"Darkness… Somehow the darkness is lifting off…. Slowly…Slowly…" Shringar opened her eyes. It was still midnight. "After leaving Dr. Nitish's place, I have been living at Dorothy's house. Felt uncertain about the future." Shringar looked up at the ceiling. She kept on pondering over what is ahead of her. Everything seemed silent all of a sudden. Specially after what happened a few days ago. She closed her eyes and went back to sleep. In the morning she woke up and saw Dorothy helping her mother to make breakfast. Shringar noticed how much better Dorothy's mental and emotional condition is now. After a few minutes of admiration she went to help them set the plates. Suddenly a message popped up in both Shringar and Dorothy's phones. "An invitation to the "Neo Party" at the "Mantra Junction Villa", organized by Chief Varnika, 7th floor room 7G, at 7:00PM, this Sunday. Need to bring the digital/printed invitation letter to the designated venue. A big surprise is awaiting for all the characters of this case." Both Shringar and Dorothy blinked twice and looked at each other in utter silence.
In the "Secret Mission Group Chat" all the members are asking about this sudden invitation and Chief Varnika's sudden obsession with the number 7. Dorothy asked, "The crime scene was not in the 7th floor right?" Shringar nodded in yes and added, "The crime scene is still blocked by the police." Shringar noticed Dorothy having palpitation suddenly. Her mother rubbed her back. Shringar looked at the lovely breakfast made by the mother and daughter duo and thought, "Just when I thought things will be at least better than before and we will not get into any sudden trouble, this invitation popped up." Shringar knelt down in front of Dorothy's chair, held her cold sweaty hands and started, "Do not worry, this is just an invitation. There will not be any harm in not attending it." Dorothy asked if Shringar would go or not, and the room fell silent.
Rathod asked, "Chief, why would you suddenly start this? What's gotten into you?" Chief Varnika said, "Craze. A strange craze. Many things will be determined on Sunday."
Sanskar and Elena showed up at Dorothy's house to discuss whether they will go to this enigmatic "Neo Party" or not. Shringar asked about Lalith and Gaurav. Sanskar informed that they will go to the party. Shringar went deep in thoughts. Sanskar said, "Actually, I am also planning on going… I am actually very interested to know what the Chief is up to." Dorothy started with an anxious tone, "If Elena and Shringar goes, then I will go too. I think we all should stick together." Elena agreed with Dorothy and Sanskar noticed Shringar standing in the corner, indulged in deep thoughts. "Shringar what is in your mind? Fill us in!" Shringar smiled as Sanskar asked her about her thoughts. She started, "Alex did say something about the chief being reckless before. I have a bad feeling about this. But honestly I am curious myself. There is more to the situation than meets the eyes. " They all looked at Shringar hopefully.
On the other side Alex was trying to grasp the data of the VeilTus which he found during all the ruckus from the "Maruti and Sons" achievement event. "This is strange…" The data contains a lot of information related to the next missions and the members of the VeilTus. There are some live videos which are of very mysterious places, which looked absolutely unfamiliar yet felt eerily familiar at the same time. Suddenly he got a message from Shringar informing him about the invitation of 'Neo Party'. He refused to go, since he was yet to grasp the data he got . The whole task force seemed to be against of Chief's plan, but she did not listen to anybody. They all respected her due to which they were going with the plan. As the small discussion concluded with everyone agreeing to go to the party, they started leaving Dorothy's place. Before leaving Sanskar and Elena looked back at us and he murmured, "Be careful… You are the pillar who is keeping us strong." Shringar and Dorothy could not hear what he just said, even Elena could not quite caught up to it, but realised that he said something important to most probably himself, then they all left, leaving Shringar in deep thoughts. Dorothy wanted to ask about it, but she did not bother her. Shringar went back to her room, looked at her school books and pressed at her temple. She felt bad about the fact that the days have become quite tensed, due to which she did not get a proper chance to be a normal student. As she tried to focus on studies to distract her mind from all the chaos, Dorothy through the living room window noticed a strange biker outside of her house. As she was about to inform her mother about it, suddenly the biker took out a gun and shot on the window resulting in breaking the glass. Both Dorothy and her mother screamed. Shringar came out of her room to check on the matter and saw both the ladies were shaken with fear. She noticed the biker starting the bike, she asked Dorothy's mother to immediately call the police and went out of the door to chase the biker. Though she knew it was impossible to keep up with a bike, but instinctively she started chasing it. The biker noticed Shringar and increased the speed of the bike. Shringar called Sanskar and informed about the biker and asked if the biker passes from their direction. Then she called Gaurav and did the same. They informed about the current location of the biker and Shringar reached to the biker by using a shortcut. As Shringar threw 'old maid' cards on the biker, one of the those card's sharp side passed through the biker's one side of the neck, which cut that part of the biker's neck causing it to bleed. Almost imbalanced, but somehow maintained. As Shringar almost reached to it, the biker caused accident with an old woman to create a distraction and went off. Shringar was furious. She took the lady to the doctor. The thought kept on nagging her as to why the biker did not harm her.
