A corrupted world where laws and rules are merely a means for those in power to squeeze the blood of their subjects dry, while those who are well-off take advantage of the situation to become lawless shadow rulers.
Law enforcers are just a means for them use as protectors of personal property and executioners who are ready to enslave the people at the bottom, forcing them to abandon human morals just to survive.
The constant pressure has led to some pretty strong resistance to the point of horror, those who are crazy fight the government with vulnerable bodies and dull fangs, those who are trusted take their people to go seek their own fortune, while those who are cowardly become sycophants to betray each other just to prolong their lives.
All of these events lead humanity to its own destruction, every part of the world fighting each other endlessly with their own reasons, even though the reasons are just their own thoughts so they don't want to be blamed for their own stupidity.
The war between humans that resulted in the scarcity of food and water turned 90% of humans into a pile of skulls, so that now only a handful of them still survive among the shadows of the past to continue living with a small thread of hope in their hands.
"hey look what I found!!!" said a scruffy boy as he held up a broken electronic device. "woooow!!! That's a laptop!!! It's great that you found it" said his friend in the same
condition.
The two of them fiddled with the laptop they had just found among the garbage, both of them were so happy as if they had found a treasure.
"Hey!!! Let's go back...it's getting late!!!" said a man who was only wearing tattered pants while his upper body was only covered using a cloth that he wrapped into a cloak on his back as well as an AKA 47 rifle ready for use.
"Good!!!" said the two children.
They walked for a while before being joined by several people wearing similar outfits carrying various items on their backs, some even scanning the surroundings with firearms in their hands.
"How is it? Did you find anything?" said a man who seemed to be the leader of the
"Look what we found!!!" said one of the children carrying the laptop.
The group leader smiled and rubbed the heads of the two children in front of him.
"Good job!!! Then let's go because it's getting late."
The two children nodded happily and eventually the group made their way to a place amongst the rubble of a building that was about to collapse.
True, they are not among the piles of garbage (landfill) but in a city that has long been abandoned with tall buildings that have almost collapsed, either because of natural age or the former battle of human selfishness.
"brrmmm... " Suddenly the sound of a car was heard.
Immediately someone gave a hand code to stop. "We're spreading!!, you kids follow him and don't come out."
Suddenly his men immediately hid behind the ruins as fast as they could, as a tense atmosphere spread through the air.
After waiting for a while, a convoy of cars passed them, old cars that had been modified for the arduous journey and bodies that had been coated with a layer of bulletproof steel.
"hahhaha!!! Come on...come on...faster!" said one of the convoy who seemed to be the leader of the group who had colorful hair and strange leather clothes.
"Sir, where are we going to loot?" said the men under him who looked the same. "Keep going!!! Find survivors, we'll turn them into new toys!!! Found the base? We loot!" the convoy leader said lightly.
The group leader's words were of course agreed to by his men and immediately spurred their vehicles, on the other hand the leader of the search party accompanied by one of his colleagues who had previously been hiding began to come out alertly.
He sharpened his vision and hearing to make sure it was safe, but suddenly. "Sir, who are they?"
"Oh my!!!" the leader said frantically. "You little brat! I told you to hide!"
The child who was also a member of their group was suddenly next to them, which of course made the group leader panic, because the other group had changed their minds and turned around.
"haaaah...little kids are always curious about everything." said the leader of the group. Afterward, he knelt down so that he was the same height as the child below him. "They are a group of 'troublemakers'. they always do whatever they want and even eat kids
like you. "
"pfft!!!. " suddenly the boy tried to hold back his laughter with his hands as hard as
he could, after which he replied. "sorry but. is it true? Don't keep scaring me!"
The leader just smiled and rubbed the boy's head and stood up, at the same time the wind blew so hard that it uncovered the cloak the leader was wearing, momentarily revealing an old but wound, not a burn, a cut, or a bullet. Rather, it was a slash and tear that stretched across his chest.
The little boy was stunned but the leader of the group immediately replied. "that's right. this is their work".
The boy turned to the man next to him and nodded in return, and now the boy knew how dangerous the group that had just passed by them was.
"GET OUT!!! WE CONTINUE TO TRAVEL!!!" shouted the leader of the group.
Finally, they continued their journey but it was already getting late, one of members approached the leader. "What do we do, boss? Shall we stay here?"
The group leader immediately shook his head. "The base is still far away, while if we camp here then they will find us".
"Where are we going then?" said a child in their group.
The leader smiled "calm down... we're going to stay at the old 's place."
