Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 113 King's Flame
With several waves of clearing out puppets, Li Nanke's Flame Waterfall traits improved rapidly, and Pinocchio's strength also grew steadily.

At this time, his Flame Falls trait has been upgraded to level 8 with the free help of many puppets.

Although there are many types of low-level puppets, the amount of source energy obtained is too greatly reduced under large-scale crackdowns. After killing countless puppets, the output of source energy of similar low-level puppets is almost zero.

Pinocchio's quality was also upgraded from the ordinary level to the excellent+ level, jumping three levels and greatly increasing his strength.

The explosive power of the boy's electromagnetic arm became more and more powerful, from the large-scale paralysis control at the beginning to the terrifying ability to completely paralyze and stiffen low-level puppets.

However, compared to the initial wave of puppets, the number of puppets Li Nanke attracted each time gradually decreased, and in the end there were only a few puppets left wandering around the factory area.

The puppets were not completely destroyed, but they were probably receiving orders from higher-level puppets and began to consciously gather in various factories.

The two of them cleared out the puppets very quickly, but the puppet in charge, 'Flame of the King', should have noticed it.

Li Nanke knew that time was limited, so he took the opportunity to take Pinocchio straight to the central factory building.

As you enter the factory, you are greeted by a gust of hot air, a strong smell of engine oil, and all kinds of noisy sounds of machinery operating.

Numerous precision instruments are neatly arranged, like giant steel dragons.

On the conveyor belt, the mechanical arms flexibly operated, assembling the parts into the body parts of the puppet. The sound of metal colliding and the hum of motors intertwined and made a loud noise.

Li Nanke walked quickly through the workshop and into the factory. On the conveyor belt beside him, there were densely arranged cold human figures hanging, which was creepy.

Those were metal dolls that had already been assembled, but they were still completely dead. They would only come to life after being injected with ego elements.

As he went deeper into the factory, he felt a stronger sense of crisis.

It was like being on a small boat floating on the endless deep sea, while a huge and terrifying shadow was swimming quietly under the boat.

That huge shadow was dozens or even hundreds of times larger than the small boat. It could easily swallow up the entire ship and take people into the bottomless abyss.

The two came to the depths of the factory, where a huge furnace was emitting a blazing light and hot flames were jumping inside the furnace.

Next to the furnace, several huge casting machines continuously pour molten metal into molds, which are cooled to form various precision mechanical parts. These parts are then sent to various workshops by conveyor belts and assembled delicately by robotic arms.

However, the so-called supervisor puppet 'Flame of the King' was not seen here.

Li Nanke looked at a heavy small metal door in the corner. There was a peephole on the door and a doorplate marked "Factory Director's Office".

He was about to reach the metal door when he heard a human voice coming from an old-fashioned speaker in the corner.

"Mr. Tracker, thank you for coming to rescue me."

"But the noise you made outside just now was too loud. The puppet in charge has already discovered you and has called together an army of puppets to wait for you to come to him."

"They're coming soon. You can't escape."

"Now please don't try to knock on the door. I won't open it. Please also stay away from the door to avoid arousing the puppet's suspicion and implicating me."

As the voice of a person rang out from the loudspeaker, Li Nanke suddenly stopped in his tracks, his sense of crisis reaching its peak.

He had known that a fierce battle was inevitable when he came here, and he had completed his plan by wiping out a part of the puppet army and thereby increasing his strength as much as possible.

As for whether it was a trap or not, the low-level puppets could no longer pose any threat to the two of them. He said to the person behind the metal door sincerely:

"Mr. Vinini, you should be grateful to those who risked their lives to save you. If you still have some conscience, please open the door immediately and let the two of us hide in."

Vinini's angry words came from the loudspeaker:

"Don't you understand what I'm saying? I don't have much food and water left. If you come in, the three of you will die here together."

"I won't open the door!"

Li Nanke smiled gently and said, "Since Mr. Vinini doesn't know how to be grateful, I can teach you."

As he said this, he swung the hammer violently.

With a loud bang, the metal door and its frame flew backwards, overturning the tables and chairs in the office, leaving a mess on the floor.

Vinini is a man wearing a bright red suit, a top hat, and a mustache.
He looked very sloppy at this moment. His bright red suit was covered in dirt. The hair exposed under his top hat was greasy and matted into clumps. It was unknown how long it had been since he had a shower.

Not only did he stink, but the entire office was filled with the smell of excrement.

Vinini stared at him in amazement, as if she had not expected him to force his way through the door.

At the same time, heavy footsteps that shook the ground came from far away.

A giant puppet led a dense group of low-level puppets and appeared deep into the factory.

The giant puppet is like a steel beast, emitting a suffocating pressure. Its body is made of heavy metal, and its surface is covered with complex pipes and lines, crisscrossing like blood vessels.

Two thick mechanical legs support the entire body, as solid as a rock, and the arms are strong and powerful. One giant arm ends with a huge steel fist, and the other ends with a flamethrower with a hideous and thick muzzle.

There is a huge furnace on the chest of the 'Flame of the King', with raging flames burning inside. The heat is enough to melt all obstacles in its way.

A pair of huge red mechanical eyes flashed with fierce light, staring at the two intruders who broke into the factory.

It turned its head slightly and discovered that there was a human hiding in the office in the corner.

And that familiar figure was the factory director Vinini who had always enslaved it and many low-level puppets.

The King's Flame roared with great excitement. The flames in the furnace on its chest grew stronger, and thick smoke billowed out of the two chimneys on its head.

Vinini collapsed to the ground, his face pale with fear, his eyes dull as he muttered:

"It's over, it's over. If you want to die, why do you have to drag me with you?"

With the roar of the 'Flame of the King', a large number of low-level puppets blocked all passages out of the factory and completely surrounded the entire factory.

Li Nanke said to the young man beside him who was waiting for the battle:
"I'll leave the small one to you and the big one to me. Is that ok?"

Pinocchio nodded and asked, "What about this Vinini? Should we protect him?"

Li Nanke chuckled: "No need, you just take care of the low-level puppets... let us do it!"

(End of this chapter)