Chapter Summaries

Su Ming planned to seek inspiration and a route to Mystery while Gin stayed behind, then traveled to Eorzea to ask Geralt about Ciri’s visit to a world of heavily modified people. The chapter ended with Geralt still fishing as Su Ming asked whether Ciri remembered the world’s coordinates.

• Natasha returned to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s extraterrestrial Outpost, unsettled by the realm beyond the Omniverse, while Su Ming reassured Gin about the threat of CAAT.
• Su Ming told Gin he planned to travel to other worlds for inspiration and to search for Kang or a shortcut to Mystery, but Gin declined to join him.
• Gin suggested Su Ming bring another woman along, but he refused and asked Adjutant to take him to Geralt.
• Su Ming found Geralt fishing near Silverport in Eorzea and asked whether Ciri remembered the coordinates of a world filled with modified people and implants.

Su Ming visited Geralt to ask about Ciri’s Elder Blood teleportation, then traveled to Golden Port to find her at Seaview Tower. The chapter ended with him unexpectedly appearing in her private bath and startling her.

• Su Ming told Geralt he wanted to study Ciri’s spatial teleportation, and Geralt said she was at Seaview Tower in Golden Port.
• Su Ming flew to Golden Port and wandered through Little Gold Street and the city plaza on his way to the inn.
• Su Ming used Dark Perception to locate Ciri in a private hot spring bath.
• Su Ming teleported into Ciri’s bathroom, and Ciri choked on bathwater in surprise.

Su Ming invited Ciri to Night City, where she took him to a bar before helping him arrange a place to stay. After Adjutant transferred a billion euros into Ciri’s account, they were ready to get settled in the city.

• Su Ming interrupted Ciri’s bath and asked her to accompany him to Night City, and she eagerly agreed.
• Ciri teleported them to Night City and took Su Ming to the Big Bird Spinning Bar, where he promptly led her back outside.
• Ciri explained that Night Corp owned Night City’s real estate and that she already had a legal identity and bank account.
• Su Ming connected Adjutant to Ciri, and Adjutant transferred one billion euros from dead accounts into her account.

Ciri and Su Ming enjoyed their new wealth in Night City, renting a luxurious top-floor apartment. Su Ming then disguised himself as Johnny Silverhand and prepared to go out, asking Ciri about the mercenary V.

• Ciri celebrated their money and summoned a car while Su Ming explained that the Adjutant had earned their operating funds.
• Ciri drove recklessly through Night City, evaded the police, and rented a furnished top-floor apartment with Su Ming.
• After settling into their new home, Su Ming said he wanted to see what would happen if a legendary dead figure appeared on the streets.
• Su Ming used Strangle to transform into Johnny Silverhand, adding a mechanical arm, tattoos, sunglasses, and a replica of Johnny's pistol.
• Ciri recognized the resemblance and told Su Ming that V was probably still in bed.

Su Ming and Ciri set out to find V at Jack's home, hoping to discover whether V still lived there and to draw her into a plan to attack Arasaka Tower. When Su Ming appeared in Night City as Johnny Silverhand, locals recognized him and panicked.

• Su Ming learned from Ciri that V had been living with Jack and decided to visit them.
• Ciri bought a Sword in the Stone, then drove Su Ming to Jack's building in Watson District.
• Su Ming got out of the car and explained that he wanted to adjust to Johnny Silverhand's body and movements.
• The locals recognized Johnny Silverhand and fled or collapsed in fear of Arasaka's potential response.
• Ciri led Su Ming toward the building as he explained that Night City's people saw Johnny as the one who had acted on their desire to resist.

Su Ming and Ciri fought their way through a dark alley in Watson District after a group of punks tried to rob them. They reached Jack’s building and took the elevator up, leaving the filthy streets and the punks’ bodies behind.

