Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 115: The Masked Puppet King

Pinocchio once again released the "Electric Burst" to control the situation, while he quickly ran to Li Nanke and carried the crumbling boss on his back.

Seeing Vinini’s pleading expression, he couldn’t help but ask, “Boss, do you want to take him with you?”

Li Nanke lowered his head, his face pale and he said helplessly: "If you can carry it, take it. If you can't carry it, throw it away."

The mental exhaustion caused by the continuous use of the 'Flame Waterfall' made him exhausted to death, and he wanted to faint and fall asleep. However, he had not escaped from the danger of the factory yet, so he had to force himself to stay awake.

Pinocchio is a kind-hearted boy after all, much friendlier than a cold-blooded person like Li Nanke. He lifts Vinini's collar with his right hand, and his left hand turns into a chain hook.

The chain hook swung violently and hooked the beam on the roof of the factory building.

At this time, some of the more advanced guard puppets had broken away from the control of the electric current and were attacking with the giant engineering puppet.

Pinocchio tightened the chain on his left hand, carried Li Nanke on his back and held Vinini in his hand. The three of them rose from the ground and jumped onto the steel beam, scaring Vinini to scream.

The boy broke open the iron roof and quickly fled the factory with the two men.

However, a dense army of puppets also chased out of the factory and chased after them.

The short and thin Pinocchio's speed of running away with the other two slowed down significantly. At this speed, it wouldn't be long before they were caught up by the puppet army.

"Vinini, the factory is your territory. If you can't provide us with effective help, do you think I will let Pinocchio abandon you?"

Faced with Li Nanke's intimidation, Vinini, who was half frightened, woke up as if from a dream and said quickly:
"Don't abandon me, I can help, I have a car parked next to the factory."

Following Vinini's instructions, Pinocchio quickly found the 'car'.

Vinini's vehicle is called a car, but it is actually an ordinary horse-drawn carriage with the horses removed and a high-power engine installed, thus creating a means of transportation. Moreover, the car's cabin is convertible.

Vinini took the steering wheel and started the car. The engine driven by the ego element was powerful and soon left the army of puppets far behind.

Seeing that he was safe, Li Nanke finally relaxed his tense nerves and fell asleep with his head tilted.

When he opened his eyes again, he was lying on the velvet bed in the hotel.

The Cunning Rabbit and Pinocchio were both guarding by the bed. Seeing him wake up, the woman turned from worry to joy, threw herself into Li Nanke's arms, and kissed him on the face.

"How long have I slept?"

After waking up from a sleep, Li Nanke felt refreshed. The fatigue caused by mental overdraft was swept away, and his mental strength seemed to have increased slightly due to the recovery from severe overdraft.

At this time, a day and a night had passed since they arrived at the puppet factory.

His awakening from coma also alarmed the hotel manager Sophia.

Sophia knocked on the door gently and entered the room: "Mr. Black Rabbit, you are awake, that's great."

At first, she was very dissatisfied with Li Nanke's behavior of not listening to advice and taking Pinocchio away without permission.

But they didn't expect that the two of them would bring back Vivini, the director of the puppet factory.

According to Vinini, the powerful supervisor puppet 'Flame of the King' has died at the hands of Li Nan Ke, and Pinocchio is significantly more powerful than when he left the hotel.

Sophia's original plan was to make Pinocchio grow stronger and replace the King of Flame to quell the attack of the puppet army. Now Li Nanke said he wanted to kill the King of Flame, secretly took Pinocchio to the puppet factory, and actually killed the target.

In this case, what else could she be dissatisfied with?

Sophia sat on the chair beside the bed, with a hint of apology in her tone: "Mr. Black Rabbit, I want to apologize for my previous distrust of you."

"Your strength far exceeded my expectations. Not only did you successfully kill the 'Flame of the King', but you also made Puppet P even stronger. This is good news for us."

"But..." She continued with an apologetic look, "I heard from Mr. Vinini that my intelligence and judgment were wrong. The puppet army's assembly attack plan actually came from the puppet king. Simply eliminating the king's flame cannot stop the puppet army's attack."

Li Nanke's heart moved, and he asked, "Ms. Sophia, how much do you know about the Puppet King?"

The third key node is to go to the Expo and seize the so-called "Alchemical Teleportation Array" from the Puppet King.

Sophia shook her head and said, "I didn't know about the existence of the Puppet King before. It was Mr. Vinini who told me about it. He said that on the night before the puppet riot, a mysterious masked man visited the factory."

"The masked man claims that he is an extremely powerful special puppet, capable of becoming the leader of all puppets and the king of all puppets."

"But the Puppet King is not satisfied with himself now, and thinks he still has some flaws, so he needs the relevant data of the puppet factory's mass production of puppets to help him improve himself."

"Mr. Vinini scoffed at this and rejected the masked man's request. Although a small number of puppets have recently shown unauthorized behavior, they have not yet awakened their basic self-awareness. Therefore, in Mr. Vinini's view, the masked man is just a liar who came to defraud business secrets."

"The masked man was not angry after being rejected. He just said that it didn't matter if they refused to give it to him. Tomorrow, Vivienne's puppet will automatically deliver the data to him..."

"As a result, the next day, all the puppets rioted, and a large amount of data drawings stored in Mr. Vinini's filing cabinet disappeared... Therefore, Mr. Vinini concluded that all this was caused by the puppet king."

Sophia sighed and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Black Rabbit, Mr. Vinini only knows this much, and I don't know where the Puppet King is now. But I have summoned some trackers to search various areas of the city, and I believe we will get relevant information soon."

Li Nanke pondered and said, "Ms. Sophia, how much do you know about the Expo?"

Sophia was startled, and immediately replied: "The Expo is held in the City Hall. It is a temporary centralized exhibition place for special dolls. It is full of powerful special dolls to attract merchants and investments from other cities."

"The expo that was supposed to be held normally was terminated due to the puppet riot. Now the city hall has become the most dangerous place in Kratt City."

"Mr. Black Rabbit, do you suspect that the Puppet King is in the Expo?"

Li Nanke did not comment, but looked into Sophia's eyes and said, "Madam, you should believe in my ability now, right? Do you have any objection to Pinocchio coming with me?"

Sophia smiled helplessly and said, "Mr. Black Rabbit, you are joking. I have never thought about controlling Puppet P. From the beginning to the end, I just wanted to quell this disaster."

"Klat City is an isolated island city overseas. We, the surviving humans, can only find ways to save ourselves."

"Now that you have proven your strength, and proved that Puppet P can only grow rapidly by following you, and even that only you have the ability to end this disaster, what qualifications do I have to stop you?"

Li Nanke nodded with satisfaction, turned to the cunning rabbit beside him and said:
"Has the strange rabbit received it? Take me to see it."

Now we have contacted the third node, but the hidden node has not been discovered yet, and the relevant information of the "Angel" has never appeared.

Li Nanke was wondering whether he should change his route. In addition to the most common enemy puppets, there was another powerful enemy in Kratt City - humans who had turned into zombies due to petrification.

(End of this chapter)