The game of Dimension draws the two brothers in, forcing them to enthusiastically prepare for the final battle with the rebellious players. The brothers’ friend, stuck in Quasar’s game project, is trying in vain to get out of the world of Subspace energy into material reality, where her neuropathic daughter remains, over whom her father, the keeper of the Universal Hierarchy, wants to gain custody. The girl is forced to hide first with an elderly family friend, and then at a research mobile station among scientists traveling to the center of the Great Glacier in order to study the possibility of localizing a thousand-year cataclysm. At a transshipment base built remotely by mechanical universal assemblers, scientists activate a virus adapted to new neural networks. Having subdued the consciousnesses of the expedition members, this virus is trying to reach residential complexes...