The author would like to warn that “Trailer” is not an independent literary work (if it even is one). This is a direct and immediate continuation of the story “The Old Man from the Roadside,” which in turn is derived from the story by br. Strugatsky "Roadside Picnic" Therefore, most of the storyline of the “Trailer” will be incomprehensible to those who are not familiar with the content of “The Old Man”. Original (illustrated and multimedia) versions are located at: The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.