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Cyber Squad #1

Cyber Squad, Level 1

Name: Cyber Squad, Level 1
Rating: 4.41 (148 reviews)
Author: A.K. Mocikat

A.K. Mocikat August 11, 2021

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Synopsis

Do you hate bugs? Too bad you can’t report them when you’re dead…

In times of VR games directly induced into the player’s brain, bugs aren’t an annoyance anymore – they have become a deadly menace. Known as game QA in earlier times, the Cyber Squad has been created to hunt them down.

Dressed in high-tech suits meant to keep their bodies and brains secure, Kai and his special unit of bug hunters enter the most dangerous VR game worlds.

But the Net holds mysteries beyond Kai’s imagination, and bugs turn out to be the least of the dangers he will face.

And this is only Level 1!

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