She also notices Zero's shadowy figure in the stadium, screenshots him, and shows Hideo. Asher Wing, captain of Team Phoenix Riders, chooses her and Ren to be the team's Architect and Fighter respectively. He pays off all her debts and enters her as a wild card in the Wardraft.Īt the Wardraft, Emika is the first pick, shocking everyone again. Hideo hires Emika to find him, in addition to two other bounty hunters, for a 10-million-dollar bounty. He reveals that she is actually not the only person to hack Warcross- there is another, more sinister hacker named Zero who seems to be trying to sabotage the games. The creator of the game Hideo Tanaka contacts Emika and flies her out for a job interview with him. Her action causes a huge media uproar because Warcross is generally considered to be unhackable. While they are watching the opening ceremony of the Warcross Championship, Emika accidentally enters the arena as a player when she tries to steal a Powerup from one of the players. Keira struggles to find a job and prefers to play Warcross all day. She loses her bounty for the day and returns home to play the virtual reality game Warcross with her roommate Keira who is unemployed. Due to the recent spike in crime in NYC, Emika has little trouble finding bounties but faces stiff competition from other bounty hunters. Emika worries a great deal about her debts because she remembers how her father struggled to pay off his gambling debts before he died. Worried about paying her rent and faced with an eviction notice, Emika works as a bounty hunter in order to earn the reward associated with her bounty. Lu begins the novel by following Emika on essentially what is a typical day in her life. She is the novel's first-person narrator. The novel follows 18-year-old Emika Chen from the Bronx to Tokyo. Marie Lu's novel Warcross is divided into 31 chapters, charting the course of how the protagonist got involved in the Warcross Championship to the Championship's completion.

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