Do you like to immerse yourself in virtual reality? Do you want... for real? Major Bekasov, an employee of the special counterintelligence department of the FSB, is inevitably drawn into a confrontation with those who turn our reality into an “exciting computer game”, more reminiscent of a tough counter-terrorist operation. Moreover, Bekasov himself and his friend, the talented inventor Rudnitsky, find themselves in the role of “terrorists”, who have come too close to realizing the true goals of influential gamers striving for absolute power. Indeed, in the Hypernet of the Universe, the society of the Earth is just one of the levels, and far from the highest hierarchy, and people are programs, “shadows” of its Creator. If they get out of obedience, showing free will, the natural step of the higher control services is adjustment or elimination... The “Hypernetwork” (“Cryptozoic”) duology in one volume.