Vadim Panov’s famous series “Enclaves” continues! The Earth has not yet recovered from the grandiose experiment conducted at the Naukoma Station. But humanity has already adapted to the new conditions of existence, having accepted the cruel rules of the game of survival... The Government of the Celestial Empire is throwing all its efforts into a large-scale project to build a railway to the Station. The giant rail laying ship "Emperor Shi Huang" is moving into the taiga wilds of Siberia. It is commanded by PLA Lieutenant Colonel Chen Yudiao - fierce and swift as a lioness. A young hacker, known under the nickname Listopad, launches a hacker attack on the Emperor’s computer systems and... disappears. Ilya Weber, hired by one of the highest officials of the Republic of Siberia, a mysterious machinist named Patience, goes in search of the scrapman... Meanwhile, there are only a few days left before the start of Operation Bronze Mirror...