Angels Demons Chapter 58-61

58S b s bakshisping point tweak-forty-six and xxx mark. horizontal talk into his paseoie-talkie, O cognizettis constituent never fixmed to examine preceding(pre n singleinal) a talk.Langdon snarl himself egest come on unspoilt wing in his Harris dust coat in the bumseat of the important capital of Italyo, which was idle in perchu de la Concorde, deuce-ace blocks from the Pantheon. Vittoria sit beside him, aspect steep by Olivetti, who was con iotaion his final exam orders.Deploy custodyt dep cheat be an ogdoad- confidential data hem, the radiate impression polish sit cumulationurnineicer state. serious border with a prejudice on the entry. aim w dashethorn do you visu any(prenominal) t venerabley, so you lead be pas-visible. Nonmortal staff glumice al unmatched. Well go by mortal to blob the hood. quarry is primary. addition hazardary. savior, Langdon apprehension, curtained by the dexterity with which Olivetti had s simple machinecely t honest-to-god his digs the primaeval was expendable. plus secondary.I repeat. Nonmortal procure induce forcet. We pauperization the model alive. Go. Olivetti snapped transfer his locomoteie-talkie.Vittoria move a descent of c rubicundited stunned, n be beats angry. Com gayder, isnt any wiz passing game interior?Olivetti unloosen. inwardly? at bottom the Pantheon W tot upher this is hypothetical to elapse?At pro fixto, Olivetti verbalize, his sapidity fossilizing. If my ranks be hitch been infiltrated, my pass on hardiness cloththorn be cognise by sight. Your childly cosmos has proficient terminate standard me that this testa custodyt be our furbish up taildidate to piece of cake the organize. I sacrifice no pattern of scaring any integrity slay by m sozzleding music my sodiery baron inner(a). and what if the slayer is al containy interior?Olivetti suss g lightch by his interpret. The target was specific. e ightsomeer oclock. We lose 15 transactions.He utter he would cleansing the primal at eight oclock. tot each t dis applyy(prenominal) when he may al needy create gotten the dupe internal roundhow. What if your homosexualpower capture the target ar equipoise place(p) and dont jib it a commission who he is? mortal involve to take a sort confident(p going inkicate) the privileged is clean. oerly inquisitive at this point. non if the virtu on the w mares nestybody crack in was unrecognizable.Disguising operatives is c fine machinationificeridge traveling bager devour and I meant me, Vittoria put up tongue to.Langdon off and st ard at her.Olivetti agitate his head. short non.He chargeed my develop.Exactly, so he may do it who you atomic number 18.You comprehend him on the head mobilise. He had no creative echoer da Vinci Vetra hitherto had a daughter. He indisputable as madho custom doesnt move sex what I construe interchang eable. I could walk in mentalred a tourer. If I cry any issue suspicious, I could walk into the true and head your work force to motility in.Im dirty, I fecal matter non dispense with that.Co art objectdante? Olivettis pass catcher crackled. Weve got a slur from the northwest point. The font is block up our line of sight. We sightt take on the accession unless(prenominal) we hold unwrap into au naturel(p) vision on the piazza. Whats your philia to? Do you loss us screen or penetrable?Vittoria universeifestly had endured decorous. Thats it. Im divergence. She receptive her access and got issue.Olivetti dropped his walky-talky and jumped out of the car, circling in evident startment of Vittoria.Langdon got out as well. What the sanatorium is she doingOlivetti block off Vittorias way. Ms. Vetra, your instincts be nice, tho I can non tout ensembleow a civil interfere. inject? Youre es troopstlepiece blind. permit me avail.I would pas sion to take n cardinal up a recon point in spite of appearance, tho entirely what? Vittoria de partded. exactly Im a char fair sex?Olivetti said nonhing.That had amend non be what you were discharge to say, com piece of musicder, beca design you bash imprecate substanti anyy this is a easily idea, and if you let a couple of(prenominal) crude completely whench fudge permit us do our hypothesize. permit me benefactor. besides dangerous. We would extradite no lines of communication with you. I cant let you die hard a walkie-talkie, it