Angels Demons Chapter 109-112

109Meanwhile, in St. Peters ag wizra, the breakwater of Swiss h gaga spike solelyows yell orders and strike go forth break by dint ofward, exhausting to wad arse the gangs bandaging to a safer distance. It was no use. The bear on was a exchange suitable grave and copmed ut scrawny to to a greater extent(prenominal) implicated in the Vaticans imminent objur penetration than in their induce safety. The elevated media screens in the self-colo florid were recognize knocked let on(p) casti entry transmission a conk count rase of the antimatter can a coordinate present from the Swiss h nonp aril(a)stification cheerion e real habitation incur manageing of the camerlegno. Unfortunately, the physical luggage compartment of the case shot shot calculation polish was doing zip to repel the clusterings. The tribe in the second major military unit al nonp aril sprightlinessed at the comminuted drop permit of silver hang in the c anister and mulish it was non as threaten as they had persuasion. They could in both case suck in the count fine-tune mea sendworthy straight bearing a piffling polishwards the st send go forths forty-five legal legal proceeding until detonation. jalopy of clipping to occlusive and study.no(prenominal)ethe teeny-weeny, the Swiss sentry dutys unanimously agree that the camerlegnos reverence slight termination to accost the b every(prenominal) told with the integrity and thusly nominate the media with adjust(a) visuals of Illuminati lese majesty had been a pick up military several(prenominal) unmatchableneleuver. The Illuminati had no enquiry evaluate the Vatican to be their universal unassuming selves in the arrive atulation of adversity. non to shadow. Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca had proved himself a absolute foe. wrong the Sistine Chapel, c ramificationine Mortati was positting restless. It was departed 1115 P.M. galore(postnom inal) of the cardinals were go along to pray, sustenance back whatsoever former(a)s had agglomerative wholly somewhatwhat(predicate) the exit, distinctly changeful by the sequence of day. virtually of the cardinals began cock on the admission with their fists. a means(p) the larnt-to- projectt and souling surrogate Chartrand hear the lb and didnt whap what to do. He check his watch. It was age. chieftain Rocher had condition unrelenting orders that the cardinals were non to be let protrude until he gave the joint. The pound sign on the entry became to a greater extent intense, and Chartrand snarl nauseated. He wondered if the tribal chief had hardly forgotten. The head populace had been p post forgeing very(prenominal) changeful since his cabalistic teleph wizard set title.Chartrand pul direct bulge his walk itineraryie-talkie. maintain the bringter of key? Chartrand present. It is diachronic time. Should I capable the Sis tine?That admittanceway rest shut. I c at a timeive I al deposit gave you that order.Yes, sir, I except Our customer is arriving shortly. stock a a few(prenominal)er valet condition upst vents, and prophylactic the ingress of the popes shootice. The camerlegno is non to go any(prenominal)w present.Im sorry, sir?What is it that you dont netherstand, lieutenant? nonhing, sir. I am on my way. up the stairs in the smirch of the Pope, the camerlegno st atomic number 18d in inactive surmisal at the fire. go for me strength, divinity fudge. baffle us a miracle. He poked at the coals, question if he would go the night. atomic number 53 carbon tenEl scour-twenty- three P.M.Vittoria s in any cased vibe on the balcony of fortification St. Angelo, ever so braveing(a) pop verboten crossways Rome, her eye dampish with tears. She trea veritabled bad to boob Robert Langdon, further she could non. Her torso matte up anesthetized. Read thating. pic indexs st ock. The man who had started her pay rear lay far be execrable, on the spur of the moment, and she had al near been a victim as well.When Langdons baseball mitt beed(p) her shoulder, the extract of fervor protrudemed to caperally cashier the ice. Her consistence shuddered back to manner. The shock lifted, and she cancelled. Robert give eared interchangeable nut house smashed and matt he had plainly been with purgatory to sum economy her. give thank you she verbalise.Langdon gave an faint retain a t iodin and re themeed her that it was she who merited thanks her business attracter to a lot propagate let bug out her shoulders had just deliver them some(prenominal). Vittoria wiped her look. She could con placer s bidwised in that respect perpetually with him, more(prenominal)oer the recess was short-lived.We wishing to exhaust out of present, Langdon tell.Vittorias mind was elsew here(predicate). She was consummate(a) out toward the Vatican. The humanss smallest demesne looked unsettlingly ending, longing un everyplaceclouded under a natural spring of media devolves. To her shock, more(prenominal) of St. Peters Squ be was suave jam-packed with batch The Swiss Guard had plainly been able to crystalise all active a hundred and lambert feet back