Biohazard's Catastrophe: Death's Hallway

Bones Poking From the Ground

Ardana. The pillow made his body hit the tree quite hard. This young man was sprawled for a while on the ground while watching the monsters attacking him roar in pain. The four tentacles shed fresh blood in black. Not only piercing, Ardana also had to tear one of them until deep enough.

It was like attacking back and then paralyzing the creature. However, the pain in the ribs makes its movement blocked and does not allow for close attack. He had to pull back. At the same time, the red-titled strange creature glanced at him. His head suddenly stiffened and finally broke, changing with a new head with a very bad look. Half a skull with pulsating red flesh and three creepy glaring eyes. The tentacles that were originally in the hands moved to the part of his mouth that grinned.

It was like a nightmare but it was real. The savage mutant beast lunged towards him. There is no time to escape. Ardana immediately pulled the Glock 41 pistol on loan from Ilham from his scabbard.

Dor's! Dor's! Dor's!

The three sounds of a firearm eruption broke the silence of the night. Ardana turned fiercely without moving a bit with both hands holding the gun pointed forward. One more inch, those disgusting red tentacles could wrap around his neck and face. The mouth of the savage monster before him had even opened nearly half a meter wide like it was about to immerse half of its body into a mouth cavity filled with hundreds of pointed teeth.

Brugh!

While watching his opponent collapse, Ardana sighed in relief. Both hands were shaking. He was truly grateful to still escape death that was in sight. A little late, he will stay in name and his body is sent back to Bogor or Jakarta with the status of a victim of a severe accident. Ardana understood, because the task assigned to him was deliberately kept secret so that the public did not become in an uproar.

“I... I. can still survive. Yes, still can,” he said repeatedly while standing again.

The atmosphere became quiet again. Such circumstances do not necessarily make Ardana feel completely safe. His premonition said the sound of the gun eruption was likely to provoke the arrival of other creatures that he did not know what they looked like. The appearance of the charred black creature last night and the undead half-monster tonight made him sure there were still more like the two monsters.

Before leaving the scene, he groped his neck. There were no blisters from the snare. The maroon scarf she wore also did not experience tearing or dirty. The dropped LED flashlight not far from him was taken back. Only his left hand could not be raised high due to the pain in the ribs.

“Hopefully Mr. Ilham is fine. But where should I look? This forest is very dark and either I myself am in the mana part,” murmured while looking around.

Carefully, Ardana retraced the forest area. The wet ground he stepped on for a long time felt deeper. It was like exploring the swamp. Up to a few hundred meters later, in some corner below the surrounding trees there are various remnants of people who disappeared. Ranging from whole backpacks, used cans from packaged foods, hats to the rest of the fabric. Ardana stopped to look at more details. He had goosebumps because all of them were silent witnesses of their disappearance. Swallowed by the mysterious Sirnasurya Forest which incidentally made by humans themselves.

Ardana chose not to pick up the belongings of missing people there until finally he returned to find something that he thought was unusual. A human foot shin that poked out from behind the wet ground, not far from where it stood. Of the many leftovers there, that's all that looks suspicious. A strappy boot was still attached to it.

The young man's brain did not come to the conclusion that what he saw was the prank of the previous rangers, to frighten anyone who dared to enter the Sirnasurya Forest. Curious, with his right hand Ardana tried to pluck. But something from the ground was like holding the shin.

“What's this related to?” tanyanya astonishment.

Ardana exerted all his power concentrated in the right hand. With a single blow finally the leg bones managed to be uprooted. But what is lifted is not just that. It turns out that there is still part of the thigh until the waist is intact and still fleshy, although the color has blackened and somewhat melted.

An incredible stench absorbed Ardana's sense of smell inevitably, causing him to throw the leg shins as far as possible and recede backwards. His stomach was like it was being shaken strongly and wanted to come out. A second later he vomited with his body bent until it almost collapsed.

“Hueeeekkh! Hueeeek! Really rotten no help!” This young man spewed out everything he had eaten a few hours ago.

Just now he wanted to stand up, from the back appeared as bright as a human-shaped movement. The figure immediately drew Ardana to one of the large trees that was about six meters away on the left. The surprised Ardana did not have time to put up a fight. And when he was about to do so, the figure placed an index finger in his mouth.

