It’s a long long day – Stuck in middle of the riddle!

One glance at the bottom of the screen while Praveen was opening up his mail alarmed me. It was already 9:15 AM and we had lost 1/4^th of the day. It is always difficult but one of the many first mandatory things thought to spies to keep up on time. Every action and every decision any spy makes has time as one the major factor in its making. Since spies are always handed tasks that involve either a major threat or some danger to national security or sometimes even a task wherein a life keeps hanging, the ticking time matters the most.

I knew even Praveen was as much worried as me but both of us hid our worries very well within ourselves.

“Check this” he said keeping his right palm on my shoulder and taking a light support.

I pulled the laptop in front of me and read the mail which went exactly as below –

Agent Mike was travelling on an international flight with his wife. Probably travelling by the group package was never his interest but his wife had forced it into his head. "No never again" he said to himself as he closed his eyes. "Is he thinking about work? No, atleast his latest mail says he is not into any case" his wife thought and enjoyed the clouds as seen from the window. "I need to be back early to get hold of one of the proof to catch them" he continued thinking. This clearly proves he was atleast until yesterday that he was working on a case. As his mail and the information it holds makes it very clear. "Highly critical mission awakens me and it’s obvious that I reach my limits working on it" he used to say. He was heading out but his mind was into that local case he yet had to solve.

Code 206. Location Chelsea, UK.

You both work together. Team work always wins. Mix in your thoughts into your work. That brings the desired result!

“What on earth does this mean?” I asked a bit frustrated by reading some extract that made no sense at all.

“I don’t have even the slightest idea” he replied with his voice as frustrated as was mine.

“This atleast looks like a meaningful extract from some novel or book but read the one that Chief sent me. I am damn sure you will go mad” I said opening up my mailbox in a new tab.

He walked around the table and sat beside me, to my right, while I was logging in and opening up the mail for him to read.

Finally when it opened, he pulled the laptop in front of him and started reading, in his mind, which read exactly as below –

Few raw vegetables went missing while Mike was working on something. Then he had nothing along with him and finally he called Interpol. They looked into who kidnapped the vegetables. He said he will be looking into it but the demands the missing vegetables case forced him to contact Interpol. At last as he says, "They cracked the contents of all boxes to make sure one of them had vegetables" "Spoil the boxes and get the contents. This theory not only bothered the passengers but angered them" he thought. Vegetables were alive till evening and their safety was the one thing he knew was is and will be crucial. It was a highly secured flight but still vegetables were gone. He read the text he just got wiping the sweat and said, to himself, "Its as hot as oven and it’s never comfortable for anyone in this miserable heat" rechecking the contact from whom he had got that strange text after the vegetables went missing.

Code 206. Location Narayanpur, India.

You both work together. Team work always wins. Mix in your thoughts into your work. That brings the desired result!

“There is absolutely no meaning in this. What novel talks about kidnapped vegetables?” he said with his eyes still fixed on the mail.

“That’s what is driving me crazy. This definitely is not any extract from any book that can give us any clue and is not something that carries neither any meaning nor any message for us. Then what the hell is this all about?”

“The only thing common is Mike” he said

“And Code 206 and that last line” I said, sipped in some more caffeine and continued, “There must be a clue in this for sure”

“If Chief says then definitely our thoughts need to be mixed” Praveen said.

“We are stuck in middle until we solve the riddle” he said again while I was reading the last line again and again and again.

“Hmmm” I replied and then said to myself, “This will be a real long day!”

The mails look meaningless but there is always a clue hidden somewhere. We just need to find the hidden clue and figure out the answer. That’s what riddles are!

Can you readers find the clue and figure out what Chief has hidden in his messages and help us out?

Vishal…

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