Xu Huo carefully searched every part of the Battle Doll, but apart from a few basic instruments it wore and the device at the doll’s heart, he found no special spatial instruments.
Of course, he didn’t expect every Battle Doll to be able to freely enter and exit this space, and it’s clear the material used for this doll is inferior to those that hunt players outside.
After disassembling the doll with a few strikes, he went to the wall where the doll clothes were hung and asked, "Do you know a way out?"
Most of the doll clothes hanging on the wall settled down, and those that had been struggling suddenly went silent upon hearing his words, hanging their arms and legs like real empty dolls.
Smirking, Xu Huo walked out of the transit station.
The Girl in the painting had already dismantled another doll, and compared to him, her methods were much more violent. The doll had already been crushed into a ball, and its instruments had been removed. She was squatting on the ground studying them.
Nearby puppets were working as well, but they all pretended not to notice the Girl in the painting’s actions, continuing with their tasks.
Xu Huo raised an eyebrow, grabbed one over, but before he could ask, the puppet set off an alarm and screamed while clutching its head on the spot, "Robbery! There’s a robbery!"
At this point, the surrounding puppets began dropping their goods and gathering around, along with two Battle Dolls rushing over, dressed differently from the dolls in Zone 039, probably meant to maintain order, whistling as they headed this way.
Xu Huo and the Girl in the painting leaped into the air, intercepting a Battle Doll each. Like the dolls working in the transit station, the metal material they used was quite ordinary.
After dealing with these two dolls, several more dolls arrived one after another, but none were the same as those they encountered outside. Xu Huo immediately relocated, shaking off the pursuit of those dolls.
From a distance, balloons painted with sunflowers drifted up gracefully. After reaching a certain altitude, they lingered above the city, floating in different directions with the city’s breeze.
Standing atop a city building, Xu Huo gazed towards the direction where the people of Yongta Country left. Apart from the turmoil when they just separated, there were no more disturbances from those people.
Previously, those people attempted to destroy the street, which attracted the real Battle Dolls, whereas killing ordinary puppets in the city only drew more order-maintaining dolls. This seems to be the rule of Circus City, only when players reach a certain level of destruction do Battle Dolls need to intervene.
After a brief thought, he threw an Energy Bomb towards the Sweet Tower nearby. Though the Sweet Tower wasn’t destroyed by the explosion, the surrounding playing dolls were blown away, at least half blasted into pieces, scattered everywhere.
Sure enough, in less than three seconds, new Battle Dolls emerged, using their Spatial Transmission Devices to close in instantly—one wielding a blade, the other a whip, launching a joint attack on Xu Huo from a distance and up close.
The clash of blades rang sharply, and the Battle Doll’s metal blade snapped into two, while the Black Blade smoothly sliced through, beheading the melee doll, then kicked its head to block the incoming Metal Whip!
As the metal head was deformed by the strike, Xu Huo moved behind the puppet with the whip, severing its two arms with two quick slashes. The Materialized Item turned into a hand, stabbed into its back, and tore out the heart device, disconnecting a wire above it.
He didn’t intend to completely scrap the Battle Doll; removing the wire was a test to see if it could restrict the doll’s movements. Unexpectedly, the next second, it exploded on the spot, scattering fragments everywhere, and the toxic liquid splattered all around.
The Defensive Barrier blocked most of the splatters, but the cloth wrapped around Xu Huo got contaminated. The flying Materialized Item quickly cut away the poisoned areas, but just then, the other doll whose head had been chopped off also self-destructed under the Girl in the painting’s entanglement.
Debris flew all over the place, and they gained nothing.
"Uh... uh..." A puppet blown into a shop nearby made a sound, lying at the doorway, its half-broken arm pressed against the ground, but its finger slowly curled up, pointing to a certain place on the street.
Xu Huo followed the direction, seeing a fake ice cream shop, with a shopkeeper inside, along with some puppets dodging with their heads covered.
Not in a hurry to leave, he jumped down from the rooftop, entered the shop, and after scanning the group, pulled out the shopkeeper hiding under the counter.
Compared to the other puppets showing fear, the shopkeeper seemed very inert. Though the face paint obscured expressions and emotions to some extent, upon closer inspection, it was evident it was different from other puppets.
"Shhhhhh!" The blade formed by the Materialized Item pierced the shopkeeper’s body, then tore open to one side, yet it didn’t lose its mobility like the previous puppets, suddenly bursting with power to break free and escape outside, shouting as it went, "Murder! Murder!"
This phrase acted like a switch, causing the puppets, who’d been responding normally to the situation, to act abnormally. Those hiding in the corners of the shop and street suddenly stood up and crazily charged at Xu Huo and the Girl in the painting. Unlike the previous half-rational, half-crazed state, these puppets wielded every sharp object they could find, seemingly determined to kill them at all costs!
The walls of people built up the front and back of the street, and the rooftops on both sides were crawling with people. If Xu Huo and the Girl in the painting made any move to jump upwards, puppets would leap down to block them.
Meanwhile, the puppets in the street didn’t rest; unable to get close, they threw weapons instead. When their instruments were deflected by the barrier, they pressed on with human wave tactics. Their attacks weren’t blind; many puppets wielded props and instruments, despite varying levels and some even damaged but still serving as lethal tools...
Thus, when the instrument barrier opened, it was a scene of puppets clinging onto the barrier, scraping madly at it with whatever they had.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" A puppet found a prop sword and repeatedly hacked at it.
Xu Huo frowned, sweeping all the puppets around away, then found the puppet shopkeeper still screaming at the street’s edge, slicing it in half from head to toe.
The annoying screams finally ceased, and the puppets, who had been so frantic a second ago, stopped. They dropped their weapons, instantaneously shifted back to happy mode, with joyful music and cheerful laughter returning to the street.
The puppet lying at the door was also torn into pieces by the other puppets and dragged away.
"Was he signaling us or trying to kill us?" the Girl in the painting asked.
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