Pickup Transportation
Section 201: Tinung 5
"This is Har's third house." Alisha reminded, because after questioning the three heads of the family of the three houses they did not get any results.
"Yes on?" Har looked offended, because he had asked.
"I think your approach is too active, they're suspicious."
"You mean?" Har is getting upset, because he feels underestimated.
"No, I mean gini, we're going to build a solar power engine, you should open it from there first, don't go straight without shady aling-aling you ask in that direction. They must be reluctant to answer, Har."
"Well, I want to see you teach it to me." Har allows Alisha to do what she said just now. Alisha smiled, because the quickest way to get a man to notice you was to touch his pride. Make him want to beat you, once he manages to beat you and feels like winning, he's actually in your grasp, because he's doing what you're actually directing, the closer you are, because the truth is that the guy likes to compete.
Alisha knocked on one house, a man came out, she smiled kindly. Maybe because Alisha looks beautiful.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, we're officers from the power center, my name is Lais, if there's time, we'd like to ask around for the development."
"Oh, please sit down." The man who owned the house allowed Alisha to sit in the yard which happened to be a bench made of rattan.
"We plan to build the machine in an open place, so that the machine is exposed to the sun more optimally, so that for a day the machine can store electricity for use at night by residents.
It's just like this Kang, we're having trouble finding the land. We're surveying all the people whose homes are about to be used as a place to build the machine, because the place we're looking at is good, it's the people's house."
"Well, if a machine is built in a house, then will the house be torn down?" Asked the man, his face looked serious.
"Yes, right Kang, but the compensation can be higher than the market price, even two to three times that of NJOP, the sale value of Kang's tax object, or the current land value."
"Oh, well, that could be good news."
"Failure, so we ask the people, about the basic things that we should know about this village, its land, its culture and also the last are the myths that we should avoid. Even if we're from the city and modern, we tend to be people who value culture."
"If the culture and customs are, yes ordinary, if you want anything there must be a long time ago, if the myth, but you should know, so as not to be surprised, if one day, our village is crowded at night when a child is six months old."
Got hit! Alisha smiled in her heart, Hartino looked annoyed, because Alisha managed to extract information from this man's bragging capital.
"Oh yeah, what's up?" Alisha doesn't know
"In our village there is a myth about a girl born with a birthmark on her face, at six months old, she will die because ...."
"illness?" Alisha guesses the origin, so that the man is more hooked to the story.
"It does not hurt, but .. is taken by Ti ... Tinungs." The man whispered.
"Huh? Tinung kidnapper?" Alisha continued to make the man talk even further.
"No! Tinung is not human, he is .. Satan!"
"That's right!" Alisha looks scared she's acting, "i don't believe it, sir, where there's such a thing, it's just a fairytale."
"Not a fairy tale! It really happened, I was there when it happened, we were waiting for the last child Tinung took, all sidelined, we sung children's songs and finally played kayak gini." The man imitates a typical ancient game of children of Sundanese descent.
"Huh? How's the kid doing?" Alisha tries to pry on.
"Yes, the boy died when we were all conscious, I don't know what Tinung did to those kids."
"Those kids? Did many die with birthmarks on their faces? It's so weird."
"Yes, a lot! Yes yes ...." The man began to name the children born with facial marks and died at the age of six months.
Har recorded their conversation with his mobile phone, so that later he could find the identity of the children, what similarities made them born with the sign.
"Why many are also the victims of Tinung, Kang, what is the death of the decade?"
"Hmmm, if it's not wrong the last child who died was Wednesday, then the previous one I forgot euy, but the distance is not long anyway, about a few months."
"Then, we'll be careful, when a six-month-old has a mark on his face, we'll understand when people will gather to look after him, right?"
"Betul Neng, so, be careful, in this village, there are still many restrictions."
"We'll remember that, sir, thank you."
Alisha and Hartino returned home.
"Can't you?" Alisha feels like winning.
"Not because of that skill, Lais. It's because of your face, so the man replied willingly."
"Why my face?" Alisha pretends not to know.
"Yes, it's pleasing to the eye." Hartino's face flushed.