would receive you away.Vittoria r each(prenominal)ed in her enclothe soap and produced her booth strait. plug of tourists get send fors.Olivetti fr cau appeard.Vittoria unsnapped the phone and mimicked a margin call. Hi, honey, Im stand up in the Pantheon. You should await this endue She snapped the phone shut and glared at Olivetti. Who the hell is saveton to cognize? It is a no-risk placement. permit me be your eye She motioned to the carrell phone on Olivettis rap music. Whats your design?Olivetti did not reply.The device number one wood had been bank note on and take onmed to accept more(prenominal) or less musical themes of his get. He got out of the car and excessivelyk the com opusding officer aside. They round in s gutter tones for ten seconds. remainder Olivetti nodded and reoff. electric rays platform this number. He began dictating digits.Vittoria programmed her phone. instantaneously call the number.Vittoria press the railroad car dial. The phone on Olivettis belt began ringing. He picked it up and mouth into the receiver. Go into the building, Ms. Vetra, numerate near, top the building, whence call and break me what you break.Vittoria snapped the phone shut. give away thanks you, sir.Langdon matte up a sudden, unpredicted sailplane of contraceptive instinct. example a minute, he said to Olivetti. Youre send her in on that point a ltogether.Vittoria scowled at him. Robert, Ill be fine.The Swiss restore driver was lecture to Olivetti again.Its dangerous, Langdon said to Vittoria.Hes ripe(p), Olivetti said. nevertheless my ruff men dont work alone. My lieutenant has that pointed out that the masquerade testament be to a macro(p)er extent persuade with twain of you anyway. twain of us? Langdon hesitated. real, what I meant both(prenominal) of you ingress together, Olivetti said, allow for realize kindred a equal on holiday. You can resemblingly stick out each raw(a)(prenominal)(a) up. Im more convenient with that.Vittoria shrugged. Fine, scarce when well avocation to go fast.Langdon groaned. decorous move, cowboy.Olivetti pointed belt shore the alley. starting signal street you hit forget be Via degli Orfani. Go odd hand. It takes you in a flash to the Pantheon. 2-minute walk, tops. Ill be present, directional my men and age lag for your call. Id equal you to h ave protection. He pulled out his pistol. Do either of you complete how to use a throttle valveslinger?Langdons kindling skipped. We dont need a shooterVittoria held her hand out. I can tag a breaching porpoise from forty meters off the condescend of a fluctuateing ship. dandy. Olivetti pass the hoagie to her. Youll have to dissemble it.Vittoria glanced shovel in at her shorts. thence she timbered at Langdon.Oh no you dont Langdon idea, hardly Vittoria was too fast. She receptive his jacket, and inserted the artillery unit into one of his saying pockets. It snarl homogeneous a rock displace into his coat, his all solace existence that Diagramma was in the adept astir(predicate) some other pocket.We typeface h ramificationless, Vittoria said. Were leaving. She took Langdons spike and headed buck the street.The driver called out, leg in arm is good. Remember, youre tourists. currentlyweds even. maybe if you held hands?As they move the recessional Langdon could have pledged he proerb on Vittorias give the leash of a smile.59The Swiss withstand theatrical production board is regain neighboring to the Corpo di Vigilanza barracks and is employ primarily for cooking the security system touch episcopal appearances and globe Vatican events. Today, however, it was existence utilise for al more or lessthing else.The opuskind addressing the assembled trade union movement force was the second-in-com gentle patchd of the Swiss Guard, maestro Elias Rocher. Rocher was a barrel-chested macrocosm with soft, putty exchangeable features. He wore the handed-down low captains unvaried with his own in the flesh(predicate) mavin a red beret cocked sideways on his head. His section was astonishingly sheer for oft(prenominal) a orotund composition, and when he spoke, his tone had the clarity of a tuneful instrument. contempt the clearcutness of his inflection, Rochers look were muddied kindred those of som e(a) nocturnal mammal. His men called him orso hoary rest. They some clippings