The Quest For A Cursed Diamond.

The Diary- 2

" Which incident ", Shehnaz asked in astonished vocals.

Tannu explained all the things that happened last night and after listening Shahnaz was shivering with fear but he asked everyone to hide their fear.

"Well, what was found in the basement below", Shahnaz asked in excitement and fear, Tannu gave her Dr. Zakir' photograph, then he told Shahnaz about Zakir. Zakir's picture was found and on behind it his London's address and phone number were also written.

"Well, calling this number will reveal what is the secret of that torso and skull, now it is time to give medicine to your mother, later Dr. Zakir will be found out, let's help your mother to drink medicine ", Shehnaz told Tannu and Niharika. Then the three went to Tannu's mother's room to give her medicine.

After giving medicine to Tannu's Ammi, Niharika went to keep an eye on the servants in kitchen . And sitting near by the chimney in hall Tannu and Shahnaz were talking to each other . It was evening and the sunlight was starting to fall outside due to cold. The fog also kept a light sheet. So suddenly the phone rings, Tannu picks up the phone's receiver and attaches it to his ear , then says "hello" in heavy vowels, There is also a sound from there "Hello, is it Tanveer... I am doctor uncle, father of Shahnaz , Now how is your mother's health, is there any improvement in her health ", father of Shehnaz asked Tannu. Tannu told him everything about his mother and then pointed the reciver to Shehnaz, Shahnaz came running towards him, after talking to Shehnaz's father for a while he gave the reciver to Shahnaz . Shehnaz who was also standing there, took the receiver from Tannu's hand and put it on his right side by ear and said "Hello, Abbu how are you".

The voice came from other end "I'm fine my child , tell me how are you".

"I'm good too and I'm happy here too, I am giving medicine to aunt from time to time, you must not worry about this ", Shehnaz said with disbelief.

"I know you're very smart in this matter, Well listen, I am sending Haider tomorrow, he has had school holidays and he is insisting on going to you", father of Shehnaz told her . "Okay Abbu, we will take care of him well here", Shahnaz once again expressed her disbelief and said good bye and put the phone's receiver down. She told Tannu about Haider . She said he will reach here tomorrow.

Tannu also said happily "Let's be good, we will also get entertained by little one ."

Haider was 7 years old and Shehnaz's younger brother, four years after his birth his mother passed away , after which father of Shehnaz had taken responsibility of both children. He made his children feel as if they never lost their mother. While Shehnaz was a settled beautiful girl, Haider was very mischievous and a very strong answer kid.

The last gold idol found in the excavation of the cave was excavated six feet after it was excavated and when nothing was found, we were all convinced that nothing else is going to be found. Today was a little more tiring than yesterday. All of us team members celebrated near the fire tonight and also drank alcohol in the night because today all our work was over here. However, Dr. Zakir and I have kept ourselves conscious as we had made up our mind to deal with the untoward incident at night. At night, both of us from our tents were keeping an eye on the surrounding mountains and the tents. In between, by extinguishing the torches from the lattice windows of their tents, they used to signal to each other that both were awake. There was a very cold wave going on that night, the weather was very bad even on the mountains, due to which the fog had covered a deep sheet.

I looked at my watch and it was almost one o'clock in the morning. We both focused our attention mostly on Ramesh and Akram's tent as they were also the first members of Suresh's team to enter the cave. " Around two o'clock in the morning, there was some movement in the tent of Ramesh and Akram, the tent was lit up with a bright red light, Dr. Zakir and I ran to the tent but by then it was too late.

Ramesh and Akram passed away just as their other two companions had passed away.Dr. Zakir and I both stood in amazement and wondered what that bright red light could mean. Suddenly two more deaths occurred as soon as it was burnt.As soon as the morning of the same day, we started preparing to travel through that mysterious cave.

After collecting all the goods properly, preparations were made to go towards the nearby village.

The nearby village was also about three hundred kilometers away, which would have taken several days to reach. Two more people died mysteriously on the way, now even the nearby villagers were very scared, they had no answer for this but me and Dr. Zakir continued our investigation.Wherever our team used to camp, we started doing night patrols for the last two nights, but tonight we both will keep our eyes open.

It is 7:00 pm and at this time all the people of the team are sitting on fire in four different directions, laughing, joking, dancing, singing is going on, but probably me and Doctor Zakir are worried about what will happen tonight.

After finishing the dinner, Doctor Zakir called me pointing to his tent, I went after him, there was the coffin of the same dead Englishman.

Doctor Zakir said that "Look, I have kept this coffin in my tent today, one of my village staff said that if I found it before the treasure, then maybe it has some amazing power that is why we found it frozen, I did not believe in his words earlier, but in the kind of situations in which we are trapped, I feel like believing in this too."

