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[Alexandr Korol]

to this day I’ve never even watched “Star Wars.” I had no idea what was going on — what portals? And he tells me there are a lot of them, and that if I go into one of these portals, I need to extract the maximum amount of information from it. I didn’t understand — how’s that supposed to work? I took it literally, like I’d physically enter somewhere, and okay, fine, then I’ll enter. And then he says:

– Well, okay, look for this portal, the power place they passed on to you. You can give it a try. And there are two power places.

And then he started correcting me, saying that a power place and a portal are not the same thing. So he says:

–There are two power places: Liteyny Bridge and the sphinxes on Universitetskaya Embankment.
– Alright.

The point is, there are the sphinxes, and there’s Liteyny Bridge. So I went to Liteyny. I ask him:

– What do I do there?
– Well, just stand on Liteyny Bridge, on the pedestrian side of course. And by the sphinx, rub the left paw or the tail, then rub the right one. Then stand in the center. And something will happen. You’ll enter somewhere, and the key thing is — hold on, grab it, take as much information as you can, extract as much as possible.
– Alright.

So I went to Liteyny Bridge, stood there in the center — nothing happened. I just stood there, closed my eyes, stared at a single spot, tried to meditate. Nothing happened. Then I went to the sphinxes on Universitetskaya Embankment, rubbed something there, stood in the center — again, nothing. I thought, “Strange.” And then, sometime that same day or a couple days later, we were driving along Nevsky Prospekt or somewhere, and suddenly we saw — maybe we first found it on a map... But the point is, we realized that this first