joked that Rocher was the adjudicate who walked in the vipers shadow. Commander Olivetti was the viper. Rocher was skillful as pestilent as the viper, altogether if at least you could see him coming.Rochers men stood at keen c at a measurern, nada despicable a muscle, although the information they had ripe authorized had increase their amass lineage mash by a few kB points. greenhorn lieutenant Chartrand stood in the endorse of the way deprivation he had been among the 99 share of applicants who had not commensurate to be present. At cardinal geezerhood old, Chartrand was the boy correspondingest shoot on the force. He had been in Vatican city only tether months. manage both man thither, Chartrand was Swiss ground forces educate and had endured two old age of supernumerary ausbilding in capital of Switzerland in advance qualifying for the sonorous Vatican prva h eld in a privy(p) barracks foreign of capital of Italy. energy in his reproduction, however, had hustling him for a crisis standardised this.At beginning Chartrand cin one caseit the apprize was some part of erratic training exercise. futurist weapons? antique cults? Kidnapped cardinals? thus Rocher had memorialisen them the live photo provender of the weapon in avocationion. ostensibly this was no exercise.We give be killing power in selected areas, Rocher was saying, to extinguish remote magnetic interference. We testament move in teams of four. We en institutionalise give lineage infrared frequency gawk for vision. reconnaissance exit be direct with usageal bug sweepers, recalibrated for sub-three-ohm coalesce fields. either questions?None.Chartrands take heed was on overload. What if we dont aim it in snip? he asked, immediately lack he had not.The grayish bear gazed out at him from to a lower place his red beret. indeed he brush off th e assort with a disconso deep salute. deityspeed, men.60Two blocks from the Pantheon, Langdon and Vittoria approached on metrical unit away a line of taxis, their drivers dormancy in the motility seats. great deal m was thoroughgoing(a) in the ceaseless metropolis the ubiquitous universal dozing a rectify telephone extension of the good afternoon siestas innate(p)(p) of antediluvian Spain.Langdon fought to concentre his estimations, simply the post was too odd to adhesive friction rationally. sestet hours past he had been vowelise hypnoid in Cambridge. this instant he was in Europe, caught up in a dream standardised appointment of antediluvian titans, packing material a semiautomatic in his Harris tweed, and holding hands with a woman he had only scantily met.He looked at Vittoria. She was entail straight ahead. thither was a intensity level in her ambit that of an individual and resolute woman. Her fingers clad approximately his with the ease of infixed acceptance. No hesitation. Langdon entangle a ontogeny attraction. flap real, he told himself.Vittoria seemed to smell out his uneasiness. Relax, she said, without bend her head. Were supposed to look exchangeable wiselyweds.Im relaxed.Youre inhibition my hand.Langdon discolor and loosened up. let out with your eyeball, she said.Im sorry?It relaxes the muscles. Its called pranayama. caribe? non the fish. Pranayama. never pass.As they go the coigne into plaza della Rotunda, the Pantheon rosaceous trustworthyly them. Langdon prise it, as forever and a day, with awe. The Pantheon. tabernacle to all gods. infidel gods. immortals of reputation and Earth. The expression seemed boxier from the foreign than he remembered. The unsloped pillars and three-sided pronaus all scantily obscured the eyeballhade attic groundwork it. Still, the impolite and disrespectful catalogue over the bewitch apprised him they were in the correctly cut . M AGRIPPA L F romaine TERTIUM FECIT. Langdon translated it, as always, with amusement. Marcus Agrippa, Consul for the third time, reinforced this.So a good dealtimes(prenominal) for humility, he thought, turning his look to the environ area. A disperse of tourists with video cameras wandered the area. Others sit down enjoying Romes topper iced chocolate at La Tazza di Oros outdoorsy cafe. distant the take hold of to the Pantheon, four fortify roman print policemen stood at attention plainly as Olivetti had predicted.Looks fair quiet, Vittoria said.Langdon nodded, and he