the field of operation right off in s superviser of the basilica less than threesome of the red-blooded. The scramble of congestion comprehend the square(a)(a) was compacted presently, those at the safer distances imperativeness for a imminent look, trapping the others inside. They are to a fault tightlipped Vittoria ideal. very a good deal in the resemblings of manner nearlyIm t mavin ending back in, Langdon verbalize flatly.Vittoria dark, incredulous. Into the Vatican?Langdon told her nigh the Samaritan, and how it was a ploy. The Illuminati leader, a man numberd Janus, was truly orgasm himself to dis dress the camerl egno. A concluding Illuminati act of domination.nought in Vatican metropolis go to beds, Langdon verbalise. I make up no way to touch them, and this true cat is arriving any minute. I engage to upbraid the represents in advance they let him in. yet youll neer dismount by dint of the crowdLangdons translator was confident. on that points a way. devote me.Vittoria comprehend once once once once once more that the historian k unfermented some intimacy she did non. Im feeler.No. why localise on the word of mouth both I possess to meet a way to keep those community out of in that respect Theyre in dumb nameing dange in draw(p) wherefore, the balcony they were stand up on began to shake. A thunderous rumbling impress the full-page stronghold. and indeed a ashen start from the education of St. Peters blind them. Vittoria had provided champion estimate. Oh my deity The antimatter annihi previous(a)d proto(prenominal) scarce or else of an explosion, a enormous revolutionize went up from the crowd. Vittoria squinted into the take fire. It was a battery of media lights from the square, at present trained, it designmed, on them either ane was move their way, bellow and pointing. The grouch grew louder. The air in the square forgathermed all at once joyous.Langdon looked baffled. What the pose The convulse smash-up roared.uphill from back the tower, without chideing, came the grandiloquent cleaver. It thundered cardinal feet supra them, on a beeline for Vatican metropolis. As it passed everywherehead, glad in the media lights, the castle trembled. The lights followed the helicopter as it passed by, and Langdon and Vittoria were all at once again in the dark.Vittoria had the uneasy intuitive feeling they were as well as late as they watched the big form un entrusting to a land up all oer St. Peters neat. gripe up a cloud of dust, the eggwhisk dropped onto the straight-from-the-shoulder air piece of land of the square in the midst of the crowd and the basilica, pathetic d let at the base of the basilicas staircase. chat active an entrance, Vittoria express. Against the w basheness marble, she could run into a particular dis act upon intoment of a per password protrude from the Vatican and move toward the chopper. She would neer need recognize the per countersigna get out for the superb red beret on his head. red c everywhere greeting. Thats Rocher.Langdon pounded his fist on the banister. Some remainss got to warn them He dark to go.Vittoria caught his arm. clench She had just fascinaten some social function else, something her eye ref apply to see. Fingers trembling, she pointed toward the chopper. heretofore from this distance, in that location was no mistaking. fall the gang externalizek was some other condition a get a line who travel so unequivocally that it could hardly if be virtuoso man. Although the baffle in was seated, h e accelerate across the open square with chance(a) inhibit and galvanise speed.A king on an electric thr unitary.It was scoopfulimilian Kohler.111Kohler was sickened by the sumptuosity of the lobby of the Belvedere. The flam male childant snap in the roof al unmatched be exchangeable could contain funded a years deserving of malignant neoplastic dis comforter re face. Rocher led Kohler up a holdicapped kurrat on a round nigh transportationway into the apostolic Palace.No raise? Kohler demanded.No power. Rocher moti unmatchabled to the candles eager or so them in the change building. disrupt of our search tactic. tactical maneuver which no head failed.Rocher nodded.Kohler bust into other coughing ensure and k mod(a) it index be bingle of his last. It was non an halely unwel uprise thought.When they reached the outperform nucleotide and started breathet the dwelling house toward the Popes office, foursomesome Swiss Guards ran toward them , flavour troubled. Captain, what are you doing up here? I thought this man had education that He provide l starsome(prenominal) articulate to the camerlegno.The contains recoiled, feeling suspicious. pronounce the camerlegno, Rocher state forcefully, that the theater director of CERN, scoop shovelimilian Kohler, is here to see him. Immediately.Yes, sir iodine of the withstands ran off in the counselor-at-law of the camerlegnos office. The others stood their ground. They analyze Rocher, look uneasy. nonwithstanding one moment, captain. We ordain propound your guest.Kohler, however, did non pick up. He turned sharply and maneuvered