The Seven Gates of the Universe
71. The Thousand Poison Forest
Towards the end of the night, Ki Farja's entourage arrived in the forest which is now called the Thousand Poisons Forest. On a small street that became the entrance of the forest there is a writing "Headquarters Party of a Thousand Poisons" . There is also a warning board that says "SAYANG LAMA IS BETTER BACK"
The hiding place of the Thousand Poisons Party was indeed in the middle of that forest. There was no mistake writing the warning board, because the entire entrance has been spread by a very deadly ferocious poison. Only the people of the Thousand Poisons Party were freely going in and out of the forest because they had eaten the poison cure that was spread.
"How's Ki? do we keep going in? the road to the inside is full of deadly poison" asked one of the young men from Karang Wangi village to Ki Farja.
"This swallow" said Ki Farja while giving a kind of pill to the youth envoy of Karang Wangi village. "Within a quarter of the night you will be immune to all kinds of poisons. Remember only in a quarter of the night, meaning that our time is limited to be able to defeat the enemy. If in a quarter of a night there is no result, as much as possible get out of here.
"Well Ki" they answered in unison.
After all of them swallowed the pill that Ki Farja gave them, they began to enter the forest of a thousand poisons. Just a few steps into the forest, their path had already been blocked by a large snake. The snake was golden in color, several times the snake spouted golden-colored smoke.
"Be careful not to expose your skin to smoke. We're just passing by, don't kill."
"Why Ki? is it not dangerous to leave it?" ask one of the young men.
"The snake is a passive snake. He won't attack if we don't disturb him, only that smoke is dangerous. But if we kill him, his blood will attack us." Ki Farja explained.
One by one they passed the giant golden snake. The first to pass is Nalini, then Ki Farja, followed by the young men from Karang Wangi village. Until the turn of the last two people, the snake moved and shocked the young man who was about to pass by.
Srapp...
The shocked youth instantly slashed the sword in his hand onto the snake's body. At once the blood spurted from the snake hit the remaining two young men. But the creepy thing happened, the blood instantly turned into hundreds of maggots and burst into their bodies.
"Yetoo..."
The two young men instantly collapsed and rolled around in pain. More and more blood turned into maggots and engulfed the bodies of the two young men.
"Awas..do not approach them." cried Ki Farja.
The other youths who were about to help his friends canceled their intentions. The call of ki Farja prevented them. Fortunately, they did not touch the two friends who were infested by the maggots. Otherwise, they will have the same fate as them.
The screams from the two young men who were exposed to blood were mutual. The maggots on the young man's body began to gnaw at the flesh of the person he was in.
"Quickly leave this place, it is more dangerous if we stay here" ki Farja ordered.
Everyone the emissaries of Karang Wangi Village half ran away from the place while half running. About half of their old tea drinking was packed, in front of them was a small lake with red water.
"Lake Bone Plumbers" Sizzle ki Farja. "They succeeded in making this artificial poisonous lake" he whispered inwardly.
"How do we get through this lake? do we cross directly." asked one of the young men.
"There's no way we're going to cross it right away, until when you touch the red water, your bones will crumble, and the flesh in your body will melt." Ki Farja explained.
"How do we do?" ask the young man again.
"we scatter the pieces of wood in the lake, then make the pieces into a foothold using the science of lightening the body." Sahut ki Farja's.
"Didn't the wood melt too?"
"No, the poison in the water only reacts to the flesh and bones, not to the wood" said ki Farja "Well everyone cut a few tree trunks, we make a boat to cross it" he added.
After quite a lot of pieces of wood obtained, they also spread pieces of wood into the lake water which was a distance across approximately ten spears. After quite a lot and meeting the wood that is spread, they also get ready to cross.
"Nalini you first" ordered ki Farja.
Using the science of lightening the body, Nalini crossed the beach on pieces of floating logs. Without having any trouble the girl got to the other side. Then in the following ki Farja crossed in the same way.
Seeing that the two people could get to the other side without hindrance, eight young men from Karang Wangi village were excited and appeared confident. Then two men crossed simultaneously and arrived safely. Then the next two people followed until two more people were left who had not crossed.
The remaining two people were preparing to catch up with the others. They began to run over the scattered pieces of tree trunk. Not until it reached the middle of the lake, suddenly the attack came.
Wussshh....
Dozens of arrows shot and hit the two who were about to cross. Both of them immediately splashed into the lake. Then something terrible happened.
Aaaa...
Screams of pain came out from the mouths of the two young men who were splashed into the lake. Actually the lake is not how deep, only limited to the shoulders of adults only. But the poison in it is what is deadly.
Several times the young man who was splashed in the lake appeared and tried to reach out for what he could achieve. It appeared that the flesh skin of the young man was starting to melt. Even a bone in his head was beginning to appear. Shortly thereafter no more screams were heard.
"Biadab.." furious Nalini.
Suddenly ki Farja shot towards the left of the lake which has tall bushes there. Then the man launched a long-range attack towards the bushes.
Blam...
A small explosion occurred. Two men dressed in black were seen falling over. Seeing that there were people who bounced from behind the bushes, just directly the young men who survived drowned there. Then with a blind slash they vent their heartache and revenge for the death of four of his friends.
"Have already been killed." Ki Farja.
The young men stopped their attacks. Two enemies were killed in good condition. Their faces and bodies were torn apart by swords.
"Let's continue the journey." Invite ki Farja who began to look less enthusiastic.