Everyone started worrying about Shringar, but she assured that everything will be fine. In the evening, greeting cards were sent to the invitees by the chief. After getting ready for the party, they started a video conference in the "Secret Mission Group Chat". They got the details of the incident with the biker. Then Gaurav asked, "Shringar we can already see that the day is very unusual not to mention dangerous and the evening will be long. What are your thoughts about today?" Shringar says, "Honestly, I think that Chief Varnika is trying to smoke out the traitor." Sanskar exclaimed, "Traitor!? I thought she is trying to get her hands on the members of VeilTus..." Others nodded to Sanskar's statement. Shringar explained, "Terrible things happened a few days ago in that same building where we will be having the Party this evening. It seems obvious that she is trying to get to the members of VeilTus. And perhaps that is her plan from the beginning. That everyone should think this way." Lalit started to understand what she meant. "If you try to analyse the situation up to this point, then you will realise that something is off. VeilTus is always many steps ahead of the police. An extreme example is Raghuvendra Sinha's death which they committed without any trouble. That is not because the police is incompetent. That is because there is one or more than one traitors among them. The Chief is foreshadowing the fact that she is trying to figure out who or who are the traitors among them by throwing this party and making the involved candidates think that she is trying to catch the terrorists." Dorothy who was sitting beside Shringar said, "You have a sharp mind Shringar. You figured out what Chief Varnika's mind thinks at the moment. Do you think she suspects someone?" Shringar looked at her and then back to the others and said, "I am not sure who she suspects… But I have a few suspects of my own in mind. Even though I do not have any proof." Elina asked immediately, "Who are they?" Shringar took some breath and started, "My first suspect is Officer Prakash." Everyone got shocked since he is the only person who kept helping them till this point. Shringar said, "Perhaps he is trying to be a good person on purpose. I am not sure about it. But he says that he knows my father who helped him ones and since then he is indebted to him. That is the reason why he is helping me. He almost immediately approached me when I started getting well. Isn't it strange that he is helping us so easily?" Sanskar said with a thoughtful look in in eyes, "Suspicious indeed. People might take advantage of you since you do not have any memory of your past. We are blessed children, so we are somehow important in the society in the eyes of VeilTus." Shringar also mentioned, "But we can not roll out the fact that he keeps helping us till this point. That is when my second suspect comes in, which is Officer Rani. She is probably the most suspicious one out of all." Dorothy said, "I genuinely dislike her. She made a mess out of me by not giving the tape recorder to the higher-ups. If it weren't for Officer Prakash that situation would never get resolved." Others agreed. Shringar said, "She is indeed the most suspicious of all. But there is one thing that I can say is that her actions are not systematic at all and that is why the flaws are visible. Criminal organizations like VeilTus would not make such mistakes. She is probably working under her own volition and has her own reasons. But so far she gave us more than enough reasons to suspect her. My final suspect is DSP. Rathod." Gaurav asked, "Why him? He does not seem suspicious." Others seemed confused as well. Shringar adjusted her voice and said, "Well we have very less information about him, but his actions are very off based. DSP was handling all the major parts of the cases which got disrupted. Raghuvendra Sinha was under his supervision but he died. He did not take the recording mishap seriously at all. He always seem to take a neutral stance but he is actually slowing down the case progress. So this far they are my major suspects, and if I am right then at least one of them is Chief Varnika's suspect too." Elina said, "Well, it looks like we can safely say that the hackers team, Chanakya, Pooja and the other constables are innocent." Gaurav said, "Not sure, case progress and major problems started since Pooja entered the scene. The constables may not be major players but might be helping them. Chanakya seemed to be always sticking up with officer Rani and the hackers team is very secretive. But I have to agree that them being traitors is very low." Lalit said, "Smoking out the major traitor will do the thing. If there are supporting players then that will not be difficult to find out if we find the major traitor or traitors." Dorothy said in a low tone, "We…?" Sanskar said, "Yes Dorothy… If you do not want to do anything, then it is fine. You have not recovered completely. But since we are all totally involved in this and we have a pretty much clear idea on what is happening around us, so we should contribute." Dorothy said, "I will help. I am sure with these invitation and greeting cards, Chief Varnika is trying to tell us to contribute."