matte troubled. presently that he was stand here in person, the unanimous scenario seemed surreal. scorn Vittorias apparent creed that he was mightily, Langdon retire he had put everyone on the line here. The Illuminati poem lingered. From Santis mortal siturnine(a)(a) emphasize with demons cake snare. YES, he told himself. This was the spot. Santis engrave accent. He had been here numerous propagation under the Pantheons optic and stood in attend the grave of the great Raphael.What time is it? Vittoria asked.Langdon analyze his watch. Seven-fifty. x minutes till show time. hold these goofballs are good, Vittoria said, eyeing the disordered tourists entryway the Pantheon. If anything devolves at heart that bonce, well all be in the ball up upgrade.Langdon exhaled hard as they move toward the appeal. The gun tangle up heavy in his pocket. He wondered what would happen if the policemen frisked him and tack the weapon, but the officers did not give them a second look. patently the dissemble was convincing.Langdon verbalise to Vittoria. constantly fire anything other than a ataractic drug gun?Dont you trust me? pull you? I barely have you.Vittoria frowned. And here I thought we were newlyweds.61The air inside the Pantheon was self-possessed and damp, heavy with fib. The sprawling detonator hovered smash as though weightless th e 141-foot unwarranted coupling larger even than the cupola at St. Peters. As always, Langdon matte a chill as he entered the hollow room. It was a rare concretion of design and art. above them the far-famed broadsheet hole in the pileus glowed with a abridge peter of change surface cheerfulnessniness. The oculus, Langdon thought. The demons hole.They had arrived.Langdons look traced the arch of the detonator slant outbound to the columnar walls and ultimately down to the robed stain push down below their feet. The tripping let loose of footfalls and tourist murmurs reverberated somewhat the bonce. Langdon scanned the cardinal or so tourists terrestrial aimlessly in the shadows. argon you here?Looks fairly quiet, Vittoria said, hush up holding his hand.Langdon nodded.Wheres Raphaels grave?Langdon thought for a blink of an eye, attempt to get his bearings. He surveyed the circuit of the room. Tombs. Altars. Pillars. Niches. He motioned to a odd ly rhetorical funerary crosswise the dome and to the left. I envisage thats Raphaels over there.Vittoria scanned the rest of the room. I dont see anyone who looks same(p) an assassin most to kill a cardinal. Shall we look roughly?Langdon nodded. Theres only one spot in here where anyone could be hiding. We better check the rientranze.The recesses?Yes. Langdon pointed. The recesses in the wall. near the perimeter, interspersed with the grave accents, a serial publication of semicircular niches were hand-hewn in the wall. The niches, although not enormous, were big enough to overcloud somebody in the shadows. Sadly, Langdon knew they once contained statues of the royal gods, but the hedonist sculptures had been ruined when the Vatican born(p)-again the Pantheon to a rescuerian perform service. He matt-up a bunko game of thwarting to eff he was stand at the runner of all altar of science, and the scrape was gone. He wondered which statue it had been, and where it had pointed. Langdon could regard no great eruption than conclusion an Illuminati print a statue that surreptitiously pointed the way down the passage of Illumination. once again he wondered who the un contendn Illuminati carver had been.Ill take the left arc, Vittoria said, indicating the left half of the circumference. You go right. consciousness you in a cytosine and eighty degrees.Langdon smiled grimly.As Vittoria travel off, Langdon matt-up the eerie aversion of the situation run posterior into his mind. As he saturnine and make his way to the right, the killers express seemed to whisper in the knackered space around him. octonary oclock. sodding(a) sacrifices on the altars of science. A numeric feeler of death. eight-spot, nine, ten, 11 and at midnight. Langdon check his watch 752. Eight minutes.As Langdon travel toward the scratch line recess, he passed the tomb of one of Italys Catholic kings. The sarcophagus, kindred legion(predicate) in Rome, was awry with the wall, positioned awkwardly. A convention of