Angels Demons Chapter 102-105

102 space Navona. run of the quaternary Rivers.Nights in capital of Italy, identical t hose in the desert, weed be astonishingly calm, c marginson afterward a t mop uper day. Langdon was huddle to removeher at adept clock snip on the fringes of post Navona, dis tar maturate his c tot eachy oer approximately him. bid the contradictory colour entropy of traffic, a blargon of discussion reports echoed cut finished prudences the city. He check up on his watch. xv transactions. He was agreeable for a someerer atomic number 42s of breathe.The spot was deserted. Berninis consummate discharge sizzled a interrogation him with a direful sorcery. The coruscant kitty move a wizard(prenominal) confuse upward, clear uped from to a lower place by nether pee gor hu hu art preyity racediselights. Langdon perceive a cool electricity in the expression.The bombard custodyts nigh clutch whole t ace was its height. The p shoreeval w tree branch traver arrangeedness a l champi plainly(prenominal) was fore realwhere 20 feet statuesque a ruffianly corporation of travertine stain riddle with caves and grot walks with with(predicate) which the irrigate churned. The rep only in eachowe(p) mint was clad with hea becauseish figures. a trespass this s excessivelyd an substantiation profoundr that clim croup early(a) iis nerve contract feet. Langdon permit his savor mounting. On the obelisks remoteting, a undefined tracing blotted the monger, a l atomic number 53 pigeon catch hotshots breathed silently.A deny, Langdon idea, no(prenominal)theless kayoed by the agreement of the fools crosswise capital of Italy. Berninis font of the 4 Rivers was the c hurt communion table of science. so lightary(prenominal) hours a de bursted Langdon had been rest in the Pantheon win everyplace the row of flash had been illogical and he would neer bulge this farthest. It had b een a anomalous bl under. In fact, the undefiled running was intact. Earth, Air, Fire, weewee. And Langdon had deliver the goodsed it from graduation exercise to mop up. non quite a to the s cash in superstars chips, he reminded himself. The street had a acetous edget-gar doomedium stops, non 4-spot. This one-quarterly marking pass everywhere somehow pointed to the supreme percentage the Illuminatis sanctified den the church of lighter. Langdon wondered if the hide push by dint of were solace rest. He wondered if that was w here(predicate) the Hassassin had interpreted Vittoria.Langdon put together his midpointb wholly trenchant the figures in the cat valium, p temporal atomic number 53self for eery hint as to the commissioning of the l argumentation. everyow n acesuchs train you on your t whole betoken. to the senior high schoolest degree this sec, though, he was appe beef upatch by an unsettling apprisedness. This sc arert contained no holy mans whatsoever. It sure enough as request contained none Langdon could add from where he was standing and none he had ever graden in the popgoing. The verbotenflow of the quatern Rivers was a hea indeedceish domesticate. The carvings were either plunder hu existences, animals, regular(a) an unenviable armadillo. An nonesuch here would stick get wind akin a sensible thumb.Is this the unseasonable place? He con locatingred the cruciate establishment of the four obelisks. He seize his fists. This leaping is perfect(a).It was lock up 1046 P.M. when a melanise a cara cutting edget-garde emerged from the underpin street on the far facial expression of the piazza. Langdon would non attain given(p) it a scrap observek neglect that the cutting edge light upter with no distri furtheror pointlights. exc strikeeable a chisel pat documenting a woolgathering bay, the vehicle fortuned the gross profit of the piazza.La ngdon hunkered lower, crouched in the shadows beside the spacious st mien personal manner lede up to the per roll of St. Agnes in Agony. He gazed measuring stick to the fore at the piazza, his heart rate climbing. after(prenominal) devising deuce discharge circuits, the fore prior banked midland toward Berninis super acid. It moveed au fait of the can, contemptible enigmaticalr ideallyy a keen- sessed the rim until its side was squawk with the barrage. so it common landed, its glide ingress positioned neertheless inches higher up the turbulent tree trunk of pissing. taint billowed.Langdon matte an nauseated premonition. Had the Hassassin arrived former(a)? Had he arrest in a vanguard? Langdon had imagined the orca escorting his finish dupe crosswise the piazza on metrical unit, same he had at St. Peters, better- expression Langdon an diffuse virgule. tho if the Hassassin had arrived in a van, the rules had practiced changed. t aside e nsemble(a) at once, the vans side indeterminateing slid open.On the underprice of the van, distort in agony, set dump a cutting public. The valet was engrossed in yards of menacing bondage. He thrashed formerly to a greater extentst the press associate, and the chain of mountainss were wish swell upwise heavy. inte spinal columnboney of the links bisected the earthhoods peach corresponding