Recaps

Su Xiao’s Delamain Taxi wiped out a group of Pacifica punks, while NetWatch agent Bryce Mosley struggled to find help for his mission against the Voodoo Boys. The chapter left Mosley relying on Rogue, the only fixer willing to help, despite her dissatisfaction with his five-million-euro offer.

• Su Xiao activated the Delamain Taxi’s combat mode, and its rotary machine gun killed the punks who tried to rob him.
• Bryce Mosley arrived in Night City and hired the Animal Gang to guard him at the Grand Imperial Mall.
• Mosley learned that Mr. Hanz could not provide the intelligence he needed about the Voodoo Boys and their leaders, Maman Brigitte and Placide.
• Arasaka and Militech refused to give Mosley practical assistance, despite NetWatch’s warnings about the Blackwall threat.
• Savage King introduced Mosley to Rogue, who offered to help but considered his five-million-euro payment insufficient.
• Mosley contacted other fixers, but they all refused the job as soon as they heard it involved the Voodoo Boys.

Su Xiao offered to take NetWatch agent Mosley’s contract to destroy the Voodoo Boys for twenty million euros, including a three-million-euro personal payment to Mosley. He persuaded Mosley to seek more funding by making NetWatch understand the threat and the work involved.

• Mosley answered an unfamiliar call from Su Xiao, who said Rogue had given him Mosley’s number and invited him to meet at the Grand Imperial Mall.
• Su Xiao confirmed he knew Mosley was a NetWatch agent targeting the Voodoo Boys and agreed to take the contract for twenty million euros instead of the offered five million.
• Mosley objected to the price, but Su Xiao offered him three million euros personally, prompting Mosley to reconsider the deal.
• Mosley said he could authorize only eight million euros, so Su Xiao advised him to make his superiors take the Voodoo Boys threat seriously and clearly report how difficult the work was.
• Mosley recognized that he had habitually completed his assignments without explaining the workload, and Su Xiao told him that reporting was important.

Su Xiao explained why Mosley needed to request a larger budget and outlined a covert plan to attack the Voodoo Boys in Pacifica. Mosley remained cautious, and Su Xiao rejected his suggestion to involve Savage King’s Animal Gang.

• Su Xiao advised Mosley to report the dangers of the Voodoo Boys operation so NetWatch would approve a larger budget.
• Mosley realized Su Xiao might be leading him into a scam and demanded proof that he could handle the job.
• Su Xiao explained that the Voodoo Boys had few members but were protected by Pacifica’s Haitian community, making a large-scale assault risky.
• Su Xiao proposed secretly bringing a small elite force into Pacifica and staging it at a safehouse before a surprise attack.
• Mosley suggested using Grand Imperial Mall as the safehouse and asking Savage King to join the operation.
• Su Xiao agreed that Grand Imperial Mall could serve as the safehouse but rejected involving the Animal Gang because they were not professional soldiers.

Su Xiao and Mosley agreed to work together against the Voodoo Boys, and Su Xiao used drones and insider information to map their bases and defenses. The chapter ended with NetWatch rejecting most of Mosley’s requested budget, leaving Su Xiao unwilling to take the job for the reduced payment.

• Su Xiao reassured Mosley that he knew the Voodoo Boys’ base locations and persuaded him to cooperate.
• Mosley invited Su Xiao to stay at the Grand Imperial Mall, where Su Xiao arranged a room overlooking the Voodoo Boys’ territory and told V and Lucy to prepare for a possible move.
• Su Xiao used drones to scout the Barty Hotel and Serenity Bible Hall, confirming that the hotel housed a public black market and Voodoo Boys base while the Bible Hall concealed their true underground headquarters.
• Su Xiao learned that Maman Brigitte, Placide, and Neptune operated from the hidden base, so the raid would need separate teams to attack both locations despite Su Xiao having fewer than forty people against nearly three hundred Voodoo Boys.
• Mosley told Su Xiao that NetWatch had rejected most of his requested budget and approved only a two-million increase, leaving too little money for Su Xiao to accept the job.

