
EPS 102 POOL THIEF
The night was so dark and lonely. The cold weather and the rain that had just stopped, made people reluctant to leave the house. The moon reappeared after a while hidden behind the black clouds. The white light that hits the water grains, refracted into a spectrum of various colors of rainbow light. It's exquisite.
Mukhsin Bae walks alone down the rice paddies to the Pesantren Ksatriyan Santri. As usual, every Friday night he got a job from Kyai Badrussalam to fill the study at the village mosque not far from the cottage.. It's finished until midnight.
“Ah after rain many tadpoles on out. Incidentally, while fishing eel” he said.
Apparently he already had plans to do a hobby that he had long abandoned. With agility he caught the frog boy who jumped on the rover. Then took out the eel fishing rod that he had just slipped in his coffee. After feeding the hook, he sat down crouching between the rice stalks. Eels like to eat at night. Especially after the rain, many creatures are starving.
KRESSBYKK!!!
Suddenly there was the sound of dry leaves being stepped on by something. Mukhsin Bae is on guard. He looks around. From a distance of fifteen steps, there were several shadowy figures walking about. Mukhsin tried to sharpen his sense of sight. The darkness of the night blocked his view.
But his instinct as a senior santri who once aspired to be a child detective immediately appeared.
“Hm, from the movements of the figures showed suspicious behavior. I have to follow them,” her inner self.
With slow and careful steps he followed them. The direction to the fish pond owned by Mursyid's grandfather, Andika, which contains carp ready for harvest.
“Hm.apparently they want to steal fish,” his heart said.
It is also Mukhsin's assumption. Once in the pool, they appear to duck and enter the pool. The young man who had once aspired to be a policeman was trying to get closer. But the depths of the pond water were like swallowing their bodies. Mukhsin could not see him anymore. She thought about going back home asking for help.
“Dangerous if I keep approaching him. Better I tell friends,” he said inwardly.
Hurry up he returns to the road to the pesantren. Arriving at the boarding school the atmosphere is also quiet. Apparently the santri would rather warm up in their room than go out. His steps continued to move towards Andika's clinic. In a place that is commonly used as a bed Andika and her best friend, Alimin, she knocked on the window of room , her best friend.
“Tok...tok..button! Assalaamu’alaikum. Alimini! Alimin!,”tapnya slowly.
Alimin opened the window.
“Wa'alaikumsalam! Uh, Mukhsin sontoloyo. You just came home to teach?” sahut Alimin with a sleepy face..
“Iya. Come outside! There are important things we have to do.”
“Ah, Moscow. I was just about to go to sleep, and you took me out. Not want ah! Why are we going there?”
“Sstt..don't be hard! Listen, I just saw a suspicious figure in Mursyid's grandfather pool,” explained Mukhsin.
“What!! What do you mean?” Alimin looked surprised.
“Sstt..! Yes not necessarily,” said Mukhsin. “Makanya let's make sure.”
Alimin. Rushing he wrapped his scabbard around his neck and came out following Mukhsin. With a careful step they intended to immediately return to the fish pond.
“Alimin! Mukhsin! Where are you going?” suddenly one voice shocked them.
As the two looked back.
“Mas Andika?” they almost go together.
Andika walked quietly towards the two young men.
“Why are you walking so fast? Huh huh? Wanna crawl, huh? Or want to go to the city to see the cinema?”
“No mas,” they still compactly shook their head and denied.
“Eh, Mas Andika's. Another patio mas?” alimin said later.
“No. I'm just walking around.”
Hem! Then came a coughed person appearing from within the darkness.
“Lho by Mas Pranaja! Coincidentally we met,” exclaimed Mukhsin Bae.
“Iya. Coincidentally we're on patrol looking around. What are you guys going to night-night?,” Rich Pranaja said with a smile..
“Wah, coincidentally when there is Pranaja mas, we feel safe, “ said Mukhsin again,” We are also stalking some people.”
Rich Pranaja looked at the two. His sixth sense was like detecting something odd. Then he told Mukhsin to tell him about the incident he had just experienced?
“Begini. When I returned home to fill the study earlier, I saw there were some suspicious figures around the fish pond of Grandpa Mursyid. Their movements are very veiled.,” said Mukhsin.
“How many people have you seen?”
“About seven people mas.”
Pranaja nodded his head.
“Good.” Puji Pranaja's.
“How now mas?” Alimin.
Andika immediately called out to some sleeping santri.. He then divided their duties to spread around the fish pond which covered almost two hectares.
“Mukhsin and Alimin come with me!” yell Rich Pranaja. “Do not go far huh?”
The two young men prepared. Once agreed, they immediately carry out their respective duties. Andika and the santri remain on guard at Pesantren. Keeping all the bad possibilities that may occur in pesantren. While Pranaja with Mukhsin and Alimin went to the crime scene to check the truth of Mukhsin Bae's story.
“Let's go,” says Pranaja.
Pranaja, Mukhsin, Alimin and the two young santri left immediately. Everyone near the pond of Murshid's grandfather, walked down among the clumps of rice. They continue
observe the atmosphere around the pond from the middle of the rice field. There were about forty-five fish ponds that they observed one by one. The situation feels gripping.
“Sstt...Sin! How come there's no one?” ask Alimin.
Mukhsin just scrunched his forehead. He also doesn't know where they're going.
“They are professional thieves. In doing the action they are so calm, almost without sound,” whispered Pranaja.
Suddenly one of the students approached them.
“Mas Pranaja! They may be right. There are human footprints leaving this place in pool number six.”
“Hm, good!” sahut Rich Pranaja,” I'll check it out!”
They immediately surrounded the place, but the pool was so vast that they had difficulty finding any other footprints. Huft, Pranaja is throwing a rough breath. Throw away the restlessness that enveloped his heart and mind.
***
After receiving an order from Nyai Ken Darsih, Dewi Nawangwulan immediately prepared herself, He asked the help of his six brothers to help him. They are beautiful fairy-shaped demons that live somewhere hidden in the corner of the sky.They use the rainbow light as a guide to the earth.
"After setting foot on earth, immediately find out the existence of a pure lake to soak in" said Nawang Wulan.
In order for them to truly turn into human-like beings they had to soak their bodies at the bottom of the well. The holy water of the earth will make them lose their smell like fairies under normal circumstances. If so, it is very difficult to distinguish between the commoners of the fairies and ordinary humans. When they came down, they found a fairly large pool that they thought was a lake.