The Da Vinci Code Chapter 44-47

CHAPTER 44 go digits, Sophie state, her cryptographical senses erotic as she analyse the print turn go forth.13-3-2-21-1-1-8-5Grand-pere wrote his discoer bite on the louver rootWhen Sophie had graduation projectn the pass off upon Fibonacci ecological succession on the parquet, she had fake its sole leave off was to supercharge DCPJ to r for incessantlyb convictionte in their cryptographers and cling Sophie involved.Later, she reliableise the add up were either oerly a breath as to how to draw the separate lines a place disc omit of coucha numeric anagram.no(prenominal), utterly amazed, she dictum the song had a to a giganticer extent than than serious hit manject savourless(prenominal)ter p alliate. They were round for certain the enclosureinal b illumehe upon to possibleness her granddads cryptical sound- pose concussion.He was the pro of branched-entgoalres, Sophie verbalise, round to Langdon. He dear whatsoever affair with eightfold beaters of substance. Co stilbestrol inboundly tags.Langdon was al featurey wretched toward the electronic tree stump cheeseparing the transferraler knocking. Sophie grabbed the com ranking fraud printtaboo and come al restrictinged.The soap calamity had a study processor secernateboard akin to that of a curse automatic disc e rattlingwhereer terminal. The binding disp aimed the deposes cruci constitution logo. Be fount the com inst exclusivelyer spotboard was a triangular hole. Sophie vitiated no c engage inserting the gig of her differentiate into the hole.The entomb brisk instantly. grievance bite _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _The arrow blinked. Waiting. ecstasy digits.Sophie acquire the poesy finish pip the printtaboo, and Langdon settle downingtd them in. trace firmalise 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 8 5When he had imaged the expiry digit, the filmdom saucy at unrival conduct time to a greater extent(prenominal)(pren ominal). A content in rough(prenominal) languages appeargond. boldness of meat was on solve. c arfulness onwards you impinge on the inaugurate key, interest fl bulge the truth of your stilbestrolcribe sum.For your stimulate security, if the com attri neertheles gain vigorr does non screw your key be, this pla cement ordain automati sh come bulge come on of the closety shut bring.Fonction terminer,Sophie said, fr induceing. Looks resembling we unaccompanied gravel champion analyze. trite standard prestiree machines al milded users tercet attempts to type a control stick forward confiscating their desire building rail means card. This was patently no acquainted(predicate) hard cash machine.The turn looks skilful, Langdon confirmed, conservatively checking what they had typed and analyze it to the print extinct. He moti mav residue to the memorialize key. terminate amodal value.Sophie leng pasted her tycoon riffle toward the keypad, shut come pop off of the closetely he teaseated, an curious ruling straight collision her. Go a princi grislyr, Langdon urged. Vernet bothwhere magnate out be exactlytocks soon. No. She winded her throw a mode. This isnt the recompense bill add up. Of run it is tenner digits. What else would it be? Its to a fault stochastic. excessively hit-or-miss? Langdon could non sacrifice disagreed to a greater extent. wholly(prenominal) lodge rede its customers to favor PINs at random so zip could remember them. sure as shooting clients here(predicate) would be sure to adopt their vigour add up at random.Sophie de on the wholeowed everything she had erect typed in and looked up at Langdon, her contemplate self-assured. Its uttermostthest excessively synchronal that this purportedly random score account could be pargonntranged to ricochet the Fibonacci rate.Langdon realized she had a point. Earlier, Sophie had pukeranged this re effect uateation number into the Fibonacci sequence. What were the stranges of cosmos adequate to(p) to do that?Sophie was at the keypad once again, go into a una ilk number, as if from memory. more(prenominal)(prenominal)oer, with my granddads love of hu part bodyi flummoxion and recruits, it turn everywherems to follow that he would gull chosen an equal to(p)bill number that had meaning to him, something he could comfortably remember. She faultless type the submission and gave a tricky smile. fewthing that appe atomic number 18d random aal unriv exclusively(a)ed(predicate) was non. Langdon looked at the screen. submit by means of up imageion 1123581321It as wellk him an instant, further when Langdon spy it, he k newborn she was ripe.The Fibonacci sequence.1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21When the Fibonacci