You jack the encrypted drive into the district’s power node, its cold blue pulse rippling through the grid and igniting a cascade of black‑ICE overloads that surge across the neon‑soaked rooftops. The overload spikes the magenta haze into a blinding white flash, but the surge backfires, sending searing feedback through your neural‑port as cyber‑enforcers close in, their kinetic‑rounds hissing in the rain.