Fragrant For Galih

Ep. 102 Dangers of Lurking

"Joshua Franklin's? He's a member of the US military special forces." Galih.

"You know him?" Ask the Commander who Romero wants to ask.

"Some members of the U. S. military used to come to my Battalion in Yogya for friendly exercises and he was one of them. And that was a long time ago, almost ten years ago, when I finished my leave after returning from Papua. After he returned to his country we were still communicating and he said if he entered the special team in his army. Then gradually we broke contact and I didn't know anything at all." Bright Galih.

"I also got to know him at a glance, he served here, peacekeepers from the US just like us." Romero.

"He was once a UN peacekeeping force like us? How come I've never met him?" Tanya Galih could hardly believe it.

"When did you last see her?" Ask Commander.

"It was a long time ago Commander, about two years ago when I was first in charge of guarding the border here. We met only twice, and that was coincidentally when the troops on their side were also on patrol. After I never met Joshua again." Romero answered.

"And maybe because your siff's schedule isn't the same as her, so you didn't meet her huh." Romero.

"So so... It's an unexpected coincidence." Murmuring Commander.

"What did he do to become a military fugitive?" Ask Galih curious.

"He disappeared two years ago while on duty here. At first, his team thought he was kidnapped or killed somewhere by the enemy while on duty until the US military declared him dead but no body was found. Until a report from U. S. intelligence reports that there is a drug mafia entering Lebanon, and the leader is Joshua Franklin. The name of the group he led was Scorpion." Said the Commander who so surprised Galih and Romero.

"It's really surprising. I never thought Josh would do something like this. As far as I know Josh has a good personality, he was even very proud and happy when he said he made it into the special forces because it was his dream. What made her turn around and betray her unity like this?" Galih really did not stop thinking, people who had once been his friends are now fugitives in his country.

"Nobody knows what's on the mind of the human brain. Human desires and goals can at any time change in one snap of a finger." Said The Commander.

"And it's likely that the gangsters operating in the suburbs of Lebanon are the same person that the US military is looking for, Joshua Franklin." Continue Commander.

"Most likely it's true because most of this info leads to him, it's just that no one knows how the gangster boss's face looks." Romero.

"There's a chance that one person might know. That patient. He worked at the casino bar and his younger sister is currently a hostage there. Oh yes, the casino bar is called Lamona." Galih said after recalling that there were eyewitnesses in the case they had just received.

"Then we better ask the patient immediately." Said the Commander.

"But the patient was still unconscious in the ER, and before we came here the doctor there said if there was an emergency happening to the patient." Galih.

"Hopefully it's not a serious matter. Because we're almost at a bright spot." Said Commander.

"Serka Galih and Serka Romero, I have been assigned to monitor the health of the patient who is our key witness in this case. Find as much information as the witness knows." Tell The Commander.

"Ready, Commander!" Call Galih and Romero together firmly.

"Please get back to the place!" The commander told them both to get out of the Commander's room.

"Ready, go!" Answer them both.

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Meanwhile, in the operating room, the four doctors, namely Zahara, Elias, Wangi and Lukman, plus Dr. Muara as an anastesia doctor, are performing surgery on a patient named Ali. The key witness to the Scorpion gangster's crimes.

They have succeeded in dissecting the stomach of patients Ali and Elias is currently trying to remove the object in the stomach of Ali. But when he had managed to take one of the objects in Ali's stomach, Elias frowned because the object was not as hard as he thought, such as pebbles or stones?

"What's this?" Elias asked confusedly.

"We can't be sure yet because it mixes with dirt as well. We'd better take the rest first and finish this operation right away." Zahara reminded the twin and the others agreed.

"You must have guessed for yourself what goods or objects are in front of us." Said Elias with eyes still staring at the object on the table.

"Narcotics." Sahut Zahara's.

"Crazy! That guy is crazy! How could he think of swallowing five packs of drugs in plastic to nest in his stomach?!" Lukman is not inexhaustible with the mind of his patient.

"I think he has his own reasons for doing this." Perfumed Speech.

"Of course he should have a reason to do something crazy like this. He's a drug-user, maybe he doesn't want anyone else around him if he's an addict so he swallowed it to hide the damn thing." Guess Lukman with his own speculations.

"He is still not an addict, the level of narcotics in his blood is still very low if you say as an addict. You're the one who checked it out yourself, have you forgotten Luk?" Syndicate Elias.

"But still he's insane! Can he easily get this thing out of his stomach? He thought that just spitting it out or taking it out through BAB was easy?" Lukman is still talking.

"If you want to know the reason for that, it's better to wait for him to come to his senses and ask him directly! Right now we have to report it to the Commander of the Army on this case. Because this isn't a case of playfulness." Scented with serious facial mimicry.

"I agree." Sahut Zahara's.

After that the four of them came out of the operating room with a small tray containing five packs of drugs that they had found in the stomach of Ali.

What a good time, when they came out the door of the operating room there were already Romero and Galih, so they did not bother to report it directly to the Commander. There was also Doctor Gibran and Doctor Rio who were already curious about the results of the surgery.

"How did it go?" Ask Dr. Gibran.

"We've managed to remove everything inside Ali's patient." Answer Zahara.

"And it's only right that you two are here so we don't need to come to your base to meet the Commander anymore." Said Elias later.

"We also need to have patient information, so we came here. But is there anything important you need to say to meet our Commander?" Ask Galih.

"It." Perfumed to show the thing on the tray he was carrying.

"What's that?" Ask Galih who doesn't know what it is.

"This is a foreign object that we removed from the stomach of patient Ali. This is a type of narcotics" replied Fragrant.

"What?! Narcotics?!" Romero was surprised.

"Yes, and I think we need security." Fragrant Speech.

"Do you need security?" Ask Romero.

"Not for us, but for that patient named Ali. Because of my feeling he's been involved in a big, dangerous thing." Sahut Zahara's.

"True, dangerous." Gumam Galih.

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