Former mercenary Aivən has been in the Hive for half a year already. Having assembled his own squad of hunters of infected—tracers, as they call them here—he continues the fight for survival in a nightmare world populated by living dead and hardened killers. Yet he never forgets his main goal for a moment—revenge. After all, somewhere outside there is the main base of the "Phoenix Group," and there, too, you must search for a way home. Provided it exists at all. To find the base of outsiders, Aivən is ready for a lot. But first, he has to deal with his own Gift—figuring out who is putting obstacles in the way of his group, which keeps getting into trouble with grimly consistent regularity…