Page 390

[Alexandr Korol]

This was also highlighted. Then it became even more curious — later the system began highlighting to me that, in addition to this, I must also list for the readers in Volume Nine of the novel “Alternative History” all the places that bring luck, places that fulfill wishes. Well, not in the literal sense, but, so to speak, places about which myths and legends circulate, that in this fountain you must throw a coin, or around this pillar you must walk three times, you must make a wish and write it down. That is, all such places, so that I would also google them, pay attention to what steals my attention, and naturally share this with the readers, because this is also important. And I was also doing this, working all weekend on compiling all these lists, reading through a mass of all this, which must also now enter into Volume Nine of the novel “Alternative History”— these places. There was also much that was curious. And the most interesting thing is that before Volume Nine of “Alternative History,” if a person wore some kind of pendant with a symbol that I am now addressing in Volume Nine, or if he went to such a place, all this did not work until he encountered Volume Nine. That is, this is the most interesting feature — that it is as if the way the system leads through Volume Nine, bringing people to this, it leads them exactly to this, so that all of this would acquire true meaning. That only in this magical world of heaven all of this works and exists. And so I recall earlier in the world of heaven, and the people in the world of heaven, and I remember that in their homes there could be many different trinkets, Chinese, of poor quality, various figurines for luck, some little things, you know, like with the Asians, only imagine, I saw this with Russian people, that they too could have Hindu deities, some bronze ones, the most ordinary mass-market kind, the same little lucky cats, some turtle on whose back you need to run a stick, then also scarab beetles, all sorts of magnets from Egypt. And what is most interesting is that the scarab has been highlighted to me about ten times now. That is, whatever ways I googled something or monitored or searched on the internet — everywhere, scarab, scarab, scarab — so it is truly very important. Also curious is that at first I somehow ignored it, though in fact it is very important.