The restaurant had hung up a "Temporarily Closed" sign. He went around to the side, pried the door open, and went in. He'd planned to head straight to the third floor, but unexpectedly, he saw a Wooden Puppet on the first floor again.
It was the same one from yesterday, but the parts of its body that had been burned or replaced with spare pieces had all been fitted with new wooden blocks. Only the joints still showed signs of damage.
It was mopping the floor.
Xu Huo walked to the entrance and set down what he was carrying. The Wooden Puppet immediately turned its head and "looked" at him. Its two little strips of a mouth drooped again, and then, without moving its head, its body spun around 180 degrees. It waved the mop and charged at him!
Xu Huo casually swung out his extendable baton. The current running through its tip knocked the Wooden Puppet back. Then he dumped a bag of Sticky Net onto the floor. The floor stickers had been enhanced with technology; as soon as they landed, the surface that wasn't touching the floor automatically peeled open. One of them caught the Wooden Puppet's foot.
The Wooden Puppet was more nimble than a living person, but its foot slipped. It slammed to the ground with a thud, its body parts scattering, only to stick to several more floor stickers!
The puppet had no ability to think and didn't know to avoid the things on the floor. It began gathering its wooden parts as it tried to get up, but the sticker stuck to its foot slid sideways as soon as it put weight on it, as if there were no friction at all. It had just managed to stand when it fell apart again.
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