Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 12 Part 2 "Hunted"

*Play the soundtrack above for this part, it is a soundtrack from "De Oost" movie.

POV Ilya

Prayers have been performed, I returned to the computer room and got a message from that person. He said he had tried to contact mr. Erwin and mr. Erwin was trying to find information through his men from the IT field that he trusted, I had to wait for more information because he also understood that AES-256 encryption is the strongest encryption and can only be opened by someone who knows the description key. The problem is that since these files belong to the VSI's intelligence agency, the only way to get the description key is to find some people from the intelligence agency or ex-intelligence agency if they know the description key for these files. Unfortunately our time is short, we have only a month and 10 days left before the next trial starts and we haven't found any evidence that can help Karim's trial. At this rate, Karim will be languishing in jail and I also don't know what their next plan is, our hands are tied here. I'd better report to brother Lodewijk, but before that, I went back to check the number that I had contacted along with the information activity and the flows of the data that are going in and out from that number to make sure that he gave his report to mr. Erwin, I also checked whether his device had a double number or not and hacked his device's camera to make sure that he doesn't mess around.

After making sure everything was safe, I went downstairs and found brother Lodewijk who was watching the news on television while sometimes fiddling with his smartphone. I sat on one of the chairs facing to the side and began to convey the problem I was facing.

"Brother Lodewijk?"

"Yes Ilya, what?"

"The files that I found are locked using AES-256 encryption, in short, encryption is a key that scrambles the data of a file into random numbers and if we don't know the key, they can never be opened in their original forms, and encryption AES-256 is the strongest encryption. "

"Yes, continue."

"I already reported my problem to that person and that person said that he was going to report back to mr. Erwin, but I still don't believe him, since you have mr. Erwin's number, can I ask for his number? I also need you to contact Mr. Erwin and ask wether he got a report or not, just in case. "

"Just a second." brother Lodewijk fiddled with his smartphone then I saw on my smartphone screen that I got a message from brother Lodewijk's WA containing mr. Erwin's contact.

"Have you received my WA message?" asked brother Lodewijk.

"Yes." I answered.

"Meanwhile you hack it, I'll try to send WA and call him." said brother Lodewijk while fidling with his WA while I was trying to get into mr. Erwin's smartphone.

When I got in and check out the information and data flows that are going in and out from mr. Erwin's smartphone, I saw that there were various incoming messages from phone numbers that I didn't know and when brother Lodewijk tried to call him for several times, there were no answers at all. Brother Lodewijk stopped fiddling with his smartphone and said.

"He didn't answer, maybe he's ..." before brother Lodewijk finished his sentence, I cut him off.

"Wait a minute brother, something's wrong." I said to him with an uneasy tone.

I tried to check the informations that entered mr. Erwin's smartphone that came from a number I didn't know and checked where the number was connected along with the locations where the informations were coming from that unknown number that was contacting mr. Erwin and unfortunately that number was connected to the main headquarters the VSI's intelligence agency. Oh shit, shit, shit, shit!

"Brother..." I said to him in a worried tone, I felt cold sweats coming out from my skin, the cold is crawling through my spine and around my body.

"Yes?" brother Lodewijk asked while looking at me with confused expression, waiting for my answer.

"We... have to get out of here." I replied to him.

Without further thoughts, the two of us stand up from our chairs, waking up Muhamed who was sleeping and immediately left the safe house. This safe house is at the border between the city center and the countryside, so we were forced to walk to a place that was quite busy and received many visits such as a gas station. The gas station distance from the safe house is around 3 kilometers. We can only hope that we arrived at the gas station safe.