The story starts with the main character Tulume surrounded by gold and treasure, and some snakes inside a cave. Tulume has been a "Tulisan" (bandit), looting treasures and amassing wealth, money, gold, and other important things with his followers, who then helped him store all the loot in the cave, and Tulume told his pet snake Lingkis to guard the treasure and kill anybody who tries to get into the cave. After that he went outside to rest with his men. The next day, one of his men says he's too ill to go back out with them to look for more treasure. Then he gets inside the cave with a plan to get all the treasures--but Lingkis is ready to kill him. but unknown to him, Lingkis is ready to kill him.