The First Expedition

April 2026. The Zone is no longer what it used to be. Transnational corporations have launched intense activity, trying to turn it into a factory for valuable artifacts. The dump is the tastiest “piece,” and it has long been under control. But it is there that a well-equipped scientific expedition from the Physics Institute disappears without a trace. For some reason, no one is rushing to look for the physicists—so a veteran stalker nicknamed Plumbum is sent into the Zone. He expects an ordinary trip to familiar places, but instead he gets pulled into a chain of dizzying and dangerous adventures. Plumbum and his fellow scientist-friends thought they knew everything about the Zone, but the anomalous territory throws them new riddles. To solve them, you’ll have to look behind the “inside-out” of the Zone, take part in a fierce war between factions, and penetrate where no one has ever been…