CHAPTER-2

Jihan slept for 12 hours straight during the car ride and finally reached the mountainous state of India that is Himachal Pradesh. When he woke up the car had already reached Manali, the biggest tourist attraction of Himachal and was currently standing in front of a luxurious resort.

Jihan paid the driver generously and even tipped him another 500. Satisfied the driver immediately left. Jihan entered the resort and instead for a room he asked for a car with a driver. He then immediately left the resort and asked to be dropped near a private cab area.

He then again took a cab from there and then after a 7 hour ride finally he arrived at Shimla at 10 'o clock in the morning. He then once again changed cabs and finally arrived at a luxurious resort by 12 am hungry and tired to the core. He immediately asked for the best room with view to Himalayas. When asked for ID proof he slipped a 500 bill, due to the off season the resort was practically empty thus the staff was surprisingly lenient and immediately escorted him to the best room available.

Jihan ordered them to bring food in an hour. In that hour he got rid of his clothes and took a bath cleaning himself properly. His eyes again stopped at the weird tattoo but he shrugged it off. After cleaning and moisturizing himself he lied down lazily and for a quick nap.

The sound of room service woke him up as he got up opened the door and rubbed his eyes. The food they delivered was of course Indian cuisine. It was garlic nan, paneer makhani, raita, some salad and gulab jamun as desert.

Jihan had been a fan of Indian cuisine in his past life because of a certain person he had been really close to. His eyes softened when he remembered him. He shook his head then tipped the waiter who looked at him strangely.

After he left Jihan gorged down the food given to him. Satisfaction spread in every part of him. He washed his hand called for room service to take it all away and then spread on the bed like a starfish enjoying the peace for a moment.

When the room service came he slipped him a 500 and asked him to get him 3 pairs of clothes, anything like some loose shirt and pants along with some overalls for the mountains, mountain gloves, mountain shoes with spikes and some briefs and a trekking bag.

Then man looked confused but nodded at the sight of money. After achieving the basics Jihan decided to sort out the beginning part of the novel on a note pad which he found on a desk in the corner of the room.

According to the novel the highest spirituality in the world before the rift would be the Himalayas. According the name on the credit cards, he initially thought he would be in Korea at first but soon realized he was in India. India was not a foreign nation to him, after all he had spent hall of his life here. He was well versed in Hindi, India's common language thus it easy for him to communicate with everyone, of course his face could cause problems. As a mixed Korean person he already attracted attention but speaking Hindi fluently will attract more attention.

But he could not care much about it since he was running out of time. He already took as much precaution as he could to throw the man named Yoon Jonghyun off his trail. It wasn't like he would have time to track him after few days though.

According to the novel, the rift will be created on 22nd of August 2022, and 28th of August will be the moment when people will sink into chaos. Today was 16th of August 2022. He had exactly 12 days to formulate a game plan to escape from this disaster

The start of the novel was just like any other romance novel, ancient cultivator will transmigrate into the novel. She will cultivate to gain back her body, become more beautiful, will face slap her salivating-for-you-now ex-boyfriend, face slap back-from-abroad step brother and will have a chance encounter with aloof-as-in-ice-block president.

"…."

Suddenly realizing the female lead had such great stamina to accomplish all this in just 8 days he silent lit a candle for the ex boyfriend and the step brother.

Right now his main priority was to buy a highly durable phone first. No it was not to find out his identity or watch netflix but it was for the world after rift. During the apocalypse only people with phones were able to survive rest were annihilated. The reason given was simple.

'Human beings with no identity are not allowed to exist.'

Identity was given on phone.

In a way this was extremely cruel and unfair but this is what the world after the rift was.

Fair to the strong ruthless to the weak.

After that the people were given an option. They could learn and study under constellation and follow them if they wanted or they could return to earth. A very fair sounding policy but it was far from that.

Jihan sighed when he thought of the mess that will ensue, not that he had the ability to care about it. Jihan already knew that the information he had could save billions of people from their eminent demise, but what of it? He currently did not have the power to convince people plus he wasn't himself sure about the accuracy of his source. He himself was currently blindly trusting the blue screen that had appeared before his eyes and he had a strike of intuition that told him that this world was a novel, thus firstly he had to be fully sure about this, even then he was reluctant about getting involved like this with the main characters.

This was after all a romance novel in the end and according to the law of Romance novels, a character like him, who appears as a variable generally ends up as a sacrifice for the heroine, thus ending heroine's struggle in a love triangle.

Jihan didn't want to sacrifice himself this time around, he wanted sit back, eat good food in a house secluded from everyone's eyes and of course, it would be good to have a cat to cuddle and take care of it. After sorting out his inner struggle Jihan felt unprecedented calmness.

Jihan had always hated responsibilities, but circumstances didn't allow him to forego them but now in a new world where nobody he knew was present and he was just another person in the crowd he felt a sense of long forgotten serenity.

He might have to choose to be in trial period of 10 days under any constellation. He already had decided under which constellation he would.

'Sloth'

As the name itself says, the constellation was bit too lazy. It neither cared about the fight for earth, nor it cared about the world itself getting destroyed, it just relaxed. As long as one didn't mess with them they won't care about them. They also have the ability to hide fast and protect themselves even though they look harmless.

That is exactly what Jihan needed. The constellation you studied under effect your emotions most of the times. Sloth's vibes could be said to be the vibes he needed to achieve. Plus it would be practically empty there, Considering the fact most people went for high and mighty sounding names. As a person who hated crowded places this was the best choice for him.

"Knock knock"

Jihan got up and opened the door. He ushered the waiter in and paid him according to the bills and slipped an extra 100. Then he asked him if he could get him a durable smartphone along with some wired earphones. The waiter looked excited and replied that he just changed into a new phone he could take his old one which could connect to wired earphones. Satisfied with the description Jihan asked him to bring it.

In a few seconds he had a good working phone and some earphones with him for cheap, he also got a sim that the waiter said he didn't needed so he easily activated the phone. The waiter wished him well and left happily. After that Jihan factory reset the phone and created his own gmail and downloaded some without wifi games, some books and music too. Then he left it on the study table.

He checked out the clothes that they boy brought him. There were exactly 3 pair of black tshirt and black shorts with skintight leggings and some black bomber jacket.

"...."

Although he did accept that the boy had good sense of fashion but these clothes made his already childlike face look even childish, Jihan sighed but accepted it since the clothes were easy to move in. He checked the overalls, jackets, the boots and shoes. They all were good but,

"...."

Why were they all black?

Jihan shook his head.

Maybe this was fashion for children these days.

He calmly accepted the fact then changed into the new clothes. He then took out money from the school bag and also picked up his mountain bag. He then packed it with clothes he would need, boots, gloves, etc. some extra cash and his phone and earphones. Then he proceeded to go to the reception where he paid an amount necessary for the whole month booking of his room.

Then he again called for the waiter. He handed the boy a list of things he needed and gave him money accordingly and asked him to arrange it all by in a few days and promised him a big tip. The boy nodded like a baby chick.

Jihan held back his smile and went outside. He took a cab to Himalayas in Nepal. On the way he was stopped for border check. Jihan completely forgot this. But maybe because it was practically empty at this point of time a 2000 bill worked its magic. Jihan let out a sigh of relief.

He looked at the time and was satisfied that he had entered the mountain ranges within 11 hours. It was a good thing he took a nap on road, since he had a lot to do today.