao Tangqiu calmly countered, "If you can't tell me, then you're the human trafficker!"

The middle-aged woman suddenly stammered and hemmed and hawed for a long time, obviously unable to speak. But soon she became angry and said, "Why should I tell you? He is my son! Give my son back to me! Let go! Let go!"

Xiao Tangqiu looked coldly at the middle-aged woman who was throwing a tantrum. Although he had restrained her actions, he didn't know what to do next. He couldn't convince her with reason, but he couldn't just hit her, right?

Just when he was in a dilemma, a flying knife suddenly brushed past the middle-aged woman's cheek and pierced into the floor. She was so scared that she dared not move.

Duan Hongzhen said with a smile: "Stop arguing. Let me ask you a question: which is more important, your son's life or your own? Choose one."

The middle-aged woman trembled and dared not move.

Duan Hongzhen pulled out the flying knife stuck in the floor and began to play with it nonchalantly: "If you choose your son, I will kill you. If you choose yourself, I will kill your son."

The middle-aged woman immediately shouted, "Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

Duan Hongzhen smiled and put away the flying knife. He naturally didn't kill the little boy, but the middle-aged woman's reaction still made everyone react. The young man's face suddenly turned ugly: "You actually lied to us! You human trafficker!"

The middle-aged woman hid in a corner, trembling. However, no one cared about her at this moment. Xiao Tangqiu looked at the young man covered in blood and frowned slightly: "What happened?"