Both of Ilham's eyes glared right in front of him. And whether it was just a joke or it was serious, a survival knife was also brought close to his face.

“Pak Ilham? Thank goodness, Father from anywhere?” Ardana could not help but feel happy to see the middle-aged man in a fine state.

“I should ask you where? Tofu-know no longer behind.” lham squinted with stifled intonation.

Ardana. Then he told me how he could be far away from Inspiration. Hearing the story of the young man, Ilham could only wipe his face by holding a hunk. Had thought Ardana was lost due to being attacked by a mysterious creature like last night, this man acted quickly to look for her. The dark forest conditions forced him to be more cautious. Almost an hour later, he saw the young man vomiting in a place he should not have.

One thing that makes Ilham was not out of thought is that Ardana was separated from him just because he imagined the moment with Paramitha on the veranda of Nina's house this morning. If only the young man had been his soldier directly in Kopassus, he would have been fighting it all out.

Inspiration fell silent while shaking. His face looked like an anxious person.

“For a while get here first. At least we already understand the condition of the terrain, because if forced to continue very dangerous.”

Ardana immediately frowned at Ilham's reply.

“Why is that so, Sir?” ask again.

“There are more. They are more than I thought,” replied Inspiration briefly.

Without clarifying his words again, Ilham invited Ardana to peek at the young man who was spewing out his own stomach. He pointed there so that Ardana could see him directly.

“Borrow your flashlight and look carefully,” pinta Ilham.

The two eyes of Ardana that were originally adrift on Ardana's index finger turned in the direction pointed. He was surprised instead of playing to find there were other strange creatures there. From within the wet ground in front of them appeared a pacet-like monster with a body the size of an MPV car. He crept slowly towards the shin of the leg that Ardana had thrown. It's not like pacet in general. His entire body was made up of burning blackish-red flesh. His round mouth opened wide. The rest of the thigh and waist flesh on the bone was inserted into his body.

The large-bodied mutant pacet was like it was gargling. Only six seconds later the food was regurgitated, with only the rest of the bone covered in rotten red slime with no more flesh. The disgusting sight almost made Ardana vomit for the second time. Surprisingly, the flashlight that was directly shined by Ilham towards him was like nothing was seen at all.

“Pacet mutant it.. can not see anything but seems able to detect prey through the vibrations caused. Your fate will end like the rest of the leg if I do not immediately pull you from there,” said Ilham while pulling back.

While reading the situation, Ilham tried to think of a way to get out of the central area of the Sirnasurya Forest. He had understood that the strange creatures he had encountered since yesterday only came out at night and dark. All you need to know is the origin of their appearance. The area of the east to south tip that is suspected there is some kind of secret path to something that still stirs his mind.

Next to her, Ardana clasped Sako Rk.95 tightly while glancing left and right. Occasionally he grimaced with the pain in his left rib. Like Ilham, he was silent and did not make a sound that could provoke the giant pacet had come to them.

“Why you?” tanya Ilham saw the expression of enduring the pain of the young man.

“It looks like my ribs got hit, sir. I had a chance to fight against one strange creature that hijacked the corpse of an adventurer. I almost became his food. Fortunately I managed to kill him even though he had to slam into a tree. It happened after I was separated from the Father earlier,” replied Ardana at length.

“Severe, no?”

“It seems not, Sir.”

“Need to get out of here?”

“Thank you, Sir. But, I can still walk on my own.”

Ilham re-examined the remaining ammunition he had. Since his arrival, he has not used the FN SCAR type L assault rifle at all. It would be a pity if it was used only to finish off soft creatures like mutant pacets that were not far from where they were hiding.

“We exit slowly in that direction.” He pointed towards the front. “Then turn to the left, return to the eastern area of this forest,” he continued.

Ardana understands. But with his condition now it was likely that he would have trouble moving too fast. Strong pain forced him to sparingly talk let alone provoked emotions. He will probably need a traditional masseuse or go to the village puskesmas after getting out of what he calls the cursed forest.

“Your condition will not hinder. Believe me,” said Ilham assured him.

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