Mr. Matrix

Travel down the river.

Riding on the raft, Alex and his entourage follow the flow of water downstream.

Half of their rafts are roofed off the forest leaves, while half are open.

When dusk came, they pulled over the riverbank raft, to cook.

While the women were cooking, Alex was looking for fish, and Liong san was hunting forest animals.

Thus, two days passed without meeting a single village in the stream, as if the forest was completely devoid of humans.

It was only on the third day that they saw the sign of a man, their former field.

Finally on the fourth day, they found a village that was not too big and crowded.

They immediately pulled over their raft to the edge of the river in a deserted place in the upper reaches of the village.

On foot they walk down the village to find a restaurant if there is one.

It turned out that the village was quite quiet, there were no restaurants, there was only a small rice stall in the middle of the village.

Alex and his entourage went into the only small shop in the village.

A half-old woman waiter and owner of the food stall came out to welcome Alex and his entourage.

"Will you and Miss eat here?"the mother asked a little nervously as she looked at Alex trembling.

"Yes Ma'am, provide us six servings of food" seeing that somewhat awkward state, Princess Giok Lin took the initiative to go forward talking while smiling kindly.

Upon seeing the sincere friendly smile of Jade Lin's daughter, the owner of the food stall calmed down a bit.

"Eh,iya,iya, please sit down first son, will the mother prepare" said the mother, allowing them to sit for a while.

"What is the name of this village Bu, it looks quite lonely" asked Jade Lin's daughter.

The mother replied from the kitchen, "this is the village of Boja nak, the upstream village on this river ruie, after this river, then no other village is found anymore, son, this is the last village" the mother answered, taking their order and placing it on the long table of the only one.

After the order was placed in front of them, all of them ate voraciously.

The shop owner's mother still occasionally steals staring at Alex while afraid of fear.

It was of course known by all of them, but they pura did not know it, just keep eating.

But apparently the mother's curiosity was greater than her fear, so finally ventured to ask Giok lin's daughter, "son, mother please maap before, whether you are from the fire-hair people, if you are from the fire-hair people,or the friend of the fire-hair guy?"...

"Fire hair?, what does mother mean?, I don't understand" Jade's daughter Lin replied asking.

"That son, ooh, again, those who came from across the country on a great ship driven by fire, because their hair was all red, we named them fire-hairs" the mother replied.

Jade Princess Lin looked at her husband followed by the gaze of princess Kwan si and princess Annchi, while they immediately laughed together.

"ooooh so that's what makes the mother keep glancing at our husband from earlier, I think because our husband is handsome, eh apparently mistaken for fire hair, if he's Mom, not fire hair, but the fire extinguisher"princess Annchi said as she laughed.

"Where do the fire-hairs come from, and what are they doing here?"ask Kwan si's daughter while continuing to laugh.

"They came from across the land, occupied the city, burned and killed people,

depriving our wealth and produce of being transported to their land" the mother replied.

Alex, who had just been silent, now spoke, "don't be afraid Mom, I'm not part of them, my hair problem, this is just a disorder Mom"...

Mom was staring at Alex inside, as if to ensure the honesty of Alex's confession earlier.

Finally, because he did not find the look of lies on Alex's face, the mother became calm again.

"Prepare me son, since the arrival of the fire-hair nation, our country is no longer calm, fear and worry we always feel every day, some countries on this continent they have occupied, he said, even the Emperor himself was killed in the final battle inside the palace fortress, the crown prince managed to get out through the secret passage and escape" said the stall's mother.

"Is this the nearest town to the village, ma'am?" ask Jade Lin's daughter.

The mother shook her head as she said, "no boy, who is close to this village yes another village but more crowded and bigger than this village, if you want the nearest city, if you want the nearest one,can pass through the village of Bira downstream Boja village travel two days by land, from the village of Bira you can join the ship to the city of Naulan also a two-day trip"...

After the meal, Princess Giok Lin asked how much their food would cost.

"Two hundred pieces of silver per person, six became one piece of gold, two hundred pieces of silver son" the mother replied.

