Murder In The Old Castle
153. Chasm
Click!
Apartment door open. The figure entered the room with a huffed face. He looked around the mess. He saw Nayya who fell asleep on the floor with a sheet of cloth, while Gerry was still awake. Gerry just silently looked at the presence of the figure, with no intention to ask further. Plans to water with a flask he postponed, because the situation is not yet possible. He just nodded, without looking.
“You didn't sleep?” ask that figure.
Gerry just kept quiet and didn't respond. The figure approached, placing a piece of invitation paper on Gerry.
“What is this?” gerry asked as he looked at the invitation paper.
“Inhibition of isolation from police. You know what that means? It means we'll be held captive by the police somewhere for a few days. I don't want you to be there, because you already know my identity. But I also don't want to keep you here too long because it will be troublesome. Let Nayya who is in this place, until she dies of frustration and hunger.” said the figure.
Barbarically!
Bump Gerry in the heart. I don't know what kind of animal would do that. He could only grit his jaw holding back anger. Right now all he could do was hope that Nayya would be fine.
“So what will you do?” ask Gerry later.
The figure suddenly pulled out a gun from behind the black jacket he was wearing. Then point it at Gerry.
“Follow me! Mumpung Nayya is still sleeping,” orders the figure.
Gerry flinched at the sight of the weapon pointing at him. There was no other choice but to follow where the figure went. He did not think, where he would be taken at midnight like this. He glanced towards Nayya. The girl fell asleep because she was tired. Pity is invoking. He should have been able to protect the poor girl, had his own strength been squeezed. In fact he was more worried about Nayya than himself, but he regretted his weakness.
After coming out, the figure did not forget to lock the apartment back. Gerry walked at gunpoint in the stomach. They walked down the hallway of the apartment which was quiet, because the day was approaching midnight. They got off by elevator to the parking lot.
After getting into the white car, they glide with Gerry driving, while the figure as a guide. They drove towards the deserted and dark outside of the city. The road is no longer crowded, but passes through the side of a precipice that is quite steep. Gerry himself did not know why they had gone to that place.
“We stop in front there, which is there that big tree!”
Gerry stopped the car just below the huge tree that was growing towered right at the lip of the ravine. The atmosphere around was very dark and quiet, because the road was rarely passed by vehicles. Gerry had been in this place before, but it had been a long time. He knew that this location was quite dangerous, because it was surrounded by deep ravines.
“Why did you bring me here?” ask Gerry.
“You remember this place? We used to be here together, right?” The figure asked back.
“Yes, of course. I remember this place very much. Unfortunately I want to forget it soon,” said Gerry.
“We once stood on the edge of that ravine, seeing how deep the bottom of the abyss was. And you once told me that like a car plunging from the top of this ravine, it is certain that the passengers will not survive. You remember that, right?” ask that figure again.
“Yes, of course I remember. Again, I want to erase all the time I have spent with you. You are no longer someone I know. So don't remind me of unimportant things like that, ” Gerry said again.
The figure gave a small laugh, then turned towards Gerry.
“And you killed someone else just to satisfy the vengeful lust that the devil actually possessed? You blame me for everything I got?”
“Iya Ger. I just want to demand justice. I just feel like what I'm getting isn't worth it. I will seek justice in my own way. All who have hurt me deserve to die,” the figure said in a trembling voice.
“Then what about that policewoman you killed? He doesn't know you at all, why did you kill him?”
Anyone who would block my plan then he also deserves to die!”
“Including me? Do I deserve to die?”
“Ya, including you Ger. Don't think you're innocent. There are some mistakes that I have stored in my heart that I can't just forget. Unfortunately I don't want to talk about it now. Maybe today is our last meeting .... “
“Last meeting? I don't know what you mean!”
“You will soon understand. Stay in the car!”
The figure got out of the car, then locked the car door. From inside the car, Gerry could see the figure walking closer to the lip of the abyss, looking down at the bottom of the abyss. He paced back and forth, smiling to himself. Gerry himself was confused, what was the mysterious figure about to do?
Suddenly Gerry felt the car moving forward slowly approaching the lip of the abyss. Gerry looked back. He saw the figure pushing the car closer to the brink.
“What ... what will you do?” Gerry started to panic.
The figure did not answer. He continued to push the car closer towards the ravine. A cold sweat came straight out of Gerry's forehead. He just understood by the sentence that meant the figure, that he might this was the last meeting. Apparently the figure was about to finish him by dropping a car into the abyss.
“You're crazy! Stopit! Please stop!” cry Gerry.
Unfortunately, the figure did not touch the screams of Gerry. He kept pushing, even stronger this time. The wheels of the car have stepped on the lips of the ravine, so the car has started to tilt down.
“No! You're nuts! Please!”
Gerry was panicking. From inside the car he could see the bottom of the abyss so deep and dark. He could not imagine his life ending at the bottom of the abyss. The cold-blooded killer was as if heartless. His smile rang when the car was ready to plunge into the abyss.
“Please say goodbye, Ger!” say that figure.
“Let me go! I promise I won't tell anyone your identity. Let go of me!”
Gerry was screaming hysterically from inside the car. Unfortunately, the figure was not willing to hear Gerry's words. He again pushed the car as hard as he could, until half the body of the car had passed the edge of the cliff. The car lost balance.
The style of gratification is cruel. Unmercifully, the white car with Gerry still in it immediately hurtled down, plunging into a deep abyss. In it, Gerry howled in fear, until in the end his voice was lost to the depths of the abyss!
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