Angels Demons Chapter 15

1High on the means of the Pyramid of Giza a young lady snickered and called down to him. “Robert, pick up the pace! I realized I ought to have hitched a more youthful man!” Her grin was enchantment.He battled to keep up, yet his legs felt like stone. “Wait,” he asked. “Please…”As he climbed, his vision started to obscure. There was a roaring in his ears. I should contact her! Be that as it may, when he gazed upward once more, the lady had vanished. In her place stood an elderly person with decaying teeth. The man gazed intently at, twisting his lips into a desolate frown. At that point he let out a shout of anguish that reverberated over the desert.Robert Langdon arose with a beginning from his bad dream. The telephone alongside his bed was ringing. Bewildered, he got the recipient.“Hello?”“I'm searching for Robert Langdon,” a man's voice said.Langdon sat up in his unfilled bed and attempted to clear his psyche. “This… is Robert Langdon.” He squinted at his advanced clock. It was 5:18 A.M.“I must see you immediately.”“Who is this?”“My name is Maximilian Kohler. I'm a discrete molecule physicist.”“A what?” Langdon could scarcely center. “Are you sure you have the privilege Langdon?”“You're an educator of strict iconology at Harvard University. You've composed three books on symbology and †““Do you recognize what time it is?”“I apologize. I have something you have to see. I can't talk about it on the phone.”A realizing moan got away from Langdon's lips. This had occurred previously. One of the dangers of composing books about strict symbology was the calls from strict devotees who needed him to affirm their most recent sign from God. A month ago a stripper from Oklahoma had guaranteed Langdon the best sex of his life in the event that he would fly down and confirm the genuineness of a cruciform that had mysteriously showed up on her bed sheets. The Shroud of Tulsa, Langdon had called it.“How did you get my number?” Langdon attempted to be gracious, regardless of great importance.“On the Worldwide Web. The site for your book.”Langdon glared. He was damn certain his book's site did exclude his home telephone number. The man was clearly lying.“I need to see you,” the guest demanded. “I'll pay you well.”Presently Langdon was getting distraught. “I'm sorry, yet I truly †““If you leave quickly, you can be here by †““I'm not going anyplace! It's five o'clock in the morning!” Langdon hung up and fallen back in bed. He shut his eyes and attempted to fall back sleeping. It was no utilization. The fantasy was decorated in his psyche. Hesitantly, he put on his robe and went first floor.Robert Langdon meandered shoeless through his abandoned Massachusetts Victorian home and breast fed his custom sleep deprivation cure †a cup of steaming Nestle's Quik. The April moon sifted through the narrows windows and played on the oriental floor coverings. Langdon's associates regularly kidded that his place looked more like a human sciences exhibition hall than a home. His racks were stuffed with strict curios from around the globe †an ekuaba from Ghana, a gold cross from Spain, a cycladic icon from the Aegean, and even an uncommon woven boccus from Borneo, a youthful warrior's image of unending youth.As Langdon sat on his metal Maharishi's chest and enjoyed the glow of the chocolate, the inlet window got his appearance. The picture was contorted and pale… like an apparition. A maturing phantom, he thought, cold-bloodedly reminded that his young soul was living in a human shell.In spite of the fact that not excessively attractive from a traditional perspective, the forty-five-year-old Langdon had what his female associates alluded to as a “erudite” request †wisps of dim in his thick earthy colored hair, examining blue eyes, an arrestingly profound voice, and the solid, lighthearted grin of a university competitor. A varsity jumper in private academy and school, Langdon still had the body of a swimmer, a conditioned, six-foot body that he cautiously kept up with fifty laps per day in the college pool.Langdon's companions had consistently seen him as a touch of a conundrum †a man got between hundreds of years. On ends of the week he could be seen relaxing on the quad in Levis, talking about PC designs or strict history with understudies; different occasions he could be seen in his Harris tweed and paisley vest, shot in the pages of upscale workmanship magazines at historical center openings where he had been approached to address.Albeit an intense educator and exacting drill sergeant, Langdon was the first to hold onto what he hailed as the “lost craft of good clean fun.” He savored diversion with an irresistible zeal that had earned him a congenial acknowledgment among his understudies. His grounds epithet †“The Dolphin” †was a reference both to his friendly nature and his incredible capacity to plunge into a pool and outsmart the whole contradicting crew in a water polo coordinate.As Langdon sat alone, absently looking into the dimness, the quiet of his house was broken once more, this time by the ring of his fax machine. Too depleted to be in any way irritated, Langdon constrained a worn out laugh.God's kin, he thought. 