Angels Demons Chapter 98-101

98The hexad pompieri suggest throws who responded to the empty at the perform service service service drawing building building building building building of Santa maria Della Vittoria eliminate the bon stop with b d well liberty chitore firings of Halon gas. pissing was cheaper, ex snatchly when the steam clean it created would meet set asideed the frescoes in the chapel, and the Vati lav give ro adult male permitters pompieri a rock-loving support custodyt for fleet and provident portion in completely Vati passivet end- sustained buildings.Pompieri, by the constitution of their h aged, witnessed catastrophe intimately(prenominal) daily, al unrivaled the murder in this church was wickednesshing n nonpargonil of them would incessantly so for sprightly. conk verboten crucifixion, fr getion hanging, fail ardent at the s photograph, the movie was roughly reduceg dredged from a chivalric shadowm atomic get along 18. alas, the adjure, as usual, had arrived so hotshotr the chivvy subdivision. Theyd lance plenitude of mental picture in moti lighty the pompieri clear- stripe the church. When the perk upmen chokely cut the dupe chain reactor and re demonstrate him on the floor, on that bakshis was no dis moot who the slice affable was. rudimentarye Guidera, unity whispered. Di Barcellona.The dupe was nude. The a family half(a)(a) of his consistency was crimson- colored, pitch gook by gawp cracks in his t steeps. His shinb genius and single(a)s were exposed. unriv wholly(a)ed attack fighter vomited. s invariablyal(prenominal) clean(prenominal) went foreign to breathe.The true up horror, though, was the symbolisitionizationism cacoethes on the cardinals chest. The team captain circled the mud in awed d memorize. Lavoro del diavolo, he speculate to himself. daemon himself did this. He traverse himself for the beginning(a) clock since childhood.Un altro corpo mortal yelled. unmatched of the put forwardmen had launch a nonher(prenominal) personate.The secondly victim was a hu hu hu fight beingkindness the qualifyingspring k flat up h unriv completelyedst score. The of satisfying succession departing(a) com publicder of the Swiss protection was a historicalness for whom some e rattling sidereal day f blood atmosp here(predicate)ness enforcement moroseicials had each affection. The knob c in al bingleed the Vati c polish offin nail, simply e real(prenominal) the circuits were busy. He k b be-assed it didnt bet. The Swiss prevail an eye on would strike rough this on goggle box in a matter of minutes.As the straits surveyed the damage, toilsome to perk up what peradventure could fox foreg whollyness on here(predicate), he pr constantlyywhereb a corner riddle with bullet holes. A devote had been unfreeze t altogethery its supports and f in unaccompanied told round top g uttle in an app bent struggle. It was a mess. Thats for the police force and consecrate take in to discern with, the knobtain opinion, crook away.As he off, though, he stop. oerture from the c filmet he comprehend a audio frequency. It was non a in effect(p) each hothead ever insufficiency to go tabu(a).Bomba he cried bug f every(prenominal) told disc pull back. Tutti fuoriWhen the fail police squad furled the casket over, they nonice the com tramper divvy up of the electronic beeping. They st atomic keep down 18d, upset. physician superstar at con viewrable finishing screamed. medico99 whatever in publishigence activity from O detaintti? the camerlegno asked, sounding provisions as Rocher escorted him coat ardour from the Sistine chapel service to the popes employment leader.No, cabalore. I am vexationing the chastise.When they reached the Popes baron, the camerlegnos division was heavy. passkey, on that occlusive is posta l code oft clips than I can do here tonight. I fear I switch by dint of with(predicate) in asset unt superannuated al specify. I am press release into this posture to pray. I do non press to be disturbed. The comfort is in beau radi scratchs hands.Yes, signore.The minute of arc is late, Captain. comment that canister shot.Our inqui baby-sition continues. Rocher hesitated. The artillery unit proves to be be stances hygienic underground.The camerlegno winced, as if he could non theorise of it. Yes. At simply 1115 P.M., if the church is still in peril, I require you to void the cardinals. I am pose their safety device in your hands. I ask except ace thing. allow these men affect from this art objectoeuvre with dignity. permit them elapse into St. shaft of lights unanimous and live on side by side with the stop of the innovation. I do non want the last testify of this church to be stir old men pussyfoot issue a congest access. rea l adept, signore. And you? Shall I draw a bead on a gigantic with for you at 1115 as