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Cyber Thoughts

2017 Heat 4/5

Cyber Thoughts by Dima Zales is a 2017 romance. Tropes: captive-resistance, Cyberpunk, enhanced-hacker-ensemble, family-trauma, found-family-rescue, government-black-site-conspiracy, high-tech-action-thriller, open-source-revolution, paranoia-becomes-reality, pre-cognitive-power, pregnancy-and-engagement, Science fiction, secretive-found-family, Tech Thriller. Heat 4/5. Book 2 of Human++.

What happened in Cyber Thoughts?

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Dima Zales comes the exciting sequel to Mind Machines. I saved the day, I got the girl, and we’re on the verge of changing the world. Everything is possible with technology that can transform your brain and make you more than human. My only problem? Nightmares keep me up at night, and I can’t shake the feeling I’m being watched. Everyone tells me I’m paranoid. But what if they’re wrong?

What tropes are in Cyber Thoughts?

Where does Cyber Thoughts fall in Human++?

Book 2 of Human++. Reading order

What should I read next?

Neural Web by Dima Zales.

Chapters

  1. Chapter 2

    Mira wakes from a visceral nightmare in which faceless, mirror-skinned Suits hunt them through Times Square, only to find themselves in the arms of girlfriend Ada in their New York apartment. Shaken by the dream and ongoing paranoia—a condition named paranoid schizophrenia—Mira resists seeking help until Ada’s gentle persistence secures an 11 a.m. appointment with psychiatrist Dr. Golovasi. As they drift back to sleep entwined with pet rats, the fear of being followed remains unresolved, leaving the chapter hanging on the tension between a deteriorating grip on reality and the fragile comfort of Ada’s presence.

  2. Chapter 3

    Misha waits in a Manhattan psychiatrist's office for Dr. Golovasi, accompanied telepathically by his girlfriend Ada via the Share app. While killing time before the appointment, he multitasks by pair-programming with their friend Mitya—a feat possible only through their Brainocyte-enhanced cognition. The chapter explores the friction between his boosted mind and conventional therapy: Misha debates whether to reveal the existence of the secret Brainocytes Club and considers using the BraveChill anti-anxiety app, ultimately choosing natural coping methods. Ada urges him to open up to the shrink, creating tension between his desire for privacy and the need for honest treatment. The scene closes as the receptionist calls him in, leaving the central conflict unresolved—how much of his enhanced reality can he disclose to a doctor sworn to secrecy in a world where thoughts are data?

  3. Chapter 4

    When hedge fund manager Mike Cohen visits psychiatrist Dr. Golovasi for his first session, he arrives armed with a non-disclosure agreement and a laundry list of anxieties. Haunted by nightmares and a creeping certainty that he’s being watched since his mother’s kidnapping in Russia five months ago, Mike confesses his terror of inheriting his half-sister Masha’s paranoid schizophrenia. Between sarcastic asides to his telepathic AI girlfriend Ada—whom he keeps secret—and coded references to the violent Brainocytes rescue, he slowly unpacks the trauma, guilt, and jealousy simmering beneath his controlled exterior. Dr. Golovasi offers reassurance that his symptoms point to PTSD rather than psychosis, prescribing weekly therapy and lifestyle changes. Yet as the session ends with promises of follow-up, Mike still withholds the strangest truths: Ada’s increasingly erratic behavior and the true nature of his psychic research group.

  4. Chapter 5

    Mira endures a brutal sparring session with her Georgian trainer Gogi at a private dojo, telepathically fielding complaints from her pacifist girlfriend Ada while secretly using a hacking app to hijack the gym's security camera for a tactical edge. When Gogi finally slams her to the mat in a wrestling hold that borders on uncomfortably intimate, she taps out just as her cousin Joe crashes the session, demanding to test her skills himself. Despite her protests and attempt to hide her humiliation by cutting all mental links, Joe cracks his knuckles and advances with predatory inevitability, leaving Mira cornered before an unwanted fight.

  5. Chapter 6

    Mira endures another brutal sparring session with her cousin Joe, finally landing a hit that earns her his rare assistance off the mat—a small victory amid the pain. After treating her injuries at a high-tech gun range with her AI girlfriend Ada, she retreats to her mother Nina’s new apartment for a raucous family dinner. There, Nina’s boyfriend JC, the CEO of Techno, faces a chilling threat from Joe while Ada navigates awkward questions about grandchildren. Amid vodka toasts and Russian hospitality, Mira juggles her enhanced senses, her hedge fund responsibilities, and the looming Brainocytes Club meeting at Kharcho, where secrets and loyalties will be tested. The chapter closes on the unresolved tension between Joe’s violent protectiveness and the fragile peace of the gathering.