The leader's words made the other men protest." Wait are you sure!?.. do we have no
other choice!?"
The group leader nodded and reassured his men. "Just relax, he's not that scary... maybe."
"YOU'RE NOT EVEN SURE!!!" his men said in unison.
The little boy who was with them confusedly asked. "Who is he? The grumbling old
man?"
The leader of the group wanted to retaliate but his men interrupted him. "He's a terrible
person..."
"He is said to be an undead because of his obsession with corpses" "Isn't he a human being?"
"no-no I heard he's not human at all!!!"
....
Every word continued to make the children more and more scared and curious, but a voice in the distance interrupted the discussion.
"hey!!... Let's go!!..." said their leader and the man who was always with her.
The other men hurriedly stepped up to follow their leader as there was no other
choice.
Although many skyscrapers have become rubble, but that's not the only place built by
humans, in some places there are also those that are built underground.
This kind of place is rarely or even no one dares to make it a place to live for various reasons, not only can it collapse at any time but some locations have also been submerged by water from broken pipes or underground water entering them.
But there are still some desperate and insane people living in places, now the search group approached one who lived in an underground station that had been turned into a base.
An old man with disheveled hair and beard peered through the surveillance cameras he had installed in several places and found several men and children heading towards his base.
The old man quickly pulled some levers and spoke into the microphone. "what do you want here!?... go away before I blow you up!!"
The group leader smiled and turned to a place and shouted. "hello old man!!!!... it's me, I just want to stay the night."
"Who are you? I don't know you" old man retorted.
"Come on grandpa...I'm sure your memory doesn't fade that easily" said the group
leader.
"What, what memory? I even forgot where I put my nail clipper" the old man argued. But just as they were about to reply, the door to a nearby building opened beside the
group and a teenage girl's voice said to them. "Uncle, I told you that if you want to come here with a stranger, let us know first."
The group leader could only smile and reply. "hehehe...sorry it's an emergency" "hmp!!!.......... always the same reason!!! Boring!" the teenage girl then said before letting
us in. "You must not touch anything unless authorized by grandfather."
The group leader and a man who was always with him entered unceremoniously but his men and the children he was with stayed outside the entrance so the group leader warned his men. "What? Come on if you stay here that old curmudgeon really blows you up for showing his base"
Seeing that their leader looked serious everyone did not dare to argue or argue, the group finally went inside, inside they had to go down an empty hole to actually enter the base.
When entering they are greeted by colorful lights and the walls themselves have many murals painted in various themes and shapes to refresh the eyes, furthermore there are many life-supporting objects to survive in this chaotic world.
After some time they had arrived at a large room that seemed to be a combination of a maintenance station and an underground irrigation channel as well as a room that had no idea what it was used for before.
There are various electronics, books, a refrigerator full of food and various rusty ironware that are stacked and stored away, there is also the sound of music and songs that make the atmosphere calm.
The children in the group immediately became very curious about everything that was there because everything here was new to them, and as usual the curiosity made them approach one of the items there.
The children approached a machine that had colorful lights that attracted the children's attention and when they wanted to touch it.
"hoooh!!!Delicious-looking hands" an old man suddenly appeared while grabbing one of the little boy's hands which made him startled and frightened.
How could you not? An old man with an unruly beard and several life support devices attached to his body and many scars that have been lodged inside him makes him look like a mad doctor who likes to kidnap children.
"AAAAA!!!!" Suddenly the children screamed so loudly and ran away, while the child held by the grandfather immediately fainted.
"huh??... dasar anak jaman sekarang….nyalinya terlalu ciut" katanya sambil menyeret
child.
"kakek….bukan mereka yang bermental lemah, kau saja yang terlalu mengerikan" kata
woman who lived with the grandfather.
"Long time no see grandpa... how are you?" said the group leader.
The grandfather glanced over briefly after which he immediately put unconscious child to sleep on a transparent bed filled with water. "Huh!!! Naughty bastard!!! You're back!!? you're not dead yet"
"Come on...don't be like that...look I brought the mute too" said the group leader as she embraced the man who was always with her.
"If he's not with you how will he communicate!? And who will protect you!? Oh my!
Besides eating and fighting what else can he do!?"
The grandfather's words made the man with the team leader faint, while the other members could only smile because it was the truth.
But as the group enjoyed the atmosphere, the grandfather continued. "Then if you wanted to visit why did you bring this bunch of stinky kids and skinny, scared mice!?... do you want me to lock them in my sock closet!?"
