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Responding to a lucrative offer to rent a house online, A immediately heads to his destination—a small tourist village in Eastern Europe—to gather strength after battling his drug addiction. Upon arriving at his destination, the young man decides to visit a local bar.
There, he meets a girl named B and spends the evening getting to know each other better while consuming a significant amount of alcohol. A loses control and blacks out.
(INSERT) Flesh on the face of a humanoid had tightly fused with the metallic shell of a large device with gears that, rotating chaotically, further entwined a piece of skin that had fused with them.
Upon waking up, A finds himself in an unfamiliar house, with an unfamiliar girl. Introducing herself as B, the girl reminds him of their meeting the previous day, informing him that she is the tenant of this house.
When A asks B for the address of the house, he finally realizes that he has arrived at his intended destination. After calling the owner of the house, it turns out that due to a mistake, A and B are now roommates. After some time of living together, A and B grow closer. Despite A's admission that he is a recovering addict, their relationship quickly turns into a romance.
During one of their dates, the couple meets a smoking man who introduces himself as a journalist named D, writing an article about the history of the settlement. D starts asking them strange questions, inquiring whether they experience symptoms of lunacy, see nightmares and hallucinations in which shadows resembling them and their relatives pursue them. This disturbs B, who quickly rushes to end the conversation with D, pulling A along.
When A asks B about her actions, she admits that she sometimes sees dreams of strange content in which her surroundings consist of silhouettes. A does not attach much importance to her words and advises her to rest more.
Sharing her encounter with D with her best friend named C, B complains about constant anxiety, feeling on the brink of despair, and admits that sometimes she sees dark silhouettes not only in her dreams. Upon hearing her friend's condition, C offers to visit her to provide support, to which B quickly agrees. A also welcomes C's visit, hoping it might positively impact B's condition.
The following week, the group actively spends time together, visiting local attractions and events. During one of their walks, the trio witnesses an attack by a crazed stranger who assaults a random passerby. The psychopath turns out to be D, whom A and B recognize. D addresses the gathered crowd, warning that such incidents in the settlement will only increase, listing the main symptoms that inevitably turn anyone into a bloodthirsty psychopath. After finishing his speech, D quickly disappears from sight.
This incident worsens B's psychological state even further. In local chat rooms, users actively discuss the incident, drawing attention to the symptoms listed by D and noticing them among their surroundings. Paranoia quickly engulfs the settlement.
B's mental state continues to deteriorate. In a conversation with A, she confesses her suspicions that C is trying to destroy their relationship. A assures B that all her fears are groundless, realizing that she is drifting further away from reality. For the first time in a long while, A relapses and takes a dose to cope with the stress.
One evening, B overhears a conversation between A and C in which they agree on the need to take B out of the settlement. After hearing this, B's paranoia intensifies; she becomes more convinced that her boyfriend and best friend intend to get rid of her. Meanwhile, the settlement rapidly descends into mass hysteria, and A and C start experiencing nightmares.
Following the advice from local chat rooms, A and C decide to avoid sleep as much as they can, keeping an eye on B. After three days of sleep deprivation, their sanity completely deteriorates.
(INSERT) In the vast, gloomy space, perfectly square icy panels with various ornamental elements move chaotically, constantly forming the contours of various extraterrestrial humanoid beings and parts of their bodies.
Upon waking up, B immediately sets out to find her friends, noticing the silhouette that has been watching her again. Climbing up to the second-floor bedroom of the house, she catches A and C engaged in a sexual act. What she sees shatters B completely; trying to numb the emotional pain, she wanders the city until dawn, collapsing from exhaustion not far from home.
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B wakes up to C's exclamations, inviting her for a walk to help her recover faster. B agrees, secretly hiding a kitchen knife in her belongings.
During their walk, a conversation ensues in which C expresses her concerns about the unreality of the events happening. Spotting another dark silhouette in the distance, B suddenly accuses her friend of being promiscuous, claiming that she caught her with A.
