Hidden In The Mist
Chapter 39 Moving Nature

"Let's not let's continue the journey, the undead business, let the elderly take care of it. Our time is getting narrow."

Om Bandi forces Angga to leave, but the young man is still reluctant to leave the old woman black, who appears to be easily fighting the undead mob.

Angga was curious, how could the old woman so easily paralyze the undead and return them to their original form, a lump of clay.

"He must have been someone who had a high level of science in his day. But what's he got to do with Herly?"

The question is still an enigma in the mind of Angga. He wanted to ask his black grandmother directly, but Bandi forced him to rush away from the place.

As per the map's directions, and the grandmother's words, they arrived at their intended place. But they did not see the cave around the place.

They keep looking around, but the cave never seems to exist. Om Bandi then tried to search with his inner eyes.

With his eyes closed the man then palpated rocks and lush thickets. Slowly om Bandi found a stone arrangement, which he thought was deliberately arranged by someone, or a time group.

"It looks like this is the entrance to Goa Ngga. Try to help me move this stone!"

Angga, Bagus, and Herly, immediately helped move some large pieces of stone that covered the door of the cave. While om Bandi tried to feel the energy inside.

"Right, this must be the way in. Try you guys flashlight inside, we have to make sure, this is the right goa."

Angga directly aimed his flashlight into Goa's mouth. And it was true that there was a branching space inside. They then shifted the large stone rock until the landslide inside, and the door was wide open.

Hundreds of bat goa fell towards them. Om Bandi goes further to light the torch attached to the wall of the cave.

"The smell stings once, I'm so nauseous to him."

Good complaining of the rotten scent of goa. Each one wears a handkerchief to cover their noses.

"This cave is branching om, according to om Bandi in which direction we will step?"

Herly started to worry, he waited for Bandi to give directions to them. While Om Bandi himself can not give certainty.

"I can't look at this cave Her, but one of the hallways must be an altar of worship. We'll try to get in one by one."

"Don't split up, Darsih could have set a trap for us. So you must put your eyes on me and not daydream."

Om Bandi invites them to check the condition of the cave hall one by one. While on the other side of the cave, a pair of large eyes lurked the motion of the Angga and friends.

"This hallway is dead end, there are only two iron cages there."

"Is this where the duke confines the women to be made into the tumbals?"

Angga stopped the question about the iron cage. He was afraid that his words would hurt Herly as a descendant of Duke Aryo Disastro Wardoyo.

Herly looked at the wooden peg inside the cage, unconsciously his hand touched the iron bars where there were blood stains of the girls, including blood from the palm of Darsih.

Surprisingly Herly's body was shaken violently, inevitably Angga, Bagus, and om Bandi tried to release Herly's hand from the iron bars that seemed to sting the young man's hand.

But what happened then was completely beyond their reasoning. Herly and her comrade are thrown deep into the past. One time where Herly could see the village at the foot of the mountain looked fertile, the ripah loh jinawi.

The people were happy, although at that time the colonial government was still a cruel ruler who oppressed the natives. They were all shown how the duke played a shrewd politics to protect his citizens.

"So he's my great-grandfather, dashing and dignified."

Herly muttered in heart. Silently he was amazed at the figure of the duke Rekso Darmo Sastro Wardoyo who loved his people.

They also saw how chaotic and bad politics were. Adu sheep, elbow elbow as if a regular spectacle for residents of the duchy.

Herly saw the practice of witchcraft, exhaust and the use of hookers, became a plural thing at that time. And it turns out that the charismatic figure he admires is the victim of black magic atrocities.

All the memories swirled before his eyes, Herly so know the reason for the cruelty of his great-grandfather. Two dukes who did not like the figure of raden Darmo Sastro Wardoyo made a conspiracy with a witch doctor named Wiro.

On certain nights, they sent santet to the duchy, but it could always be denied by the duke with his advisors.

Until one ill-fated night, a witchcraft broke through the duchy's fortress, killing the duke.

Raden Aryo Disastro Wardoyo was only eighteen at the time, and also had just had a son. I don't accept what happened to the romance.

A day after Raden Aryo was crowned as the successor of the father, he ordered the telik coders to hunt down the people involved in the murder of the duke Darmo Sastro Wardoyo. And in just over a month, the cryptic telik managed to find Wiro.

The cruel shaman is then tortured, until he is willing to dismantle the name of the mastermind behind the murder of his romance.

