– Did you talk to the Phantom, where, when? - Huron stared at me in surprise. - What ghost? I talked to Mathis himself! He's alive! He got burned, though quite badly the last time. Although naked, he is alive and cheerful. In any case, this was the case last week near Zaton. “You know what, Strelok, let’s sit down and you will describe to me in detail your meeting with Mathis.” I retold Huron everything in all the colors and details. He also told me about the scar in the shape of a bird’s paw on his cheek. – So, Mathis and the Phantom are the same “person”, so to speak. – Wait, wait! I heard that the Phantom died. - Exactly, and I myself saw Mathis’s corpse for the first time, three years ago. Do you understand? – I don’t understand a damn thing. That person I was talking to wasn’t Mathis? – Mathis, and he’s a Ghost, but he’s not a person! – That is, how?! – And just like that, they kill him, and he’s reborn! The ghost is another headache for wanderers. The ghost does not recognize the rules of the zone, he walks wherever he wants. He can probe defensive perimeters over and over again. He dies, of course, but eventually finds a breach. He can go where ordinary people do not go, through areas with chemical or radiation contamination. I saw his drawings inside the sarcophagus. There is such radiation in one place that you have to run at a gallop in a high-protection suit. Can you imagine, and he stood there and drew.