It seemed to them that victory was just within reach. The artifact dealer Witcher had penetrated the Wandering City, and soon they would catch up with him. But who could have known that this city was only an intermediate point, and that in reality Witcher was striving farther on? But where was this “farther”? Could there really be something even more mysterious, forbidden, and cut off from everyone than the legendary center of the Zone? Yes — there is! The fugitive soldier Nikita Prigorshnya, the hired killer Red Raven, and the scientist Andrey Khimik, who has found himself in a mutant’s body, will soon learn this. Very quickly they will understand that none of them expected anything LIKE THIS.