There is no death! This is how people of the new era greet each other—the era that came after the Great Reduction. Humanity numbers three billion—and from now on this number is constant, as stated in the Book of Life. Humanity has become the Living—one unified organism that constantly reproduces itself, in which everything is connected to the global Socio network through the brain. The Living is an ideally stable system that ended inequality, borders, wars, nations, and religions. There is no death—only Pause, after which a person is born again. They gain access to the memory cell of the previous version of themselves, so they can live another life in a virtual world cut off from everything real, where their place is known and predetermined. Until Zero is born—a genetic error, a mistake of nature. The first of three billion—a superfluous element in the system—threatening to disrupt the balance of the Living…