Phantom Currents

In the hyper-connected capital of New Gyeongseong, a series of bizarre fatalities—electrocutions in dry rooms, drownings in locked apartments—are dismissed as accidents. Disgraced cybercrime journalist Sera An tracks the invisible thread to a ghost in the city’s infrastructure: a hacker weaponizing the power grid and water supply to execute untraceable murders. As Sera descends into the neon-lit underworld of anonymous message boards, she discovers that behind every screen hides a judge, a jury, and an executioner. The deeper she digs, the more the digital hunter becomes the hunted, forcing her to confront her own buried sins in a society where malice wears no face.