Neon Nights

SM00: Neon Nights is a side mission in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. It is available for Adam Jensen to complete during his first visit to Prague. Completing this mission unlocks an achievement/trophy of the same name.

Walkthrough
The   Side Mission 0: Neon Nights  is a side quest in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided uncovered in Prague (Day) that can be started at various points.

There’s a new drug in Prague, something called Neon, and it seems to be circulating in certain underground circles. There’s a lot of places you can hear about it, and picking up the quest may change depending on what you know and where you are clued into a bigger drug operation going on.

The quest seems to start in the small courtyard just northeast of your apartment complex. In this shady area you can hear some bums talking about a drug called Neon, and if you move further up you can see a dealer named Bonbon turning away an aug who was looking for Neuropozyne. The stash is located behind her in a restricted area patrolled by a bodyguard. If you want to be sneaky, look to the right to find an electrical box you can use to hop up onto the window sills above the gate and drop down behind, and sneak past the bodyguard when his back is turned to find an unlocked safe containing money, Neuropozyne, and a Pocket Secretary mentioning their base of operations - just a few floors below your apartment, and the number to get in the door: 0310.

If you have the upgrade to break down walls, there is a weak wall near the safe, leading to a small maintenance area with a dead body and an alarming note on a Pocket Secretary about why Neon isn’t meant for Augs.

Head to the second floor of your apartment complex at Zelen Apartments - apartment 22. On your map you can see the place is restricted, and the man inside will fight in he spots you. However, you can sneak in through a grate in the stairwell, and overhear him talking about selling the neon drug by bringing the Dvali gang into the mix. There’s a Pocket Secretary on a small table outside the kitchen that has the passcode for the laptop in the kitchen, which will start continue the mission with your first real task - find out who is distributing the drug.

BEHIND OUR BACKS
The emails spoke of an apartment complex known of its Neon Nights, located at apartment 202 at the Hlavni apartments. When you enter the courtyard, look up to the left on the second floor. The shuttered windows are where you want to go, so you can either use the experimental remote hacking aug to open them, hack the front door’s level 2 security, or enter the adjacent apartment and look for a grate above the main room connecting to the other apartment.

As it turns out, quite a party happened here, and place is strewn with debris. There’s also an automatic smart home system installed, which will recognize that an unauthorized person is snooping out - making time short before the police are summoned. You can circumvent this by hacking the level 1 locked laptop and re-configuring the smart home to recognize you.

The clue you need is in the bathroom at the edge of the tub, where a Pocket Secretary mentions another party happening in another place behind a courtyard not far from here. You can also check upstairs to find an apparent drug overdose victim with their own Pocket Secretary.

THE RAVE
Heading over to the Ludvik courtyard and look for a low wall to hop over into a small park area. The door in the corner leads to the rave, but as some of the notes mentioned - you need a keycard. If you have a couple augs and a perhaps a lot of painkillers, you can bypass the door by looking left to some heavy trash bins and the weak wall behind it - leading to a duct that’s been electrified.

If don’t have the right augs, there is still a way. A few of the emails and notes from the party mentioned the “cleaners”, so why not hire them from the smart home’s laptop controls back at the apartment? When you do so, you’ll get a confirmation email that they’ll arrive while you go do something else, and even slip you a pass. Oblige these mysterious cleaners and go take the subway. When you get back - the entire place will be spotless, the body will be gone, and a pile of Neon drugs will be on the bed with a swan towel that holds the key card you need.

Inside the scene, you’ll find dancing drug addicts everywhere, high on the neon stuff, with not a care in the world. If you take a left path, you can overhear two people by a locked door talking about how another person died - and apparently this happens to any augmented person who takes Neon. When they leave, hack open the level 1 door to find the body and read their Pocket Secretary for info on the sellers - a laundry service near the Pilgrim Station - the very same cleaners mentioned earlier, with the swan towel symbol at their door.

THE DOOR OF PERCEPTION
Head over to the Pilgrim District and enter the Libuse Apartments, looking for a door on the second floor that bears the telltale swan symbol. You can get in through a variety of ways: The level 2 locked door, or by remote hacking the window shutters, or even navigate the vents in the open storage locker below the floor.

The place may seem like a “clean” operation, but the unlocked laptop says otherwise, as does the Pocket Secretary in the bedroom. Keep exploring, and you may notice a fake wall by the kitchen with no visible opening. Check the spray bottle on the right to open the secret closet (or take the grate from the storage unit below). There’s a level 4 locked safe here, so either hack or use a Multi-tool to open it up where you’ll find money, and Multi-tool for your trouble, and another Pocket Secretary. This one seems to mention that Cygnus is getting his stash from someone named Harmony inside the lab who is smuggling it out from under the Dvali guards - somewhere in the sewers below your own Zelen apartment complex.

WHERE ALL THE COLORS COME FROM
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Ghost Walkthrough - Side Mission 0: Neon Nights (Part Two)15:51

Video Walkthrough: Part Two

Back in your neighborhood, leave the Zelen Complex to the South to find a sewer grate you can climb down into the sewers proper. Heading right from here will lead into a large area. There’s a locked door on the right that faces a rotating turret on the other side. You can get above it by going left from the door and using your augs to negate the electrical field - leading to a second floor locked door overlooking the turret (disabling the electricity will also turn off the door).

If you can, hack the level 3 laptop controlling the turret (located behind it) or try and make a dash for the small safe on a couch near the turret - as the Pocket Secretary inside holds the passcode, and money (Turret Domination aug will still be required).

Up the stairs from the turret you can find a level 5 locked terminal - the earlier note should get you through this one. Alternatively, you can climb up higher with the high jumping aug to get above the next area, if you can move the large trash bins out of the way.

In the underground lab, there are 6 armed thugs in the area - 2 outside the lab, 3 inside, and 1 up top with the security laptop in a corner. The lab also has a few scientists, including one in the far back right corner. You can get to the security laptop from above by using the pipes (the level 3 laptop uses the same security code as the turret’s). From the laptop, you can also disable the alarms and the laser grids around the mix vat in the far corner.

Speaking of the far corner, you can sneak from the upper floor or bypass the camera on the bottom, and try and talk to the scientist here. Harmony is the one who’s been smuggling the drugs out. In order to make sure she doesn’t make a run for it, you’ll need to talk her down. You can do this byWarning her, then Confronting her with the evidence you’ve gathered from previous steps. If you do this, she’ll relent, and open the door to disable the reactors herself - finishing the quest.

If she doesn’t, or you pick the wrong options, you may have to do it yourself. This can either mean disabling the laser tripwires and dropping in from above, which you can either climb to outside the room, or remote hack a ladder at the end ,or hacking the level 3 security door (there’s aMulti-tool on the desk behind the girl). Once inside, you can only disable the reactors yourself by plugging in two Biocells into each canister, and then using the powered up level 1 locked terminal.

You can also try for the loot in the main lab, but it will involve taking out all the guards and making sure the chemists don’t go for an alarm. Both entrances to the lab have breaker switches that can electrocute the front or the couch at the back that a guard sits at. Inside the den you can find an assortment of weapons, grenades, random loot.