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Arya and Bayu weren't your average guys.

Both were former members of Detachment 88, Indonesia's elite counter-terrorism unit—trained to eliminate threats most people couldn't even pronounce.

They'd walked through hell together.

Rescuing hostages from armed fanatics.

Infiltrating jungle camps run by separatists.

Neutralizing ticking bombs—both literal and political.

But after years buried in red tape and blood-soaked orders, they walked away.

Together.

They built their own firm—Two Eagles. A private investigation unit that took the cases the police wouldn't touch. Cases wrapped in corruption, buried in silence, guarded by men with expensive suits and even more expensive bodyguards.

Their bond was more than military. It was familial. Forged in the mud and madness of Kopassus training, tempered through fire in Aceh, Poso, and Papua. They balanced each other—Bayu, impulsive but brilliant, Arya, calm but deadly precise. They didn't need words. Just one look, one breath—enough to know what the other was thinking.

Three days ago, they took what looked like an easy job.

Find Alina Wijaya, daughter of billionaire Herman Wijaya.

Gone missing after a flashy charity gala.

The cops wrote it off as a classic ransom case. Rich girl disappears, family pays, happy ending.

But something felt wrong.

There was no ransom.

No demands.

And worse—no digital trail.

Witnesses contradicted each other.

Security footage mysteriously glitched.

Their instincts flared. This wasn't a kidnapping. This was a cover-up.

Arya dug into Herman's background while Bayu traced her last steps.

The deeper they looked, the darker it got.

One name kept coming up:

Serambi Nusantara Research Center.

Officially, it was a cutting-edge pharmaceutical lab, dedicated to "improving national health outcomes."

Unofficially?

People whispered about black vans.

About patients who never came back.

About test subjects who didn't survive.

Arya felt the old itch—that sixth sense honed in the field.

And Bayu… he stopped cracking jokes.

They'd found something.

Something that shouldn't exist.

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