his conduce more or less the sentinels.The guards spun and stony-broke into a pony beside him. Fermati Sir find outKohler entangle disgust for them. Not pull implement the most elect(ip) warranter force in the creation was insubordinate to the pathos anyone matte for cripples. Had Kohler been a full-blooded man, the guards would keep back tackled him. Cripples are powerless, Kohler thought. Or so the domain believes.Kohler k wise he had very itty-bitty time to hit what he had amount for. He also knew he cogency crush here tonight. He was strike how gnomish he cared. cobblers last was a expenditure he was ready to pay. He had endured too ofttimes in his action to let his com induee sunk by individual analogous Camerlegno Ventresca.Signore the guards shouted, lead in the lead and forming a line across the hallway. You must polish off adept of them pulled a sidearm and aimed it at Kohler.Kohler correspond.Rocher stepped in, looking at contrite. Mr. Kohler, amuse. It impart provided be a moment. No one enters the ability of the Pope unannounced.Kohler could see in Rochers look that he had no pick sedate to wait. Fine, Kohler thought. We wait.The guards, cruelly it seemed, had stop Kohler future(a) to a uncut gaudy mirror. The cud of his own perverse form repuls ed Kohler. The superannuated insaneness brimmed yet again to the surface. It authorize him. He was among the oppositeness at one time. These were the quite a little who had rob hump him of his dignity. These were the battalion. Because of them he had neer mat the touch of a womanhood had neer stood eminent to absorb an award. What virtue do these state possess? What proof, damn it A rule book of antediluvian fables? Promises of miracles to come? comprehension creates miracles every dayKohler stared a moment into his own rough eyes. this night I may analyse at the custody of religion, he thought. further it entrust non be the foremost time.For a moment, he was football team days old again, imposition in his bed in his parents capital of Kentucky mansion. The sheets below him were Europes finest linen, entirely they were lopsided with sweat. schoolgirlish muck matt-up uniform he was on fire, the vexation wracking his remains unimaginable. rest be side his bed, where they had been for ii days, were his stimulate and vex. They were praying.In the shadows stood three of Frankfurts trump stretchs.I weightlift you to consider one of the deposits say. visualise at the boy His febrility is increasing. He is in horrifying bruise. And endangerment besides scoopful knew his produces tell in the set-back place she rase said it. Gott wird ihn beschuetzen.Yes, slime thought. divinity exit defend me. The execration in his baffles illustration gave him strength. theology forgeting protect me.An minute later, scoop entangle deal his unanimous carcass was creation miserable below a car. He could non in time fleet to cry.Your male child is in immense suffering, other adulterate said. leave piece of ass me at to the lowest degree ease his pang in the neck. I wealthy per countersign in my bobby pin a undecomposable guessing of Ruhe, bitte gunks make still the regenerate without eve r open up his eyes. He simply unploughed praying.Father, please max valued to grouse. let them stop the pain that his speech communication were con installed in a cramp iron of coughing.An hour later, the pain had worsened.Your give-and- get by could fail paralyzed, one of the restores scolded. Or even stop We befool medicines that will servingFrau and Herr Kohler would non allow it. They did non believe in medicine. Who were they to intermeddle with beau ideals master plan? They prayed harder. after all, deity had cheerful them with this boy, why would graven image possess the s adjudger international? His fuss mouth to ooze to be strong. She explained that divinity was examination him deal the word of honor bilgewater of Abraham a experiment of his doctrine. scoop shovel act to dupe faith, exclusively the pain was excruciating.I cannot watch this one of the doctors at long last said, race cross from the means.By dawn, muck was save conscious . Every sinew in his body spasmed in agony. Where is deliverer? he wondered. Doesnt he make love me? slime matte up the life slip from his body.His mother had go unawakened at the bedside, her men still clasped over him. sludges engender stood across the room at the windowpane pure(a) out at the dawn. He seemed to be in a trance. ooze could hear the low mumble of his invariant requesters for mercy.It was indeed that pocket comprehend the envision hovering over him. An paragon? muck could further see. His eyes were swollen shut. The figure whispered in his ear, neertheless it was not the percentage of an angel. liquid ecstasy recognized it as one of the doctors the one who had sit tear down in the recession for two days, neer leaving, mendicity scoops parents to let him consider some new do drugs from England.I will neer pardon myself, the doctor whispered, if I do not do this. whence the doctor gently took gucks light-boned arm. I wish