Autumn this year was beautiful. There was almost no wind and rain, so the trees were wrapped in yellow and fiery red robes. Although there were enough leaves on the ground, rustling ridiculous underfoot. Marinka and I decided to go for mushrooms. And for the winter we will make stocks and rest from the city. Marinka has long wanted to get out from under the eternal smog and breathe the fresh air, and I just wanted to stay away from people. They are like cockroaches constantly fussing, running around, rushing to work, pushing each other as they enter the minibus. They strive to earn more money in order to drink it on Friday night. Sorry sight. And it made me angry.

I myself began to save more on the contrary, did not allow myself any frills. I had to change my job, because the boss decided to teach me life, in response he received my thoughts about him. But I did not have to regret it. It was distressing that I did not see any gap in life. Everything was trite, like everyone else. At times, Marinka was naughty, then give her tangerines at two o'clock in the morning, then it is necessary to air the air in the apartment, and then “what the door was spilled, cold”. I endured, was silent and digested in myself. Just began to creep in the thought that it may well be this wedding? Often he came home from work after night duty, but he was not tidied at home and was not ready to eat. It only added fuel to the fire. I shouldn't have had a lot of work. Marinka, in her stories, worked at some research institute, did not advertise her work, and I didn’t ask too much. In general, on a mushroom hunt, I wanted to forget about all my troubles and only think about pleasant things.

Far from the city did not leave. Literally fifty kilometers, then turned onto some kind of dirt road, from it onto a forest trail and stopped not far from the birch thickets. Breathe here and the truth is much nicer. We got out of the car, just in case put on the alarm and with a pair of buckets went into the grove. Marinka took a home kitchen knife, and I took my own hunting one. No, I never did hunt, but a friend gave me a demob. Brown leather case, nice handle, comfortable fit in the hand and twenty-centimeter blade. Factory sharpening was top notch, the knife was cut even the softest bread, without crushing it.

I don’t know much about mushrooms, so I often asked Marinka for advice.

- Is it an edible mushroom? And this one?

She of course answered, even called the names of various future shreds, but there were a lot of species and I regularly broke the silence of the forest with my questions. Toadstools kicked to the forefathers, and useful individuals became our prey.

- Marin, and when do you need to go for an ultrasound? - I somehow thought about her health, in the forest, far away about civilization.

“It was last week, everything is fine,” the girl lifted her head off the ground, glanced over me, and immediately lowered it down.

- Why didn't I say anything? We are almost a husband and a wife, and I should be aware of what is happening, I asked, surprised that I learned about such things last.

- You were on a shift, and then I somehow ran and forgot. Moreover, all is well. There would be something wrong, surely she would say, - answered Marina. It may have seemed to me of course, but she seemed to be straining at the same time.

- Well, and the stomach ... Why he does not grow with you? Already in terms of three months soon, - some little worm of doubt climbed into my head and began to whisper my ideas to me. The devil knows what these stomachs should be, but obviously something should already be seen.

- It grows, you just do not notice, it grows quite a bit ...

“But you didn’t show me a test, not a single test result, you do the same ultrasound,” I interrupted the girl and began to get angry at her and at myself. Why am I led? Although on the other hand there was no reason not to believe. But everything seems implausible, absurd ..

- Seryozha, let's discuss this at home. We will come, I will show you all the forms, information, results ..

- And sometimes you refuse to me in the vicinity for several days in a row, so yesterday ... - I didn’t hear Marina again. A sudden guess struck me. In two steps he was near the girl, pulled off her sports pants straight to the ankles. Following black panties flew off. So it was on them was attached to the gasket with traces of menstruation.

- Oh, you bitch - I was furious, strongly pushed Marinka in the chest. She recoiled, entangled in her lowered pants and shorts, and rolled a few meters away from me, crushing the grass beneath.

“Seryozha, I will explain everything, give me two minutes,” Marina tried to get up, was confused in her clothes and fell again.

- Kill her! - the very pleasant baritone like a bolt from the blue said these words in my ear, right in my ear, - do not think, just kill her.

I clenched my fists, felt the hardness of the knife handle with my right hand and stepped towards the girl ...

