Trapped in Ramadhan
Part 27 - Uniting the Dots

...Uniting Dots...

17 Ramadan. Approaching Midnight.

I could feel in the air around me, the presence of another Jin. But just the rest of his presence alone, Jin himself had long since left this place. As soon as I parted with Wawan who gave orders to his friends to look for a motorbike that allegedly belonged to the attacker who injured Dwi, I immediately headed to this closed food stall. A few hours ago, at this food stall there was an incident that had been recorded by the mobile phone of one of the visitors. The five members of the Two-wheeled Gang who come to ask for ration money thugs experience absolutely no sense - at least to that finite human brain - when they are magically drawn to a fall one by one and dragged out of the stall alternately. The one doing such ingenious things to scare them was a Jin whom I was trying to find.

I concentrated fully and tried to make use of the energy residue from the rest of Jin's presence in this place to use it as a tracker so I could find the current location from him. But it turns out that the range of my Jin radar is only 5 kilometers from the point of my existence as before. And in that scope I did not feel the same Jin presence that I felt in this place. Looks like my detection ability isn't as good as I imagined. Disappointingly.

For the past week or so, this Jin I've been looking for has been very active in helping people, from stopping robberies and assaults to doing road rescues. That's why people call him the Hero of the Invisible. Which makes me wonder, why for the past week I have not felt its existence at all? Could there be some kind of pattern in each of his appearances? Could it be that He has restrictions like the scope of my Jin radar? Or perhaps more accurately, he deliberately restricted his area of operation just like the division of the Two-wheeled Gang Division. I need to find out more information about him.

But my plan to absorb that information through the videos that captured the action collected by Dwi has been delayed because I don't know where the human who stole his phone is. And even though I really wanted to beat up those two brash humans because of what they did tonight, my mind was still filled with Invisible Heroes at the moment. I had to stay focused so that my mind would not be divided and make me even more confused about what steps to take. But wait a minute...

All the videos of the Invisible Hero's appearance were shared on the Internet. And every cell phone that can access the Internet can see it. So that means I can see the video through another human's cell phone. All I have to do is steal a human's cell phone and search the video itself! But... It's not gonna be that easy. If I turned my phone in I could find the password to unlock the phone, but trying to access the Internet on my own would be even more difficult, like when I try to write with a pen on paper. Damnit damnit! I have to what!?

Hm... Might as well... Maybe I should ask for help. But who? The revelation of his nephew Wawan? No... That boy doesn't seem like the right choice. Who else? Hm... Maybe Drako the black cat Rossa's pet? Can't do it either... It's called the desperate choice. Joko's? No... Not possible... I'm even less sensitive and insulting to come to him. But who else can I ask for help and be truly reliable? Hm... There's only one option left, but... Damnit damnit! I don't seem to have any other choice. I have to go to that place.

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"Hoa... So you want to see all the Invisible Hero apparition videos to find out where he appears?" Adam said as he yawned after I told him the meaning of my arrival to his place near midnight.

"Yes." Yeah." I'm nodding. "Can you help me?"

"Yes can be..." His mouth was yawning again.

It seems like he's really sleepy. It made me feel like I had to say something, "Sorry for coming in last night."

"No problem." Said Adam. "I was exhausted because there was an iftar together outside." Reveal it. "After Tarawih I also had a short walk.."

"Bareng Rossa's.." Cut me off after seeing Rossa's image.

Adam looked at me with a frown. "Know where? You stalking me? Since when?" Ask repeatedly.

"Don't overdo it, oi. I know because now I can catch a glimpse of human memory when they're telling the truth." I explained. "The more honest they are, the clearer their memory I see."

"So now your abilities have also changed? From the previous one capturing human memory through the black Aura of negative emotions, now from human honesty?"

"Not changed, more to increase." I'm correcting. "I can still see the human memory pieces from their black Aura. But when they're honest, it's even clearer. Their conversations, thoughts, feelings become clearer. Even deeper memories can be seen." I clearly.

Adam nodded in understanding. Then he said, "Gain turns from Dark Jin to Bright Jin."

"Please don't compare who I was and who I am now if you don't want to control what you're doing with Rossa tonight."

"Oh. You want an explanation?"

I kept quiet and just stared at Adam with a flat face.

"okay." Adam Say. "Let me explain everything even if I don't think this is necessary." He continued before He told in more detail what he was going through tonight. "Remember the mother we helped when we were snatched? His name is Bu Jamilah. So Bu invite the two of us to open together in his house in the central area. Ma'am, let's say it's someone who sufficed, you know what I mean?"

"The rich?"

"You could say so." Said Adam. "But his attitude is kind and simple. Not the kind that shows off. He also took care of six orphans living in his home. I asked permission from Haji. So me and Rossa came there. We open together, pray Maghrib together, after that read the Qur'an, Pray Isya and Tarawih together also in the Mosque. After that it was me and Rossa saying goodbye..."

"And you two walk..." Cut me again.

"Is this my story or yours?" Said Adam annoyed, whom I answered by raising both my hands.