C vehemently denies all of B's accusations, insisting that all suspicions are merely illusions from her dreams. Tearfully, C blames her friend for betrayal and attempts to steal A away from her. Despite C's attempts to explain herself, B, in a fit of anger, secretly strikes her with the concealed knife.
Bleeding profusely, C flees from her enraged friend, dropping her glasses along the way, which shatter into pieces. While trying to escape, C trips over a stone, fatally fracturing her skull. Seeing her friend's lifeless body, B loses consciousness in shock, just after glimpsing another dark silhouette among the trees in the distance.
Upon waking up in the house with severe amnesia and feeling a sharp cold, B sees A sitting nearby. Noticing B waking up, A informs her that C has been missing for over a day. After a surge of messages in local chat rooms about mass disappearances, A sets out to search for their friends, but his efforts yield no results.
Returning home, the exhausted A sees B lying unconscious with blood-stained hands. When A inquires about the blood, B immediately tears up, recalling fragmented memories of C's death. B confesses that she is responsible for C's death, killed out of jealousy for A. A doesn't entirely believe B's words, convincing her that everything she says is a product of her troubled mind. A insists that they urgently need to leave the settlement, explaining to B about the unexplained snowfall and the mass violence taking place in the settlement.
Wearing jackets they find in the attic of the house and carrying only the essentials, A and B attempt to make their way through the forest to reach the road, hoping to find C.
On their journey, they come across the scene of C's death, where B experiences shock from the sudden flood of memories of her friend's demise. Despite finding fragments of C's shattered glasses and a bloody trail leading to a snow-covered knife, the pair is unable to locate C's body, further fueling A's skepticism about B's words. B decides to take the knife with her as it is the only thing that connects her to reality.
(INSERT) In a space with eternal rain where the floor is invisible, small iron sculptures of various humanoid silhouettes are placed on pedestals, depicting scenes of a certain ritual of worship and sex in various positions.
After several hours of travel, the exhausted couple returns to the starting point of their journey—their own home on the outskirts of the settlement. Desperate and doubting their own sanity, A and B decide to take refuge inside.
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Soon, the snowfall intensifies. Through the snow, B notices a group of unknown individuals surrounding the house. To cope with the tension, A takes substances and goes to investigate the situation, convincing B to find shelter. While waiting for A, hiding on the second floor of the house, B experiences severe panic attacks, seeing mysterious silhouettes everywhere amidst the loud sounds of struggle.
After a lull, B hears the strangers searching the house for her. In a panic, she grabs the knife she took from the scene of C's death, preparing to defend herself. Upon hearing footsteps, she secretly strikes the intruder multiple times with the concealed knife. Upon closer inspection, B recognizes the fallen stranger as A.
Gasping for breath and bleeding, A informs B that he couldn't find anyone near the house. In horror, B loses her ability to speak. As A is dying, he confesses to B that he relapsed recently but assures her that he has always been faithful to her.
Overwhelmed by the realization that she is personally responsible for the deaths of everyone dear to her, B succumbs to hysteria. In despair, she begins to smash everything within reach. Suddenly, D bursts into the house in response to the noise.
Noticing A's bloodied body, D retrieves a gun and points it at B. Seeing the man, B rushes toward him, begging him to kill her. Instructing her to stay in place, D fires several shots, severely injuring the girl.
Realizing that B is no longer a threat, D, lighting a cigarette, tells her about the mass slaughter that occurred in the settlement that night, as well as armed members of some cult killing everyone remaining in the town. D admits that he is also suffering from insanity, communicating with his deceased daughter.
Suddenly, D falls dead from a stray bullet that struck him in the head due to the ongoing shelling of the house. The house, riddled with bullets, is then stormed by a group of armed cultists in cloaks, who notice the girl lying in a pool of blood.
(INSERT) In a cold, elongated tunnel, the walls of which are evenly lined with hypertrophied busts with extremely long necks, at the end of which are the heads of humanoids without mouths.
The snowfall intensifies, and the temperature drops to freezing levels. The cloaked cultists surround B, declaring the end of their search for the contactee and the beginning of a certain exodus.
