Xiao Ying felt an endless repulsive force assail her from every direction at once.
Its strength far exceeded anything she had imagined. She did not even have time to put up any resistance...
Whoosh!
Her entire body was flung out of the Mechanical City.
Her surroundings flashed, and she appeared right beside Jiang Chen.
Xiao Ying still looked dazed.
Her body remained in the same standing posture she had held inside the Mechanical City, and she still gripped that forty-meter-long blade.
It took her a second to realize what had happened, and she hurriedly dropped to one knee before Jiang Chen.
"My lord!"
Her voice carried panic and confusion.
It seemed...
Even she had not expected to be expelled so suddenly.
The task her lord had given her was to remain with the Survival Convoy.
Now she could no longer complete it.
She was about to explain, but Jiang Chen waved a hand.
"No need to say anything."
Jiang Chen's gaze did not settle on Xiao Ying. Instead, he looked past her.
He looked toward the direction from which she had just been expelled.
Toward that enormous steel city suspended in the air.
The corners of his mouth lifted slightly.
It seemed...
His purpose in having Xiao Ying enter the Mechanical City had already been achieved.
Just then...
Sevian's cool voice rang out.
"Corpse Ancestor Jiang Chen."
"That's me," Jiang Chen replied, his tone as casual as if he were chatting with a neighbor.
"When did you lay plans in my Mechanical City too?"
Sevian's tone remained as mechanical and cool as ever, without any inflection.
But listening carefully, one could hear an extremely faint trace of something more...
Wariness.
"I wouldn't go so far as to call them plans."
Jiang Chen smiled faintly. "We're simply each getting what we