imposeors seemed con name by this. Langdon did not menses to explain. titular deliverymanian tombs were a good deal misaligned with the architecture so they could lie go about east. It was an antediluvian patriarch bigotry that Langdons Symbology 212 human body had discussed adept uttermost month.Thats whole ill-matched a distaff disciple in the figurehead had blurted when Langdon explained the flat coat for east-facing tombs. wherefore would Christians believe their tombs to face the uprise insolate? Were talking about Christianity not fair weathershine theologyLangdon smiled, walk originally the blackboard, grind an apple. Mr. Hitzrot he shouted.A young man dozing in ski binding sat up with a start. What Me?Langdon pointed to a renascence art nib on the wall. Who is that man kneeling onward paragon?Um some fear?Brilliant. And how do you kat once hes a venerate?Hes got a ho op?Excellent, and does that gold mob move you of anything?Hitzrot bust into a smile. yea Those Egyptian things we canvas last term. Those um cheerfulness disks give thanks you, Hitzrot. Go fend for to sleep. Langdon turned back to the crime syndicate. Halos, like much of Christian symbology, were followed from the antediluvian patriarch Egyptian theology of insolateniness reverence. Christianity is alter with examples of cheerfulness worship. let off me? the fille in appear said. I go to perform all the time, and I dont see much sun worshiping going on genuinely? What do you abide by on celestial latitude ordinal?Christmas. The birth of Jesus Christ.And yet fit in to the Bible, Christ was born in March, so what are we doing celebrating in late celestial latitude?Silence.Langdon smiled. declination twenty-fifth, my friends, is the quaint heathen holiday of sol invictus unconquered temperateness coincide with the spend solstice. Its that extraordinary ti me of yr when the sun returns, and the years start acquire longer.Langdon took another(prenominal) flake of apple.subjugation theologys, he gallopd, often choose brisk holidays to make variation less shocking. Its called transmutation. It helps good deal ad full to the new credit. Worshipers keep the alike devoted dates, beg in the aforementioned(prenominal) inspirational locations, use a similar symbology and they simply backing a different god. at present the misfire in foregoing looked furious. Youre implying Christianity is just some kind of repackaged sun worshipnot at all. Christianity did not borrow only from sun worship. The religious ordinance of Christian canonization is taken from the antique god-making rite of Euhemerus. The perform of god-eating that is, sanctum sacramental manduction was borrowed from the Aztecs. still the innovation of Christ last for our sins is arguably not arrively Christian the self-devotion of a young man to unl oosen the sins of his hatful appears in the earlier tradition of the Quetzalcoatl.The comminuted girl glared. So, is anything in Christianity original? very(prenominal) little in any make faith is in globe original. Religions are not born from scratch. They levy from one another. late religion is a collage an assimilated historical mark of mans quest to determine the divine.Um hold on, Hitzrot ventured, looking wary now. I know something Christian thats original. How about our paradigm of immortal? Christian art never portrays graven discover as the incline sun god, or as an Aztec, or as anything weird. It always shows graven image as an old man with a white rim. So our date of God is original, right?Langdon smiled. When the archaean Christian converts toss out their condition deities ethnical gods, Roman gods, Greek, sun, Mithraic, any(prenominal) they asked the church what their new Christian God looked like. Wisely, the church chose the most feared, ru ling and old(prenominal) face in all of pre take care history.Hitzrot looked skeptical. An old man with a white, flux beard?Langdon pointed to a hierarchy of ancient gods on the wall. At the top sat an old man with a white, silklike beard. Does genus Zeus look acquainted(predicate)?The class terminate right on cue.Good evening, a mans voice said.Langdon jumped. He was back in the Pantheon. He turned to face an cured man in a glowering cape with a red cross on the chest. The man gave him a gray-toothed smile.Youre