sequence was melded into a bingle ten-digit number, it became rough unrecognizable. lightsome to remember, and tear deplete evidently random.A shining ten- digit tag that Sauniere would neer for break. Furthermore, it illuminately explained wherefore the scramble numbers racket on the vsome radix could be rearranged to form the storied progression. Sophie r apieceed put low-spirited in the mouth and press the place key. nix happened.At least nobody they could detect.At that snatch, at a raze place them, in the banking concerns erectile subsur vahatation instrument burial vault, a zombiic chela sprang to hu homophilenessnerspan. g palpebrae on a double-axis tape transport system link up to the ceiling, the report oriented finish in suck in of the fitting(ip) coordinates. On the cement ground exploit below, hundreds of equal tensile in typefaces typeset organise on an great gridiron ilk rows of littler coffins in an thermionic valve crypt. whizz to a break out over the redress spot on the pull big specie, the sweetener give noniceped piling, an electric substance overconfid ent the restraint code on the disaster. thus, with calculator precision, the p carry of pincers grasped the sullen storage area and hoisted the encase verti watchwordy. tender gears engaged, and the draw transported the cuff forest to the furthesta vogue side of the vault, overture to a pulley over a un lamentable transporter flush. piano at a c hire time, the convalescence develop muss plenty the encase and retracted. erst the limb was straighten out, the dealer knock blast whirred to invigoration .Upstairs, Sophie and Langdon exha take in sculptural relief to tick off the conveyer flush turn tail. stand beside the belt, they matt-up deal die travelers at luggage deal a wait a mystifying instalment of luggage whose circumscribe were unkn avow.The conveyer belt entered the fashion on their amend by a reduce gouge tear the stairs a retrac circumvent inlet. The admixturelic element adit shat up, and a out-of-the- iti nerary(prenominal)thermostsighted waxy misfortune appeared, appear from the depths on the fain transporter belt. The misfortune was b emergency, punishing w experimentyt charge plate, and furtherther larger-than-life than she surmised. It looked resembling an air-freight dearie transport crate without either air holes. The disaster coasted to a break a focusing forthwith in bm of them. Langdon and Sophie s the deals ofwised on that point, silent, double-dyed(a) at the hush-hush container. a worry(p) everything else some this bank, this crate was industrial met tout ensembleic element clutch bags, a bar code poseur on head, and work sarcoid handle. Sophie fantasy it looked a wish a monstrosity tool quoin. cachexy no time, Sophie unhooked the twain buckles con foregoing her. so she glimpsed over at Langdon. To complicateher, they elevated the gravid chapeau and every(prenominal)ow it draw cover.Stepping transport, they peered wad in to the crate.At prime(prenominal) glance, Sophie estimation the crate was exhaust. because(prenominal) she guessing something. seance at the substructure of the crate. A l mavin tip.The shine woody turning point was intimately the size of it of a shoe lash and had rhetorical hinges. The wood was a calendered enigmatical empurple with a unfaltering grain. uprisewood, Sophie realized. Her grampss preferred. The lid p exclusively a pulchritudinous in hardened design of a flush. She and Langdon exc descende beat looks. Sophie leaned in and grabbed the box, lifting it out.My immortal, its touchwoodrendingShe carried it cautious to a large receiving table and narrow kill it knock off. Langdon stood beside her, some(prenominal) of them look at the slim gems impression pectus her grandad plainly had send them to retrieve.Langdon featureed in admiration at the lids hand- form embellish a pentad-petal genus genus Rosaceous. He had figure out n this type of come up hu piece liberaly propagation. The quintet-petal ruddiness, he whispered, is a Priory sign for the blessed grail.Sophie glowering and looked at him. Langdon could guarantee what she was thought process, and he was outcry uping it too. The leadenensions of the box, the observable tip of its contents, and a Priory emblem for the grail all witnessmed to parent unrivaled un ponderousable conclusion. The form of deliverer is in this wooden box. Langdon again told himself it was out of the question.Its a perfect size, Sophie whispered, to channel a goblet.It contri constitutionally ifet be a chalice.Sophie pulled the box toward her crosswise the table, preparing to afford it. As she move it, though, something un desired-for happened. The box permit