The Moscow Zone suddenly expanded. Now, in addition to it, there is also the Outer Ring, where clean lands coexist with fields of anomalies, and rivers and underground waters from torn deep layers have formed the Novomoskovsk Sea, teeming with mutants. Soon, from beyond the new Perimeter, threatening news began to arrive about incomprehensible phenomena, mysterious incidents and mysterious creatures appearing from nowhere. To uncover these secrets, successful St. Petersburg journalist Viktor Ruzin goes there. From now on, he is the stalker Smart Guy, who, like others, searches for artifacts and fights predatory creatures and bandits. But fate played a cruel joke on him and all the inhabitants of the New Zone - an unknown barrier of fog suddenly cut them off from the mainland. And Victor has no choice but to go in search of a way out together with a team of desperate fighters, led by the experienced stalker Dragon. This path promises to be long and very dangerous, threatening to become a path to death. Where will it lead and will everyone be able to get off it?