Ai, Love Me
Eps 51, Elders Engkobappe & Johan VS Forest Loggers

The five of them began to enter their respective forest territory so that they could not see their bodies with each other as they were blocked by the trees. Johan walks alone and is surrounded by a tall, dark rubber tree, which only relies on the light from the flashlight he was carrying at the time.

“ really is very scary. It's like the horror movie I saw last night. Why should I watch a horror movie with them” Johan complained.

Johan shines a flashlight and goes all over the direction and searches for the lumberjacks. Johan as much as possible concentrated on improving the senses of the listener and his sense of vision to find the forest logger.

“I've been through this forest, but at that time I was with my papah friend and my friend. And also it passed through the teak forest that the distance between the trees to each other was slightly far apart. I repeated this frightening event again for the second time. And this time I walked alone” Johan murmured.

“if you remember, in the morning, when I want to meet with Odessa Ai before I go home, I walk and choose the route by the lake. Because in my opinion, the route is not too scary and exposed to direct sunlight. And also at that time I also saw an amazingly beautiful scenery in the lake” Johan murmured.

“if I walk to the end of this forest, I will surely come out of this forest and find the area that has been burned out. Where in the area, there is my house and Odessa's favorite tree. And if I still walk straight through my house, I'll find a cemetery where it's the funeral of my papah, my mother, my grandparents. I think I've started to remember the route in this forest” Johan said.

“now, I just need to mca-“ said Johan stalled.

Because, at that time Johan also listened a little sound like a chainsaw on the front end of Johan. Johan was really scared half to death and shivering in fear. A very natural thing where a teenage boy who was in the middle of a rubber forest towering into the night sky is so dark with the swift rain and the night wind.

“a-what should I do?” johan asked with a hand that was so shaking.

“ohh yes, I have to light my firecrackers. Said the deputy, if the number of loggers there is one, I only need to burn one firecracker, but if the number of tree fishers there are three, then I have to burn all the firecrackers one by one. But if the number of loggers is more than three, then I must burn all three firecrackers simultaneously. In that case, I will burn it” Johan said.

But before that, Johan just wanted to make sure whether it was a lumberjack or not. Therefore, Johan was so desperate to turn off the flashlight and then walk to settle the precipitate towards the source of the chainsaw sound. So dark and cold, Johan walked among the towering trees.

“it's okay, Johan. This is mission. I've been entrusted by Greisha so I can complete my own mission” thought Johan was encouraging himself.

With so slowly settling down, Johan's heart rate really has been beating fast. Johan was so frightened that he wanted to scream and hide in one of the bushes while sleeping both his eyes and both ears. But Johan thought that he would have ruined all his plans by then if Johan had done something like that.

The more Johan walked settles and hid behind a tree, the sound of a chainsaw was getting stronger and really close. “already confirmed, they are the loggers” thought Johan.

By relying on his sense of hearing, Johan also heard the sound of conversation between the loggers. With so many voices with different tones, Johan thought that there were 5 men with one main logger who was carrying a chainsaw.

“do we have to cut this down too? we have cut down a lot of rubber tree this” asked one of the loggers to another logger friend.

“iya, we have to bring as much wood so that our profits get bigger” replied one of the other logger friends.

Hearing their true conversation shows their identity as loggers, making Johan really had made his determination to light the three firecrackers together and make a sign to the four elders.

Instantly Johan walked away from the loggers to a distance of several rubber tree trunks and then began to take out all three firecrackers along with matches. At once Johan burned all three firecrackers and then put them on the ground.

With a few seconds, the firecrackers of the chairman, the deputy, the treasurer, the secretary and Johan's were blown up at the same time. Fifteen firecrackers exploded simultaneously in all five different directions. It makes the five of them really surprised not to play on the number of the loggers.

“hah? we light the fifteen firecrackers at the same time? So the four of them also found more than three loggers. It's critical. Inevitably, I must fight here. Forgive me for not being able to join the fight of all of you” said the representative in the swamp region and fruit plantation.

“we five blow up fifteen firecrackers simultaneously? That means more than fifteen loggers who have been scattered in this forest. Forced I have to fight in my own area without having to go to someone else's area” said the chairman in the border region of the lake.

“this is a sign that the five of us found loggers more than three people. Forgive me for not being able to come to your respective areas” said the treasurer in the teak tree region.

“this is bad, how can loggers be this much? forced I have to paralyze some of the loggers in my area alone” said the secretary in the pine tree region.

“they also found the loggers? So we really can't help each other. How many people want to destroy this earth? I will catch you all” Johan said with emotion.

Hearing fifteen firecrackers that exploded simultaneously made the forest loggers really surprised by some of the explosions. They assume that there was a shot from a firearm that came from the forestry police.

