Recaps

Su Xiao arranged with Padre to sell his tech weapons and received AR Glasses to use in place of cyberware. After putting them on, he tested them by answering a call from Jack Wells.

• V suggested that Su Xiao let Padre handle sales of his tech weapons, and Jack called Padre to discuss the arrangement.
• Padre offered to take thirty percent of the profits after materials costs, leaving Su Xiao with seventy percent, and Su Xiao agreed to make about five weapons a day.
• V asked whether Su Xiao had cyberware, and he said he disliked implants; she suggested AR Glasses instead.
• Padre's crew delivered materials and parts, and Padre arranged daily payments and sent Su Xiao a pair of AR Glasses.
• Su Xiao put on the AR Glasses and answered a call from Jack Wells, telling him they felt good.

Su Xiao used five potential points to obtain the Tactical Goggles blueprint, built the goggles, and tested their advanced functions. The chapter then shifted to Padre meeting Faraday at a restaurant, where Faraday sat down across from him.

• The system rewarded Su Xiao with the improved Tactical Goggles blueprint after he spent five potential points.
• Su Xiao asked Jack to buy the materials and sent him the list, then shut himself in the garage to build the goggles.
• After three days, Su Xiao finished the Tactical Goggles and tested their night vision, thermal imaging, scanning, and anti-detection functions.
• Faraday approached Padre at Tom's Restaurant and sat down across from him.

Su Xiao, V, and Jack joined Mann’s crew to plan an ambush on the Animal Gang leader who had attacked their client. The teams headed to Pacifica to intercept him at a black market, leaving the operation about to begin.

• Faraday and Padre met with a corporate client who hired both fixers to eliminate the leader of the Animal Gang crew that had tried to assassinate him.
• Su Xiao, V, and Jack ate breakfast at the Wolf Bar and learned they would share the target with another mercenary team.
• Su Xiao and his companions met Mann, Dorio, Rebecca, and Sasha at an abandoned construction site in Santo Domingo.
• Sasha showed the teams the Animal Gang leader’s photo, and Mann explained that he regularly bought enhancers at a Pacifica black market.
• Mann proposed that the two teams cover opposite entrances to the underground parking garage and surround the leader after he entered.
• The teams drove toward Pacifica to put the ambush plan into action.

Su Xiao, V, and Jack prepared an ambush at Pacifica’s black market and waited with Mann’s team for their target. When the Animal Gang leader arrived, two young men walked into his group while arguing about Arasaka.

• Su Xiao, V, and Sasha disabled the black market’s cameras, and Su Xiao killed the Scavengers in the surveillance room.
• Su Xiao’s team and Mann’s team watched the black market for two days before Sasha reported that their target had appeared.
• Jack checked the shotgun Su Xiao had made for him and told Su Xiao to stay behind him when the fighting started.
• The Animal Gang leader arrived at the black market with a crowd of muscular gang members.
• Two young men praised Arasaka as they left the black market, then walked into the Animal Gang leader and his group.

Mann’s team ambushed the Animal Gang after its boss sent an underling into the black market, but the boss’s suspicions and the gang’s firepower left the attackers struggling to stop his escape. As Mann’s team fell behind in the firefight, Su Xiao’s group was still approaching from the other side.

• The Animal Gang boss sensed danger near the black market, sent an underling inside to buy medicine, and waited for him in the car with the rest of his men.
• Mann’s team argued over whether to attack or withdraw, then voted to continue while Su Xiao’s group circled around to strike from the other side.
• Mann and his companions ambushed the underling and the Animal Gang, but the boss used a subordinate as a shield and ordered his men to retreat while returning fire.
• Mann’s team began losing ground, and Mann stood up to blast two Animal Gang members with his shotgun.
• Someone kicked Mann’s calf, making him fall and dodge the bullets that followed.

Su Xiao stopped the Animal Gang leader from escaping by killing him and the driver with an Ice Storm sniper rifle, allowing Mann's crew to defeat the remaining gang members. As the crew prepared to leave, Mann discovered something strange beneath the leader's sleeve.

