Underworld Power
JoydaG confused by Bibi confession.
"Why is your own daughter willing to kill you?"
"Join forces with Max and Melianor. You will found the truth. Elia should also know the truth, but now I don't have time to explain. In Mantis, I'm the only one I can trust is you," Bibi said at the time.
JoydaG darted. What does it mean that only I am reliable. There are many people who admire her and there are definitely many who can be asked for help, but she said it was just me. Didn't it mean that she thought there was a traitor among us? And Elia.... what happen to her?
JoydaG shook her head. She couldn't believe a child could think of killing her own mother. There must be a terrible reason behind that, JoydaG thought.
While about this dagger, Bibi didn't tell her to keep it secret.
Bibi said, "You can use it only when you are pressed and no one is seen."
"Damn, I forgot the second important thing after her words. It because I felt a sense of urgency. I used it and didn't think that Madhu and Nija could have complained about it. Well, never mind, just face what will happen."
A few days later, JoydaG didn't get a call from the head office. Had Madhu and Nija given testimony about the dagger, while she hadn't reported it, the head office would have called her or they would have gone straight to her and tore her up, but a few days after the incident, nothing happened. She could have gotten up in the morning quietly, doing breakfast and daily activities as usual. She got a call from the office, that too for an investigation mission. There was suspicious supernatural activity at the Merak - Baka crossing pier. Without sending a yes or no answer, she prepared herself. It's useless to say no, it's better to keep going.
Nija picked her up as usual with Madhu already sitting in the front seat. JoydaG got into the car, then they set off for the location. After a while, JoydaG wanted to know the reason they didn't report the dagger.
"You guys didn't mention the dagger in the report, did you? why?"
Madhu and Nija didn't answer in a while.
"I thought Nija would," Madhu said.
"Well, whereas I was thinking you would mention it yourself in your report," Nija replied, watching JoydaG from the rearview mirror of the middle of the car. JoydaG had a faint smile on her lips.
"So, have we been united as a team?" Nija asks Madhu and JoydaG. He began to feel that there was a certain agreement that was tacitly established between them.
"What's the matter with the mission this time?" Madhu responded by taking out a tablet. He read the information inside. The tablet has a head office logo, so it is definitely not a tablet sold on the market.
"Today it was reported that a ship disappeared from radar. This, of course, would not have been Mantis' business had there been no supernatural activity. The suspicious activity happened as early as three days ago."
"It started with an office boy who complained that there were black claw marks on the floor and it was difficult to clean. The former increased more and more on the second day, the same office boy reported to the office."
"The office thought a wild animal had been released so they reported it to the wild animal conquering officers and the police, until then there were already several local media that responded to it and came to the attention of the national media when scratch marks were seen throughout the building this morning plus a ship carrying 200 passengers disappeared. I hope that with this you have gained the target of the mission."
The videotape ended with photographs and video images of the administration office at the Merak Crossing Pier - Baka.
"Didn't it mean that the Hole guards in that area have been defeated?" Madhu closed the tablet and placed it on the dashboard of the car. "Why didn't we hear about it? and they didn't explain it in the video either."
"I don't think that explanation is necessary. It's clear that Hole's guards lost if the creature could act on the surface, and the organization never announced a failure to us. That's the first possibility. The second possibility, this is not the deed of an underworld creature" JoydaG responded flatly.
Madhu clucked.
"It's not the deeds of underworld creatures. So you mean, it means that there is someone in this world who uses the power of the underworld to do it?"
"We'll know after seeing the location," JoydaG replied.
They then fell silent for a while. Each agreed that it is not easy to make a conclusion before seeing the location in person.
In a moment of silence, the restless Madhu suddenly revealed one of the things that disturbed his mind, "Since when did the underworld become stronger?"
"When? of course since man never again manages himself. More negative energy is produced by their minds, from fear, worry, depression, greed, anger, lust, hunger, and so on. All of it became the source of the power of the underworld creatures. The creatures that were once arguably the anchovy class, the more often they are given to eat, the more they will grow into giants who are stronger than you. They will also get stronger when there are humans who sacrifice them in exchange for the power that humans want. You forgot that basic thing?" Nija explained while sarcastically.
"Damn!"
"There is a list of passenger names?" JoydaG got them back to focus on the case. She is not interested in the exchange of power or who is stronger among the creatures of the underworld or the surface world.
Madhu responded to JoydaG's question by taking back the tablet he had placed earlier. He turned it on and reopened the only folder that was inside the tablet. He found the attached file. There is a list of names of employees of The Peacock Pier - Baka and also a list of passengers of the missing ship. After seeing it, he handed it to JoydaG.
JoydaG observed the attached file for a few moments. She returned the tablet to Madhu again when it was finished. At that time, they also came to the Peacock Pier - Baka.
Just as warned, there were already many reporters demanding information from the Director of the Peacock Pier - Baka. The person being waited for may be sitting restlessly in his room. The dock stopped operating that day. All ships that were about to cross were cancelled their crossings. The operational department is now in the midst of fog returning passenger tickets and responding to complaints. Only logistics ships that have already sailed continue the journey to their destination.
Nija parked the car away from the crowd. They could see that the situation in the main building was very chaotic.
"I'm going around, you guys can go to the Director for information," JoydaG said.
Nija tackled.
"I'll go around too. Two people conducting a location investigation will be faster than one person. After all, seeing the director just to report our arrival can be done by one person," Madhu said.
"Okay," Nija agreed and went straight to bring the tablet just now.
The pier was built since colonial times. Some colonial parts are still preserved when restored. The pier was built with the sacrifices of residents. They were forced to give up their land, houses, and gardens to be built into the national interest. The residents who had previously lived in one village were scattered looking for new places to live and livelihoods. Some return to be parking guards, office boys, or snack sellers on the edge of the pier. A handful of people who have a bachelor's diploma can become staff in it.
JoydaG and Madhu end up dividing the tasks. JoydaG goes around on the right wing and Madhu goes around on the left wing. They began to observe the shape of the claws attached to the walls, floor and various other common properties. The claws hollowed out, tore, made several buildings of the building.
This is not just a beast deed. Even bears can't do it. This creature is like being willing to tear down a building, JoydaG thought.
JoydaG stopped on the third floor of the building and looked towards the sea. The claw marks told by the video also romanized part of the boundary wall, fingered it. She smiled amusedly when she realized what it meant.
"Always, I have to fight a human being who thinks can control the power they gets from the underworld," JoydaG sighed. She turned her head because she felt the presence of Madhu coming towards her.
Madhu lit a cigarette and took a look off at the sea.
"Again, people out there used spells to create all this and also to hide their ship," Madhu said, then exhaled cigarette smoke enchantingly.