As they say, hell is paved with good intentions. An experiment by Russian scientists triggered a global cataclysm. During the ge…ration of interspace gateways, one Chernobyl produced as many as five anomalous Zones separated from us by screens of gravity.
And Zones always attract stalkers! They’re also fed by side products of the explosive development of nanotechnology—scorgs, dragons, harpies, chimeras, and other half-mechanical creatures. An unremarkable stalker by the name Leshy only keeps busy, collecting various valuable artifacts that he sells in the newly formed Five-Zone region—and fending off the vicious biomechs whose artificial intelligence is progressing at an unprecedented speed.
There’s no reason for experienced Leshy—well-versed in all kinds of shady dealings—to help Maxim Sokolov, a military cleaner, but everything turns out so that if he doesn’t help, the whole world will be turned upside down!
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