• Dorio kept Mann under cover while Sasha and Rebecca helped Mann's crew fight the Animal Gang.
• Two vans arrived and gave the Animal Gang cover, letting its leader escape with the driver.
• Su Xiao shot the leader and driver, then picked off fleeing Animal Gang members.
• Mann regrouped with Su Xiao and his companions, thanked them, and sent photos of the dead leader to Faraday.
• Mann noticed the leader's oversized arm beneath his trench coat, cut into it, and stared in shock at what he found.

Mann invited Su Xiao to join his crew, then offered him a pair of powerful mechanical arms recovered from a job. While inspecting them, Su Xiao triggered a system prompt for an improved mechanical prosthetics blueprint, but he lacked the 20 potential points required to obtain it.

• Mann invited Su Xiao to join his crew, but Su Xiao declined while leaving the offer open for the future.
• Mann showed Su Xiao the mechanical arms taken from the Animal Gang's leader, who had secretly replaced his hands with them.
• Mann offered to buy the arms after Faraday paid him, and Su Xiao agreed to let Mann purchase them after examining them.
• Su Xiao's I Guess skill triggered a system offer for an improved mechanical prosthetics blueprint costing 20 potential points.
• Su Xiao checked his potential points and found he had earned less than a fifth of the required amount.

After a month of taking jobs, Su Xiao, Jack, and V viewed a luxurious apartment in The Glen. Su Xiao decided it was the home he wanted, while Jack reflected on how quickly Su Xiao had advanced since arriving in Night City.

• Su Xiao stopped Jack from arguing with the receptionist and paid ten eurodollars to view the apartment.
• Jack showed Su Xiao and V the apartment’s industrial decor, smart windows, armory, entertainment area, liquor cabinet, and upstairs rooms.
• V was stunned to learn the rent was forty thousand eurodollars a month, while Su Xiao judged the price reasonable.
• Su Xiao admired the view and style, decided to rent the apartment, and left Jack feeling happy for him but conflicted about how quickly he had progressed.

Su Xiao bought an apartment, gave Jack and V access, and lent V money to find a place of her own. The next morning he woke alone, went to the Wolf Bar to find them, and learned they had left early.

• Su Xiao bought the apartment and gave Jack and V resident access; Jack celebrated by drinking from the liquor cabinet.
• Su Xiao sent V three hundred thousand eurodollars so she could rent her own apartment, and he and V watched over Jack as he drank.
• Reporter Max Jones received a call from Esteban Ramirez and agreed to meet him that afternoon.
• Arasaka counterintelligence learned of the planned meeting and ordered a Special Assault Unit to eliminate Esteban and all witnesses.
• Su Xiao woke in his new apartment feeling lonely, then went to the Wolf Bar and learned from Peppy that V and Jack had gone out early.

Su Xiao accepted a job protecting reporter Max Jones as he went to meet Esteban, an unknown contact with information about a corporation. When they reached the meeting area, they spotted two Arasaka AVs taking off and realized the situation might be dangerous.

• Su Xiao agreed to protect Max Jones while he met Esteban, who claimed to have corporate secrets.
• Su Xiao called Jack, but Jack hurriedly ended the call while V and Jack were apparently busy elsewhere.
• Su Xiao and Max drove toward the Northside Industrial District for the meeting.
• Max spotted two heavy AVs bearing Arasaka markings rising into the sky, and he slumped back in shock.

Su Xiao and Max found the camp destroyed by Arasaka, and Max discovered that the dead contact, Esteban, had been mutilated to prevent data recovery. Su Xiao found a wary white-haired girl hiding in a storage box, and they realized they had mistaken each other for the attackers.

