Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 16 Part 6 "One Step Backward"

*play the song above for the theme of this part.

POV Ilya

My two feet continued to run following the direction of the map on my smartphone screen, to a place that might be the hiding place of sister Tantri. However, my smartphone vibrated and I saw a WA message notification from sister Tantri. I opened it and read its contents, it contained a photo of the faces of two people, below which was a telephone number, then below the two messages contained photos of 2 faces along with a telephone number, there was a message from him.

"These are the remaining 2 terrorist phone numbers. You can track them down. Sorry for the late answer, there was a little disturbance. If you are on your way to where I am hiding, you better return with haste to the bombing location."

After reading the message, I quickly traced the phone numbers of the two remaining terrorists, took a quick look at the map, put a silencer on the muzzle of my gun and hurriedly turned around, running back to the Pasar Malam Besar festival tent.

When I returned, I saw quite a number of corpses lying around, which were dominated by members of the Jalan Darah motorcycle gang and some who looked like ordinary citizens. However, on the right and left of where their bodies laid were Uzi submachine guns. Uzi submachine gun type firearms cannot be owned by ordinary citizens here. What really happened?

I immediately opened my smartphone again and there was an incoming message from Muhamed about a few minutes ago. I read it and its contents surprised me.

"Ilya, if you come back and see a lot of corpses, they are SSE members who disguise themselves as ordinary citizens and shoot at the members of the Jalan Darah motorcycle gang. They all just appeared and showed themselves when all the attendees ran to the exit of the tent. Brother Reis and the rest of the Jalan Darah motorcycle gang members had a shootout with them and now we are still trying to find the rest of the SSE members here. I don't know whether they have called for their reinforcements or not, what is clear is that their reinforcements have come. I don't know if we can get out of here alive or not because there are only a few of us left and we're scattered so please hurry find the last two terrorists and when you find them, please don't kill them all, we need one of them alive for interrogation. "

Shit! How did they know if we wanted to thwart the bombing that was going to happen tonight? Why did sister Tantri took a long time to sent me a message containing the telephone numbers of the last two terrorists? I already trusted sister Tantri but this incident made me suspicious. Ah, get rid of that thought Ilya! Use the remaining time to find the remaining two terrorists!

I ran towards where the closest terrorist was then when I got closer to where he was. He was standing with someone holding their firearms and then running away from the bomb which was lying on the ground.

I ran half ducked, hiding behind one of the stands trying to sneak up and then, slightly parting my head to check if they were still within my firing range then I fired my pistol.

The first bullet I shot hit the head of the person who was my first target. The person walking beside him who saw his friend collapsed immediately turned around and fired a lot of  barrages of bullets at any direction while running to the place where he was before, then when the burst of bullets spewed out by his gun ended, I stood up from my hiding place and immediately fired my gun. Just like before, the bullet I fired directly hit my target's head, he collapsed instantly.

I took out my smartphone and checked whether the location of the smartphone owned by one of the two terrorists was still in place or not and it was true, one of the two smartphones whose owner was the terrorist I was aiming for seemed to be still on the map.