The Volkov Protocol
The Glitch in Neo-Moscow: The year is 2082. Neo-Moscow is a vertical labyrinth of chrome and despair, where the sky is a permanent shade of television static and the air tastes like ozone and cheap synthetic vodka. The sun hasn't touched the lower districts in decades; instead, the city is illuminated by the harsh, flickering neon of the Volkov Corporation, a titan that owns everything from the water you drink to the thoughts in your head. Nikolai Volkov was a "Ghost"—a freelance neural-hacker who lived in the cracks of the system. He wasn't a hero; he was a survivor. His body was a patchwork of black-market cybernetics: a decommissioned military-grade neural link in his spine and a sub-dermal optic rig that allowed him to see the world in raw data streams. He made his living stealing en
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