9 .The silver lining in every dark cloud is so destructive? (II)

Seui stared at the living room with an incredible look on his face. The sofa was pushed to the innermost corner at a weird angle, the stool was toppled over with the lamp barely hanging over from the socket, the coffee table was angled to the floor with two of its legs missing. He had a reasonable suspicion that the sawdust sprawled all over the floor had something to do with its missing legs! Just as he stepped in warily looking at the cracked picture frames that might fall down any moment now, his foot landed on a punctured cushion and he lost his balance falling straight on his butt, while numerous goose feathers were added to the already chaotic living room. Seui motionlessly sat there for a few minutes until a heavy sneeze interrupted his stupor. He finally stood up with one hand supporting his stinging back while the other hand tried to wipe his nose, itching red due to goose feathers getting in there. "...how unfortunate! I just had to bring along my ability to fall anytime and anywhere! ..achoo...why couldn't I bring any useful ability..achoo!" just as he was busily wiping his nose, he heard the doorbell ring behind him. He slowly turned back dragging himself to the door wondering who got the wind that he was back so quickly.

To his surprise, it was Eir who had just left a few minutes ago. Why was he here again as soon he left? Noticing Seui's puzzled gaze Eir quickly explained, " brother Sol, after I went back I remembered that I forgot to give back your phone. So I hurried back here. I fixed it when you were in the hospital and forgot to give it back until now. So don't switch it off in any case and be sure to keep contact with me, okay?" Eir handed the phone over to him. "Alright, thank you very much" Seui took it back sighing to himself. If not for this young man, he would've forgotten that there was such a thing as the broken cell phone.

Suddenly Eir leaned over and touched the top of Seui's hair whispering " brother Sol, why are there goose feathers on your head? And I heard a loud noise from inside when I came back here. What happened? Are you okay?" he placed the goose feathers he plucked from Seui's head on his palm and displayed it to Seui. "Everything's fine. There ..was a hole in the cushion " Seui mumbled incoherently snatching the goose feathers back in a hurry, embarrassed. Leaving behind a "See you later" Seui quickly slipped into the house.

Back inside, Seui was rather flustered seeing the mess that turned the whole house upside down. He didn't know where he should even start cleaning and finally decided to leave it alone for a moment. He carefully stepped into the bedroom and had quite a headache noticing that the room was far worse than the living room. God knows how the bed was still balanced with so much of its parts turned to dust! He went over to find a nightstand that was intact with great effort and placed it in a relatively clean corner before putting the medication he got from the doctor on it. Then he found a round wicker chair and set it up in a comfortable position. Then he roughly cleaned the bedroom floor before going for a shower. He was extremely thankful that the bathroom was fully intact without any broken showerheads or such things. He was quite curious and clueless at the same time about the sudden disaster in his house, but he felt it was better to set it aside for now. Otherwise, his brain might get barbecued with the rising pressure! For now, he'd better take a break from those confusing matters and try to figure out the new environment while he could.

...

Heilong mansion

Everyone had a weird look on their face except for professor Enoch who was watching their reactions with amusement and helplessness at the same time. Ginn's handsome face was twisted uncontrollably " no way, wouldn't that be an extramarital affair then?" Although he wasn't keen on this accidental marriage it doesn't mean that he has no principles! he would never resort to lowly means such as cheating! A heavy silence fell all over the table. The Heilong family is an aristocratic family that has been there since ancient times and their very own name withheld the power and prestige. Things like extramarital affairs were direct blasphemy to their honorable ancestors and family name, so such things were not welcomed in their family. Now that the Heilong family's heir's life was in danger, they were in a dilemma between moral integrity and the future of their family.

The marshal coughed and interrupted the silence with a rather thoughtful look on his face "..how about this, ...your marriage is only one-sided and your ceremony is not yet fully completed. Besides nobody knows that you're an ability user except the closest people. So we can find you another marriage partner who's a non-ability user, to have a complete ceremony and get married formally. That way you won't have to offer your soul shard or accept another soul shard, so there won't be any unnecessary problems. Most importantly, having physical relationships with him won't count as an extramarital affair! Although your partner would be a bit wronged in this case, but it couldn't be helped. To offset that, we can accept him into our family as our precious daughter-in-law and give him riches, status, and everything. What do think?"

Old marshal's scrunched eyebrows relaxed a bit " this sounds like a good idea. Although, if I ever had a chance I would never choose such a person for my grandson, now that it has come to this there're no better solutions. As long as he hides the mark on his palm with spiritual power, there won't be much problem going on with a marriage ceremony. So, does everyone agree to this?"

