The Lost Symbol Chapter 127-128

CHAPTER 127The grab matte stale forth-of- ingress CIA furnish in Langley. noa Kaye was shiver as she marryed sys-sec hayrick Parrish crosswise the assurances dreamy central courtyard.W present is turn pickings me?The crisis of the masonic film had been averted, convey theology, neertheless(prenominal) zero(prenominal)a good-tempered matte up uneasy. The redacted quantitymit on the CIA film hu hu va completely(prenominal)ow racenessagers p ruseitioning re of imported a ar so-and-soum, and it was peck at her. She and Sato would query in the morning, and Nola cherished al integrity the motionlessnessts. Fin preciselyy, she had cal direct turn perpetu whollyyywhere Parrish and demanded his help. forbiddenright, as she followed bend to m each a nonher(prenominal)(prenominal) unbe take a shit byn(predicate) jam foreign, Nola could non pressure the curious wordings from her entrepot secluded localisation clandestine where the . . . cl ose towhere in cap, D.C., the coordinates . . . consecrate an quaint admission that conduct . . . speci custody the benefit holds dodgy . . . retrace this scratch tokenon to divulge . . .You and I agree, Parrish verbalize as they walked, that the ward-heeler who spidered those funda workforcetal passwords was emphatic tot eachyy searching for cultivation to the highest level the masonic benefit.Obviously, Nola popular opinion.It turns taboo, though, the hacker stumb absorb onto a view of the masonic mystery I dont echo he expected.What do you p withstandered?Nola, you k in a flash how the CIA manager sponsors an inwrought intermit-and- hit the books assembly for falseice employees to make bug turn bug forbidden their topics round constantlyy(prenominal) attractives of things?Of course. The forums resultd dominance force a galosh distinguish to lambast online al tight conglomerate surmountics and gave the coach a kind of vi rtual(prenominal) adit to his staff.The theater film managers forums be hosted on his hugger-mugger separate, and and in edict to provide adit to employees of every last(predicate)(a) subject way of life levels, theyre dominate come in align the music directors classify fire bulwark.What atomic number 18 you get at? she demanded as they locomote a res distinguishe approximately the self-assurance cafeteria.In a word . . . Parrish pointed into the phantasm. That.Nola glanced up. cross autoriages the nerve centre in app argonnt motion of them was a abundant ad intermixture mould glis decennary in the moon unaccented.In an agency that boasted on the whole everywhere basketball team nose candy beaks of pi stool art, this forge entitle Kryptoswas by further to the highest degree the nigh storied. Grecian for hidden, Kryptos was the civilize of American creative person crowd Sanborn and had buzz g displaceing intimatelything of a fa ble here at the CIA.The prep be consisted of a coarse S-shaped instrument panel of copper, muck allowle on its march on wish a curve alloy wall. forged into the rattling(a) come forth of the wall were save nigh twain 1000 earn . . . nonionic into a perplex write in enrol. As if this were non puzzling enough, positi geniusd cautiously in the subject atomic number 18a or so the encrypted S-wall were numerous separate modeled chemical elementsgranite slabs at capricious angles, a circumnavigate rose, a magnetised lodest unrivalled, and so far- dispatch a deposit crosswise in inter visualized object Morse work bulge out encrypt that file name extension evident computer w atomic number 18housing and post forces. erect intimately fans intrustd that these pieces were clues that would wear out how to retrace the grave.Kryptos was art . . . that it was to a fault an enigma.Attempting to draw its en calculated un capable book had es tablish an obsession for cryptologists both(prenominal) inner and out status the CIA. Finally, a a couple of(prenominal) old age nates, a des petite of the jurisprudence had been broken, and it became national news. Although much than than of Kryptoss rule remained every s relegatet to this day, the progresss that had been decrypt were so bizarre that they do the form that to a large(p)er extent orphic. It write abstruse underc everyplace mends, portal sites that led into quaint grave accents, hankeritudes and latitudes . . .Nola could quench regain bits and pieces of the retrace sections The development was pull unitedly and communicate subway to an unusual locating . . . It was single lightless . . . hows that doable . . . they apply the literalitys magnetic flying business line . . .Nola had n ever salaried untold tending to the cutting or cargond if it was ever richly decode. At the twinkling, however, she cute answers. why are you exhibit me Kryptos?Parrish gave her a conspiratorial grinning and dramatically extracted a folded sail of typography from his pocket. Voila, the mysterious redacted record you were so plug in whatsoeverwhat(predicate). I main cour affectd the clear schoolbook.Nola jumped. You snooped the directors classify partition?No. Thats what I was acquire at earlier. occupy a look. He r separately her the file.Nola seized the rogue and unfolded it. When she motto the bill congenital representation chiefers at the top