Asphalt Edge Empty House

Chapter 12 Kidnapping of Street Children

The death of Martin Hendro Suseno shocked the people of Surabaya. The man known as a conglomerate with a social spirit and fond of visiting the little wong was found dead horribly in an unnatural way.

Martin's death has been a topic across the media both locally and nationally. His house did not stop at the visit of friends and relatives who wanted to defend his condolences as well as looking for information on what really happened to Martin Hendro Suseno.

On the second floor the police have installed a police line. Investigators are still collecting evidence while Martin's body has been taken to hospital for an autopsy.

Journalists are still seen back and forth in front of Martin's house. One of the crowd of reporters who surrounded the fence of Martin's house, was Linda. The girl had been in front of the house since morning to wait for an update from the officers.

"Excuse me, police, may we interview for a moment?"

"Oh yes Linda apparently, um for a while we have not been able to provide the latest updates on Mr. Martin's death, evidence of evidence we still continue to collect."

"Does the police have any characteristics or names of the alleged perpetrators?"

"We have not been able to determine the suspect because the location is very minimal witnesses and evidence mbak Linda."

"For the bodies of the victims, are there any clues found sir?"

"I mean Did the body of the deceased Mr. Martin found a sign of physical violence, disease, or something like that sir?"

"We can't be sure yet, but clearly the victim's body is drying up, like an embalmed mummy, that's all I can tell you for now."

"Later if the investigation has been completed, we will certainly hold a press conference soon, at that time the police will explain everything related to this case, so for now please be patient."

"Good sir, thanks for the time, we are waiting for the latest date of this case, hopefully the cause of death, motive, and the culprit is soon solved."

Linda ended the interview with the investigating officer. Martin's death reminds Linda of the case of Hana who was found dead in the port area with the same characteristics.

"Could it be the same person as Hana's killer?"

"If so, then this is a pure criminal case."

"Very interesting..."

Linda muttered softly, she tried to analyze the case of Martin and Hana then compared the two.

After interviewing Martin's officers and family, Linda rushed to the hospital for information. His brain was filled with curiosity as to the cause of death, and the motive of the perpetrators of this sadistic murder.

"Sir Wira.. Sir... Wait...!"

Wira looked back, she saw Linda the road hastily approached her. As usual the sweet smile of the beautiful journalist always managed to invite attention.

"My brother's coming along.."

Linda's voice sounded spoiled in the ears of Wira. The young officer nodded, and the two walked to the morgue to see Martin's condition.

"It's true my guess, the way they died was the same, who could have done this to them?"

The hero frowned, the young officer began to hesitate with the various theories and conjectures he was tired of concocting.

"If this is done by a human, he must be a professional assassin. But what weapon was used to kill the victim until the condition of the body was so terrible?"

Linda noticed the silent Wira. As if he understood what was in the mind of the handsome policeman in front of him, Lind also tried to give his analysis.

"This case is similar to the case of Hana sir, and I think there is no way Leo Hadi Wijaya people can do this without passing the guard or cctv attached almost in every corner of the house room."

"That's what I've been thinking since Lin. I began to doubt that Leo was the mastermind of the case, after all, I had no idea what weapon to use to kill the victim."

"So what's your next plan?"

"I'll start activating the team tomorrow night, and I need you to join the team, as a shadow."

"What do you mean, sir?"

"You became my shadow, monitoring the team's movements and reporting it to me."

"Then what is his job?"

"I'll move myself to help the team with the disguise."

"We will meet again tomorrow morning to finalize the plan, I hope you can come to the location to be informed next."

"Each commander."

Linda said firmly, mimicking Siska's voice. The hero smiled his own smile at Linda's behavior. The girl often managed to invite laughter among them.

It did not feel dark, the city streets began to be decorated with colorful lights. As the night began to wiggle, a number of street children seemed to be busking in the corner of the red light.

While on a road that is not too crowded a black van parked. There was no meaningful activity, there was only a man wearing a brown hoodie sitting crouching while vertical a canned drink.

Inside the car two people were chatting while one person in the back looked busy doing something.

The man wearing the brown hoodie walked leisurely towards the red light his eyes focused on noticing some of the bushy street kids.

The man sat on a park bench on the sidewalk, focusing his eyes on two dozen-year-old buskers singing between motor vehicles.

After a long period of observing the man's buskers looking at the watch, then gesturing to someone in the van.

The car runs and the man goes inside, while continuing to follow the movements of the street buskers he is looking for.

At twenty-one p.m., the black van began to move following a busking girl who was walking on the pavement while carrying rice wrap in her right hand.

The girl looked back a few times, she started to feel uncomfortable. His mind is not calm.

"Looks like that car was following me?"

Realizing that she was being followed by the girl, he hurriedly searched for a crowded place, then looked back to make sure he was safe.

But the girl's guess was wrong, the black van was still following her, with a mixed feeling, she also decided to run among the crowd of people who passed by.