Freezing and bleeding, B can barely discern dark humanoid silhouettes in the snow, slowly approaching her, while hearing their rapidly growing whispers. When they get very close, she collapses unconscious.
Among the cultists, there are calls to spare B's life until she hears the angels' sermon. Surrounding the girl, the cultists observe as B mutters incomprehensible words to herself.
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(INSERT) Raindrops fall on a cocoon formed from a mixture of flesh and metal, from which a humanoid figure covered in slime emerges. This figure has numerous metal plates with ribbed ornamentation embedded all over its body, trailing a long umbilical cord.
Awakening to incessant knocking on the door, B struggles to come to her senses after another nightmare. Rushing to the entrance, she sees a group of strangers gathered outside.
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Pale with fear, B remembers how they (the group of people who sought shelter in the house with B and C in the second chapter) were ruthlessly gunned down by the cultists. Seeing the girl's pale face, the group hastily departs, claiming they came to visit B, as they last saw her about three days ago.
Fully regaining her composure, B immediately calls her best friend, C. In the conversation with her friend, explaining her absence, B tells her about her constant realistic nightmares and visions in which C dies a horrific death countless times.
However, C doesn't take her friend's words seriously, reminding her of their conversation from yesterday. B couldn't remember a thing about what C said, inquiring about all the recent events. Realizing the apparent cloudiness of her mind, B attributes her behavior to exhaustion, to which C advises her to rest more, promising to visit her soon.
B heads to the settlement in the hope of learning more about recent events. Along the way, the girl reflects on the origin of her dreams and visions, as well as the recurring character in all her nightmares, a guy named A, whom B had never known.
Wandering the streets of the settlement, B experiences constant anxiety despite the apparent lawlessness around her. During her journey, she encounters many people she has never met before, yet she inexplicably remembers much about them.
Numerous moments from her nightmares start resurfacing in B's mind, in which everyone she encounters meets a horrific end. B experiences severe panic attacks. She leaves the bustling streets, returning to her home. Alone, she begins to seriously contemplate leaving the settlement.
Soon, the house owner informs B of the imminent arrival of another housemate. Afterward, B sees multiple flashbacks of this message from her nightmares, each time serving as the beginning of dreadful events. She begins to suspect that, in her dreams and visions, she is seeing events from the near future.
One late evening, a strange guy in an erratic state appears on her doorstep. Upon introducing himself as A, B finally realizes that her nightmares are a sign.
One night, B has another dream where strange, otherworldly beings in the style of H.R. Giger approach her, whispering incomprehensible words and slowly advancing toward her. C asks the creatures not to come near her, but they ignore her pleas, continuing their approach, causing the girl to wake up covered in cold sweat.
In the following days, tormented by visions from her nightmares, B avoids any contact with A and doesn't leave her home, occasionally noticing dark silhouettes outside her window. She manages to contact only C, who is concerned about her friend's long silence.
Knowing about the impending nightmare, B tries desperately to prevent her friend from coming to the settlement. She lies, insisting that C shouldn't visit due to supposed local events. Suspecting foul play, C still plans to head to the settlement, eager to meet B in person.
B decides on a desperate attempt to persuade the others to leave the settlement. She goes to a local establishment, publicly discussing the impending horrific events. Suddenly, B notices a frightened doppelgänger of one of the guys in the crowd, pointing to him as proof of the anomaly happening in the city. However, the doppelgänger disappears in an instant, remaining unnoticed by the others.
The girl is mocked and leaves the establishment in tears. At the exit, a middle-aged man who was smoking awaited her, stating that he believed in her words. B immediately calls him D - the man hiding his true identity, whom she had seen in her nightmares many times. Astonished, D, who hadn't introduced himself before, starts asking the girl numerous questions, persistently urging her to tell everything she knows. B asks him to leave the settlement as soon as possible, stating that she doesn't trust him and is unaware of his true intentions. After hearing this, D grabs the girl abruptly, calling her a contact, and persuading her to go with him. In panic, B breaks free and quickly runs towards her home. D doesn't pursue her, shouting a warning that the circle will come for her soon.
