Cyber Escape: The Tycoon's Electronic Chains

In Night City, three things are most expensive: oxygen, cyberware licenses, and the patience of tycoon Huo Ze.

Three years ago, Su Li, an underground doctor from the slums, hacked into the heart of the Huo Corporation, stole a piece of source code capable of upending the entire city, and dumped Huo Ze in the process.

Three years later, an underground deal goes bust. She is caught in the rain and her mask is pried off by a mechanical arm, revealing the cold, reddened electronic eyes of her ex.

Huo Ze personally fastens electronic shackles around her wrists. His voice is as cold as metal: “You stole my core and thought you could get away unscathed?”

Su Li grits her teeth. “Name your price. I’ll pay.”

The man chuckles and pins her inside the city’s highest-security private medical pod. “Money won’t be enough. You’ll repay me for the living key inside your body, the truth you’ve been hiding,

and the three years you owe me, one thing at a time.”

She thinks he wants revenge.

Only later does she learn that all of Night City is hunting her, and this chain is the only thing keeping her alive.