The Baron rescues Elena Zayeva and explains to her how to get out from under the iron dome. On the way to Moscow, she meets her mother Zoya and her beloved grandfather Hera. The old man admits how in the oil age he created a neural network similar to Larisa.

Larisa demands that her creator, Hera's grandfather, come to the Fallen Leaves. The neural network still loves him and wants him to die for the physical world and upload himself to the cloud. Otherwise, capricious artificial intelligence threatens to burn down all cities. But the grandmother of Rada will not give him her Vitalik for anything.