"We are both ways..." Adam acknowledged. "But there is a purpose. Not just a walk around the city to spend time, but Rossa took me to where she first went for a wild race. In the South." Remember Adam. "He told a lot... His love of motor racing brought him to the world of wild racing... Up to how he can get stuck in the Two-wheeled Gang like you told me..."

"And it turns out we know the same person." Adam continued to tell. "My friend ordered this book for me..." He said, giving me a book. "I just found out she's Rossa's cousin."

I read the title of the book I was holding, "Ghost, the walking memory of a deceased human! What's this about?"

"It's a fictional story, the core of the story is about a theory that states what people consider ghosts are a kind of manifestation of human memory. That's why sometimes there are ghosts that seem to appear to complete unresolved desires. The so-called curious spirits people. And sometimes the ghost came to people he knew during his life. According to this book, because ghosts have certain memories from when a human was alive."

"And you believe it's true?" I asked this Marbot. "If Ghosts are manifestations of human memories?"

Adam was silent for a long time, before saying. "Nobody knows for certain the things of the Unseen." Then he revealed the content of his thought, "Different individuals, different perspectives. This is just one of the many points of view in the attempt to examine the case of the Unseen with an easily accepted understanding. It could be two different theories from different points of view, both true. Because I don't think it's about right or wrong, but... About how you accepted that supernatural thing. Because it's either right or wrong... It's still real."

Yeah, it's real. This life that I lived though by Jin's standards was also strange and unusual; memory and voice loss, being trapped in Ramadan, hijacking the human body, a piece of human memory that felt like my own, and the change from Dark Jin to Bright Jin. All of this remains real. The supernatural is real. And it's weird to hear that coming out of a human's mouth.

"But it's getting wild out there, isn't it?" Adam opened the conversation on a different topic after the silence. "So we had time to pass the road that there are people who want to brawl."

"Inforts?" My Deuteronomy. "But Rossa's fine, right?"

"He's fine." Said Adam. "The people are still getting ready to brawl, and the Garuda Team also came to the place. Those people ran away immediately, but there were some who got caught."

"Team Garuda?"

"Police groups guard riot at night. If not wrong, there are about twenty people. Usually the patrol area is the inner circle of the city. Ah... Here's the picture!"

I looked at the photo Adam showed on his phone. Photos of several policemen wearing heavily armed bulletproof vests. I recognized two of them, the police in the middle and the young policeman on the left as Iptu Trijaya and his friend whom I met at the Permata Hijau Clinic.

"This is the leader?" I asked while pointing at a photo of Iptu Trijaya.

"Yes." Yeah." Adam nodded. "Iptu Trijaya's. My friend said he was part of the Intel police force."

The information was not surprising after I recalled Iptu Trijaya's conversation with his junior who offended the White Mafia. Two-wheeled Gang, White Mafia, and Garuda Team. Looking at this development, it looks like the situation will get even more chaotic in the next few days. But now I have more pressing business to do. So I remember Adam's return for what brought me here.

"Yes, you're right. There's a pattern of his emergence." Adam said after watching all the videos of the appearance of the Invisible Hero that I confirmed.

"And..?" I was waiting for further explanation.

"See this!" Adam said, showing me a hand-drawn map of the city he had just created. "These points are the places of its appearance. See patterns?"

I noticed the dots Adam made on the map. The outermost points form a circle that includes the Central Region and other Regions in the part of the region adjacent to the center, not up to the periphery region.

"It's the inner circle!" Adam made a circle on the map with his pen. "So far his appearance is in this inner circle! Just like the Garuda Team patrol area."

"Is it true that this Invisible Hero has been active for the past week?" My toot.

"Appearance date based on existing video... Yeah, the last week. From the tenth to seventeen dates of Ramadan."

"But there's a chance he showed up before that, but it's not on camera..." I assumed.

"Yes. That possibility exists. But here's the evidence we have."

I looked at the map again. "Circles within... I haven't been around this place for the last week."

"Do you remember where it must have been?" Ask Adam who is getting ready with the questioner.

I told him my place the last week. All this night before coming here it was clear I was in a different place to the Invisible Hero. I locked myself in an abandoned building in the East during the 15-17th of Ramadan in the last three days. On the 14th of Ramadan, I went to Rossa's house and escorted her to take the package from one place to another until it was nearing the afternoon, approaching dusk around the Al-Alim Mosque and its surroundings as it follows Adam and Rossa delivering rice boxes to orphans, then to the West Sector Police Station. During the 10-13th of Ramadan, I was busy taking part in every wild race at night and had a full rest during the morning until noon until I finally came to the headquarters of the Jungle and Herds in the early hours of the 14th.

Except when following Rossa delivering packages, other places I went were in the outer ring. This just explains why I never met the other Jin I was looking for. Because even though I went around the inner circle for a few hours, I kept moving. Inner circle is a wide scope that allows both individuals not to meet each other even though they are both around the place. But at least if from now on I focus myself on searching in the Inner Circle, I will probably be able to meet him... The other jinn.