This is a world where new technologies, even without reaching the streets, generate new kinds of crimes. A world where computer viruses gain a personality. A world where consciousness and the surrounding environment have merged to such an extent that reality is constantly being remade, destroyed, and reborn. And the most advanced demiurges of the new time are the Artizants— a semi-legal group of hackers and pirates who take images from other people’s minds and turn them into something that can be packaged, sold, and consumed. The Artizants are so addicted to virtual reality that many of them permanently leave for artificial worlds, abandoning their bodies. But now, online, it’s become dangerous: a strange virus has appeared—one that possesses real intelligence. It can crash any system and warp the human mind. It was created by the Artizants, and now they will have to stop their own creation.