
Ardana looked at their findings this time. Not the horror as when I first discovered something similar. There were many questions that plagued his mind. While approaching one of the hand pieces, he took out his knife and the black-rotted limb was stabbed six times.
As soon as the blade was pulled back, the remaining slightly melted hand meat stuck to the blade began to fade. Falling onto the layer of solid concrete he stepped on.
“There are special substances that inhibit its decay. I hope to still be able to eat quietly after witnessing this,” hisses were flat.
There was no reaction from Inspiration to see Ardana's actions. The middle-aged man's face was like frozen, flat without a smile or a look of disdain. He approached Ardana while researching the designed signpost. His gaze turned to the concrete layer under their feet.
“You think there's something down here?” tanyakanya.
Ardana looked down. “Maybe, Sir. How can we be sure? Blow it?”
Ilham looked left and right and then reached into something from behind his vest. A bomb the size of a hunkwe flour pack that can be detonated via remote control.
“As long as his voice does not echo to the outside of the forest. We can blow it up,” he said.
Ardana seemed hesitant after seeing the form of objects in the hands of Ilham. It really resembles the hunkwe flour packets that his mother used to buy to make cakes that would be sold in the market. It is not difficult for Ilham to get it even though he is not actively serving in Kopassus. The relationship in PINDAD can be asked to provide it with a payment of a sum of money worth the market price.
While weighing the bomb in his hand, Ilham glanced at Ardana.
“I know you are not adept at using bombs for emergencies. So let me just blow up,” he said a little cocky.
Unasked, Ardana turned her back to take a step back. During the recruitment process until he escaped, he had not received any demolition training because the plan had only been submitted as part of the main training of the Baihaqi Armed Corps personnel next year. Within twenty meters of the concrete-covered field, Ardana witnessed Ilham who planted a bomb in the center. It looks easy but it is actually difficult. What Ilham did was synchronize the inter-cable relationships, so that when the trigger button is pressed it can create a reaction that triggers an explosion.
A few seconds later, Ilham walked towards him with something else in his right hand. The shape is similar to the Nokia 3310 mobile phone which is often used as a popular joke that is para-god communication tools. When noticed again from close, it turns out that it is indeed a phone with this type. Ardana scratched her head with an expression of astonishment. At first glance he sees Inspiration like an *******. Similar to some of the action movies he had seen, his antagonistic cast used mobile phones as an explosive control device from a certain distance.
“We are hiding here,” said Ilham as he walked towards the large tree that was right next to Ardana.
Ardana followed Ilham as he looked towards the field. Ilham did not immediately blow it, he actually played his fingers on the Nokia phone in his hand. A pair of wooden earplugs were placed on her ear.
“I forgot to bring the original control tool. Fortunately I still remember how to set up synchronization with other media,” he said casually.
There was no reply from Ardana. This young man just put his hands together in the ears, just in case the sound of the tearing can be very large which is feared will have an effect on the reduced sense of hearing.
“Ready? I'll press the button.” Inspiration gave a cue by raising his clenched left hand.
Pip's!
BLEGGARR...!!
Without a countdown, Ilham immediately pressed the trigger button explosion on the phone in his grasp. The sound of the explosion was quite large. The vibration can be felt Ardana up to the chest. In an instant the bomb the size of the hunkwe flour pack had crushed a layer of solid concrete on the field that they had just stepped on. A thick puff of smoke instantly spread to where the two were hiding.
Ardana hurriedly wore tactical goggles and air filter buffs to avoid exposure to explosive fumes that smelled very pungent. I don't know what chemicals are added. For sure this young man had felt nauseous but only for a moment. When he glanced at Ilham, the old man just stood straight with a straight forward look. It was as if the effects of the explosion had no effect on him.
They waited until the smoke was completely gone. After two minutes passed, in front of them now appeared a gaping well hole with a diameter of less than six meters in the form of a trapezoid. His position was right under the signpost that had been thrown out of nowhere.
Ardana aimed his weapon into the dark-looking hole. From the mouth of the hole to the inside there is also coated with a concrete wall that looks dull. He could clearly see a row of iron rungs mounted in a spiral downward direction.
“The layer of concrete as large as a futsal field only to cover a well hole that is not much width,” murmured while stepping slowly into the mouth of the hallway.
“Pak, come! There's a ladder heading down.”
Inspiration approached Ardana who directed his hand into the pit of the well.
“I'm not sure those creatures are passing through here, it's obviously covered with a layer of concrete that we blew up earlier,”.
Ardana nodded, “But, it looks like this is heading to a place inside the ground.”
Inspiration does not respond. He thought back to the secret note he had read two months ago. A sixty-page document containing the records of a former guard of the Sirnasurya Forest whose identity was withheld. He got it from one of his friends who became one of the top officials of the State Intelligence Agency. The ranger served from 2009 to 2013. That person, in the attached note swore there was a place hidden behind the rumors of the awesomeness of the artificial forest. At the end of the record it was also confirmed that he had accidentally found a steel door in the land of the Sirnasurya Forest that could not be opened.
In another appendix in the same document there are several photos taken directly by the ranger. There were many pieces of limbs that were no longer intact in the various fragments around the steel door. The former ranger, though not mentioned directly, suspects that the people who disappeared in the Sirnasurya Forest were killed by something.