After NetWatch allocated Mosley thirty million euros to eliminate the Voodoo Boys, Su Xiao organized a coordinated assault on their two bases. The chapter ends with Maman Brigitte awake at night, recalling the failed plan to steal the Relic and the fate of Evelyn Parker.

• NetWatch detected a rogue AI crossing the Blackwall through the Voodoo Boys, approved Mosley's request, and allocated him thirty million euros to destroy the gang.
• Su Xiao let Mosley keep ten million euros from the budget and prepared his crew for an assault on Serenity Bible Hall and the Barty Hotel.
• Su Xiao assigned Mitch and Skar to raid Serenity Bible Hall while he, V, Lucy, and the others targeted the Barty Hotel.
• Su Xiao warned the teams that the map of Serenity Bible Hall might be imperfect and that the Voodoo Boys could have laid traps.
• Maman Brigitte recalled how the Voodoo Boys had planned to steal the Relic from Raijin Arasaka, how Evelyn Parker had become involved in the Azure Tower heist, and how Brigitte had fried Evelyn's brain.

Brigitte accelerated the Voodoo Boys’ search for a rogue AI, captured one at the cost of several netrunners, and prepared to move their secret base because she feared NetWatch had found them. Meanwhile, Su Xiao’s team began an infiltration near the Serenity Bible Hall, leaving the operation poised to proceed.

• Brigitte ordered more Voodoo Boys netrunners, including elite members, across the Blackwall, and they captured a rogue AI after losing several lives.
• Brigitte decided to relocate the secret base beneath the Serenity Bible Hall while leaving the Barty Hotel operating as their public base.
• Placide challenged Brigitte’s decision and offered to attack the NetWatch agent, but she ordered him to follow her plan.
• Su Xiao coordinated with Mitch and Skar, whose reconnaissance rover detected five surveillance cameras outside the Serenity Bible Hall.
• Mitch sent the Aldecaldos toward the hall and ordered their netrunner to hack its cameras.

Mitch's team infiltrated the Serenity Bible Hall and discovered that the Voodoo Boys were moving their equipment, so Su Xiao changed the plan to ambush them as they left. While Mitch's group attacked the Voodoo Boys outside the hall, Su Xiao led a second team to assault the Barty Hotel, where the fight continued at the lobby entrance.

• The Aldecaldos hacked into the Serenity Bible Hall and used Skar's rover to scout the passage, finding hidden laser tripwires and the Voodoo Boys packing up their base.
• After seeing the Voodoo Boys load their equipment onto forklifts, Mitch informed Su Xiao, who ordered the team to withdraw and ambush them outside the hall.
• The Voodoo Boys drove their equipment through the passage, and Mitch ordered his team to wait until they had all emerged before opening fire.
• Su Xiao sent V and Lucy to cover other entrances to the Barty Hotel, then led the remaining Aldecaldos toward its front entrance.
• Su Xiao's team destroyed the Auto Turret and surveillance cameras, then exchanged fire with Voodoo Boys in the hotel lobby.
• An Aldecaldo fired an RPG into the lobby, and Su Xiao led the team toward the hotel's outer wall while machine gunners suppressed the surviving enemies.

Su Xiao and his teams wiped out the Voodoo Boys at the Barty Hotel and Serenity Bible Hall without casualties. Mosley welcomed them back and promised payment, and Su Xiao proposed another opportunity to work together with NetWatch.

• Su Xiao led the Aldecaldos through the Barty Hotel, breaking through the Voodoo Boys' defenses with grenades and gunfire.
• Placide took an Aldecaldo hostage, but Su Xiao shot him and found Brigitte dead among the bodies.
• Su Xiao confirmed that V and Lucy's teams had finished their assaults, then ordered Mitch to destroy the Voodoo Boys' hacking equipment.
• Mosley welcomed Su Xiao's team back to the Grand Imperial Mall and was astonished that they had suffered no casualties.
• Su Xiao and Mosley discussed Mosley's promotion and future cooperation, and Su Xiao said the Dawn Military Company had another opportunity to work with NetWatch.