  6. Chapter 7

    Mike and Ada join the Brainocytes Club for a hybrid virtual meeting at a Georgian restaurant, where the group shares world-changing inventions. Ada unveils nanomembrane water filtration and carbon-capture nanotubes, while Mitya reveals a cheap tokamak fusion design—his “star in a jar”—before triggering the launch of Brain Boost v9. Banter erupts over Muhomor’s asexuality and a settled bet regarding Lyuba, leaving Ada owing Mike a favor. Amid jokes about veganism and cryptographic passions, the team celebrates their readiness to become smarter, though Mike remains wary of the pre-cognitive hallucinations that accompany each upgrade and the unexplained feeling of being followed.

  7. Chapter 8

    Mike leads a Brainocytes Club meeting where the team debates open-sourcing their neural implant technology. While Muhomor initially vetoes the idea due to security concerns, Mike persuades the group by presenting his microfluidics breakthrough that could mass-produce the necessary nanoparticles, making Brainocytes affordable for global distribution. Muhomor counters with his own achievements: the unbreakable Tema cryptosystem, a biometric brain-print authentication system, and controversially, his successful hack of IARPA government systems. As the meeting progresses, Mike experiences an overwhelming wave of paranoia that crystallizes into certainty when he uses Muhomor's electromagnetic sensing app to detect armed men with silenced guns hiding behind parked cars outside. The chapter ends with the chilling revelation that his earlier feelings of being followed were not delusion but deadly reality.

  8. Chapter 9

    Trapped in a restaurant on a dead-end block, Zek and her friends face an ambush by scarred mercenary Vincent Williams and his ex-military crew. While telepathically coordinating with hackers Mitya and Muhomor to breach the attackers' phones and pull building schematics, Zek remotely maneuvers her sensor-laden car, Zapo 2, into position as a potential escape vehicle. With police notified but cousin Joe too distant to help and no back exits visible, the group realizes flight is impossible; their only hope is a desperate crash-and-dash through a window or a hideout in the refrigerated room. When the waiter's appearance spooks the hidden gunmen, the siege breaks open: Zek overturns the table, time seems to slow into bullet-time, and Williams fires—ending the chapter on a soul-piercing scream and unresolved violence.

  9. Chapter 10

    The narrator races to protect Ada from an ambush at a restaurant, scanning security feeds while trading gunfire with assailants. When Nikolozi is killed, the fight escalates as the narrator and ally Gogi pick off attackers one by one, only for a recruit named Ethan Madison to sacrifice himself shielding the enemy leader Williams. Remote-piloting the armored car Zapo 2, the narrator crashes through parked vehicles with a nitro boost, maiming several more thugs before the car smashes into a laundromat. As Ada and bodyguard Muhomor near safety, Williams opens fire and shatters their cover; the narrator shoots him in the hand to disarm him, but Ada cries out from behind—leaving her fate uncertain as the chapter ends.

  10. Chapter 11

    Trapped in a restaurant siege, the narrator watches through a HUD security feed as Muhomor is shot in the spine, forcing Ada to disobey orders and drag him to safety while the crew exchanges fire with Vincent Williams's gang. The narrator dispatches several attackers with calculated non-lethal shots before the violence turns lethal, culminating in Gogi executing Aiden Williams and later suffering a gunshot wound that leaves him bleeding on the pavement. When an enraged Williams closes in with a gun to the narrator's head demanding Cohen's location, the chapter ends on a knife-edge standoff—hands raised, allies down, and the conspiracy's true stakes still unresolved.

  11. Chapter 12

    Cornered on a dusty road by Williams—a hired enforcer with a bloodied stump where Cohen shot off his finger—Cohen realizes the man is hunting Joe Cohen and the Georgian, Gogi, at the top of a lethal list. What follows is a brutal, asymmetric fight: Cohen disarms Williams using Systema techniques drilled by Gogi, only to discover his opponent is Inert, shrugging off blows that would floor a normal man. As pain floods Cohen's biological brain, he retreats into the impact-resistant server extensions of his Brainocytes, mentally commanding his electric muscle car, Zapo 2, to roar to life via the Batmobile app. With Williams's boot descending, Cohen slams the nitro boost, sending the vehicle hurtling toward its attacker in a blinding explosion of speed—leaving the chapter suspended between impact and escape.

