A thousand years have passed, and the traces of a former catastrophe that threw human civilization hundreds of years ago are gradually erased, but the world is still cruel and dangerous. Even small children know that you should beware of combat vehicles, the wreckage of which is dotted with the ruins of cities... Two boys find strange mannequins in the basement of a former clothing store. They do not look like primitive androids, which in ancient times were used to demonstrate fashionable novelties, but also like combat vehicles - it seems too. Seryozha and Sasha preferred to get away from sin. How did they know that a random find would affect the future of the entire planet? The combat mnemonic Ilya Ternov, who arrived from the interstellar station in search of his missing father, did not know this either. But it was Ternov who had to immediately intervene in the conflict between the remnants of the human race and the oldest galactic civilization of insects...