Sapphire City's
Chapter 33: Matis Jelmaan
Andy stared one by one at each tree he saw along the Cipaganti road. The large and shady trees, the presence of these trees make this road so cool and comfortable that every time Andy passes the Cipaganti road, he is so fond of every corner of the road. If only this was an ordinary day, Andy would now be here just to eat baso on the side of the road., if it was a normal day, now the story is different. The entire Cipaganti street is lined with dead cars and pedestrian statues. All the street lights are off, even the lights in each house also die, plus one strange phenomenon that rarely occurs here. Even though there is never a fog at night in the city of Bandung, usually the fog appears in the morning. This weirdness really happened.
The team leader this time was a dark blue hooded girl, Lina. She looked like a teenage girl or maybe around 17. He looks younger than Andy, but in terms of experience he is more senior than Andy. Then there were a few more members, 2 men and one woman, of course the figure when he first appeared when gathered to make Andy shocked to the end, Mirna. Though just 2 days he finished the mission with Yuda and Luca but now even the mission with Andy, whether he is strong or how, rich people overwork only.
Andy remembered very well when before he boarded the car in the basement of the headquarters., Lina was like advising Mirna to rest and do not take the mission first. But Mirna ignores Lina's words and gets into the car, so the hooded girl has no choice but to let Mirna take part in the mission.
“Dinda do you have any word of matis position around here?” Ask Lina to Dinda through the headset.
There are no signs of matis. Answer Dinda.
The fog along Cipaganti's path made Lina anxious, for some reason she felt they were being watched but somewhere the figure was watching her.
According to the information from the team, the matis who inhabit this road is a white tiger. But there is a possibility that the white tiger is a clothesline, because sometimes there are some mythical ghost animal incarnation. Plus, learning from the last mission, Matis can now escape the radar sensor of the drone so that if the operator says there is no matis figure, it could be matis actually there and is hiding. Because of this incident, the headquarters hardware team was busy repairing the drones so that the problem on the previous side did not occur (although it seems to have happened again on this mission).
“doesn't white tigers ever appear on the side 4 years ago?” Ask a young man first front line.
“iya, they used to appear” replied Lina “it was the location on the golf course, the number is 10”
“serious?” said the second youth again “ I think in the building so, I forgot about”
“asli, tiger on the golf course, feel the chase” said Lina with a face that says ‘I hate that mission’.
“mau golf course or forest was still a problem” said the first youth “jalan Cipaganti there are many trees, tigers are no different from cats, good at climbing”
The speech of the front line youth has a point, this road is really a suitable place to be a den of tigers, a tiger, until the matis could have appeared from anywhere including on them.
Dinda told Lina and her team that the location of the empty gem is near them, precisely in two trees that stand between zebra crossroads. There are two empty gems here. If described there is one zebra cross nearby stands a tree on both sides. Both trees have empty gems. Like in a squirrel hole.
As the operator said, the empty gem is in the hole of the tree, not too high and easy to reach. But the first problem of the matis figure had not yet emerged until now, this was too easy to reach the location of the empty gems, as if they were deliberately left to the location of the empty gems.
FIVE MATIS ARE BESIEGING YOU FROM ALL DIRECTIONS, Shouted Dinda.
Five white tigers, appearing from all directions jumped out from where they were hiding. Lina directly threw a light bomb. All five tigers were blind and could not see what was in front of them. When the view is clear. Their four targets are gone. One of the tigers growled violently until the front right leg was struck with acid until it was destroyed. He ordered his men to search.
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Andy heaved a sigh of relief, he almost trembled violently seeing the matis of the white tiger just suddenly jump out and was about to pounce on him. Just once Lina took out a bomb and immediately pulled another one to hide in a baso stall. But the size of the tiger Andy saw. Its size is not like the Sumatran tiger, even like the Bengal tiger which is famous for its large size and the largest in the world.
“they are good at hiding air turns” Lina said.
“but until now we do not know their main ability what” said Mirna.
Sorry, I'm not careful. Said Dinda.
“nothing is Dinda, Because of you, we can still survive kok” said Lina “but, are they disappearing again from the radar?”
Yes, the moment you hide, the five tigers instantly disappear. Answer Dinda.
“means it's one of their capabilities” said Lina.
“they can disappear?” Ask Andy.