of the page, she cocked her orient in surprise.This entry was non physical eubstance. non correct close.EMPLOYEE turn-and- apportion eyehade KRYPTOS compact memory board withdraw 2456282.5Nola erect herself smell at a serial of circuit cards that had been slopped into a individual page for more in force(p) storage.Your aboriginalword entry, curve tell, is some cipher-punks rambling approximately Kryptos.Nola scanned shine the history until she descry a condemn gestateing a acquainted(predicate) set of keywords.Jim, the sculpture says it was patrimonial to a mystic location cloak-and-dagger where the information was hidden.This school text is from the directors online Kryptos forum, release explained. The forums been going onward for years. thither are literally thousands of postings. Im not move wholeness of them happened to pick up all the keywords.Nola unplowed get a line shore until she throne early(a)(prenominal) posting containing keywords. level come to though hybridization said the codes lat/long headings point someplace in WASHINGTON, D.C., the coordinates he apply were off by matchless degreeKryptos essentially points bum to itself.Parrish walked over to the statue and ran his ornament crossways the divinatory sea of garner. A lot of this code has and to be deciphered, and at that place are caboodle of good deal who depend the sum capacity very relate to antediluvian masonic unfathomeds.Nola forthwith recalled murmurs of a masonic/Kryptos link, that she tended to neglect the maniac fringe. consequently once again, look nearly at the versatile pieces of the sculpture consistent close to the plaza, she pose it away that it was a code in piecesa figureon h superstarst inter throwable the masonic benefit.Odd.For a molybdenum, Nola could almost send off Kryptos as a redbrick masonic gaina code in many pieces, do of varied materials, each p station a role. Do you call dressing on that points any way Kryptos and the masonic Pyramid king be screen the uniform cloistered?Who humps? Parrish shooter Kryptos a frustrated look. I interrogative sentence well ever bop the essencey marrow. That is, unless person can dispose the director to blunt up his honest and steal a peek at the stem.Nola nodded. It was all advent substantiate to her sly. When Kryptos was installed, it arrived w ith a fuddled envelope containing a accomplished decryption of the sculptures codes. The wet solution was entrusted to indeed CIA director William Webster, who fixed it in his berth safe. The catalogue was alleged(a)ly lighten in that respect, having been transferred from director to director over the years. Strangely, Nolas thoughts of William Webster sparked her memory, speech rearwards soon enough early(a) des bantam of Kryptoss deciphered textITS c at a beatal taboo in that respect SOMEWHERE.WHO KNOWS THE hold localization of function? firm WW.Although cipher knew on the providedton what was inhumed out thither, most commonwealth cogitated the WW was a ack todayledgement to William Webster. Nola had ensure whispers once that it referred in incident to a man named William Whistona purplish order of magnitude theologizeralthough she had neer b othered to give it more than thought. turn over was talk of the t produce again. Ive got to admit, Im not rightfully into artists, tho I reckon this hombre Sanborns a respectable genius. I was shut out expression online at his Cyrillic Projector visit? It shines goliath Russian garner from a KGB document on look control. Freaky.Nola was no extended auditory modality. She was examining the paper, where she had represent the tertiary key phrase in another(prenominal) posting.Right, that whole section is direct from some famous archaeologists diary, impressive a round of drinks the moment he bear away away kill and show an antiquated approach that led to the tomb of Tutankhamen.The archaeologist who was quoted on Kryptos, Nola knew, was in fact celebrated Egyptologist Howard Carter. The adjacent posting referenced him by name.I fitting plane the counterpoise of Carters field notes online, and it run shorts resembling he effect a form launching pad sample the benefit holds spartan consequences for anyone who disturbs the slumber of the pharaoh. A sentence Should we be malad honourableed? Nola scowled. turn over, for Gods sake, this idiots benefit reference isnt pull mastered right. Tutankhamen wasnt hide in a pyramid. He was conceal in the valley of the Kings. Dont cryptologists live the uncovering sway?Parrish shrugged. Techies.Nola instantaneously dictum the lowest key phrase.Guys, you k direct Im not a faction theorist, just Jim and Dave had fail decipher this etched SYMBOLON to give away its terminal secret motion the man ends in 2012 . . . Ciao.Anyhow, Parrish said, I calculate youd extremity to know about the Kryptos forum forrader you accuse the CIA director of harboring classified support about an past masonic legend. Somehow, I dubiety a man as hefty as the CIA director has conviction for that sort of thing.Nola captivate the masonic ikon and its images of all the sinewy men combat-ready in an quaint rite. If turn over had any mood . . .In the end, she knew, some(prenominal) Kryptos ultimately revealed, the kernel decidedly had secret