The group leader approached the grandfather while holding his wrinkled hand smiling. "hehehe... it's only one night grandfather, if I didn't run into those savage creatures I wouldn't be here either."
The grandfather squinted his eyes for a few moments after which he pulled out a container box and thrust it at the search party. "You know the rules!!! And you skinny scared rats if you want a good night's sleep you better not touch anything!!!"
Afterward, the grandfather turned to leave while the team leader and the man who turned out to be mute put weapons and other dangerous items in the box. "You put all the weapons in this box, don't leave any even if it's a needle."
"No...but the leader!!!" rebutted his men.
But before he could finish his sentence, the group leader lit up. "Don't argue, you don't want to be kicked out of here do you?"
Finally they could only nod and obey what their leader ordered, and after the girl who lived with the grandfather took the container box to be stored, she also escorted the group to a room.
"Well this is your room, don't get it broken and dirty, and you kids have the next room" the girl said as she showed us the room in a room that was actually quite spacious.
Although the girl was talking about cleanliness, the room was actually full of dust, so knew that they were used as free labor to clean a room for a sleepover.
However, it is different from the children's room, which is still clean and comfortable. "Wait, why is this room so clean?"
The girl immediately answered the boy's question. "Since this is Grandpa's room...it's the cleanest and most comfortable room here...you better clean up quickly because it's dinner time in an hour, you still remember the place."
After giving the message the girl left the group and the team leader stretched and said. "well let's get to work, I'm sure you're all hungry."
Immediately the mute man who always beside the group leader immediately started his work followed by the team leader, but his curious subordinates approached and asked curiously.
"Leader, what exactly is your relationship with that grumbling old man?" "Hmm......... maybe you could say teacher? Or parents?
Suddenly, this statement shocked all of his men, even the children they brought with them child.
"WHAT! Your leader is serious!!!"
The team leader nodded. "True... but to some people he's a hero. "Hahahaha. People like him? Leader, are you sick?" one of the kids said.
The leader just smiled and replied. "Well...that would be a story
Long, I'll tell it to lull you to sleep... I'm sure you'll be very interested because all the stories I tell you and how I got to be like this are thanks to her."
The children now became very enthusiastic and went straight to their rooms because the team leader was a figure they admired at their home base, not a few children wanted to explore the ruins with him.
Not only that, he also always takes the time to entertain orphans like them by telling them various stories that are very interesting from the era when humans were still at their peak or even longer than that.
On the other hand, a child who had fainted woke up in a soft bed that he had never seen before, as he stood up to check the surroundings with sudden vigilance.
"Are you awake?" said a grandfather who suddenly appeared in front of him. "waaaa!!!" of course the boy was shocked by the events that unfolded before him.
The grandfather was silent and looked at the child in front of him flatly. "Go over there to clean up in an hour and the food will be ready."
The boy hesitated but had no other choice and finally did what grandfather told him to do. When he entered the place, the boy was surprised by the bath with clean running water in front of him.
It should be noted that water is expensive these days because most water is contaminated with heavy metals that are dangerous to drink, even rainwater contains acid, so far they only dare to drink water from the dew and steam they collect.
But in this place the clear water seemed to be abundant and seemingly limitless, and he took off his clothes and cleaned himself up, even taking a few sips of the water gushing over his head.
After finishing his bath he wanted to go straight to find his friends but instead he ran into girl who lived with the grandfather. "Already? Wait, the others will join us too."
The boy nodded in obedience because the teenage girl seemed more friendly than the old grandfather who he thought was creepy, as he wandered around accidentally something caught his interest, until he finally touched the object he was holding to find out the function of the object in front of him.
"You curious about that thing?" said the grandfather who suddenly appeared behind her. "HAAAA!!! " the child shouted while holding his chest.
"Why, 's like you're seeing a ghost" said grandfather who saw the reaction. "You...why do you always surprise me!!!" protested the child.
The grandfather hit the child in front of him on the head. "Hmp!!! where are your manners in front of
Old man!?"
The boy became silent and bowed his head, the grandfather shook his head softly and then took the object and installed some electrical wires.
"Pay attention... after this you'll probably faint." The grandfather said dismissively. "Hmp!!! I'm not that weak!!!" she retorted.
After pressing a few buttons, the device slowly emits light shines throughout the room, when the light hits the wall or object there is a picture painted there in the form of various types of sea creatures of various sizes and shapes that move here and there cheerfully.
"This device is called a projector, it can display moving images if we insert a recording cassette in here" said the grandfather.
The child was amazed by what he saw and his eyes were now filled with curiosity, he turned his head towards the grandfather who was previously creepy but now awe filled his eyes.