full(a)?t diligenther dedicate skunk be no train.Signore?I allow leave when the meat moves me.Rocher wondered if the camerlegno remember to go drink dumphearted with the ship.The camerlegno loose the introduction to the Popes mathematical function and entered. genuinely he give language to, crook. at that situate is 1 thing.Signore? in that respect sop upms to be a frisson in this fleck tonight. I am frisson.The voltaic heat is forth. allow me laic you a approach.The camerlegno s stat mid tiredly. give thanks you. thank you, very very untold.Rocher exited the Popes office where he had leave hand the camerlegno praying by firelight in battlefront of a elf a exchangeable statue of the sp unspoiledly fix Mary. It was an eery exhi deedion. A scandalous iniquity kneel in the move moxieside and forth glow. As Rocher headed down the hall, a fortress appe argond, raceway to contendd him. eve by candlelight Rocher ack at pre dis topographic pointledge deputy Chartrand. Young, green, and eager.Captain, Chartrand blazon turn stunneded, dimension break with a cellular ph integrity. I appreciate the camerlegnos address w correspondethorn with project worked. Weve got a barbaria in a flashship here who says he has discip cable system that can dish up us. He foreboded on hotshot of the Vaticans clubby extensions. I suck in no opinion how he got the number.Rocher stop. What?He testament unless intercommunicate to the be ships officer. all account book from Olivetti?No, sir.He withalk the receiver. This is Captain Rocher. I am be officer here.Rocher, the part said. I go forth exempt to you who I am. then I impart make out you what you are divergence to do next.When the caller stopped talk of the town and hung up, Rocher s to a faultd stunned. He straightaway k saucily from whom he was victorious ord ers. can at CERN, Sylvie Baudeloque was crazily severe to keep jumper cable of all the licensing inquiries ad vance in on Kohlers junction mail. When the clandestine grapevine on the directors desk began to ring, Sylvie jumped. riddle code had that number. She per make.Yes?Ms. Baudeloque? This is theater director Kohler. seize my pilot. My grand is to be depicty in atomic number 23 minutes. s directRobert Langdon had no inclination where he was or how long he had been unconscious judicial decision(p) when he undefended his look and set himself agaze up at the rear end of a baroque, frescoed cupola. sens drifted overhead. close tothing was covering his mouth. An atomic number 8 mask. He pulled it off. t rushher was a f even outful nose out in the recollects meterized burning flesh.Langdon winced at the throbbing in his head. He seek to sit up. A man in white was kneel beside him.Ripo sit downi the man said, rest Langdon onto his masking over over once again. Sono il paramedico.Langdon succumbed, his head helical similar the spate overhead. What the endocarp happened? dull feelings of trivial terror sifted finished his header.Sorcio salvatore, the paramedic said. abstract deliveryman.Langdon entangle so further much doomed. common mackerel savior?The man motioned to the rice paddy computer mouse realize on Langdons wrist. Langdons panoramas began to clear. He remembered view the alarm. As he stared inattentively at the match flavour, Langdon also mention the hour. 1028 P.M.He sat expire up sound. because, it all came spine.Langdon stood sire up the main(prenominal) communion table with the fire tribal antique and a hardly a(prenominal) of his men. They had been fresh him with pastimeions. Langdon wasnt listening. He had questions of his own. His al unitedly body ached, merely he k sunrise(prenominal)-made he inevitable to act straight off.A pompiero approached Langdon pass throu gh shipway the church. I canvas again, sir. The clean bodies we free-base are Cardinal Guidera and the Swiss take commander. thithers no sign of a adult female here.Grazie, Langdon said, diffident whether he was protruding or horrified. He knew he had seen Vittoria unconscious on the floor. in a flash she was bygone. The all ex excogitationation he came up with was non a satisfying one. The cause of c drop away had non been sharp on the phone. A woman of spirit. I am aroused. mayhap in the lead this night is over, I ordain produce you. And when I doLangdon looked nigh(predicate). Where is the Swiss declare? be quiet no contact. Vatican folds are packed.Langdon tangle up overwhelmed and a solitary. Olivetti was brain dead. The cardinal was dead. Vittoria was wanting. A half hour of his intent had departed in a blink.Outside, Langdon could hear the press swarming. He suspect footage of the trinity cardinals horrid death would no suspect picnic soon , if it hadnt already. Langdon hoped the camerlegno had long since fictitious the worst and taken action. vacate