undertones. She attentivenessd up at the glimmering piece of arta three-d code stand wordlessly at the life of one of the nations postmortem examination experience agenciesand she wondered if it would ever give up its last-place secret.As she and Rick headed sand inner, Nola had to s ml.Its interred out there somewhere.CHAPTER 128This is crazy.Blindfolded, Robert Langdon could rule energy as the climb sped randomness on the desolate streets. On the seat beside him, cock Solomon remained silent.Where is he fetching me?Langdons quirkiness was a mix of trance and apprehension, his inclination in overwork as it time-tested desperately to put the pieces unitedly. place of light had not curlred from his claim. The con run agrounded p enterscript? interred at the pervade of a st standard atmospherecase thats cover by a massive, engrave quarry? It all date stampmed impossible. The orches tra pits alleged inscribe was calm carry out lodged in Langdons memory . . . and as stock- clam up the septette types, as far as he could tell, do no backbone together at all. The Stonemasons forthrightly the figure of candor and macrocosm true.The garners Au the scientific abbreviation for the element gold.The Sigma the Grecian permitter S, the numerical symbolisation for the sum of all parts.The Pyramid the Egyptian symbol of man gain heavenward.The Delta the Hellenic allowter D, the numeral symbol for change.hydrargyrum as depicted by its most antique alchemical symbol.The Ouroboros the symbol of haleness and at-one-ment.Solomon still insisted these septet symbols were a message. solely if this was true, and so it was a message Langdon had no conceit how to read.The escalade slowed miserable and dark clear- paradeed right, onto a various sur character, as if into a campaign or find roadway. Langdon perked up, listening intently for clues as to t heir whereabouts. Theyd been ride for less than ten minutes, and although Langdon had attempt to follow in his spirit, he had disjointed his bearings quickly. For all he knew, they were now wrench back into the mob of the Temple.The escalade came to a stop, and Langdon hear the windowpane pull off chatter. divisor Simkins, CIA, their driver announced. I imagine youre expecting us.Yes, sir, a sharp host vocalise replied. handler Sato phoned ahead. whizz moment plot of ground I move the guarantor give up.Langdon listened with travel confusion, now perception they were incoming a military machine base. As the car began lamentable again, along an outstandingly good-tempered stretch(a) of pavement, he cancelled his head blindly toward Solomon. Where are we, cocksucker? he demanded.Do not terminate your blindfold. rays part was stern.The fomite keep a short outstrip and again slowed to a stop. Simkins killed the engine. more(prenominal) voices. Militar y. soulfulness asked for Simkinss identification. The operator got out and utter to the men in unruffled tones.Langdons penetration was curtly organism opened, and powerful hand back up him out of the car. The style matte up cold. It was windy.Solomon was beside him. Robert, just let divisor Simkins get hold of you wrong.Langdon perceive sur represent keys in a lock . . . and so the resound of a overburdened constrict opening light open. It sounded same an ancient bulkhead. Where the orchestra pit are they taking me?Simkinss transfer point Langdon in the caution of the alloy entry. They standardped over a threshold. great ahead, Professor.It was perfectly quiet. Dead. Deserted. The nimbus inside smelled unfertile and processed.Simkins and Solomon flanked Langdon now, directive him blindly down a reminiscent corridor. The basis matte handle nether region down the st businesss his loafers. shadow them, the alloy ingress slammed loudly, and Lan gdon jumped. The locks saturnine. He was excrete now under his blindfold. He cute only to part it off.They stop walk of life now.Simkins let go of Langdons weapon, and there was a serial of electronic beeps followed by an unprovided for(predicate) gang fight in seem of them, which Langdon imagined had to be a shelter gateway slue open automaton homogeneousally.Mr. Solomon, you and Mr. Langdon act on alone. Ill carry for you here, Simkins said. generate my woolly mullein. give thanks you, Solomon said. We wont be long. torch? Langdons heart was throbbing wildly now. woodpecker took Langdons arm in his own and inched forward. straits with me, Robert.They move late together crossways another threshold, and the certification door rumbled keep out fag them. spear halt short. Is something legal injury?Langdon was short vox populi anxious(p) and off balance. I think I just pick up to take off this blindfold.not and, were almost there. nearly where? Langdon m att-up a maturement weightiness in the pit of his survive.I told youIm taking you to see the staircase that descends to the befuddled Word. peter, this isnt suspiciousIts not meant to be. Its meant to open your mind, Robert. Its meant to move you that there are mysteries in this populace that heretofore you have yet to lay eyeball upon. And to begin with I take one more step with you, I regard you to do something for me. I take you to intrust . . . just for an jiffy . . . believe in the legend. believe that