Cry of Shadows - Chapter 8

“Good to see you Jean”, RAW chief was waiting for the trio inside a temporary discussion room created inside the villa.

“We are having a secured Video Conference with your bosses in France”. “This line is completely protected and secured. You three will be taking up this assignment without much of local force support. It is a diplomatic issue, so kindly consider its importance and don’t take anything light. It will cost you”, Chief continued.

They walked into a video conferencing facility. That’s an amazing room, but what surprised him more was it was a complete 3D video conferencing. It is exactly the same way you discuss across the desk and that even without glasses.

“Bonjour Chief”, Jean smiled.

“Don’t feel great Jean, I saw your tweet today. I told you that there should be no location specific tweets. I think it might have made the damage but I warn you. Don’t do that again”

“Sure Chief”

By the time, all of them entered into the room. “Good Morning Gentlemen”

“Good Morning”, they replied.

“I am here to explain one among the most adventurous and secret mission which we do with the support of Indian government”

They were all eagerly waiting for the next statement.

“Recently there had been strange things happening in our countries diplomat community. Many were brutally murdered and French Police don’t even have a clue how this is happening. But later investigations pointed to few common points on each murder. All of them were killed exactly at their birth time. During the investigation we accidently found this strange coincidence, a black magic technique performed in India called “Shadow Killing” were opponents are killed during their birth time. But the strange thing is that the killer needs to be physically present to kill the opponent even through Shadows.

We checked the flight chart to confirm any particular person coming during these days to France. There were quiet a few flights coming from Bangalore, Chennai flying to France and Frankfurt daily and that is nothing less than impossible to catch the killer from this information and we are also not sure if the killer is already inside France.

Though we expected nothing, we posted a special surveillance on the flights coming from India. But to our luck, we found a sharp iron metal carried by the Pilot of Air France from Bangalore and a local guy received it and transferred it to someone in Paris. When we questioned both of them, they knew nothing than a phone call which they received along with some money and this metal. In Paris too, this guy don’t know anything more than a garbage bin where he was asked to keep the parcel. He used to receive the money from the pilot and the pilot is paid in India.

“I have a question, why was Jean asked to come to Kerala. This particular thing could be executed by anyone in India. And you said the pilot got the parcel from Bangalore, the culprit might be in Bangalore or anywhere in India”

 “That’s a good question; we traced all the calls received by the pilot. He was tried to contact from several numbers in Kerala.”

“We need to start from Zero. We need to start somewhere. That’s why we send Jean to Kerala. Let’s start from here. In all these discussions one person was left blank on why he was chosen.”