Far from his native civilization, Rovald lost his spaceship, a communication sensor, but found friends and indestructible exo-armor. Will he be able to find answers to the questions for which he landed on Ixodus? It might not be worth it. The damned planet is sick with a black mind. He went crazy a long time ago, forcing people to turn into cyborgs. It is necessary to tear the claws. But the impossible is required - to find the entrance to the old, closed city of Grozny, which is guarded by the seized immune system of the Eighth Cradle. The eighth colonizing ship of the Proto-Slavs, which, escaping, created this planet.