Madam marshal already had red eyes filled with moisture as if she was ready to burst into tears at any moment. She couldn't believe that this was happening to her poor child and she could barely manage to speak due to the helplessness she was feeling " I won't agree to this, but there's nothing I could do now. Maybe I'm selfish, but I want him to live" tears started to flow along her pale and beautiful cheeks. Marshal leaned her head onto his shoulder and patted her back slowly, trying to console her. He could totally understand her feelings, their own son was being forced to make a choice for the sake of living, right in front of them, while they could only watch without being able to do anything. It was extremely heartbreaking.

"It's settled then" the old marshal signed. " so where do we find a suitable non-ability user in such a short period of time? Do you have anybody in mind?"

Ginn shook his head. If there was somebody in his mind, he wouldn't be single till now and be forced into marriage! " what about the one you were engaged to before?" marshal suggested while carefully looking at Ginn.

The old marshal turned to him "is it the kid of the Yinchen family?"

...

Seui came back from the shower wearing a bathrobe feeling quite refreshed. He picked up the recently-fixed mobile before trotting toward the round wicker chair. "Okay, let's get going. I'm quite positive about my net surfing skills" he sat down and unlocked the screen lock with the fingerprint. The wallpaper was probably set by default judging from its obvious monotony. He first checked the date on the right upper corner which read ' 17.11.3020' " 3020!!!! Are you being serious here? So apparently I have transmigrated into thousand years later? Many things might have changed in those years which probably means he couldn't even make money by predicting who would win the next football championship! How nice if he was transmigrated into the past! If so, he could at least pretend to be an Oracle!!

The next few hours were a combination of extreme emotional fluctuations within Seui. Especially when he opened the world map and followed the pin to find a country shaped like a splashed mud patch and when the results of the search 'Sol' happened to be ' You can take this exam on the 12th of next month, to follow the course please contact us here'

To say it simply, Seui searched everything from 'Is this earth?' to ' Do private cyclones often visit apartments these days?' and succeeded in collecting a lot of useful, useless, and weird information. According to what he found, he's currently in Hracea, the capital of a country called Senheim. He had found enough evidence to believe that he was still in the earth, but it was no longer the earth he was familiar with. It was stated in the information that years ago, due to the increase in radiation and temperature a lot of glaciers melted causing the sea level to rise and submerging a lot of countries. Even the remaining ones were exposed to strong radiation spreading various diseases and causing a lot of mutations in the organisms. As a result, some humans evolved to ability users... Seui could bear no longer and stood up from the chair, almost throwing his cell phone again.

"ABILITIES ?!!! SO THIS IS A FREAKING FANTASY WORLD!!! Hmm... no wonder.. I should've known the moment I knew that I survived without a drop of water for three days!! ..oh no.. even earlier! I should've known it the moment I got transmigrated! people don't transmigrate out of blue without a rhyme or reason!! ahh... how stupid I've been till now... but how come I didn't see anyone with superpowers on the way here? ability users here are probably too decent, otherwise, why don't they even rob an ice cream stall on the roadside? tch..... what a waste of talents!"

As Seui was mumbling nonsense to himself when he suddenly felt a flash of enlightenment. Don't transmigrated souls usually have very powerful abilities called cheats or golden fingers in the novels? maybe he can have some of it too? feeling hopeful he quickly searched 'how to activate your abilities for the first time' and got tons of results for it. He choose the one with the most views on top of the list and began to read carefully.

' Abilities can said to be a result of the mutation that allowed the humans to evolve to a new area. Although it may seem like abilities are a kind of physical extension, but in reality, it's a manifestation of mental strength in a tangible form to assist the physical qualities. Up to now, more than one hundred and eighty kinds of abilities have been discovered in different forms like solids, liquids and so on.' Next, they continued to provide a list of abilities discovered so far like earth ability, metal ability, fire ability etc and also some weird abilities like stink ability and garbage attracting ability. Seui directly scrolled down to the section with the title 'how to activate your ability with an advanced power' and proceeded to read that section, ' Activation of abilities can happen in various ways and those various ways may result in different results. So it's better to have the guidance of an experienced tutor for that and we can help you with that problem. Our institute will provide you with the best program for an affordable price in a short period like three months and it is guaranteed to be successful. You can contact us on....' Seui was enraged and had the impulse to beat up the person who wrote this. Advertisements are advertisements! what's with the three pages long essays? were all that professional talk just bluff? trying to make up for the word limit??

As he was 'greeting' the advertiser's ancestors, he smelt smoke coming from somewhere and turned around to see a cluster of black smoke around him. He was quite puzzled, how come there's smoke here? I didn't even try to cook yet and the kitchen is already burning down? The black smoke was getting denser and denser almost forming a black cloud. Seui noticed that there was a wisp of silver gradually diffusing to the black cloud and exclaimed " those old sages are indeed wise! there's actually a silver line in every dark cloud!"

Just then, his chair overturned and the remaining picture frames were heard falling to the ground from the living room. Seui's own hair turned into a chicken nest in a matter of milliseconds and he belatedly realized there was a problem there " is the silver lining in every dark cloud so destructive?"