Terrified, B heads home, where she meets A at the doorstep. The boy claims he doesn't consider B crazy and talks about his own nightmares where a shadow with his features repeatedly appears, asking him to end the cycle of endless horror but never fully finishing the sentence. A manages to gain B's trust. She admits to constantly seeing countless fragments of events from her visions, which, mixing with reality, drive her mad. Begging him to believe her, B recounts numerous encounters with A in her nightmares, each ending with his death. B asks the boy to leave the settlement as soon as possible, assuring him that her nightmares are prophetic.
Afterward, with tears in her eyes, B rushes to her room. As she ascends the stairs, she once again notices a humanoid silhouette staring at her through the window. A doesn't pursue her, understanding that B is better off alone.
The next night, A experiences another nightmare in which a shadow - his doppelgänger - violently confronts him. In the morning, A decides to learn more about these strange dreams and goes to B's room, only to find her dead with her wrists slit and blood spilled. In shock, A falls to his knees, recalling B's words about her persistent visions, realizing that her death was a suicide. Going through her phone, A notices numerous calls from someone named C.
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In the next evening news broadcast, it's reported that a month has passed since the search for all the missing newcomers in the settlement in northwest Czechia began, but the police still have no new information about the missing individuals. The broadcast shows numerous shots of missing persons posters posted around the settlement.
This news report is then commented on by a female blogger known as GoodArtAss during her live stream. She criticizes the police's actions and promises to release a second part of her widely talked-about investigation into the mass disappearance of newcomers in the settlement with exclusive details. She pledges to conduct a live broadcast directly from the restricted area in the settlement following the incident.
On one of the forums, GoodArtAss maintained contact with a user under the name DORAdude008, who told her a lot about illegal research conducted for many years in the settlement by an organization known as the "Circle of Exodus." However, DORAdude008 stopped communicating right after the first information about the mass disappearance incident in the settlement emerged. GoodArtAss reviews fragments of her video investigation that has garnered over a million views, promising herself to uncover the true reasons behind the newcomers' disappearance, making the next part of her investigation a sensation.
(In the following events, the perspective is shown through a camera lens.) In the next camera footage, amid the darkness of the night, GoodArtAss appears on screen, greeting thousands of viewers who have tuned in for her live broadcast. She claims that she has almost succeeded in infiltrating the restricted area of the settlement cordoned off by the police. Without much difficulty, GoodArtAss enters the settlement, capturing its deserted streets on camera.
Inside one of the burned-down buildings, she manages to film the outlines of a mass murder scene, asserting that it is direct evidence of hidden acts of violence in the settlement. The number of viewers of GoodArtAss's live stream continues to grow, and she proceeds to move through the overgrown areas, eventually entering an abandoned psychiatric hospital.
The blogger alleges that, according to numerous online accounts, the hospital's patients were subjected to secret, cruel experiments on the limits of human psyche, which had been ongoing since the time of the Nazis. As she films the dark corridors of the building, she stumbles upon an entrance leading to the lower levels of the structure. Viewers urge her to descend into the catacombs.
GoodArtAss pauses her live stream and contacts her acquaintance, who is an administrator of her channel, referred to as E. E persuades GoodArtAss to explore the catacombs, emphasizing that their broadcast is breaking all viewership records. Reluctantly, E descends further, capturing the events through the lens of her night vision camera.
Slowly moving through the tunnel, E senses the presence of others in the catacombs. Frightened, she panics and rushes towards the exit, only to encounter the flashlights of police officers who quickly escort her out. The police force her to stop the live broadcast and accuse E of trespassing on a restricted area.
Upon arriving at the police station, E is detained indefinitely for questioning. During a phone call with the administrator, E's acquaintance reassures her that he has used all his connections, and E can be released with only a fine. The administrator then informs E that, based on the comments of the officer who accompanied her, her investigation video contained many falsehoods about the progress of the police investigation, which he has access to and which has not been disclosed to the media. E becomes interested in the work of the police investigation, but the officer refuses to reveal any new details.