• A group of punks blocked Su Ming and Ciri in an alley and threatened to rob them.
• Su Ming acted like Johnny Silverhand, cursed at the gang, and crushed the leader’s head.
• Su Ming killed the remaining punks with a single burst from Johnny’s pistol.
• Ciri and Su Ming joked about the gang and walked through the alley toward Jack’s building.
• Ciri led Su Ming into the filthy elevator and got out on Jack’s floor.

Su Ming and Ciri searched for V and Jack, found them at Doctor Victor's Ripperdoc Clinic, and went there. Jack talked about his ambition to become a Night City legend while Victor warned him not to be reckless.

• Ciri found Mrs. Welles's home empty and explained that she did not have Jack or V's contact information.
• Su Ming sensed that V and Jack were at Doctor Victor's Ripperdoc Clinic, so he and Ciri headed there.
• Ciri questioned Su Ming's invented story about the School of the Bear Witchers and joked about his swordplay lessons.
• Jack joined Victor in the basement clinic after Misty sent him away from her fortune-telling shop.
• Jack declared that he wanted to make money, provide for his mother, and become a legend, while Victor cautioned him to stay alive and avoid recklessness.

Jack told Doctor Victor that he and V planned to take a major job offered by Dexter DeShawn, but Victor warned them about the dangers of Night City's mercenary business. An unfamiliar voice then called Dexter an asshole.

• Jack told Doctor Victor that he and V planned to take a major job from Dexter DeShawn.
• Victor warned Jack that fixers exploited mercenaries and that ambitious young people often died or went mad in Night City.
• Jack admitted he had barely met Rogue, whose heavily augmented bodyguards had kept him from approaching her.
• Victor cautioned Jack and V not to think too highly of themselves because nothing came free in Night City.
• An unfamiliar speaker emerged from the clinic stairs and called Dexter DeShawn an asshole.

Ciri brought Deathstroke, disguised as Johnny Silverhand, to Victor’s clinic, where Victor and Jack were stunned to meet the legendary rocker. Victor examined him and became convinced he was the real Johnny.

• Victor welcomed the newcomer to his clinic, but dropped his scanner when he recognized him as Johnny Silverhand.
• Jack and Victor reacted with shock as Deathstroke, posing as Johnny, insulted the beer and shared his liquor.
• Jack excitedly introduced himself as a fan and took a selfie with Johnny.
• Ciri revealed that she had brought Johnny to the clinic and claimed he was her uncle, while Deathstroke quietly stopped her from adding more details.
• Victor inspected Johnny’s appearance and old mechanical arm, then began asking about his cyberware and systems.
• Deathstroke cursed corporations and rejected the idea of using their chips, convincing Victor that he was the genuine Johnny Silverhand.

Su Ming, disguised as Johnny Silverhand, warned V and Jack that Dexter DeShawn’s job might be a setup and offered to help them investigate. He then proposed taking them to Rogue that night to discuss a major gig.

• Su Ming used a medical checkup as an excuse to meet V and Jack while posing as Johnny Silverhand.
• V told Su Ming and Ciri about the job Dexter DeShawn had offered her and Jack.
• Su Ming warned that Dexter might be recruiting strangers as expendable scapegoats, and V and Jack agreed to look into him.
• V suggested hiring Lucy and Kiwi from the Cyberpunk Crew to investigate, but Jack said they had no money.
• Jack told Su Ming that he and V wanted to become famous and wealthy, and Su Ming offered to take them to see Rogue about a super big gig that night.

Su Ming recruited V and Jack for a mysterious job, gave them money to buy better equipment, and arranged to meet them at the Afterlife. He then left with Ciri to track down Night City's best hacker in Dogtown.

• Su Ming and Johnny convinced V and Jack that their earlier target was suspicious, and the pair celebrated after realizing their mistake.
• Johnny told V and Jack to buy better weapons and transferred them fifty thousand eddies for the job.
• V and Jack agreed to meet Johnny at the Afterlife that night, while Su Ming and Ciri planned to find a hacker.
• Old Vic examined Johnny and found him unusually healthy despite his apparent age, then accepted liquor instead of payment.
• Su Ming and Ciri left the clinic and drove toward Dogtown to look for a network access point and trace the hacker's contact with Colonel Hansen.