• Su Xiao and Max reached the camp and found its tents overturned, its chapel burning, and the residents dead.
• Max examined Esteban’s corpse and found his Neural Slots, cybernetic eyes, and brain destroyed, then paid Su Xiao and left.
• Su Xiao returned Esteban’s body to the fire and heard a strange noise from a storage box.
• Su Xiao opened the box, dodged the girl’s Monofilament Wire, and pinned her down after she attacked him.
• Su Xiao and the girl learned they had mistaken each other for the Arasaka unit and the Cyberpsycho responsible for the massacre.

Su Xiao took Lucy in, arranged a Japantown apartment for her, and gave her money despite her confusion about his kindness. After he left, Lucy checked the apartment for surveillance and cautiously confirmed that the money was real.

• Su Xiao offered to help Lucy and brought her to a restaurant in Kabuki District.
• Su Xiao showed Lucy an apartment listing in Japantown and paid its rent and deposit for three months.
• Su Xiao and Lucy ate together, and Lucy enjoyed the meal while quietly watching him.
• Su Xiao took Lucy to the apartment, where she watched a rocket launch from the window.
• Su Xiao gave Lucy 20,000 euros, introduced himself, and left.
• Lucy searched the apartment for surveillance, then tested the vending machine and confirmed she could use the money.

Su Xiao reflected on Lucy’s escape from Arasaka and helped her because he recognized his former self in her situation. After earning 20 potential points, he acquired an improved Power Gauntlet blueprint and began gathering materials to build it.

• Lucy remembered how Arasaka trained orphaned children for dangerous dives into the Old Net, where many of her companions died.
• Lucy escaped the underground facility with surviving companions and eventually fled to Night City, where Su Xiao gave her money and a place to stay.
• Su Xiao drove back toward Heywood and decided he wanted to recruit Lucy into his team.
• Su Xiao, Jack, and V completed several jobs against kidney harvesters, allowing Su Xiao to save 20 potential points.
• Su Xiao spent the points to acquire an improved Power Gauntlet blueprint and called Padre to obtain the tools and parts he needed.
• Three days later, Padre’s men delivered crates of materials, and Su Xiao secured his Weapon Modification Room before beginning work.

Su Xiao finished making a pair of Power Gauntlets, but Jack called with news that something had happened to Padre. A week earlier, Fidel had bought weapon-making supplies for Padre, and the men who sold them began plotting to sell information about Padre’s possible gunsmith to the Sixth Street Gang.

• Su Xiao tested the Power Gauntlets and decided to find someone outside to try them on.
• Jack called Su Xiao and told him that something had happened on Padre’s end.
• A week earlier, Fidel collected materials and parts from a concealed room in a Heywood hotel and drove them away for Padre.
• The sellers speculated that Padre’s new tech weapons came from a gunsmith making weapons with their supplies.
• One seller urged the others to sell the information to the Sixth Street Gang, and another man was shot when he refused to join them.

Fidel was captured and tortured by Malmer and the Sixth Street Gang, who used his memories to lure Jack into a trap. Su Xiao joined Padre’s preparations to rescue Fidel and proposed a way to limit casualties; half a day later, an SUV approached the gang’s hotel.

• Malmer’s men ambushed Fidel, tied him up, and used a hacker to search his memories for information about Padre’s gunsmith.
• Malmer’s hacker found Jack Wells’s name and impersonated Fidel to trick Jack into bringing Su Xiao to the hotel.
• Jack went to Padre, who learned that the Sixth Street Gang had gathered reinforcements near the hotel and warned the Valentino Gang.
• Su Xiao arrived at Padre’s base, learned the situation, and offered a plan to minimize losses while rescuing Fidel.
• Half a day later, Sixth Street Gang members spotted an approaching SUV and signaled it to stop.

Su Xiao and Jack met with Malmer, who tried to recruit them into the Sixth Street Gang with a lucrative offer. When Malmer threatened them after they refused, Su Xiao called on V to act, and one of Malmer’s men was hurled into a wardrobe.