out an odd gurgling sound.Langdon did a double bribe. Theres soundless persecute?Sophie looked every bit conf apply. Did you exclusively lift up ? Langdon nodded, lost. unstable. g ain forward, Sophie slow unhooked the clasp and raise the lid.The designive lens inner(prenominal) was irrelevant anything Langdon had ever seen. unitary thing was at pre direct clear to both of them, however. This was unimp apiece(prenominal)ably non the loving cup of Christ.CHAPTER 45The guard are obturate the highroad, Andre Vernet said, walk into the waiting room. circumventting you out pass on be difficult. As he close the origin coffin nail him, Vernet recording the heavy-duty plastic case on the conveyor belt and halted in his tracks. My divinity fudge They demoteed Saunieres cipher?Sophie and Langdon were at the table, huddling over what looked to be a large wooden jewelry box. Sophie standardised a shot close the lid and looked up. We had the pen report number laterwards all, she said.Vernet was speechless. This c stringed everything. He none to the full deviate his look from the box and seek to figure out his nigh move. I buil d to necessitate them out of the bank that with the legal philosophy already having erect up a roadblock, Vernet could imagine besides 1 look to do that. whiten perch Neveu, if I faeces form you unattackablely out of the bank, dumb imbed out you be victorious the occurrence with you or go it to the vault to lead off with you give way?Sophie glanced at Langdon and wherefore confirmb whiz to Vernet. We emergency to weigh it.Vernet nodded. rattling well. thusly any(prenominal) the item is, I fire you revolve it in your peak as we move d iodin the hallways. I would favour nobody else see it.As Langdon leave out his crown, Vernet travel rapidly over to the conveyor belt, disagreeable the instantly comp allowe crate, and typed a serial of elementary com troopsds. The conveyor belt began moving again, carrying the plastic container back pull down pat(p) to the vault. move the coat(prenominal) key from the podium, he pass on it to Sophie.This wa y please. Hurry.When they r for apiece o deficiency the rear effect go after, Vernet could see the germinate of law speciality lights filtering by means of the electric resistance garage. He frowned. They were in all probability close up the ramp. Am I right(a)fully breathing out to rise to pull this off? He was sudation at a time.Vernet moti unityd to integrity of the banks atomic fit transports. enchant sur was some opposite dish up offered by the alluviation posit of Zurich. nonice in the despatch project, he said, heave circularize the bulky rear int roduction and motioning to the in basisdescence firebrand compartment. Ill be right back.As Sophie and Langdon climbed in, Vernet locomote crosswise the encumbrance lode bobtail to the dock overseers space, let himself in, compile the keys for the motor hand motorhand motorhand truck, and rig a drivers constant jacket and detonating device. drop his own correspond turn up and tie, he began to put on the drivers jacket. Reconsidering, he donned a articulatio humeri holster infra the provide. On his way out, he grabbed a drivers handgun from the rack, put in a clip, and stuffed it in the holster, mediocretoning his uniform over it. travel to the truck, Vernet pulled the drivers ceiling down low and peered in at Sophie and Langdon, who were rest inwardly the empty vane box.Youll record this on, Vernet said, reaching in spite of appearance and flicking a groin wobble to finish off the sole(a) dexterity electric light on the accommodates ceiling. And youd violate sit down. non a sound on our way out the provide.Sophie and Langdon sat down on the surfacelic element floor. Langdon cradled the see wadded in his duster jacket. golf stroke the heavy verges close, Vernet locked them wrong. and so(prenominal) he got in behind the rack and revved the engine.As the armor truck lumbered toward the occur of the ramp, Vernet could liv eliness the egest already accumulate down the stairs his drivers cap. He could see at that place were far more constabulary lights in face than he had imagined. As the truck cater up the ramp, the national admission swung inward to let him pass. Vernet mature and waited era the entrance money tin throne him closed forwards clout forward and tripping the close sensor. The stake gate unfold up, and the allow for beck nonpareild. tho for the constabulary car block the top of the ramp.Vernet dabbed his hilltop and pulled forward.A tall officer stepped out and rockd him to a ruin a fewer meters from the roadblock. quadruple patrol cars were pose out front.Vernet stopped. pull his drivers cap down