The game of humans and the mighty Holders of the World continues—where the stakes are nothing less than the very possibility of our reality existing. That’s why a voyage across the southern seas, undertaken by Andrey Novikov and Alexander Shulgin in hopes of resting from their worries, unexpectedly turns into one man’s assignment in the future and the other’s очередным raid into the rear of a probable enemy. No one can foresee how it all will end. One thing is clear: in the grand Game, Earth’s people are no longer newcomers—they are full-fledged participants, and the tasks they will have to solve are of an entirely different level of difficulty.