After the Random Blade Society captured Saul and members of his patrol, Su Xiao agreed to help the Aldecaldos rescue them without charging a fee. He arrived at their camp with Panam, Mitch, and Skar, where Bob confirmed the captures and the group prepared to discuss a rescue plan.

• Rogue praised Su Xiao for refusing to keep dangerous data recovered by the Voodoo Boys, and Su Xiao explained that he would not risk the safety of the people under his command.
• Panam, Mitch, and Skar told Su Xiao that the Random Blade Society had captured Saul and asked to leave Stone Ridge Mountain to help.
• Su Xiao offered to join the rescue and take most of his people, waiving his usual fee despite the Aldecaldos' inability to pay.
• Su Xiao and the others traveled to the Aldecaldos' camp, where Carole, Teddy, Cassidy, and Bob were working on a rescue plan.
• Bob confirmed that Saul and several members of his patrol were prisoners of the Random Blade Society, and Su Xiao asked what plan they had devised.

Su Xiao rejected the Aldecaldos’ plans to storm or sneak into the Random Blade Society’s heavily armed cement factory and organized a reconnaissance mission to find a safer way to rescue Saul. He set out with Panam and Bob, leaving the others to protect the camp, and their tense drive toward the factory continued.

• Carol and Teddy argued over whether to attack the Random Blade Society head-on or infiltrate its camp, while Su Xiao judged both plans too dangerous.
• Carol showed Su Xiao drone footage of the cement factory, revealing at least three hundred enemies, walls, Auto Turrets, Heavy Machine Guns, and grenade launchers.
• Panam rebuked Carol and Teddy for proposing plans likely to get the Aldecaldos killed, and Su Xiao said he would help rescue Saul if they followed his lead.
• Su Xiao ordered a close reconnaissance of the factory, chose Bob to accompany him, and told the others to protect the camp and add patrols in case the Random Blade Society found its location.
• Su Xiao, Panam, and Bob drove toward the factory in an Armored SUV, and Panam finally spoke after they had traveled for more than an hour.

Su Xiao infiltrated the Random Blade Society’s cement factory and rescued Saul from its basement without alerting the gang. The group reunited outside the factory, and Saul learned that the Aldecaldos had nearly launched a direct assault to save him.

• Su Xiao used his Tactical Goggles to find an unguarded pipe leading to Saul’s cell and entered the cement factory alone.
• Su Xiao disabled a basement camera, found Saul beaten and restrained, and revived him with a Pneumatic Syringe.
• Su Xiao freed Saul, gave him a loaded Kinetic Handgun, and led him back out through the pipe.
• Su Xiao, Saul, Panam, and Bob met outside the factory, where Saul hugged Panam and Bob.
• Saul heard that Carol and the others had wanted to storm the Random Blade Society’s base after learning he was captured.

Su Xiao rescued Saul and used Rogue’s Scorpion Lion to destroy the Random Blade Society’s cement-factory stronghold, earning the Aldecaldos’ trust. Back at his completed base, he accompanied David to visit Gloria, where David admitted that Arasaka Academy had expelled him.

• Su Xiao called Rogue to rent a Scorpion Lion and had it bombard the Random Blade Society’s cement factory, killing the gang members inside.
• Su Xiao and the others returned to the Aldecaldos’ camp, where the clan celebrated Saul’s rescue and thanked him.
• Su Xiao returned to Stone Ridge Mountain and inspected the completed base, which included dormitories, a shooting range, and a VR Training Room.
• David told Su Xiao that Gloria had regained consciousness and confessed that he was afraid to visit her because she might ask about Arasaka Academy.
• Su Xiao accompanied David to the hospital, where David told Gloria that he had been expelled from Arasaka Academy after breaking its online education system and being hospitalized.