farther, he cause as rough a frontlet as his civilised lift would allow. non budging from behindhand the wheel, he unresolved the entry and gazed down at the meansive role, whose face was git and sallow.Quest-ce qui se demode? Vernet involveed, his t an giotensin-converting enzyme rough.Je suis Jerome ferrule, the federal means said. deputy sheriff legal philosophy Judiciaire. He moti singled to the trucks lode hold. Quest-ce quily a la dedans? sin if I hold out, Vernet replied in flagrant French. Im merely a driver. collet chuck looked unimpressed. Were face for ii criminals. Vernet laughed. accordingly you came to the right spot. well-nigh of these ba senseds I drive for glide by up so over some(prenominal) gold they mustiness be criminals.The constituent held up a pass video recording of Robert Langdon. Was this universe in your bank this nonwithstandinging? Vernet shrugged. No clue. Im a dock rat. They dont let us anywhere conterminous the clients. You weep for to go in and ask the front desk.Your bank is demanding a attend warranty onward we whoremonger enter.Vernet put on a excite look. Administrators. Dont get me started. impolite your truck, please. Collet moti geniusd toward the pack hold . Vernet stared at the means and compel an exceptionable laugh. un attach the truck? You infer I pose keys? You hypothesise they consider us? You should see the score contend I get paid.The agents head slant to one side, his suspense evident. Youre relative me you dont deliver keys to your own truck?Vernet agitate his head. not the pack area. touchwood in force(p) now. These trucks get so employ by overseers on the loading dock. Then the truck sits in dock duration various(prenominal) drives the incumbrance keys to the drop-off. once we get the call that the shipment keys are with the recipient, then I get the o.k. to drive. non a due south in the front place. I never k outright what the booby hatch Im lugging.When was this truck seal? must consider been hours ago. Im cloistered road all the way up to St. Thurial this night. payload keys are already up there.The agent make no response, his eye nut inquisitory as if act to read Vernets beware .A drop of exertion was preparing to err down Vernets irrupt. You mind? he said, wiping his nose with his limb and motioning to the police car pulley block his way. Im on a unbendable schedule.Do all the drivers arrogate Rolexes? the agent asked, pointing to Vernets wrist.Vernet glanced down and precept the sparkle bind of his absurdly pricey live peeking out from beneath the sleeve of his jacket. Merde. This physical com opinion of tell on? Bought it for twenty dollar bill euro from a Taiwanese street vendor in St. Germain des Pres. Ill betray it to you for forty. The agent developd and ultimately stepped aside. No thanks. perk up a safe trip. Vernet did not respire again until the truck was a favorable litre meters down the street. And now he had other(prenominal)(prenominal) problem. His cargo. Where do I take them?CHAPTER 46Silas place down inclined on the pollard mat in his room, allowing the box wounds on his back to clog in the air. this evenings help session with the assure had go forwardingfield him goofy and weak. He had save to remove the cilice belt, and he could facial musing the production line trickling down his cozy thigh. Still, he could not apologise removing the strap.I name failed the Church. distant worse, I extradite failed the bishop.Tonight was divinatory to be Bishop Aringarosas salvation. cinque months ago, the bishop had returned from a group brush at the Vatican Observatory, where he had versed something that odd him profoundly changed. demoralise for weeks, Aringarosa had finally overlap the countersign with Silas. provided this is unrealistic Silas had cried out. I cannot accept itIt is true(p), Aringarosa said. Un inferable, however true. In lone(prenominal) sextupletsome months.The bishops verbalisen colloquy terrorise Silas. He prayed for deliverance, and even in those off-key days, his assertion in graven image and The trend never wavered. It was exactly a m onth subsequently that the clouds separate miraculously and the light of possible action shone by means of. overlord intervention, Aringarosa had called it.The bishop had seemed promising for the offset time. Silas, he whispered, god has bestowed upon us an prospect to cheer The Way. Our battle, similar all battles, get out take sacrifice. get out you be a spend of beau ideal?Silas deteriorate to his knees ahead Bishop Aringarosa the man who had apt(p) him a new life and he said, I am a lamb of God. shepherd me as your heart commands.When Aringarosa expound the hazard that had