FROM THE DARK TO THE LIGHT
CAMPING (1): BENGAL
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"Kids. On schedule. It's 8 o'clock now, it's time we roam the forest. All routes are marked with gold ribbons. Do not forget about the treasure hunt okke", said Mrs.Elly, a beautiful lecturer from the faculty of economics.
"OKKEEE MISS", replied the students simultaneously.
After the start line was opened, the students scattered into the forest with their group.1 group of 5 people. Group division has been done the day before the campus group leaves for the location.
Rachel and Alora, who are from the department of English language and literature, were assigned one group with Elions Moon from history class, Ahmad Al-Reza from economics class, and Farhan Malik from the department of Indonesian.
They entered the lush forest according to the route given at the beginning. There are 10 posts on the map. In the first post, they were asked to solve a puzzle as the path to the first treasure. The post is 100 meters from the start location.
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Home number 55
Jln. Wijaya Kusuma
A large European-designed house was built majestically behind an intricately carved high gate in black at the end of the road.
"No. I don't accept Mas Reno until I bring Mira's child here, I don't want to", said a woman with red hair. His face looked very angry.
"So far she has given up on the happiness of you and Mila, so long as I die without her by my side, I also do not accept Da!', yelled at the man who appeared to be her husband.
"I don't want him to come into this house!", his wife said.
"Diana!. Enough!", yelled at an old woman sitting in a wheelchair.
The woman and man turned around and lowered their heads despite still glancing at each other sharply.
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In forest...
"Akh!", Rachel held onto her right leg which was scratched by a thorny tree branch.
"Lo not papa Chel?. Which one is sick?", Farhan asked Rachel.
Elions took a quick glance and walked ahead of Rachel and Farhan.
"So Rachel ter-", Alora had just stopped because she heard Rachel's voice, Elions clasped her hands to keep walking.
"Scratch a thorny twig, not bloody" Elions replied without looking.
"But",
"My father said. Rachel was not bleeding. He again assisted Farhan in the back. You do not need to come to the back just because of the horror he said aw doang. Do you want us to lose and get punished?. Nope. Yaudah, go on" with Elions.
Alora stopped and let go of Elions' hand slightly violently.
"Gue knows my job, but Rachel it's me El. You have no right to deny me to check on Rachel's situation", Alora said with an annoyed face.
"Oh. Blind people like you can check Rachel's situation using what?. Eyes?", asked Elions while looking at Alora.
Alora's reflex fluttered her right palm and hit Elions' left cheek hard. Aware of his hand hurting others, Alora felt guilty and ran up to hit several people in front of her.
Elions. She was wrong, but it would be better if Alora cursed her, not to shut up and run.
"Al!. Al stopped Al!", shouting Elions as he ran across the line.
Rachel, Farhan, and Reza who had been left a short distance behind looked puzzled by the cries of the Elions. Rachel's eyes glared when looking around her but did not find her best friend, Alora. Rachel's calf that was scratched by a thorny twig was scuffed and bleeding, but only a little. Because it felt painful, he had to walk slowly. But when he does not see Alora anywhere, Rachel flounders and runs after Elions despite not knowing where, Reza and Farhan inevitably follow him.
The forest grew darker as Alora entered the forest area outside the map. He doesn't know where it is now. Alora just squatted down and cried. He heard nothing around him except the chirping of wild birds far above him. Alora was crying not out of fear, but she felt guilty about hitting Elions. He should have been able to hold back his emotions, what Elions said was right. Alora is blind, she can't check on Rachel properly.
"But don't have to say it's like a hyx", he said in the middle of his sobs.
On the other side of the forest, the Elions lost track of Alora. He looked in all directions but did not see any movement. Rachel, Farhan, and Reza who caught up with him immediately fretted because they were overwhelmed with the speed of Elions.
"Haha haahh. Where's the. Where is Alora huh?!. Where is Ell?!!", asked Rachel as she pulled the sleeves of Elions' jacket.
"Gue. I don't know . I've been trying to catch up, but I haven't met" replied Elions with eyes still looking back and forth.
"Lo said what's the same Alora?", asked Farhan who just sighed.
"Gue just said a blind man like he can check Rachel's situation. It-"
"PLAKK!!", a loud slap from Rachel landed on Elions' left cheek. Alora's 5-finger stamp has not been lost and is made clear by Rachel's 5-finger stamp.
"WICKED LO EL!!", snapped Rachel in anger.
Rachel did not say anything more and ran into the forest, trying to find Alora even though her right calf was sore.