After David was expelled from Arasaka Academy, Su Xiao offered him a job at Dawn Military Company, and Gloria joined as well. Su Xiao then arranged to buy advanced VR Training Equipment from a prominent arms dealer in Bolivia, agreeing to pay a deposit first and the balance after checking the equipment.

• David told Gloria that Arasaka Academy's principal had refused to let him return, leaving her devastated over his expulsion.
• Su Xiao revealed that David worked for Dawn Military Company and earned three hundred euros a day while training to become a warrior.
• Gloria asked to join the company, and Su Xiao hired her to assist Old Wei's medical team.
• Rogue told Su Xiao that an arms dealer in Bolivia had an advanced VR Training Equipment set made by Tsunami Defense System.
• The arms dealer demanded eighty million and initially insisted on full payment, but Su Xiao negotiated a deposit followed by the balance after inspecting the equipment.

Su Xiao, V, and Lucy reached Bolivia to buy weapons, but found the meeting town destroyed and learned that the arms dealer was trapped by the Anti-government Armed Forces. Su Xiao set out to rescue him, while the dealer waited in an abandoned church for reinforcements.

• Su Xiao, V, and Lucy arrived in the ruined town and found no sign of the arms dealer.
• Su Xiao used a broadcasting station to contact the arms dealer, who said he had fled to an abandoned church and was trapped by the Anti-government Armed Forces.
• Su Xiao told V and Lucy where the dealer was and decided to go there because the goods were with him.
• The arms dealer and three surviving bodyguards held their positions inside the church and discussed why they were being pursued.
• The arms dealer revealed that he had called for reinforcements, leaving his bodyguards wondering who would come.

Su Xiao’s group rescued the Arms Dealer and his bodyguards from a sniper, but the Arms Dealer revealed that the truck carrying the goods had been left behind. The Arms Dealer gave Su Xiao a tracker chip so they could locate the truck.

• The Arms Dealer and his bodyguards drove off the Anti-government Armed Forces, then took cover from a sniper who pinned them inside the church.
• The Arms Dealer contacted Su Xiao, who arrived with V and Lucy and promised to deal with the sniper.
• Su Xiao used his Tactical Goggles to locate the sniper, and V killed him with a single shot.
• Su Xiao asked where the goods were, and the Arms Dealer admitted he had left the truck behind while fleeing the town.
• The Arms Dealer showed Su Xiao a tracker chip, and Su Xiao inserted it into his Tactical Goggles.

Su Xiao led an attack on an Anti-government Armed Forces camp to recover the Arms Dealer’s stolen goods, but the assault became a rescue when he saw the militia preparing to shoot fleeing civilians. After wiping out the camp, Su Xiao introduced himself to a uniformed man who had mistaken his group for Government Army reinforcements.

• Su Xiao refused to pay the Arms Dealer for goods the militia had taken, and the two agreed that the Arms Dealer would travel under Su Xiao’s protection.
• Su Xiao led the group to the militia camp where the tracker showed the stolen goods were being held.
• When trucks delivered civilians to the camp, Su Xiao ordered V and Lucy to target the heavy machine gunners and told the others to wait for his signal.
• V and Lucy shot the machine gunners, and Su Xiao’s group killed the militia as they prepared to shoot the fleeing civilians.
• Su Xiao reassured the rescued civilians, then told a uniformed man that he was the president of the Dawn Military Company and asked who the man was.

Su Xiao led a convoy of civilians and humanitarian workers toward La Paz, refusing the Arms Dealer’s offer to abandon them. After organizing a safe overnight camp, he heard the humanitarian group was interested in hiring his company for long-term protection.

• Su Xiao agreed to escort the civilians to La Paz for free and rejected the Arms Dealer’s offer of five million to leave them behind.
• The convoy drove for several hours, then stopped for the night so the civilians could rest and the group could remain alert.
• Su Xiao distributed weapons and organized three guard shifts with members of his group, the humanitarian organization, and the Arms Dealer’s bodyguards.
• The middle-aged white man asked Su Xiao about Dawn Military Company and whether it accepted long-term protection contracts.
• The middle-aged white man offered to hire Su Xiao to protect the humanitarian organization throughout Bolivia, and Su Xiao considered the proposal.

