Hidden In The Mist
Chapter 24 Chasing Herly

At half-eleven in the afternoon, Yono's minibus, drove into the courtyard of Herly's family home. Looks like the villagers are still crowded on the porch of the house.

When Yono parked his car, the residents immediately dispersed without saying what to Yono who looked astonished by the situation in the yard of the house that was crowded by the villagers.

"Wonten nopo to paklek, sedoyo niku pole, kok rame meriki. Juror Herly enten hajatan nopo piye?"

The middle-aged man Yono met refused to answer. The villagers just shook their heads, then left just like that. The silence of the villagers made Yono even more suspicious of what was happening. He tried asking again with one of the workers at Herly's house, but the results remained the same. They did not want to answer Yono's question.

Yono who was still confused by what happened, then approached his father and asked why there were so many people in the mansion, and why everyone had arrived silent.

"What's this, why is it all here, what happened to the Herly boss?"

"You just go up, and see for yourself what happened there, we'll go bury six people who he said were courtiers. It is said that they have served the family of the Herly boss for a long time. Maybe before ndoro kakung founded this village of ours."

Yono saw six coffins that had been sent to the cemetery. Angga and friends had asked the pallbearers, but did not get an answer.

They ran up the stairs and saw what was happening inside the house. From the broken doors, and the broken windows, they knew what had happened yesterday.

Everyone rushed into the middle room. Although it had been a little neat, but some bloodstains on the walls, and the furniture was badly damaged, indicating there had been a fierce fight at Herly's house.

Angga ran out of the house, without a second thought, he immediately pulled one of the villagers, and forced him to tell her what had happened to Herly.

"Sir please, let me tell you what happened to Herly, why there are so many blood stains on the walls, and why Herly's house is so messy, whose bloodstains are those walls, sir?"

Angga immediately charged the villagers with a barrage of questions that frightened the person. Om Bandi who saw the incident outside, immediately approached Angga, then advised the young man.

"Hey. keep your emotions young, don't be hard on the parents, who are polite a little Ngga."

Angga rubbed his face, then took a few steps back from his standing position. The panic has made him forget about ethics. Om Bandi then took the man to sit on the stairs and started looking for information.

"I'm sorry my nephew sir, he got carried away, the circumstances inside made him panic and couldn't control his emotions. Understand young blood."

Om Bandi spoke softly, so that the interlocutor became calm, and was willing to tell what had really happened.

"If I may know, what happened yesterday, why this house became so devastated. The owner of this house, where are they all going sir?"

The villager, feeling cornered, was afraid to say what happened, but om Bandi could gently take the man's heart. Finally he had to tell her everything he knew.

"Yesterday afternoon there was a strange thing that happened in this village. The sky turned black, as if it was night. I looked at the clock, and it was still four in the afternoon. But it feels like it's night."

"Then lightning struck, the air became very cold, and a rainstorm occurred. We were all forced to stay in the ruma, so that no one would know the events in this house last night."

"Get arrived this morning, about seven o'clock in the morning, I heard the sound of a fart from the house of Mr. Herly, our boss."

"I don't know exactly what happened, but from the rumors that were going around, right when the rainstorm came down, there was a murder in this house."

"I don't know which is right. Some say, the master Herly killed the man who had been taken to the tomb, for a rite of passage."

"But some say that the death of the six is the work of the devil, who occupies one of the rooms in this house."

"I personally am not sure about the issue, because since his grandfather built this village, we citizens in this village, have never experienced anything strange smelling mystical. The village is safe, the community is peaceful, and prosperous."

"There's never been one strange thing. Except, indeed on the road between the village boundary and the Loor forest, in the forest there is one unwritten rule."

"We must not cross the streets of the Loor forest when the time is surup, when the sun will sink."

"Our parents said that pamali could move nature, he said. But what happened at the home of the manager Herly is clearly different, whether there is a secret behind their deaths. But the manager Herly promised. Beluau will solve all problems as soon as possible."

Om Bandi listened to the man's description in detail, in the end he understood what had really happened with the Herly family.

"Do you know where Mr. Herly and his friends are going?"

"Don't know, but the people closest to him said they'd go to the land of Herly's ancestors."

"There are personal problems that must be resolved, it may be the problem in question belisu, there is something to do with this disaster."

Om Bandi and Angga glanced at each other, they immediately understood what decision Herly had taken. Angga immediately went back into the house, looking for the address of Herly's ancestral village.

All the rooms have been searched, but he found nothing there. Jaka, Ryo, and Yono who were astonished by Angga's attitude, then asked what the young man was looking for.

"Why are you looking for what bro, Herly is not in this house, chances are Herly and Nice are gone from yesterday bro."

Ryo followed Angga's footsteps from behind, saying, so that the handsome young man would stop looking, and listen to what he wanted to say.

"I know Herly's gone from this house Yo, that's why I'm trying to find the address of the ancestral village of Herly's family, because we have to catch up with the boy soon."

"If it's too late, the boy will be finished Yo!"

"The curse of the village can swallow them both, and I don't want it to happen to our friend."

Yono was shocked to hear that, the driver of the Herly family, was aware of the precarious state they were in at the moment. He immediately recalled the lawyer of Herly's family, and thought the lawyer must have a copy of the document that Angga wanted.

"Mas Angga, we have to go to the lawyer's house. I think he must know the name, and the location of the village."

"During this time, the family lawyer, was the only person trusted by the kanjeng romo to take care of the family documents of Mr. Herly."

"Right, he must have a copy of the client's document, hopefully it's still there. Yon take us there now, he's our only hope now!"

Without a second thought, Angga immediately invited Yono to drive them to the lawyer's office. Yono who was still hesitant to leave Herly's house, was stunned for a moment, but Angga's half-snapsing voice made him aware.

" Come on Yon. what are you waiting for, quickly take us to the lawyer's house. I don't want anything to happen to them, because we're late to prevent it."

Yono rushed over, opened the car door, and regardless of what else, they immediately left the grounds of Herly's house.

Meanwhile the villagers who were around Herly's house, could only see their violent departure that one great calamity would occur.