Chapter Five: The Man Who Always Delivers

The headless rider called himself Night Courier—not with a mouth, but through his navigation system. “In three hundred meters, enter Broken Ring Overpass,” a calm woman announced. “Caution: you have been forgotten.” The Back City's overpass hung in open air, forty meters missing between its ends. In reality, it was an unfinished ramp abandoned years ago. In stories, a rider always crossed the traffic and delivered medicine to people who could not wait. Reposts gave him a red case, a black bike, and a faceless helmet. When the story was debunked as edited footage, he lost the helmet and the head with it. Inside his case was a clue to Daystar's stolen source image: a ruined hospital receipt.