Ghost Story (The Story of the Angler)
The Story of the Angler (Bag.2)
But it was precisely at that moment Ipung felt the entanglement on his left leg began to loosen, and finally detached by itself. So with the rest of his energy, Ipung swam to the surface of the water as fast as he could.
Finally his head appeared on the surface of the water. Ipung inhaled a lot of air, his lungs felt like they wanted to break, his chest felt hot. Still in a state of gasping, Ipung saw Vishnu had been nearby, apparently Vishnu swimming after him.
"What's wrong? Why did you dive so long?" ask Vishnu.
As if he had just regained consciousness, Ipung immediately swam towards the edge while shouting. "Fast out of the water!"
"Emang why?" sahut Vishnu wonder.
Without answering that question, Ipung continued swimming as fast as he could. Arriving at the edge, Ipung immediately collapsed on the ground. His breath gasped, his face pale like a corpse, his body shivering like a fever. He thanked God many times. Vishnu followed and sat down next to him.
"Lu why? I think I'm really scared..?" ask Vishnu.
"Nearly dead I.." Then Ipung began to tell him everything that happened to him.
Vishnu looked towards Ipung with a shudder. "No, can there be such an incident, right? Do you know what you were interested in?"
"Where do I know. I can't even see it.." replied Ipung.
"After I'm here there is no big snake that can nari kayak people that." said Vishnu.
"Whatever the creature is, the important thing is I can survive." replied Ipung. "And I don't want to go back there!"
"It would be crazy to go back again." said Vishnu. "That's really weird.."
For a moment they were both silent, then they were still talking about the incident earlier, out all allegations about what exactly the creature was, starting a big snake, crocodile, big fish, and so on, even up to onggo-high as well. Taoi day-night gini where there is onggo-high.
Two hours passed, but Ipung still felt the horror, never imagined he had to wrestle between life and death with a creature that he could not see at all. Then they just realized that the cloud in the sky is getting blackened. So they decided to pull the net from the edge.
The webs felt heavy, so they had to pull them together. Ipung is only afraid that the creature that pulled him was caught in the net. But then it began to appear that one, two, three, five, ten and more fish were hanging from the net.
It turned out that the effort to catch fish this time was successful, they were in the right place. Now they're pulling the net faster, and more fish are visible. Vishnu shouted while laughing with excitement, while Ipung had forgotten the horror earlier.
They became busy picking up fish entangled in nets, all big, the smallest fish as big as a palm, because the net was indeed a hole in the net was big, big, so the little fish will escape and not get entangled.
"Emang yes, if it's windfall, it's not going anywhere either." Ipung said.
"What did I say? This place has a lot of fish." replied Vishnu.
"But have to use kayak gini nets, bothered too. many fish but do not want to be fished!" exclamation Ipung.
"It's important to have a lot of fish.."
The busyness continues by putting the fish into a fish container called karamba while counting. In total there are 42 tilapia fish that they managed to catch, a great result for amateur trappers like them. It took three large fish containers for all the fish to fit.
"Well, a lot of the results are.."
Suddenly there was someone standing next to them. This person was around 60 years old, wearing a caping and carrying a grass scythe. It seems like he is a resident of the area here.
"Eh yes sir. again this lucky." replied Vishnu.
"Thank God that's it." said the man. "You net here, be careful just as much as you are. Don't make him angry.."
"Who is that, sir..?" ask Vishnu astonishment.
"Embah the waiter and the keeper of this reservoir.."
Ipung so remembered the creature that wrapped around his legs earlier. "Have you seen him?"
"Ever once.."
"What does it look like, sir..?" ask Ipung again.
"He usually appears in the form of a very large fish.and what I saw first was also the form of a jambal fish as big as a boat, has two long and large whiskers. That's all I saw was one.."
"One only? How many, sir..?" ask Vishnu.
"According to the smart man here, the reservoir's waiter is a pair, and the shape is a five-meter long fish jambal.."
"Then what are the restrictions here, sir..?" ask Ipung.
"Origin does not do anything that violates the norm, then the flower will not be angry anyway." said the father, then he said goodbye. "I'll go home first, ma'am.."
"Eh yes sir." replied Vishnu.
"That jambal kalo really exists, meaning it really is that monster fish." Ipung said. "You can catch it, it'll be enough to eat the whole village.."
"Halah. where there are fish jambal sebede it. people here like nggedebus and ndobos, just like to say.." replied Vishnu. "The part of the jambal fish does not have a mustache aka aka alekan.."
