Detective Horror
Chapter 15 - Entering the Forbidden Forest
A abstinence will only prevent a timid person from breaking it, but will not be able to stop a curious person from trying to break the abstinence.
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Right at midnight, the door of the villa occupied by Pramuja and Zulfikar was knocked hard.
Zulfikar opened the door immediately. The steward stood right behind him.
When the door opened, it looked Puspa with his cold face, and sustainable who stood with an anxious face. It seemed like something had happened in the villa where they were staying.
"What's going on?" ask Zulfikar.
"Roses disappear! I think those guys kidnapped her while we were all fast asleep." Lestari looks panicked.
"Let's go there!" The steward immediately ran towards the villa of the scene.
Zulfikar, Puspa and Lestari followed him from behind.
"We woke up when we heard the sound of glass breaking. When checking, the door was already wide open and the Rose disappeared," Lestari said as she pointed at the door of the villa made of wood-framed glass.
"Maybe the kidnapper broke the glass and took the key that was still hanging to open the door" Puspa said, pointing at the key hanging from the keyhole outside the door.
The steward just smiled. It seems he has found a big clue.
"Where should we look for roses?" lestari.
"There is only one place, that is the forbidden forest," said Pramuja sure.
"Then, we'll just get in my car!" Puspa immediately went in to get his car keys.
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Puspa's jeep car goes down the hill to the forbidden forest. The atmosphere of the night is not too dark because the full moon is shining brightly.
The four men got out of the car. Puspa handed a flashlight to Zulfikar and he also held a flashlight. In front of them was already spread a dense forest that looked very creepy.
"The forest is very broad. Where should we find the rose?" Puspa looked confused.
"That's right, Pram! It's wrong that we can get lost if we go recklessly into that forest." Zulfikar.
The steward was silent. He was thinking hard. What Zulfikar said has a point. He couldn't risk that much if he forced his way in there.
While being engulfed in confusion, suddenly from within the forest, appeared the figure of a female ghost that he saw in the villa at that time.
"Hey, do you know the place?" ask the servant towards the ghost.
"Who are you talking to, Mom?" tanya Puspa.
The female ghost figure was silent. He seemed to want to tell something but was constrained by a different realm. The steward seemed to understand the ghost of the woman.
"Show me where it is!"
It seems the ghost understood the words of the Priest. He turned his body and floated slowly into the forest.
"Let's follow me!" exclaimed the Priest while following the ghostly figure.
"Are you sure, Mom?" tanya Lestari was walking beside the Priest.
"I'm pretty sure!" sahut Pramuja's.
"Who was your friend talking to?" lestari whispers walking beside Zulfikar.
"If I told you, you wouldn't believe me. He can communicate with supernatural beings." Zulfikar whispered back.
Puspa is only a sign of understanding. Although he could not see the ghost figure, he believed in the supernatural abilities possessed by the steward.
The longer, the further they entered the forbidden forest area. The figure of the female ghost continued to float into the middle of the forest.
Suddenly the figure stopped in the middle of the forest. The steward saw a light ahead of him. The ghost pointed towards that light, then disappeared just like that.
"Thank you!" said Pramuja.
"Hey, look! there is light ahead!" exclaimed Puspa while pointing towards the light that was in front of him.
"Huss ... keep your voice down!" zulfikar's orders. Puspa just nodded obediently
"Is the ghost gone, Pram?" zulfikar asked half in a whisper.
"Ha ... ghost?" Lestari looked shocked and frightened. He held the arm of the steward and tightened the body to him.
"Just calm down, the ghost is not evil! He just left anyway." The steward tries to calm Lestari down, but she remains reluctant to stay away from the steward.
The steward invited everyone forward to approach the light source slowly. The forest also had very thick bushes. They had to walk half on tiptoes so as not to make too much noise.
The closer the light source got, they heard a boisterous sound. There was a huge bonfire in the middle of the forest. The black-robed people surrounded the bonfire. Their mouths are like muttering in a spell.
The steward invited the others to peek out from behind the bushes. The steward saw someone he knew was tied to a wooden pole in front of the bonfire.
The steward looked at Zulfikar, as if he recognized the figure of the girl tied to the wooden pole.
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