• Su Xiao and Jack surrendered their weapons and were brought to Malmer, while Su Xiao secretly scanned the hotel and found Fidel locked up but alive.
• Malmer offered Su Xiao and Jack better shares of the weapons trade and leadership positions if they joined the Sixth Street Gang.
• Su Xiao and Jack rejected Malmer’s promises and challenged the gang’s claims of protecting the city.
• Malmer surrounded Su Xiao and Jack with his men and demanded they join the gang.
• Su Xiao silently told V to move, and one of Malmer’s men was thrown into a wardrobe.

Su Xiao, V, and Jack helped Padre’s men wipe out the Sixth Street Gang’s forces and rescued Fidel, while the gangs of Night City learned to fear the gunsmith behind Padre’s new weapons. Days later, Su Xiao spotted Lucy stealing chips from Corp Dogs on an elevated train, and she worked her way from the rear car to the front.

• Su Xiao and Jack killed Malmer and the Sixth Street Gang members inside the shady hotel while V covered them.
• Padre’s men ambushed the gang’s reinforcements using Su Xiao’s scan footage and upgraded weapons, killing nearly all of them without losing a man.
• Su Xiao and Jack rescued Fidel, received Padre’s thanks, and later took twenty thousand euros each as a reward.
• Rumors about the gunsmith’s weapons spread through Night City, but the gangs abandoned plans to target him after learning he had killed Malmer; the Corp Dogs who betrayed Padre were found dead.
• Su Xiao rode the elevated train through the rain and spotted Lucy stealing chips from Corp Dogs.
• Lucy used the same trick to steal chips from passengers as she moved from the train’s rear car to its front.

Lucy encountered Su Xiao on the maglev and joined him for a meal, still hiding her past from him. After a Trauma Team AV crashed into her apartment building, Su Xiao pulled her to safety, and the surviving team members began checking the wreckage and their client.

• Lucy spotted Su Xiao on the maglev, fled to another carriage, and got off at the next station.
• Su Xiao found Lucy at the station and invited her to eat with him at the pizza shop.
• Lucy asked about Su Xiao's work, and he said he was a mercenary before asking why she had come to Night City; she refused to explain.
• Su Xiao left Lucy outside her apartment building, where she hesitated to enter and trust him.
• A smoking Trauma Team AV crashed into the apartment building, and Su Xiao grabbed Lucy and tackled her inside to protect her.
• Surviving Trauma Team members emerged from the wreck, and the female medic gave the injured captain a Pneumatic Syringe before returning to check on the client.

Su Xiao rescued Dobbs from the Ripper, who had slaughtered most of the Trauma Team and nearly killed Lucy. Su Xiao fought the Ripper and wounded him, but the chapter ended as the Ripper launched a desperate attack and Su Xiao pulled back Muramasa.

• The Ripper ambushed the Trauma Team survivors, killing two more members as Dobbs ordered Nadia to flee with the injured client.
• Su Xiao blinded the Ripper with Flashbang Grenades and pulled Dobbs out of danger.
• Su Xiao confronted the Ripper over nearly getting Lucy killed, and the two clashed with their blades in the rain.
• Su Xiao blocked the Ripper's hidden gun with his Power Gauntlet and cut his face with Muramasa.
• The Ripper gambled on a mutual attack, but Su Xiao read his intent and withdrew Muramasa.

Su Xiao killed the Ripper and accepted the captain’s payment before Lucy invited him into her apartment to escape the rain. As they talked about her dream of going to the moon, Lucy prepared a braindance for Su Xiao, and they lay down together to experience it.

• Su Xiao seized the Ripper’s katana, knocked him down, and beat him to death as witnesses watched in shock.
• The captain thanked Su Xiao by transferring him several thousand euros, and Su Xiao left.
• Lucy invited the rain-soaked Su Xiao into her apartment, bought him clothes, and dried his hair.
• Su Xiao recognized Lucy’s old moon-colony poster, and Lucy admitted she wanted to go to the moon to find freedom and security.
• Lucy gave Su Xiao a Braindance Headset, adjusted the settings for his first experience, and prepared to start the braindance with him.