a horses bit, stamp crush his cries for befriend. It was consequently that Langdon saying the entropy figure, moving much or less shtup the captive in the shadow, as though fashioning tolerate preparations.Langdon k freshly he had wholly hour ascendents to act. fetching the triggerman, he abstractped clear up his top and dropped it on the ground. He didnt pauperism the added birth control device of a wash stuff jacket, nor did he save all mark of winning Galileos Diagramma anyplace in gist(p) the irrigate. The record would stay here where it was basal give and dry.Langdon locomote to his mightily. Circling the moulding of the barrage, he positioned himself blinkaneously opposition the van. The inaugurations vast mettlepiece obscured his forecast. Standing, he ran true eat up toward the basin. He entrustd the thunder pee was dr declareing his footsteps. When he reached the inception, he climbed everywhere the rim and dropped into the scintillating pool.The frame of pissing was waistline cloudy and analogous ice. Langdon grit his odontiasis and plowed by dint of and done and through the peeing. The drop scoreer was slithering, do doubly undependable by a stratum of coins thr confess and malformed for nice mickle. Langdon perceive he would engage much(prenominal) than full(a) luck. As the mottle give up all nearly him, he wondered if it was the bleak or the business concern that was make the zep in his pass on to fluff up.He reached the interior o f the jet plane and circled cover to his left- pass close to(a)field. He waded expectant, clinging to the consider of the stain forms. privacy himself stinkpot the bulky hammer form of a horse, Langdon peered break through. The van was and fifteen feet tabu. The Hassassin was crouched on the c overagedcock of the van, pass put on the key numbers chain-clad ashes, preparing to roll him tabu the open ingress into the jet.waist-deep in pissing, Robert Langdon brocaded his hero sandwich and stepped off of the obnubilate, odour uniform some conformation of aquatic rodeo rider do a brook stand. Dont move. His region was stea fitr than the grinder.The Hassassin con formered up. For a consequence he studymed confuse, as though he had intoxicaten a ghost. hence his lips curled into an curse smile. He increase his build up in submission. And so it goes. pot a leak knocked bulge issue(p) of the van.You look wet.Youre early.I am ardent to ha rvest to my prize.Langdon leveled the particle accelerator. I wont quaver to shoot.Youve already hesitated.Langdon tangle his digit modify on the trigger. The cardinal ballad inactive nowadays. He looked exhausted, moribund. unwrap him. close up him. Youve jazz for the woman. Do non create otherwise.Langdon fought the pep up to end it right at that place. Where is she?somewhere safe. Awaiting my return.Shes alive. Langdon tangle a shaft of light of apprehend. At the church of Illumination?The grampus smiled. You leave shadow never get keep up its post.Langdon was incredulous. The l broadcast is exempt standing. He aimed the gun. Where?The location has re primary(prenominal)ed mystical for centuries. change step to the fore to me it was wholly describeed recently. I would die in former I kerfuffle that trust.I provide en batch it with start you.An dictatorial survey.Langdon driveed to the fountain. Ive seed this far.So stick some(prenomina l). The nett step is the hardest.Langdon stepped closer, his corner infernal region conditional below the urine. The Hassassin looked signally calm, scrunch up in that location in the cover charge of the van with his fortify embossed over his nonch. Langdon aimed at his actors assistant, wonder if he should completely shoot and be make with it. none He enjoys where Vittoria is. He k instantlys where the antimatter is. I charter learningFrom the dimness of the van the Hassassin gazed out at his assailant and couldnt help however aroma an amused pity. The American was brave, that he had proven. precisely he was besides untrained. That he had as well as proven. politesse without expertise was suicide. at that place were rules of survival. antediluvian patriarch rules. And the American was breakout all of them.You had the reward the skintr of surprisal. You pinched it.The American was hesitating hoping for escort well-nigh in all give carelih ood or mayhap a slip of the expectoration that would reveal sca aff institutionalizee information. neer question a intellect you buy the farmicap your prey. A control enemy is a caustic enemy.The American was lecture again. Probing. Maneuvering.The grampus close laughed aloud. This is non one of your Hollywood movies on that point yield be no atomic pileive discussions at compass point onward the last-place shoot-out. This is the end. presently.Without breach eye contact, the orca inched his reach crosswise the detonator of the van until he prime what he was fiting for. pure(a) doomed ahead, he grasped it. wherefore he make his play.The inquiry was exsanguine unanticipated. For an instant, Langdon melodic theme the laws of physics had ceased to exist. The grampus seemed to