Three years after saying goodbye to his friends and returning to his home world, Kapon rarely remembers that he was once a stalker. He again became a programmer Andrei Kozhukhov, or, as the writer Vasyuta once called him, “a hacker in the good sense of the word.” But there are no former stalkers. Moreover, Kapon’s current work is directly related to the logical block donated by cyber Zahn, thanks to which the hacker and his colleagues created a supercomputer with artificial intelligence - IRU. And some strange, disturbing events make Kozhukhov realize that the Northern Zone has not gone away: and there are too many bears around the secret town; and the brakes of his trusty SUV suddenly fail, nearly costing him his life; and it’s as if he sometimes reads other people’s thoughts... But the worst thing is that several people at once, including Andrei himself, begin to have the same dream down to the smallest detail: the explosion of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant, which is very close to them. Isn’t it time to remember what was said in ancient times: “Fear the Danaans who bring gifts”?