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[Alexandr Korol]

“What?” He said, “Well, go ahead and figure it out.” And I know this relative couldn’t have said something like that. So, it wasn’t him speaking. I only realized all of this when I finished writing and completed the book “Alternative History” in 2023, in August. Only then did I understand what this Spirit was, this voice I had heard, the one that entered everyone. Only then, when I reread the book, did I begin to understand what was really happening. Why did Big Alexander say he saw his younger self in me? Because I am from the future, and I am that Spirit. And that relative, why did he tell me, “Keep solving it,” even though it wasn’t like him? It’s because it wasn’t him speaking, it was the Spirit that entered him. And when necessary, this Spirit would enter everyone, and it also entered me. So, I could be an ordinary boy, and I remember how I was getting out of a taxi, and some thugs approached me. One was sitting in the car, and the other approached me, with a knife under his jacket, holding his jacket like that, with the knife inside, and he starts talking to me to get me to come closer to the car. And then the Spirit entered me, I took off my glasses and said to him:

– Listen, do you want a job? I need people like you.
– What kind?
– Well, you’re playing the role of a tourist right now, saying you’re lost. And I’m playing the role of a stupid boy. And tomorrow,” – I take out my ID – tomorrow I work in a church, the day after tomorrow I could be someone else.
– Don’t get it.
– What don’t you get? Why did you stop me?
– Well, because it’s obvious you’re sweet, you have money.
– Well, obviously. You see, tomorrow I’m someone else, – I take out my phone, even though he wanted to take it from me, I hand it to him and say, – Save your number, I’ll call you tomorrow.

And he saves the number. I take the phone back, turn away from him to head towards the entrance, and he quickly gets into the car, and they drive off. Then, after a few years or maybe a year, they were arrested, this gang. These thugs used to work at Victory Square, near the Moskovskaya metro, at the underground passage near the Victory monument. They would always target