Jia Yu
The moment Xu Huo landed, he took out the few combat dolls working inside the transit station. Then he turned to the kangaroo that had knocked him out and asked, his expression serious, "Who are you?"
The kangaroo quickly made a swimming gesture, then picked up a damaged mascot costume from the ground and tossed it to him, signaling for him to put it on. It then sat against the wall, pretending to be a doll in need of repair.
Xu Huo didn't waste any time. He put on the costume and hid inside it too.
The Singer arrived quickly. The measured clicks of her high heels moved from the entrance into the transit station, passing the damaged combat dolls, the repair machines, and the boxes before finally stopping beside a pile of broken dolls and costumed figures.
"Click, click, click!"
The high heels stopped. An almost tangible pressure swept over every doll and costumed figure. After a while, the footsteps sounded again and gradually faded into the distance.
Neither Xu Huo nor the kangaroo, hidden in the pile of dolls, moved. They waited several more minutes, until the triangular barrier sealing off the area disappeared, before finally relaxing.
Once he was sure the Singer had really left, Xu Huo removed his mascot head and helped the kangaroo out.
"Yan Jiayu?" He reached for the kangaroo's head, but she waved him off. The kangaroo costume shifted, and amid a faint smell of blood, Yan Jiayu's voice came from inside. "It's me."
Xu Huo felt reassured. "You can't get out of the costume?"
Yan Jiayu shook her head. "The Dungeon opened once after I came in. If you're wearing a mascot costume when it opens, you can never take it off again. Given enough time, you naturally fuse with