"Gue tau lo temperamental El. But your brain is dipake dong. You talk to Alora. I'm disappointed to see you El", Reza said with a sad face. He also walks quickly into the forest and searches for Alora with Rachel.
"Too by the way our group lost and lost Alora. I reported you to the supervisor. If you need to go to the police", threaten Farhan before he catches up with Rachel and Farhan.
Elions ruffled her hair in frustration. He turned his body. Trying to find Alora. After standing there for a few minutes. Elions saw something flickering on a branch of a small tree 10 meters away from where he was standing. With little hope if it was one of the things that Alora left behind as a clue, the Elions ran.
Arriving there, he found a hairpin the size of a baby's pinky finger in the shape of a silver butterfly. She recalled the flops she saw perched sweetly in Alora's hair as they walked along. Elions look around and look for sloping or damaged crevices or parts of trees. Sure enough, 5 meters in front of him, another small tree seemed to be broken with the tip tipped up, there was a blood spot on the pointed part of the tree. Elions touched the blood and smelled it.
"Still fresh. Alora may be passing by here", he muttered as he ran towards the forest that was given a warning sign. Elions caught a glimpse but didn't care much. He broke through the thickets of the bush in front of him. The bushes that appear to have just passed by humans make Elions more convinced if Alora passes through.
Alora rubbed her eyes together because she was tired of crying. He tried to stand up but the pain in his left calf was biting. Alora held onto that sick part.
"Swet skirt. What is this?", he asked himself when the tip of his fingers touched something that was wetting his left calf. When Alora smelled it, both her eyes were round.
"This rusty iron smell.
Soon he heard a noise from a group of bushes not far in front of him. Alora retreated even though her head hurt because she had been crying for half an hour. Her calf that increasingly felt sore and both legs that were numb because of too long crouching no doubt made Alora difficult to stand.
"Grrr..", the sound of a restrained growl was heard along with the sound of steps coming out of a tall bush in front of Alora.
Alora could only sharpen her sense of hearing and tried to keep retreating despite the difficulty of standing up. The sound of heavy breathing and a deep growl rang out in Alora's ears. The voice was familiar because Alora had heard it.
"No way" he was with a deathly pale face.
The bengal tiger who seemed disturbed by his territory looked at Alora with a cautious attitude with both of his sharp eyes. He walked slowly closer to Alora who was walking backwards slowly as well.
With all her strength, Alora finally managed to stand up even though her left calf felt very sore. The tiger looked at him on standby and began to show its sharp fangs. Alora's fresh blood that continued to flow slowly and wet her white socks made the tiger's sense of smell think Alora was its prey.
Alora only has 2 choices with approximately the same risk.
The first option, he'll just be silently sculpting. That way the animal will keep its distance from him for a while.
The second option, he ran with injured calf and zero vision. The chances of him being chased are 100%. His speed would not be able to beat the speed of this savage beast.
"O Allah, help me. Servant please.", Alora's inner tears began to re-wet her eyes.
Elions finally managed to see Alora who was standing 20 meters away from him. But both of Elions' eyes were wide-eyed when he saw a Bengal tiger standing 10 meters in front of Alora who was standing pecking.
Breath choked. Elions looked around, there was no one he could ask for help. He should have taken someone else with him when he saw the warning boards installed in the region.
The warning sign reads 'BIDDEN TO ENTER !!!. YOU ENTER THE BENGAL TIGER CONSERVATION AREA !!!".
"Damn it",decak Elions.
If Elions cried out, then the tiger would run towards him, but Alora could not have come out of the area with her blind eyes. But if Elions let him, then Alora could be eaten by the tiger. Elions was already thinking about the worst possibility, which was if the other herd of Bengal tigers got to Alora's place. Then he no longer knows how Alora's fate.
Elions sends Rachel a message and puts her phone back in her pants pocket. He walked carefully and minimized the sound so as not to break the concentration of the tiger. The Elions must reach Alora before the tiger.
"Stop woi", said someone from a distance for the Elions to stop.
Elions turned towards the voice, 2 young men were standing there with backpacks perched on their backs. Elions had seen them with Alora. One of them once thanked him. Yeah, they're Nathan and Julian.
Julian gave the code for Elions to approach, Nathan had already brought some pebbles in both palms. Julian is too.
"What are you doing?" asked Elions in a soft voice
"Galihin attention the tiger is using this", replied Nathan while pointing to the pebbles he carried.
"But Alora will run away somewhere else if not taken" Elions said again.
