The Thousand Mask Warrior

Zhen Jiu's

Since ancient times, usadha or medicines from plants are not only intended for disease, but also beauty and fitness care ingredients.

Meester Equa has also learned that the Javanese can see that a person's illness can also involve some kind of supernatural power, magic and even curses.

Equa knows the term power qi that humans have in Chinese medicine. He also knew that many diseases were also believed to be caused by occult science. For this, not only is it necessary to use a Chinese sinshe or healer, but a Tio tong, or a shaman who is able to summon the spirits of ancestors or gods who then reside in the body of the shaman.

The shaman possessed by these spirits can then do the cleansing of the soul of the sick, expelling evil spirits or occult knowledge.

But Equa doesn't understand this. He did not know Tio tong, or any other term, such as Shen or anything related to the calling of spirits and the sickness of the occult. Not disbelieving in these things, but Equa was educated in plant medicine from China and studied medicine and surgery from the Caucasians, especially Walanda.

In the world of usadha, there are at least two types of usadha known, namely Javanese usadha and Balinese usadha. The difference is that the Javanese usadha has been influenced by the teachings of Islam and Chinese style healing, while the Balinese usadha is still based on Ayurveda or Hindu teachings.

In Balinese usadha, divided into several types of usadha. Some of them, usadha buduh to treat the mentally ill, usadha rare as medicine for children, usadha kucachar to cure smallpox, usadha to go to bone disease, and, usadha pamugougan for diseases caused by occult science, usadha manak for maintenance of the womb, usadha paneseh used for pregnant people, p, usadha for internal medicine called usada or usadha ila is used to treat skin diseases.

So, with knowledge of these two types of usadha, Ngalimin cast a spell, closed his eyes, and drain the energy in his pure to the chest of Jayaseta who was still unconscious.

He suddenly flinched and was thrown, but was unharmed, more out of shock.

Everyone was shocked, especially Equa who had not expected this kind of incident.

Jayaseta's awake. Everyone could see his consciousness had recovered. The wounds on his body that have been broken by usadha leaves by Ngalimin are still clearly visible. However, blood was no longer visible to flow. Swelling around the wound suddenly deflates and disappears.

Even Equa was aghast at this reality.

Jayaseta looked around. His sad look collides with the sight of Katilapan and Narendra still lying down and being cared for by a Walanda-style Chinese healer, Equa.

"How are things?" he said to Katilapan.

"He's still unconscious, Jayaseta. But you don't have to worry, he'll be fine said the Chinese healer, "reply to bed.

Narendra tried to stand up, despite being prevented by both the healer and Jayaseta himself by a sign made by his hand, "You yourself how, Jayaseta?" narendra.

"Thank you for helping us, but I'm fine" Jayaseta told Ngalimin, who nodded.

"Thanks to you, brother, I have a chance to conquer the evil energy within my body. But neither you nor the Chinese healer will be able to help me. I was destined to be possessed by this power" Jayaseta told Ngalimin.

"We can definitely treat you, Jayaseta," Narendra said.

Jayaseta. "You see the consequences, brother. We lose the people we love. I sinned to have involved you too far. Everything should be my fault. If I have to die, I'm the one who deserves to die" Jayaseta took a deep breath.

He looked around again. He was in a small hut with gedhek walls, bamboo webbing, thatched roofs and solid ground floors. Outside he saw an old man grasping and watching the events in the house.

"He was my neighbor when we were in Mataram. But our relationship is like a brother. He's much older than me and his job now is as a medicine farmer" Ngalimin said, noting that Jayaseta was watching his partner out there.

"Child, you still need to rest. My name is ...,"

"Please search the bodies of our brothers and bury them properly. You rest and restore strength. Give my regards to Sasangka when she regains consciousness. Don't follow me anymore. Hopefully we will not be a match in the future" said Jayaseta short. He then walked out of the hut and left.

When he left, neither Narendra nor Katilapan said anything.

Jayaseta walked away towards the East, intending to leave Betawi. He was wearing only knee-length pants without a knit cloth. Her hair is not even attached. He had also forgotten and abandoned all the weapons he had used and always carried along such as discs, keris or secret throwing knives.

He left everything behind, as well as sadness, resentment and anger. It is not lost, but it is not easy to lose the people he loves for the umpteenth time.

***

Yu used the needle puncture treatment or Zhen Jiu to the young girl who was actually the Pratiwi. There were several points on Pratiwi's body that he stabbed with thin needles of bronze of various sizes to change the power of qi and balance the yin and yang in Pratiwi.

Yu realized that the blue wound on Pratiwi's chest was the result of a pretty deadly deep-power punch. This is no ordinary puncture wound. There are indeed many warriors in this archipelago who are capable of such deadly attacks.

Yu did not learn martial arts to hurt and kill people, but even in China he often found warriors who had this kind of power. He also knows how to act. Therefore he must make the girl have the energy to fight the wound.

Yu's face became very pale just like the sick person he was treating. I don't know why he became so worried and anxious about the safety of the girl's soul. But it is not hard to know that Yu is in love with Pratiwi. The young girl with the makeup body, the beautiful face with her kingdom created a strange feeling in Yu. There were air bubbles that penetrated the recesses of his chest, his stomach always seemed great. He had to save the girl's life.

Yu sliced through Pratiwi's sweet black skin in the blue, swollen part. Inevitably, blackish viscous blood flowed out from the wound.

Pratiwi's pale face gradually turned red again. Yu took a copper needle of a smaller size, heated it and stuck it into a special point in the neck, to facilitate the girl's breath and blood circulation to the brain to smooth.

Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He slowly plucked all the needles in the girl's body.

He went out of the treatment that the master had set up. He walked quickly in front of the narrow alley until he found a beautiful young woman with yellow skin but with a very menoran grooming. A pair of his lips were mincered red and cheeks were no less fondling.

He approached the woman, took her hand and handed her some bronze coins.

The girl was aghast, but then smiled flirtatiously, "Sturdy Yu, you finally want to put on me this time?"

Yu shook his hand in the air, "I just want to ask for help. There are seriously ill people in the treatment house. I've treated him, and it seems he'll improve. Only, she is a woman. Can you please change her clothes with the clean clothes that I have provided next to her? And can you lend me your debt first? The cleanest," said Yu.

The girl suddenly stopped smiling. But he was not upset, anyway the money given to him was more than deserved.

He nodded quickly. Then whispered to some of his female friends at the brothel*ran for a moment's excuse, went inside, and came out with a cloth package. Yu suspected that the package contained the cloth he had asked to borrow earlier.

Deftly the woman ran a little towards where Yu had come from.

Yu again breathed a sigh of relief as he saw the slender body of the young pel*cur wrapped in short jarit disappeared at the end of the alley.