MYFATHER
Episode 31

This place is definitely not a comfortable place to live. If Mommy Roses want to bother taking care of it, why is the stranger not placed in the room or the room above the more decent in the main house?

The bottom of the steps ended up in a large room that emitted more than just the musty smell of the wine cellar, the smell in this place was much more severe. The direction of the oil lamp in his hand swept around, from the walls and ceiling of the room in the form of corals it appears that this place is formed naturally, he said, no human hand is capable of making this kind of room except the ledge that connects the main house to this room.

In fact, it seems that this place was originally a separate place from the main house, maybe this place is a kind of cave that was once inhabited by wild animals. And the wild and savage atmosphere remains between the dimly lit room that wraps up the room that is not equipped with any lighting at all.

”Halo..” Excite Yudi. He purposely rebuked first so that whoever was in that strange place did not think himself an opponent or a threat. ”Halo..my name is Yudi. Is anyone here?” Blank. There's no answer. Therefore he calls again, ”Do not be afraid. I'm a friend of Mawar's mother.I just want to talk.”.

Because there is no reason Yudi decided to go further but once the lamp he brought illuminated the darkest part in the corner of the room, his heart was jolted. This room smells good. Unlike the musty caused by dust or age, this musty smell is more pungent and a little rancid.

His mind was muddled as he watched the sight of a tall mound composed of human skeletons...and then again the skeletons are small in size that seems to fit the skeleton of a baby aged one to seven months. It was obvious that there was a baby slaughter in this basement and the cry she heard a few minutes ago might just be one of the babies who would be the next victim. Anyone who is so willing to kill these helpless babies must be**** rancid!!!

Most of the bones have dried up, some of the lower pile has been weathered, which indicates this dune of diversity is something that is quite long stored below. Perhaps only the humidity of the room keeps the bone hill from being destroyed, while colonies of ants and cockroaches are the beneficiaries of this crazy gathering activity. The insects were indifferent as they walked along the bone hill from one place to another, some of which even dragged dead spiders to their nests behind piles of skeletons.

Yudi's head suddenly dizzy seven circumference, especially if not a feeling of shock mixed with the pungent smell of the old bones in front of him. Forced to approach the backward corner, where the room narrowed further, the left and right sides of the not-so-wide hallway were like confining itself in a black empty box, a sweat the size of a bean seed slowly began to flow profusely on his forehead.

Yudi felt thousands of pairs of eyes directed at him with an attitude of blame, some others emanating the scent of hostility. At the same time his heart was crazy if desperate to keep going to just satisfy curiosity, who would help him if the strange creature suddenly attacked him when

this too?

When that happened then he would have fared just like those unfortunate people who had turned into that pile of skeletons. Yudi sanctions Bunda Mawar or Mirna would be kind enough to take the body and send it home to Jakarta, it will be easier for them to let it rot here after being made into dinner terrible creatures who live here...

Tracing the floor step by step Yudi was stunned to see a figure on the floor. The figure was lying on a pool of blood mixed with a strange greenish liquid, its eyes closed withstanding the intense pain that apparently came from the hole in its abdomen. The hole that almost made Yudi vomit because of nausea because the hole was a ferocious branch from a scratch that was so deep. The scar was blackened, meaning that the wound had suffered long enough. Only with great defensive spirit could the figure survive the lack of blood. Although his body was badly crushed, his bloodied face still revealed a form he could recognize as a face....

”Pak Wayan?”

The figure looked up, trying to find the origin of the voice, and was shocked to find Yudi. Not yet the poor man replied Yudi heard a growl from behind that made him turn around and be flabbergasted to find the two and a half meter tall ugly-faced creature. His spine was bent, either so as not to hit the ceiling due to his body that was outside the size of a normal human or due to a pair of legs that were bent backward like an ostrich foot.

Muscle curves protrude behind his body that is without fur or skin, maybe the one that wraps his body is something that resembles a lump of brownish meat. Five black claws adorned his pair of thinly stiff hands. His head is a combination of a cat's face and extraterrestrials with a large black cavity without an eyeball. The thick lips were covered in a thick green liquid that dripped down like toxic waste. When the strange creature grinned, the pointed teeth appeared behind his long tongue that was slung like a snake.

