Not getting enough with that thought, he just calls it a day and gets down from the hammock.“I’m going back to my room. Are you coming?” says Arifin to Tony as he leaves.Tony follows him, because indeed he also sleeps in the same room as Arifin, just a different bed of course. And there is a reason why Arifin lets Tony sleep in his room, and Tony quite understands that condition.Arifin always gets a nightmare every time he sleeps. He always dragged back to that ancient shrine, as if he never got away from that terror.Even tonight, he witnesses again how the zombies chew Grace’s beautiful face. But there isn’t that mystical kris. Only him running around in that closed shrine, trying to get away from the zombies who hunt him.It’s always an endless fight, and he will always be found delirious during his sleep. He retaliates so hard, with wet clothes and pale face.That nightmare will persist, at least until the little commotion he creates shakes Tony from his sleep. Only then does T
Minda’s dilemma doesn’t just end with that. The next day, Arifin even takes Andini out along with the team who are going to collect some food supplies.The thing is, when Arifin comes, Minda is already on the truck waiting for him. Now after seeing that Arifin also takes Andini too, she gets some mixed feelings.She likes to get off the truck. But she is just succumbed by her awkwardness not wanting Arifin to notice what she is feeling right now.“Um, she is coming too? Is it okay?” she asks with an unsure gesture.“She needs some changes of clothes, and she wants to choose clothes of her own choice,” Arifin explains flatly.They leave with just five people, all teenagers in Arifin’s generation. Two sitting in the front, while Arifin being the only boy sitting between two girls in the back.Andini is currently able to keep the production of that fume so low just like the other days. But the risk is still there.So, Arifin has to sit in the middle between them, just as a precaution to
The next day, in the afternoon, Jack visits that housing complex. He observes that area from a distance by staying in the woods, like he is spying on the enemy.He even makes a simple map, and then marks each point where they installed the floodlights. He goes around the place, just to find a spot that he could exploit. Until he gets to the area behind Arifin’s house, and finds so many people there.“Is this the spot Raden told before? Seems like they do concentrate their men here. They even make some camps around this area.”He goes a bit further to the uphill, so that he can observe the activity inside that housing complex. There he finds that most of the residents' activities are focused on the south, and the east part where Arifin’s house is located.The gate is on the west with a few armed guards watching over that area. The block in the north part looks so quiet, because indeed the house in that area is mostly unoccupied.He watches people in and out of certain houses. As he kee
The feeling is starting to be unbearable. But she still tries her best to finish the meal without leaving anything, just to show her respect for the food they served for her. And then…“Excuse me! I’d like to get back home first.”“Okay, I’ll escort you home,” says Arifin as he gets up from the chair.“No, you don’t have to,” she denies.“But I have to. I just don’t want you to kill anyone on your way back home.”“Maan?!” Andini whines with a tired face.They both leave. Cindy glances a bit at Minda secretly, and finds her looking at the two with a gloomy face.Cindy thinks that Minda is looking gloomy because of her jealousy to see those two being together. So little she knows, Minda is actually feeling sym
The next day, Arifin comes visiting Andini again. However, that girl denies his visit because of that sudden kiss she received last night.Arifin quite considerate, and understands the reason. So he doesn’t push his way and gives her some space.“Don’t worry too much. She looks fine today. Maybe she's just not in a good mood,” says Elma as she escorts Arifin out of the house.“Please, Aunty! Just inform me later if anything serious happens. I’ll stay in the complex doing my training.”Elma nods with her peaceful smile. And Arifin just starts his training right from that house, running around the housing complex to complete his daily training regime.He still wants to try the same thing as before, hunting blood and soul crystal in the night with a higher difficulty.Every time he passes that corner, Andini always observes him intently in secret from behind the curtain. She starts thinking, how great it is if she can join him with that jogging activity.At some point, she feels a bit of
In the next split second, that evil spirit flies so fast toward him, making Jack aghast with an open mouth.“Why don’t I make better use of your hatred, human?!”She gets into his mouth, and starts possessing him. Jack starts behaving like a mad man, moving rigidly in an erratic pattern. His limb looks stilted like a string puppet.He picks one broken metal pole, and moves with a weird motion toward Arifin. His left hand that holds the metal pole suddenly makes a move.The movement is so fast, much faster than how he normally could do. He slams the metal pole to one concrete stake, and destroys it.Slowly, his face expression changes with a mad grinning. In the next two second, he is already in range to hit Arifin with his metal pole.It shocks Arifin, but he is still able to react. The metal pole just slams the ground, creating a huge collision and sends the dirt and debris around. Just from that impact alone, Arifin knows how powerful that slam is.“What’s wrong with this guy?” he m
Of course, that evil spirit doesn’t care what would happen to Jack’s body either. It’s not her body, and it seems like she despised humans more than anything.Sadly, the next time Jack tries to slam that metal pole with the only one hand he has, Arifin severs that hand too.“What now?” Arifin smirks by sending an intimidating aura.Jack immediately gets away. That evil spirit thinks that she is still moving faster with Jack’s body. But in less than five seconds after she tries to get Jack’s body away, Arifin already catches up to him, and slams Jack’s temple using his knuckle.That’s the first time Arifin uses his full speed under that condition with the doping effect of consuming two blood crystals, following it with a hit using his full strength. He burns quite a lot of calories for that one move, and notices that his stamina has dropped to 64 %.“Why are you running? Are you no longer interested in my corrupted soul?”He pins him down with one leg, and then takes out his mystical k
Around 1 am, when the effect of that second blood crystal has ended, only then Arifin gets up and collects all the essence crystal. Just at a glance, he finds so many holograms pointing to the dropped crystals on the ground.There are so many of them that he doesn’t care to count anymore. This is the first time he gets this many, no less than 30 combine.He gets back with the bike, looking so tired with his physical condition at 46 %. But he is so satisfied with what he got.But then, when he reaches the gate of the housing complex, he notices something odd. The gate is slightly open, and with no guards.“How come they abandon their post?” he mumbles as he leaves the bike in front of the gate.He intends to push the sliding gate by himself a bit wider, so he can get the bike in. But as he gets inside, there he finds the two guards are laying on the ground near their post.He rushes to check on their condition. But they both look like they are just sleeping. However, even after he trie