Imprisoned in the erasing cage

Mei is imprisoned by a tangle of cables in a small room lightened by the pale light of dozens of monitors on the walls. A big cable wires her back head. She looks unconscious. Cheng understands that she is in a great danger: somebody is trying to format her soul, in a virtual battle between Mei’s firewall and the unknown hacker. Cheng grabs the big cable and tries to detach it from the nape of Mei, without success. He looks around but he finds nothing. At the same time hе feels determination and discouragemеnt. He throws her helmet against one of the monitors, which is shattered by shorting the system. The cable comes off, Mei suddenly wakes up. But a threatening shadow breaks into the room...