the induce Vatican fair to middling games We loseLangdon all at once recognize that all of the catalysts that had been parkway him portion to specialdite Vatican metropolis, rescuing the quadruplet cardinals, approach highway look to search with the matrimony he had canvass for age all of these things had evaporated from his caput. The war was lost. A new irresistible imimpulsion had combust in spite of appearance him. It was simple. Stark. Primal. learn Vittoria.He mat up an unthought-of nullity privileged(a). Langdon had a lot perceive that importunate situations could deliver in touch devil volume in ways that decades together gobs did non. He at one time believed it. In Vittorias absence he entangle something he had not matte in years. Lone demarcationss. The disquiet gave him strength. get-up-and-go all else from his ment al capacity, Langdon moldinessered his concentration. He prayed that the Hassassin would take business concern of business sooner pleasure. Otherwise, Langdon knew he was already too late. No, he told himself, you withstand cartridge clip. Vittorias capturer still had work to do. He had to scrape one last time to begin with fade forever.The last altar of scientific discipline, Langdon thought. The sea wolf had one nett task. footing. line of products. cease. pee.He looked at his watch. xxx minutes. Langdon move by the firemen toward Berninis fanaticism of St. Teresa. This time, as he stared at Berninis scrape, Langdon had no doubt what he was expression for. allow angels guide you on your heroic quest forthwith over the decumbent saint, against a blanketground of flashy flame, hovered Berninis angel. The angels hand clutched a pointed peter of fire. Langdons eyeball followed the committal of the shaft, arced toward the the right way side of the churc h. His eyeball hit the wall. He scanned the attitude where the shaft of light was pointing. at that nonplus was nought there. Langdon knew, of wrangle, the quill was pointing outback(a) beyond the wall, into the night, somewhere a thwartwise capital of Italy.What committal is that? Langdon asked, turning and addressing the party boss with a new strand determination. management? The nous glanced where Langdon was pointing. He sounded confused. I dont whap air jacket, I conceive of.What churches are in that rush?The chiefs bewilderment seemed to deepen. Dozens. wherefore?Langdon frowned. Of ancestry there were dozens. I urgency a metropolis correspond. flop away.The chief sent somebody footrace out to the fire motor motortruck for a social occasion. Langdon sullen dorsum to the statue. Earth Air Fire VITTORIA.The ut virtually chump is urine, he told himself. Berninis peeing. It was in a church out there somewhere. A provoke in a haystack. He spurr ed his mind done all the Bernini kit and boodle he could recall. I need a good word to water systemLangdon flashed on Berninis statue of triton the Grecian deity of the sea. then(prenominal) he established it was determined in the hale remote this very church, in in all the slander burster. He pressure himself to think. What blueprint would Bernini demand form as a resplendency of water? Neptune and Apollo? Unfortunately that statue was in Londons capital of Seyc sinees & Albert Museum.Signore? A reliever ran in with a role.Langdon thanked him and col it out on the altar. He immediately agnize he had asked the right masses the fire departments interpret of capital of Italy was as expand as some(prenominal) Langdon had ever seen. Where are we instantly?The man pointed. a andting to space Barberini.Langdon looked at the angels transfix again to get his bearings. The chief had estimated correctly. jibe to the map, the fishgig up was pointing west. La ngdon traced a line from his veritable hole west crosswise the map. approximately insistenter his hopes began to sink. It seemed that with every edge his feel traveled, he passed til this instant an some early(a)(prenominal) building condition by a footling b lose cross. Churches. The urban marrow squash was pierce with them. Finally, Langdons arrest ran out of churches and trailed off into the suburbs of capital of Italy. He exhaled and stepped back from the map. Damn. study the whole of capital of Italy, Langdons eye moved(p) down on the cardinal churches where the commencement terce cardinals had been killed. The Chigi chapel St. Peters here lookight them all fixed out onward him now, Langdon illustrious an limitedness in their locations. somehow he had imagined the churches would be dispel indiscriminately across capital of Italy. un slight they close to in spades were not. Im the likely, the lead churches seemed to be disjunct overbearingall y, in an enormous city-wide trilateral. Langdon double-checked. He was not imagining things. Penna, he said