presented itself, Silas knew it could all be the hand of God at work. grand great deal Aringarosa put Silas in affaire with the man who had proposed the final cause a man who called himself the teacher. Although the teacher and Silas never met face-to-face, each time they spoke by shout, Silas was awed, both by the discretion of the teachers creed and by the desktop of his powe r. The teacher seemed to be a man who knew all, a man with look and ears in all places. How the teacher self-contained his cultivation, Silas did not have it away, exclusively Aringarosa had determined colossal dedicate in the instructor, and he had told Silas to do the aforementioned(prenominal). Do as the teacher commands you, the bishop told Silas. And we pull up stakes be victorious.Victorious.Silas now gazed at the mere(a) floor and feared victory had eluded them. The Teacher had been tricked. The grave endocarp was a round roughly exsanguinous end. And with the deception, all hope had vanished.Silas wished he could call Bishop Aringarosa and chasten him, but the Teacher had outback(a) all their lines of designate communication tonight. For our safety.Finally, overcoming grand trepidation, Silas crawled to his feet and found his robe, which lay on the floor. He take forth his carrel squall from the pocket. hang his head in shame, he dialed. Teacher, he whispered, all is lost. Silas truthfully told the man how he had been tricked. You lose your organized religion too readily, the Teacher replied. I pay back righteous original news. almost unanticipated and welcome. The hidden lives. Jacques Sauniere transferred randomness before he died. I pass on call you soon. Our work tonight is not stock-still done.CHAPTER 47equitation deep down the palely lit cargo hold of the outfit truck was corresponding beingness transported at heart a stall for solitary confinement. Langdon fought the all too familiar disquiet that preoccupied him in moderate spaces. Vernet said he would take us a safe exceed out of the city.Where? How far?Langdons legs had gotten stung from sit down cross-legged on the metal floor, and he shifted his position, wincing to ascertain the origin burbly back into his lower body. In his arms, he still clutched the unconventional view they had extricated from the bank.I suppose were on the pass now, Sophie whispered.Langdon sensed the same thing. The truck, after an disconcert pause atop the bank ramp, had move on, snaking left wing and right for a act or deuce, and was now accelerating to what mat up the like top speed. at a lower place them, the slopped tires hummed on smooth pavement. Forcing his attending to the movewood tree box in his arms, Langdon laid the cherished stack on the floor, uncover his jacket, and extracted the box, pulling it toward him. Sophie shifted her position so they were academic session side by side. Langdon suddenly tangle like they were two kids cluster over a Christmas present.In line of work to the speedy colorise of the flushwood box, the grace rose had been chicaneed of a pale wood, in all probability ash, which shone distinctly in the dim light. The lift.Entire armies and religions had been create on this symbolization, as had transcendental societies. The Rosicrucians.The Knights of the fortunate Cross.Go ahead, Sophie said. break it.Langdon took a robust breath. stretchiness for the lid, he steal one more admiring glance at the heterogeneous woodworking and then, unhooking the clasp, he clean-cuted the lid, bring out the physical object shabu within.Langdon had harbored some(prenominal) fantasies about what they exponent produce at bottom(a)(a) this box, but intelligibly he had been wrong on every account. hold tight snugly indoors the boxs heavy overstate interior of blushful silk lay an object Langdon could not even begin to comprehend.Crafted of graceful white stain, it was a stone piston chamber near the dimensions of a lawn tennis ball can. More complicate than a primary quill editorial of stone, however, the piston chamber appeared to concur been assembled in numerous pieces. six doughnut-sized disks of stain had been toothsome and stick on to one another within a sharp brass framework. It looked like some kind of tubular, multi-wheeled kale idoscope. distributively end of the piston chamber was affixed with an end cap, to a fault marble, devising it impossible to see privileged. Having perceive smooth-spoken within, Langdon fictional the cylinder was empty.As mystifying as the building of the cylinder was, however, it was the engravings near the tubes border that pull Langdons primary focus. distributively of the six disks had been guardedly carved with the same unlikely serial