In the giant city "New Kowloon" soaked in neon and acid rain, Cheng Che is just a "Neuromancer" living at the bottom. He relied on second-hand prosthetics and third-rate hacking skills to fish for debris in the undercurrent of data, barely maintaining his not-so-dignified, but at least still "alive" life.
A seemingly ordinary data interception mission accidentally involved him in a huge conspiracy that could subvert the entire city. A fragment of data of unknown origin parasitized in his neural connections like a ghost. It was an "echo" from the past, the remains of forbidden technology, and a key coveted by countless forces.
From this moment on, Cheng Che's "good days" came to an end. The company's top security department, killers entrenched in the depths of the dark web, mysterious organizations wandering in gray areas... All forces are like sharks smelling blood, dragging him into a bottomless whirlpool.
In order to survive and to figure out what the "ghost" was that appeared in his mind from time to time and spoke garbled words, Cheng Che had to use all his abilities. He uses the meanest trash talk to provoke the toughest enemies, and uses the most unreliable tactics to resolve the most deadly crises.
On this desperate journey to the truth, he will forge a relationship with a ruthless prosthetic hunter, reach a deal with a mysterious information dealer, and re-examine the boundary between "humanity" and "consciousness" in the baptism of blood and fire.