I nodded, agreeing with Dr. Zakir, and stuffed the gun and bullets from his tent into the pockets of my overcoat.

Doctor Zakir also left with the necessary things.

Before climbing to the nearby mound lit a fire outside the tent and told the people sitting that before sleeping inside, put more wood in the fire so that the fire keeps burning in the four corners for a long time, this will reduce the clouds of fog and keep an eye,It will be easy too.

Then Dr. Zakir and I climbed to a nearby mound from where everyone could keep an eye on the halt, but before sleeping that night, the workers did not keep the wood in the fire that much, due to which the fog covered its bed in no time.

Due to which there was some difficulty in keeping sight after a few hours.

I told Dr. Zakir, "You wait, I will go and see, the fire has started to subside, I will also put wood."

Doctor Zakir looked at me and said "Okay but take care of yourself, I will cover you from here if anything goes wrong."

I headed towards the camp. I had the Winchester 1886 in .50-110 Winchester Rifle and Dr. Zakir had the Sharps Model 1874 Creedmore, which was known for its precision shooting from far away but still we both had the same thing in mind. Unknown fear was starting to hit the house. So with great intelligence, I slowly started moving forward.

I lit a fire at one corner of the camp, while I was moving towards the other corner, suddenly I felt that there was some movement.

When I looked back, there was no one.

Then I went to put wood in the other corner, I started the fire.

Now it was the turn of the third corner, the fog was enough. I was slowly moving towards the third corner when suddenly a bright red light flashed and a squeak was heard.

The scream was so terrible that anyone's heart would stop beating.

Dr. Zakir jumped from the mound and started running towards the camp. I was near. I ran towards where a bright red light flashed and a squeak was heard.

I reached the tent but could not see anything, it was just dark I took out the torch from my pocket and looked everywhere, there was no one but one of our team members had died.

In this, Doctor Zakir also arrived and after him the members of the team whose sleep was awakened after hearing that terrible scream.

It was three o'clock in the morning, then none of us thought it appropriate to sleep.

Doctor Zakir came to me and said softly "I saw him when I was running towards the camp but I did not think it proper to tell this thing in front of everyone, as soon as you turned towards the tent he started going towards my tent. His feet were not on the ground but in the air and the speed was amazing. His right hand was holding his head. He is a living corpse who is probably guarding this treasure. Somehow we have to get him away from this treasure No.

So our years of hard work will be washed away. I looked at Dr. Zakir and said, "It will not be so easy, first of all, we should know all the information about him, then you have brought him for your research. But now it has become a disaster for all of us, I think its body becomes lifeless in the morning."

Doctor Zakir said, "First of all, one night from behind my tent, I have to keep an eye on it by keeping a light on it."

I said in astonished voices "Now only one night and after that we both have the number on this team, keep in mind that."

"Oh don't you worry, I'll use my comrades who have guns to patrol the night and we'll both keep an eye on it from behind my tent," said Dr. Zakir, reassuringly.

I agreed too.

There was light now as the sun had shown its face after a long, tired and dreadful night.

We freshened up and started preparing to move on.

The team members started taking out the tents and the horses were loaded equally as we all had to cover the mountains and river paths which were not deep but the water flow was high.

This was because of the waterfall which was just a short distance away and on the other side of the river led to the village.

Somehow we crossed the river in which one horse kept getting damaged.

I saved her from drifting with great skill. After all, for all these years, Arabian horses were traded in our family, they were sold from big races to every big person who used to be fond.

Only I made my own identity by studying and writing and if tonight the secret of death like charisma of this jumper is not fully known and stopped, then that identity will also be erased.

It is night, we all had made a halt in the evening itself.

Everyone has set up their tents in such a way that a circle has been formed and the tent in which the coffin of that English officer is placed at a distance so that it is protected from the light of the fire.

The only way to do this is that if we look at that coffin from behind, our shadow will not be visible.

The light of the lantern had already been dimmed.

There are also bushes behind that tent, so it will be helpful for both of us to hide.

As soon as the dinner was over, everyone decided who would guard the night.

Everyone decided that the one who has the killer and has good experience in driving them will guard us, we have four Colt M1911, 1911 guns and M1 Garand, 1936, Caliber .30, M1, had five rifles and five men to guard the front tonight. Me and Dr. Zakir had their rifles. Me and Dr. Zakir were hiding in our places before 12:00 and peeping through the hole made in the tent, because such a wonder of jumping is sometimes seen, as well as there was fear in our hearts that we should not be caught and die.

The night was very dark, from above the fog had also kept a sheet.

The animals of the forest were making terrifying sounds, the most intimidating sound of wolves crying as if they were crying at us.

Most of the wild animals are scared in the forest, but we had a bigger problem than those animals and that problem was going to arise in just a few moments.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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