
But some time later, strange and terrible things began to happen to people, both to the villagers and to the soldiers. It is only known, thanks to the intelligence of stalkers, that the villages nearby the plant survived, but were immediately cordoned off by the military in a tight ring, completely blocking the territory off. Events unfolded like a spring's tension be released on August 1st, 2009, an explosion suddenly occurs at the plant, radiation is spewed out and from that moment on, all reliable information disappears. A certain unscrupulous Stalker stole an artifact from the Zone, which falls into the hands of the Russian authorities and is transferred to scientists in a secret laboratory in the closed-off city of Lermontov, located at the officially mothballed uranium mining and processing plant, near Mount Beshtau.Īfter some time, strange things began to happen in the laboratory - the psychological situation became tense, people began to die.
