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Chapter 14 - The Journey ( Part 7 )

Riki, who started to get goosebumps hearing the story, decided to move forward and move with Keenan and Rengga.

"Rico is crazy. How dare you discuss a dead person in his place directly? I'd rather go ahead than get goosebumps like this."

Riki left Rico and Hasan, then continued to join Keenan and Rengga.

When they were climbing to Post 4, which would take approximately 1 hour.

The path at Post 4 had already started to have many tall trees and unique flowers around it.

Not infrequently they found animals or insects that they had never found before.

Tissa, who accidentally touched one of the insects, felt a hot hand and a burn and itching wound started to grow on her palm.

"It hurts and itches, earlier I accidentally touched one of the insects that perched on the flower and got its fur on it,"

Tissa said and showed her hand, which had many red spots on the palm.

Hasan, who knew the type of insect and how to treat it, began to help Tissa to immediately be given the medicine that he always brought when climbing.

"I always felt like this would happen, it's okay. The wound will heal quickly, I also often accidentally touch this type of insect, but it's not dangerous, Sa."

Hasan said, taking the medicine out of his bag pocket and giving it to Laras.

"Ras, you apply this medicine."

Laras then applied the medicine slowly to Tissa's hand.

After the burning sensation in her palm had subsided, they continued their climb.

Rico, who often saw this, and was used to this incident, was suddenly surprised by two people who reminded him of Umar's words last night.

"Nan, you chatted with Umar last night, right? Do you remember the characteristics of the friend that Umar was looking for?"

Rico asked Keenan curiously.

"One is a bit fat, one is tall and thin, wearing a hat on his head, the fat one is carrying a blue backpack. What I remember is that Umar spoke like that."

Keenan answered while trying to remember.

The two people who had passed him characteristics were very consistent with what Umar said.

And Rico tried to pass the two men.

He quickly shouted to them both.

"Hey, you two. Wait for me." Rico said while shouting at them.

Unexpectedly, they turned to him with confused faces.

"You can see us?"

Both of them were surprised that Riko could see them, even though they were in different worlds.

When Rico tried to call them, on the other hand, his friends were confused about Rico talking and shouting alone in the forest like this.

"What's wrong with Rico? He's not taking any drugs, right?"

Rengga said to Hasan, curious about the sight he had just seen.

"He's trying to communicate with someone I don't know who, I can't see him either,"

Hasan replied, still paying attention to Rico.

After hearing their questions, Rico immediately looked back and saw his friends looking at him.

And after turning his body back, Rico was shocked to see them both disappear.

Rico spontaneously tried to control his feelings and understand the situation that had just happened.

"So, Umar and his friends are dead, and most likely, they died on this mountain."

Rico settled in his heart.

Rico rejoined his friends, who would start asking about the incident earlier.

"Rico, what are you doing chatting alone like that? It's just making us panic." Alya said to Rico.

Keenan noticed Rico and started to worry him

"Rico, it's really rare for you to be this anxious, who were you chatting with? Are you okay?" Keenan asked.

"To be honest, I saw the two friends that Umar was looking for last night after I tried to approach them and realized that they were gone"

"Their spirits are still trapped here, as is Umar's," Rico explained to them with a gasp.

When they heard Rico's explanation, they were shocked and goosebumps.

This incident happened during the day, and of course, it was very strange because creatures like them are usually reluctant to show themselves at sunrise.

"Gosh, so that's what we met yesterday? A ghost?"

Tissa said, starting to tremble remembering Umar's face that had survived last night.

"It's true what Ki Jaka said yesterday. If we continue this climb, something scarier will happen because, from the start, we have attracted their curiosity about all of us."

Rico explained to them.

"I don't think I can continue this climb, I decided to just go down"

"I don't want to act rashly and behave arbitrarily without listening to the guards' prohibitions here"

"If you still want to continue, please do. I'll take my leave, thank you for accepting me to join."

Rico said to them.

Laras, who was listening to their conversation, tried to persuade him to continue accompanying her because Laras felt that the one who could be trusted among them was Rico.

Being relied on in mystical aspects like this, just like what happened to Alya yesterday.

"Rico, don't go home, who will accompany us to guard us here? Please accompany us. After all, the climb to the top is coming soon."

Said Laras who tried to persuade Rico.

Rico looked at Laras' face, and his feelings became mixed after hearing Laras talk like that.

Hasan, who started to get jealous at a moment like this, tried to ignore it and sat on one of the trees while playing with the flowers around him.

"I promise after we go down, I will fulfill your request to watch your favorite movie series in the cinema, Rico," said Laras which shocked her friends.

"Seriously? A Laras? This is a very rare occurrence in a lifetime?"

Said Tissa to Rengga.

Rengga just watched and chuckled while occasionally turning to Hasan, Rengga understood Hasan's heartbreak seeing this moment.

"It's romantic enough. We better continue the climb. The estimate that should be 1 hour will become 3 hours because of this romance."

Said Rengga, walking and continuing the climb to Post 4.