Recaps

After Chihana was gravely wounded, Su Xiao brought her to Victor for emergency treatment while V, Lucy, and Misty cared for Ryoko. Chihana survived, and when she later asked why Su Xiao had saved her, he answered with a single sentence.

• Su Xiao rushed Chihana to Victor's clinic as V comforted Ryoko, and Misty helped shelter them at the Divination Parlor.
• V, Lucy, and Su Xiao waited while Victor operated, and they tried to keep Ryoko from losing hope.
• Victor emerged exhausted and told everyone that Chihana was out of danger, prompting Ryoko to cry with relief.
• A few days later, Chihana hugged Ryoko and asked Su Xiao why he had saved her, and he replied with one sentence.

Su Xiao advised Chihana that fleeing to Europe without legal documents could leave her and Ryoko vulnerable, and suggested they remain in Night City instead. He began considering safer districts where the Tiger Claws Gang could not reach them, but the chapter ended before they chose a destination.

• Chihana thanked Su Xiao for saving her and Ryoko, then explained that a smuggler had betrayed their plan to leave Night City.
• Su Xiao warned Chihana that a fixer might help them leave Night City but probably could not secure legal European documents.
• Su Xiao explained that undocumented immigrants in Europe would lack legal protections and could be forced into dangerous illegal work, making Chihana reconsider her plan.
• Chihana worried that the Tiger Claws Gang would pursue them if they stayed, but Su Xiao argued that the gang could not control all of Night City.
• Su Xiao listed possible districts where Chihana and Ryoko might hide, ruled out Pacifica as too dangerous, and left the remaining options under consideration.

Su Xiao helped Chihana choose a safer future working at the Wolf Bar, then heard from McCoy that his former Buckle Family members had secretly held back a shipment of cyberware. Su Xiao contacted Padre to find a buyer, and Padre agreed to send someone to handle the deal.

• Su Xiao presented Chihana with fixer work in Santo Domingo or Heywood, but Jack suggested she work at the Wolf Bar, and V supported the idea.
• Chihana chose the Wolf Bar, while Su Xiao learned she had no further information about the smuggler who had betrayed her.
• McCoy called Su Xiao and explained that the Serpent Nation treated the former Buckle Family members poorly and that they had secretly kept a shipment of cyberware.
• Su Xiao asked Padre whether he wanted the second- and third-generation cyberware, and Padre agreed to send someone to handle the deal.

Su Xiao learned that McCoy’s Nomads had found a valuable fourth-generation Network Access Pod and arranged to buy it at the Sunset Motel. When Su Xiao recognized McCoy’s other client as the snakehead who betrayed Chihana, McCoy agreed to hand him over, while the snakehead began fleeing Night City in a Delamain Taxi.

• Su Xiao arranged to meet McCoy at the Sunset Motel the next afternoon and buy the Four Phases Transmission Ripple Type 4 Network Access Pod.
• McCoy told Su Xiao that the Nomads had also agreed to help a client leave Night City, and Su Xiao asked to see the client’s photo.
• Su Xiao showed the photo to Chihana, who identified the client as the snakehead who had betrayed her and Ryoko to the Tiger Claws Gang.
• Su Xiao asked McCoy to hand the snakehead over, and McCoy agreed to deliver him at the meeting.
• The snakehead left Chinatown in a Delamain Taxi, fearing Chihana and the Tiger Claws Gang would hunt him down.

Su Xiao and the Nomads captured the smuggler who had betrayed Chihana, and Chihana dealt with him in the wilderness. After paying McCoy for the item he had brought, Su Xiao left his friends at the Wolf Bar and went to the Afterlife nightclub, where Claire recognized him.

• McCoy confronted the smuggler at the Sunset Motel and captured him after learning he had sold out Chihana.
• Su Xiao arrived with Padre's representative, who offered McCoy's Nomads market price for their goods, and Su Xiao took the wrapped item and paid McCoy.
• Jack carried the bound smuggler to the SUV, and Chihana took him into the wilderness and returned with blood on her face.
• Su Xiao dropped Jack and the others off at the Wolf Bar, then took a Delamain Taxi to the Afterlife nightclub.
• Emmerich let Su Xiao into the Afterlife, where Claire recognized him by name.