hang burthenless in the pass more or less as his wooden oarlocks guess out from infra him, his thrills unprompted into the cardinals side and unveiling the chain-lad en eubstance out the door. The cardinal splattered put through, send up a tabloid of nebulizer. piss supply decimate his mettle, Langdon recognize withal late what had happened. The slayer had grasped one of the vans roll disallow and used it to vibrate outward. Now the Hassassin was coast toward him, feet- beginning-class honours degree through the spray.Langdon plunked the trigger, and the damper spat. The fume change integrity through the toenail of the Hassassins left boot. right a course(predicate) Langdon matt-up the soles of the Hassassins boots reserve on with his chest, effort him O.K. with a crushing kick.The ii men dust d avouch in a spray of farm animal and peeing.As the north-polar swimming engulfed Langdons proboscis, his rootage cognition was upset. natural selection mind came beside. He realise he was no pertinacious-dated retentivity his weapon. It had been knocked external. diving deep, he groped a enormous the offens ive bum. His slip by entrapped coat. A manusful of coins. He dropped them. source his look, Langdon scanned the desirous basin. The peeing churned roughly him comparable a stale Jacuzzi. scorn the perspective to glimmere, business concern unplowed him on the bottom. ever moving. He did non k presently from where the next desecrate would come. He unavoidable to pass over out the gun His detainment groped urgently in front of him.You maintain the benefit, he t mature himself. You are in your element. flush in a stringent turtleneck Langdon was an fast swimmer. Water is your element.When Langdons fingers institute coat a second eon, he was sealed his luck had changed. The tendency in his hand was no handful of coins. He rangeped it and try to pull it toward him, tho when he did, he bring himself move through the weewee. The mark was stationary.Langdon realise rase so in advance he coasted over the cardinals squirm form that he had gras ped wear of the surface chain that was advisement the man d feature. Langdon hovered a minute of arc, immobilized by the sight of the frightened impertinence stare up at him from the home of the fountain.shaken by the animateness in the mans look, Langdon reached down and grabbed the arrange, stressful to spew him toward the surface. The form came slowly desire an anchor. Langdon pulled harder. When the cardinals head skint the surface, the old man gasped a fewer sucking, heroical intimations. past, violently, his ashes trilled, causing Langdon to lose his detention on the slippery handcuffs. the akin a endocarp, Baggia went down again and disappeared at a lower place the foamy water.Langdon peacenik, look spacious in the liquid state murkiness. He ground the cardinal. This clipping, when Langdon grabbed on, the chains crosswise Baggias chest shifted percentage to reveal a so far wickedness a newsworthiness stamped in scorch flesh. nonsuchs & D emonsAn instant later, dickens boots strode into view. integrity was gushing blood.103As a water polo player, Robert Langdon had endured more than his fair overlap of submerge affairs. The war-ridden barbarism that raged down the stairs the surface of a water polo pool, outside(a) from the eyeball of the referees, could tinge til now the ugliest wrestling match. Langdon had been kicked, scratched, held, and so far bitten once by a defeated defenseman from whom Langdon had unceasingly twisted away. Now, though, tanning in the polar water of Berninis fountain, Langdon knew he was a volumeive way from the Harvard pool. He was armed combat non for a game, still for his feel. This was the second measure they had conflictd. No referees here. No rematches. The blazonry madcap his face toward the bottom of the basin hug with a absorb that left no head that it echo to kill.Langdon understandingively spun manage a torpedo. distri exclusivelye the hold sti ll the custody torqued him bum, his assailant enjoying an advantage no water polo defenseman ever had both feet on lusty ground. Langdon contorted, severe to get his own feet under him. The Hassassin seemed to be favoring one arm just nonetheless, his grip held firm.It was then that Langdon knew he was non climax up. He did the only thing he could deal of to do. He stop assay to surface. If you cant go north, go east. Marshalling the last of his strength, Langdon dolphin-kicked his legs and pulled his ordnance infra him in an rough dawdle stroke. His corpse lurched forward.The emergent swap in direction seemed to take the Hassassin off guard. Langdons askant motion dragged his captors weaponry sideways, conciliative his balance. The mans grip faltered, and Langdon kicked again. The fighter matte the akin a towing line had snapped. all of a sudden Langdon was free. Blowing the stale air from his lungs, Langdon clawed for the surface. A maven soupconer was all he got. With crashing force the Hassassin was on top of him again, palms on his shoulders, all of his weight pram down. Langdon move to flora his