About the book: 2024 / Night. The city is sleeping. Its ordinary inhabitant Yegor Peredryagin is also sleeping. But absolutely suddenly, among the cramped walls of his apartment, a terrible luminous figure materializes out of nowhere. Yegor wakes up from the loud howl of the night guest. But when the owner of the apartment is ready to say goodbye to life, the obsession disappears into thin air. Frightened, Yegor begins to scroll through the long list of contacts on his phone. He is looking for someone who can help him. But in his circle of acquaintances there are no exorcists, no priests, no ghost hunters. And then the victim turns to a young scientist, by the standards of the scientific community, Arkady Znaevich. Driven by a thirst for knowledge, Arkady is ready to work day and night to extract from the universe all the secrets of the universe. More and more resources are being attracted to research. In less than a day, Yegor’s apartment begins to resemble a futuristic lair of an alien civilization. But this is just the beginning of our story.