Because of the manic confidence that everything around us belongs to humanity, we are reshaping the Universe for ourselves. But people are people and their structure is far from perfect. What went wrong this time and led to tragic consequences: the human factor or fatal coincidences? Who should be blamed for the disappearance of the population of an entire asteroid with the self-explanatory name "Hades" - the Kingdom of the Dead? Confrontation. There are those who are obliged to hide the truth for their own interests. And there is someone who has already found an honest answer to all questions. This is the second story from a collection of science fiction stories about the Second Planet.