"Yang Yong! How the hell did you end up as the Third Elder of Mechanical City?"
Cao Xianming looked curiously around the conference room that symbolized Mechanical City's center of power.
Yang Yong had no time to explain. "Old Cao, you're just in time. Quick, come sit here."
He pushed Cao Xianming down into his own seat.
Then he reached out and patted Cao Xianming.
He silently recited in his mind, Appoint Cao Xianming as First Strategist Under the Third Elder.
[Official position confirmed.]
In an instant, Cao Xianming felt as though his body had been connected to a great river.
Vast quantities of supernatural power surged madly into him like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
He hurriedly spread out the data model in his palm.
Boom!
The force blew the data model apart.
Then... it instantly reconstructed itself.
The three-dimensional model, now more than ten times larger than before, encompassed the entire conference room.
Every street, every building, every mechanical soldier's position, and every zombie's movements appeared clearly within the model.
Cao Xianming's eyes lit up.
"So this is what it feels like to be a public employee of Mechanical City?"
"Awesome!"
At last, he too experienced what it felt like not to worry about consuming supernatural power.
Only then did Yang Yong give him a brief account of what had happened in Mechanical City.
He focused on the unfathomable city lord, the crazy little girl, and how the Eight Great Elders had sacrificed themselves to trap the city lord's seven emotional incarnations.
"That little girl is the city lord's seven emotional incarnations?"
Cao Xianming looked grave. "In other words, that little girl's mind contains seven different personalities..."
He silently counted himself lucky.
Fortunately...
The personality that had come looking for him back then had been a