8 Goddess of Flower Sanggana
Rajungan 8: Lolongan Cave

*The Secrets of the Howling Gorge (Configuration)*

Joko Tingkir is so enjoying his journey with Princess Manik Sari who is so beautiful in his eyes. Understandably Joko Tingkir has eyes that if you see the latest beauty output, easily captivated. Very fanatical about the development of the model. If there is a beautiful face that he just saw, then the old beautiful face will expire by itself.

Now that the beauty of Putri Manik Sari became the latest model in her eyes, the beauty of the Shadow Goddess of Death and Limarsih automatically expired with the presence of the princess.

Both of them were sitting leisurely on the straw that filled the pedati. They hitchhiked in the buffalo pedicure of a resident they met. The condition of Putri Manik Sari looks better, seen from the color of his face that looks fresh.

“So Princess want to come where?” asked Joko Tingkir while smiling sweetly always trying to charm.

“Where are you going, Joko?” putri Manik Sari asked without hesitation to look directly at the handsome face of the swordsman who was younger than him.

“Lang Howling. I'll meet my teacher there. Uh, don't call me Joko, Princess. Call me step aside,” said Joko Tingkir.

“Why?” ask Putri Manik Sari.

“For, my best friend is also named Joko. Joko Relax. He always tried to get along with me. In terms of good looks, devotion, up to women's affairs..”.

“Then who is superior?” ask Putri Manik Sari to cut.

“I'm the one for sure!” joko Tingkir replied as he lifted his head and straightened his back from the backrest. “That quiet Shop has always envied me. Seeing me close to a beautiful girl, she also tried to get closer. Seeing me as the main hero, he also tried to perform. Yes, you can distinguish, where people who appear indeed with their abilities and strengths, with people who perform with contrived and forced can.”

“Yaaa, I've seen such a person,” said Putri Manik Sari. “I'll come with you to the Gorge Lolongan.”

“To the Howling Gorge? For what?” ask Joko Tingkir.

“Yaaa come with you, Get out of the way,” replied the princess. “Can't I if I come with you? Are you afraid your lover is jealous to see me with you?”

“Indeed there are many women who have been my lovers, but they all have a hard time lasting. They couldn't bear to see me who couldn't avoid being liked by so many beautiful women. So they chose to decide on me. Actually I am a loyal man in love, but they only think I am a female player. What can I do, right now I'm empty lover. So there's no need to worry if there's a woman jealous of you, Princess. But, what is the purpose of Princess coming with me coming to the Howling Gorge?”

“I'm looking for my father's killer. I am sure Prabu Dira and his consort went to Jurang Lolongan,” said Putri Manik Sari.

“Hea hea!”

Suddenly there was the sound of running a few horses accompanied by the sound of thumping cries. Joko Tingkir and Putri Manik Sari stopped talking. They look back.

There were four horses with four men. They are warriors. Although the four horsemen's clothing model was different, but each of his clothes had the element of a tiger's skin. They all carried two axes on each waist as weapons.

“Rack of Rong Bale! Try asking that pedati coachman!” shouted the brawny man in sleeveless clothes, revealing his big, stocky arms. There were tiger skin bracelets on both wrists. His name is Rong Sate.

The short-bodied but long-haired man and head-bound tiger skin, nodded to his companion. The man with the thin mustachioed name is Rong Bale.

So when the four horses went ahead of the buffalo's pedicure, they stopped in front, and turned around the head of the horse.

“Kisan Pedati!” call Rong Bale to the half-century-old man of sais pedati.

“Ya, Den Swordsman?” sais sais pedati while stopping his train.

“We Four Loreng Axes want to go to Lolongan Cave. Is this really the direction?” ask Rong Bale.

“True, Den Swordsman. Before reaching Lolongan Cave, there is Lamongan Village. Better before going to Lolongan Cave, rest first in Lamongan Village to be armed, because after that there is no longer a village or place to drink coffee, Den Pendekar, Den Pendekar,” answer sais pedati plus additional info.

“Good, thank you, Kisanak!” said Rong Bale. He rushed to escape, his horse continued on its way.

Rong Sate and his two companions soon followed.

“Ki!” call Joko Get out of the back of the pedati.

“Ya, Den Swordsman?” sais sais pedati.

“I know Howling is the name of the abyss, not the cave!” joko Tingkir.

“The Howling Cliff is correct, the Howling Cave is also correct. Before getting to the Howling Gorge, there was a huge crossroads. The descending path to the Howling Gorge. The uphill road to Mount Galang which will pass through the Lolongan Cave!” sais pedati is complete.

“Oooh!” joko Tekir Mangosteen. Then ask Putri Manik Sari, “But, why did they go to Lolongan Cave, not to the Howling Gorge? Isn't the event important in the Howling Gorge?”

“Which I know, Get out!” putri Manik Sari was upset.

Not long after, their journey stopped. Apparently their pedati was stopped by two fat and fat women, still young, but beautiful-beautiful and white-white. Even one of them is so adorable with his bakpa cheeks. The two were resting under a shady banyan tree on the side of the road.

The fat young lady dressed in red who was thick-browed and sharp-nosed, was the one who blocked the pedati. Her name is Nila Numbers.

“Excuse us to stop you, Ki!” said Nila Numbers friendly.

