The game of people and powerful World Holders, the stake in which is the very possibility of the existence of our reality, continues. Therefore, a trip to the southern seas, started by Andrei Novikov and Alexander Shulgin in the hope of taking a break from worries, unexpectedly turns into a business trip to the future for one and another raid behind the rear of a potential enemy for the other. No one can predict how it will all end. One thing is clear: in the big Game, earthlings are no longer beginners, but full-fledged participants, and therefore the tasks that they have to solve are of a completely different degree of complexity.