They talked a bit about the greeting cards and then they proceeded for the party. Shringar reached their and found others to be waiting for her. Elina said, "This place is huge! And extravagant too. I cannot believe that both Shringar and Sanskar visited this place before." As they entered the building they were greeted by the founder of this building. "Hello everyone, I am the founder of this building Mantra Junction Villa, Rohan Rai. I am extremely happy for you to visit here. Please come in." "Are our life safe here in your domain?" A seductive male voice came from behind. It was obvious that the question was directed to Mr. Rohan Rai. They looked back and saw the man who questioned the safety of this place is the famous British-Indian Popstar Virgil Arora. He was present at the "Maruti and Sons" new achievement incident as a guest as far Shringar and Sanskar remembered. "It seems natural to be cautious after what happened the other day." Sanskar murmured. He glanced back and forth. Mr. Rai assured us that everything will be fine. Virgil nodded with a charismatic smile. As they started to walk Mr. Rai showed them the features of this building. "There are total 10 floors. And if we include the ground floor and the roof then the total become 12. The Neo Party is on the 7th floor which is a room specifically for functions like office party, wedding and birthday parties. There are two floors dedicated for such events, one is the 4th floor which is a crime scene right now and another is this one. 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors consists of business rooms. Only business people stays in this hotel. There is a mini dinner room and a big dinner room. The mini diner is for children and big dinner room is dedicated to the adults with a bar attached to it in the fifth floor. There is a casino, a big bar, a few stores and a fitness centre which includes gym, yoga hall and spa on the eighth floor. The ninth floor has a hall which is specifically for concerts and drama. There is a library café, and a sitting room on the tenth floor. And the roof top has a huge pool." The kids got shocked listening to all the features of this hotel. Virgil said in a seductive yet confident tone, "I came to this hotel before the big incident happened on the 4th floor, for a concert of my own on the 9th floor last year." Elina spoke up in excitement, "Yes I saw it on T.V!!" Virgil asked in surprise, "Do you listen to my songs?", she answered with equal excitement, "Oh yes sir, my mother listen to your songs since my childhood and I like them so much so I still follow you." Virgil gave a charismatic smile and said, "I see. My fans are usually old people since I used to be a popular singer at that time during my teenage years. The new generation does not get thrilled by my style of songs. But I love my style so I am stuck up to it." "But I love them!" Elina almost shrieked. Everyone smiled. As they entered the hall Virgil's fans caught up to him like insects getting stuck on a spider web. Most of them were married women and their husbands were standing on the other side watching them like hawks, making it evident how jealous they were. As Shringar and her team moved aside, A.P. Pooja greeted them. Gaurav looked at her with suspicion. Lalith pointed, "See Shringar and Gaurav, all of them you mentioned earlier are already here." They noticed, Officer Prakash, Officer Rani, DSP Rathod and Chanakya was there. The hackers are not here yet though they are not suspects yet they are in their minds. Sanskar whispered, "So I guess the hunt beings then?" Pooja gave a confused look to them. Shringar walked forward and said, "Yes, all of them are here, the hunt begins, and every second matters."