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Said side street is flanked by stalls, their vendors loudly trying to catch V’s attention, the sizzle of pad thai in the air. As he reaches the entrance to a seedy back alley, something finally holds our gaze: a cherry blossom tree, growing impossibly out of the side of a building. It’s not real, of course – it’s a hologram, flickering almost imperceptibly as its pink petals fall and melt away into nothingness overhead. And in that moment we understand what makes Night City so alluring: we are entranced by a vision of a reality where the grass on the other side is so green it’s neon.
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