From a distance, it looked like a sinkhole.
But it was the collection of about 1000 solar panels and generators firing up that made you think that perhaps it was a hydraulic sinkhole, only taking what it wanted so that it could continue functioning underground.
'Are you saying the brothel village is functioning underground.'
I'm saying there's an escalator that leads into it from the carpark.
Since the Indonesian president got in power on a landslide of popular policies, including closing down all the brothels across the archipelago, the 'brothel' villages literally went underground.
'Are you saying that the sinkhole, fumes, bubbling mud, is man-made.'
Come on Max, look at the shit Hollywood is doing, sure it's just like West World, it's a man-made sinkhole.
The extremes the local mafia went to operating their profitable businesses was mind-blowing.
And we were about to explore.
'I bet they have casinos underground as well,' said Jack.
Here's to hoping, I said and pressed a secret button hidden submerged in a box beneath the caked soil which opened up a trapdoor to the escalator.
'Here's to whores,' I said, as I waved the boys in.
We might be just onto something, I thought, as we eyed up a bevy of beauties at the bottom of the escalator.
