Murder In The Old Castle
290. Discovery Dimas
Reno turned her head towards the voice that was calling her name. He saw Riky suddenly standing in the hallway. Reno did not expect Riky's sudden presence. Riky's figure stood up straight, with such a calm demeanor. Reno immediately acted ordinary, as if nothing had happened.
"Why is the door to his room, sir?" ask Riky curiously.
"Oh, I don't know either. The key to my room suddenly jammed, but that's okay. The door to the room here is old and often stuck. You're not sleeping?" ask Reno full of probes.
"I was about to go to the toilet, but suddenly I saw Mr. Reno fiddling with the door. So I'm here, who knows Mr. Reno needs help" Riky said.
Reno shook her head, hinting that everything was fine. Riky nodded, then passed from before Reno. After Riky disappeared from sight, she refocused herself with the door before her. He still felt uneasy because he had not received an answer from Ollan who was in the room. Not to mention opening up, he suddenly looked back at Riky half-running closer to Reno.
"What's wrong?" ask Reno.
"I .. I saw like there was a human figure near the bathroom, dressed all in black. Mr. Reno should check. Maybe it's the one with the bad intentions!" riky said in a hurry.
"Maybe it was Mr. Paiman on patrol. You don't have to worry."
Reno tried to calm down, but Riky shook her head quickly.
"Not ... no! I don't think it's Mr. Paiman. If Mr. Paiman I must know him. The figure was suspicious, like a sniff. I don't think he had any good intentions, sir!"
Reno frowned, trying to digest Riky's words. From the direction of the dining room they suddenly heard the shrill screams of a woman. The sound of the scream was quite loud, so the two men were shocked. Reno immediately rushed towards the direction of the sound, with Riky tailing behind him.
In the dining room, Laura was seen standing with a frightened face while pointing towards the figure of the policeman lying unconscious on the floor. Reno, aghast at the sight, did not expect that the police on guard duty that night were lying unconscious. He immediately checked the condition of the unconscious police because of the drugged.
"Try checking the living room and front porch!" reno's orders to Riky.
"Ba-good!"
Riky immediately went according to Reno's orders. Meanwhile, Laura's shout shocked the other residents of the isolation house. They came to the dining room, saw what happened. The first to come was Ammar. Next was Henry, followed by Rianti, then Thunder who came later. They were all shocked to see the figure of the policeman lying on the dining room floor. Before long, Mr. Paiman was also present at the place.
The police body was immediately lifted onto the sofa, trying to be resuscitated. Rianti took a glass of water for the unconscious policeman, then Reno splashed a little water in front of the policeman to wake him up.
"Tone ... Toni! Conscious!" reno.
It seems like Reno's efforts have not been fruitful. Ammar took over, patting the cop on the cheek while calling his name. However, the effort has not succeeded either.
On the front porch, it turns out that Riky also found another police figure who was also in an unconscious state. They immediately carried the body of the policeman to the top of the sofa in the living room. Everyone gathered there, trying to make the police guards come back to their senses.
"They're drugged!" reno muttered.
"Dibius? How can you, sir? Somebody's got some dope, is that it?" ask Henry.
Reno shook her head, then gestured for Ammar to guard the two unconscious policemen. Suddenly he remembered the undiscovered Ollan. He went back to the room Ollan occupied, and knocked on the door loudly, calling out Ollan's name.
"Ollan! Ollan!"
"Why don't you open the door? I thought you were dead!" reno.
"Ma-sorry, Sir. I was so scared just now. I hid under the bed and didn't dare to go out. There was someone who kept asking for me in the window. He tried to break the windows and break the glass, but to no avail. I did not dare to move at all, so I just curled under the bed" said Ollan.
"God! But you're okay, right?" ask Reno.
Ollan shook weakly. The events he had experienced in Reno's room just now made him very shocked. He was still trembling and did not know what to do. Reno immediately calmed Ollan down, so that the man would not panic.
"Now you rest, Ollan. Tomorrow morning, you can leave this house of isolation. Don't worry," said Reno.
"Really, Sir?"
Reno nodded. Ollan breathed a sigh of relief at Reno's words. For him, there is no place more comfortable than his own apartment. He felt, all the places he lived in turned into nightmares. He wants to get back to the apartment, enjoy his own bus bed.
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The eastern horizon looks reddened, a sign that the sun is soon rising. Dimas was still lying on his bed restlessly. He looked at the ceiling of his room, while unraveling some of the sudden barrage of events that appeared in his brain. This morning too, he had to go to the isolation house, to report the results of his findings. Of course, something as important as this cannot be discussed over the phone, because it carries corroborating evidence.
To further strengthen, he went to the police station to dismantle the archives and biodata of the figure he considered as the mastermind of all this chaos. He knew, all this time the archive was only read at a glance, because it was very thick. He intends to browse the profile and data of this figure more deeply. While opening his profile record, then Dimas mangosteen.
"It all makes sense. Yes, these murders are related to each other. Daniel is the opening, and I'm sure, the killer is still hunting down other victims who are considered guilty in his life" he murmured.
He saw a row of personal photos of the figure, even he had time to search the internet, just in case there is information that he did not know before. His search has yielded results. A news archive ten years ago left him so dumbfounded. The figure turned out to have been treated in a special hospital to deal with people who have personality problems. Or in other words, he has a mental disorder. He reportedly went on a rampage at the hospital, and was about to injure one of the patients.
Dimas checked the diagnostic records of the doctors who mentioned that this person was suffering from acute depression, fear of excessive loss, etc, so that it can act recklessly that endangers the lives of others to maintain things that are considered important in his life. Even in his medical records, this person tried to injure other patients in the hospital for maintaining trivialities. A doctor once caught the figure about to cut off the fingers of other hospital residents. Surely it was terrible. Dimas was astonished, then why would a person like this be left wandering around?
"He was declared cured a few months after intensive treatment, and his best friend guaranteed that he would be fine. The family's out of hand, so his best friend takes care of him."
Dimas was getting more enthusiastic about reading the doctor's notes. He really wanted to know the background of the figure suspected of being this killer. Dimas thought again, so who is this figure's best friend? He continued to trace back the data that was stacked in the thick archive.
Suddenly a black and white photo shows the figure in adolescence was taking pictures together with his best friend while smiling happily. Behind the photo is 'Best Friend Forever'. Although it was an old photo, Dimas immediately recognized who exactly the friend in question.
"Oh, God! So that's the story! I need to get to the isolation house, before all the rest of the house is going to be finished!"
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