  12. Chapter 13

    Mike awakens on pavement twenty seconds after his car Zapo is totaled in a firefight, his ear grazed by a bullet and consciousness flickering. While emergency responders swarm the street, he discovers his friends Gogi—bleeding from a tourniqueted leg—and Muhomor, pale and unresponsive. In the ambulance, Mike refuses painkillers to stay alert, instead using the Relief app at minimum settings to manage pain while telepathically reassuring his partner Ada, who rides with him to the ER. After a police interrogation about his cousin Joe Cohen, Mike and Ada navigate hospital bureaucracy to learn that Gogi survived surgery with a strong recovery ahead, but a bribed MRI technician delivers a devastating prognosis for Muhomor: survival is uncertain, and walking again is unlikely. The chapter closes on this unresolved medical crisis as Joe vows to arrive with bodyguards within the hour.

  13. Chapter 14

    The narrator and Ada pace a hospital corridor while their friend Muhomor undergoes emergency surgery, their anxiety mounting as they realize he would be the best hacker to help them infiltrate the hospital systems. Using the Muhomor app, the narrator breaches security and accesses surgical cameras, witnessing his friend's vulnerable state on the operating table—a sight that triggers guilt over past jokes and fear for his survival. They are joined by bodyguards Nick and Jean, coordinated by the enigmatic Joe, whose possible involvement in the crisis remains unspoken but suspected. As Ada leaves to procure food, the narrator distracts the guards while Mitya shares alarming camera footage via Zik; the final link freezes the narrator in terror, leaving the chapter on a knife-edge of dread.

  14. Chapter 15

    Mira monitors hospital security feeds through her AROS interface when three armed men emerge from the elevator, intent on reaching her. Recognizing them as Vincent Williams's mercenaries—the same crew who hospitalized Gogi—she alerts her bodyguards Nick and Jean, who position themselves for ambush while she coordinates with Mitya via telepathic Zik messages to evacuate Ada. Adrenaline spikes as Mira realizes she is unarmed, her gun lost earlier, but her team's readiness steadies her focus. The tension escalates when Mitya shares a live feed of Joe fighting off two attackers in Gogi's room, only for a grenade to suddenly hurtle into Mira's own room, leaving the chapter suspended in explosive, breathless suspense.

  15. Chapter 16

    A stun grenade detonates in the hospital corridor, blinding and deafening the narrator just as three attackers breach the room. In the ensuing chaos, bodyguard Jean shields the narrator from gunfire while Nick, a SEAL-trained ally, is shot in the face; Jean retaliates, killing two assailants before falling on the narrator during the final confrontation with Cristiano. As the narrator, concussed and unable to see, orders his pet rat Mr. Spock to hide, a team of suited agents with Tasers storms in and subdues everyone, injecting the narrator with an unknown substance. The chapter ends with the narrator fading to black as he is captured, leaving his cousin Joe fighting for his life in another part of the hospital and the identity of the Suits unresolved.

  16. Chapter 17

    Cohen wakes drugged and restrained in an underground bunker, his mind fogged by concussion and the loss of his internet-dependent brain boost. Special Agent Lancaster claims to have rescued him from a deadly attack by Vincent Williams, but Cohen suspects a surveillance operation gone wrong. Trapped on a hospital gurney with medical tubes and no network access, he desperately tries to reconnect his phone Precious 3 to gather intelligence. When Lancaster refuses his demands for a lawyer and leaves him alone, Cohen realizes the true danger: he's at the mercy of an organization that has been watching him for months, and his pet rat Mr. Spock is missing. The chapter closes on his dawning horror that his paranoia was justified all along.

  17. Chapter 18

    Trapped in a black site, Mira Cohen endures escalating psychological and physical torment as Agent Lancaster withholds pain medication and subjects her to relentless drilling noise to prevent sleep. Using her neural implant’s diagnostic lab, she discovers her captors have drugged her with both painkillers and a laxative—an apparent strategy to strip her dignity before interrogation. Despite mounting pain and humiliation, Mira refuses to break, channeling her rage into stubborn defiance while masking the torture with music and distracting herself with coding. When Lancaster finally returns demanding an adult conversation, she remains silently resolved not to speak, leaving the chapter on the tense precipice of their confrontation.