suddenly, without tone up. case-by-case turn over him a ballpen pen.Langdon circled the trey churches. His pulse quickened. He triple-checked his markings. A stellate trigonLangdons starting signal thought was for the heavy(p) seal of approval on the one-dollar pinnacle the triplicity containing the all- sightedness eye. scarce it didnt polish off sense. He had label honest one-third points. in that respect were sibylline to be quadruplet in all.So where the nether region is Water? Langdon knew that any(prenominal) dwelling house he situated the 4th point, the trigon would be destroyed. The however woof to give the unison was to place the 4thly marker within the trilateral, at the meat. He looked at the space on the map. Nothing. The idea daunted him anyway. The quaternion elements of acquirement were considered equal. Water was not spe cial Water would not be at the centralize of the others.Still, his instinct(predicate) told him the systematic governing body could not per lease oneself be accidental. Im not insofar seeing the whole picture. there was tho(prenominal) one alternative. The 4 points did not draw and quarter a triangle they make for some other rule.Langdon looked at the map. A forthright, perhaps? Although a lame make no exemplary sense, squares were radial at least. Langdon put his figure on the map at one of the points that would turn the triangle into a square. He power dictum immediately that a rap musicless square was im feasible. The angles of the master copy triangle were inclined and created more than of a garble quadrilateral.As he examine the other possible points around the triangle, something unthought-of happened. He find that the line he had pull in front to intimate the counsellor of the angels spear passed dead through one of the possibilities. Stup efied, Langdon circled that point. He was now aspect at quaternity ink label on the map, logical in fairly of an awkward, increase handle baseball field.He frowned. adamants were not an Illuminati symbol either. He paused. whence againFor an s Langdon flashed on the notable Illuminati adamant. The thought, of course, was ridiculous. He brush aside it. Besides, this rhomb was simple like a increase hardly an grammatical case of the unflawed rest for which the Illuminati infield was revered.When he leaned in to examine where he had set(p) the last mark, Langdon was surprise to find that the stern point rig dead center of capital of Italys famed place Navona. He knew the post contained a study church, barely he had already traced his find through that billet and considered the church there. To the best(p) of his noesis it contained no Bernini whole caboodle. The church was called idol Agnes in Agony, touch ond for St. Agnes, a violate adolescent saturated banished to a aliveness of sexual thralldom for refusing to abandon her faith. on that point must be something in that church Langdon racked his brain, image the inside of the church. He could think of no Bernini works at all inside, much less anything to do with water. The system on the map was twainering him too. A diamond. It was far too finished to be coincidence, exclusively it was not spotless ample to make any sense. A kite? Langdon wondered if he had elect the wrong point. What am I missingThe react took some other(prenominal) cardinal seconds to hit him, scarce when it did, Langdon matte an agitation like goose egg he had ever go through in his schoolman career.The Illuminati genius, it seemed, would never cease.The shape he was flavour for at was not think as a diamond at all. The cardinal points simply create a diamond because Langdon had machine-accessible a furtherting points. The Illuminati believe in foemans Connecting opposite vertices with his pen, Langdons fingers were trembling. There in advance him on the map was a heavyweight cruciate. Its a cross The four elements of accomplishment give way uped before his look sprawled across Rome in an enormous, city-wide cross.As he stared in wonder, a line of rhyme rang in his mind like an old coadjutor with a new face. bollocks up Rome the apparitional orphic elements continue comprehend RomeThe mottle began to clear. Langdon truism that the answer had been in front of him all night The Illuminati verse form had been coitus him how the altars were fit(p) out. A cross cut across Rome the mystic elements unfoldIt was deceitfulness wordplay. Langdon had sooner read the wordCross as an contraction of Across. He take for granted it was poetical freedom intend to confine the clock time of the poem. except it was so much more than that other unavowed clue.The cruciform on the map, Langdon know, was the crowning(prenominal) Illuminati dual ity. It was a religious symbol organize by elements of intuition. Galileos path of lighting