Su Xiao visited Rogue at Afterlife and paid her to source a complete set of Fourth Generation Cybernetics for Lucy. After leaving, he killed the punks who tried to rob him and drove away in the Delamain Taxi.

• Su Xiao entered Rogue's private booth at Afterlife and asked her to buy cybernetics for him.
• Rogue reviewed Su Xiao's list, warned him about the cost of the Fourth Generation Cybernetics, and agreed to procure them after he transferred the money.
• Su Xiao asked Rogue to get the cybernetics as soon as possible because he needed them urgently.
• Punks confronted Su Xiao beside the Delamain Taxi and tried to surround him.
• Su Xiao shot the punks with his dual Large Caliber Revolvers, then got into the taxi and drove away.

Su Xiao improved his Evasion, identified how Nantong Zhengshuang’s robe had been armored, and used the discovery to obtain a blueprint for a customized bulletproof combat suit. He asked Rogue to procure the additional materials on credit, but she challenged his reputation.

• Su Xiao spent 30 Potential Points to raise Evasion from LV5 to LV8 and tested his improved speed and reflexes.
• Su Xiao examined Nantong Zhengshuang’s robe and realized it was covered in third-generation Subdermal Armor.
• The system offered Su Xiao an improved blueprint, and he spent 30 Potential Points to obtain the Customized Bulletproof Combat Suit blueprint.
• Su Xiao called Rogue to add the suit’s materials to his purchase and asked to pay for them in installments.
• Rogue questioned whether Su Xiao’s reputation was good enough for her to trust him, and Su Xiao replied that she did not need to trust him.

Su Xiao finished crafting four customized bulletproof combat suits and went to meet Jack, Lucy, and V at the Wolf Bar. The group gathered in the alley, where Jack presented Su Xiao with a motorcycle.

• Su Xiao persuaded Rogue to let him pay the remaining balance within two months, and she agreed to send his order when it arrived.
• Emmerich and the renovation workers delivered materials to Su Xiao’s apartment, and Su Xiao shut himself away in his Weapon Modification Room.
• After half a month, Su Xiao finished four combat suits using fourth-generation Subdermal Armor and experimental thickening liquid.
• Su Xiao called Jack, then went to the Wolf Bar and learned from Chihana that Jack, Lucy, and V were waiting in the alley.
• Jack revealed a dust-covered motorcycle as a present for Su Xiao, who guessed what it was using his Tactical Goggles.

Jack, V, and Lucy gave Su Xiao a Fenrir motorcycle, and Su Xiao surprised them with customized bulletproof combat suits. After testing the suits’ protection, the four friends celebrated together at a bar.

• Jack revealed the Fenrir motorcycle that he, V, and Lucy had bought for Su Xiao.
• Su Xiao thanked them and learned that Lucy had chosen the bike, which was exclusive to Japan.
• Su Xiao opened a metal case and presented Jack, V, and Lucy with customized bulletproof combat suits.
• Su Xiao fired a Large Caliber Revolver at his own sleeve to demonstrate that the suit stopped the bullet and repaired the dent.
• Jack hugged Su Xiao, V kissed his cheek, and Lucy gave him a quick hug.
• Su Xiao treated Jack, V, and Lucy to drinks at the bar.

Su Xiao took the drunken V home, cared for her, and stayed when she asked him not to leave. After Lucy appeared at V’s apartment looking troubled, Su Xiao took her to the rooftop of Megabuilding H10, where he lent her his trench coat against the cold.

• Su Xiao drove Lucy and the drunken V home, then carried V to her apartment and settled her into bed with water and a trash can nearby.
• V tugged at Su Xiao’s clothes and asked him not to go, but she fell asleep as he sat beside her.
• Su Xiao exercised in the bathroom, heard someone outside V’s apartment, and opened the door with a revolver ready to find Lucy there.
• Su Xiao asked Lucy what was wrong and took her to the rooftop of Megabuilding H10.
• Lucy shivered in the wind, so Su Xiao draped his trench coat over her.

Su Xiao sat with Lucy on a rooftop overlooking Japantown and reassured her that he would stand by anyone he trusted on his team, even against megacorporations. Lucy was moved by his words, but still had to decide whether to reveal the secret she had been hiding.