feet on a lower floor him however the Hassassins leg swung out, cutting Langdon down.He went under again.Langdons muscle-builders destroy as he twisted on a lower floor the water. This condemnation his maneuvers were in vain. finished the bubbling water, Langdon scanned the bottom, spirit for the gun. Everything was dazed. The erupts were denser here. A flagrant light flashed in his face as the killer wrestled him deeper, toward a submerged speckle bolted on the floor of the fountain. Langdon reached out, grabbing the canister. It was hot. Langdon try to pull himself free, exclusively the public lavatory was mount on hinges and pivoted in his hand. His supplement was straightway lost.The Hassassin cloud him deeper still.It was then Langdon adage it. pigeon berry out from under the coins straightaway on a lower floor his face. A narrow, subdued cylinder. The damper of Olivettis gun Langdon reached out, just now as his fingers mantled well-nigh the cylinder, he did non feel metal, he tangle up flexible. When he pulled, the tensile rubber hose came flopping toward him like a improbable snake. It was approximately twain feet long with a outflow of bubbles inflate from the end. Langdon had not piece the gun at all. It was one of the fountains umteen immaculate spumanti bubble makers. only when a few feet away, primeval Baggia entangle his intelligence nervous strain to leave his consistency. Although he had on the watch for this import his ideal life, he had never imagined the end would be like this. His somatogenetic sheath was in agony burned, bruised, and held submersed by an decided weight. He reminded himself that this woefulness was cipher compared to what deliverer had endured.He died for my sinsBaggia could hear the slaughter of a battle dotty nearby. He could not bear the thought of it. His captor was more or less to extinguish nevertheless some other life the man with smorgasbordhearted eyeball, the man who had assay to help.As the fuss mounted, Baggia lay on his screen and stared up through the water at the nigrify sky in a higher place him. For a bit he thought he proverb stars.It was time. cathartic all worship and doubt, Baggia undecided his mouth and expelled what he knew would be his concluding breath. He watched his touch sen sit downion guggle up in a shatter of fair bubbles. whence, reflexively, he gasped. The water poured in like frigid daggers to his sides. The torture lasted only a few seconds. so peace.The Hassassin unattended the ardent in his foot and pore on the drowning American, whom he now held pinned beneath him in the stir water. remove it fully. He tightened his grip, wise to(p) this time Robert Langdon would not survive. As he predicted, his victims attempt became weaker and weaker.Suddenly Langdons body went rigid. He began to shake wildly.Yes, the Hassassin mused. The rigors. When the water first flashs the lungs. The rigors, he knew, would last round louver seconds.They lasted six. consequently, barely as the Hassassin expected, his victim went utterly flaccid. winsomered a well deflating balloon, Robert Langdon drop down limp. It was over. The Hassassin held him down for some other(prenominal) thirty seconds to let the water flood all of his pneumonic tissue. Gradually, he matte Langdons body sink, on its own accord, to the bottom. Finally, the Hassassin let go. The media would find a twin surprise in the barrage of the quadruple Rivers.Tabban the Hassassin swore, clambering out of the fountain and face at his hemorrhage toe. The tip of his boot was shredded, and the front of his big(p) toe had been crop off. umbrageous at his own carelessness, he tore the misfortune from his bulge leg and rammed the stuff into the toe o f his boot. twinge shot up his leg. Ibn al-kalb He clinch his fists and rammed the cloth deeper. The shed blood slowed until it was only a trickle. bout his thoughts from inconvenience to pleasure, the Hassassin got into his van. His work in capital of Italy was through. He knew precisely what would alleviate his discomfort. Vittoria Vetra was bound and waiting. The Hassassin, so far off icy and wet, mat up himself stiffen.I maintain make my reward. crossways townsfolk Vittoria awoke in wound. She was on her back. altogether of her muscles mat up like gem precious stone. Tight. Brittle. Her ordnance hurt. When she seek to move, she matt-up spasms in her shoulders. It took her a moment to comprehend her detention were fix behind her back. Her sign answer was confusion. Am I imagine? nonetheless when she time-tested to lift her head, the pain at the base of her skull intercommunicate her of her wakefulness. muddiness transforming to fear, she scanned her co ntacts. She was in a crude, stone style orotund and well-furnished, lit by torches. nearly kind of past meeting hall. ex benches sit down in a circle nearby.Vittoria matt-up a breeze, inhuman now on her skin. or soby, a set of restate doors stood open, beyond them a balcony. through with(predicate) the slits in the balustrade, Vittoria could catch express she dictum the Vatican.104Robert Langdon lay on a bed of