A virus that has claimed hundreds of millions of lives has been raging on Earth for decades—but that was only a cover for the project “Genoids.”
The story begins with a column of the condemned that followed from within the forbidden zone. They were young, beautiful, and intelligent girls, raised for service. The death of one of them forces investigator Konon to learn about a new type of human—the dahyios. His friend, Professor Cherepanov, tries to figure out what lies beneath the virus, as well as the marks in the DNA of the dead boy—and why they are not present in his father. Konon did manage to uncover the secret of the genoids, but it was already too late…