”What's..”

The creature roared loudly. And Yudi realized that roar was what he heard two nights ago. The voice was clearly coming from this house, not from the forest as Mother Rose had said. The monster narrowed its eyes and walked over, its hand filled with black claws stretched forward like it was ready to whip Yudi's neck against it. Feeling himself threatened Yudi retreated regularly. When he looked back he felt wry because there was only a flat wall. There was absolutely no way out for him, he was sandwiched between the monster and the wall, with Wayan whose condition was unlikely to be able to provide much help, it could even require his protection from the ugly creature.

What else can he do in this pinched position other than fight back? Yudi knew he was no match for this great creature.In just one hit he would be slammed into the floor.but if he had to die in this place he refused to die without a fight. At least he should be able to give a kind of wound that will not be forgotten ugly creatures.

”Yudi? Why are you here?” scold someone from behind the darkness.

Yudi was relieved to recognize the voice of the Rose Mother. The appearance of the woman raises hopes that this creature can be expelled away, ”Mother Rose, please keep this creature..”.

The creature's attention was interrupted and looked back, at which time Wayan with the rest of his energy took something from his shirt pocket and threw it on the floor. A blink of an eye heard something explode and the room was filled with chest-stifling blue smoke. The oil lamp that Yudi brought fell and the young man coughed. His neck hurt, like it was choking. He crouched to endure the pain. Just then someone grabbed her hand with a hoarse shout, ”Hold me..”

It was Wayan. Before holding the man's hand, Yudi had seen an object of gold with a star symbol that was wrapped in a ring belt like a saturn ring on his palm, after that, Yudi felt his entire body like he was electrocuted by millions of volts. Before Yudi could fully realize what happened, his hiss grew louder as the thick smoke enveloped him. The white smoke moved up like the ripples of water in a calm pond....

Next he found himself on the edge of a dark highway. No more monsters...Mother Rose.or the basement. Only a grey paved road with forests flanking on either side, along with Wayan who was still lying on the ground, was unable to get up. Yudi crouched down to examine the man closely, the old man's body shivering, shivering, maybe because of the surrounding cold that bites or maybe also the endurance that began to decline due to blood that never stopped from the wound. Yudi rushed off the jacket and put it on to Wayan, ”You can hold on?”

”I have done from a few days ago.” replied Wayan limped.

”I will find help...” Yudi said while Wayan nodded weakly.

The old man must be taken to the hospital immediately or he will die in an improper place like this place. Unfortunately Yudi had absolutely no estimate of where he was. This street was completely foreign to him. I don't know if there's a house near here, and if he leaves this man alone to find a house nearby it's too dangerous. It could be that the monsters in the basement of Mirna's house managed to track her down.and if that happened Wayan would not be able to escape for the second time...

Amidst the confusion, an engine rang out before a pair of car lights pierced through the darkness of the night, leaving a fog of mist falling in the early morning, and the vehicle was seen going down a gray asphalt to drive towards it. The truck was a wooden hauler truck that used to operate at night, and its timely arrival was like rain that ended the drought.

Yudi immediately ran to the middle of the road while waving to stop the truck. That's something desperate because usually the trucks in the area will not care about people passing at the hour like now. The roads in the forests of Kalimantan are famous for being haunted by robbers and begal until the truck drivers usually do not want to stop even though there is a barrier in front of them, because they do not want to be fooled by a herd of robbers who usually use such means to make their victims stop, before slaughtering and seizing the truck owned by the truck driver.

The driver of the truck can clearly see the figure of Yudi standing in the middle of the road and because Yudi did not show any signs of succumbing even though the truck repeatedly mengklakson finally the truck driver who then stepped on the brakes abrupt. The large vehicle was almost overturned in such a manner of stopping. The brake wind sniffed loudly along with the steam from the exhaust next to the driver's door that was billowing thick smoke rolled black like smoke coming out of a smoker who coughed.

The truck stopped not one meter from where Yudi was standing and the driver's head looked up from the door window, ”Hey, demon! Have you gone crazy standing in the middle of the street like that? You could die knowing! Basic moron! Move...”

”Please us...” reply Yudi with a face of sanding. ”We were attacked by a wild animal.”.

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