"But according to the father, the fish is the guardian of this reservoir.means a kind of delicate creature." said Ipung.
"Moreover that. don't believe I'm the same waiter-waiter.."
"Maybe my narik was also a subtle creature of the inhabitants here." said Ipung.
"It's about that I don't come.."
Suddenly the rain fell very heavily as poured from the sky, indeed from earlier thick black cloudy. They rushed to put on raincoats and folded the long net and put it in a bag. At that time they decided to go straight home, because the tilapia catch was very much.
To be able to get to the parking lot of the motor, then they have to cross the river again.m as before leaving. But when it arrived at the river, it turned out that the flash flood had come, the river water that had flowed quietly as deep as the knee, now became very swift. Even the four-meter high cliff was full of water until it overflowed!
"Where is this..?" ask Ipung.
"Forced us to cross." replied Vishnu.
"Where can? The water is very heavy so, and certainly in a really, really, people spilled it." said Ipung. "We're on the bridge.."
"The nearest bridge is two kilos from here, you want a two-kilo detour? It would be four kilos ntar." replied Vishnu.
"From drowning to death." said Ipung.
"Udah. nyeberang aja let cepet. we make a raft first from the banana stem." said Vishnu.
Finally Ipung can only obey. They cut down two banana trees and split them into four, then they put the two pieces together, tied them with 6ng vines on the river bank. And now two simple rafts of banana stems along two meters. Two rafts were lowered into the water.
As soon as they started riding their respective rafts, the water currents instantly dragged the ith rafts very quickly. Now they have to fight hard, moving their legs and hands like swimming, but in a prone position on a banana stem.
After going through a very long struggle with the swift flow of water, they finally arrived on the other side as well. But their position has been dragged 25 meters from where they started the crossing, even though the width of the river is only three meters! This shows how strong the flash flood currents are.
Arriving on the mainland, they immediately fell on the muddy ground on the edge of the river, their energy had been drained completely. But lucky they got to the other side safely. While the rain is still falling very heavily, accompanied by strong winds. For a few minutes they still rest.
"You still brought it, right..?" ask Vishnu.
"Father is still intact.."
Vishnu opened the bag containing the net and examined it. "Thank God the fish is safe, the net is not lost either.."
"This is your idea.nekat nyeberang aja.had twice this I almost died! Only in a day!" exclamation Ipung.
"Haha.but you're still alive." said Vishnu.
They got up and were about to leave. Suddenly their eyes caught a strange movement on the surface of the river. Little ripples were moving against the extremely swift river current. The water ripples immediately turned into a huge wave heading upstream, defying the river current!
Then on the surface of the water appeared a pair of long and large whiskers, following which a very large mouth that gaped wide, enough to swallow a motorcycle! Then in a row saw a head as big as a car, a dorsal fin as high as one meter, and lastly, a tail as big as a rickshaw!
Vishnu and Ipung can see clearly that the body of the fish is indeed as big as a boat! And they know that this fish is a type of fish that grunts. It turns out that monster fish really do exist! The incident only lasted for a few seconds, but it had made them stand still and shiver in fear.
The giant fish had dived back into the water, and strangely, there were no more waves of water from the movement of the fish just now, not even the ripples of the water were present, it was as if the fish had just disappeared! Such a big fish can certainly cause large waves of water as well.
"That's.that's a jambal..giant jambal!" exclamation Ipung.
"Means the old man did not pokebus doank. fish really exist.." continued Vishnu.
"But why go to this little river?" ask Ipung.
"This place is only 100 meters from the reservoir.anything more river water overflows that." replied Vishnu. "But I'm not sure it's a real fish.I suspect that it was a subtle creature disguised as a fish.."
"So we saw the apparition in broad daylight?" ask Ipung.
"It's already 5 pm you know.anything thick dark cloudy and heavy rain gini, it's not impossible subtle creatures can appear.."
"Udahlah.we just go back." said Ipung finally. "More oddities here.."
They walk side by side through very heavy rain towards where the motor is parked. Eve was very cold to make their bodies shiver, plus the fear of seeing the appearance of the monster fish, making their bodies shiver even more intense.
Without saying anything else, they quickly left the riverbank without looking left-right again. It was enough of the strangeness they were experiencing today, and they were unwilling to see any strangeness again. To be sure, they had gained a lot of great experiences in just one day. And it's all still a mystery to them, to this day.