Su Xiao persuaded the International Rescue Organization leader to prioritize their own safety, then organized the group to confront approaching Anti-government Armed Forces militia. Big Gold Tooth led the militia into an ambush, where the first volleys cut down many of his men.

• Su Xiao convinced the middle-aged white man that protecting the organization would let them help more civilians.
• Lucy spotted a large group of Anti-government Armed Forces militia approaching, and Su Xiao gathered the International Rescue Organization, the Arms Dealer, and his bodyguards.
• Su Xiao proposed wiping out the attackers and keeping one alive for questioning; the Arms Dealer stayed with the group, though reluctantly.
• Big Gold Tooth led nearly a hundred militiamen toward the camp, but the target began moving and he ordered his men to hurry.
• Su Xiao's group ambushed the militia from the bushes, killing or wounding dozens before Big Gold Tooth and the survivors hit the ground.

Su Xiao captured and interrogated Big Gold Tooth, learning that the Anti-government Armed Forces had pursued them to seize Diego Castillo and that a mole had been guiding them. After Big Gold Tooth was killed, Su Xiao identified Diego and the mole among the civilians and confirmed the mole’s identity with his Tactical Goggles.

• V and Lucy helped Su Xiao’s group defeat the militia and capture Big Gold Tooth.
• Su Xiao pressured Big Gold Tooth into revealing that the militia wanted to abduct the president’s son, Diego Castillo, and force the president to step down.
• Big Gold Tooth explained that two moles near the president had helped Diego flee and supplied the militia with information about his movements.
• V killed Big Gold Tooth after he finished answering Su Xiao’s questions.
• Su Xiao rejoined the International Rescue Organization, explained what he had learned, and identified Diego Castillo and the suspected mole among the civilians.
• Su Xiao scanned the suspected mole with his Tactical Goggles and confirmed Big Gold Tooth’s account.

Su Xiao exposed the mole who had betrayed Diego and led the International Rescue Organization convoy through repeated attacks by the Anti-government Armed Forces. After reaching Government Army territory, he saw how outnumbered and poorly equipped its troops were compared with their opponents.

• Su Xiao identified Diego’s trusted aide as an Anti-government Armed Forces mole, and the International Rescue Organization restrained him after Lucy played Big Gold Tooth’s recording.
• Diego admitted he was Anton Castillo’s son, but Su Xiao said he had only wanted to remove the mole and then left without seeking Diego’s help.
• Su Xiao arranged night watches and rested, reasoning that Bolivia’s president would have good reason to accept the Dawn Military Company’s offer to train and equip the Government Army.
• When Anti-government Armed Forces patrols attacked the convoy, Su Xiao, V, and Lucy destroyed the pursuing pickups without suffering casualties.
• The convoy crossed into Government Army territory, where Su Xiao observed that its forces were scarce, listless, and poorly equipped compared with the Anti-government Armed Forces.

Su Xiao returned Diego to President Anton Castillo and negotiated a deal to equip and train Bolivia’s Government Army in exchange for control of three mineral deposits. Afterward, he contacted Meredith Stout, who now controlled Militech’s Night City branch.

• Su Xiao led Diego and his group into La Paz with an escort of more than two hundred Government Army troops.
• President Anton Castillo reunited with Diego, then asked Su Xiao what reward he wanted.
• Su Xiao proposed that Dawn Military Company train and equip the Government Army, and the president agreed to pay with mineral rights in Anti-government Armed Forces territory.
• After hours of negotiations, Dawn Military Company agreed to provide combat vehicles, aerial vehicles, weapons, and three years of training in exchange for two gold mines and one copper mine with no extraction time limit.
• Su Xiao returned to his room, checked on V and Lucy, and called Meredith Stout, who answered with surprise.