• Su Xiao led Lucy to the rooftop steps, where they sat together in silence and looked out over Night City.
• Lucy struggled with her fear that Su Xiao would reject her after learning about her past and the Deep Dive Interface.
• Su Xiao brought Lucy a hot drink, and she asked what he would do if someone on his team were a fugitive hunted by the International Police Organization.
• Su Xiao first joked that he would turn the fugitive in, then said he would protect anyone he trusted from the megacorporations.
• Lucy cried as Su Xiao said he feared companions hiding their troubles and urged them to face their problems together.

After Lucy confided her past to Su Xiao, he promised to protect her and help her face Arasaka, bringing the two closer. The next morning, Su Xiao learned that V and Jack were scheduled for implant surgery, and he set out with V and Lucy to pick up Jack.

• Lucy told Su Xiao that she was Lucyna Kushinada, half Japanese and half Polish, and had grown up in an Arasaka facility.
• Su Xiao embraced Lucy and promised that he would keep her secrets and help her face Arasaka, while Lucy began to see him as her moon.
• Su Xiao woke to find V and Lucy preparing breakfast together, and V explained that Victor had scheduled her and Jack for surgery that day.
• Su Xiao, V, and Lucy left the apartment, found their usual elevator broken, and took another elevator through the megabuilding.
• After hearing a WNS report about the Arasaka Soul Festival, Su Xiao drove V and Lucy toward the Wolf Bar to pick up Jack.

Su Xiao accepted a high-risk rescue job from Old Captain and called Rebecca to ask Mann’s team for help while V and Jack recovered from surgery. Rebecca said her teammates were all busy, leaving Su Xiao without the backup he had sought.

• A street hawker approached Lucy, and Su Xiao drove him away before Old Captain called with a job to extract a client.
• Su Xiao negotiated for double Old Captain’s initial offer and agreed to be paid only if the client survived the extraction.
• Su Xiao told Lucy that V and Jack would rest after surgery and called Rebecca to ask Mann’s team for help.
• Rebecca silenced Pila’s loud music by shooting his speakers, then thanked Su Xiao for the guns he had sold her.
• Rebecca said Mann’s team was busy and could not help with Su Xiao’s job.

Su Xiao picked up Rebecca and explained that Old Captain had hired them to rescue T-Bug from the Eden Gang’s subnet by disconnecting the gang’s hacker. The team headed toward the gang’s hideout with a map of its secret passages, while Rebecca worried that Mann’s dangerous jobs and cyberware upgrades were trapping him in a cycle he would not escape.

• Rebecca told Su Xiao that Mann had gone to upgrade his cyberware again, while Dorio accompanied him and Sasha slept.
• Su Xiao picked up Rebecca, introduced her to Lucy, and heard Rebecca describe Old Captain and his reputation in Santo Domingo.
• Su Xiao warned Rebecca that Faraday’s risky jobs were driving Mann into a cycle of taking dangerous work to pay for more cyberware upgrades.
• Lucy asked about the mission, and Su Xiao explained that T-Bug was trapped in the Eden Gang’s subnet by its hacker and needed them to disconnect him.
• Su Xiao told Rebecca and Lucy that Old Captain had provided a detailed map of the Eden Gang hideout, including its secret passages.

Su Xiao, Lucy, and Rebecca prepared to infiltrate the Eden Gang’s fortified compound to reach a hacker, but Su Xiao left Rebecca behind to guard their escape vehicle. Rebecca realized too late that the vehicle could drive itself.

• Rebecca warned Su Xiao and Lucy that the Eden Gang, led by Joseph Seed, was a dangerous group of fanatical fighters that even the Sixth Street Gang avoided provoking.
• Su Xiao surveyed the Eden Gang’s compound with his Tactical Goggles and found guards, patrols, and hidden Sentry Turrets, confirming that the secret passage was their best way in.
• Su Xiao told Rebecca that she would stay in the vehicle while he and Lucy carried out the infiltration.
• Su Xiao persuaded Rebecca that her role was to secure their escape route, and she returned to the vehicle as he and Lucy left.
• Rebecca realized the vehicle had autopilot and intelligent navigation and shouted after the two of them.

Su Xiao and Lucy infiltrated the Eden Gang’s base through a hidden passage and fought their way toward the monitoring room where the hacker was located. They reached the third-floor stairwell and cleared its guards, leaving them poised to continue toward their target.

