Author's abstract: The second book in the “Huntsman” dilogy. The concept is the same - the adventures of the Huntsman, his hunting cat and his beloved girl on a poorly studied planet. True, it’s already on the other side. Abstract from the publisher: Oleg Denisov, fed up with the adventures on Nakhodka, dreams of only one thing - to hide in some quiet corner where no one will care about him. It would seem that everything is heading towards this: an assignment to Nereid, a little-explored earth colony, promises him and his girlfriend Gala a dust-free job at a research station lost among the islands of the planet’s Southern Hemisphere. Live and be happy! Petrovich, by the way, doesn’t mind either - he has found new friends here, intelligent pseudo-dolphins. However, the old enemy makes itself known, forcing the heroes to enter into an unequal battle, on the outcome of which their lives depend. Will they be able to survive or will they have to flee again?