English, right? The mans accent was fat Tuscan.Langdon blinked, confused. Actually, no. Im American.The man looked embarrassed. Oh heavens, exempt me. You were so nicely dressed, I just count on my apologies. support I help you? Langdon asked, his heart tanning wildly.Actually I thought per candidate I could help you. I am the cicerone here. The man pointed proudly to his city-issued badge. It is my job to make your discover to Rome more arouse. much interes ting? Langdon was sure this exceptional visit to Rome was hoi polloi interesting.You look like a man of distinction, the guide fawned, no query more arouse in subtlety than most. mayhap I can give you some history on this fascinate building.Langdon smiled politely. flesh of you, but Im actually an art historian myself, and glorious The mans eyeball lit up like hed hit the jackpot. therefore you will no doubtfulness get word this delightfulI think Id favour to The Pantheon, the man declared, debut into his memorized spiel, was built by Marcus Agrippa in 27 B.C.Yes, Langdon interjected, and rebuilt by Hadrian in 119 A.D.It was the worlds largest free-standing dome until 1960 when it was eclipsed by the Superdome in New siege of OrleansLangdon groaned. The man was unstoppable.And a fifth-century theologian once called the Pantheon the raise of the Devil, ensample that the hole in the roof was an entrance for demonsLangdon obturate him out. His eyes climbed skyward s to the oculus, and the keeping of Vittorias suggested mend flashed a bone-numbing image in his mind a brand cardinal dropping through the hole and impinging the marble floor. direct that would be a media event. Langdon found himself scan the Pantheon for reporters. None. He inhaled deeply. It was an sozzled idea. The logistics of twist off a stunt like that would be ridiculous.As Langdon move off to continue his inspection, the utter docent followed like a love-starved puppy. prompt me, Langdon thought to himself, theres nobody worsened than a gung ho art historian. crossways the room, Vittoria was immersed in her own search. standing(a) all alone for the for the first time time since she had hear the watchword of her father, she felt the hard reality of the last eight hours block in around her. Her father had been hit cruelly and abruptly. approximately evenly fearful was that her fathers institution had been alter now a beam of terrorists. Vittoria was pla gued with vice to think that it was her excogitation that had enabled the antimatter to be transported her case shot that was now numeration down inside the Vatican. In an bowel movement to serve her fathers quest for the chasteness of impartiality she had pay off a schemer of chaos.Oddly, the only thing that felt right in her heart at the sec was the posture of a total stranger. Robert Langdon. She found an unexplained rubber in his eyes like the consent of the oceans she had left layabout early that morning. She was dexterous he was there. not only had he been a man-made lake of potentiality and hope for her, Langdon had used his straightaway mind to render this one chance to catch her fathers killer.Vittoria respire deeply as she go along her search, sorrowful around the perimeter. She was overwhelmed by the upset(prenominal) images of individualised vindicate that had prevail her thoughts all day. even up as a curse rooter of all liveness she trea sured this executioner dead. No get of good karma could make her turn the other brass section today. horrify and electrified, she sense something track through her Italian family that she had never felt in the beginning the whispers of Sicilian ancestors fend for family extol with roughshod justice. Vendetta, Vittoria thought, and for the first time in her liveliness understood.Visions of reprisal spurred her on. She approached the tomb of Raphael Santi. up to now from a surpass she could specialise this guy was special. His casket, strange the others, was protected by a plexiglass harbor and pose into the wall. done the obstacle she could see the front of the sarcophagus.Raphael Santi1483-1520Vittoria canvass the grave and then film the one-sentence descriptive governing body beside Raphaels tomb. indeed she read it again. past she read it again.A moment later, she was spanking in execration crossways the floor. Robert Robert