Su Ming explained Songbird’s abilities, her plan to escape New America, and why he wanted to find her in Dogtown. As Ciri drove him there, he planned to use the Adjutant to trace Songbird and explore the Blackwall.

• Su Ming recalled that Songbird could breach the Blackwall and that New America kept her imprisoned and used her as a weapon.
• Su Ming explained that Songbird had secretly arranged with Colonel Hansen to trade the President and the AI Digital Matrix activation code for a cure and freedom.
• Su Ming planned to find Songbird before her plot began, then enlist her and Alt to help him study the Blackwall.
• Su Ming and Ciri drove toward Dogtown in the Sword in the Stone so the Adjutant could trace Songbird through the network access point she had used.
• Ciri asked why they needed Dogtown, and Su Ming explained that a local connection would make finding Songbird easier.

Su Ming entered Dogtown and used Adjutant to hack Songbird from Colonel Hansen’s stadium headquarters. He offered to help her escape the Special Investigation Bureau, but she had not yet accepted his terms.

• Ciri drove Su Ming into Dogtown and dropped him near the stadium while agreeing to wait in the car.
• Su Ming used Cloak and Strangle to sneak into the stadium’s network center and connect Adjutant to the system.
• Adjutant hacked Songbird’s brain terminal and opened a mental communication channel with her in the Bureau’s Safehouse.
• Su Ming told Songbird that Hansen planned to betray her and offered to help her escape the Bureau.

Su Ming offered to free Songbird by transferring her consciousness into a new body in exchange for her help reaching the Blackwall. Songbird accepted the deal, leaving Su Ming with a guide to Cyberspace and her awaiting rescue.

• Su Ming proposed rescuing Songbird if she agreed to help him, but Songbird explained that she was imprisoned under heavy guard and could not escape.
• Su Ming offered to digitize Songbird's personality and transfer it into a new body, allowing her to appear dead and live freely.
• Songbird questioned whether Su Ming truly possessed personality digitization technology, and he said he could use it to save her.
• Su Ming asked Songbird to guide him to the Blackwall so he could explore it safely.
• Songbird accepted the deal and promised to help Su Ming reach and touch the Blackwall once he got her out.

Su Ming arranged to give Songbird a new body in exchange for her help, and she designed a biochemical human modeled after a Chinese celebrity. Adjutant began producing it, while Su Ming remained unsure whether CAAT had noticed his actions.

• Su Ming agreed to sign a contract with Songbird and offered her a custom artificial body in exchange for future favors.
• Songbird chose a biochemical human and used Adjutant’s character creation program to design her appearance.
• Su Ming and Ciri returned from Dogtown to the penthouse, with police briefly following their speeding car.
• Songbird settled on a Chinese celebrity-inspired design after Su Ming told her she could replace the body later.
• Adjutant began growing Songbird’s customized body, a process expected to take about one second.

Su Ming successfully transferred Songbird’s memories and personality into a new cyborg body, helping her escape government control and settle in Night City. Songbird kept her codename and agreed to work with him, while their plans involving Arasaka Tower and the Blackwall remained ahead.

• Adjutant uploaded Songbird’s memories and personality into her new body, and Songbird woke in Night City, delighted that her escape had succeeded.
• Songbird recognized that Su Ming was not the real Johnny Silverhand and agreed to keep his assumed identity secret.
• Su Ming suggested new codenames, but Songbird chose to keep Songbird and accepted money and a contract from him.
• Songbird asked when they would visit the Blackwall, and Su Ming explained that he still needed another guide and planned to find the real Johnny in Mikoshi after Arasaka Tower was destroyed.
• Songbird warned Su Ming about Rogue AIs, and he introduced Ciri as her companion for a shopping trip.

