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The Blue Rafflesia Part 32 starts
In the heart of a dense jungle on the infamous Sentinelese Island, Professor Bhattacharya stopped in his tracks, astonished by the strange scene before him. Patches of scorched earth and zones devoid of grass disrupted the otherwise lush greenery. The destruction was clearly manmade—evidence of explosives, perhaps part of some unauthorized exploration.
Suddenly, his colleague Bhubash called out. The professor turned to find Bhubash pointing at a flickering red light embedded in torn protective fabric—one of their team's trackers. It was damaged, and the blinking light indicated a system failure. Without it, the satellite could no longer trace their movements. Someone had tampered with it. Someone who, they suspected, had been following them since Bhuvaneshwar.
“But how?” Professor Bhattacharya murmured. Access to Sentinelese Island was strictly restricted. Only a select few, with the highest level of authorization, could enter this forbidden realm. International law protected it, and the tribal inhabitants were known to detect and repel intruders the moment they neared the coast—often violently.
Yet now, the jungle was eerily silent. The team scanned their surroundings. No stones, no arrows, not even a shadow of the Sentinel tribe. Where had they gone?
Prisoners in the Void
Elsewhere, Rahul regained consciousness in a dim, wet prison cell—steel ropes chaining him to an iron pillar. The small enclosure could barely hold six people. Around him, he saw others in the same predicament: Rohit, Professor Bashu, Dr. Gumej... and then Jayanto, who hadn’t even been part of their team. How had he ended up here?
One face was conspicuously absent: their police escort. Rahul remembered being kidnapped alongside him. Had he been killed?
Outside the cell, nothing was visible—just pitch-black emptiness, void of even starlight. A chilling vacuum.
Then came movement.
A shaft of light pierced the darkness, revealing three figures carrying another person. They inserted a pipe into the cell and released a familiar gas—the same one that had incapacitated the entire team during their abduction. Within moments, they were unconscious again.
Enter Inspector Panda
Back in Port Blair, Inspector Panda had arrived from Bhumanesha with no information about the team's journey. His mission: to locate two police officers dispatched for a secret assignment. He contacted his network of informants and operatives, but there was no sign of them. Frustrated and wary, he boarded a plane to Woodlaire, bound for the Andaman Islands.
Vanishing Acts
Meanwhile, Professor Bhattacharya and Bhubash were in frantic search mode. Earlier, one of their instruments had detected radioactive traces, prompting a separate team to scout the area. But they had since vanished.
The jungle remained unnervingly quiet. No sign of the Sentinelese—no weapons, no hostility. Even the enemy team, spotted near the core of the island, seemed untouched by tribal resistance.
“Have they vanished into thin air?” Bhubash asked.
“Yes,” the professor replied grimly. “It’s unlike them. We must inform the authorities. Our people are more valuable than any flower.”
They abandoned their quest for the rare Blue Reflexia and hurried back. But when they reached the spot where their van and driver were to be waiting—nothing remained. The vehicle had disappeared.
All that greeted them was the haunting rustle of jungle leaves and the sound of wind slicing through silence like whispers from another realm.
“What is going on?” Professor Bhattacharya whispered.
“Where on earth has our driver gone?”
Bhubash gasped. Professor Bhattacharya stood silent beside him, equally stunned. They stood in the jungle like performers on a stage, but these performers had forgotten their props — lost in an act without direction.
Meanwhile, inside a dark prison cell, Jayanto stirred. "Hey, Jayanto!" Rahul and Rohit called out, trying to rouse him.
Kumais, chained alongside them, was quietly assessing his surroundings. As previously described, he, Rahul, Rohit, and Professor Bashu had been bound to iron pillars following their abduction from the jungle. But now, upon regaining consciousness, they noticed something had changed.
There was an unexpected fifth person among them — Jayanto, bound just like the others. However, someone was missing. Their police officer, the team’s official bodyguard, was nowhere to be found.
Troubled and disoriented, the group struggled to understand what had happened. Why was Jayanto here? And where was the officer who had been kidnapped with them?
They recalled their prior consciousness — fleeting moments before being rendered unconscious again by a mysterious gas sprayed into their cell. Now, awake once more, they were determined to uncover what had transpired during their blackout. Who was behind the kidnapping? And most importantly, how could they escape?
🕵️ Inspector Panda’s Mission
Elsewhere, Inspector Panda had landed in Bhuvaneshwar. He was on a mission — tracing the whereabouts of two police officers reportedly on a covert assignment. Coincidentally, Professor Bhattacharya and Jayanto were also missing from Bhuvaneshwar at the same time, presumably on their own secret endeavor.
Panda began wondering if these incidents were connected, a thought that weighed heavily on him. Upon reaching Bhuvaneshwar Port, he searched flight passenger records but found no trace of the two officers boarding the plane to Port Blair, as he had expected. Perhaps the intel had been inaccurate.
Driven by his unwavering commitment and curiosity, Panda quickly booked a flight to Port Blair and departed without delay.
Upon arrival, he made his way to a hotel near Nicobar Island, pre-arranged by the local police force. This was an official mission, not a personal detour.
Unbeknownst to Panda, he had been followed. A mysterious individual who had been trailing him in Bhuvaneshwar disembarked in Port Blair just an hour after Panda’s arrival. That man was greeted by his own team — operatives assigned to monitor Panda’s movements.
Unfortunately for the follower, the hour-long delay had given Panda the upper hand. He was already en route to his hotel in a police-escorted vehicle. The man had no idea where Panda had gone and began asking his team where the inspector might be staying.
Back at his hotel, Panda began plotting his next moves. His focus shifted to identifying the destination of the two missing officers and determining whether Professor Bhattacharya and Jayanto were headed to the same place.
If he could unveil the connection between these individuals, he believed he might finally solve a larger enigma — the baffling presence of a Royal Bengal Tiger, mysteriously sighted roaming the streets of Bhuvaneshwar.
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