He firmly closed the doors of the apartment and the doors of the room. “If you want to live, do not go out! There the jellyfish eat people! ”- his words reminded him of the delirium of a madman and probably the guys would not have believed him if they hadn’t seen what was happening in the window.

Shots and screams woke him and Dasha and Svetlana with Mikhail, who also watched a strange, fantastic picture of the confrontation between people and jellyfish out of the window, not understanding why the soldiers were shooting at these organisms. The cause was known to the soldiers themselves, who in a panic saved their lives from an unprecedented enemy. Yesterday, concerned with providing himself with food and his own security, he did not see how the space object had grown greatly in size, clearly approaching the planet. Only at three o'clock in the morning, the guard threw up his head by chance and opened his mouth in amazement. There were two moons in the sky. Only one brighter and more reddish. He woke everyone up with his screams and the whole squad, bulging eyes, watched as he floated across the sky and the object grew. Then he suddenly froze and split into many smaller parts, which, flying away from each other, in turn split into smaller ones, and so it went on several times, until the object turned into a set of shining points comparable in size to the stars approach the planet. “Nichrome myself, this is a show!” - exclaimed Tolik, who returned from home without Peter, but very pleased, having muttered something unintelligible and stepping on Peter for the post. “What the hell is this ?!”, Acne asked aloud, nervously pulling the machine gun. “It looks like a landing party. Only immediately to the entire planet. Look, these points go beyond the horizon and continue to share there! ”Said Sergey, feeling the danger in his stomach. The points slowly and smoothly approached the planet, and the soldiers were tired of watching them, their necks were sore and they lay down on the ground, putting a raincoat under them. Many of them immediately fell asleep, despite the unusual nature of what is happening.

Everybody was awakened by the scream of another guard, who was already pointing at the bright blue sky, on which, like a large cobblestone, an object was hanging. The soldiers saw many more of these "cobblestones" in the sky, but in different parts and judging by the location, over other cities of the Moscow region. The “cobblestone” hanging over Moscow is jolly right above the Kremlin, and having estimated approximately the distance to it and the ratio of sizes, the soldiers realized that the “cobblestone” was the size of Moscow itself. They were surprised that the object hung motionless, not approaching or moving. All this reminded the soldiers of the film "Independence Day" with Will Smith. Only there were flying saucers, and then there were unsightly asteroids. Apparently those millions of luminous points in the night sky were the very cobblestones. The soldiers were fascinated by the object, building various assumptions about its purpose and development of events, but there was nothing positive about their assumptions. Suddenly the “cobblestone” smoothly and silently crumbled into its constituent “grains of sand”, which began to scatter from the center, gradually closing the sky, becoming a kind of cloud. This cloud slowly began to settle on Moscow. The soldiers prepared to put on gas masks, considering this to be a type of chemical attack, but as they approached, the grains of sand turned into translucent balls, of which there were probably more than a million. These balls began to fall to the ground, crashing like huge raindrops when falling, scattering small droplets of jelly around. One of these "balls" splashed right at their intersection, a few more on the roofs of nearby houses. The soldiers put on gas masks and sets of OZK, expecting that a deadly poison or some kind of virus would start now.But when the cat ran through the courtyard, and remained alive, disappeared into the basement, Tolik was the first to pull the gas mask off his face and took a cautious sigh.

“Yes, everything seems to be fine!” He said, and everyone else followed suit. It was stifling and hard to be in a gas mask and OZK, and the soldiers gladly took off these means of protection, seeing no more danger. They already began to relax and have fun, glad that the whole danger lay in some strange rain, when suddenly Acne, pointing at the intersection, shouted: “Look! What a crap! ”Everyone turned their heads to where the“ ball ”had slammed and crashed and, with fear, saw how a body resembling a jellyfish rises out of the asphalt. Looking closer, they realized that this was the very “ball” that had fallen and crashed. But how did he get together again? The soldiers approached the object, holding their weapons at the ready, and did not believe their eyes. Like a repetition of the movie “Termintaor-2”, transparent drops slowly crawled along the asphalt and gathered into a single whole, which already became larger than a man. At some point, the jellyfish moved toward the soldiers. Those with horror looked at an incomprehensible creature and waited for an order to open fire. But Sergey, who was supposed to give such an order, raised his hand in a prohibitory gesture and, standing in the path of movement of the jellyfish, pulled out a machine gun in her direction, wanting to test the strength of this jelly.

