Langdon felt inside the dim cargo compartment of this armored truck
It's like he's being transported in the cell of a prison car that takes him into individuality. A thigh fights against the familiar sense of tension that it controls when it's trapped indoors Vernet said it would take us to a safe destination outside the city. But to where? How far away is that
Place?
I clawed a man to Langdon from sitting on the metal floor, and he changed his position.
He quickly returned his torso to feel the blood flowing back down his body, still clinging to his arms on the strange treasure they had freed him from hiding in the bank.
I think we're on the freeway now.
Langdon felt the same way. After the dangerous truck stops at the outside plumber gate,
It moved forward and twisted its way for a short moment, then set off and accelerated to what seemed to be top speed. Bulletproof tires hummed down on the smooth street, cutting off shreds and calling attention to the rosewood box he was holding in his arms. He then placed the fat bag on the floor of the compartment, unwrapped his jacket, removed the box and pulled it to him. Sophie changed her session and they were sitting side by side. Langdon suddenly felt like two children, flying over a Christmas present
The rose on the box was carved from a dull wood, unlike
The jets that printed the box of rosewood, probably from the elm that clearly lit it under the dim light, the rose... It was the symbol of many powerful armies and religions, as well as the emblem of secret societies. Like the Rosecrucians... The Pink Knights of the Cross
"Ha." Sophie said, "Open it?"
Langdon took a deep breath and reached out to the cover, looking again with undisguised admiration
To the intricate wood trim and then to the clamps and open the lid and reveal what's inside.
Lagoon had scrawled his imagination out to try to get what he might find in
This box, but it's been wrong every time. He lay inside the box with a thick, pink silk coating, something that Langdon does not know, and has never seen in his life.
THIS THING WAS A ROCK CYLINDER MADE OF METABOLIC MARBLE THE SIZE OF A CAN
Tess balls, almost. However, this cylinder was not merely a stone shaft, but appeared to have been collected from pieces. Five halon-sized marble cake cylinders were stacked on top, some had a thin brass frame attached to them, they looked like a multi-layered tube mold and covered both the cylinder head and the bottom with a marble so that it was impossible to see what was inside the cylinder. Since Langdon heard a liquid sound coming from it, the cylinder should be hollow from the input
As intriguing as the installation of the float was, the engravings that were inscribed on
It's the cylinders that caught Lagoon's attention first. On each cylinder, he drilled the random character set, which included all the letters of the alphabet. And this letter CD reminded him of one of his childhood toys, which was a column that described loops, with spinning letters that form different words. It's amazing, isn't it?" Sophie whispered.
The footnotes looked at him, "I know. What kind of thing is this?
"When I glinted Sophie's eyes, my grandfather used to make such things with his hands as a way
Hobbies. It is one of Leonardo's inventions." Even under this dim light, Sophie could see the amazement on Langdon 's face.Dr. Effcey, Langdon muttered once again at the box
Yeah, it's called Kretics. And according to my grandfather, the Cretx schematics
"It was taken from Davichi's secret diary.
What's the point?
Looking at the events of this night, Sophie thought the answer to this question might be borne in.
It has important implications. "It's a safe," Sophie said. To keep confidential information, Langdon's eyes widened even more.
Sophie explained to him how one of her grandfathers favorite hobbies was making models of
Pick Da Vinci's Lives, Sounir Vana was a gifted jellymaker who used to spend many hours in his luminosity and timber shop, and enjoyed the tradition of the great artist Fabergier, some of the sophisticated stylist artists - Cuazone, and the most practical and aesthetic of Leonardo da Vinci, and a glimpse into the memoir of the great Da Vinci shows how he was known not to follow his work as much as he is famous for his brilliant genius. He made diagrams of inventions he never made. The most amusing of Sauneier's glik was the resurrecting to life of Da Vinci's most mysterious and brilliant ideas, from watches, water pumps, and krityx, to a perfectly detailed model. The complete medieval French knight now standing high on the table in his office, designed by Da Vinci in 1495, was the result of his studies of anatomy and motion. The internal mechanism of the implant was well made joints and tendons; it was designed to perform movements such as standing and sitting, moving its arms and head with a scalable neck, and was able to open and close its mouth with an anatomically shaped jaw in the legs. And Sophie always thought this armor knight was the most beautiful thing her grandfather had ever done... That was before Allah. To see the carpets in this box of rosewood he made me such a cartex when I was little, "said Sophie," But I didn't know.
"My life, any Kretx, holds such magnificent decorations, and so big, Langdon's eyes hung in the box all the time. I've never heard a thing called
Crabbits.
Sophie was not surprised. Most of Leonardo's inventions that haven't been applied to land
The fact that it remained on the chart was not studied until it was called Never. The term kritx was probably invented by her grandfather. ITS AN APPROPRIATE NAME FOR THIS TOOL THAT USED CARBIOLOGY, THE CODE WRITING, TO PROTECT INFORMATION WRITTEN ON A ROLL OF PAPER OR THE MANUAL INSIDE IT
Davshi Randa was a cryptographer, Sophie knew it, but its rare
He recognized his merit in this field. Sophie's professors at the university, teaching her the cryptography that computers use to protect information, gave credit to modern cryptographers like Zimmerman and Schneyer, but they never mentioned it. Leonardo da Vinci, who had first laid the foundations and forms of cryptography centuries ago. It was of course Sophie's grandfather who told her. As their armored truck was being lost on the highway, Sophie explained
For Angdon, Clatex was the solution Da Vinci came to the dilemma of delivering a satellite safely over long distances. In an age where no phone or email was available, if you wanted to provide confidential information to someone away from you, you had no choice but to write that information down on paper and trust a messenger with the message. However, if the messenger suspects that the message contains valuable information, he can get much more money from selling it to adversaries. He will get more money from delivering the message to the desired person faithfully
The challenge is to come up with a way to protect confidential information. Violus Caesar, for example, amputated a system of scribes using symbols called the Caesar's Box, and Mary the Scottish Makewoman invented an alternative method of cryptography used in her secret correspondence from prison. And the brilliant Arab scientist Abu Yousif Ismail Al Kindi is the earliest ingenious multi-egide encryption to protect his secrets.