• Su Xiao and Lucy crossed the sentries’ blind spot, and Lucy hacked open the concealed entrance to a secret passage.
• Su Xiao killed the guards in the basement, locked the door behind him, and led Lucy into the main building.
• Su Xiao and Lucy avoided the Eden Gang members while Lucy hacked the building’s surveillance cameras into friendly mode.
• Su Xiao and Lucy reached the stairwell to the third floor, where Lucy disabled two guards with an Electromagnetic Short Circuit.
• Su Xiao hid the unconscious guards in a storage box, clearing their way forward.

Su Xiao and Lucy completed their mission to rescue T-BUG, but the Eden Gang unexpectedly gathered throughout its compound and blocked their escape. NCPD and News 54 arrived to raid the base, leaving Su Xiao and Lucy hidden in the monitoring room as Superintendent Xiang Sheng Lindo sensed danger.

• Su Xiao killed the monitoring-room guard while Lucy disconnected the Eden Gang hacker from Cyberspace, and Su Xiao reported T-BUG safe to Old Captain.
• Su Xiao and Lucy found the Eden Gang members gathered below and returned to the monitoring room while Rebecca kept watch outside.
• Lucy spotted NCPD patrol cars and a News 54 van entering the compound on the surveillance screens.
• A News 54 staff member instructed Emma to prepare reports tailored to NCPD and New America.
• Superintendent Xiang Sheng Lindo sensed danger and ordered his NCPD team to ready their weapons and keep their engines running.

Director Furt’s staged NCPD raid went off course when a faulty patrol-car navigation system led Superintendent Xiang Sheng’s team and a News 54 crew into the Eden Gang stronghold. Trapped by a sealed gate and a communications jammer, Xiang Sheng asked to meet Joseph Seed, who invited the group to his chapel.

• Director Furt arranged a staged raid on a Sixth Street Gang den, using cheap patrol cars and restricting officers to Lexington pistols to make the NCPD look underfunded.
• A patrol car’s faulty navigation system led Superintendent Xiang Sheng’s team to the Eden Gang stronghold instead of the planned den.
• Xiang Sheng tried to calm the Eden Gang and told his subordinate to get the News 54 crew back into their vehicle.
• The Eden Gang sealed the main gate and jammed communications, leaving the officers and reporters unable to call for help or escape.
• Xiang Sheng asked to see Joseph Seed, and Seed spoke over the loudspeakers, invited them to his chapel, and had his guards lower their weapons and clear a path.

Xiang Sheng Lindo led NCPD officers into the Eden Gang’s chapel, where Father Joseph Seed convinced his followers that the police had come to take him away. As Su Xiao planned to draw the Riot Control Unit toward the monitoring room, panic and a gunshot set off a violent clash in the chapel.

• Xiang Sheng Lindo split his officers between guarding the vehicles and entering the building complex.
• Xiang Sheng Lindo told Joseph Seed that the police had arrived by mistake and asked the Eden Gang to let them leave safely.
• Su Xiao discovered the jammer blocked contact with Rebecca and Old Captain, then asked Lucy to provoke the Riot Control Unit into tracing her intrusion.
• Joseph Seed urged the Eden Gang to see the officers as enemies and quoted scripture as his followers closed in.
• Xiang Sheng Lindo drew his Lexington and ordered the Eden Gang to back away, but a police officer fired, triggering a charge and a shootout.

Su Xiao and Lucy burst into the chapel and helped Xiang Sheng Lindo’s officers fight off the Eden Gang, but the Holy Father revealed his combat skills and the battle remained desperate. As the chapel door buckled, Lucy told Su Xiao to help the wounded Female Cop while she held off their attackers.

• Su Xiao blasted through the chapel ceiling, killed many Eden Gang members, and joined Xiang Sheng Lindo and the officers in the fight.
• Lucy joined Su Xiao, then hacked the automatic door shut to delay the Eden Gang outside.
• A Female Cop disarmed the Holy Father’s guards and held him at gunpoint, but he dodged her shots and rejoined the battle.
• The Holy Father killed several officers with his Swift Sword while the damaged chapel door threatened to give way.
• After the Holy Father wounded and knocked down the Female Cop, Lucy told Su Xiao to help her and pressed her smart pistol to her temple as three Eden Gang members attacked.