Su Xiao arranged to buy Militech vehicles, borrowed money from Rogue, and prepared to move the Dawn Military Company and the Aldecaldos to Bolivia. Judy then asked for his help protecting Cloudy Peak’s sex dolls after explaining Evelyn’s condition and the venue’s poor network security.

• Su Xiao agreed to buy fifty Basilisk armored vehicles and twenty Manticore aircraft from Meredith for 625 million euros, then asked Rogue to lend him the money in exchange for repaying 700 million within five years.
• Su Xiao returned to Stone Ridge Mountain with V and Lucy, told the company about its Bolivia contract, and recruited Saul’s Aldecaldos family to join the company.
• Su Xiao gave Stone Ridge Mountain to Rogue as collateral and gathered supplies, Mann’s team, and other mercenary squads for the move to Bolivia.
• Judy told Su Xiao that Evelyn had left the hospital but remained withdrawn, and explained that she wanted to overhaul Cloudy Peak to protect its sex dolls from exploitation and cyberattacks.
• Su Xiao recognized that Cloudy Peak’s weak network security had enabled the attack on Evelyn and identified Eagle Eye software as a way to isolate the dolls’ implants from the venue’s subnet.

Su Xiao agreed to help Judy take Cloudy Peak from the Tiger Claws Gang, and the two went to persuade its second-in-command, Maiko Maeda. Their meeting turned hostile when Su Xiao attacked Maiko, leaving Judy to continue with her appeal about Evelyn.

• Judy told Su Xiao that Maiko Maeda, Cloudy Peak's second-in-command, had to be convinced before they could move forward, and Su Xiao agreed to help.
• Su Xiao told V and Lucy he might be away for a few days, then met Judy on Cloudy Peak's balcony the next morning.
• Judy opened Maiko Maeda's office door and warned Su Xiao that she knew Maiko better and would handle the conversation.
• Maiko insulted Judy and Su Xiao, so Su Xiao grabbed her by the throat and dropped her after nearly suffocating her.
• Judy asked Maiko whether she knew what had happened to Evelyn, and Maiko said she had learned about it afterward but did not feel sorry for her.

Judy gathered Su Xiao, Tom, Roxanne, and Maiko Maeda to present her plan to retake Cloudy Peak from the Tiger Claws Gang. The meeting ended with Maiko mocking Judy’s proposal as Su Xiao watched Tom and Roxanne hold back their anger.

• Judy failed to persuade Maiko Maeda to help take Cloudy Peak back, and Su Xiao warned Judy not to trust Maiko too much.
• Judy later told Su Xiao that Maiko would join a meeting with Tom and Roxanne to discuss a plan.
• Su Xiao moved the meeting to a private room at Afterlife so they would not disturb Evelyn.
• Judy introduced Su Xiao to Roxanne and Tom, who had joined her effort partly out of fear of suffering Evelyn’s fate.
• Maiko arrived, showed fear when she saw Su Xiao, then mocked Judy’s plan to modify the Behavior Chip so Sex Dolls could fight like elite assassins.

Judy explained her modified Behavior Chip and proposed taking Cloudy Peak from the Tiger Claws Gang. After testing the chip against Su Xiao, he received blueprints for two stronger combat implants, while Judy laid out her plan to seize the club.

• Judy explained that her modified Behavior Chip replaced natural reflexes with programmed combat movements, and Tom demonstrated it by smashing a bottle.
• Maiko Maeda challenged Judy to prove the chip’s usefulness, so Tom fought Su Xiao and was quickly defeated.
• Su Xiao accepted the system’s offer and spent 1,000 Potential Points to obtain blueprints for the Combat Augmentor and Combat Augmentor Enhancer.
• Su Xiao learned that the implants could temporarily raise users to special-forces or Captain America levels, with combat mode lasting one hour.
• Judy proposed knocking out and disarming the Tiger Claws Gang at Cloudy Peak, then forcing its leaders to stay away and relinquish control.