The Target Page #5

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the Target. So that's why.

Their AVIDA ratings

are total nonsense.

According to AVIDA, I'm some kind

of compenstated sociopath.

And my brand is

"Agressive Ranger".

Can you imagine? And according to

ALMATRA I'm a "Zoo Lion"!

Is that better?

I guess you could say yes.

Actually, that's what I feel like.

They keep rating us every year.

- Viktor's personal core is "Minister".

- Really?

I'm joking. Everything

about him is classified.

And what's your class? Highest?

Highest. Why?

I'm fourth class. I don't take

the tests. I don't care.

- And the discounts?

- I don't buy expensive things.

Do you know what I am?

An "Anxious Marine Pilot".

- And I'm a "Fisherman"!

- Sometimes they get it right.

Listen, how does this thing work?

I'm no astrophysicist,

but I think these are layers.

Of graphite, I believe.

I don't get what this

cosmic radiation is.

What does this Target accumulate?

It's Chi.

Prana. Primal energy.

The energy of the void.

Now all of you will fall asleep.

When you wake up,

you'll be itching to laugh.

The well - the forty-eighth

hexagram of the "I-Ching".

"The town may change,

but the well can not.

It neither decreases

nor increases.

You come and go,

but the well remains a well.

If you run out of rope, or break

the jug, it brings - misfortune."

So far, I don't think

we've broken any jugs.

And what is this?

- It's Tihkeybow.

- What?

Tihkeybow, like it says

on the jar.

It's regular Tihkeybow,

only a bit watery.

Cold Tihkeybow.

Is this local coffee?

No, it's a very popular coffee.

Tihkeybow! Never tried it.

Me either.

I can show you the jar.

Tihkeybow isn't a brand of coffee,

it's an adjective.

Why am I so tihkeybowey?

- We might die laughing!

- People very rarely die here.

Last time was twelve years ago.

Vitya Semenov drank a bottle of

vodka, drove a car, and hit a rock.

- And what?

- He died.

Take me with you.

Where?

To Moscow. I have

some business there.

Zoya?

Wonderful! Of course we'll take

you. The flight will be more fun.

- Now it's my turn.

- Pay Vitalik, he's over there.

Fifty for the well,

and seven for the coffee.

All together, fifty-seven.

You owe me three thousand.

I don't have change.

Go look for it. We gave some

to that driver of yours.

- I don't want to break a sweat.

- Go break a sweat.

You break a sweat.

Sorry, old man, something...

Everyone has a stressful life.

Listen, why don't you all

get out of here?

What for?

We've got everything.

Like what?

Well... food... a place to live,

some money.

And we're healthier than

all of you put together.

Zoya, look!

Look!

I only felt this way once before

as a child in Crimea, in Sudak.

It was pouring,

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