Lando didn't know that someone was watching him. He only thought of finding a place to hide. At first, Lando just wanted to finish off the guards little by little. He didn't expect that they would come to him all at once.
Lando left coals along the way. He made it look like the coals had fallen because Lando was running in a panic. After arriving at the area near the river, Lando threw a pickaxe into the forest, while he himself jumped into the river.
It was very dangerous to run towards the forest. The Hindibel government soldiers must have chased Lando with a hunting dog, it was too easy for them to find Lando in the forest.
Lando let his body floating on the river. The current is not fast and very suitable for swimming. The river is a part of a big river and this part is the end of a small river that is directly connected to the big river. This small river has passed through several villages. When Lando was a child, he often swims on the other part of this river.
Lando floated on the river with his face facing the sky. He was curious about the feeling when he just got out of the house. In fact, apart from exhaustion, Lando also felt his body shiver with fear, as if he was being watched by something that could devour him at any moment.
Up ahead, the streams began to coalesce and their currents became faster. No children are allowed to swim here because of the depth. Only fishers and sand seekers used to swim in the main stream. Lando let himself drift into the stream. He was very good at floating himself since childhood, after all, only in the water he could feel the calmness.
Lando drifted to the next village. He had gone through forest and rice fields. His stamina recovered a little after floating for some time. Still no sign of pursuers, Lando intended to hide in another forbidden place not too far away. Lando was no longer afraid of myths, as was the case in the mines, perhaps that place also had a similar reason to be called a forbidden place.
Once close to the village, Lando swam aside. Then he walked towards a large building. The building is a tax collection building owned by the Hindibel government. In the past, this building was owned by the VOC organization which regulated market prices, of course by means of a monopoly. They stockpile different types of supplies. Buy cheap and sell high. But slowly destroyed because of the amount of corruption.
In front of the building there are 4 armed guards. Lando walked towards them slowly. He only carried a gun which he hid behind his back. He walked slowly so they didn't notice the gun on his back.
The four guards looked at Lando who was walking very slowly. His wet clothes and feet covered in mud made Lando look like a farm laborer who had just returned from the fields. Even so, they still aimed their guns at Lando.
When the distance was close enough, Lando took something out of his shirt and threw it in front of the guards. The guards looked at the object Lando threw. After they took a closer look, they realized that it was a Golda coin. The guards immediately looked back at Lando with more vigilance.
Lando took more coins from inside his shirt. He tossed some coins for a few more times. The guards who were raising their guard lost their cool after many Golda coins on the ground. Not long after, they jump towards the coins.
Seeing the guards fighting over the coins on the ground, Lando took the firearm behind his body and fired it at the guards.
One of the guards noticed Lando was aiming a gun, and before the shot he jumped to the side. Unfortunately the other 3 were a few seconds late and were hit by multiple shots from Lando.
The guard who managed to dodge hid behind a wall. He waited for Lando to run out of ammo. Unfortunately, Lando was quite used to using weapons. He is able to shoot while running, though his accuracy is still lacking. When the gunshots stopped Lando was at very close range to the guard and swung a dagger.
The guard tried to block Lando's attack using his gun. Lando had experienced this scenario on his fight against Anderson's underlings, when the guard held the dagger with the weapon he was holding with two hands, Lando used his knee to strike the guard's stomach. After his stomach was hit, the defense of his hand weakened and Lando pushed his hand even harder. Finally, the dagger in Lando's hand pierced the left side of the guard's neck. Blood gushed out after the dagger was pulled out.
Lando quickly snatched the weapons from the 4 guards and ran away. The incident only lasted a few seconds and when the guards inside the building came out, Lando had already disappeared. They only found 3 guards dead from bullets while the other was stabbed with a dagger on the neck. Apart from that, there were also some Golda coins scattered on the ground.
Meanwhile, Lando was running to the other side of the village. His target was the building of a trade organization called the Sarekat Dagang Islam.