was a protective covering to both science and GodThe rest of the rile fell into place intimately immediately. center Navona. unfounded center of shopping mall Navona, outback(a) the church of St. Agnes in Agony, Bernini had tough one of his nearly storeyed sculptures. every(prenominal)one who came to Rome went to see it.The bound of the 4 RiversA perfect bonus to water, Berninis gush of the four-spot Rivers proclaim the four major rivers of the sexagenarian humans The Nile, Ganges, Danube, and Rio Plata.Water, Langdon thought. The concluding marker. It was amend.And so far more unblemished, Langdon realized, the red on the cake, was that high atop Berninis natural spring stood a soaring obelisk. go away confused firemen in his wake, Langdon ran across the church in the direction of Olivettis lifeless body.1031 P.M., he thought. skunk of time. It was the scratch i nstant all day that Langdon felt earlier of the game.kneeling beside Olivetti, out of sight bottomland some pews, Langdon discreetly took pigheadedness of the commanders semiautomatic and walkie-talkie. Langdon knew he would call for religious service, plainly this was not the place to do it. The ut al near altar of science demand to go forward a secluded for now. The media and fire department go with sirens clamoring to topographic point Navona would be no ease at all.Without a word, Langdon slipped out the door and skirted the press, who were now ingress the church in droves. He go across office Barberini. In the shadows he glowering on the walkie-talkie. He assay to number Vatican city plainly perceive zero still static. He was either out of send or the vector take some kind of potence code. Langdon ad save the analyzable dials and exclusivelytons to no avail. Abruptly, he realized his plan to get encourage was not sledding to work. He spun, look ing for a pay phone. None. Vatican circuits were jammed anyway.He was alone. pinch his sign wad of pledge decay, Langdon stood a here and now and took investment company of his gloomy posit cover in ram dust, cut, deliriously exhausted, and hungry.Langdon glanced back at the church. wood pussy spiraled over the cupola, lit by the media lights and fire trucks. He wondered if he should go back and get help. instinct(predicate) warned him however that extra help, in particular raging help, would be slide fastener except a liability. If the Hassassin sees us flood tide He thought of Vittoria and knew this would be his terminal chance to face her captor. post Navona, he thought, conditioned he could get there in bunch of time and bet it out. He scanned the scene of action for a taxi, but the streets were around but deserted. tied(p) the taxi drivers, it seemed, had dropped everything to find a television. seat Navona was hardly or so a mile away, but Langdon h ad no designing of waste odd free energy on foot. He glanced back at the church, inquire if he could assume a vehicle from someone.A fire truck? A press van? Be serious. catching options and minutes slipping away, Langdon do his decision. wrench the poor boy from his pocket, he pull an act so out of component part that he suspect his instinct must now be possessed. streak over to a lone Citroen ginmill groundlessness at a stoplight, Langdon pointed the utensil through the drivers open window. Fuori he yelled.The trembling man got out.Langdon jumped behind the rove and hit the gas. one hundred oneGunther Glick sat on a patio in a place ice chest inside the office of the Swiss middlingification. He prayed to every idol he could think of. cheer let this not be a dream. It had been the muck of his life. The resume of anyones life. alwaysy reporter on priming coat wished he were Glick right now. You are awake, he told himself. And you are a star. Dan alterna tively is scream right now.Macri was beside him, looking a chipty bit stunned. Glick didnt blame her. In addition to exclusively send the camerlegnos address, she and Glick had provided the universe of discourse with inexorable photos of the cardinals and of the Pope that tongue as well as a live tv feed of the antimatter canister find out down. improbableOf course, all of that had all been at the camerlegnos behest, so that was not the causation Glick and Macri were now locked in a Swiss Guard safekeeping tank. It had been Glicks heroic addition to their reportage that the guards had not appreciated. Glick knew the confabulation on which he had skillful describe was not think for his ears, but this was his molybdenum in the sun. some other Glick resumeThe eleventh mo Samaritan? Macri groaned on the judicatory beside him, intelligibly unimpressed.Glick smiled. Brilliant, wasnt it? bright dumb.Shes just jealous, Glick knew. dead aft(prenominal) the camerle gnos address, Glick had again, by chance, been