Chapter Summaries

Su Xiao, Lucy, and River read Randy’s emails and discovered how Harris had manipulated the lonely boy into trusting him. The final messages revealed that Randy had agreed to meet Harris in person and was excited about it, giving the group a clue to how he disappeared.

• Lucy read Randy’s emails with Su Xiao and River, revealing how Harris used comforting lies and gifts to earn Randy’s trust.
• River regretted not paying more attention to Randy, while Su Xiao urged him to keep searching for clues.
• Su Xiao suggested skipping to the final emails, reasoning that Harris had likely persuaded Randy to leave home for a meeting.
• Lucy found that Randy had wanted to meet Harris and had agreed to delete their first email at Harris’s request.
• River and Su Xiao saw that Randy had been excited about the meeting, suggesting Harris had lured him away.

Su Xiao, River, and Lucy uncovered how Anthony Harris lured Randy through a hidden website and concluded that Harris was likely holding him and other victims on a farm. They had not yet identified the farm, leaving the search for Randy unresolved.

• Harris sent Randy a long email about his troubled family and urged him to keep their contact secret, while Randy's messages showed he had trusted Harris but had dismissed Natalie's concerns about the website.
• Su Xiao and River reviewed Randy's emails and suspected that Gale was a small-time glitter dealer, then decided to investigate him later while continuing to search for Randy.
• Su Xiao asked Lucy to find the recovery website Randy had sent Natalie, and she discovered that clicking its red image led to Harris's hidden page, Tony's Shelter.
• Su Xiao tested the site and found that access to the hidden page appeared restricted to authorized computers, explaining how Harris had kept it concealed.
• Su Xiao connected Harris's farmer-and-livestock language and his account of his family's farm to a likely location where he had imprisoned Randy and other victims.
• River pointed out that Night City had many farms, and the group still did not know where Harris was keeping Randy.

Su Xiao, Lucy, and River tracked Harris’s hidden website to a farm southeast of Night City and reached it by helicopter. After clearing the farm’s defenses, they found the kidnapped children inside the barn and prepared to break in.

• Su Xiao deduced that Harris had hidden the children on a Badlands farm and dismissed River’s idea of finding the parcel Randy had received.
• Lucy hacked the website and traced its administrator’s IP address to a location southeast of Night City.
• Su Xiao borrowed a helicopter from Rogue, and the group flew to the farm with River and Lucy.
• Lucy disabled the Auto Turrets while Su Xiao used the helicopter’s machine gun to destroy the Laser Tripwires across the farm.
• Su Xiao confirmed the children were inside the barn, then drew Muramasa and raised it to break through the closed entrance.

Su Xiao, Lucy, and River rescued five children from Anthony Harris’s farm, though two had died. After the NCPD offered River reinstatement and a promotion, he revealed that he had turned them down because he needed the higher salary Su Xiao paid him.

• Su Xiao and River freed Randy from the machinery while Lucy shut down the farm’s systems, and River called the NCPD for help.
• Su Xiao and Lucy checked the other children and found that five of the seven, including Randy, had survived while two had died.
• The NCPD and Trauma Team arrived, and news crews began covering the rescue as River gave a statement.
• Su Xiao and Lucy discussed how the NCPD would use the rescue to improve its image and reward River, while Su Xiao said he would respect River’s choice about joining them at Stone Ridge Mountain.
• River told Su Xiao that the NCPD had erased his suspension and offered him a promotion, but he had declined because he needed the better pay from Su Xiao’s work.

River joined Su Xiao’s company after deciding he could no longer change the NCPD, and he delayed reporting for a few days to be with his sister’s family. Su Xiao and Lucy discussed recruiting Aldecaldos and building a medical team, leaving Lucy’s suggestion of Old Wei as their best candidate.

• River explained that the NCPD’s corruption had convinced him to leave and accepted Su Xiao’s offer, asking to spend a few days with his sister first.
• Su Xiao and Lucy returned to Night City, dropping River off at his family’s trailer park before heading to Afterlife.
• Lucy told Su Xiao that Panam wanted the Aldecaldos to join the company, and Su Xiao asked them to send a hundred people for him to evaluate.
• Su Xiao agreed that the company needed more staff but said he would select only twenty or thirty capable candidates.
• Su Xiao and Lucy discussed recruiting a professional medical team instead of paying Trauma Team’s inflated premiums.
• Lucy suggested Old Wei, a respected former University of Tokyo Hospital doctor, as a trustworthy medical-team leader.