"Eat first" Julian said
"Gue same Nathan will throw these stones in that direction as far as possible. If the tiger had run towards the rock,lo directly there continue to bring Alora run. We follow" Julian continued.
Elions nodded, Nathan and Julian put up the horses and threw the pebbles at an adjacent but not the same tempo. They made a noise and movement in the bushes 15 meters beside the tiger so that the tiger thought there were other animals in its territory.
After a few seconds of throwing the pebbles, they finally managed to distract him. As the tiger ran towards the rock, Elions ran as fast as she could towards Alora and carried her on her left shoulder like a sack of rice.
"Who is this!!. Lower me!!", cried Alora but in a soft and hoarse voice.
"Shhh. It's me Elions. We have to leave before the tiger comes back", Elions said as he continued to run out of the forest
Nathan and Julian ran behind him. The tiger was still busy searching for the source of the sound in the bushes.
They stopped while already near the first post of Emperor University. Several tiger handlers appeared to be on standby around the signpost, which read the warning after reports of tigers exiting the safe area. Rachel who got a message from Elions immediately reported it to the event committee and they immediately contacted the conservation.
"Alll", Rachel immediately ran over and hugged Alora who had just arrived and was taken down by the Elions.
Alora felt dizzy and nauseous because her position was not very epic. Fortunately Rachel hugged him, she could lean on his best friend for a while.
Nathan, Julian, and Elions cram the ground with faces full of sweat and hunting breaths. Farhan and Reza helped them by giving them a bottle of mineral water. After the three of them drank it, they were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.
"If you get caught, just kill the tiger!", shouted a post guard.
Alora coughed for a while and inhaled as much air.
"Don't. He just felt his territory was being disturbed. He didn't chase us", Alora said with a red face from sweating.
"really. They just want to protect their territory. Our tiger team has already entered the forest to make sure no other tigers have come. You can go on" said a tall man in a brown shirt like a zoo keeper uniform.
"Good Sir. Sorry we crossed the line. Our friend got lost inside alone, so we had to enter" Elions told the man.
"good. Next time you have to be careful because this is a forest area of conservation and observation of rare and wild animals. Although we have provided a distance between the path of visitors and the area of the animals as far as 500 meters. Still, animal instincts are sometimes unpredictable. So please be more careful" continued another zoo keeper.
"Well sir", replied the teenagers simultaneously.
After making sure everything is in order. Nathan and Julian say goodbye to returning to his entourage. Rachel, Elions, Reza, Farhan, and Alora completed their assignment in post 1 first.
Their task is to solve the puzzles given by the post guard as a clue to finding the treasures scattered within the map.
Fill out the first puzzle
There are boxes without hinges, without locks or covers,
But inside it contained living gold.
Everyone looked at him, they looked around. The students were scattered in all directions to find what they were guessing.
A few minutes later Alora moved.
"Is there another group behind us?" asked Alora.
"No", replied Rachel, Farhan, and Reza together
Elions approaching.
"Is there a chicken or duck farm around here?" asked Alora.
"Ti-eh exists. The only chicken farm here. It's probably 300 yards from here. We have to get out of the forest if we want to sampes there" replied Reza.
"We're there now" Alora said.
His friends were shocked by Alora's words.
"But why?", asked Rachel who was still feeling confused.
"Let me answer your questions there. Now don't be late here. We have to get there", Sahut Alora.
"I think what Alora is talking about is real. You are not far from the farm, there is a second post", continued Farhan who was looking at the map in his hand.
"Joah" said Elions, who stood up.
Alora stood up helped by Rachel.
Elions crouched down in front of Alora.
"Get on my back. We've been far enough behind" he said.
"Not to worry. I'm not going to jatohin lo", he added.
Rachel looked at Alora and Elions alternately and placed Alora's hands on Elions' shoulders.
"No papa Al. We have to hurry" Rachel said.
Alora nodded and complied. He tightened his grip on Elions' shoulder. Elions held back and lifted Alora's thigh and stood up. Alora poked her hands around Elions' shoulders and neck to avoid falling. Reza also did the same because Rachel's calf still feels sore, Rachel agreed because she did not want to buy time again. Farhan pouted for not getting a girl's ration and only carrying Alora's map and stick. Even so, he still followed the 4 friends out of the forest.
They headed to the farm Reza was referring to together. The organizers, the supervisory lecturers who were guarding around the tent gawked when they saw these 5 people so compactly running out of the forest. Some of the organizers smiled and looked at each other.
"It looks like they're the only team that managed to solve the first puzzle" said one of them.
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