Biohazard's Catastrophe: Death's Hallway
They Should Know
Paramitha looked back at Marni seriously and calmly. When she was about to move her lips to answer, Ardana held her hand as a sign to take over. This young man nodded at her to convince her.
“Mother's right,” said Ardana while turning her face to Marni, “my arrival and maternal nephew here there is indeed a purpose.”
This time Marni takes a stand to remain silent and let Ardana tell her herself very clearly. The middle-aged woman and Paramitha's aunt leaned back without taking her eyes off Ardana and Paramitha. A little confidence in the young man who became his nephew's lover began to appear.
“Actually, if the residents of Cikembang Village know Paramitha is back then his safety will be threatened. I was more than just a lover of my mother's niece, but also her personal guardian. Therefore, in order not to arouse the suspicion of the citizens, I encouraged Paramitha to go to this house even if it was only a few hours. This is also to find answers that if it can be used to clear the good name of the father and mother of Paramitha, namely Mr. Lingga and Mrs Erni. Beyond that, of course Paramitha was very happy to see her aunt was fine even though she had to be separated for so long.
The missing persons case that occurred in the Sirnasurya Forest during this time, according to many people associated with the death of the father and mother Paramitha. Like a trigger, the incident eventually led the Catranata family to another event that was no less tragic. Whether who first breathed it, they were rumored to subvert Linggasatria himself and his wife for black magic. That night most of the family members were killed and the survivors fled to hide until this very second. Unfortunately, the mystery does not end there. Since then, many people have been lost when they entered the Sirnasurya Forest. The number even reached five hundred more.”
Ardana stopped talking to take a deep breath. As he had experienced with Inspiration, everything they found in the forest was terrifying. Although there was no agreement, the two chose to keep it a secret until an uncertain period of time.
But here he had distanced himself even further before Marni and Paramitha. Moreover, there have been casualties. He began to doubt whether to reveal everything or just limit his story to just that. Like a confused person, his two eyes glanced slightly to the left and right with slightly lowered faces. Telling or hiding the next one is now transformed as simalakama.
“Ardana, if you really want to help better tell or not at all!” The voice of his heart appeared, as if he was angry because of the stability he was doing.
Paramitha suddenly stood up and held the young man's shoulder. His gentle rubbing seemed to be a fast-flowing force on Ardana who rounded up her courage to speak again.
“Because I have already spoken, then I will explain until the end. My arrival to Cikembang Village was actually to investigate the missing persons case in the forest. While many people believe that Sirnasurya transformed into a haunted forest and asked for a fall, what I saw was something that should be worried about the surrounding villages. Cases of corpses found hanging with their own skin on the tree is actually only one proof,” continued Ardana with a little restrained.
In great detail, Ardana explains how she and Ilham who started the investigation instead met the charred black creature that attacked them. Then found pieces of foot that almost melted and rotten in the middle of the forest, until there is a secret place in the underground Sirnasurya Forest with many bodies of soldiers in terrible conditions. He didn't miss it at all.
In fact, all the things revealed by him were also for Paramitha to know. After several days of trying to find the common thread between his findings and the tragedy that befell the Catranata family, this young man found some kind of extra klu. I don't want that one to be told, too.
“Tanpa intended to make Paramitha and Mother sad, I have a temporary conclusion that what happened to her father and mother..” Again Ardana was restrained to continue the cover for his explanation.
“What? What happened to my sister and sister-in-law?” push Marni suddenly.
Paramitha who was silent at first listened urged. “Dan, why? You... what do you know about what happened to my father and mother?”
The gaze of the Catranata girl made Ardana not have the heart to convey it directly. The courage that had been gathered even crystallized was suddenly erased from his heart and mind. With a slight limp, he lowered his face back towards the table.
“You said you had a conclusion about the death of Erni and her husband. Then, why don't you just say it now?” The impatient Marni kept pressing on with a hint of emotion.
“Aibi, relax first,” Paramitha said. The expression on her face clearly showed her dislike when Ardana was urged by her aunt. “Let Ardana explain to us.”
Ardana took out her part tea cup with slightly trembling hands. It was sucked very carefully but it almost made the contents spill over his own clothes. It was truly a thrilling moment for him, even for the first time in his life. Because soon he will have to convey something sensitive about the death of people in front of his heirs.
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The day before heading to Karanghawur Village
Ardana settles in the dim light of the dense trees of the Sirnasurya Forest. Although the drones that Ilham used to monitor from the air only occasionally passed but the area of the hollow field they exploded was closely guarded by four surveillance cameras at each corner. Still no problem. Thanks to his crafty skills of sabotage, it can be overcome easily. After all, he can do a re-repair.
After descending into the hole that became direct access to the secret passageway, this young man had to let himself pass through the frozen corpses of the soldiers who seemed to be watching him. The atmosphere was indeed different because he entered alone. Every time he passed a body, he felt he was being watched. He repeatedly turned his back to make sure he was just hallucinating. The steel door in front of him still remained in a state like the last they left behind.
Carefully he passed through the bodies of soldiers holding the door with their hands outstretched. The flashlight that was shone directly inside made him shudder in horror again. It turned out that there were many other corpses whose condition was no less frightening to look at. Many of them ended up in the condition of a body full of burns and torn apart. In plain sight it looks like a great explosive effect. However he did not find any traces of fire on the walls of the passageway at all. Not a few are already unrecognizable from each other's faces.
“Truly... me—horrible. What could leave a death effect like this?” his hisses quiver.
Clutching her index finger near the trigger Sako Rk.95 she held, Ardana walked slowly down the hallway which ended up being a crossroad. Two lanes lead left and right and one lane remains straight forward. For a moment this young man hesitated before finally deciding to follow the path of the right.
After a few minutes passed, he found several rooms on the left and right sides of the hallway in an open state. When entered one by one it turns out they all contain files left behind. The number is also very large because each room has five large shelves filled with dull and damp papers.
“This much file they left behind. If at the headquarters only to be burned,” comments.
The atmosphere that was too quiet over time made him not feel at home. He felt that someone was watching him from the invisible part. His investigation ended in one of the rooms at the very end of the dead end. This room has a larger size than the futsal playground that he can see in Jakarta. There were several tables and chairs scattered along with fallen archive shelves overlapping. It's scattered everywhere. The fishy smell of preserved blood immediately greeted him.
Near the entrance was the body of a soldier who died standing with something stuck in his forehead and chest. When looked at very closely it turned out that it was a piece of solid red tentacles that had hardened and looked frozen. Not only one, up to the middle of the room there are also the bodies of other soldiers sitting with something tucked in his hand. The neck part is like breaking off and hanging with the rest of the aging skin
I don't know why Ardana was interested in that one body. With great effort he set foot through the papers scattered on the floor and piled undisturbed. After arriving, he observed the details of a piece of paper that looked reddish because it had been exposed to blood.
Ardana took it slowly to read the contents of the writing in it. It was a memo. His forehead shriveled a little loosely as he tried to read word by word which started to fade away due to the bloodstains.
*Greetings of Resurrection
To Major Togar, you are given full power to remove the married couple from the Catranata family. I don't want to know how. For sure there must be news of their deaths in the Sirnasurya Forest because it was grounded for the purpose of black magic*.
Ardana. Carefully a piece of paper containing the memo was stored in his pants pocket despite the fishy and foul smell that became one enough to interfere with his smell.
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