Three names have been given. On the advice of two advisors, Raden Aryo then reply them in the same way, and more cruel.

The young duke did not let the man who killed his romance die so easily. He made them tormented towards his death.

But one thing the young duke never thought of. Revenge, it will only give birth to revenge. Raden Aryo was too late to realize what he was doing.

Then what happens next is the law of planting. Whoever plants the wind will reap the storm. And that's what happened to Raden Aryo.

Santet and teluh sent alternately. But he could always ward off all the misguided submissions addressed to him.

The figure of a large tall creature with long horns has promised safety to the Aryo raden, but in return for the loss of life from its descendants, every seven years.

Therefore they seek out girls to become sacrificial offerings to the devil.

Then what happens next is a human tragedy that continues to occur and repeat. Herly even cursed herself for what had happened to this village.

The woman was kidnapped from another region every six years, in a cage in the cave, only to meet the needs of the victims who came from the direct descendants of Raden Aryo.

Herly sees Raden Aryo always punishing himself, every time he does all that. There was regret in his heart, but he could do nothing else, as he had already made the blood covenant that he should have decided.

"Why would you do this cruelty...!"

"Because of your sin, I have to bear it all."

"Why is not manly just face reality. What have you done, you have to bear it, not us?!"

Herly could no longer hold back her emotions. The skinny man's chest felt tight. He was eager to curse his great-grandfather, but he couldn't, what happened already happened.

Herly could only see the footage in her brain, teary-eyed. Angga and Om Bandi who had known the matter first, could only be concerned. Not a single one of them intended to explain this fact to Herly.

"Relax Her, it's just a dark memory sheet of the past that you really shouldn't be responsible for other people's actions."

"But I'm so ashamed...!"

"Have not thought about it again, we better figure out how to get out of this place."

Angga persuades Herly not to get too carried away, and begins to look for a way out of the shadow of the past that for om Bandi may be a devil trap to make them despair.

"It's not real nature, we have to wake up, get out of here before it's trapped forever."

It reminds them of the astral dimension. The time dimension often misleads people. They were made to fall asleep, then lost so that they could not find another way home.

"I agree with Gus, but we're all here, which means we're under the influence of the subconscious. Who will make us aware, if at this time it turns out we are fainting, or maybe dreaming."

What Angga and Bagus said made Herly confused. In his current eye view, they were like time travelers traveling to the past.

"What do we mean we fainted, are we dreaming, Gus, please explain all this."

"Rather precisely we are moving Her realm, you see that person, none of them are aware of our existence, because indeed in this era we do not exist."

"What you see now is a past event, which, without your knowing it, deep down, you want to demand an explanation of why this should happen."

Om Bandi's explanation makes Herly persevered. Said om Bandi explained what he had wanted to ask his romance.

"So these are all the answers to my question. It's worth it, Romo, I don't want to ask you about this."

"Romo chose to close the meeting of our family's disgrace story, so that I wouldn't blame who for the dark event."

"I know why he didn't want me here. This village has a heartbreaking dark story."

Herly let out a long sigh, her face looking disheveled. Herly was deeply saddened by what happened to her family.

"That's it, now we have to find a guide, so we can get out of here."

"Guide what om Bandi means, is it possible to find a guide in this supernatural realm?"

Angga was surprised by what Bandi said about the guide. He is still gamang, who is the guide who is meant by his om.

"Let's go, we have to find Raden Aryo's advisor, or Darsih before he becomes what he is now. Darsih is an innocent girl who has not been covered in revenge.

"Darsih om, why Darsih, why also the advisor?"

Angga is increasingly confused by the words of om Bandi. He had no idea who the adviser was and why the two of them could be their bridge to the real world.

"Om Bandi is right Ngga, only the two of them can be our guides at this time."

"But why are they gus?"

"Because of those who cross the two realms. Two of them have unfinished business. One out of grudge and the other out of deep regret."

"The advisor who was meant by Mr. Bandi was a black woman. He's the shaman who made Herly's great-grandfather take this perverse path."

"We've already met him downstairs while facing the undead."

"You must remember his face, right?"

Angga mangosteen while holding his chin. He finally found out who the black woman he saw at the station was present in his dream at the time.

"Had had enough of the conversation, we should hurry, before the demon realized we were crossing into the astral dimension."

Om Bandi stopped their short chat, then walked out of the village to find the advisor or woman named Darsih.