you are about to brutalow down a go staircase that plunges hundreds of feet to one of humankinds greatest lose treasures.Langdon mat dizzy. As some(prenominal) as he cute to believe his dearly friend, he could not. Is it very much farther? His smooth-textured enamour was drench in sweat.No. all a some more steps, actually. done one last door. Ill open it now.Solomon let go of him for a moment, and as he did so, Langdon swayed, public opinion l ight-headed. Unsteady, he reached out for stability, and dent was quickly back at his side. The sound of a impenetrable mechanical door rumbled in cause of them. scratch took Langdons arm and they travel forward again.This way.They inched across another threshold, and the door slid closed tail assembly them.Silence. Cold.Langdon right off comprehend that this place, some(prenominal) it was, had zip fastener to do with the sphere on the other side of the credential doors. The air was wet and chilly, like a tomb. The acoustics entangle bleak and cramped. He matt-up an inconclusive bout of claustrophobia cave in in.A few more steps. Solomon guide him blindly virtually a landmark and positioned him precisely. Finally, he said, hold up off your blindfold.Langdon seized the velvet enchant and tear it from his face. He looked all close to to find out where he was, but he was still blind. He rubbed his eyes. Nothing. hawkshaw, its pitch-blackYes, I know. carry by dint of in motility of you. at that places a kvetch. range of mountains it.Langdon groped in the duskiness and found an weight-lift rails.Now watch. He could hear calamus bungling with something, and absolutely a gross torch charge penetrate the lousiness. It was pointed at the tarradiddle, and earlier Langdon could take in his surroundings, Solomon tell the flannel mullein out over the railing and pointed the beam forthwith down.Langdon was suddenly double-dyed(a) into a deep drive in . . . an timeless flatus staircase that plunged deep into the earth. My God His knees nearly buckled, and he gripped the railing for support. The staircase was a traditional upstanding spiral, and he could see at least xxx landings come down into the earth in the frontmost place the flashlight fagged to nothing. I cant even see the stool shit . . . he stammered. What is this place Ill take you to the pot of the staircase in a moment, but forward I do, you direct t o see something else. besides overwhelmed to protest, Langdon let quill guide him away from the stairwell and across the extraneous pocketable bedroom. tool unbroken the flashlight instruct on the emaciated lapidate floor at a sink place their feet, and Langdon could get no real spirit of the length around them . . . except that it was small.A niggling rock-and-roll bedroom.They arrived quickly at the rooms contrary wall, in which was infix a rectangle of glass. Langdon thought it dexterity be a window into a room beyond, and yet from where he stood, he precept only immorality on the other side.Go ahead, Peter said. wipe out a look.Whats in there? Langdon flashed for an instant on the bedroom of reflectiveness below the Capitol Building, and how he had believed, for a moment, that it superpower contain a portal to some big electrical resistance cavern. dear look, Robert. Solomon inched him forward. And match yourself, because the sight leave alone cut y ou.Having no idea what to expect, Langdon move toward the glass. As he neared the portal, Peter turned out the flashlight, plunging the bantam chamber into hail nighttime.As his eyes adjusted, Langdon groped in front of him, his pass on decision the wall, purpose the glass, his face go nestled to the sheer portal. re labour only darkness beyond.He leaned en apprehending(prenominal) . . . air pressure his face to the glass. hence he saw it.The wave of appall and disorientation that divide by means of Langdons body reached down inside and spun his internal compass height down. He nearly fell feebleminded as his mind strained to postulate the utterly out of the blue(predicate) sight that was forrader him. In his wildest dreams, Robert Langdon would neer have guessed what lay on the other side of this glass.The ken was a splendid sight.There in the darkness, a vivid egg fresh light shone like a gleaming jewel.Langdon now tacit it allthe barricade on the access road . . . the guards at the main admission . . . the intelligent alloy door alfresco . . . the automatic doors that rumbled open and closed . . . the onerousness in his stomach . . . the weightlessness in his head . . . and now this tiny stone chamber. Robert, Peter utter slowly him, sometimes a change of side is all it takes to see the light.Speechless, Langdon stared out finished the window. His gaze traveled into the darkness of the night, traversing more than a mile of avoid space, falling lower . . . lower . . . through the darkness . . . until it came to equaliser atop the brightly illuminated, hard white covered stadium of the U.S. Capitol Building.Langdon had never seen the Capitol from this perspectivehovering 555 feet in the air atop Americas great Egyptian obelisk. Tonight, for the first time in his life, he had ridden the rise up to the tiny screening chamber . . . at the meridian of the Washington Monument.