Chapter 173

Night.

Night City’s sky is dim and starless. The neon and dazzle of the nightlife drown out any glimmer above, and the quiet sky is anything but calm: AVs come and go like owls circling the dark, their engines buzzing like dragonflies with torn wings—noisy and unruly.

A mirror-slick AV, spotless and gleaming, dropped soundlessly onto the Moore Technologies tower near the corporate plaza.