Chapter 4 Summary

Ronin stalks through the sewer calling Casey's name. Elsewhere, Casey sits in complete darkness. One of her troopers wakes nearby, and Casey does her best to quell the man's panic. Another trooper, on the verge of insanity, makes cryptic allusions to doom. Casey takes the hand of the first trooper and asks the second man to offer his hand. The second man begins laughing creepily.

From above, Aquarius Complex seems to be growing out of control. The complex no longer looks like a collection of buildings, but like a spreading fungal blight. Twenty-four hours have passed since Taggart ordered Virgo to design and manufacture weapons. Taggart, who now wears an imperious crown of biocircuitry, and Learnid prepare to demonstrate to Sawa Corporation the results of the creations of the weapons. The meeting is interrupted when a drunken Peter McKenna hacks his way into...