Two partners escape with a police server before a hurricane in the GTA VI themed crime story

Crime duo

GTA VI: The Last Score in Tide City

GTA VI

After prison, Ji Xia and her partner Luo Sheng take one final score in Tide City: steal the server holding every police record in town. As their remote intelligence handler, the reader can send routes, false identities, and extraction signals—until the server reveals evidence signed in the reader's own name.

GTA 6GTA 6 release dateVice City

Create a free account to apply for free reading.

GTA VI: why this story is worth entering

GTA VI invites more than open-world chaos; it asks how two fugitives survive desire, betrayal, and love. This original story puts you inside their only trusted channel.

This GTA VI themed crime story begins hours before a hurricane. Ji Xia leaves prison as Luo Sheng arrives in an unmarked ambulance carrying a legally dead police chief.

GTA VI speed and dark humor hide the real bomb: the stolen police server contains evidence bearing your signature, and every route you send can betray a partner.

Readers searching GTA VI, GTA 6, Lucia, Vice City, or the release date can enter a new crime duo now—not as a spectator, but as their dangerous third accomplice.

Find more character-driven choices on the Then What? interactive story homepage.

The story at a glance

Protagonist
Ji Xia, a getaway driver fresh from prison who refuses to serve another person's sentence
Central conflict
Trust is the fugitives' only asset and the weakness everyone knows how to exploit
Reading mode
Enter the story · Connector
Story clue
A pink motel sign glowing before every hurricane
Tone
Fast, dangerous, and built around criminal trust
For readers who enjoy
Readers searching for GTA VI, GTA 6, Lucia, Vice City, and crime-duo stories

World rules

  1. The reader can contact the pair only through city surveillance signals
  2. Each false identity lasts only until somebody speaks the real name

Story excerpt

01Ji Xia has been free for less than ten minutes when the hurricane sirens begin. Luo Sheng smashes an unmarked ambulance through the prison wall.

02In back sits a police chief who claims he died three years ago, holding the server key every cop in the city wants back.

03Your terminal flashes red. The first target of this robbery is your own name.

How you can change the story

01

Send Ji Xia the police route

She clears the checkpoint, but Luo's car appears on the police map.

02

Send each partner a different route

Both survive and each believes the other betrayed them.

03

Publish the server immediately

The city's crimes go public, and your name becomes the first trending query.

The next junction

Tide City · Before the hurricane · About 2–3 minutes · No sign-in

The camera feed jumps twice. Ji Xia’s ambulance skids out of the garage with its rear door open. The stolen server bangs against a stretcher. Luo Sheng follows in a grey saloon, its windscreen cracked from corner to corner.

“Which way at the next junction?” Ji asks. Her voice is level. Behind it, someone keeps hammering on the rear door.

You open the police traffic map. Three patrol cars block the bridge. The coastal road is clear. Before you can send the turn, a grey dot appears. Its number matches Luo’s plate. There is no pursuit marker beside it, only two words: ASSISTING VEHICLE.

You type: Don’t take the bridge. Then delete it. A lighter clicks on Luo’s channel. He always does that when he is waiting for Ji to agree to something: open, closed, open again.

The pink motel sign bangs against its wall in the wind. Both cars are almost underneath it. The server opens an arrest warrant. Your name is on the first page. The date of issue is tomorrow.

Ji calls again, this time using your call sign. The junction camera begins turning toward the sea. In a few seconds you will lose the only signal through which you can reach them. Your unfinished message still sits in the sending window.

The cursor blinks in the sending window.

To Ji: “Follow the coast. Don’t wait.”

To both: “Split up. I’m watching.”