He Ao gripped the steel rebar in his hand, a loose piece he had torn off the iron staircase just now.
His gaze fixed on the enormous mechanical humanoid charging toward him at high speed as he took a slight breath.
Super Memory, activate!
In an instant, surging energy flooded his body, and his already weakened heart began beating powerfully once more.
The immense blood pressure pumped through every vessel in his body, causing his partly healed wounds to gush blood again.
He Ao leaped forward, and the wounds that had begun to close tore open once more.
It hurt a little, but he could bear it.
Muscles like coiling dragons bulged along his arms as he rushed from the left toward the Machine Acolyte. From this direction, he was heading straight into the chainsaw slashing from the Machine Acolyte's right arm.
Then, just as they were about to collide, his body tilted, and he abruptly darted right.
The Machine Acolyte's right arm tried to follow his movement, but there was a brief delay.
And within that brief delay, its chest was completely exposed before He Ao.
The hard rebar pierced the steel shell as easily as tofu, slipped through a gap in the alloy framework, and plunged into the Machine Acolyte's flashing high-energy compressed battery before bursting out through the steel shell on its back.
Everything happened in a fleeting instant.
He Ao left the rebar lodged inside the Machine Acolyte's body, then leaped several dozen meters forward before slowly coming to a stop.
He deactivated Super Memory, took out a half-empty pack of cigarettes from his bloodstained pocket, shook out an intact cigarette, then tremblingly pulled a lighter from the pack and lit it.
This was not his habit. It was Regit's.
Thick smoke seeped into his injured