Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 26 Part 6 "Waiting in Fear"

POV Tantri

My car that I drove finally arrived in front of mevrouw Sofia's house. Worry, fear and anxiety still enveloped my heart, following me like a wandering ghost who couldn't rest in peace until the thing that prevented it from leaving in peace was resolved. The cold air of this city also made my body that was already shivering from being hit by all these feelings even feel much colder than before.

Yes, I am not someone whose heart is always filled with courage. There are times when I feel afraid. I was afraid that I would fail in countering the tactics of our enemies that they were about to launch on us. It was my experience with my friends when we faced our enemies that caused me to be unable to shake off that fear because they always managed to be one step ahead of us. What if they managed to outsmart our tactics again and in the end all my plans ended up in vain? Oh damn!

I took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly, took my smartphone which was lying in the passenger seat next to the driver's seat then turned it on, opened my smartphone and tried to contact Ilya via the Telegram application, asking for his help to check the flow of activities that occur on the internet network system in my main smartphone because I am worried that the enemy is lurking through the internet connection that is connected to my main smartphone.

After contacting Ilya, I took the remote control from inside my car dashboard and pressed a button that opened and closed the gate of mevrouw Sofia's house automatically. Slowly, the gate to mevrouw Sofia's house shifted by itself, opening itself up for my car to enter.

After the gate opened perfectly, I stepped on the gas pedal gently and slowly, my car moving forward to the parking lot on the side of the house lawn. I stopped the car, turned off the engine when I felt my car had fully entered the house area and parked perfectly in the parking lot then pressed the remote control button again and then, opened the door on the driver's seat side, got out of my car, closed the door, locked it, walked to the front door of the house, unlocked it, got inside and locked the door.

I took another deep breath and then exhaled, went to my bedroom, put my main smartphone on the small table inside then took my spare smartphone along with my laptop and some other important things that I needed and put all these things into my backpack.

After I checked carefully that I had put all the things I needed in my backpack deftly, I immediately walked out of my room to the secret underground room and locked myself in it to hide myself because I was worried that this house might be visited by unwanted guests who will destroy the properties in it as a part of their effort to search their target whom they want to destroy, just like what happened to my deceased father when the front door of our house was blown up by our enemies so that they could enter and kill him in a cruel way.

No, if what happened to my deceased father happened to me, then I have to try so that it doesn't happen to me and if what happened to my deceased father is a fate that has to happen to me too, then I have to make sure that it doesn't happen soon. I must be able to beat them at their own game and if I must perish then I must make them perish with me.

In the secret underground room, there is a table, chair and computer connected to various CCTV cameras that are installed in this house. There is also a mattress, a small cupboard containing supplies of Meal, Ready-to-Eat which is used by the military as well as a small bathroom and shooting range. This room doesn't look as comfortable as my bedroom but at least it has the things that I need to survive until the fake celebration day for mevrouw Sofia and sinjo Karim's wedding arrives.

I walked to the chair located in front of the computer desk, took off my bag, put it next to the chair then pulled the chair and sat on it then turned on the computer and opened the CCTV application to open the access to all the CCTV cameras in this house.

After the computer monitor showed all the CCTV camera panels that were capturing various images showing the interior and exterior of this house, the next thing I did was to re-examine the contents of the sheets of letters that are received by the guards who had also supervised the fake Ijab Qabul procession in accordance with the orders that sinjo Karim and mevrouw Sofia had given to me.

I read all the letters carefully, checked all the words, phrases and sentences that are written on all the sheets of the letters and tried to find any implied meaning or clues that might be in the letters but, even though hours had passed, I still can't find anything. Could it be that this time they chose to keep their plans tight? Ah, really I'm still not sure.

Huft, if Lodewijk was here maybe he could help me because something like this is beyond my capabilities. Oh, yes! I will send him a WA message and send him photos containing the writing on the sheets of these letters. Hopefully that stupid clown will help me and if he doesn't, I'll hack all of his devices and social media accounts.

I sent a message of my request for help which I accompanied with a threat. I don't know if he's still awake at half past four in the morning or not but if he's still awake he'd better give me the answer that I want or I'll have to hack all his devices and social media accounts and terrorize him until he does what I want.

A few moments later, my backup smartphone vibrated, I immediately took my smartphone and checked the notifications that came into my backup smartphone. The notification text that appears on the screen shows that the incoming message is a Telegram message from Ilya. I opened it and in his reply, he told me that an intrusion is taking place in my main smartphone. Ilya told me I should immediately turn off my main smartphone or secure my smartphone's system but, I told Ilya that was my goal.

I will let that person intrude and even hack my main smartphone because I want to know what our enemies will do next after successfully hacking my main smartphone. Yes, the downside of that plan might caused my social media to be hacked but that doesn't matter, I have other social media accounts that are linked with many different e-mails and phone numbers.

After giving Ilya an understanding of my purpose, he wished my tactic to work and asked me to be careful then gave his parting sentences and ended his conversation with me. Before our conversation ended, I asked Ilya to be willing to help me again if I needed his help again then he replied that he would help me as best he could and ended his conversation with me.

Dawn had arrived, there was still no answer from Lodewijk so, I decided to take a short sleep after performing the dawn prayer. Sleeping after the dawn prayer might be an activity that only a lazy person would do but, if I didn't do it then I wouldn't have the strength to face my enemies. So, to keep myself from sleeping too long, I set an alarm on my smartphone that will ring in about three hours from now.

After three hours had passed, my smartphone alarm rang, causing my two closed eyes to immediately open themselves. I sat up slowly from lying position, rubbed my eyes a few times, put on my glasses and immediately checked the notifications on the screen of my smartphone.

A WA message came from Lodewijk's number, I immediately opened it and saw its contents. Lodewijk told me that he was willing to help me then the message contained in the text balloon under the message I had read contained an explanation of the results of the examination he had carried out on the written text that are contained in the photos of those congratulatory letters that I had sent to him.

He told me that he had read and examined the entirety of the text that are written on those congratulatory letters several times and he told me he found nothing strange. He told me that maybe this time it was true that our enemy kept their plans tightly and did not send any clues, unlike when Riri was kidnapped where at that time our enemy who kidnapped Riri sent various clues in the form of videos and QR code puzzles.

I took a deep breath and exhaled then sent a message thanking Lodewijk for the help he had given to me. Apparently, all I can do now is wait until the time for me to face the enemy arrives while trying to control my thoughts and feelings that are filled with anxiety, worry and fear.

Heh, I thought my enemies wouldn't make me feel anxious, scared and threatened but, I was wrong because in reality even a hero know when to be scared.