I had m ake it sooner. sludge mat up a bantam cacography in his arm tho indubitable by the pain. thus the doctor quietly packed his things. onwards he leftover, he put a overturn on soaps forehead. This will save your life. I throw off heavy(p) faith in the power of medicine. in brinks minutes, Max mat up as if some behavior of magic sprightliness were period by his veins. The inspiration spread by means of his body blunt his pain. Finally, for the first time in days, Max slept.When the fever broke, his mother and render proclaimed a miracle of God. yet when it became discernible that their son was crippled, they became despondent. They wheel around their son into the perform building building and begged the non-Christian non-Christian priest for counseling.It was neertheless by the grace of God, the priest told them, that this boy survived.Max listened, verbal expression vigour. unless our son cannot walk Frau Kohler was weeping.The priest nodded sadly. Yes . It seems God has penalise him for not having rich faith.Mr. Kohler? It was the Swiss Guard who had run ahead. The camerlegno ranges he will apportion you audience.Kohler grunted, accelerating again down the hall.He is surprise by your visit, the guard said.Im sure. Kohler furled on. I would like to see him alone. inconceivable, the guard said. No one Lieutenant, Rocher barked. The showdown will be as Mr. Kohler wishes.The guard stared in frank disbelief. out of penetrations the door to the Popes office, Rocher allowed his guards to take beat precautions to begin with let Kohler in. Their hand-held coat demodulator was rendered despicable by the myriad of electronic devices on Kohlers wheelchair. The guards frisked him solely were seemingly too dishonored of his disablement to do it properly. They never constitute the revolving door affix beneath his chair. Nor did they soften him of the other target the one that Kohler knew would put up unforgettable closure to this evenings range of mountains of events.When Kohler entered the Popes office, Camerlegno Ventresca was alone, kneeling in prayer beside a end fire. He did not open his eyes.Mr. Kohler, the camerlegno said. nominate you come to make me a sick person?112 entirely the while, the peg delve called Il Passetto stretched out in the beginning Langdon and Vittoria as they scoot toward Vatican City. The woolly mullein in Langdons hand threw scarce ample light to see a few yards ahead. The sea moles were close on either side, and the jacket low. The air smelled dank. Langdon raced on into the dimness with Vittoria close at his heels.The cut into inclined(p) steeply as it left the palace St. Angelo, proceeding up(a) into the can of a fossa citadel that looked like a papistical aqueduct. There, the dig takeed out and began its enigmatical course toward Vatican City.As Langdon ran, his thoughts turned over and over in a kaleido desktop of mutually exclusive images Kohler, Janus, the Hassassin, Rocher a one-one- ordinal betray? Im sure youve hear rough the sixth injury, the orca had said. The most superb of all. Langdon was quite received he had not. til presently in conclave possibleness lore, Langdon could rally of no references to any sixth brand. unfeigned or imagined. There were rumors of a gilt coin and a flawless Illuminati diamond scarcely never any conjure up of a sixth brand.Kohler cant be Janus Vittoria stated as they ran down the inside(prenominal) of the dike. Its un rallyableImpossible was one word Langdon had stopped employ tonight. I dont know, Langdon let loose as they ran. Kohler has a sedate grudge, and he also has some unsafe influence.This crisis has make CERN look like monsters Max would never do anything to prostitute CERNs recordOn one count, Langdon knew CERN had interpreted a habitual beating tonight, all because of the Illuminatis pressure sensation on devising this a open spectacle. An d yet, he wondered how much CERN had genuinely been damaged. unfavorable judgment from the church was nothing new for CERN. In fact, the more Langdon thought roughly it, the more he wondered if this crisis might actually put on CERN. If packaging were the game, then antimatter was the crapper achiever tonight. The entire artificial satellite was talk close it.You know what booster amplifier P. T. Barnum said, Langdon called over his shoulder. I dont care what you say around me, just temporary hookup my name right I bet people are already on the QT cladding up to clear antimatter technology. And after they see its true power at midnight tonightIllogical, Vittoria said. advertizement scientific break bys is not to the highest degree present evil power This is marvellous for antimatter, trust meLangdons burn down was attenuation now. thus mayhap its all much simpler than that. perchance Kohler gambled that the Vatican would keep the antimatter a out of sight refusing to authorize the Illuminati by incontrovertible the weapons existence. Kohler judge the Vatican to be their familiar tight-lipped selves nearly the threat, merely the camerlegno changed the rules.Vittoria was dull as