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47. Tabuk Hilir Village

It did not take long, they finally started to approach the bright light earlier. Apparently true, that the yellow light they saw was indeed a light bulb. The lamp came from a wooden house that stood upright on its own.

"Excuse me, Sir, Ma?" greet Hana while knocking on the door of the house rather loudly.

"Is it all right we're meeting midnight gini? Maybe the one with the house is sleeping again," prevent Rea when Hana starts to add her strength to knock on the door.

Hana thought for a moment, Then agreed to Rea's words.

" How is dong? I'm tired of knowing," said Ita while sitting on the porch of the house.

Dana looked at all her exhausted friends including herself. Rea looked at Dana who seemed to be thinking hard. Eventually, the two of them met in one look.

There is sign language that is conveyed by both. As if discussing in the heart and understanding each other even without a sound. The discussion ended with a headband from Dana.

"We're building a tent here" Rea said.

"Here?" hana asked while pointing at the courtyard of the house. The home page is quite large. Coupled with neat grass because it is cut regularly.

They all stared around. There was little suspicion because he only saw the house standing in the middle of the forest. There are no other house houses around like the residential residents who usually exist. It's just that they're too tired to think of any other bad possibilities. All they need now is rest. Especially when it is almost morning. They have started to be very sleepy and want to relax the body anywhere as long as it can be used to rest.

Finally without thinking and discussion longer, they began to set up a tent in the yard of the house. Even so they still try to minimize the sound so as not to disturb the occupants of the house.

After the tent stood up they began to enter the tent and rest. There are only 2 tents that they set up to sleep tonight.

2 tents alone it feels like they have enough sleep. Just like before one tent contains the men, then the other tent contains the women. For tonight there is no one as alert as before. Because they were all so exhausted. They could only pray that God would protect them while they slept. Also hope that Fauzan does not chase them to the spot.

"Eh, but Ozan won't be looking for us here, will he?" apri asked as they were about to get ready for bed. The five of them already occupied their respective places. Sleep in the same position. On the right is Rea next to Rea, Apri then Diah then Ita and on the other end is Leni. They got into their sleeping bags.

" I don't think so. If Ozan is going to keep chasing us, he should follow us too, just as we came out of the woods, right?" rea said with complete confidence.

"Yes, too."

"But strange don't you think? Why is Ozan suddenly not chasing us again? Whereas in the woods he seems to be blindly chasing us" Leni said.

"Yes, it's weird. But we all don't know what the answer is. At least if he has not chased us again, we can breathe a sigh of relief," said Diah.

"Yes, really."

In the other tent, discussions are ongoing. They didn't talk about Ozan stopping teaching when they came out of the woods. Instead, they are talking about the place they are occupying right now. Especially the house behind their tent.

" I think this is an uninhabited house. It feels like a house that has not been occupied for a long time. You see, right, it was the terrace, dirty," explained Blendoz analyzing.

"Yes anyway. Dirty. But the light is on. If it is not inhabited, the lights die too" added Hana.

"Perhaps who has another house goes far away, and deliberately turns on the lights of his house," said Hani.

"Yes, maybe too. Let's see what tomorrow is. I hope there's someone in the house, so at least we can ask for help."

"Hopefully. Yes, we go to sleep first. We need rest too. Our journey is still far away," said Dana.

Finally, they all slept in a supine position, in a sleeping bag that had been brought from home.

A tired body made them all instantly sleep soundly. Even the snoring from them was earthy with each other.

Outside the tent, the atmosphere looked silent. But there was a pair of eyes watching them from behind the window.

A few hours passed. Rea immediately opened his eyes when he heard someone calling his name. He was surprised, and immediately sat while paying attention around. After waking up, he did wake up frequently arriving all this time.

"God! Where am I?!" he mumbled asking himself. But as soon as he looked around, there were other friends. Finally he realized that he was in Kalimantan with his college friends.

Rea then looked around the tent because it began to appear there was light. He also began to realize that it was morning.

"Hey, wake! It's morning!" rea said as he patted his sleeping friends.

Rea's noisy voice made them all disturbed and finally woke up albeit lazily.

"Yes yes, Re. Bentar. Kumpulin lives first," said Ita with eyes still closed.

Leni, who was awake, decided to sit down first, with Diah. They have started to open their eyes even though drowsiness still feels dark. While Apri still slept with Ita, under the pretext of wanting to collect lives first.

Rea, who was fully aware, decided to get out of the tent, out of curiosity about the situation outside the tent. Especially he wanted to see if there were residents in the house or not.

The zipper was opened, cold air went straight into the tent and managed to make Rea's friends scream cold.

Rea only chuckled at deliberately doing so so that they all woke up from the drowsiness that was still lingering. But he then closed the zipper again. "Hunting out. If not I dismantle this tent," threatened Rea.

"Barp tea!"

"Re? You up?" ask Dana with a friendly smile.

"Eh, U - U. You guys woke up in the morning?" ask Rea base stale.

"Yes. Oh yes, know. This is Pak Warto and Bu Yuni. They're the owners of this house, "pointing Dana to the house behind the tent they went to last night.

