"I have something to attend to and need to leave for a while."
"Alright, I'll leave her to you." Xia Xiaonuan's lips curled into a slight smile as she glanced at Ji Yuetong.
Ji Yuetong felt a chill run through her body.
Zhang Lin nodded to Xia Xiaonuan, then shouted to the crowd, "Fight and retreat, you hold them off, I have something to do, I'll be right back!" He then said to the city lord, "I'm leaving this to you."
The city lord was taken aback.
"Why do I feel like... I've become a backup option?"
She muttered something under her breath, then took command and began directing the others in battle, while also preparing herself for the fight.
If possible, she wouldn't want to take action.
No one knew that she had also awakened a transcendent template.
But her extraordinary template comes at a price until the new era fully arrives.
Each strike intensifies the mechanization of her body.
When she awakened her memories, she was just an ordinary person with no money or power. The reason she was able to build a building like Hope City was because she awakened a superhuman template through special means and did many illegal things, which ultimately enabled her to build Hope City in the post-apocalyptic world in a short period of time.
However, due to the repeated use of the extraordinary template, 70% of her body tissue was transformed into machinery.
If she were to make another move, especially if she were surrounded by the ratmen, and the fight dragged on for an extended period, even if she were 100% mechanized, it was possible that she might succumb to the urge to fight.
"You little brat, don't mess with me!" The city lord glanced at Zhang Lin's departing figure and thought to herself, "I don't want to become a pure robot either!"
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