  18. Chapter 19

    The chapter opens with the narrator restrained in an interrogation room, thirsty and defiant. After spitting at Agent Lancaster and receiving a sharp slap, she retreats into a calculated plan of fake cooperation designed to mask a violent revenge scheme. When masked medical staff enter to clean her and force-feed her via a nasogastric tube, the pretense shatters. Panicked by the invasive procedure, she screams threats and struggles against the restraints, which burn her wrists. When the tube is inserted twice and torn out both times, desperation drives her to bite the female orderly’s finger, inflicting serious damage before the male sedates her with a syringe. The chapter closes on her unconscious hope that they’ll complete the feeding while she’s under, leaving the captor’s retaliation and her revenge plan unresolved.

  19. Chapter 20

    Mira wakes from an eight-hour drugged stupor with a feeding tube lodged in her throat and a swollen eye, only to be greeted by Agent Pugh playing the sympathetic ally before the real interrogation begins. Transferred to a stereotypical mirrored interrogation room, Mira faces Agent Lancaster, who slams a folder of her private emails—including intimate messages with Ada—onto the table to prove he knows everything. When Lancaster accuses her of being a Russian Federation spy, citing a blurry nightclub photo from Moscow's Dazdraperma club where she once defended her mother from SVR agents, Mira’s denials crumble under the weight of his certainty. The chapter ends on a chilling reveal: Lancaster exposes that her hacker friend Muhomor is actually the living legend Viktor Tsoi, leaving Mira trapped in a psychological trap with no clear way to prove her innocence.

  20. Chapter 21

    Held in an interrogation room, Mira confronts Agent Lancaster about her friend Muhomor, learning he lies in a coma after a severe spinal injury. Under threat of further torture, she feeds Lancaster details about Muhomor’s hacks—including the quantum Qecho servers and Tema, an unbreakable cryptosystem that has drawn government ire—while secretly testing what he knows. When Lancaster uncuffs her to take notes, Mira seizes the moment, attacking him in a frenzy of remembered trauma and disarming him with skills drilled by her mentor Gogi. But as she reaches for his weapon, a SWAT team breaches the room, and a violent shock and blow send her world fading to black.

  21. Chapter 22

    Mike awakens strapped in a straitjacket inside a gray, pillow-lined cell, his senses assaulted by shifting lights, paradoxical voices, and tactile hallucinations that blur the line between dream and waking. As his Brainocytes seem to misfire, he spirals through escalating panic—questioning reality, fearing inherited madness, and begging for the torment to stop—only to face a silent, smiling woman in the doorway. When Dr. Golovasi introduces herself as his psychiatrist, the chapter closes on the crushing implication that his psychological unraveling may be orchestrated, leaving Mike trapped between sanity and a manufactured nightmare.

  22. Chapter 23

    Mira awakens strapped in a stark room, convinced she may be trapped inside her own fractured mind, where psychiatrist Dr. Golovasi looms with unsettling warmth and a hallucinated third eye. As the doctor guides her through free-association exercises—from Russia to cryptography—Mira’s memories surface in violent fragments: a shootout at a Georgian restaurant, her friend Muhomor shot and hospitalized, and her own brutal attack on facility staff. The session briefly clears the screaming voices in her head, offering fragile clarity, until the mention of Tema, Muhomor’s encrypted system, triggers a cascade of rage. Convinced the doctor is hiding the truth about the government task force hunting her, Mira snarls her accusation, the chapter ending on the razor’s edge of her fury and the unresolved question of whether her paranoia is delusion or justified.

  23. Chapter 24

    Trapped in a cement room, Mira uses her AROS neural interface to verify her sanity by checking her Precious 3 phone and the lab-on-a-chip in her bloodstream. She discovers a cocktail of LSD, THC, and truth serum proving Dr. Golovasi drugged her to simulate schizophrenia. When Mira confronts the fake therapist, she realizes Golovasi is a government agent planted to extract secrets about her friend Muhomor and his invention Tema. Mira lunges to attack but is subdued with martial arts precision and injected with a sedative. As consciousness fades, she recognizes the 'good cop' warning—foreshadowing worse treatment from Agent Lancaster, the 'bad cop'—leaving her vulnerable to the task force's next move.