2,000 years of sitting tight for their Messiah, they're as yet determined as hellfire.Tediously, he restored his unfilled mug to the kitchen and strolled gradually to his oak-framed investigation. The approaching fax lay in the plate. Murmuring, he gathered up the paper and took a gander at it.In a flash, a flood of sickness hit him.The picture on the page was that of a human cadaver. The body had been stripped bare, and its head had been contorted, confronting totally in reverse. On the casualty's chest was an awful consume. The man had been branded… engraved with a solitary word. It was a word Langdon knew well. Great. He gazed at the lavish lettering in dismay.Holy messengers and Demons“Illuminati,” he stammered, his heart beating. It can't be…In moderate movement, scared of what he was going to observe, Langdon pivoted the fax 180 degrees. He took a gander at the word topsy turvy.In a split second, the breath left him. It resembled he had been hit by a truck. Scarcely ready to accept his eyes, he turned the fax once more, perusing the brand straight up and afterward topsy turvy.“Illuminati,” he murmured.Shocked, Langdon fallen in a seat. He sat a second in absolute bewilderment. Step by step, his eyes were attracted to the squinting red light on his fax machine. Whoever had sent this fax was still on the line… holding back to talk. Langdon looked at the flickering light quite a while.At that point, trembling, he got the beneficiary.2“Do I have your consideration now?” the man's voice said when Langdon at long last addressed the line.“Yes, sir, you damn well do. You need to clarify yourself?”“I attempted to let you know before.” The voice was inflexible, mechanical. “I'm a physicist. I run an exploration office. We've had a homicide. You saw the body.”“How did you find me?” Langdon could scarcely center. His psyche was hustling from the picture on the fax.“I as of now let you know. The Worldwide Web. The site for your book, The Art of the Illuminati.”Langdon attempted to accumulate his musings. His book was for all intents and purposes obscure in standard abstract circles, yet it had grown a significant after on-line. Regardless, the guest's case despite everything had neither rhyme nor reason. “That page has no contact information,” Langdon tested. “I'm sure of it.”“I have individuals here at the lab extremely capable at extricating client data from the Web.”Langdon was wary. “Sounds like your lab knows a great deal about the Web.”“We should,” the man terminated back. “We created it.”Something in the man's voice revealed to Langdon he was not kidding.“I must see you,” the guest demanded. “This is certainly not an issue we can talk about on the telephone. My lab is just an hour's departure from Boston.”Langdon remained in the diminish light of his examination and dissected the fax in his grasp. The picture was overwhelming, conceivably speaking to the epigraphical find of the century, a time of his exploration affirmed in a solitary image.“It's urgent,” the voice compelled.Langdon's eyes were bolted on the brand. Illuminati, he read again and again. His work had consistently been founded on what might be compared to fossils †old records and chronicled noise †yet this picture before him was today. Current state. He felt like a scientist encountering a living dinosaur.“I've ventured to send a plane for you,” the voice said. “It will be in Boston in twenty minutes.”Langdon felt his mouth go dry. An hour's flight…“Please excuse my presumption,” the voice said. “I need you here.”Langdon took a gander at the fax †an old fantasy affirmed clearly. The suggestions were startling. He looked absently through the inlet window. The main trace of day break was filtering through the birch trees in his terrace, yet the view looked by one way or another diverse at the beginning of today. As an odd blend of dread and thrill settled over him, Langdon realized he had no way out.“You win,” he said. “Tell me where to meet the plane.”3A great many miles away, two men were meeting. The chamber was dull. Medieval. Stone.“Benvenuto,” the man in control said. He was situated in the shadows, far out. “Were you successful?”“Si,” the dull figure answered. “Perfectamente.” His words were as hard as the stone dividers.“And there will be no uncertainty who is responsible?”“None.”“Superb. Do you have what I asked for?”The executioner's eyes sparkled, dark like oil. He delivered an overwhelming electronic gadget and set it on the ta