Chapter Summaries

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.

Su Xiao entered Afterlife with Jack to meet Regina and helped Rebecca sneak inside after Emmerich barred her for being underage. The chapter ended when Mann’s malfunctioning prosthetic cannon aimed at Claire and Su Xiao lifted the limb as it fired.

• Su Xiao asked Claire where to find Booth Four and heard about Regina’s past as a reporter who opposed the corporations.
• Emmerich stopped Rebecca from entering Afterlife because she was a minor, and she drew her gun on him.
• Su Xiao arranged for Claire to shut off the entrance lights, then used night vision to bring Rebecca inside unnoticed.
• Rebecca reunited with Su Xiao and told him she wanted a Kenshin but could not afford one, so he offered to let her pay in installments.
• Mann showed Su Xiao his new prosthetic limb, which malfunctioned and aimed a cannon at Claire.
• Su Xiao lifted Mann’s prosthetic limb just as it fired.

Su Xiao helped Rebecca escape after Mann’s cybernetic arm malfunctioned, then joined Regina and the others to learn that Bryce had been imprisoned at Redwood Psychiatric Hospital after refusing a powerful official’s offer to settle his son’s murder. The chapter left Bryce trapped in a facility where patients and inconvenient investigators were abused and isolated from the outside world.

• Mann’s Projectile Launch System malfunctioned, and he used a suppressant to regain control while telling Su Xiao to take Rebecca away.
• Rebecca told Su Xiao that Mann’s cybernetic arms had malfunctioned repeatedly, despite Dorio urging him to replace them.
• Su Xiao left Rebecca after promising to contact her later with Kenshin, then joined V, Lucy, Jack, and Regina in private room four.
• Regina explained that her contact Bryce had identified Ichijo Daisho, a City Hall official who murdered Bryce’s son and made a Black Market Dream recording of it.
• Bryce refused Ichijo Daisho’s offer to settle the matter privately and was sent to Redwood Psychiatric Hospital in Santo Domingo.
• Regina revealed that Redwood Psychiatric Hospital held people who were not mentally ill and that staff abused patients.

Su Xiao and Lucy infiltrated Redwood Psychiatric Hospital to rescue an innocent patient before he was lobotomized. After Lucy disabled the cameras, Su Xiao approached the reception desk to find a way inside.

• Su Xiao questioned Regina about the hospital and learned she was funding the rescue herself because she could not let an innocent person be lobotomized.
• On the drive to Santo Domingo, Su Xiao listened to Jefferson Peralez's campaign ad and considered whether the upcoming mayoral election could be useful to him.
• Su Xiao parked away from the hospital and went with Lucy to scout the building while V and Jack waited in the car.
• Lucy hacked the hospital's cameras as Su Xiao overheard Corp Dogs discussing how their company profited from patients' treatment and insurance.
• A young man failed to get permission to visit his father, Bob Gelbaum, and Su Xiao stepped up to speak with the receptionist.

Su Xiao uncovered that Redwood Psychiatric Hospital was secretly using patients in drug trials and decided to expose it while arranging care for those who genuinely needed it. As guards moved to detain him and Lucy, Lucy revealed that she had hacked the cameras.

• Su Xiao used his Tactical Goggles to locate Bryce Stone and sent V and Jack to reach him from the roof.
• V and Jack found Bryce and discovered filthy patient quarters and evidence that Dr. Jacob Shipman and the hospital were conducting secret drug trials on patients, including pregnant women.
• V urged Su Xiao not to leave the hospital's crimes unexposed, and Su Xiao considered contacting Max Jones before deciding Jefferson Peralez could handle the aftermath.
• The receptionist confronted Su Xiao and Lucy with armed guards and ordered them to check into the hospital.
• Su Xiao turned to Lucy, who revealed that she had hacked all the cameras.

Su Xiao and his allies fought their way into Redwood Psychiatric Hospital and discovered its guards had been abusing the patients. After clearing the first two floors, Su Xiao contacted Elizabeth Peralez with a plan to expose the hospital’s abuses, and the chapter ended as he offered her a generous gift.

• Su Xiao attacked the reception staff while Lucy disabled the guards’ weapons, and they defeated the guards in the waiting hall.
• Su Xiao told Lucy to shut down the alarm system and ordered V and Jack to eliminate the hospital staff.
• Su Xiao fought through the first-floor corridor, using the guards’ flashbangs and grenades against them to kill everyone there.
• Jack reported that the second floor was clear, and Su Xiao said he had a solution for helping the patients.
• Su Xiao called Regina for Jefferson Peralez’s private number, then contacted Elizabeth Peralez and offered her a generous gift.