  24. Chapter 25

    Waking tied to a bed in a windowless cement cell, Mira catalogs her bruises and the drug-free clarity of her mind. She fears for Muhomor, who lies in a coma, and for Ada, whose fate hangs on a cryptic 'taken care of.' When her enhanced rat Mr. Spock appears at the ventilation grill—snacking on a cockroach—she seizes on a desperate plan: using his offline Brainocytes as a carrier pigeon to email her friends proof of her captors' CIA ties. Coding furiously through the pain, she prepares messages revealing Golovasi's cover and Agent Lancaster's identity. But her respite ends when two masked men wheel in a table laden with mallets, saws, and a car battery. As the instruments of torture glint under the light, Mira realizes the interrogation is about to escalate from psychological to physical, leaving her trapped between the hope of rescue and the certainty of agony.

  25. Chapter 26

    Trapped in a government black site and drugged, Mira endures psychological torment while staring down torture equipment and a bandaged, unhinged interrogator named Agent Lancaster. Using a telepathic link to her pet rat Mr. Spock, she dispatches the animal outside the facility’s hotspot to fetch emails from allies—confirming her cousin Muhomor is in a coma and her friend Ada has recovered from the hospital. When a “good cop” named Golovasi enters, Mira discovers the agent’s real name is Jean Berger and that her rival Joe has taken Berger’s family hostage in Queens. Mira turns the tables, threatening Berger’s son Mark, wife Evelin, and granddaughter Mary to force Wi-Fi access and a channel to stand Joe down. The chapter closes as Lancaster storms back in, accusing her of falling for a trap, leaving the hostage standoff unresolved.

  26. Chapter 27

    While imprisoned in a government safe room, Victor hacks the task force's secure network and uncovers intelligence about Muhomor's classified cyberweapons and automated dead man's switches. With his Brainocyte fully online, he collaborates with Mitya and Ada to leak torture footage to YouTube, pressure Congressman Chandler with negative ad campaigns, and resolve to open-source both Tema and Brainocyte technology to eliminate future kidnapping incentives. The victory is short-lived: as Agent Lancaster discovers the breach, he resorts to brutal physical torture, ending the chapter on a harrowing cliffhanger.

  27. Chapter 28

    Viktor endures agonizing interrogation by Agent Lancaster at a black site, using telepathic Zik to coordinate with allies while a pain-masking app keeps him conscious. When Mitya transmits the Tema algorithm to Lancaster's phone, Suits arrive to subdue the rogue agent, only to knock Viktor out with a sedative. He wakes five hours later in a luxury limousine surrounded by protectors, where Ada tearfully reveals she is pregnant. As hope and relief mingle among the group—learning that Muhomor is paralyzed but alive and that the leaked Brainocytes are reshaping global technology—Viktor embraces the unexpected future. The chapter ends abruptly when a bullet shatters the limousine window, leaving the occupants exposed to unknown danger.

  28. Chapter 29

    On a rain-slicked freeway, Mike's limo is ambushed by Vincent Williams and his biker crew in a hail of gunfire. With his pregnant partner Ada in the back seat, Mike rallies his cousin Joe and their wounded allies, arming everyone from a hidden under-seat arsenal while remotely coordinating with hackers Mitya and Muhomor through the virtual Zik. As bullets shatter the windows and more attackers converge at the next exit, Ada seizes control of a hundred delivery drones, transforming the chase into a drone-assisted escape toward the Levin Aero Robotics facility. The chapter ends with the limo veering hard left into chaos, leaving the survivors bracing for the next wave of violence while the pregnancy raises the personal stakes to lethal levels.

  29. Chapter 30

    Mira rides in an armored limo during a brutal freeway pursuit, protecting the pregnant Ada. When motorcyclists and a truck ambush them, the team fights back using telepathic coordination, hacking, and heavy weapons—Joe fires an RPG-7 that misses its target after a communication mix-up, while Mitya executes a PIT maneuver to disable a blocking truck. Muhomor hacks enemy vehicles and phones to sow chaos, but Carter takes a neck wound. As they near the exit, the remaining pursuers slow to attempt a Tactical Pursuit and Containment formation, only for one to hurl a grenade that arcs toward the limo's center, threatening to explode beside Ada in a heart-stopping cliffhanger.

