SAWMILL
224. MYSTERIOUS FOOTPRINTS

At night around ten o'clock the business with the police was over. We have been questioned with hundreds of questions that sometimes feel repeated.

The case was declared pure suicide without any relation to others, so the police have no reason to keep us here any longer.

For reasons of suicide is being followed up by the authors. They will develop an investigation into the families concerned in the city of Semarang.

We were allowed to go home and go back to the hotel. But we were not allowed to operate the hotel until the decision on the suicide was finalized.

For now we are only allowed to clean the hotel first.

Tonight we pressed a ride on Jay sir's car, the five of us returned to the hotel Singgasana Adem Ayem.

“Enough enough yes... than you are confused how to go home to hotel” said Jay sir.

“We'll talk at the hotel first.. But before we look for dinner first children” said Mr. Jay who then sent his driver to a restaurant that is still open until night

Wani Wareg, a depot or some kind of large enough warkop that until night is still crowded visitors.

Jay invited us to eat here before we went back to the hotel.

*****

In front of the hotel Singgasana Adem Ayem which is now pitch black. Only the street lights from the village leading to the hotel are on, because the street lighting will automatically turn on when the day is near night.

But in the middle of the woods.. In the parking lot and the main building of the hotel the situation is pitch black and creepy.

Is this the work of Watuadem who released the police line.

“Wait here first.. I will check the inside of the hotel it” said Pak Diran.

This hotel does look creepy because it is dark and also after the suicide case it adds horror.

There was no sound of speech in the parking lot as long as Pak Diran entered the main room.

Suddenly the parking lot lights and the main room is on.. Things became bright and normal despite the fear of entering and heading to room number ten.

Not long after, Sir Diran came out of the main room and told us to go into the hotel.

But when we were already in the main room he told us to temporarily not go to the back first, because Pak Diran will check the back first.

“Mas Agus. accompany me to go back first” said Pak Diran

“No need sir Diran, we are all going to the back, this business has become a joint business, so we have to see whatever is here with sama” said Jay

“Alright Jay.. Let's go back, but please remember, we haven't turned on the petromak lights in the park yet, so let me and Mr. Agus turn on the lights for back lighting first Mr. Jay” said Pak Diran

I and Sir Diran with flashlight lighting filled the kerosene to the two petromac lamps in the back garden…

The situation behind this is quite scary because the rooms are empty with open doors, because the doors were opened for air change.

After the petromak lights went off, Jay, Tina and Jiang went to the middle of the park…

Surprisingly this area of the park smelled bad as rotten as a carcass that had been killed for several days.

“Any yes.. Though the body of Mr Prabowo's family has been evacuated to the hospital, but why does this backyard stink?” said Jay

“We first see the state of the room number ten pak” said Pak Diran

One petromak lamp was brought by Jiang, the other I brought.

With two petromak lights, we headed to room number ten whose position was at the end.

This petromak light was so bright that it made us brave enough to step into the dark back of the hotel.

“Stop here first.. This stench is getting sharper around here.” said Pak Diran who then borrowed the petromak lamp that Jiang brought.

“You wait here, I want to go into that room,...but why should the door be closed like that” said Pak Diran.

“So I told Watuadem to clean the blood that is in there Sir Diran, so maybe Watuadem who closed the door was” replied Jay

“Ya already... y'all just wait here, I will open the door and enter into” said Pak Diran

Strange as well, actually, the grass and some of the gravel rocks around here do not look wet or at least there is residual water used to clean the room.

I'm sure the Watuadem didn't clean the room, he just closed the door.

Sir Diran with a petromak lamp opened the door to room number ten.

“Pak Agus.. please visit this petromak lamp, I want to open the door to room”.

“Bentar sir.. I love this petromak lamp I brought to Jiang first”

Finally Sir Diran needs my help too, he told me to hold the petromak lamp because he will open the door and prepare if there is something unexpected in there.

The stench grew worse when Diran and I were on the terrace of room ten.

This petromak light I kinda lifted up so that the light is more illuminating the wider part.

Mr. Diran opened the door of the room …

“Uuhgghhhh .. hooeekk!.. The smell is so bad Diran” pack when Pak Diran has opened room door number ten

“Uuhhh please illuminate the inside of Mr. Agus.. uuhhbb I suspect there is still a lot of blood in here pak”.

When I lifted and I put some light into the room, it turned out to be true my guess.The floor was still black because the blood was getting dry, and the smell was very rotten.

It turned out that Watuadem had not cleaned this residual blood from inside the hotel at all. I'm sure watuadem was terrified when he was left alone here, as a result of which he himself left after we headed to the police station this afternoon.

“Pak Jay... This room has not been cleaned at all, the blood that was flooded this afternoon has now dried up and caused a foul smell” said Pak Diran

“Ya already pack Diran.. later in the morning you guys clean the room until clean, later I will give you overtime for all of you” replied Jay sir from the middle of the park

“Pak Agus.. bring here the map.. I want to go inside there”

“How to enter sir, means you have to step on the stagnant blood?”