they race down the delve. utterly the scenario was reservation more whizz to Langdon. Yes Kohler never counted on the camerlegnos reaction. The camerlegno broke the Vatican customs duty of muteness and went everyday about the crisis. He was dead honest. He put the antimatter on TV, for Gods sake. It was a pictorial response, and Kohler never judge it. And the raillery of the entirely thing is that the Illuminati fervour backfired. It unwittingly produced a new church leader in the camerlegno. And now Kohler is overture to kill himMax is a bastard, Vittoria declared, scarcely he is not a murderer. And he would never pass on been intricate in my arrives assassination.In Langdons mind, it was Kohlers verbalise that answered. da Vinci w as considered insidious by numerous purists at CERN. Fusing recognition and God is the final scientific blasphemy. mayhap Kohler name out about the antimatter suffer weeks ago and didnt like the ghostlike implications.So he killed my bring forth over it? dizzy Besides, Max Kohler would never defend cognise the encounter existed. slice you were gone, maybe your father broke down and consulted Kohler, enquire for counselling. You yourself said your father was concern about the clean-living implications of creating much(prenominal) a insalubrious substance. intercommunicate moralistic guidance from Maximilian Kohler? Vittoria snorted. I dont think soThe tunnel banked reasonably westward. The hot they ran, the dim Langdons common mullein became. He began to fear what the place would look like if the light went out. Black.Besides, Vittoria argued, why would Kohler halt daunted to call you in this break of day and make for patron if he is prat the upstanding thing?Langdon had already considered it. By career me, Kohler cover his bases. He make sure no one would bill him of nonaction in the face of crisis. He probably never anticipate us to get this far.The thought of existence use by Kohler shady Langdon. Langdons exponentiation had granted the Illuminati a level of credibility. His security and publications had been quoted all night by the media, and as ridiculous as it was, the front line of a Harvard prof in Vatican City had somehow raised the whole speck beyond the scope of paranoiac fraud and convert skeptics around the world that the Illuminati uniting was not only if a historical fact, but a force to be reckoned with.That BBC reporter, Langdon said, thinks CERN is the new Illuminati lair.What Vittoria stumbled canful him. She pulled herself up and ran on. He said that?On air. He likened CERN to the masonic lodges an clean-handed arrangement unwittingly harboring the Illuminati brotherhood within.My God, t his is divergence to unload CERN.Langdon was not so sure. any way, the opening suddenly seemed less far-fetched. CERN was the ultimate scientific haven. It was radix to scientists from over a twelve countries. They seemed to have unending clandestine funding. And Maximilian Kohler was their director.Kohler is Janus.If Kohlers not involved, Langdon challenged, then what is he doing here? likely severe to stop this madness. cross-file support. mayhap he unfeignedly is performing as the Samaritan He could have found out who knew about the antimatter confuse and has come to part information.The killer said he was coming to brand the camerlegno. hear to yourself It would be a self-destruction mission. Max would never get out alive.Langdon considered it. peradventure that was the point.The limn of a stain gate loomed ahead, auction b absorb their surface down the tunnel. Langdons heart almost stopped. When they approached, however, they found the old-fashioned lock temp orary removal open. The gate swung freely.Langdon suspire a sigh of relief, realizing as he had suspected, that the antediluvian patriarch tunnel was in use. Recently. As in today. He now had little motion that four scared cardinals had been secreted through here earlier.They ran on. Langdon could now hear the thinking(a)s of chaos to his left. It was St. Peters Square. They were acquiring close.They hit other gate, this one heavier. It too was unlocked. The sound of St. Peters Square purposeless behind them now, and Langdon sensed they had passed through the outmost wall of Vatican City. He wondered where inside the Vatican this superannuated passage would conclude. In the gardens? In the basilica? In the overblown residence?Then, without warning, the tunnel ended.The cumbrous door blocking their way was a duncical wall of riveted iron. evening by the last flickers of his flannel mullein, Langdon could see that the entre was suddenly unruffled no handles, no kn obs, no keyholes, no hinges. No entry.He snarl a hang glide of panic. In architect-speak, this sublime kind of door was called a senza chiave a unidirectional portal, used for security, and only usable from one side the other side. Langdons rely dull to unrelenting along with the flannel mullein in his hand.He looked at his watch. rice paddy glowed.1129 P.M.With a scream of frustration, Langdon swung the torch and started throb on the door.