  30. Chapter 31

    The chapter opens in the midst of a high-speed ambush as a grenade breaches the limo’s window; the narrator executes a desperate shot while Gogi—a former Georgian Special Forces operative—snatches the explosive mid-air and hurls it back, obliterating the pursuing SUV. With machine-gun fire raining from motorcyclists ahead, Ada unleashes a swarm of hacked drones that decimate the bikers, but the celebration is short-lived when the vehicle skids off the exit ramp at 150 miles per hour and crashes into a highway barrier. As the limo comes to a halt, Ada’s drone network turns on the trailing Hummer and a relentless red Hilux, yet the truck barrels forward with suicidal intent, preparing to ram the immobilized limo. In a frantic evacuation, the narrator and Joe manhandle an injured Ada—whose leg has fallen asleep—toward the door while Luke drags Gogi to safety, all while the Hilux closes in for the kill.

  31. Chapter 32

    The chapter opens with a violent ambush: a red truck rams their limousine, sending the narrator and his psychic partner Ada sprawling. As they scramble for cover, fourteen helmeted attackers advance from a nearby Hummer. A sniper’s shot kills Luke, sending Ada into a grief-fueled rage as she grabs his weapon and charges the gunmen to protect the narrator. The narrator’s cousin Joe sacrifices himself, pushing him clear and absorbing a volley of fire that kills him. Though a bullet strikes the narrator’s chest, his bulletproof vest saves him—for now. Ada is gunned down while rushing to his side, her mind going dark. With attackers closing in and death imminent, the narrator collapses, whispering a desperate question as the chapter ends on a cliffhanger of mortal peril.

  32. Chapter 33

    The chapter opens in the aftermath of a pre-cognitive vision, snapping the narrator back to the seconds before a massacre. A brain boost from the Brainocytes Club has granted her the ability to see possible futures, and the vision convinces her to abandon a suicidal plan to draw fire away from Ada. In the real timeline, the rifleman is still reloading, but Gogi—a Georgian with Special Forces training—tackles Ada into a protective embrace, dropping her gun. When the narrator screams, revealing their position, the rifleman turns on her, only for the presumed-dead Joe to rise and shoot him dead. The kill enrages a dozen approaching attackers who open fire on the limo, forcing Mitya to arrive in a black Suburban for cover. As bullets rain down, Ada uses her drone to peer through the vehicle's window, hinting at a revelation that will determine their fate.

  33. Chapter 34

    The government task force arrives in a black Suburban and opens fire on the attackers, turning the tide of the ambush. While Joe brutally confronts Vincent Williams—breaking his wrist and beating him without killing him—the narrator discovers the passenger in the red Hilux is Alexander Voynskiy, the Russian billionaire presumed dead after a fake funeral. Realizing Alex hired the hitmen, the narrator warns the telepathic chat, exposing nurse Lyuba as a traitor trying to smother Muhomor with a pillow. Jacob rescues Muhomor and knocks Lyuba unconscious, but the narrator is ambushed by Alex, who beats him severely and leaves him wounded at the villain's mercy on a brutal cliffhanger.

  34. Chapter 35

    Mira battles for survival after taking a blade to the thigh during a brutal hand-to-hand struggle with Alex. Pinned beneath him as steel presses toward her heart, she can only watch the millimeters shrink. Salvation arrives in fur and fury when her telepathic ally Ada sicks her pet rat, Mr. Spock, on Alex's ear, buying precious seconds until Ada herself appears with a drawn weapon. But mercy never comes: cousin Joe arrives drenched in blood, avenging past torture by executing Alex with a shot to the head. When Agent Pugh demands they stand down, the situation curdles into conspiracy—Pugh fires into Alex's corpse to manufacture a self-defense narrative, binding herself to their secret. As Mira succumbs to blood loss on the asphalt, the cost of survival hangs in the balance.

  35. Chapter 36

    Dima wakes in a luxurious hospital suite recovering from head and leg injuries, surrounded by his mother, Uncle Abe, and his telepathic fiancée Ada. He reveals that Ada is pregnant, prompting an emotional discussion about their future marriage and his intentions. While his friend Mitya visits to discuss hiring a nanotech expert and a robotic exoskeleton project for their paralyzed friend Muhomor, Dima receives a family heirloom—a rare two-carat orange diamond ring. Using a virtual reality app, he stages an elaborate proposal in a digital garden. Ada accepts, though she admits she knew beforehand via his unsecured telepathic links and the room's camera, yet she let him proceed. They exchange mutual promises and share a kiss, securing their commitment amidst lingering external threats.

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