SURVIVORS
Chapters 83. Sunil's will
There was no activity in the cabin this morning. The six people gathered at the mouth of the cave that Dean had opened yesterday. Widuri, Nastiti and Dewi were silent at the sight of the brownish arid rock mountain in front of him. From that height there are only a few green dots that are thought to be just shrubs that do grow in a barren place, or a kind of cactus.
Widuri retreated from the mouth of the cave and looked for a place to sit. The mouth of the cave was too high from the surface. His head was slightly twitching at that height.
"So what do you think?" Sunil asked to disperse the settling silence.
Widuri lifted her head and looked at all her friends. He sighed then exhaled slowly until his lips formed the letter O.
"The first challenge is how to get down to that hell. Have you thought about it?" Widuri looked at Alan, Dean and Sunil alternately.
Dean's mouth moved to speak, but Widuri's hand floating in the air asked him to be quiet. Dean immediately closed his mouth obediently.
"The second challenge is water. Without water, we could die within a few days. You guys got a solution?"
"The third challenge is food. Plants generally cannot grow there. Don't expect to find livestock. There may only be snakes, scorpions, lions or cheetahs and the like. Are you sure our security preparations are adequate? Let's not let us be their dinner." Widuri looked at the three men sharply.
Alan and Sunil fell silent to Widuri's mature calculations with just a glimpse of the desert.
"The fourth challenge is..." The goddess speaks.
Everyone turned to him, waiting for the continuation of the hanging sentence.
"How do I bring all those farm animals down. Because the walls of this stone cave are so high." The goddess finished her sentence.
"I can try to make a stone staircase so we can go down. Butii..." Dean hung up his sentence while observing the impatient expressions of his friends.
"But bringing the usual farm animals in the pasture to go down the stone steps, certainly not easy right. They were definitely not mountain goats that could climb the steep hills." Nastiti.
Dean nodded as he gave his thumbs up towards Nastiti.
"But we're not just hloo sheep. There are chickens and rabbits too" continued Dewi.
"I can actually carry them by hovering as we walk. But I'll have to focus on making the stone stairs. There can be no mistake about that. Or we'll all fall down there." Alan answered.
"If.. if there is one protective spirit, can he help you?" asked Sunil doubtfully.
"She can help lift livestock or things that don't fit in my storage." Dean nodded confidently.
"He's strong too, isn't he? That means there are enough trained people to deal with the fierce terrain." Sunil concluded.
Dean adored.
"I'm willing to drip my blood on one of the protectors" Sunil said in a surprise to his friends.
"Are they good Dean's?" sunil asked Dean.
"As far as I can remember, as long as I've known them in that time, they've been pretty good and responsible." Dean tried to remember.
"That's enough. As long as he's a good person, then he'll continue to protect our team, even though for example I might fall asleep forever under his dominance." Sunil said sure.
"Good people must know themselves, that they are dead and just hitchhiking in someone else's body. He should not have mastered it completely. If his domineering attitude comes out and harms you, it means he's not a good person." Timpal Nastiti.
"Let me try. I want to contribute to our journey. I've been thinking about it all night." Sunil was determined.
"Then, we return to the transmission room. Their bodies are there."
Dean got up and walked through the cave door. Waiting for all his friends to enter, then closed the door tightly.
They walked down the dark cave passage without any illumination for some time. Until finally found a dim light crystal of light that was put to mark the storage room.
Not after turning, they arrived at the water bath space where one body was placed on a stone tub beside the water. They stopped there. Sunil observed the figure closely.
"What's his name?" ask Sunil.
"He's O" replied Dean.
"He died sitting leaning, right?" ask Alan to make sure.
"Yes." Yeah." Dean nodded.
Sunil touched that cold and stiff body.
"Dean, help me" call Sunil.
"We should stay away first. Day time A can fly Sunil and Alan as soon as he wakes up."
Widuri warned her friends. They're moving backwards towards the door.
"You ready?" ask Dean.
Sunil thrust his hand. Dean pointed Sunil's hand over the body's head and slightly injured his finger with a knife. The two of them stared at the blood that came straight out of the finger, gathered, then dripped down. Falling right on the forehead of the body O which immediately causes a reaction. A pattern formed on O's forehead and face as a result of the blood.
Dean saw a faint bluish glow emanating from O's face. He moved away from Sunil's side, waiting for his next reaction.
"What's going on? Where's Sunil?" shriek the Goddess when she saw the blue light enveloping Sunil until only a faint silhouette was seen.
"Aaaarrhhhhhh...!"
Sunil's agonizing cry echoed throughout the cave, making the one who heard shudder in horror.
Long enough the light faded and Sunil fell sprawled on the floor unconscious. Dean immediately took the water with the stone cup that was there. While Alan confirmed Sunil's position in order to lie down properly.
Dean poured the water in the cup into Sunil's mouth slowly. After that, they waited for Sunil's reaction patiently. They waited long enough to get bored. Moreover, they realized that Sunil would fall asleep in such a way if his body was already very tired and sleepy.
"Ugh.."
There was a sound of pain. Sunil held his head with a frown.
"Sunil, how are you?" ask Widuri worried. He still remembers how Dean first reacted after being entered by spirit A.
A fleeting blue light appeared in Sunil's eyes. Dean realized that.
"Drink first O" Dean helps Sunil rise from his sleep in order to drink well and be fully aware.
"A?" his head looked back, looking for the source of the familiar voice.
"Yes, it's me." Dean shifted his seat so that Sunil could see it clearly.
Sunil looked at Dean with an expression of astonishment.
"You? What the hell's been going on?"
Sunil begins to realize that there is not only Dean, but 4 other people looking at him anxiously.
"I'm dead O. You and Z are too. The world has changed for a long time." Dean explained carefully.
Sunil was surprised. But then the water calmed down again.
"I understand. I and Z saw for themselves this world and the others clashing." O lowered.
"If I'm dead, then where's my body?" ask Sunil.
Alan pointed at the stone table beside him. Sunil immediately stood up and looked at the stiff body on the stone table.
"You've tidied up my ragged camping clothes. Thank you A." Sunil smiled sincerely. Dean patted her smooth shoulders while smiling warmly.
"Body Z where?" Suddenly remembered his friend.
Dean stepped into the transmission room followed by O. Dean paused for a moment.
"You don't want to reread the memory stored on your device?" Dean reminded.
"Ah, yes.. I forgot."
O turned towards the stone table and released the star mark that was stuck on the chest of his robe. Then Dean entered the transmission room.
O put the label on a small stone panel in the middle of the room. Thousands of data appear, floating in front of Dean and O. Both of them read all of the data seriously. Alan noticed all the letters floating in the blue light did not understand.
Widgets. Nastiti and Dewi waited patiently for Sunil's development. Hoping for the unification of O's spirit to increase their team's strength to explore the area of hell beneath the cave there.
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