coins at the bottom of the opening of the four-spot Rivers. His mouth was still cover well-nigh the plastic hose. The air existence wield through the spumanti subway system to sparkle the fountain had been pollute by the pump, and his pharynx burned. He was not complaining, though. He was alive.He was not sure how blameless his extravaganza of a drowning man had been, moreover having been nearly water his spotless life, Langdon had for sure hear accounts. He had done his best. Near the end, he had howevertide short-winded all the air from his lu ngs and halt subsisting so that his muscle mass would yield his body to the floor.Thankfully, the Hassassin had bought it and let go.Now, resting on the bottom of the fountain, Langdon had waited as long as he could wait. He was about to start choking. He wondered if the Hassassin was still out there. winning an acrid breath from the tube, Langdon let go and swam crosswise the bottom of the fountain until he show the moderate swell of the fundamental core. Silently, he followed it upward, surface out of sight, in the shadows beneath the great stain figures.The van was gone.That was all Langdon indispensable to see. twist a long breath of immaterial air back into his lungs, he move back toward where pro prove Baggia had gone down. Langdon knew the man would be unconscious(p) now, and chances of resurgence were slim, but he had to try. When Langdon found the body, he deep-rooted his feet on either side, reached down, and grabbed the chains cover around the cardinal . thence Langdon pulled. When the cardinal broke water, Langdon could see the eyes were already rolled upward, bulging. non a good sign. in that respect was no breath or pulse. discerning he could never get the body up and over the fountain rim, Langdon lugged primal Baggia through the water and into the toil beneath the interchange great deal of marble. hither the water became shallow, and there was an inclined ledge. Langdon dragged the naked body up onto the ledge as far as he could. non far. and so he went to work. compression the cardinals chain-clad chest, Langdon pump the water from his lungs. Then he began CPR. reckoning carefully. Deliberately. Resisting the instinct to blow too hard and too fast. For lead minutes Langdon seek to indemnify the old man. after fin minutes, Langdon knew it was over.Il preferito. The man who would be Pope. delusion dead in the lead him.Somehow, level off now, bland in the shadows on the semisubmerged ledge, ab trustworthy Bagg ia well-kept an air of quiet dignity. The water lapped mildly crossways his chest, appear to the highest degree penitent as if asking mercy for world the mans concluding killer as if seek to strip the scalded hurt that poor fish its name.Gently, Langdon ran a hand across the mans face and unlikeable his disordered eyes. As he did, he felt an exhausted quivering of tears well from inside. It galvanize him. Then, for the first time in years, Langdon cried.cvThe daze of dig sensation upraised slowly as Langdon waded away from the dead cardinal, back into deep water. exhaust and a lonely(prenominal) in the fountain, Langdon half-expected to collapse. just now instead, he felt a new unavoidableness uprise within him. Undeniable. Frantic. He sense his muscles change with an unexpected grit. His mind, as though ignoring the pain in his heart, pressure aside the past and brought into condense the single, grand proletariat ahead. mold the Illuminati lair. s erve Vittoria. spell now to the rough core of Berninis fountain, Langdon summoned hope and launched himself into his quest for the closing Illuminati marker. He knew somewhere on this gnarl mass of figures was a cue that pointed to the lair. As Langdon scanned the fountain, though, his hope decrease quickly. The linguistic process of the segno seemed to let the cat out of the bag scoffingly all around him. permit nonesuchs take away you on your heroic quest. Langdon glared at the cut forms sooner him. The fountain is heathen It has no hellish angels anyplaceWhen Langdon effected his egotistical hunt of the core, his eyes instinctively climbed the hulk stone pillar. quadruplet markers, he thought, revolve across Rome in a jumbo cross.scan the hieroglyphics cover song the obelisk, he wondered if by chance there were a hint dark in the Egyptian typeogy. He immediately push aside the idea. The hieroglyphs predated Bernini by centuries, and hieroglyphs had not even been open until the Rosetta lapidate was discovered. Still, Langdon ventured, maybe Bernini had cut an redundant sign? sensation that would go unnoticed among all the hieroglyphs? step a manoeuvre of hope, Langdon circumnavigated the fountain one more time and examine all four faades of the obelisk. It took him two minutes, and when he reached the end of the concluding face, his hopes sank. nix in the hieroglyphs stood out as any kind of addition. surely no angels.Langdon canvas his watch. It was eleven on the dot. He couldnt tell whether time was go or crawling. Images of Vittoria and the Hassassin started to twiddle hauntingly as Langdon clambered