Shu Wen’s call was quite a bait too much for me. I sprinted to my car. Leng had wanted to come, but I told her to complete the task that had been assigned to her. My foot was on the accelerator pedal through the journey, something uncharacteristic of me.My mind had already raced to the forests.  At the base camp, I realized an additional tentage had been set up. There were two new rolls of desks with a couple of screens.I found ASP Wong and the Colonel standing over some monitors and quickly walked over.“Are you feeling, okay?” Colonel asked. He had probably heard about my incident at Chris Chen’s ward. I felt sheepish as there is a prevailing impression that I am weak and overwhelmed. But they did not have a full understanding of the powers of the spirit that we are dealing with.“The encounter zapped some of my energy, but it didn’t kill me. I am recuperating well.” I quickly replied.“My su

“I had surveyed these grounds two years ago when the Ministry was conducting a routine reconnaissance of the terrain.”“Excellent. Do you know if there was a stream nearby?”“I am not totally familiar, but I fainly remember there is one further uphill.” He pointed to my right.I was intrigued.“Can you lead the way?”The Lieutenant gladly took the lead. It was a five-minute walk and we found it behind a row of low shrubbery. It was a clear stream no more than one meter wide.“So it was true,” I whispered. Somehow Razali heard me. “Dr Ant, what’s true?”“I heard about this stream.”“Heard? From who?”I smiled, to avert the need to address his question.I felt a sudden urge to talk to Dorothy Kwek, but it would not be easy to get a meeting with her. I decided to message Leng but realized there was no signal on my ph

She, the lady in black, descended like a foreboding dark curtain. First her feet, then her powerful arms followed by the torso and her hair-covered face. The full bloom of darkness, with streams of vibes, right in front of me. Our first face-to-face encounter. I found myself weakening. I shut my eyes and chant the Heart Sutra but it did not stem the loss of energy.  Her presence, her mastery of ominous energies, was far more powerful than I anticipated. A chill enveloped me. I steadied my trembling hands and scribbled a circle of protective energy, and pulled it over me. However, it seemed to offer little protection for her extended talons that pulled me towards her with ease. I took the opportunity to study her features, but the hair was an opqaue screen, and I had little success. I tried to reinforce my shield with the Zhong Kui paintbrush to keep a distance between us.  However, in a quick athletic flip, she broke my defenses and swooped

Listening to Raja is like a meeting with a long-lost uncle. There is a sense of comfort, that comes from his experience and non-oppressive tone of authority. Respect for him grows naturally.“I admit, this is a tough case. All of you had worked hard but I didn’t deliver my part..” I said after his sharing.‘Don’t feel bad. We go through this all the time.” Raja assured.“Really?”He shook his head. “Not really, but from time to time, we do feel frustrated about lack of progress.”“ASP Wong mentioned you have some information about Bukit Pandan? Perhaps we can sit down to talk?”Raja held up a folder, and I was thrilled. He beckoned to a corner of the tentage away from the rows of screens, and we sat down together with ASP Wong, CK, and Leng.“I had to clear a few bureaucratic hurdles to get this.”He pulled out a yellowish document that has badl

Chris Chen struggled to sleep. He checked the clock on the wall. It is almost 1 am and he had his sleeping medicine an hour ago. He felt his mind was in a state of painful suspension. Hovering from sleepiness and clawing on the edges of sobriety. It was unbearable. Whenever he shut his eyes, his mind will be uncontrollably hauled back to that night when they got lost in the jungle. He remembered the night vividly. It was unusually cold unlike the 29degree Celsius as stated on his smartphone and there was moisture on the ground. One of his mates, TY had a bad fall when they were going down a slope to their second last contact spot.  It was close to 10 pm and they were on time to reach their final destination before wrapping up the night topography session. He remembered it to be in the vicinity of a huge Flame Tree he saw in the day. There would be a tent with trainers and the medic and he was looking to replenish his water supply. The other inexp