Bab 163: Chapter 163: The Smiling Puppet

The restaurant had a "Temporarily Closed" sign hanging outside. He pried open a side door to get in, planning to head directly to the third floor, but on the ground floor, he encountered the puppet again.

It was the same one as yesterday, though the parts of its body that had been burned or replaced with scraps had all been swapped out for fresh round logs, with only the joints showing traces of the past damage.

It was mopping the floor.

Xu Huo walked to the entrance and set down the items he was carrying. The puppet immediately turned its "head" to "look" at him, its mouth corners drooping further down, followed by its body rotating 180 degrees without moving its head, and it charged at him wielding the mop!