Continuation of the book "Offline Mode". Year 3882 according to the Galactic calendar. Earth. Megalopolis Russia. A thousand years have passed, and the traces of the past catastrophe that threw human civilization back hundreds of years are gradually erased, but the world is still cruel and dangerous. Even small children know that they should beware of combat vehicles, the wreckage of which litters the ruins of cities... Two boys find strange mannequins in the basement of a former clothing store. They don’t look like primitive androids, which in ancient times were used to demonstrate fashionable new products, but they don’t look like fighting machines either. Seryozha and Sashka preferred to get out of harm’s way. How could they have known that an accidental discovery would affect the future of the entire planet? Combat mnemonic Ilya Ternov, who arrived from the interstellar station in search of his missing father, did not know this either. But it was Ternov who had to immediately intervene in the conflict between the remnants of the human race and the ancient galactic civilization of insects...