How to get Xiaozhi for free in NTE? City Tycoon guide

This Xiaozhi page is more useful when it explains **whether the City Tycoon line deserves early priority and whether Xiaozhi functions more as a reward unit, a roster patch, or a long-term candidate for your account** instead of preserving 'free and fully breakthrough-capable' as a flat reward statement. For current players, the more practical questions are whether they are far enough into City Tycoon to engage it consistently, whether Xiaozhi fills a real team gap, and whether investing time there crowds out more urgent story or core-team progress.

A safer way to read it is:

1. Treat Xiaozhi as **a free character reward tied closely to the city-systems layer**, not as an unconditional first-priority sprint target for every account

2. If Xiaozhi fills a role your account actually needs, the value of pushing that line rises sharply; if not, there is no need to overcommit time merely because the label says 'free S-rank'

3. Whether City Tycoon should be prioritized still depends on current version pace, account goals, and whether other growth lines are more urgent right now

So this page now focuses on acquisition-path value and priority judgment for Xiaozhi instead of preserving one reward description as the only answer.