In 2078, the Neon Rift City stood on the edge of the Poisonous Fog Ocean. A giant sea wall around the city blocked the debris of the sunken continent. The city was vertically layered: the floating zone was for corporate nobles, the middle layer was a disguised battlefield, and the sinking layer was a cemetery of prosthetic ruins and memory garbage. Acid rain never stops, neon lights never go out, everything rots but never dies.
The protagonist Ghostwire, 27 years old, is a former Synapse neural chain person. The mission failed two years ago, and 80% of the prosthetic body was remotely locked by the company, and the sinking layer was abandoned. He became a ghost: he survived by selling memory fragments in his brain for black market parts. He was indifferent, self-destructive, and foul-mouthed. 70% Of his memories were false implants, and he almost forgot who he was.
The story begins with a chase on a rainy night. He accidentally got involved in the "living data package" wanted by Iron Raven - the girl Echo, who contained the AI fragment "Protocol Zero" that paralyzed the company's firewall. The two used each other to use each other and uncovered the truth during their escape: the three major super companies (Synapse, Iron Raven, and Eden Gene) jointly detonated the "Singularity Collapse" and artificially killed the AI just to retain control of the brain machine. Ghostwire turned out to be a living witness to the collapse.
From the black market to the suspension zone, from the memory virus counterattack to the crushing of corporate war gears, he changed his prosthetic body, identity, and soul along the way. Every "upgrade" is a gamble with your life: rejection, hallucinations, and mental pollution follow you everywhere. He hunts down his old boss, but discovers a deeper secret - is Echo an artificial firewall? His memory is a company script? Is he still human?