Meanwhile, the officer returns home, where his wife and infant child await. On his laptop, he discovers an email marked with the symbol of the Circle of Exodus, instructing him to eliminate E after a specified signal. Upon reading the email, cold sweat breaks out on the officer's forehead.
Simultaneously, E enjoys a sharp increase in the viewership of her live streams and videos, promising to release the second part of her investigation, which will reveal exclusive details. E informs the administrator that the officer who accompanied her has access to secret information about the progress of the investigation and expresses her hope to obtain this information by any means necessary.
Back at his home, the officer confides in his colleague and close friend about receiving the email, marked with the Circle of Exodus symbolism, instructing him to eliminate E. Upon hearing this, the colleague strongly urges the officer to follow all the Circle's instructions, reminding him of the recent suicide of the head of one of the police departments after his entire family perished in a fire. Rumor has it that the department head had also received similar letters.
As the officer approaches his home, he notices E standing nearby, dressed provocatively. Her presence causes the officer extreme stress. She suggests they talk in private, and the officer invites her into his car, driving her to a nearby forest.
There is an opportunity to try to get copies of the material from Oygerar after the investigation of the incident, which the man has just looked around many times. Realizing that Oygerr does not make contact, he understands this, (sharing my opinion) that he has sex right in the car.
Having finished, ye once again insistently demands to provide her with the case materials, blackmailing him with what happened, showing a recording of their intercourse taken from afar. The girl threatens that if the man does not give her the information she needs, this record will be sent to his wife.
Trying to realize the consequences of his act, the officer notices a message on his phone with a circle marking with instructions to eliminate the girl immediately. Taking out a letter from his jacket and appointing it with an irritating hand on the wedding ring, remembering that, after an errand from Krug, his family will dress up in a state of danger. Shocked, she thinks she's not killing you, trying to hide it from me.
Perhaps the man lowers the guard by asking her if I can refuse to participate in all international events. The girl calls nick Omaygud19_84 (nickname administrator) one of the messengers. The man removes all possible intangible assets from management at the direction of the address, asks to transfer them to maximum publicity. Ye, in anticipation of the sensation, leaves the car, agreeing never to cross paths with the officer again.
(the action takes place from the monitor screen) At her next broadcast, she promises that soon the problem with deleting her video for unexplained reasons from all sources will be solved, followed by announcing the imminent release of the sensational second part of her investigation. After the broadcast ends, the administrator informs e via video link about the presence in the transmitted materials of evidence of the connection between the police officer and the circle of outcome. He admires you with delight, a devoted friend of Sensei.
At the same time, the officer persuades his wife to urgently move to another country. Looking through his laptop, the man notices an empty letter with the symbols of the circle. Sensing something is amiss, the officer runs to his wife, whom he finds in tears, watching a recording of his infidelity with E.
Having collected her things, the woman and her child are going to leave the house. Trying to stop his wife, the officer points his service pistol at her. The woman immediately calls the police. Before she could finish, she and the child fall dead from several shots that were not fired by an officer.
Editing of part two Ending the investigation e, the shocked administrator via video link informs the girl about the fact of murder by unknown DUDE008 in the case file, after she disclosed information about the involvement of the circle in the settlement in the incident. The boy should ask and quickly come to him to study the world of safety and security.
Arriving at the administrator, Ye is horrified to find him strangled, noticing on his computer screen the unfinished processing of the finished second part of her investigation and an unpublished large message with all the details of the investigation material in one of the messengers. He doesn't notice how you come to him and don't get involved, you don't notice in a motorized jacket with a garrote in your hand.
In another evening news release, it is reported that the police do not yet have any information about the missing blogger girl named Ye, who visited the settlement after the incident. Next comes the news about the recent suicide in prison of an officer convicted of murdering his own wife and child. Before the weather forecast, it is clarified that the investigation of the incident of the mass disappearance of visitors to the settlement continues, showing footage of numerous rallies throughout Europe of relatives of missing persons due to police inaction.