But Da Vinci replaced hypotheses and symbolic writing with a mechanical solution
He's the Kretex. It's a portable box that can store messages, maps, charts, anything at all. Once it says the information transmitted within the Tex, only the addressee, who has the correct password to unlock it, can open it. She needs the password, referring to the letters
On Chances. "The way carpetex works is very similar to the way the bicycle works, if the numbers on each of the metal stacks align and fall into place, when the lock is opened. The key of this is composed of five letters. When turned to the correct position, the locking blades line up and open the entire cylinder directly." What about inside the cylinder?
Once the drum has opened, inside you will find a hollow center tray, which may contain a roll of
"The paper had the secret information on it that you wanted to preserve. He said your grandfather made things like this for you when you were...
Small?
Yeah, except she was small. He made me one of those many times, in occasion.
My birthday. Where he gave me Carpetex and told me a riddle. And the answer to the puzzle was the secret code to unlock the Kreticus, and when we solve the puzzle, when I can unlock it, I find a card.
Congratulations on my birthday.
That's a lot of work to end up with just a card."
And isn't it just a card, it was carrying a riddle dunum or some other clue. My grandfather used to love that
Havia toys find a gift hidden somewhere around a house by means of a ladder.
From the evidence that finally leads me to my true gift, and the search has been a constant test of both joy and character to make sure I'm worthy.
His prizes, and his experiences have never been simple, have never tested Langdon again, still skeptical. But why can't they be disassembled?
Using a screwdriver? The metal looks thin and the marble is easy to break. I smiled at Sophie, "Da Vinci, you are too old to miss it. He's deafened the cricket.
"So that if someone tries to force it open in any way, the information is automatically destroyed, watch as Sophie reaches into the box and pulls out the cylinder very carefully. "The information on
It was written first on a roll of papyrus.
She didn't write on slavery?
Sophie banished her head. I know the sheepskin was more.
You're a mother in those days, but you had to use papyrus, the lighter the roll." That's better." OK.
BEFORE THE PYRAPYER WAS EVACUATED INSIDE THE KRETEX, IT WAS WRAPPED AROUND A FLASK
Thin glass." She tapped the carpettex wool into her fingertips and the liquid tumbled into it. A flask with liquid in it
"Thomas is this liquid?
"Sophie smiled," it's vinegar.
Langon hesitated for a moment and then shook his head. "Genius."
I thought, Sophie... PAPER AND VINEGAR.. If anyone tries to open a cryptex in a cow,
The glass bottle would break and the vinegar would quickly melt the papyrus, and in time
I take it to try to get out the secret message, the paper has become fuzzy and meaningless."
On the inside, its a five letter secret access code, and since we have five disks, and each one has 26 letters, that equals 26 raised
"Five ". She made quick calculations to estimate the number. We have 12 million odds.
As you wish, Langdon said it was as if there were 12 million questions going on.
His head. What information do you think might be in there? Whatever this information was, Grandpa wanted her to be kept quiet."
Something was bothering her. Did you just say that a rose is a grill symbol? Exactly, in symbolic brotherhood terms, a rose and a grill were two words that said
The same thing.
Sophie raised her eyebrows. "This is really strange, because my grandfather always told me that the rose
It means secrecy. He used to hang a rose on his office door at home when he made secret contact." He did not want me to bother him, and he encouraged me to do the same Honey, my grandfather would say, instead of locking the doors to each other, he could all
We hang a rose - the flower of secrets - at the door of our rooms when we need privacy. That is how we learn to respect and trust each other. Hanging a rose to the door is an ancient Roman custom under the rose, Langdon said, "The Romans hung a rose on the doors of halls
Their meeting was a secret meeting, and everyone who attended the meeting understood that everything said under the rose or supe-rosa was to be kept secret, and Langdon quickly explained to Sophie how the connection of the rose to secrecy wasn't the only reason.
The sisterhood uses it as the semantics of Greel Valrosa Rogoza, one of the oldest varieties of rose, distinguished by the fact that it consists of five petals of a five-symmete Venus star, of which both are linked to Venus, and the rose is closely related to travellers through the ages as compass Rose with the concept of "proper direction ". The compass guides them in the right direction, and the lines of longitude drawn on maps were called pink lines. That is why the rose was the symbol that inspired the groom on many levels - secrecy, femininity and guidance - the antichine lime and the star, the clue that gave me to the hidden truth.
When Langdon finished explaining it, it was as if Sheena had suddenly experienced it." Arubert, are you okay?
Under the rose... I choked on the words in "Sub-... He had a good look at the Rosa.
"His throat was shaken with astonishment and horror on his face. You can't... That's impossible." What's impossible?
Langdon slowly peered off the box and whispered under the rose sign." This is
The Kretx. I think I know what's in it.