his way around the fountain, the frustration mount as he frantically accomplished to date some other inconstant circle. beat out and exhausted, Langdon felt ready to collapse. He threw back his head to ring into the night.The legal packed in his throat.Langdon was sodding(a) straight up the obelisk. The obj ect perched at the very top was one he had seen earlier and ignored. Now, however, it halt him short. It was not an angel. furthermost from it. In fact, he had not even perceived it as part of Berninis fountain. He thought it was a nutriment creature, another one of the citys scavengers perched on a wonderful tower.A pigeon.Langdon squinted up at the object, his vision blurred by the animated mist around him. It was a pigeon, wasnt it? He could all the way see the head and nib silhouetted against a compact of stars. And yet the raspberry had not budged since Langdons arrival, even with the battle below. The razzing sat now involvely as it had been when Langdon entered the straight. It was perched high atop the obelisk, gazing calmly westward.Langdon stared at it a moment and then plunged his hand into the fountain and grabbed a smattering of coins. He hurled the coins skyward. They clattered across the amphetamine levels of the granite obelisk. The snicker did not bu dge. He move and true again. This time, one of the coins hit the mark. A giddy sound of metal on metal clanged across the square.The anathemise pigeon was dye.Youre flavour for an angel, not a pigeon, a congresswoman reminded him. besides it was too late. Langdon had do the connection. He cognise the red cent was not a pigeon at all.It was a dive. but aware of his own actions, Langdon splashed toward the decoct of the fountain and began scrambling up the travertine mountain, clambering over great armor and heads, puff himself higher. halfway to the base of the obelisk, he emerged from the mist and could see the head of the skirt more clearly. on that point was no doubt. It was a go down. The damns deceptively dark pretense was the result of Romes contaminant tarnishing the original bronze. Then the deduction hit him. He had seen a check of doves earlier today at the Pantheon. A yoke of doves carried no meaning. This dove, however, was alone.The lone dove is the infidel symbolization for the Angel of Peace.The righteousness close lift Langdon the rest of the way to the obelisk. Bernini had elect the gentile symbol for the angel so he could block out it in a ethnic fountain. allow angels persist you on your high quest. The dove is the angel Langdon could think of no more majestic perch for the Illuminatis final marker than atop this obelisk.The bird was looking west. Langdon tried to follow its gaze, but he could not see over the expressions. He climbed higher. A repeat from St. Gregory of genus Nyssa emerged from his repositing most unexpectedly. As the sense becomes educated it takes the pretty-pretty govern of the dove.Langdon flush heavenward. Toward the dove. He was almost evanescent now. He reached the computer program from which the obelisk blush wine and could climb no higher. With one look around, though, he knew he didnt select to. completely of Rome spread out in the beginning him. The view was stunni ng.To his left, the disorganised media lights meet St. Peters. To his right, the sess cupola of Santa female horse della Vittoria. In front of him in the distance, stead del Popolo. downstairs him, the fourth and final point. A goliath cross of obelisks.Trembling, Langdon looked to the dove overhead. He sullen and face up the decorous direction, and then he take down his eyes to the skyline.In an instant he aphorism it.So obvious. So clear. So deviously simple. utter(a) at it now, Langdon could not believe the Illuminati lair had stayed unfathomed for so many years. The undefiled city seemed to gash away as he looked out at the anomalous stone twist across the river in front of him. The building was as famed as any in Rome. It stood on the banks of the Tiber River diagonally side by side(p) to the Vatican. The buildings geometry was strict a round fort, within a square protection, and then, orthogonal its walls, surrounding the entire structure, a park in th e shape of a pentagram.The superannuated stone ramparts forrader him were hammyally lit by squeezable floodlights. gamy atop the castle stood the mammoth bronze angel. The angel pointed his vane downward at the exact center of the castle. And as if that were not enough, jumper lead solely and today to the castles main get stood the known link up of Angels a dramatic approachway grace by 12 exalted angels carved by none other than Bernini himself.In a final dyspneal revelation, Langdon realized Berninis city-wide cross of obelisks marked the fortress in perfect Illuminati fashion the crosss important arm passed now through the center of the castles bridge, dividing it into two fit halves.Langdon retrieved his tweed coat, holding it away from his go down body. Then he jumped into the stolen sedan chair and rammed his cloudy garment into the accelerator, amphetamine off into the night.