End of the 22nd century. What will this time be like? What will that distant world be like? Perhaps the Earth will be consumed by military conflicts, or humanity will move to planets in deep space, and, most likely, people driven into their homes by the pandemic will simply transfer all their activities to the electronic environment, the world will become completely digital. The era of virtual reality will come. People will be born, live and die, not knowing the real state of things. Horace is a typical representative of the coming century. He lives, works, relaxes in a completely virtual environment, and he, like everyone around him, is preparing to take part in the most significant event in the last century. Human nature cannot be changed. In a world created for universal happiness, freed from the problems of physical existence, the first major conflict has matured, the Great Battle is coming. The losers in it will be disconnected from the virtual network, they will end up in the real world. What awaits them there? Naively, everyone thinks that what is happening is just a game.