After the legendary network hacker Lucky Bartmos destroyed China Unicom's original network, the subnets used by each city were actually built on isolated islands surrounded by black walls for network monitoring, and were divided into seven regional networks. These seven regional networks relied on the main servers of the original network installed on seven continents.
But although Bartmos's body was destroyed, the consciousness data escaped into the cyberspace behind the black wall. Although his consciousness gained immortality, he still found ways to regain his immortal body. The chip crisis in Night City was part of Bartmos' plan...
Shortly after the relic chip crisis in Night City ended, the protagonist Akers smuggled himself from China to New Tokyo to search for the missing instructor in New Tokyo. In order to better survive in New Tokyo and successfully find the instructor, he became an ordinary mercenary in New Tokyo...
In fact, Ax's smuggling from China to New Tokyo was an action planned by Lachie Bartmos in order to obtain the permission code of the Asian main server. This permission was quietly buried in Ax's personal terminal...