
World
Nine blocks under the overpass, where neon is cheaper than daylight and noodles are cheaper than neon: a night market, capsule bunks, a bar with chrome for a counter, and a roof high enough to see that the city does not end.
Pick a place to begin a new visit there.

Wet asphalt under the overpass, signs stacked two floors high, and cables hanging lower than they should. The whole block runs out from here.

A wall of pods stacked three high, each one a mattress and a socket. Cheap, dry, and thin enough to hear everyone else at once.
Empty, for now.

Rows of stalls under an awning: noodles, scorched chrome, other people's implants in plastic boxes. It smells of broth and hot iron.
Empty, for now.

A rented apartment with nothing on the door: screens, cables across the floor, and too many ways out for one room.

A roof above the overpass. From here you can see that the city does not end in any direction, and that someone below is always looking up.
Empty, for now.

A bar where the counter is a single sheet of polished chrome. The music is loud exactly enough that you cannot make out the conversation at the next table.
You pick up your last visit, or arrive at Neon Backstreet.