Night City.
Huge displays used for advertising could be seen all over City Center.
At this moment, Channel 54 News was broadcasting the news of the day.
"Welcome to WNS News. We're here to bring you this week's major stories."
"One week ago, a group of unidentified criminals broke into City Center, causing extensive damage at several important locations in Civic Plaza and Corporate Plaza, and killing a large number of Militech employees."
"During the attack, the criminals broke into Biotechnology Tower and damaged the building's internal power control system, causing it to emit abnormal electromagnetic pulses."
"Following the electromagnetic pulses, important facilities and equipment belonging to several companies were damaged, and numerous residents near Corporate Plaza found that their implants had malfunctioned."
"Night City Mayor Lucius Ryan was also within the electromagnetic pulses' range. He was handling official business at City Center at the time, and the long hours of overtime and the electromagnetic pulses caused him some injuries."
"Fortunately, the diligent mayor woke up in the hospital yesterday."
"Our second story: yesterday, a cyberpsychosis attack took place on Night City's Highway 96. The cyberpsycho was reportedly named Gabriel Bletch and was a security employee at Militech."
"The cyberpsycho killed five of his squadmates and injured or killed twenty-three civilians."
"City Hall is taking the incident very seriously. It has adjusted its security contract and added NCPD patrols along the highway."
The subway doors slid open.
Two shard thieves stepped out, clutching a handful of shards. They walked a few steps, and the train pulled away. Only then did the white-haired girl toss the shards in her hand and smile, eyes narrowed, as she patted the boy beside her on the shoulder.
"Not bad. You're a lot more practiced than when you started. When you stole from that big