Alternate Earth. When trying to create an absolute weapon, the magicians of a top-secret research base lost in Siberia, experimenting with the school of Space, punch a Wormhole into another Universe. After two decades, the drift of physical and magical constants stops the Invasion that has begun, but the territory with a radius of one hundred and sixteen kilometers becomes an outpost of another world for many years. With mutated flora and fauna, which, among other things, is regularly visited by living creatures and, most importantly, intelligent inhabitants of the Other Side, slightly more developed than earthlings. And this part of the planet, covering the border between the two Empires, is first surrounded by a Wall, and then turns into a tidbit that allows you to borrow the technology of another civilization not only from its representatives, but also from its “allies.” Because, first of all, it is profitable. Well, the fact that those Base employees who were not killed by uncontrolled mutations survive in the Crimson Zone, of course, does not bother anyone...