I opened my eyes. I really wanted to drink, in my head there was a mess and hellish pain. Where I am? It looks like a Marinkin apartment. I do not remember anything.

- Woke up, my dear? - I recognized the voice immediately. But it sounded not from the head, but from somewhere to the left. Turned his head through the discomfort. It seems that Anton, Marina's colleague or who he is. Sits looking at me, shone a flashlight in my eyes. Behind him are still five people, all aged, dressed in a businesslike manner. I do not understand anything.

“Soon I will explain everything to you,” this familiar voice was on the right. I turn my head in the right direction. Marina. Also in a skirt, jacket, ironed shirt. And she continued:

- So, dear commission, you familiarized with my Ph.D. work on the topic “The Influence of Religious Factors on the Human Psyche under Conditions of Increased Stress”, the experimental one — initially a non-believer, soft and fairly good. We connect a little mysticism, difficult living conditions and what do we see? Sergey begins to believe that he is spoiled as a person because of a deal with some otherworldly being. Therefore, all their advantages in the direction of deterioration are charged to a third party. For two and a half months, we saw how aggression, anger, greed, cruelty, thirst for sex with elements of submission and dominance and irritability manifest themselves. The aggravating factors were unplanned pregnancies, a ban on alcohol, but at the same time being placed in the environment for several days, as well as women's whims and low wages. As a result, man has become capable of even breaking laws and killing. The experiment should have been going on for 2 weeks longer and will end somewhat differently, but Sergey revealed the absence of pregnancy. All other materials with attachments I will present tomorrow in a formal setting. I also ask you to note that in all this I was helped by a graduate student Anton Zakharov. Thanks for attention!

The commission behind Anton stood all this time in silence, but now they gathered in a circle and began to quietly discuss something. And I tried to digest everything Marina said. What am I, a guinea pig? Was it all planned? Questions swarmed in the head, but did not find the answers.

- Marina Andreevna, this is an excellent job, I would even say innovation, and we give you the highest mark before you, but tomorrow we will be happy to see the full materials on your studies with Anton, - said one of the commission members and they left the apartment after each other, saying goodbye . Anton Marina, too, sent back home, saying that cope herself. And we were left alone. I felt a little better, went to wash and lay back on the bed, the weakness in the body was still there.

Marina entered the room. She brought two glasses of red wine and some sandwiches.

- Eat, recuperate and at the same time celebrate my scientific work, - Marina beamed straight, looked into my eyes and quite smiled.

- How could you? I did everything for you, I am ..

- So, now shut up and listen, - Marina abruptly cut me short, drank wine and began the story.

- You yourself would not agree, and all the salt would be lost if you knew about the experiment. Nobody did anything supernatural with you, just your mind and emotions in a state of stress just opened up. (Especially for eroticspace) So don't make a sacrifice of yourself. But you fucked me at the first call - a normal payment for science, - Marina laughed at her joke and sipped more wine.

“But how are all these coincidences?” Vote? Radio village? - I still did not understand what it was for me.

“You are a village,” the girl laughed again, “when you got drunk on your dismissal from the army and fell to sleep, Anton and I inserted micro dynamics under the skin inside the ear.” Haha, don't worry, we already pulled them out while you were out of the way, - Marina laughed again, seeing that I was reaching for my ear.

- It created the illusion of voice in my head. The only negative - the range. Anton had to come close enough to you to say something. Radio ... Well, this is generally an innocent prank, we recorded a disc from a radio station of old songs, a bit of editing and that very “evil-evil” happened ... I knew the time for which you ended up with a blow job, so it wasn’t much work . Plus - minus. Is there milk in the village? So I just squeezed a lemon in there, - Marinka burst into laughter again.

The girl went to the window with a glass in her hand and looked out the window.

- Eh, what a great weather. You drink wine, it will help to quickly remove the effects of a tranquilizer. Any other questions left?

I had nothing to say. I looked at my wine glass, at the sandwiches, at the knife with which Marinka was cutting bread, and which was lying on the tray now. This bastard was playing me. No, I have no more questions. I took a knife in my hand, got out of bed and moved toward my beloved.