ARMAGEDDON POP

Their leader, a stout, balding man with a dark complexion and numerous wrinkles, was furiously shouting something at his men while holding a weapon in his hand. Fortunately, the hero managed to escape the pursuit, but the police, who had been summoned by someone, were now present in the square, watching the area. After some time, a group of men in black suits ran into the police, which led to a shootout when the officers saw the armed criminals.

It later turned out that this man was being hunted by the mafia, and posing as one of their members, he had obtained secret information hidden in a chapel. After the mafia dealt with the police, they resumed their search for the fugitive, who had meanwhile hidden in the thick bushes of a park. Unfortunately, one of the criminals found traces of his footprints left in the mud. The gangsters opened fire on him, but he managed to dodge the bullets, running into a church. He hastily slammed the gate shut, barricaded it with benches from inside, and then descended into the church’s basement, hoping to escape from there.

As he wandered through the corridors of the catacombs, he suddenly had the idea to stop his pursuers by leaving his briefcase, which contained an explosive, on the altar, and then escape by swinging down from the church roof on a rope. He exited the catacombs to carry out his plan, but to his surprise, his enemies had disappeared. Expecting that they were lying in wait somewhere nearby, he left his briefcase in a visible spot and then evacuated through a window. Moments later, he heard an explosion from near the church gate.

Taking advantage of the confusion, he slipped back into the park, where he changed into a priest’s outfit. As he was leaving the park, he ran into the gang leader, who looked at him but, after a moment of thought, concluded that he wasn’t the person they were searching for. The fugitive calmly walked across the square and boarded a tram. Unfortunately, a little further on, the vehicle "broke down," leaving him no choice but to find another means of transportation. However, as he stepped out, his pursuers appeared before him. Using advanced military technology, they altered his ontic status—in other words, they killed him with a burst from an AK-47.

And you were expecting a happy ending? Well, you never know what might happen...

The author decided to take a walk around the city to think things over. Immersed in thought, he wandered the streets, not paying attention to the people and shops he passed, when suddenly his attention was caught by a rapidly moving shadow on the horizon, which flickered in the air and then disappeared into the distance. What especially caught his eye was the size of the strange creature, which couldn’t have been a bird or anything similar. The writer thought he must have been seeing things when, out of nowhere, a dark figure appeared before him, taking on a human form. The mysterious dark entity transformed into his doppelgänger, who smiled cynically, his hands in the pockets of his coat.

After a moment, he pulled out a black-bound book, on which the writer's name and an unfamiliar title, "Eclectida," were written. The surprised writer noticed that there was now a rectangular object in his pocket that hadn’t been there before. He reached in and pulled out an identical book to the one his doppelgänger was holding, who then dematerialized, leaving the astonished writer alone.
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