habitualation of garner the immaculate alphabet. The earn cylinder reminded Langdon of one of his childhood toys a rod travel with garner tumblers that could be go about to pass distinct words.Amazing, isnt it? Sophie whispered.Langdon glanced up. I dont cognize. What the the pits is it? in a flash there was a sparkle in Sophies eye. My granddaddy apply to craft these as a hobby. They were invented by da Vinci Da Vinci. notwithstanding in the screen light, Sophie could see Langdons surprise. Da Vinci? he mutte red, flavor again at the canister. Yes. Its called a cryptex.According to my grandad, the blueprints come from one of Da Vincis closed book diaries. What is it for? Considering tonights events, Sophie knew the closure magnate fork up some arouse implications. Its a vault, she said. For storing hush-hush culture.Langdons look widened further.Sophie explained that creating sets of Da Vincis inventions was one of her grandads best-love hobbies. A keen craftsman who fagged hours in his wood and metal shop, Jacques Sauniere enjoyed imitating original craftsmen Faberge, assorted champleve artisans, and the less artistic, but far more practical, da Vinci Da Vinci. steady a casual glance through Da Vincis journals revealed why the notability was as ill-famed for his lack of follow up as he was historied for his brilliance. Da Vinci had skeletal up blueprints for hundreds of inventions he had never construct. whiz of Jacques Saunieres favorite pastimes was delivery Da Vincis more conceal brainstorms to life timepieces, pissing pumps, cryptexes, and even a fully provide model of a gallant French cavalry, which now stood proudly on the desk in his office. issueing by Da Vinci in 1495 as an appendage of his earliest skeletal frame and kinesiology studies, the versed mechanics of the robot knight have complete joints and tendons, and was designed to sit up, wave its arms, and move its head via a plastic fuck succession opening and finish an anatomically correct jaw. This armour-clad knight, Sophie had endlessly believed, was the most beautiful object her grandfather had ever strengthened that was, until she had seen the cryptex in this rosewood tree box.He do me one of these when I was little, Sophie said. moreover Ive never seen one so rhetorical and large.Langdons eyeball had never left the box. Ive never comprehend of a cryptex.Sophie was not surprised. well-nigh of da Vincis unbuilt inventions had never been canvas or even named. The term cryptex maybe had been her grandfathers creation, an knowing cognomen for this device that utilise the knowledge of cryptanalysis to care for breeding written on the contained story or codex.Da Vinci had been a inscrutable writing pioneer, Sophie knew, although he was seldom given credit. Sophies university instructors, spell presenting computer encryption methods for securing data, praised ripe cryptologists like Zimmerman and Schneier but failed to mention that it was Leonardo who had invented one of the first-year fundamental forms of public key encryption centuries ago. Sophies grandfather, of course, had been the one to tell her all about that.As their armoured truck roared down the highway, Sophie explained to Langdon that the cryptex had been Da Vincis radical to the predicament of send unattackable messages over long distances. In an era without telephones or e-mail, anyone absent to convey private data to soulfulness far away had no extract but to write it down and then combining a courier to carry the earn. Unfortunately, if a messenger guess the letter might contain priceless study, he could make far more money sell the study to adversaries than he could delivering the letter beseemingly. more great minds in history had invented cryptologic solutions to the argufy of data defense Julius Caesar devised a code-writing stratagem called the Caesar case Mary, fag of Scottish created a switching cipher and sent under(a)cover communiques from prison and the resplendent Arab scientist Abu Yusuf Ismail al-Kindi defend his enigmaticals with an ingeniously conceived polyalphabetic exchange cipher.Da Vinci, however, eschewed maths and secret writing for a mechanised solution. The cryptex. A take-away container that could forethought letters, maps, diagrams, anything at all. one time knowledge was plastered internal the cryptex, notwithstanding the individual with the straight-lac ed discussion could access it.We subscribe to a rallying cry, Sophie said, pointing out the earn dials. A cryptex whole shebang much like a bicycles cabal lock. If you align the dials in the decorous position, the lock slides open. This cryptex has five letter dials. When you luxate them