“He is Mr. Agus.Traces of police shoes and hospital officers will also be in there, just the same sir, we still have to step on the blood that is mostly dry it”

“Ngot a problem actually Mr. Agus. so yes just pray that the owner of this blood does not matter when we step on this dried blood of theirs.

“Because at night yesterday, when we go to the back of the hotel, we will have time to smell the incense again, Mr. Agus.”.

“Means Mr. Owo and his family had lit incense again in the room, and the goal is what we have to find out Mr. Agus”

When Sir Diran will go inside.. When the petromak lamp was lifted a bit high.My eyes were fixed on a pair of footprints without shoes in the room.

Among the footprints of the police officer's shoes, there was another trail, bare footprints imprinted in the dried blood. And Mr. Diran also saw the footprints.

“Retreat first Mr. Agus.. there are traces of a pair of legs..!”

“Try to brighten the footprints barefooted Mr. Agus, because the footprints are abnormal..”.

“Eh sir.. It's footprints without shoes and some of his toes are no pack, which is printed in the blood there are footprints that some of his toes seem to break pak”

“But these footprints only step three steps out only Mr. Agus,  these deformed footprints if noticed come from the inside and go outside pak”

“Means inside this hotel there are others besides us pak”

“That's what I was thinking about Mr. Agus..”.

“Better we do not enter first Mr. Agus, and report to Jay sir what we have seen, including the footprints without the defective shoes it”

“Later if there is a sunrise we enter and clean this room Mr. Agus”

*****

In the main room, after we decided not to go into room number ten before sunrise because there were suspicious footprints, we and Jay discussed the state of this hotel.

“So in there are footprints that are deformed sir Diran?” ask Jay sir

“Not only is the flaw of his concern to both of us sir, but the footsteps printed in the fresh blood were headed out sir, and earlier we did not see footprints without shoes that part of his finger was not there it entered from the door of the room Pak” replied Sir Diran

“But last time there was an investigation from the police, did the footprints exist?”

“So no sir, just a shoe trail from the police and the hospital took three bodies from inside the room”

“And strangely I can not feel the presence of evil supernatural beings here, here the situation is the same as when we were here.. “

“Even the family spirit of Mr. Owo I can not detect it”

“So the conclusion from tonight, in this hotel there are others besides us .. isn't that so sir Diran?” ask Jay sir whose face turned into fear”

“Could be sir..mangkanya I invite us to enter the main room and lock the main room door until sunrise pak” replied Pak Diran

“Then my driver how about Siran?”

“May the driver be safe in the car pak”

“Oh yes sir Jay. please cancel catering for a while sir.. because usually the catering will come here around five to fifty in the morning pak”.

“I will contact now the cateringnya mas Agus, all I give a short message...”.

We were in the main room until sunrise and the situation around the hotel was bright, I don't understand who the footprints were, and why do not you see the footprints that go into the room.

And whether the footprints have anything to do with the death of Mr. Prabowo's family who came from a town far from here.

Actually it is also strange if an elderly couple traveled far just to stay overnight or two nights at this hotel with a child.

Is the death of Mr Owo's family meaningful for this hotel?

“Pak Jay.. please think again in terms of security of this hotel sir, to add rear security personnel, and be more selective in receiving guest” said Pak Diran suddenly

“Iya sir.. I also think like that just now, should the guests who will stay here not just any guests, but guests who want the challenge of staying in the open”

*****

At seven o'clock in the morning after Jay left the hotel, the four of us were still sitting on the sofa in the main room, we were confused about what to do, because things were so confusing.

“We better clean the rest of the blood in room ten alone, rather than confused do not know what we will do” said Pak Diran

“Do not until there is residual blood attached to each wall or bedroom furniture” added Pak Diran

In front of room number ten we stopped. Frankly I was lazy to go into the room whose floor was full of black blood that had dried up, but want how again, how else, we need to clean the blood clean

Mr. Diran opened the door of the room he closed last night again. But something is strange

“The disabled footprints are missing?”

“Iya sir Agus…. Eh did we see wrong last night, Mr Agus, maybe because we use petromak lights that cause strange shadows?”

“What is missing mas?” ask Tina

“The last night's disabled footprints are no mbak, there are only traces of police shoes and officers from the hospital alone are here”

“Perhaps last night mas Agus and Pak Diran misview maybe” said Jiang

“Ah where we may have seen Jiang wrong. The disabled footprints are real and cook petromak lamp that we carry it is less bright sih” replied Pak Diran.

Finally, with a bad feeling, we went into the room…. The pooled blood was already black in color and had dried up, it would definitely be difficult to clean it.

But we have to clean up that blood rather than later there will be problems later on.