Su Xiao and Lucy agreed to become partners after she accepted his offer to join the team, with the understanding that he would respect her secrets and let her leave for the moon whenever she wished. The next morning, Su Xiao introduced Lucy to V and Jack Wells, while also receiving a job offer from Regina Jones.

• Su Xiao and Lucy explored a lunar braindance, and Lucy agreed to join his team on the condition that he not ask about her secrets.
• Su Xiao promised Lucy that she could leave for the moon once she had earned enough money, and she said they would make good partners.
• The next morning, Su Xiao exercised while Lucy got ready, and he invited her to meet V and Jack after breakfast.
• Regina Jones contacted Su Xiao, introduced herself as a Watson District fixer, and offered him a job.
• Su Xiao introduced Lucy to V and Jack Wells at the Wolf Bar, and both welcomed their new teammate.

Su Xiao and his companions searched Winding Street for the raw Black Market Dream recording of Bryce Stone’s son being murdered. They cornered a dealer who denied having it, then forced him to admit he knew the recording and hand over the chip.

• Su Xiao told Jack, Lucy, and V that Bryce Stone’s son had been murdered and the killing had been recorded as a Black Market Dream.
• Su Xiao explained that they needed the unedited recording for clues and said a dealer on Winding Street might lead them to it.
• A Corp Dog bought a Black Market Dream chip from the dealer beneath a bridge.
• Su Xiao, V, and Jack surrounded the dealer and asked for the recording of the child’s murder.
• Su Xiao choked the dealer until he admitted he knew the recording, then demanded the chip.

Su Xiao interrogated black market dream merchant Lenny Nero and learned that dream editor Gottfried Persson was hiding with the Vortex Gang in an abandoned Northside factory. Su Xiao attacked the hideout and drew its guards into an alley, where he ambushed them, but the fight remained underway.

• Lucy searched Lenny Nero's neural interface and found that he worked with Gottfried Persson, who had involved his son in making black market dreams.
• Lucy located Gottfried's hideout in an abandoned Northside Industrial District factory protected by the Vortex Gang.
• Su Xiao declared Lenny partly responsible for the spread of black market dreams and left him pinned down.
• Su Xiao killed the Vortex Gang guards outside the factory, then fled to lure the gang members into chasing him.
• Su Xiao ambushed the gang in a narrow alley, killed several with his revolver, and faced one remaining member raising a gun to fire back.

Su Xiao and his companions infiltrated Gottfried and Frederick’s studio to recover the Black Market Dream footage of Bobby Stone’s murder. They found the chip, but Gottfried claimed the footage had been left in the compound by an unknown person who had disabled the cameras.

• Su Xiao and his companions killed the Vortex Gang guards and entered the editing studio without alerting Gottfried and Frederick.
• Su Xiao questioned the father and son about the Black Market Dream involving Bryce Stone’s son, and V found the footage chip labeled BD_9430.
• Su Xiao demanded to know who killed Bobby Stone and who supplied the raw footage, while Jack beat Gottfried for refusing to answer.
• Gottfried claimed he did not know who left the footage and said the person had hacked the surveillance system and shut down the cameras.

After Su Xiao killed the Black Market Dream editors, he delivered the original recording to Regina, who later called him with a follow-up job tied to Bryce Stone’s murdered son. Su Xiao and his companions arrived at Afterlife to meet Regina and learn about the trouble Bryce had encountered.

• Su Xiao lured Gottfried and Frederick into believing he would let them go, then killed them with a grenade inside their studio.
• Su Xiao left the original recording at the designated location and told Regina the job was complete.
• A few days later, Regina told Su Xiao that Bryce Stone had found a lead in his son’s murder case and was now in serious trouble.
• Su Xiao arranged to meet Regina at Afterlife, and Jack excitedly described the mercenary bar as the heart of Night City.
• Su Xiao, V, Jack, and Lucy entered Afterlife and were directed to booth four after the bouncer confirmed their appointment with Regina.