“not sure either anyway, I tell you have not seen directly” replied Lina she stared all her members “for now we will find out, tau, is it true that the tigers can disappear or not, then Dinda”
Ah yeah?. Said Dinda.
“please ask the Backup team to bring ultraviolet light here” pinta Lina.
Uh what's it for?. Ask Dinda.
Ooohh ok ok, I'll call the backup team.
Feeling safe, Lina leads a teammate forward first, followed by Andy, Mirna and 2 male Front line members. If Lina could want to outwit the tigers, so that the incident did not happen again, but, she just did not know where exactly the position of the Tigers. the backup team took some time to get here with Lina's order.
The fog slowly followed, making a part of the road and the trees visible from a distance. This is quite easy to walk down the road cipaganti. It is clear that the chaos caused by the herd of tigers.the streets were filled with foot disgust, some cars and trees had been clawed to partial damage, indicating they had been here before.
Andy's heart almost wants to escape seeing this scene, dealing with a matis resembling ghosts has made him almost hanging. Now a bunch of bloodthirsty tigers, feeling like they're in the wilderness while she's a rabbit waiting to be eaten.
“what are the signs of matis?” Ask Lina.
“so far no” replied Mirna.
“Dinda?” call Lina.
Away from your location, there is a noise from the headset oohh good news, the headware team wants to send a new drone.
“I hope it's better” said Andy.
They arrived at the lower cipaganti. The backup team was already there with Lina's ultraviolet light. There are 4 lamps, the shape is like a fluorescent lamp, but the blue light is almost like sapphire stone light, only with this could they at least find traces of the tiger (if indeed they could eliminate him).
Each holds an ultraviolet lamp except the dominant Mirna wears a sword. But only 2 lights were turned on, 2 more were brought as a backup. Backup teams waiting for their location to come, they are only ordered to move in case of an emergency.
Just set foot to go back into the area of the road cipaganti, in front of them, about 1.5 km in front of the thick fog enveloped the area, even though it has not been an hour the fog has just shrunk now it has thickened again.
“my feeling is not comfortable” said Lina
“I feel they are waiting for us there” added Andy.
Andy's words have a point, Lina can feel the bloodthirsty matis are there. But they have to fight the matis, otherwise the mission will fail and the empty jewels will not get the light.
All Frontline members walked down the cipaganti road, until they arrived in front of a thick fog. Like the entrance into the wilderness, even though they are still on the main road in a provincial capital. Lina ordered her friends to prepare the weapons and remain on standby. Once they enter the fog, visibility will decrease. Dinda as the operator, keep his eyes fixed, although he himself can only see through the screen of the headquarters operator, but the tension in him still felt until the fingertips of the hand.
The fog is so thick, even hard to see, ultraviolet lights become the main lighting in the dark and fog. There was no sound after entering the fog except the footsteps of all the members. Andy held tightly to his gun well, never had he in his life felt this kind of tension except in his last mission to enter a famous but big hotel, on his last mission he initially thought he would be faced with a matis that was not too scary, how surprised Andy at that time when he was faced with a bloody bride's matis plus a deadly knife in the hand, just seeing it makes Andy reluctant to go to the wedding of people who wear all red clothes.
The sound of the sound, heard from all directions.
“should not split stick together” command Lina “Dinda”
Three matis near you, 2 more far away, said Dinda oh thank goodness this drone is better, one of the 2 matis is the leader.
Whether this made Lina feel relieved or not, but clearly, the information from Dinda was much better than before.
A white tiger leaped from behind the fog, Mirna immediately attacked the tiger, the tiger was injured by Mirna's sword attack. He immediately retreated into the fog as soon as he got injured.
Two matis running towards you!. Dinda yells.
Everyone get ready. There was nothing but an empty open mist and it shuts back. Instantaneous silence. As Andy fell to the ground, something pushed him. So strong and heavy. Andy's hands felt locked to the ground. Mirna immediately slashed at what gripped Andy. There is nothing like an empty wind.
They jumped back. Said Dinda.
Feels biased, previous estimates have a point.
Lina two matis running towards you. Said Dinda.
Without thinking anything, Lina immediately threw a grenade bomb in front of him. He then ordered all his friends to run backwards. A few decades later, an explosion occurred followed by the sound of a tiger's stub. Lina ordered two male members holding ultraviolet lights to illuminate the road from both front and rear directions. As they all ran away from the location.
For now, Lina was thinking of retreating back, they had to think of a mature plan.