Recaps

Lier’s gang moved through Dogtown as Night City’s political and corporate conflicts escalated, before Lier developed a way to communicate across dimensions and contacted BT-7274. The Manufactury’s defenses collapsed into a desperate fight as it began releasing its weapons and self-destructing.

• Lier destroyed the Voodoo Boys’ operation, brought V and Jackie into Dogtown, and used the Flathead to bypass the stadium’s defenses.
• Militech investigated the Voodoo Boys’ deaths while Songbird warned Susan Forester about rogue-AI traces, and Ryan prepared to resume the Pacific State development plan.
• Lier’s gang confronted corporate forces before vanishing with Dogtown, where Kurt Hansen died in the explosion.
• Lier mastered cross-dimensional information transmission and used a magnetic crane to send Morse-code pulses to BT-7274.
• Jackie and his allies fought through the Manufactury as BT destroyed the grim reaper and Ash, while Lier warned that he could not stop the facility’s self-destruction or the release of its robots and biological weapons.
• Sarah ordered Anderson to infiltrate the IMC facility on Typhon after intercepted communications revealed a spacetime distortion.
• Jackie dodged gunfire in a reception hall as battles and political conflicts continued across other worlds.

Lier and his allies fought to seize the IMC's Ark-powered weapon as the SRS broke through the blockade and the conflict devastated Typhon. The stretch also followed the widening war around Latveria and ended with several groups preparing for battles, quests, and new confrontations.

• Lier touched the wristband, freezing the world as an explosion remained contained inside the ring-shaped device.
• Lier and Ironhide encountered the IMC's ultimate weapon, powered by Ark energy, and Ironhide urged him to use the Space Bridge to reach another world.
• The IMC prepared to transfer the Ark from its air base on Typhon, while Lier's allies fought through Titans and aircraft to reach it.
• The SRS broke through the jump blockade, and Blisk refused General Marder's demand to win the war, saying his contract only covered transporting the Ark.
• BT tore through Draco's engine, and the battle culminated in the Ark's destruction, vaporizing Typhon's ocean and leaving the planet facing centuries of storms and tectonic activity.
• Sokovia, Santaka, and Polmak formed a military alliance and attacked Latveria, while reports linked unknown super soldiers and their equipment to Atlas Group.
• Tong Fei pledged to command troops alongside Jiang Qi, and King warned his fighters that some would die in the coming battle.
• Yanyi explained how he learned the truth about Master's death, while Gong Yang and seven others located the life soul within the Earth Origin Seal.

Lier resumed work in Latveria and planned a campaign against Eurotunnel, whose factory operations were devastated by cyberpsychosis. Eurotunnel sent a restricted mechanized squad to Folkestone, and local authorities later forced down one of its helicopters amid the disturbance.

• Lier resumed work in Latveria after resolving the Eastern Pact issue, while Speaker Schultz greeted him on behalf of the European Union.
• Latveria lost pilots in battle as Beishan Fu attacked a serpent statue, and Lin Feng left to draw out hidden Holy See and Dark See experts.
• Workers in Latveria kept production running around the clock while conflicts and battles unfolded across several fronts.
• A cyberpsychosis sufferer sent steel through Factory No. 2, and Elliot and a young man charged toward the turret under a shield as workers were killed and injured.
• Evan Ross hurried to Eurotunnel's Folkestone headquarters after Eleanor Virt reported that cyberpsychosis had devastated Factory No. 2.
• Lier used Elliot's cochlear implants and AI analysis to detect movement in an office building, then explained that their plan depended on reallocating Channel Tunnel funds and that Eurotunnel was their opponent.
• Eurotunnel sent a mechanized squad, including a military mech restricted to police-grade nonlethal weapons, to Folkestone.
• Aiven found injured workers outside the smoking factory, and Folkestone authorities forced down a Eurotunnel helicopter that had taken off illegally during the disturbance at No. 2 The Manufactury.

The chapters followed many separate conflicts and schemes, from Night City and Bruges to battles across cultivation realms and kingdoms. The stretch ended with Latveria still lacking precision technology, the cave tribe completing crossbow training, and Zhou Qingmu planning to honor a seven-year-old appointment after settling local affairs.

• Lier described how corporations controlled people’s lives and sold entertainment to ease their misery, while Qiao Lao’er found that the Ripperdoc had no heartbeat.
• Su Lin proposed disguising himself as a doctor so he could reach his mother and operate on her himself, as a gigantic snake rose roaring from the Abyss.
• Wu You attempted to rescue someone while fighting the Cloud-Piercing Peng, which responded with a ferocious attack.
• The Aldecaldos carried the injured Jackie away during the Mexico City operation while V drew fire, then V admitted that she had been reckless.
• Fu Lingya handed Qing Chen the Phoenix Qi Flower and asked him to save her father, while Lu Ye sensed something terrifying and asked about his clan ancestor’s realm in the Dao of Fate.
• The European Community decided to incorporate Bruges into its barrier system and later created a special committee to address Cyberpsychosis incidents there.
• Elliot questioned Sevens about Giraffa Corporation’s sponsorship and later wondered why Sevens had reacted so strongly to a worker, while news spread that ADL faced an investigation.
• Su Qi killed the imperial guards and senior soldiers involved in the encirclement, but two soldiers killed Tian Yibo with grenades before Su Qi could question him.
• Latveria secured material support through its agreement with the European Union but still lacked high-precision processing technology, while the cave tribe’s adult men passed their crossbow assessment.
• Zhou Qingmu remembered his agreement to meet an innkeeper in Xiushuang City after seven years and planned to keep it once local matters were settled.