The beginning of a novel in the S-T-I-K-S universe by Artem Kamenisty, telling about the misadventures of an ordinary Russian man with the not-so-usual Greek name Hector, who was globally unlucky. And not only with passport data. It’s just that he was brought right along with his native dacha to the Hive - a place where at least surviving until evening is already an achievement, since constantly growing crowds of zombies are hanging around, monstrous mutants that have developed from them and simply not very adequate individuals with firearms and big plans for the first person you meet.