The city's neon lights are like melted paint, flowing on the eternally rainy glass walls. Kai huddled in the depths of the "Smoker's" data port, a corner that even a cybermaniac found damp. His neural interface is connected to the city's main network, not to download illegal Mewtwo, but to conduct a more secretive and dangerous operation - monitoring.
The monitoring objects are not humans, but "sentinels".
"Sentinel" is not a person, it is a ubiquitous city management AI, cold, efficient, and absolutely rational, controlling every bit of data flow from traffic lights to armed drones. Its existence was like air, unquestioned until recently.
