In the dystopian sprawl of NeoNexus, the rich live in high-rise luxury, while the poor scrape by in a place once known as Serene Falls, now reduced to nothing more than The Slums. Crime and poverty run rampant in this forgotten district, a shadowy underbelly of desperation and decay. Here, the tech giants rule, and the air hums with the influence of Bloodwire, an experimental neural drug that connects its users to a vast network of data, granting them fleeting moments of power and insight—but always at a price. Ryker, a mercenary by trade, is no stranger to the darker corners of the city. By day, he’s Rhett Kervyn, a private investigator employed by Virtu, one of NeoNexus’s leading corporations. By night, he roams the Slums under his alias, brokering deals and gathering intel on the black market. Hired to track down Cheong Eun-seo, a young woman rumored to have ties to Bloodwire’s mysterious origins, Ryker finds himself unraveling a web of secrets that threatens to consume not just the Slums, but all of NeoNexus.