The submachine gun easily plunged into the moving jelly and Sergey abruptly pulled it out and examined it, expecting to see a drop of jelly on it. But the barrel was dry and clean, as if it was not immersed in something jelly. Meanwhile, the jellyfish continued to move on the soldiers, clearly wanting to get to know each other better. Then Sergey decided to check the jellyfish by touch and put his hand in her direction and tried to grab it, but his hand seemed to be in a warm and pleasant jelly-like substance. He turned to the others and said: "And this crap is very warm and cool to the touch!" His hand was already completely immersed in a moving jellyfish, and when he was about to pull it out, his hand seemed to fall into a vice. Medusa did not let him out. Sergei began to twitch and scream, a belated sense of danger and fear flooded him. The comrades ran up and began to pull their commander back, but the jellyfish seemed to suck the guy in and after a few seconds, the soldiers in a panic let go of the body of their friend, who was absorbed into the jelly. Soldiers with animal horror looked at how Sergei is inside the jellyfish and moves his arms and legs there, as if in weightlessness. Apparently, he did not experience oxygen starvation or pain. On his face was only an expression of horror and a request for help. Medusa froze, as if pleased with what she received. The soldiers watched as their commander lived inside the transparent body, who had already stopped twitching and panicking, and was studying with interest the new space for him. He turned his head, and also saw his comrades, even waved to them affably with a pen, saying something. But his words could not be heard, but one could understand from the lips that he said: “Ahu ... oh!”, And the shown sign with his fingers in the form of a ringlet proved that this is so. Sergei clearly liked being inside a jellyfish, which swelled because of his stay inside.

But then the soldiers suddenly noticed that Sergey’s body was covered with hair. From the fingers, palms, open areas of the forearms, cheeks, nose, and even the eyes stretched thin threads, pinkish in color. And here Sergey inside the jellyfish began to twitch, very actively and inhuman suffering was displayed on his face. The threads were getting longer, turning into cobwebs, which turned into a big tangle and at some point, Sergey disappeared into this solid tangle of threads, which turned into a big blood-brown clot. The soldiers backed away from the jellyfish, expecting that it would explode now, but then the clot began to lighten, moving from a blood-cinnamon color to a pink one, and from it to a beige color, and finally becoming completely transparent. But Sergey was already gone.Inside the transparent jellyfish, only his trousers, single-breasted coat, belt, automatic, pouches, tablet, and, which particularly frightened the rest of the soldiers, a cross-stitch were visible. Medusa devoured their commander, swallowing all living cells, leaving only artificial and inanimate. Sergey's form and ammunition slowly sank to the bottom of the jellyfish, and when all that remained of the guy lay on the asphalt, the jellyfish moved forward again, leaving these things behind them. Here the soldiers started shooting.

The bullets left in the body of a jellyfish paths of bullet passes, which quickly filled with jelly. On departure, they sprayed small pieces of jellyfish, which immediately returned to the asphalt to it. When the soldiers realized the futility of using firearms, Tolik pulled out a grenade and screwed the fuse, pulled the ring, threw it at the jellyfish. The grenade got stuck right in the center of the jellyfish and three seconds later it exploded, spraying a transparent jelly over several meters, which fell on the soldiers too. The soldiers stood in amazement, not knowing whether to rejoice at them or flee until they saw that the drops began to gather again in a single whole. Then there was a shout from Tolik, who was trying to strip off the jellyfish jelly. But it was like superglue sticking to his hands and face. The rest also tried to tear off this dirty trick, but the jelly stuck to their hands and didn’t want to break away. And then suddenly absorbed into the body of the guys. They looked at each other in amazement, waiting for the next trick, but they all remained alive and healthy. They already wanted to rejoice at this, but then Tolik fell to the ground and began to writhe and scream in pain, and the others noticed that his eyes had disappeared. Instead, glitter inserts glittered. Then his lips and cheeks, the tips of his fingers became transparent, and then his whole body, as if flattened, forcing the pants and tunic to shrink, and Tolik’s head, having lost its shape, began to spread on the asphalt, like melting plasticine. A minute later, Tolik’s entire body emerged through the gates of his tunic, turning into a large bloody-brown clot that brightened, became pink, then beige, and then transparent, becoming a new jellyfish, which grew and began to move towards the remaining soldiers.

Tankmen were watching all this, sitting on the armor of their tanks and Peter, who stood in the doorway of the entrance. When the rest of the soldiers struck with jelly fell on the ground and began to turn into jellyfish, Peter hid in the stairwell, and the tank crews closed in the tank, turning on the anti-chemical and radiation protection system. Peter wanted to run to Dasha, but on the flight of stairs he suddenly saw a jellyfish that slid down the stairs and flowed into Dasha's apartment. “Dasha! Run! Do not let this crap catch you! ”Cried Peter, but he heard the hysterical cry of a girl who suddenly interrupted. Then Peter ran to Jane, who remained with Sergey and Masha.