His jaw hardened every time he remembered the document. His mind was then fixed on Paramitha and her blackish-red eyes. When she first adopted her, the girl was often delirious about a creepy place in a forest in her sleep. Not infrequently crying. When asked, little Paramitha said she saw people screaming in a dimly lit place. There were people doing something to him. If so, Ilham often saw him holding his eyes while complaining of pain.
Years passed in Ilham's upbringing, Paramitha was mediocre. There was no previous delirium and crying that happened almost every night. Inspiration managed to educate her to be a strong and strong girl. Facilitate him to practice martial arts and learn a lot of social sciences and general knowledge. He even let the girl to stay in a boarding house after graduating from High School and work at a famous restaurant owned by one of his other friends in the Cicaheum Terminal area.
“Will this be a bright spot for what used to happen to you, Paramitha?” his hissing without Ardana heard.
Ardana turned his head, “May I go down there first, sir? If it is safe, you can follow.”
The dark area below began to be clearly visible with the flashlight of the helmet and the barrel end of the Ardana weapon. It was not until two minutes, he was already at the bottom of a well that was almost full of the remaining concrete that was destroyed by the explosion. Right behind him, there was a passageway whose walls were also covered in solid concrete.
The tluk!
Unintentionally, this young man's elbow nudged something near the stairs. When he turned around, an object that was heavy enough to float right towards him to almost make his body topple over.
“Aaaaaaaa...!”
A human body that is not intact knows it already holds it. The panicked Ardana immediately collapsed. Just a inch from his sight, the half-rotting face of the figure of the man in the army uniform greeted him with a gaping mouth wide. His lower limbs were crushed like they were torn apart. The flesh of his cheeks and face had hardened yet moistened. The corpse seemed to be unable to escape from the young man's body in a position as if he was hugging.
Getting a jumpscare that is too close in an unknown place is something that is not liked by Ardana. With a lightning movement he managed to escape and the bend of the body was kicked until it bounced towards the hallway.
“Ardana...! Hey, what's up?!” Inspiration shouted from above while looking tensely towards the bottom.
Ardana looked up while shaking the flashlight. “I'm fine, Sir! Just got a surprise!”
“Then I get off!” sahut Ilham's.
While waiting for the man to come down, Ardana sat leaning against the concrete wall. His gaze was fixed straight into the hallway before him. For some reason when trying to pay attention to the front there, there is a sensation of horror that cannot be explained. Just like when he came down to the bottom of the well, darkness also enveloped the hallway that he did not know where it would end.
Before his feet really touched the bottom of the hole, Ilham had a look down. Looking at Ardana's surprised expression that still seemed obvious.
“Why, Dan?”
Ardana did not answer. Just pointing towards the hallway where the body of the soldier was lying.
Inspiration shook his head while grinning. His right hand was extended to Ardana to help him stand up. “Corpse, yes? I guess you were attacked something to the point of yelling so.”
“I don't like being hit by a jumpscare like that,” grumbled Ardana.
“How do you take care of Paramitha if she just yells? You're just being around,” Ilham chirped.
Ardana ruffled waist. “If the body looks alive at a glance like earlier, yes everyone is also shocked, Sir!”
Inspiration flicked his hand while throwing his face away. Seeing Ardana's annoyed expression made her want to laugh. Though he just cut it off.
“Already, let's go ahead there!” point it towards the hallway.
LED flashlight light from kevlar helmets each accompanied their journey. While observing the walls of the hallway that was high and reached six meters wide, he hummed the song Saredona performed by the Band Grave. Not without reason he did . In addition to the cheerful tone, the lyrics of the song that describes everyday life about urban transportation are indeed liked by many people. Plus the creepy atmosphere in the hallway they crossed made him not want to say anything. Had crossed the intention to run away as fast as possible and return to the top. With a note, that the middle-aged man next to him also did the same thing first.
Unfortunately that is not possible because Ilham will not do it. From what he had seen himself on the first night of the investigation, this Kopassus ex-officer gave a fierce resistance to the attack of charred black creatures in the forest. Ardana felt bad himself when moving here and there and ran away even though he had opened fire.
The dark passageway turned out to be very long and winding to traverse. Ardana had felt the tension when he realized their distance to the place down had been very far. After a few minutes of walking, they arrived at a narrower passageway. Can only be passed by one person in turn.
“Dan, you lead in front!” ilham Command.
Ardana veered still could not argue. Although on one side she was a little scared, on the other there was a strong urge in her heart to follow the great curiosity. It faintly smelled a not so pleasant smell. Mixed between fishy, rotten and I don't know what else. To be sure, his instincts had already signaled that something would be encountered.
“Pak, smell the same?” tanyanya whispers.
“Iya, I kissed her. This smell is either rotten or something. But there seems to be a certain ex-activity,” Ilham replied.
Inspiration's answer even made Ardana more upset. The incident of the corpse that was clutching his body earlier was already very terrible. Putting his index finger on the trigger of his weapon, his eyes looked straight without blinking at all.
The narrow gap turned out to be a way through to another passageway that was the same width as when they had just entered. That very unpleasant smell was coming from around here. Ardana shone the light carefully throughout the hall.
The deg!
His heart beat faster after seeing all those who were exposed to the light beam. Two seconds later both of his hands suddenly went limp as trembling began to appear.
“It....this?!”
Now they know where the source of the smell was.
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