After several rounds of video, they were finally distracted by a voice. "Grandpa dinner is ready"
The grandfather finally turned off the projector and walked out of the room leaving the little boy alone. "Come on... you must be hungry already, right?"
After a while everyone finally ate, some people seemed very distressed by the grandfather's presence but some people, especially the child who was shown the projector, were now very relaxed and happy as if they were at home.
After finishing, the old man gave the projector and some CDs containing the same thing to the boy who had been with him, suddenly the boy became excited and brought his friends to enjoy the view from the projector.
But the grandfather gathered the other members who had come with the leader of the search party, and they were now in a room full of weapons, both sharp weapons and firearms.
Everyone didn't know what the old man was actually going to do but when he picked up a pistol and a dagger with his frail hands and immediately turned the gun towards them.
"Te!!!..Grandpa, what's wrong?" said the leader of group.
"Traitors deserve to die!!!" said the grandfather in a threatening voice.
"Creck" the sound of a gun cocking was suddenly heard and it appeared that the girl living with the grandfather was holding a shotgun in hand. "Old rules"
"thu.... wait, what' wrong with you guys?" said one of the group.
"Bang!!!" the gunshot was aimed at a thin man in the group and hit him directly in the head. "If you don't confess, you won't die this quickly!"
Suddenly, one of them immediately turned around and grabbed the girl who lived with her grandfather using a sharp iron rod that he didn't know where to hide.
"NOBODY MOVE!!! Or I'll kill him!!!" said traitor.
"DOR!!!" but unfortunately a bullet was immediately fired and hit his head making him die instantly, in the confusion all the girls immediately searched the bodies of the two traitors and found an iron stamp on their upper arms and a transmitter on the waist of each traitor.
"hmp!!! Prepare for battle!!!" After Grandpa said this, there was an explosion followed by echoes and vibrations that caused the entire secret base to shake violently.
"This grandfather. " said the group leader with a question mark.
"This place has long been exposed and targeted by several groups" Grandfather said briefly while preparing his weapon, after which he tapped the group leader on the shoulder and whispered. "If I die, everything here belongs to the three of you."
The group leader still half understood what Grandfather was saying in front of him, but before he could digest all the words, Grandfather was already standing in the front row wearing a soldier's robe with many holes.
"Listen!!! You may not like me or my attitude, but I don't care about that!!! If you want to live take up arms and follow my commands, UNDERSTAND!?"
The grandfather's words somehow made everyone moved and followed all his commands but when the preparations were finished the old grandfather walked over to the girl who lived with him. "You go to my room"
The girl of course immediately refused. "NO!!! Why!? Why do I have to hide there!?"
The grandfather held both shoulders of the girl in front of him and looked at her sharply. "Your job is to protect those children!!!, at least you're the only one I trust to protect them"
The girl was silent for a moment then nodded and saluted. "Ready to go!"
After the grandfather returned the salute, the girl immediately ran to the safest room in the hideout, but after the girl left the grandfather was severely beaten.
"uhuk!!!uhuk..!! damn it" the grandfather looked at his hand which had blood coming out of his cough.
This was of course seen by the team leader. "Grandpa...you..."
Grandpa immediately stared at the team leader with a sharp gaze. "shut up!!!.... this is
my choice!!!"
Seeing that gaze filled with a very strong and sturdy determination the team leader and the man who always followed him immediately saluted. "soldiers ready for duty commander!!!"
Finally the group headed straight towards the explosion at the fake entrance to the train station, when in the middle of the journey the grandfather took out the remote and pressed for a few moments, after they were in the front line of defense that had been blocked by several sections of armored vehicles the grandfather immediately turned on the monitor connected to the surveillance camera.
It could be seen that there were a lot of people in strange, shaggy clothes surrounding the base with a lot of explosives in their hands. "Looks like you guys are being watched by them"
One of the people there immediately exclaimed. "Wait! Aren't they the people we met earlier?"
The group leader nodded. "Right, there seems to be a traitor among us...I'm getting worried about the state of the base"
"DUAR!!!!..BOOM!!!..DOOR!!!" but while they were discussing suddenly there were several very strong explosions, the explosions came from outside which made the crowd of people run away and some even had their bodies scattered.
Everyone inside the base saw the scene was very surprised and frightened, because the place of one of these places was the place they stood before entering this secret base, now they knew that the grandfather who was with them really wasn't joking to blow them up just like that.
"What?" said Grandpa who realized he was the center of attention.
