"Sorry, everyone, I didn't expect the police to come so quickly. When you just came in, the bank's security system automatically alerted the police. Your wanted order is stored in the system. We can't remove it. Please follow me.
You hold the oldest account in our bank, and there is a clause in it to ensure that customers can leave the bank safely."
The night manager pushed open a door as he walked and led William and the three of them towards an escort vehicle. Langdon looked at the escort vehicle hesitantly, as he did not want to get into the escort vehicle, and finally got into the escort vehicle at William's urging.
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As soon as the escort vehicle left the bank, it was stopped by the police and asked to inspect it. Finally, the night manager was very resourceful and managed to handle the police interrogation and drove out of Paris with William and the others.
In the carriage, William looked at the wooden box in his hand, "The Holy Grail, the magical cup, the source of the power of the God of Light in the world."
"This is all nonsense," Sophie laughed after hearing William's teasing.
Langdon looked at William and Sophie teasing the God of Light with nonchalant expressions, "Don't you believe in the God of Light?"
Sophie smiled and shook her head, "I don't believe in any divine power falling from the sky. I only believe in people, and sometimes people are very kind."
William nodded in agreement: "I have one thing. I believe that there are more good people than bad people, but I believe that only when you are strong can you protect the things and people you want to protect."
William opened the wooden box, and inside was a cryptex. Ha, it was very similar to the cipher that Henry left him, except that this cryptex was much smaller than the one at his house.
Sophie took the cryptex from William's hand and said: "Oh, my God, this is the cryptex, invented by Leonardo da Vinci."
Sophie looked at the cryptex in her hand carefully and then said: "This is used to protect secrets. There is a glass bottle filled with vinegar, and the note is wrapped around the glass bottle. If it is opened violently, the vinegar inside
The bottle will be broken, the vinegar will corrode the writing, and the words on it will disappear. There are 5 groups of 26 English letters, a total of 12 million possibilities. If you don’t know the secret, no one can know the secret inside it."
At this time, the escort vehicle began to slow down and stop. When the door opened, the night shift manager pointed at them with a P226 and said: "I have been guarding them for 20 years. I didn't expect three murderers to come. Bring it here."
"What to take?" William said
Manager "Peng" didn't hesitate and fired directly at the carriage of the escort vehicle. The stray bullet almost hit him. With the gun pointed at him, William had to slowly walk over and hand the secret tube to him with his left hand, and put his right hand on the
Behind him, he was preparing to use his right hand to use the box in the car to secretly take out the Glock 17 from the storage space when the manager received the password lock and kill the manager.
"Wait a minute, show me the ring on your finger." The manager suddenly became excited.
William turned his left hand over, and the manager became excited after seeing the ring on William's hand clearly, "What is your name, and why is this ring on your hand?"
"William Devonshire"
"That Devonshire in England, what was your grandfather's name?"
William hesitated for a moment, seeing that the manager no longer pointed P226 at him, and said: "Henry Winston Devonshire"
The manager immediately became excited: "God, so Saunière was not killed by you."
William and Langdon Sophie both looked at the manager in surprise. At this time, the three of them realized that the manager was also from the Priory of Sion, otherwise he would not have put down his gun when he saw William's fleur-de-lis ring.
The manager put down the gun and said to the three people: "Get down first."
After the three people got out of the car, the manager said: "My name is Andre Vernet, and I am the guardian of this cryptex. I have been guarding it for 20 years. I didn't expect that Grand Presbyterian Saunière would die. That's what I said."
He was killed by members of the Guild of Light."
After hearing this, Langdon hurriedly asked: "Guild of Light, isn't this organization banned?"
Andre said: "No, in fact, they were only officially banned by the Holy See of the God of Light, but these guys ended up hiding like us, and they were hiding in the Holy See of the God of Light.
A committee was secretly set up to search for the Holy Grail and our monastery. In recent years, many of our members have been assassinated by the Guild of Light. In addition to Elder Saunière, we have now lost three elders and one elder.
Elder, the Priory has reached its most dangerous moment,"
After speaking, Andre pulled William aside and whispered: "William, the secret of the Holy Grail must not be known to the guild. You are now the only elder of the monastery. Find the Holy Grail and protect it."
"But Saunière was killed before he told me about the Holy Grail. I don't know how to look for it now. Andre, do you know any information?" William asked
"Sorry, William, I'm just a guardian. My mission is to guard this cryptex. I don't know much else," Andre said apologetically.
"I know someone who has studied the Holy Grail very deeply. His name is Teabing. He is an Englishman and now lives in France. He might be able to help," Langdon said.
William has no choice now. He knows very little about the history of Europa. If he can ask an expert, he might be able to find out something.
William said, "Okay, let's go find him. What will you do, Andre?"
"Don't worry, after I take you to Teabing's, I will drive directly to Zurich. They will not be able to find anything against me," Andre said.
After everyone got on the bus, William and Andre were sitting in the cargo box of the escort vehicle. Langdon and Sophie were driving in the cab. Neither of them knew what William and Andre said in the cargo box.
, William looked serious after getting out of the car.
Andre and William said that the monastery is now in name only. All four elders are dead. In the past ten years, ordinary members have been scared by those who work in the guild and have hidden their identities. After the death of the four elders, most members have lost their contact persons.
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The people in the monastery are all artists, scholars, professors, etc. The organization is too decentralized and can easily be broken down by everyone.
Especially in the ten years after Henry's death, the guild became more and more despicable and shameless, including assassinations. Andre reminded William to be careful, and the fact that he was the last elder of the Priory must not be spread.
, otherwise people from the guild will definitely find him.
These people are not looking for the Holy Grail to destroy the Holy Grail as they said, but to blackmail the Holy See like the Knights Templar 1,000 years ago. These marginalized people in the Holy See are fighting for power.
Fache in Paris received a report from his subordinates. The Swiss Bank called the police and said that one of their escort vehicles in Paris had been driven out of the bank without notice. The bank staff at the Swiss headquarters suspected that the vehicle had been stolen.
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The police officers didn't pay attention at first. When the police were dispatched, they saw Fache's team closing the streets and searching nearby streets. As soon as the two sides combined, they immediately realized something was wrong and applied to the Swiss Bank to transfer the GPS positioning.
GPS positioning showed that the escort vehicle stayed at Chateau Villette for ten minutes and then got on the highway to Switzerland. His police officers immediately suspected that Langdon might be looking for Ray Teabing, the owner of Chateau Villette.
Fache was overjoyed when he heard the call and hurriedly asked his men to drive more than ten cars to Chateau Villette.