Su Xiao visited Old Wei to ask him to join the Dawn Society’s military contractor as its medical-unit head. Old Wei agreed because he believed in Su Xiao and wanted to help, leaving Su Xiao moved by his generosity and concern.

• Lucy urged Su Xiao to ask Old Wei directly rather than assume he wanted to remain retired, so Su Xiao bought fine liquor and went with her to Misty’s Divination Parlor.
• Lucy stayed upstairs while Su Xiao went to Old Wei’s clinic and shared a drink with him, switching to cola when he disliked the liquor.
• Old Wei guessed Su Xiao had come to recruit him and agreed before Su Xiao could finish asking.
• Old Wei explained that he wanted to help Su Xiao, then warned him not to treat him like a cheap domestic helper.
• Su Xiao offered Old Wei a monthly salary of one hundred thousand and the position of medical-unit head, and Old Wei worried that the expense might bankrupt the new company.

Su Xiao, River, Mitch, and Skar went to Gale’s home in eastern North Oak to investigate the Glitter distribution network. After River convinced Gale’s crew to let them in, Su Xiao recognized their poor combat positioning and amateur weapon choices as the group faced a tense standoff.

• River told Su Xiao that Gale was Randy’s dealer, and Su Xiao decided to pursue the Glitter network.
• Su Xiao drove River, Mitch, and Skar to Gale’s home in eastern North Oak, leaving V and Lucy behind.
• River claimed Randy had recommended Gale and explained that Anthony Harris’s kidnapping had kept Randy from contacting him.
• Su Xiao approved putting their long guns in the donation bin, but River resisted when Gale’s men demanded their handguns too.
• Gale’s men let the group inside, shut the door, and surrounded them with weapons.
• Su Xiao assessed the four men’s positions and realized they were amateurs who risked shooting one another.

Su Xiao forced Gale to reveal the location of his supplier, Rat, then led a raid on the Rat's Nest in The Glen. The gang was wiped out, Rat was found dead, and Su Xiao ordered the Glitter-manufacturing equipment destroyed.

• Su Xiao used Time Zero to kill three of Gale's men and forced Gale to identify Rat and reveal the Rat's Nest's address.
• Su Xiao killed Gale after obtaining the information, admitting he had never intended to spare him.
• Two days later, Su Xiao led twenty-five others in an assault on the Rat's Nest, assigning Mitch and Skar to flank the building and Lucy to attack its rooftop sentries with a drone.
• Su Xiao, V, and Panam ambushed gang members fleeing through the front entrance while the other teams cleared the building.
• Mitch reported that Rat was already dead and showed Su Xiao the Glitter-manufacturing equipment.
• Su Xiao ordered the equipment rigged with explosives, and the raid ended with only two Aldecaldos suffering minor injuries.

Rogue told Su Xiao that the Voodoo Boys planned to use Johnny Silverhand to attract Alt, hoping she would turn them into AIs. She revealed that they intended to tear open the Blackwall and let Alt and rogue AIs cross into the real world, leaving Su Xiao alarmed by the threat.

• Su Xiao met Rogue at the Afterlife, where she explained that Alt still existed as a digital life-form beyond the Blackwall.
• Rogue said a Voodoo Boys defector had revealed that the gang wanted Alt to turn them into AIs so they could escape humanity's future.
• Rogue explained that the Voodoo Boys planned to use Johnny Silverhand to draw Alt to them after their netrunners repeatedly failed to reach her.
• Su Xiao questioned why Alt would help them, and Rogue said they planned to offer her a reason she could not refuse.
• Rogue revealed that the Voodoo Boys intended to tear down the Blackwall or open a large breach, allowing Alt and rogue AIs into the real world.

Su Xiao learned that NetWatch wanted him to help destroy the Voodoo Boys and traveled to Pacifica to negotiate a higher fee with its agent. The chapter ended as armed street punks surrounded his Delamain Taxi near the Grand Imperial Mall.

• Rogue told Su Xiao that a Voodoo Boys informant had revealed their headquarters and that NetWatch was offering only five million euros to eliminate the gang.
• Rogue gave Su Xiao the informant’s intelligence and asked him to wipe out the Voodoo Boys, which would also settle her own grudge against them.
• Su Xiao asked about Herman, and Rogue explained that Johnny’s relic needed a living, compatible body to restore him.
• Su Xiao traveled to Pacifica to negotiate with the NetWatch agent based at the Grand Imperial Mall.
• Several armed street punks knocked on Su Xiao’s taxi window as he prepared to contact the NetWatch agent.

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.