Su Xiao exposed Redwood Psychiatric Hospital’s crimes to Jefferson and Elizabeth, prompting Jefferson to act and Biotech’s stock to crash after the scandal became public. Two days later, Bryce asked Su Xiao’s group to kill Ichijo Daisho, and they arrived at Daisho’s North Oak estate.

• Su Xiao showed Jefferson and Elizabeth the patients and records at Redwood Psychiatric Hospital, revealing the hospital’s abuses and its experiments with Biotech drugs.
• Jefferson decided to go to the hospital himself and help its patients after Su Xiao said he had cleared out the staff.
• A Night City radio broadcast reported the scandal, and Biotech’s stock fell by ten percentage points.
• Bryce came to Su Xiao with Regina and asked the group to kill Ichijo Daisho, the man responsible for his child’s death and his confinement at the hospital.
• Su Xiao and the others entered North Oak in a hacked Delamain Taxi and stopped near Ichijo Daisho’s guarded estate.

Su Xiao, V, Lucy, and Jack broke into Ichijo Daisho’s estate after using two false alarms to delay its guards and the NCPD. Su Xiao confronted Ichijo and his two sumo wrestler bodyguards, killing one bodyguard’s eye with a revolver shot, but the heavily augmented guard remained standing.

• Lucy triggered the estate’s alarm twice, drawing the NCPD to the gate and causing the guards to dismiss the alarms as false.
• Su Xiao, V, Lucy, and Jack approached under cover, killed the courtyard guards and sentries, and entered the estate.
• V and Lucy hacked the cameras while Su Xiao scanned the layout and assigned Lucy and Jack to the surveillance room and V to the courtyard.
• Ichijo Daisho left his Braindance headset and headed downstairs with his two sumo wrestler bodyguards, where Su Xiao confronted them.
• The bodyguards attacked Su Xiao; he dodged their gunfire and club, then shot the rifle-wielding bodyguard through his right eye, but the guard remained standing.

Su Xiao killed the sumo wrestler bodyguard and subdued Ichijo Daisho after disarming him. With Lucy disabling the estate alarm and the NCPD ignoring it, Su Xiao immobilized Ichijo Daisho with a Blocker Chip.

• Su Xiao blocked the sumo wrestler bodyguard's repeated attacks, then shot him at close range with the Achilles.
• The wounded bodyguard smashed the rifle, but Su Xiao seized his spiked club and cut him in half with Muramasa.
• Ichijo Daisho fired his Yukimura at Su Xiao, who blocked the shots and severed his hand.
• Lucy cut off the estate's alarm system, and Su Xiao told Ichijo Daisho that the NCPD would not come to help.
• Su Xiao inserted a Blocker Chip into Ichijo Daisho, paralyzing him and cutting off his Trauma Card signal.

Su Xiao forced Ichijo Daisho to reveal his hidden fortune, then killed him despite promising to spare his life. After selling the gold bars, Su Xiao shared the proceeds with V, Lucy, and Jack, and left them celebrating at the Afterlife.

• Su Xiao used a Blocker Chip to immobilize Ichijo Daisho and demanded the cash and gold bars hidden in his home in exchange for his life.
• Ichijo Daisho revealed a safe beneath a suit of samurai armor, and Su Xiao took its cash and gold bars.
• Su Xiao killed Ichijo Daisho after taking the fortune, having never intended to let him live.
• Su Xiao returned to Heywood, sold the gold bars through several fixers, and received seven hundred thousand euros.
• Su Xiao gave V, Lucy, and Jack 175,000 euros each, accepted only five thousand euros from V and Lucy as debt repayment, and covered their drinks at the Afterlife.

Su Xiao met Rebecca in Harmonious Park and gave her a Chao Shi smart pistol, a Kenshin tech pistol, and a Smart Link implant on a twenty-four-installment payment plan. Rebecca happily inspected her new weapons while waiting for Mann, hungry after the crew's recent job.

• Su Xiao met Rebecca in Harmonious Park and gently ruffled her hair despite her usual dislike of being touched.
• Rebecca recognized the Chao Shi smart pistol and eagerly examined it.
• Su Xiao showed Rebecca a third-generation Smart Link implant and a Kenshin tech pistol, then offered to let her repay him in twenty-four installments.
• Su Xiao gave Rebecca the two pistols and the implant, explaining how the weapons suited her strengths and limitations.
• Rebecca played with the pistols and complained that Mann was late while her stomach growled; she had barely eaten since the crew returned from a job the day before.