The human race did not know that even at the hour of its birth it was cursed for many centuries to come. That his future is a world in which the dead come back to life. It all started off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. An expensive expedition was organized to study an archaeological find lying in the crater of an underwater volcano in the ocean. But a terrible fate awaited the researchers who tried to get closer to the mysterious Black Obelisk... For the first time in Russian - a prequel novel to the famous computer game!