Hidden In The Mist
Chapter 33 Brother's Hint

In their confusion, Herly becomes frustrated, she doesn't know where to go. They just turn around until the sun starts to dim.

While Angga's entourage has arrived at Herly's ancestral home, delighted to be in the middle of the village, Ryo and Jaka soon ascend to Joglo's house which looks the biggest.

But Bandi immediately forbade. With impolite reasons to enter people's homes without permission.

"You two take care of the attitude, don't be disrespectful in people's homes, we're visiting here, and you're not alone."

Om Bandi's words made Angga so alert, circulating his gaze around them. He didn't see anything strange around the house.

"There are only four of us here om, I don't see anyone else, the house is also neat and clean, why not take a break for a moment."

"I think the occupants are inside. How about we go up, meet. Maybe the homeowner's seen Nice and Herly."

"You really want to know the real face of this village?"

"What is so strange about this village?"

Angga did not understand what was said about Bandi, he saw the village was beautiful, beautiful to calm the heart. Nothing makes them worry. Although the distance between the houses is far apart, it looks normal.

They play children, farm animals in the cage, mother sweeps, men carry rice, everything is nothing strange to Angga except the incident when they first entered the village.

The rain of blood and the headless black horseman, was an out of reason event that Angga could not forget.

"Are you ready to see the real reality of the village?"

Om Bandi closed Angga's eyes for a moment, while reading a prayer in his heart. After that, Angga asked to open his eyes slowly so that he was not too surprised by the facts he would see.

"We where om, why the village disappeared, what fog is this, I can't see anything but thin smoke."

"Concentration don't use your whole senses, and you'll know what's really going on."

Angga closed his eyes again, then opened them slowly. What is presented before the eyes is very sad, and terrible.

Old house almost collapsed, human bones, and livestock, almost everywhere. Diversified without anyone taking care of it.

The village, which was once a duchy town, disappeared within a week, all dead, because of the plague.

"How do you still want to say this is a beautiful village?"

"Now look at the house that your two friends came to, what is the grand house of the duke?"

Angga saw the house that had been visited by Herly and Bagus. The house was dusty, growing roots to the roof.

"You know the truth now. That's why I didn't let them go up on that porch."

"Now it's better to follow your two friends, om afraid something happens to them."

"Hey... You two, hurry down, we move on, chase Herly and Good!"

Ryo and Jaka stepped down lazily, they had not eaten since morning. They mean to joglo house want to rest for a moment, while filling their stomachs.

"We all have not advanced om, do not rest in the house, while eating, then we will continue to follow Herly."

Jaka grumbled in protest, because of hunger he was reluctant to walk again. But Ryo nudged Jaka's arm, so that he did not refute the orders of om Bandi.

"Let's see, after seeing this, I'm sure you two, won't want to stay here any longer."

As to Angga, Om Bandi also did the same to his nephew friend. They were asked to close their eyes in full concentration, and open them slowly.

Their reaction was the same as Angga, shocked and horrified to mix into one. Jaka even almost urinated, because of the experience they had just felt for the first time.

"I deliberately opened your inner eyes, to be sensitive to what you see, and feel. Hold this dagger, and follow the prayer I will teach."

"Now we are between two worlds. This is where the curse begins. So you must be able to take care of yourself, pray a lot and do not show your fear to them."

Om Bandi then taught some practice to Angga and his friends. Somewhere many eyes were watching them.

"We walk again now, later in a place that is quite safe, just eat the same."

Angga handed out a bar of chocolate to everyone. Although his hunger suddenly disappeared, but each person was forced to chew chocolate so as not to run out of energy.

"It's just a feeling, or is there someone following us?"

"We are being followed by a female figure Ngga, but her aura is white, it seems she is driving them away."

"This aura is the same aura as a headless horseman. According to Bandi, they just want to take care of us. Because if not, it's been since the dark creatures ambushed and hunted us."

Angga's throat choked, he began to know what it was like to be a person like Nice and Om Bandi. Now they walk more alert.

Angga, Ryo, and Jaka could no longer walk leisurely. Their senses are currently very sensitive. The three of them could now see, hear, and feel what the common man could not feel.

"There's a car in the ditch, it's definitely a car that Herly drives, if we can get the car tires out of the ditch then we can catch up with them faster."

Ryo hurriedly checked the car. He saw the car keys still hanging in place. The young man immediately asked his colleague to help.

"People control the steering wheel, we'll push the car out of the trench hole."

With every effort, they could pull out the car from the ditch, and continue their journey to the village boundary.

"Where the doors of the jungle, we will walk starting at the door of the jungle, may we meet them in the forest."

Angga parked his car in front of the door of the tomb. The smell of rotten, dead bodies and the smell of jasmine smelled simultaneously. Om Bandi asked them to stop for a moment.

"Wait for the aura here it feels more concentrated, I have to make preparations to protect all of us."

"From here take care of each other, do not let your guard down and pray a lot. May God protect us all."

Om Bandi closed his eyes, while Angga and friends read prayers in their hearts. After a while they continued their walk through the path that divides the old cemetery.

"May you calm down there, we just want to pass by and help your descendants."

Om Bandi muttered alone, he saw Herly's ancestors in a heartbreaking state, their necks, their arms shackled in chains and their bodies bleeding blood.

Suddenly Angga saw the figure of a teenage boy near a tree pointing towards somewhere.

"There's a little boy o'm, he looks a lot like Herly, the boy pointed a path outside the map."

Angga whispered to Bandi, while Ryo and Jaka docked behind them. The stench was getting smelled, the teenager continued to drift towards one place.

"Actually he's taking us where, this forest is getting closer and darker."

Ryo began to feel his hair bristling, he quickly let out a dagger the moaning sound of a female cry sounded very close. Jaka who was the most timid, hugged Ryo's arm as if he did not want to part.

They began to find the corpse of the homo in the middle of the forest. But Bandi still asked them to follow the path pointed by the teenager.

Up to one point they saw two people who were just spinning around at one point.

"Herley... Her..., here our bro is here...!"

The two men immediately responded, they ran towards Angga and friends. Herly hugged Angga tightly. They were happy to finally meet a human in the forest.

"Thank God you came, otherwise we might have finished here."

Herly continued to hug Angga, then saw the figure behind him. Herly hurriedly took off a hug from Angga's body and walked towards the figure of a teenager who was fading away like a hologram.

"Mas.com Hermanto... It's Herly mas, your sister...!"

Herly was eager to grab and hug her brother but she seemed unable to reach him. The teenager smiled, shedding tears of blood from both of his eyeballs.

He pointed to the plateau in the forest. And then disappeared without a word. Herly sat down on the ground. The longing made him sad.

"Here you are, reveal your brother. Now we have to leave quickly, your time is not much. If the time is calculated, give the collision again. That means it's been a few days."

Angga forced Herly to get up, stand up. The skinny young man wiped his tears and they continued on their way.

The closer to the afternoon, the atmosphere was getting less and less gripping the sound of animal sounds and the wind whirring inevitably shrunk the guts.

Angga and friends along the uphill path that is appointed by Herly's sister, they are optimistic that they will arrive at the cave and complete the ritual before midnight.