Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 12 Part 1 "Safe House"

POV Ilya

The sky shed tears again when we arrived at the safe house provided by mr. Erwin. A middle-aged man wearing a green parka jacket, blue jeans and sneakers greeted us and escorted us into the house as quickly as possible so that we would avoid the pouring tears of the sky that seemed to often cry as if knowing the various sad stories that the humans here experienced. Brother Lodewijk with the death of his twin, Muhamed who had to save his cousin, mevrouw Sofia who fought for her love and then me who had to finish what I started which caused them all to be in this situation.

Do you think I'm scared? No, it is not fear that I've felt but regret. Regret for endangering their lives only for something that I thought is right especially after mr. Ilhan and mrs. Chandra lost their lives due to my negligence. If father finds out what I have done, will he forgive me? Will he tolerated what has happened to them? Ah, I don't know.

Sometimes, I feel that the people around me think that I am just a disturbance of their calm and peaceful life but, if I think about it, it wasn't really me who started the war but heer Vinno who started it. He was the first to upload the fake video while I tried to counteract the accusation by uploading the original video. I thought my struggle would be easier, but I think this Indonesian proverb is true, "as smart as squirrel jump, it will fall too."

I want to apologize to mevrouw Sofia, brother Lodewijk, Muhamed, Karim, mr. Wisnu, Mrs. Chandra and mr. Ilhan but as Indonesians say "the rice has turned into porridge", it's useless to think about that now. Brother Lodewijk chose me as one of his partners in solving this case not without reason and because of that, I have to use my skills to help him as best as I can.

After we got into the house. He took us to see the whole house and showed us each of our rooms. The house is neither big nor small, well at least it's enough for us to carry out our activities that are related to investigating evidences or the like with safety from being chased by that police unit who managed to hack into my smartphone.

After he showed us the rooms, he showed me a special room, a room that contained quite sophisticated and the latest upgrade for hardwares that are assembled into a computer for a hacker like me. Then, he explained to all of us that this safe house is one of the many other safe houses that is being used by IT investigators. Mevrouw Sofia asked mr. Erwin to provide a safe place for us to conduct investigation as a result of brother Lodewijk's refusal to cooperate with the police institution.

He said that he understood why brother Lodewijk could not trust the police institution because he himself admitted that he was a member of the police who sided with us saying that the police were being monitored by higher ranking government officials. He also said that he would not make a fuss about whether we trusted him or not but he hoped that we were successful in our struggle, then he said goodbye, handed over the keys to the safe house and left the house,  he also gave his phone number in case we needed his help especially in the IT field.

After he left, I asked permission from brother Lodewijk and Muhamed to go to the computer room to ensure that the computer I was using was safe from any dangerous code, bug code and other dangers in the network that connected to the computer and check the security systems in this house such as CCTV cameras to ensure that the security system here is not connected to the VSI intelligence agency network or the police network and is not tapped by the government's  security  or law institutions.

After checking and disconnecting all the networks that are connected to the government's security or law institutions and removing all kinds of code that I think is dangerous for my security while doing my hacking, I put all the files that I got from the bunker into the computer. Oh shit, some of the files I downloaded are using AES-256 encryption and they are files that seemed important and will be dangerous if a wrong person finds out.