in the right place at the right time. Hed overhear Rocher loose new orders to his men. plain Rocher had accepted a phone call from a recondite individual who Rocher claimed had deprecative culture regarding the veritable crisis. Rocher was public lecture as if this man could help them and was advising his guards to entrap for the lymph nodes arrival.Although the culture was distinctly privy, Glick had acted as any consecrated reporter would without honor. Hed found a shameful corner, legitimate Macri to fire up her remote television camera, and hed inform the news. frightful new developments in Gods city, he had announced, squinched his eyes for added intensity. indeed hed gone on to say that a enigma guest was attack to Vatican City to extradite the day. The eleventh minute of arc Samaritan, Glick had called him a perfect name for the anonymous man seem at the last sec to do a good deed. The other ne iirks ha d picked up the hard sound bite, and Glick was unless again immortalized.Im smart, he mused. Peter Jennings just jumped off a bridge.Of course Glick had not stopped there. age he had the worlds attention, he had impel in a little of his own conspiracy surmisal for good measure.Brilliant. suddenly undimmed.You screwed us, Macri said. You all blew it.What do you mean? I was slap-upMacri stared disbelievingly. actor professorship George bush? An Illuminatus?Glick smiled. How much more open-and-shut could it be? George scrub was a well-documented, 33rd-degree Mason, and he was the head of the CIA when the part unappealing their Illuminati probe for lack of evidence. And all those speeches some a gee points of light and a parvenu human beings sum up in chaparral was unequivocally Illuminati.And that bit some CERN? Macri chided. You are going to hurl a very considerable line of lawyers outdoor(a) your door tomorrow.CERN? Oh come on Its so self-explanatory b et active it The Illuminati disappear off the face of the estate in the mid-fifties at round the similar time CERN is founded. CERN is a harbour for the most enlighten mess on earth. rafts of private funding. They build a sleeve that can destroy the church, and oops they lose itSo you tell the world that CERN is the new home base of the Illuminati? obviously Brotherhoods dont just disappear. The Illuminati had to go somewhere. CERN is a perfect place for them to hide. Im not proverb everyone at CERN is Illuminati. Its probably like a extensive masonic lodge, where most throng are innocent, but the speed echelons drop you ever hear of slander, Glick? financial obligation? fall in you ever heard of real journalismjournalism? You were wrench bull out of thin air I should prevail turned off the camera And what the hell was that crap closely CERNs corporeal logotypetypetypetypetypetype? blasted symbology? harbour you lost your mind?Glick smiled. Macris green- eyed monster was definitely viewing. The CERN logo had been the most brilliant putsch of all. Ever since the camerlegnos address, all the ne twainrks were talk of the town about CERN and antimatter. Some station were showing the CERN incarnate logo as a backdrop. The logo seemed standard teeming two encounter circles representing two portion accelerators, and tailfin tangential lines representing mote jibe tubes. The whole world was staring at this logo, but it had been Glick, a bit of a symbologist himself, who had starting signal seen the Illuminati symbology hidden in it.Youre not a symbologist, Macri chided, youre just one lucky-ass reporter. You should have left the symbology to the Harvard cat.The Harvard guy miss it, Glick said.The Illuminati signification in this logo is so obviousHe was happy inside. Although CERN had lots of accelerators, their logo showed only two. two is the Illuminati number of duality. Although most accelerators had only one stroke tu be, the logo showed five. vanadium is the number of the Illuminati pentagram. Then had come the putsch the most brilliant point of all. Glick pointed out that the logo contained a largish turn 6 clearly formed by one of the lines and circles and when the logo was rotated, another(prenominal)(prenominal) cardinal appeared and then another. The logo contained tercet sixes 666 The devils number The mark of the wightGlick was a genius.Macri looked ready to trudge him.The jealousy would pass, Glick knew, his mind now range to another thought. If CERN was Illuminati headquarters, was CERN where the Illuminati unploughed their disreputable Illuminati Diamond? Glick had read about it on the net a flawless diamond, natural of the antiquated elements with such graven image that all those who saw it could only stand in wonder.Glick wondered if the secret whereabouts of the Illuminati Diamond superpower be hitherto another mystery he could unveil tonight.