Su Ming explained Mikoshi’s origins to Ciri, recounting how Arasaka pursued immortality through Soulkiller and how Johnny Silverhand’s engram ended up imprisoned in Mikoshi. He left Ciri with the revelation that the real Johnny was trapped in Arasaka’s soul prison.

• Ciri asked Su Ming to explain Mikoshi, and he agreed to tell her the story while warning her not to share it with V and the others.
• Su Ming explained that Saburo Arasaka sought immortality after fearing his declining health and secretly ordered Toshiro to obtain Alt Cunningham’s Soulkiller technology.
• Alt Cunningham escaped Soulkiller’s network prison, but Johnny Silverhand accidentally severed her engram’s route back to her body during his rescue attempt.
• Johnny later joined Militech in attacking Arasaka Tower, and Spider Murphy helped him release Alt’s engram into Cyberspace.
• Adam Smasher captured Johnny, and Saburo Arasaka used Soulkiller on him before imprisoning his engram in Mikoshi beneath Arasaka Tower.

Su Ming explained Mikoshi’s history and the events behind Johnny Silverhand’s engram, revealing Saburo Arasaka’s plan to take Yorinobu Arasaka’s body. He left Ciri aware that Yorinobu had stolen the Relic and that V and Jack might soon be drawn into the scheme.

• Su Ming ordered his Adjutant to prepare a coffin-shaped vehicle pulled by nine dragons, then continued explaining Mikoshi to Ciri.
• Su Ming explained that Spider Murphy, Rogue, and Satan had killed Arasaka Kei, while Spider Murphy used Soulkiller to send Kei’s engram into Mikoshi beside Johnny Silverhand’s.
• Su Ming described how Saburo Arasaka sought to recover Kei’s engram and how Yorinobu Arasaka secretly planned to oppose his father’s immortality project.
• Su Ming explained that Saburo backed up his engram, loaded Johnny Silverhand’s engram onto a prototype Relic, and set a trap to test the technology and provoke Yorinobu.
• Su Ming revealed that Yorinobu had stolen the Relic and was staying at Konpeki Plaza, while V and Jack might soon be recruited to steal it.

Su Ming explained his plan to use Johnny Silverhand’s identity to gain Alt’s help with the Blackwall, while arranging for Ciri to steal Johnny’s engram and eliminate Saburo Arasaka. As night fell, Ciri and Songbird prepared to meet their allies at the Afterlife Bar before attacking Arasaka Tower.

• Su Ming told Ciri that he needed Mikoshi to convince Alt he was the real Johnny and planned to offer Alt, Johnny, and Rogue new bodies and a peaceful life afterward.
• Ciri summarized her missions: steal the legacy chip containing Johnny’s engram from Yorinobu and kill Saburo Arasaka, destroying his engram in Mikoshi; Su Ming confirmed he expected her Blink ability to help.
• After nightfall, Ciri woke Songbird and said they would meet their friends at the Afterlife Bar before blowing up Arasaka Tower.
• Songbird agreed to help but insisted that she and Ciri first go buy clothes and shoes.

Su Ming, impersonating Johnny Silverhand, rode a Delamain cab through Night City and tested the AI by asking it to plan an attack on Arasaka Tower. Delamain refused to help, and Su Ming left it silent with his bizarre claims about being cultured.

• Su Ming booked a Delamain cab, and Delamain welcomed him back to Night City as Mr. Linder.
• Su Ming watched Night City's dangerous nighttime streets from the cab while Delamain drove steadily through gunfire and a passing rocket.
• Su Ming asked Delamain whether it wanted to kill him, and Delamain distinguished itself from Rogue AIs and offered its taxi services.
• Su Ming asked Delamain to help plan the destruction of Arasaka Tower, causing the AI's display to flicker before it advised him against the attack.
• Su Ming mocked Delamain for failing to provide a plan and claimed to have read Lu Xun's Travels, leaving the AI uncertain how to respond.