Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 14 Part 3 "Kidnapped"

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POV Lodewijk

I stood up from the bench, walked away from the tower viewer area, entered my car, started the engine, took my car out of the parking lot and drove towards mevrouw's house. On the way, I wondered why the road that I took was so quiet, there were no cars or other vehicles passing by. Suddenly I got a message from Tantri, I opened it.

"Lodewijk, the road that you go through, is it empty?" she asked

"Yes." I answered.

"Some of the road sections are blocked using road blocks and police lines, you have to take a shortcut to enter a narrow alley or anything like that." she said.

"Why?" I asked, confused.

"My father told me that you were going to be framed under the pretext of an accident and if they really succeeded in trapping you, you would be hospitalized inside the police's hospital aka locked up there. Do you have a gun?" she asked.

"Yes." I answered.

"Use it." she replied.

"Thanks for telling me." I thanked her in reply.

Our conversation ended, I took out my gun from the dashboard and sure enough, after a few seconds I saw several motorbikes speeding toward the car I was driving.

I pressed the gas pedal and increased the speed of my car while looking for a narrow alley for me to enter and went through so I could escape from their pursuit, from behind I heard the sound of firearms barrage hitting the body and the trunk of my car. Verdomme! Why?! This car has just been repaired! Ah, go to hell with it!

I opened the two windows of my car and slightly lowered the speed of my car, returning their fire. Damn, driving while firing a gun is harder than I thought. A heavy shootout broke out between them and me. I managed to shoot two of my pursuers, there are still 3 of them remained in which I haven't managed to hit. I'm still trying to escape their pursuit, they are good enough at driving so it is very difficult for me to outwit them.

It's a very difficult situation for me because my focus is divided in two. If I focused too much on shooting then I will lose my focus on driving, if I focused too much on driving then I can't return their shots and make my chances of becoming an easy target higher.

There was no other choice, I had to get off the main road and drive off road, through the grove of trees and hoped that when I got out, I returned to the main road or any road.

I turned into the grove of trees and passed an area that was not paved at all. Unfortunately, I didn't know that I had to cross a river. The river is not too wide but it's deep so when I entered it trying to cross it, my car is trapped in the middle of the river and can't go any further no matter how hard I try to pressed the gas pedal.

I immediately got out of the car, opened the door, water started flowing into the inside of my car, I immediately opened my smartphone, sent a WA message to Tantri and shared my location with her.

"SOS, track the location of my smartphone, the hard disk is near my smartphone."

I hid my smartphone and bag containing the hard disk under the front seat which was already flooded with water, hoping that my smartphone would last and continue to run in the water at least until Tantri or Ilya looked for me. I immediately swam away from my car until I reached the riverbank, looking for the nearest tree and hiding behind it while watching that only the roof of and a little bit of the car's window can be seen on the surface meanwhile the rest of the car's body had sunk to the riverbed. My car that had sunk kept stay still, thank God the river was not too deep.