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[Alexandr Korol]

It seems to me that the 19 million people are not supposed to read it over time — it’s not a cumulative effect — but rather, as if 19 million people must be reading it simultaneously. At least, that’s how it seems to me. Meaning, these people must be connected, 19 million people tuned into “Alternative History,” engaged with it. That’s what it should be. And regarding the discharge of energy and so on — in that dialogue, in the conversation with the Mystic-Old-Man, what was discussed? That it was frightening to publish the first volume of “Alternative History.” Even though it’s science fiction, even though it’s a first-person novel, people today are very aggressive. The reaction was expected to be very negative, not positive. I kind of assumed this and asked the Mystic-Old-Man, and he of course confirmed it to me, that yes, that’s exactly what would happen. But the most interesting thing is that he said yes, meaning that as if people, by dumping their negativity onto me, would be freeing themselves from it. Wonderful. I am like, you know, a punching bag, so that people can, let’s say, torment me in order to release all the evil they’ve accumulated. But that evil is theirs, not mine — it’s their pain, their unhappiness, their delusion and confusion. The way I see it, it will be like this: people will realize that... The Mystic-Old-Man also talked about this, that as if all people have been deceived. He spoke about this later, it was already in my next books of “Alternative History.” But he said that people would realize that they had all been betrayed or deceived. As if everyone’s vector, the angle through which they saw the world, was not correct, but false. And as if something would happen, and people’s eyes would open, and they would all understand that they had been deceived. And after that, a large portion of people will seemingly shift to the light side. But at the time I was speaking with the Mystic-Old-Man, he claimed that many people were connected to a dark source — or more precisely, that their angle of perception was wrong. And as if something will happen, and they will come to their senses, wake up, and choose the light side. That is, their angle of perception will change. And somehow this is connected to me and my books. But not in the sense that I’m influencing it, I think — not that. It’s more likely connected to the fact that people are still angry and have chosen the wrong angle, and are connected, let’s say, to a dark Wi-Fi, and they don’t acknowledge me or the book. But if these people’s hearts open under certain circumstances, then there will be many readers who will feel a strong connection to what is in my book. And here’s an interesting point: