Patok Tumbal Village
CHAPTER 17 IS NOT BELIEVING
Jamal and Budi began to ask some residents who were still around their homes, but none of the residents saw Dirga. The two of them also tried to ask the kades sir, but the kades sir also did not see Dirga at all.
Mr. Kades finally helped Jamal and Budi look for Dirga, after some time looking, Dirga still never found. Finally, Mr. Kades asked the two of them to return to the inn because the day was also getting dark.
Dirga's business, Mr. Kades and a few other citizens will try to find him later tonight. Because the residents also do not want something bad to happen the day before the traditional ceremony is done.
Time and Dirga returned with worried faces. But when they passed the path to the top, Budi accidentally found Dirga standing pensive in the middle of the road.
Anxiety mixed with worry makes Jamal and Budi run kicking Dirga's ass. It made Dirga immediately fall to the ground, Dirga who was upset stood up while talking something that made Jamal and Budi confused.
"You guys why pretend not to see the cave anyway, at the event cariin cave all over again. The cave will be panicked, the cave think now the spirit of the cave is again the way with you, the cave has been looking for the original body of the cave to and fro but did not meet. Panic, the cave can only stand here, the cave years are still long know!!" Said Dirga venting all her anger.
"Well, you weren't with us. Gausah wear alesan does not make any sense, you are afraid to be scolded by Jamal right, because it has made us to worry." Be upset back.
"Where there is, the cave from earlier with you ko." Pissed Dirga.
"Udah!!." Gertak Jamal's angry. "Because Dirga has met, now mending we go to the village first to tell kades sir. Ntar them on busy nyariin, but it turns out Dirga already with us" suggested Jamal.
"I told you that I'm not going anywhere from now on!, all of you why the hell!. I keep talking, but you guys have no response at all know!." Dirga greget.
"Yes, I understand, we'll talk about it, now let's go to the village first." Jamal was still confused.
"Because of the citizens when it comes to nyariin." Reply Budi corrected Jamal's words.
"As far as you are" Post Dirga.
The three of them headed back to the village in a slightly quiet atmosphere. The clock has shown at 17:02, already past the time that the kades sir told them.
When they arrived at the village, the three of them were a little confused, because there was not a single lamp that lit, both at home residents, and at patrol posts. Jamal who from earlier held the cellphone as a lighting aid, thrusting his cellphone lights in all directions to see the situation around.
Everything looks the same, there is not a single sign of someone around the village. Because there was something strange, the three of them decided to go to the house of the kades sir to ask.
"Hhh, what the hell is this quiet situation. If the beginning was here, he might have been scared." Saut Budi tried to liven up the atmosphere.
"Yes yes too, haha" Dirga replied with a made-up laugh.
"We've arrived." Tell Jamal to Budi and Dirga.
Budi and Dirga turned to face the stage house in front of them. Just like the other houses, there was not the slightest bit of light that illuminated the residence of the cadets.
Jamal, Budi, and Dirga stepped up one by one staircase. They knocked on the door of the kades sir with a slightly hesitant feeling. They knocked on the door many times, but there was no response at all, they thought that maybe the kades sir had gone to find Dirga.
Because there was no other choice, they decided to look for a pack of kades in the surrounding area. Time goes on, but Jamal, Budi, and Dirga have not found the existence of the pack kades and the surrounding residents.
"Where are these people?, when they all go to Dirga!?" Confused Mind.
"Maybe they're also looking at Dirga until we don't find any sign of them." Thought Jamal.
"Yes, yes, too. Moreover, from earlier we have been living in various places, but why we do not meet the citizens at all." Saut Budi.
"Cih, you're not all at the cave imprank, are you?!" Pissed Dirga.
"Whoever wants to prank you, this we no longer play the show you." Reply Budi.
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Elsewhere, Alia and the others still continued to wait with anxiety and worry. Because until now there is still no news about Dirga, Jamal and Budi also have not come at all.
Alia had wanted to catch up with the two of them, but was detained by Ulan and Awal. The two of them tried to win Alia to remain patiently waiting, especially under these circumstances it was no longer allowed to go out the night.
Fear if it catches up with them now, it will even give new problems. Fitri was also a little worried, although Fitri was new to them, but Fitri knew what they were worried about what was happening now.
All that needs to be done now is to pray that Jamal and Budi will bring good news again.
"Let's pray according to each other's beliefs, may good things come to all of us." Alia's advice was to try not to worry.
"Yes" Answer everything.
The four of them prayed that their negative thoughts would not come true. After praying, they decided to eat to be a little calmer, they also prepared food for Jamal, Budi, and Dirga when they returned later.
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The clock shows at 19:35 just a few minutes away to 20:00. Jamal, Budi, and Dirga already look very tired because they continue to search here and there. Budi thought that it was possible that the residents had returned to their homes, and asked Jamal and Dirga to check the situation in the village again.
Jamal and Dirga had no choice but to follow Budi's words. On the way to the village, one by one the irregularities began to be realized. Suddenly the fog covered the vision, something fishy smelling very stinging in their respiratory tract.
The more they got closer to the village, the more stinging they smelled. The feeling of goosebumps all over the body, their breathing is also getting heavier. With positive thoughts, they continued to step towards the village.
Arriving in the village, what was in front of the eyes of Jamal, Budi, and Dirga, was something that was never imagined at all in the head. The village where they stopped by, turned into the ruins of a burned-out house.
The pungent smell that they had smelled from earlier, turned out to be from the blood that had been boiling from the fire. Jamal, Budi and Dirga try not to believe what is in front of their eyes, but the scene they see today is too real to be unreliable.
"We don't dream anymore, do we?, or am I the only one who sees something bad here?" Tanya Budi withstood the nausea of seeing a pile of scorched mayad in every street.
"No, not only did you see it, I saw what you see now" Saut Dirga stared in shock.
"Look!" Pekik Jamal pointed towards the house that looks still a little intact. "Isn't that Ningsih's house?, what happened?" Jamal said in confusion.
