Fortress of Hope

14

. An unpleasant surprise at the start.

- Well, how are you feeling?

The first of his people, whom Mark saw in the foyer of a glass skyscraper, was Nick.

The blond shone like a neon lamp.

“Which of us is already here?” - instead of a greeting, Mark asked, holding out his fist for a ritual greeting.

Nick touched his fist with his and smiled with all his thirty-two snow-white teeth.

You are the fifth.

- Frets. I'll go and check it out.

Mark walked to the terminal, which, in his opinion, the queue was smaller. Despite the early morning, before the competition crowded in the lobby immeasurably.

For the qualifying round, the organizers rented the entire huge high-rise building. And Mark and his friends were lucky to get the whole team into the third wave.

Over the past two weeks, we managed to collect a maximum of information about the first round.

The organizers of the competition did not bother and took the old virtual game Arkoland as a basis.

And the condition of the first round was: to