Mystery of Room 13
Part 50: Substitute Lives

Wulan pushed me out of the room. I was stuck even my phone was somehow thrown to where. Wulan slammed the door until it made a loud bang.

"Wulan, Istigfar, Lan!" I shouted out loudly while knocking on the door many times. From inside the room I heard Wulan's voice laughing shrillly and sounding horrible. How can someone be possessed in the afternoon instead of events like this happening at night. Ah I don't know, one thing I have to do is to seek help so that Wulan is not more and more possessed by the demon.

I tried knocking on the door of the room next to me but no one opened it, maybe they haven't come home from work. Who else should I ask for help. Ah, why don't I try to ask Ms. Wati for help. He often deals with this kind of clenics. My footsteps swung to climb the stairs but doubts came back, because last afternoon the end of our conversation was not good. He was offended for whatever reason. Ah, the most important thing right now is to get help for my best friend who is being overrun by that invisible force.

"Mom Wati! Help u! Ma!" I screamed all the way to his room.

"Mom Wati!"

My loud shout made some residents on the second floor exit the room, including Bu Wati.

"What's up, Sister Hanna? Why are you screaming like that?"

"A-anu, that, Mom. Wulan..."

"Breath first, calm down, Ma'am." The middle-aged woman grabbed my arm to support my limp and trembling legs. "Return the breath first, after that a slow story."

After I catch my breath, I begin to tell about the condition of Wulan who is in control of invisible beings. "Hanna doesn't know how to free Wulan. Just now she pushed Hanna so hard she bounced out of the room."

"Honestly, Ma'am. I don't know how to wake a possessed person because for two years of living here, the most serempous thing was when the nights heard the sound of crying in her room Ms. Hanna."

"But right, Miss Wati who performed the ritual in my room, did Bu Wati not know how to help Wulan?"

"I just did what the owner of this index ordered, Ma'am. Even to cast spells or incantations, I was helped by him."

"Mom, try asking the owner of the index, who knows can help. Poor Wulan, Mom. Besides his actions can harm Intan as well."

Bu Wati and also others had asked what Intan's relationship with possession experienced by Wulan. It is better not to explain first because my goal is to save the two women, not to expose the disgrace of both.

"Later on, Mom. Please contact the owner of this index now, who knows if you can help Wulan, ma'am."

"Oh yeah, almost forgot. Just a minute, Han. I'll get my phone first." Not long after the woman came out with a cell phone stuck to her ear.

"Yes, sir, I will pass it on to the inhabitants of the index. I'll close first, sir." The woman came out with a slightly stiffened face.

"You're all asked to go into the room and lock the door and close the window. Whatever you hear, never go out of the room or peek. You, Han, also please enter Wulan's room above only. Wait for a call from me, you just got out of the room."

"But, Mom. My phone was thrown out of nowhere when Wulan pushed me hard, Mom."

"Mr Hanna's in my room!" I turned to the source of the voice, apparently Lina had already joined all of us.

"Yes, hurry up and get in. Remember if I haven't told you on broadcast never come out. Because the owner of this index doesn't know what he's going to face."

Lina and I rushed up to her room. Although it was hard to leave Wulan alone there. I can only hope that the creature comes back to what it used to be. After this I have to immediately dispose of the damn powder box.

"Lin, how do you make the box disappear? Let's not hurt anyone anymore, Lin."

"Lina doesn't know for sure, either. That box is a lot older than us, ma'am."

I let out a long sigh, my body is indeed here but my mind drifts everywhere. I keep worrying about the mother of two. How does Bu Wati process release the invisible creature, whether it will hurt him or not. Seconds by second passed, time felt obstructed even as if it did not move. Many times I asked Lina to see a chat group that was made specifically for the residents of this index, still empty there was no sign of Bu Wati giving the code that everything is safe.

I lay down next to Lina who was busy playing her phone but a moment later I stood up and paced.

"Mbak, just sleep. Let's just pray Wulan's okay."

"I'm scared, Lin. Something happened to Wulan." I squeezed the end of my shirt until it was tangled, sometimes so worried I bit my lips even to the point of bleeding.

"Sir, that's your bloody lips. Don't be bitten off, later if bitten by his girlfriend."

"Surely Hanna's mother has never been?" There was a tinge of embarrassment on my cheek that made Lina laugh. "Later sometime, Lina knows handsome guys, let Sister Hanna not be single anymore. What model do you want Lina to find. Lina if I choose a man must be top deh, according to the same wishes."

"You're funny, Lin. That guy's a dress to choose." I kept on laughing so I wouldn't laugh too hard.

"That's dong. It's pretty to laugh like this." Apparently the joke Lina threw was so that I wouldn't get too tense in the wait.

It had been two hours since all the occupants of the room were required to lock themselves but there was still no notice. What is the process of removing the genie from the human body? Wasn't it that in the factory there was a mass possession, the elders only needed a short time.

Amidst my fear, there was the sound of the door being knocked. I was about to grab the doorknob but was hurriedly pushed aside by Lina. "Why?"

The girl put her index finger in her mouth. "Ssttt, let's listen to him, who is he?"

The door was knocked a second time. This time someone outside the room called out to me. His voice was foreign but seductive and so soft. I want to see her from the window. Like knowing what I was about to do, Lina also prevented me from revealing the curtain.

"Mbak, no! Remember Bu Wati said no one comes out or opens the window curtain before he sends us a message."

"But-but..."

"We'll just follow ya."

I choose to obey Lina's words alone, after all I have often been deceived by invisible creatures. I was almost stuck in the village of Dedemit if there was no Simbok to save me.

Right said Lina it seemed like the one in front of the room was not a human because after she knocked on the door for the third time, after that there was a shrill laughter sound. Lina and I held their breaths in surprise.

"Lin, how's this?"

"Quiet, Ma'am. As long as we don't open the doors and curtains and keep praying for sure the creature is gone." Although Lina spoke in a trembling voice but at least she was braver than me who was sitting limp with tears and flooding sweat.

"Lin, it's the creature that possessed Wulan this time huh? His voice is scary, especially his form. Can't shadow me."

Minutes passed by in silence, Lina who was able to control herself earlier than me, thrusting a glass of mineral water at me. "Diminum first, Ma'am. Let's just calm down a little."

I drank up to the toilet to drink that gelasan. "Thank you, Lin."

I shifted my sitting position to get closer to Lina. "Lin, divide the recipe dong to quickly calm down like this. I've recently been forced to interact with those who are invisible but still scared, it feels like bedwetting. While you look calm. Are you not afraid?"

"Of course you're scared, ma'am. Indeed since two years working in the salon made me get used to their presence."

I was surprised by Lina's words. Two years of seeing ghosts, I can't imagine what it would be like to grieve them. "Kok can be like that anyway, Lin?"

"In my salon was visited by many curious spirits, most of them do not accept that their hair is used as konde, hair connection, and also a wig. Because there are customers who only want to wear real hair. Well, there are some manufacturers who use corpse hair, Ma'am."

I shuddered in horror at what Lina was telling me, unimaginably having to interact with an astral being who demanded her hair. Ah, it's creepy.

Lina's phone seemed to vibrate, indicating that there was an incoming message on her phone.

"Mother Hanna, Miss Wati sent a message to the group."

"Try reading, Lin."

"May no one open the door and the window blinds. Because the creature owner of the powder asked for two lives to replace Wulan and the wearer of the powder pellet as his slave!"

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