It's hard to be chosen. Especially when you don’t know who chose you and for what and what is behind the series of incredible adventures in which you are drawn... Security Lieutenant Vladimir Volkov felt more and more acutely with every step how the Time Loop was tightening around his neck, dividing the fates of two parallel worlds. In one of them, reality was intricately intertwined with virtuality, and the price of a mistake made in a computer game was real death. The other one was no more fun; nuclear winter reigned there. And the masters of this world were mutants who intended to take the Future itself into their hands, leaving ordinary people with the only right - to turn into food raw materials...