But the danger did not end there because after a while a very large vehicle entered the surveillance, an armored vehicle with a gun barrel on top.
"tanks!!!!... why is that bend still there in this condition!?" said a member.
Although energy reserves are already very difficult, vehicles such as electric cars are still numerous, but vehicles such as fuel-intensive tanks are a waste.
"DAR!!!!..BOOM!!!" it appears that the tank fired its shells and made the
The entrance door that had been blocked opened, while on the other side the grandfather and the others were immediately on standby pointing their weapons in the same direction.
"hahahaha!!! Let's attack! We'll jarrah whatever's inside!!!" said a leader of the looting group.
"Get ready!" my grandfather commanded.
When the pilgrims went inside suddenly when they passed a few meters there was an explosion under their feet which made the scene even more horrifying, not just once but it happened several times making the smell of blood spread very thickly.
After the series of traps the looters still continued to enter the base without fear, some even took some body parts from the corpses of their colleagues which they used to trigger other traps that they felt had not come out.
"Drrrrrrt!!!" a machine gun opened the fight between the two sides, although the base owner's side was outnumbered but they were favored by the terrain that allowed them to hold off the looters.
The firefight continued and several members of the base owner's camp had now been reduced, fortunately no one died in their group, but unfortunately losing just one person had made their strength drop drastically.
They were pushed back and increasingly cornered, seeing the situation getting worse grandfather immediately gave orders. "You retreat!!! We're leaving this base"
"But!" said the team leader.
"Hurry up! You know that we're short of people!!!" forced the grandfather.
Finally everyone gradually retreated with the grandfather being the last, but when he was about to retreat an explosion suddenly occurred but fortunately the grandfather survived but he received several wounds on his body, he quickly covered his wounds so that they could not be seen by his colleagues.
They continued to be pushed back until they were in the children's refuge room, they could survive for several hours because of the traps in the merkas until they were in the last defense of the base.
"Let's get out of here" said grandfather as he opened a secret door.
The girl who lived with Grandpa was the first to speak up. "Grandpa...is it as bad as
That?"
Grandfather nodded. "Right... your kids go first, then you get hurt.
and we will be the last to enter"
"No! Grandpa should come out first!" girl argued.
Grandpa stroked the girl's head gently. "You are the one who should go first, remember you are the one who should protect them"
After saying this, Grandpa turned to the frightened children, the girl understood and hugged Grandpa. "Promise me that you'll survive."
The grandfather picked up his rifle and left while saying. "I promise"
Finally, the children and those who were injured headed straight for the secret door to escape, but on the other hand, the team leader approached grandfather with a tearful gaze.
Without hesitation he grabbed his grandfather's clothes and saw several wounds that continued to bleed and his life support was damaged. "Your grandfather......... "
The grandfather who was caught immediately looked away and continued shooting. "Go with your people.......... "
"But you!!?"
"Don't make me say it twice!!!" said grandpa as he pointed his gun at the team leader " let me choose my own death"
The team leader looked at grandfather with tears in his eyes and with a heavy heart he dragged the mute man who had always been with him by force. "We're retreating!"
The grandfather turned around and opened fire on the looters single-handedly when the team leader saw the fighting grandfather he faintly heard his last words. "Goodbye"
The grandfather immediately lunged out with all his strength, of course several shots directly hit his body just like that, but he continued to survive all the bullets that had been lodged in his body.
Until when his body was lying helpless because it was no longer able to continue fighting, he finally took out an ever-flashing trigger that he put on his waist.
"hahahaha... thank goodness I can still choose how to die" said grandpa at the end of
his life.
When the looters had surrounded his body he pressed the trigger button, at which point his head was cut off by one of the looters and held aloft like a trophy.
But when the cheers of victory were shouted "BOOOM!!!DAR!!!DUAR!!!"
A series of large explosions occurred, explosions so large that the entire base caught fire and collapsed burying everything inside.
On the other hand, the search group that had gone to safety also saw a huge explosion coming from the base.
"NO!!! Grandpa!!!" said the girl who lived with him immediately screamed loudly and immediately ran towards the destroyed base, but the girl's intention was held back by the team leader who was also crying to see her.
After a while on a barren hill everyone gathered at a gravestone leaning against a tree, there was a girl who kept crying with two men standing next to her.
The three of them looked very sad because of the departure of the person they loved and respected the most, in the midst of sadness a child suddenly approached the leader. "Sis, can you tell me the story?"
The leader smiled and rubbed the boy'head. "I'll tell you...the story of a hero named Agra Wirabadra"