Therefore, one of the leaders of the whole hunter also pulled out a gun and then shot it towards the sky. He fired the gun 4 times and signaled that all his men had to retreat first.

*dor.. dor…

Gun shots from the leader of the loggers.

Hearing that, all the loggers immediately turned off their chainsaws and then walked towards the forest, more precisely to the forest area that had been burned down. In that regard, the elders including Johan also understood the code of the leader of the loggers.

“so there's a signal where they should back off. The sound of the four shots was a signal for them to all back down because they thought that we were all the authorities. We will never let go of all of you” said the chairman.

Likewise with representatives, treasurers, secretaries and Johan. They all thought the same thing as the leader. They will never let go of the loggers and will capture them all at once.

With so loud and dangerous, one by one the elders also pierced the two legs of the woodcutters using daggers and keris. Just like the chief stabbing both the legs of six loggers at once. The deputy also stabbed both legs of seven loggers at once. The treasurer stabbed both the legs of five people at once while the secretary stabbed seven people at once.

Only Johan was unlucky. Because Johan really did not know if at that time there were twelve loggers who were with the chief of the loggers there. Besides, the chief woodcutter there also brought a gun.

Johan actually infiltrated from the tree into the tree to perform shadow and impromptu attacks. Johan took off his shoes and then ran to the lumberjacks so that the sound of his footsteps could not be heard by the lumberjacks.

True like a shadow, Johan's footsteps were not heard in the slightest by their ears. Slowly Johan stabbed the woodcutters in the leg with the dagger and keris from behind and then went back into hiding. More precisely, Johan stuck his dagger and keris together on both thighs of the meneang until it really stuck and then pulled back.

The loggers whose legs had been pierced also screamed in pain and made the attention of other fellow loggers turn towards the back. However, with so nimble, Johan was already behind their bodies. Johan again poked their legs all one by one from behind until they fell weakened helplessly.

“a-what happened? are we being shot from a distance?” ask the leader.

Johan returned to his action with a feeling of anger and holding anger. Johan did such a thing because of his hatred for the papah who had burned the forest and accidentally burned his own grandfather. In this way, Johan can assume that the loggers who are here are the form of the papah.

Eleven people have fallen down with their feet already in the hole. Only the chief was holding his gun in all directions. From the looks of it, the leader was really very scared. His eyes let out tears and cold sweat drenched his body.

The man screamed for help but no one could help him. Until the last moment, Johan was right behind the body of the leader. So shrewdly, Johan slashed the leader's right arm using a kris while Johan slashed his left hand using a dagger.

At that moment the leader of the forest fell his gun with a hand that had been flooded with blood. The man cried out in pain with his tears so hard. Johan immediately took the gun and then shot it towards the man's legs.

Shouts for the sake of shouting echoed in the dark and frightening forest. The echo of the man's scream was really fun for Johan. Johan was gallantly standing before him while putting on a look of wrath.

So rudely, Johan pulled the man's collar and forcefully pulled it before his own face.

“who told you to cut down the forest here?” johan asked so holding back the anger.

“ma-forgive me, I really ask ma-“ said the man stopped.

“I didn't tell you to apologize, stupid” snapped Johan while kicking so hard on the man's cheek that the man's body bounced away.

Johan was full of anger came to the man again and asked the same thing.

“who told you to do this?” ask Johan.

“sorry, this is my own project. I need a lot of wood and in a cheap price even I do not need to pay for this wood if I can cut it myself” said the man so frightened.

“hmm, so so. Basic garbage” shouted Johan while pushing the body of the man to hit a nearby tree.

The man was really unable to run anymore. He could only lean against the tree as he looked at Johan's body which slowly walked up to his body in such a frightening manner.

At that time Johan also grabbed the man's cheek until his mouth opened. After that, Johan so forcefully took and gripped the man's tongue.

“if you do not speak honestly, I will not hesitate to split your dirty tongue” threatened Johan while attaching his dagger to the tongue.

“ma-maav, ake thedak bherbhohong” said the man was in a state of difficulty speaking.

“then, do you still have other men you still have not ordered to withdraw?” ask Johan.

“i am hunting down a hornbeam tree that has super properties. The tree is currently near the old house that has been burned and beside the lake and across the forest” said the man with a broken batah.

“hornbeam tree? Don't don't it's Odessa's tree?” johan was really surprised.

“at this time, my men are in trouble because there is a woman who clean hard to keep the tree” said the man with a breath that ngosan.

“what did you do to that woman?” yelled Johan in the right tone angry beanr.

“i didn't do anything to him. I just ordered them to cut down the tree. But I don't know what my striped-nosed men are doing. Maybe at this time, my men are having fun enjoying the pleasure of the body of the perempu-” said the man with a cynical smile provoking the anger of Johan.

“da-basic brash!!” sahut shouted Johan really hard and immediately thrust his dagger into the right thigh of the man.