Rea nodded and approached them. As a newcomer to the place Rea also tried to be as friendly as possible to respond to the 2 people. He reached out and greeted them one by one while introducing himself. Pak Warto and Bu Yuni looked like ordinary villagers. Their clothes are simple. Even a little bit of a machete. Because the color has faded. But of course the clothes are clean. Not dirty or tattered clothes like a roadside madman.

" Well, how?" rea asked glanced at her other friends.

" Pak Warto and Bu Yuni have explained everything, Re."

"What does that mean?" ask Rea who does not really understand Dana's intentions.

"We are now in Tabuk downstream."

"Blood down? Eum, different, yes, same Tabuk upstream? Mr. Wiryo's house."

"Oh, different, Mba. Although the name is the same but this village and the village of Tabuk Hulu is a different place. Hulu's dad is across the North of the forest. But also know each other," explained Pak Warto.

"Oh so. But ... Sir, why is there only a father's house here? Where are the other villagers going?" Rea looked around and still did not find another house in the place other than Pak Warto's house.

"The other house is across there, Re. Indeed, Pak Warto's house is a bit away from the houses of other residents. But the other villagers are over there. We've even been checking there," Dana said, looking carefree now.

Rea nodded in signs he understood. Hearing the long discussion that occurred between them, Apri, Ita, Leni and Diah then immediately came out of the tent. They were just as shocked as Rea's reaction.

"This is it. New to wake up, my God. Girls instead of getting up early in the morning, cook, wash dishes, wash clothes and even just wake up. First the cock crowed tofu," sneered Hana.

"Lo thought I was your maid!" cetus Leni cynical.

After everything was gathered, Dana also explained what information she got earlier.

Tabuk Hilir Village is the name of the village. The village was not inhabited by humans. There are only about 40 families in the village. The position of their Village which was far from the highway and also surrounded by dense forest made their Village a little isolated from the outside world. But according to Pak Warto, Villagers in Tabuk Hilir also often go to the nearest traditional market.

The arrival of Rea's entourage and friends was welcomed by the surrounding residents. They have also told everything they experienced to Pak Warto and Bu Yuni. Especially about Fauzan who is still in the forest.

They were then invited to meet the Village Chief who was located in the middle of the village, a little far from the house of Pak Warto and Bu Yuni. The house of Pak Warto and Bu Yuni is like a village archway that marks the Tabuk Hilir Village there.

The houses in the village are the same as those in other villages. The building is still made of wood. There is no permanent house made with bricks and ceramic floors like modern homes are usually found in big cities. The houses in the village are only walled with wood. The floor is still a dark old tehel floor. The houses are lined up neatly along the left right of Jalan Setapak. There are no asphalt roads. In the village still use small pebbles scattered along the road. Even since then they have not found any engine vehicles in the village. They still use carts or bicycles to move around.

They were already at the village head's house. A cup of warm tea that is still steaming smells up to the base of the nose. Coupled with warm fried bananas served on the table handmade by the Village Chief Mother.

"Pak Warto has explained about your arrival earlier," said the village head.

The nine of them sat on the wooden chairs that were in the living room of the village chief's house. Only the house looks wider than the other houses. There are some displays such as paintings and leather puppets that are plastered on the wooden walls around them.

"Oh, right, sir? Sorry if our arrival disturbed the villagers here as well as the village chief. We really don't know where to go. We already knew the way home, but our friend suddenly acted strangely and seemed to block us so we wouldn't get out of the forest" explained Dana.

The village chief smiled. He also nodded as if understanding their situation and condition.

"The forest is not a forest. Even our villagers did not dare to step foot into the forest. There's something evil in there. It's just you don't have to worry. Because something evil won't get out of there. He'll only be able to attack inside the forest."

"Oh yeah? Is that right, sir?" tanya Hani looked enthusiastic.

"Yes, right."

"Well, it's only fitting that our friend didn't come after us again last night!"

"It's right sir. He just stood on the edge of the forest and ran after us like before. He only watched us leave the forest."

They told each other the things they had experienced in the forest.

" that's absolutely true. The forest has an old well, which was once used to imprison a demon named Amon. He is a very dangerous creature. Even while he was in the well alone, Amon could influence the creatures around him to obey him and do everything he was told to do. Therefore a Kyai in the next village did a magical fence that surrounds the forest. The goal is that Amon will not be able to get out of the forest forever. It's just that the prison for Amon was little by little broken eaten up by age. The only way is not to go to the forest no matter what. There was once a tragic story that befell a village far from the forest."

" what kind of tragic story, sir?"

"Amon got out. He borrowed the body of someone who was fit for him. That person also had made Amon able to get out of his prison. He went to a village and committed massacres everywhere. There were many casualties at that time. They all died in a horrible way."

"Oh, my God, then why is Amon back in that well, sir?" ask Blendoz enthusiastically.

" the possessed person is then conscious. Even the soul of that person Amon Rasuki brought him back into the well."

" it turns out there's someone who can get Amon out of his prison huh?"

"Well, can. There is only 1 generation of human beings who have a pure soul that can get Amon out of the prison. Actually the pure soul he had was not just to get Amon out of his prison. But much more powerful than that. After the incident she had a mark on her nape.like a strange tattoo symbol. And whosoever has the tattoo, he is the one who can get Amon out of his prison. "