Veld climbed the digital spires of Neo-Kowloon to forge a utopia from the wreckage of corporate greed. He sacrificed his mortal shell to become the city's heartbeat, only to watch his dream dissolve into static as his neural-shunt finally surrendered to the void. He died as he lived: a ghost in the wires, leaving behind a city that woke up screaming to the silence of his absence.