Jade Lin's daughter took out two gold pieces and handed them to the mother "take the rest for the mother, thank you for the service, ma'am"...

With great joy, the mother received two pieces of gold while thanking Jade Lin's daughter.

Now the journey continues on foot from the village of Boja to the village of Bira downstream of the river ruie.

The initial journey through the village garden, but after a little distance, the community garden is no longer there, which is seen on the right side of the road is just a thick forest.

In this village there are two restaurants, there are also two lodging available.

This village can be said to be a small town, if in our place it might be a sub-district capital huh.

That night they stayed in a fairly large inn, along with several other people who happened to be going to Naulan tomorrow.

Due to previous experience, then now Alex's hair was turned over by Jade Lin's daughter who was skilled in disguising it into a jet black like their hair.

Tomorrow, a large ship awaits at the village dock Bira.

This ship is a ship that is driven by a coal-powered engine, or called a steamboat or fire ship.

Along with the other passengers, Alex and his entourage boarded the steamship.

The sound of the hiss of the steam engine that drives the turbine sounded loud between the sound of the hum Pluit the ship, indicating the ship began to move around towards the downstream of the river, the journey began.

The captain of the ship was a fat, potbellied man, with a bald head named Captain Bonyos, swiftly controlling the steamboat.

Since passengers were not too many, Alex was able to get three rooms on the ship.

One room for him with his three wives, one room for Liong san and one room for Soa ning.

By night they went out of the river ruie to the river kluise which was even greater than the river ruie.

If the width of the Ruie river from side to side is about fifty Depa, now this kluise river is about two hundred Depa wide.

By morning, Alex and his three wives were shocked to wake up from their slumber due to the shock of a very strong ship, the alarm bells ringing all over the ship.

Alex quickly got out and walked over to the captain of the ship asking what had happened.

"Sir, our master was ambushed by two ships of the fire-hair army, they have fired several times cannon fire at us" the captain of Bonyos replied with great nervousness.

Alex walked up to the ship, and saw in the distance two large ships with large chimneys trying to block their journey.

From the two large ships again seen two large fireballs hurtling towards the ship that Alex was riding.

As the two huge fireballs were about to reach the ship Alex was riding on, Alex flicked his hand, a series of strong enough winds smashed into the fireball,so that the fireball turned in a very tight direction towards the fire-hair troop ship.

"Bum!!".

"Bum!!".

The fireball fell right in the chimney of the two ships, causing two loud explosions, and the engine room of the two steamships was badly burned.

Both ships could not move anymore because both engines were destroyed by their own fire bullets that turned around.

People with red hair, seen plunging into the water from the burning steamer.

Before the steamer sank into the water, two great men came out of the burning steamer.

The two greatness of the man had stopped at the bow of the ship that Alex was riding, not far from Alex stood.

"You're good enough to be able to reverse our fire cannon fire, but don't be happy just yet, because your body will soon perish in our hands"said one of them while raising his right hand up and a fireball as big as a head was created.

The ball of fire was thrown at Alex in full force.

But Alex calmly greeted the fireball with his right hand and threw it back at the man at a much faster pace than before.

"Bum!!".

There was a loud explosion, the man's body was fluttering into the middle of the river with his own charred body burning fire.

The other man, seeing his friend dead, he intends to run away from Alex as soon as possible.

He leapt from the ship towards the riverbank, but just above, a yellow light shot from behind Alex hit the man, until his body exploded.

Apparently Annchi's daughter, who was following her husband, saw the husband fighting with the two men, so when one of the men intended to escape, she immediately launched an attack on the man.

While the other members of the army who still survived, immediately swam to the edge of the river and ran into the bush.

A moment finally the calm was felt again, when the two ships were lost in the river.

Captain Bonyos looked at Alex and his three wives who had also arrived there with Liong san and Soa Ning.

"Thank you sir, thanks to the master of the ship and all the passengers are safe, if there is no master, maybe this ship and all its passengers have become residents of the Kluise riverbed this master"said the captain of the fat ship with the distended stomach.

The ship again drove towards Naulan city, and if there were no obstacles, then by midday they had arrived at the city.

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