Her Phoenix Rider teammates include Asher, Hammie, Roshan, and Ren. Emika takes the job and a spot on a Warcross team for the world championship games to play undercover.
Hideo wants Emika to pursue a criminal he nicknamed Zero, who tried to hack the NeuroLink and Warcross to download data. On the flight, she recalls Memories of her deceased father from her Memory Worlds on her NeuroLink. Emika flies to Tokyo on Hideo’s private jet. Shocked, Emika expects arrest, but instead, Hideo Tanaka calls to offer her a job. She hacks into the game and steals it, but she unknowingly glitches her avatar into view, and everyone-players and spectators worldwide-sees her virtual image. NeuroLink glasses allow the user to experience the world with an enhancing layer of virtual reality as well as the fully virtual land of the game Warcross, in which two teams battle for the opponent’s Artifact.Īs soon as Emika logs into the ceremonial opening game, she spies a power-up that she knows could pay off her debt and rent. Famed 21-year-old Hideo Tanaka invented Warcross, an online game popular worldwide with players and spectators, as a way to experience his NeuroLink invention. She and roommate Keira commiserate about their impending eviction but intend to enjoy the opening ceremony of Warcross championships that evening.
She succeeds in catching him but does not receive payment because another bounty hunter claims the target before she can.
Gifted in coding and hacking, Emika uses her smartphone to track a gambler worth enough bounty to pay off her debt and avoid eviction. To control worsening crime, police subcontract the apprehension of lesser criminals to bounty hunters. Eighteen-year-old Emika Chen lives in New York City in the not-too-distant future.
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