Military Research Center tester Maxim Chubukov, after demobilization, went as a mercenary to the Congo to guard a mine where a private company illegally mines the rare mineral tantalite. In an exotic country, exotic customs. The natives suddenly decided that Maxim had been possessed by the evil spirit Kortek, and demanded that the guard be expelled from the camp. But, what is more strange, the head of the security, Viktor Vasnetsov, believed the savages, who, unlike them, decided not to expel, but to kill the possessed man. Yes, I didn’t take into account one thing - Max is not one of those who can be taken with bare hands. And even with weapons, as it turned out later...