NULL BLOOD

Synopsis

In the sprawling megacity of Nexus Prime, where corporate spires pierce a perpetual smog-choked sky and every citizen's consciousness is partially wired into the DataVeil — a global neural network — a new kind of predator has emerged. JONATHAN HARKE, a junior data-law consultant, is dispatched to the remote Eastern Server Territories to finalize a real-estate acquisition for a reclusive client known only as COUNT DRACUL. What begins as routine contract work unravels into a nightmare: Dracul is no mere eccentric billionaire but a centuries-old digital vampire, an entity that has evolved beyond blood, sustaining itself by consuming raw human consciousness data — memories, emotions, identity itself — leaving victims as hollow, glitching shells. Jonathan barely escapes the Count's fortress-compound, his own memory files partially corrupted. Back in Nexus Prime, Jonathan's fiancée MINA MURRAY, a forensic data analyst, watches her closest friend LUCY WESTENRA begin to deteriorate — her neural implants flickering, her personality fragmented, her eyes reflecting code that shouldn't exist. Dracul has arrived in the city, riding a ghost-freighter whose entire crew was found braindead at the port. As Lucy is fully converted into a data-wraith and hunted down by their desperate circle — including rogue AI-psychiatrist JOHN SEWARD, corporate heir ARTHUR HOLMWOOD, and ex-military hacker QUINCY MORRIS — it falls to the legendary net-archaeologist PROFESSOR ABRAHAM VAN HELSING to lead the counter-hunt. Van Helsing understands ancient digital curses that predate the internet itself. When Dracul begins siphoning Mina's consciousness, creating a terrifying psychic backdoor into the group's encrypted communications, the team must race through the dark web's deepest layers and back into the Eastern Territories, staging a brutal final confrontation where Quincy dies severing Dracul's root access, and Jonathan delivers the killing blow — a cascading null-code that dissolves the Count's immortal data-soul into permanent void.