Su Xiao killed the Father and helped the NCPD and Lucy defeat the Eden Gang members inside the small chapel. With the gang’s armed members still outside, the survivors remained trapped as those outside began calling for the Father.

• Su Xiao charged through the chapel, killed the Father’s guards, and beheaded him after deflecting his gunfire with his bulletproof suit.
• Xiang Sheng Lindo led the surviving police officers back to the chapel wall, where they regrouped with Su Xiao and Lucy.
• Su Xiao, Lucy, and the police officers fought the Eden Gang members inside the chapel until the battle fell silent.
• The survivors realized most of the Eden Gang remained outside, better armed than the NCPD.
• The Eden Gang members outside stopped battering the damaged door and began calling for the Father.

Su Xiao led Lucy and the surviving officers through the Eden Gang stronghold while they fought their way to the sealed main gate. Lucy opened the exit, but their escape was thrown into chaos when a patrol car exploded.

• Su Xiao shielded Lucy from bullets piercing the wall, then used grenades and a collapsed wall to help the group escape the room; Xiang Sheng Lindo was shot dead when an Eden Gang member fired at him.
• Su Xiao, Lucy, and the injured Female Cop joined the surviving officers in the courtyard and found the main gate sealed, so Su Xiao ordered Lucy to hack it open while the officers formed a defensive position.
• Eden Gang reinforcements attacked, and Su Xiao and the officers fought them off until Lucy opened the blast door and main gate.
• Several officers rushed into a patrol car despite Su Xiao's orders, and the vehicle exploded as they tried to flee.

Su Xiao, Lucy, Rebecca, and the surviving NCPD officers fought to escape the Eden Gang’s base after discovering the vehicles had been rigged with explosives. They regrouped with the officers as the Eden Gang closed in, still waiting for reinforcements.

• Su Xiao ordered the group to flee on foot while he covered their retreat, and Rebecca arrived in an SUV to help fight off the pursuing Eden Gang members.
• Lucy returned to the battle, and Su Xiao learned that the Female Cop and other officers were sheltering in a nearby scrap yard.
• Rebecca drove Su Xiao and Lucy toward the scrap yard, but an Eden Gang tanker rammed their SUV against a wall, forcing them out.
• An Eden Gang member fired a rocket into the tanker, and Su Xiao caught Lucy and Rebecca as the blast hurled them through the air.
• The surviving NCPD officers left the scrap yard to cover Su Xiao and his companions, and the two groups joined up as the Eden Gang surrounded them.

Su Xiao, Lucy, and Rebecca survived the Eden Gang’s siege when Riot Control Unit aircraft arrived and routed the attackers. Afterward, Su Xiao concealed his role in bringing the reinforcements, and the group left in a Delamain Taxi.

• With ammunition gone and the Eden Gang closing in, Su Xiao reassured Lucy and Rebecca that reinforcements had arrived.
• Riot Control Unit aircraft swept the Eden Gang with autocannon fire, killing many and scattering the survivors as they pursued them.
• Rebecca apologized for wrecking Su Xiao’s SUV, but he forgave her and called a Delamain Taxi instead of asking Mann to pick them up.
• NCPD officers thanked Su Xiao and asked whether he had summoned the Riot Control Unit, but he denied it and pretended the aircraft’s arrival was a coincidence.
• Rebecca relaxed in the luxurious Delamain Taxi and envied Su Xiao’s team for having Excellence Packages.

After surviving the Eden Gang attack, Su Xiao and his companions ate, received double payment from the Old Captain, and agreed to investigate his missing subordinate Juliette. They reached Juliette’s house in Coronado Farms and entered, but the chapter ended before they discovered what had happened inside.

• Su Xiao explained to Rebecca that Lucy had summoned the Riot Control Unit by hacking its Subnet, then checked on Lucy and took the group to dinner.
• Su Xiao told the Old Captain that the Riot Control Unit had arrived and the Eden Gang would be no more, and the Old Captain doubled their payment.
• The Old Captain asked Su Xiao to find out why Juliette had been missing for two weeks and to retrieve her information about Zeta Tech.
• Su Xiao, Lucy, and Rebecca went to Juliette’s house, where Su Xiao detected an anti-surveillance jammer in the basement and Lucy unlocked the electronic front door.