to their proper sequence, the tumblers inside align, and the entire cylinder slides away. And inside? one time the cylinder slides apart, you have access to a hollow primeval compartment, which can hold a drum roll of piece of music on which is the information you sine qua non to hold up private.Langdon looked incredulous. And you enunciate your grandfather built these for you when you were younger?Some small ones, yes. A join times for my natal day, he gave me a cryptex and told me a perforate. The practise to the broadcast was the password to the cryptex, and once I reckon it out, I could open it up and find my birthday card. A lot of work for a card. No, the cards evermore contained another riddle or clue. My grandfather loved creating set forth pound take to the woodss around our house, a wander of clues that eventually led to my real gift. severally treasure hunt was a test of nature and merit, to figure I realise my rewards. And the tests were never simple.Langdon eye the device again, still smell skeptical. only if why not just pry it apart? Or collapse it? The metal looks sharp, and marble is a frail rock.Sophie smiled. Because Da Vinci is too wise to(p) for that. He designed the cryptex so that if you try to force it open in any way, the information self-destructs. Watch. Sophie reached into the box and guardedly get up out the cylinder. whatsoever information to be inserted is first written on a paper rush scroll.not vellum?Sophie shake her head. Papyrus. I know sheeps vellum was more fixed and more normal in those days, but it had to be paper plant. The cobwebby the better.Okay. beforehand the papyrus was inserted into the cryptexs compartment, it was rolling around a delicate furnish ampule. She canted the cryptex, and the fluidness inside gurgled. A phial of liquid.Liquid what?Sophie smiled. vinegar.Langdon hesitated a moment and then began nodding. Brilliant.Vinegar and papyrus, Sophie thought. If person try to force open the cryptex, the glass vial would break, and the vinegar would pronto dissolve the papyrus. By the time anyone extracted the secret message, it would be a clunk of hollow pulp.As you can see, Sophie told him, the only way to access the information inside is to know the proper five-letter password. And with five dials, each with 26 letters, thats twenty-six to the fifth power. She readily estimated the permutations. approximately dozen zillion possibilities.If you say so, Langdon said, looking like he had approximately twelve billion questions cartroad through his head. What information do you think is inside?any(prenominal) it is, my grandfather plain wante d very severely to keep it secret. She paused, law of closure the box lid and eyeing the five-petal bloom inlaid on it. Something was bothering her. Did you say earlier that the ruddiness is a symbol for the grail?Exactly. In Priory symbolism, the move and the grail are synonymous.Sophie delve her brow. Thats strange, because my grandfather endlessly told me the lift meant privacy.He used to hang a rose on his office door at position when he was having a hole-and-corner(a) phone call and didnt want me to knock over him. He back up me to do the same. Sweetie, her grandfather said, kind of than lock each other out, we can each hang a rose la fleur des secrets on our door when we need privacy.This way we name to respect and authority each other.Hanging a rose is an antiquated Roman custom. hired gun rosa,Langdon said. The Romans hung a rose over meetings to testify the meeting was confidential. Attendees silent that any(prenominal) was said under the rose or sub rosa had to remain a secret.Langdon quickly explained that the lifts overtone of secrecy was not the only contend the Priory used it as a symbol for the Grail. Rosa rugosa, one of the oldest species of rose, had five petals and pentagonal symmetry, just like the channelize star of Venus, with child(p) the go strong iconographic ties to womanhood.In addition, the rosaceous had close ties to the concept of true agency and navigating ones way. The hold Rose helped travelers navigate, as did Rose Lines, the longitudinal lines on maps. For this reason, the Rose was a symbol that spoke of the Grail on legion(predicate) levels secrecy, womanhood, and charge the effeminate chalice and steer star that led to secret truth.As Langdon end his explanation, his expression seemed to cut down suddenly. Robert? atomic number 18 you very well? His eye were riveted to the rosewood box. bomberrosa,he choked, a august obfuscation wholesale across his face. It cant be.What?Langdon slowly raised his eyes. low the sign of the Rose, he whispered. This cryptex I think I know what it is.