"You mean beautiful, right?" Alisha said that calmly, Hartino who became nervous, he was also confused, why he could be nervous like this.
"Dream you, jaudah, let's go to the next house."
Because the two of them could not question the family of the last baby victim who died from Tinung, because his wife was still mentally ill and her husband took care of his wife. Hence, they ended up meeting that baby before the last baby died. Maybe this one is difficult, because the approach can not be like before.
"What are we gonna talk about?" ask Hartino.
"Are we being honest when we want to help?" Alisha tries to find a solution.
"So big brother can be honest, because only brother can judge a condition. To be honest, it's a mutual choice."
"No, let's just get it down first." Hartino refused.
Hartino walked away from Tinung's victim's house, but Alisha instead walked in the opposite direction.
Hartino tried to catch up to him but it was too late. A woman came out of the house. Alisha was seen talking to him.
Hartino is late to prevent, Alisha moves not according to orders.
"So, ma'am, can we talk for a minute about the construction of electricity?" Alisha was forced to use the same excuse, rather than wrong it was better to be reckless in the old way.
"Oh okay, please come in. We're talking inside."
Alisha and Hartino are welcome by the woman. Maybe she was the mother of Tinung's child, the victim before the last baby to die at six months old.
Alisha continued to explain what they meant by visiting, until at some point she felt she could get into Tinung's troubles.
"Mom, it's so quiet, school boy huh?" Hartino immediately glared, he was annoyed Alisha clearly knew this mother had no children, she instead deliberately asked.
The look on his face became different, sadness was evident there.
"Sorry Mom, is Mom sick?"
"No, no. Sorry .. I don't have any children."
"Oh, I'm sorry ma'am, I mispronounced."
"It's okay, it's not your fault. I actually had a child, but ...." The mother held back her words.
"What's up, Mom? Is this a myth about Tinung?" Alisha shoots questions.
"You know about Tinung?"
"Yes, it just so happens that we were previously warned about Tinung."
"Yes, my son died of Tinung. Although our son was born with a birthmark on his face, but the baby was beautiful. We love him so much." The mother started crying.
"Mom, can you tell, what day the baby died?" Alisha just wanted to make sure of something.
"Day ...."
...
They've regrouped in the haunted house. Everyone carries information.
Ganding starts with far more failures than others.
How easy it was, because what they were looking for was inversely proportional to what they were going to do in this village.
But there are some points that Ganding gets, namely, "All children born with that sign, have the same fragrance."
"Yes!" Alka and Aditia shouted, that's the information they got from Mbah Nuraeni.
"Well, then what do you get?" Laka asked Alisha and Hartino.
"It's a little difficult at first, because they'll be so incredulous when we come asking about the myth. Luckily Lais found a better way to dig up information.
But even so, the last way I was a bit upset, Lais deliberately asked about the child to the mother who lost her child. Doesn't that hurt?" Hartino protested because along the way he did not get angry.
"Sometimes, in order to get what we want, it is necessary to go through Har's pain, the world does not go as you command. That's why we have to be a lot more pint if we want to always win."
"Yes, but that's not how our team works. We always minimise hurting others."
"I didn't hurt him, I protected us from being caught in disguise." Alisha defended herself.
"No! That's justification, you're using various means to get what you want including hurting people!" Hartino insisted.
"You never hurt anyone?" Alisha also did not want to lose.
"No!"
"What?!" Alisha who knew clearly that Hartino had never hesitated to hurt her this time was carried away by emotions.
"Yes, I'm sure!"
"There's probably a handsome man you've never hurt a woman." Alisha started out of context.
"What kind of man do you think I am?!"
"You two, SHUT UP!" Alka shouted, Hartino and Alisha kept quiet.
"Sorry brother." Hartino apologized.
"Sorry Alka." Alisha this time apologized.
"Continue your story, so what do you get?" Alka reminded them of what they really had to say.
"We know that there are other similarities besides the fragrance, in addition to the fragrance of seven forms and pandanus. The babies were born on Wednesday. According to the Sundanese paririmbon, or the Javanese call it Primbon. The birthday is the number seven. The number seven is always considered a lucky number."
"So you mean ...." Alka began to grasp the intent of Alisha's explanation.