Murder In The Old Castle
380. Continued Investigation
Juned shone a flashlight into the face of someone he had just wrapped. The figure looked glare with flashlight, so he covered part of the face with a finger. Juned was surprised, because the short figure was none other than Ryan. The man apparently managed to get into the basement through a tunnel in the forest that he had accidentally found before. He looked puzzled, why Juned had subdued him.
"Jeez ... Where are you going? You okay?" ask Juned.
Ryan could only shake his head because he was actually feeling tired. Juned soon learns that Ryan has just experienced something unusual. He did not ask much more, immediately guiding Ryan to walk down the hallway.
"I'd better take you upstairs. It's not safe down here. We have to be careful. We meet Mr. Ammar first, then we go upstairs" Juned said.
Ryan did not give any response, because in fact he did not care much about what was going on in this basement. All he wanted right now was a glass of hot chocolate and a piece of bread, then he just wanted to lie down to relax his stiff muscles. He felt cold due to the temperature in the hostile forest. Juned himself did not want to ask further, because Ryan's condition still seemed impossible.
The two men walked slowly, heading back to the center of the electrical installation where Ammar worked. Juned tried to remember the exact hallway, where the electrical installation was, because he felt all the hallways in this basement look the same. Sometimes he has a little trouble with his memory. This time he tried to concentrate more with the passage through.
"It looks like this passageway," Juned murmured, as he reached an intersection.
He hinted for Ryan to follow in his footsteps to walk to the left. The two return down the dark, elongated left aisle. This time, Juned's guess was correct. Because at the end of the hallway they can see a large enough electrical installation box. Juned shone a flashlight at the installation, but he wondered why Mr Ammar wasn't there? He saw his equipment placed on the floor, as if it was just abandoned.
"Well, where's Mr Ammar?" muttered.
Ryan said nothing. His parasites looked anxious, because he had endured the cold and hunger from now on. He was worried about hypothermia.
"I want to go straight up" Ryan said.
"Okay, maybe Mr. Ammar's upstairs too. Let's take you!"
Juned felt sorry for Ryan's messy condition. He doesn't have to worry about Ammar because he believes the police can take care of themselves. All he had to worry about right now was Ryan whose condition was chaotic. They walked again down the aisle, towards the window that connected the kitchen.
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"Can I continue? Where did it get to?" said Dimas while reopening the map in his hand.
"We're very curious about the analysis, sir!" said Maya.
"After Kara's death, there were more consecutive events that seemed to be related. One of them was the second attempted murder experienced by Nadine who was resting in the room. Suddenly the door was locked, and Nadine was almost killed by strangulation until the perpetrator finally escaped through the window of the room. Until now, the perpetrator has not been identified. On the other hand, Stella who disappeared also could not be found until now. Then the discovery of Farrel's head in a sack that was deliberately placed in front of Mariah's room. Forensics says Farrel's head was beheaded with an axe. It's really sadistic and horrible, isn't it? Then at about the same time, Maya who disappeared while traveling to the waterfall turned out to also return from the forest. According to Maya's confession, someone hit her on the head, and took her somewhere, then left her for no apparent reason. Isn't that right, Maya?" said Dimas.
"I-yes, Sir. It's true like that" said Maya lirih.
The parasite is so anxious. He just looked down, did not dare to look at his friends or even the face of Dimas who stared intently at him.
"Terror continues with the discovery of Aditya in a state of slit in the basement. Previously, Aditya disappeared while accompanying Jeremy to the basement. Then the beating of Edwin in the tea garden on the morning walk with Rosita. According to Rosita, Edwin disappeared while looking for a drinking bottle that happened to fall. Isn't it?" asked Dimas while looking at Rosita.
The young lady said nothing, only nodding quickly.
"Then in my report also mentioned that Lily claimed to have been chased by a mysterious figure in this castle. Fortunately he immediately went into the room, until the figure stopped pursuing.my conclusion says that almost all residents of this place got terror from the perpetrator. In fact, our colleague Niken also did not escape this terror. He was almost killed trapped in the forest. Then there was Ramdhan who had a serious accident on the way back from the city. And the last is the disappearance of Ryan who is suspected to be in the forest, Mariah who disappeared just in the morning, and Jeremy who disappeared while accompanying Juned in the basement. Complete right? Nothing escapes a single one of those terrors" Dimas said with a sigh.
Dimas stared one by one at the faces of the women in front of him. Their faces shone with worry and nervousness that failed to hide. They feel tense, afraid of being named or indicted in connection with this case.
"Someone who has never been terrorized? It's been terrorized by all, right? Well, great. Unfortunately, I would argue that one of you is making up a story about terror, pretending to be terror, even though he is the perpetrator of all this chaos. Or the term, yelling burrow burrowing," continued Reno.
"Tell me who it is, sir!" roseta said impatiently.
"Patience, Ros. Patience. Surely I will reveal, because it is certainly as neat as any crime plan, there will be a loophole that can be used to accuse you. I've recorded the irregularities that I will surely reveal later. Before that, I'll talk about the motive for this incident. Honestly I have to admit that to uncover this motive is not easy, because the victim seems random alias random. The perpetrator seems to have killed people. Especially after he also killed Kara who you do not know and there are links in your life. Isn't that weird? However, still a murder there is a motive that sooner or later will be uncovered, no matter how cleverly you hide!"
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