" God what is this, who are they?"

The girl accelerated, and the black van behind her followed.

"Oh my God, now that their distance is getting closer, what should I do?"

The black van stopped, two men got out of the car then casually blending in the crowd, with flat expressions as if nothing, they continued to walk after the hunt.

Seeing two people from a black van walking up to him, the busker girl shouted hysterically asking for help from passers-by.

"Please..please...!"

"Sir help me that guy wants to catch me..!"

Everyone was confused to look around them, but everything seemed normal there were no suspicious-looking people's growls, and they ignored the busking girl's screams.

"I have to find a place to hide."

With a sigh the poor busker ran into a passageway and his decision to hide in the hallway this time was wrong, a man emerged from the darkness and immediately ambushed.

"Bwgk..!"

"Akghk...!"

The blunt force landed on his nape, and the girl collapsed on the asphalt, and a man carried her into a black van parked at the end of the hallway.

The black van drove through the dark of night with three girls lying on the floor of the car unconscious. Four mysterious men with hoodie smile as if satisfied to get his quarry.

In the morning, Siska was preoccupied with a list of missing persons reports. In recent days at least seven people have been declared missing by their families.

Various issues developed, ranging from people trading syndicates, to mystical issues about mythical creatures who often kidnap children at night.

The news is confusing to residents, many members of the community who are consumed with the issue become worried when doing activities outside. They try to be home by nightfall.

In his office Wira began to riled up with the issue circulating. He plans to have a final meeting before the mission is carried out. Everyone who will be on the team is gathered to discuss strategy.

At nine in the morning everyone who joined the team had gathered in a room, Wira checked the personnel files while waiting for Linda's arrival.

" Good morning sir, sorry I'm late."

Linda knocked on the door, then immediately took a seat next to Siska. The heroes immediately stood up and began to lay out the operation plan that they would run.

"Good morning fellow, I'm sure you all already know what this meeting means, so I'll be right on the point.

"We will move to investigate from later tonight, so I want you to understand the role of each, and no one moves outside the command.

"This is where I deliberately involved Linda, with the aim of disguising the mission. Siska will be posing as a night woman, Bayu and Arjuna will each monitor the field situation while investigating the activities of Black Rose."

"Sorry commander, do we still need to keep an eye on Black Rose, because we think the case we're dealing with is murder."

"From witnesses and evidence during the investigation of the case of Black Rose employee Agus, the perpetrator was not in fact a person from Black Rose, and there is no evidence that Leo Hadi Wijaya was involved, commander."

Arjuna expressed his opinion about the investigation of the case they would do. The young stintara felt watching Black Rose was a waste of time, as there was no evidence that led to Leo Hadi Wijaya's involvement in some of the death cases they were dealing with.

The hero smiled, hearing the shallow analysis of young stars in front of him. He immediately shared a file containing the sequence of murder events and the reason why he suspected Leo Hadi Wijaya.

"There's no evidence, not necessarily nothing."

"I mean father?"

Bayu immediately cut off the words of the Hero, he was indeed a person who did not like stale, temperament and impatient. According to him, the speech of the Hero is too complicated.

"Watch the file I gave you, read both the sequence of the murder, see the victim's photo, and witness testimony and evidence."

"The first case was Hana and Renata, although the way they died was different, but they were the same as Naga Jaya employees of the group. Both of them were best friends during his life."

"On the neck of the two there is a tattoo that is almost the same, and I had a chance to see, and, there were two women who along with Leo Hadi Wijaya had the same star tattoo as Hana the girl who died in the harbor warehouse area."

"I suspect they're members of the group."

"The second look at the photos Linda took at the Black Rose club. Although a little hazy but can still be seen clearly that the woman who grabbed her hair towards the back room of the club is Renata girl who killed herself in the mall."

"I believe there's one covert activity behind the club, some kind of secret place."

"Next is Agus' victim he is a Black Rose employee who grabbed Renata and after the lifestyle news was loaded, by the Surya newspaper office, the director got a bomb terror.

"Patut allegedly because on the front cover of the newspaper there is a photo of Agus being grabbed Renata who incidentally killed himself in the mall.

"Last, Agus himself, he was killed by four unknown people. But after the perpetrators were caught, unfortunately they all also died mysteriously in a prison cell."

Although there is no evidence that leads to the mastermind of the murder, but I suspect there is a common thread that connects all these cases with Leo Hadi Wijaya."

"To prove that suspicion, I formed this special team."

All the members present in the room fell silent, they were amazed at the analysis of such a sharp Hero.

"Oh yes, before disbanding, I would like to add, about the missing person who is troubling the citizens a few days later, we will also help investigate the case!"

"What can be understood?"

"Ready to understand the commander."

"Good, then later tonight we move, at ten o'clock, remember each kalia's task!"

"Each commander."

After explaining the mission to be carried out, Wira disbanded the team, to prepare for the mission later tonight.