This story was strange from the very beginning. Firstly, because local security services were not involved in the investigation, and the planetary police of Salta had no idea what was happening under their noses. Secondly, because the main character turned out to be not a professional intelligence officer, but a real armchair worm, a linguist-philologist, a specialist in the field of the Insk language. And finally, the artifact, around which people, people from Salt, were spinning like crazy, turned out to be not at all what it claimed to be. However, first things first...