“It's okay, Boy Swordsman. Can anyone help Aki?” ask sais pedati.

“We are heading to Lolongan Cave. Does Aki know that place?” ask Nila Numbers.

“Yes, I know, Son. After this road there is Lamongan Village. You can start armed first and head west to the Lolongan Cave. You will meet a big intersection. One road descends and another one goes up. If it decreases to the Howling Gorge, if it climbs to the Lolongan Cave. Do not get the wrong way,” clearly sais pedati.

“Thank you, Ki,” said Nila Numbers while closing her palms in front of her chest. Then he got off the road. “Please continue the journey, Ki!”

“Good,” answer sais pedati with a big smile. He is happy because today he is useful to many people. He continued to softly whip his body which then walked back.

While passing the two fat women, Joko Tingkir threw a charming smile while moving his right hand to the two beautiful women.

However, Nila Numbers and her sister, Nira Numbers, just stared coldly at Joko Tingkir without a single smile. The attitude of the two fat girls made Joko Tingkir as a handsome man feel neglected. He bites a finger.

“Hihihi..!” putri Manik Sari laughs at Joko Tingkir. “Until two cow-skinned elephants were tempted. Hihihi!”

“Hahaha!” joko Tingkir's laughter. “Any, they are also heading to Lolongan Cave. What big event is there in Lolongan Cave?” (BH)

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The Story of Covid-19 Author (Finished)

Thankfully, I was finally healthy again with a cough. I can go out again and if noon go to the house of the eldest brother looking for a cool place. I could see some people basking themselves early in the morning while wearing masks. I can only suspect that they were also exposed to Covid-19.

I did see a slight change in a number of residents who were more strictly masked even though just out of the house. In fact, for almost two years, the mask culture was almost non-existent, because here it was an environment that did not exist Covid. Prayers in the mosque there have never been prokes, as usual crowded eidan, residents around greetings without prokes. If there's a mask, it's a little. They've all always been convinced that here's the Covid free zone.

It was only in late May 2021 and early July that many residents were sick, but silent from the word “Covid-19”. They assume only ordinary pain, fever due to climate change, symptoms of typhoid, or common colds.

At the same time, almost every day there are dead, including neighbors. One day, there were 4 people who died with scattered points. However, it is considered to be common pain. Until finally, the death trend subsided, no one else died.

I returned to prayer in Musalla. I who still cough, always use a mask, but the other pilgrims, despite coughing, they do not mask anymore.

In this healthy period, then me and my brother, fellow citizens, even with wives, tell each other about illness. As it turns out, they tell of that they also lost their sense of smell, tightness and weakness. I concluded that it was a symptom of Covid-19 with different levels of pain.

I could wonder. I'm Covid-19, but why don't my wife and my in-laws fall apart? After the wife story, it turns out they both first exposed Covid-19. Both of them were sick earlier than me, but not as bad as I was. Then revealed the path from whom I contracted. Why don't wives and in-laws get infected again, because when I'm sick, they're healthy? The answer is because they are immune.

Epidemiologist and former Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Siti Fadila Supari once said, people who have been affected by the outbreak, then healthy, then he is immune from the outbreak, will not be exposed again.

The question arises, why is there a person who was exposed to Covid-19 twice? My strong guess is that he was exposed to two viruses with different variants. First the first variant, the second Delta variant from India that can shake Bollywood. However, if there is a new variant again, I believe the person who is already immune to the Delta variant can be exposed again because he is not immune to the new variant.

So I took lessons from my neighborhood.

A fishing environment that was never entered by Covid-19 Task Force, except in the initial phase only for spraying. The citizens never test, except for a number of individuals who work in offices. There is no term for a vaccine, let alone a vaccine.

All of a sudden these residents are almost evenly exposed to the pain whose symptoms are Covid, but they are silent, no one goes to the doctor. Some got sick and were taken to the hospital, came home dead and all were old people. They only eat stall medicine or may follow an easy therapy, clothesline or use eucalyptus oil.

Then they were healthy and all that was left was the coughing, which medical experts say were the carcasses of a virus that numbered in the billions and still settles in the body.

So, in my neighborhood, they get Covid naturally, get Covid naturally and are limited to not involving doctors or medics, and then some die, in other words “” is over, then they are healthy, then communal immunity is created by itself without vaccine.

After that time, almost all residents returned to their usual activities without any more prokes, without any more masks. I also took off the mask because the cough had healed after Lebaran Haji.

I finally think. Maybe a lot of people disagree with my thoughts. Assume everyone will be exposed to this outbreak, especially the Delta variant whose transmission speed is extraordinary. Everyone will definitely go through a period of illness and natural selection will occur. The immune man is very weak, the destiny of God he will die. However, people whose immunity is strong and can return to health, then he will become immune naturally.

That means, the Government should focus on the target to create a strong immune society, implement plausible prokes, not just hunt positive people and cripple the source of people's livelihood. As in my neighborhood, the Covid-19 strike period was only about a month, after which it was safely back. But we see, the wider community actually suffered for almost two years because of Covid's improper policy.

Wisdom from the religious side: assuming that we will be exposed to Covid, then we will take care of our health and immunity. Two choices between healthy return or death after illness, it will force us to prepare the provision of worship charity for our journey. HOPEFULLY BENEFIT. (TAMAT)