Chapter One Hundred and Four: An Unexpected Hermitage Member
"I'm sorry, guys, I didn't expect the police to come so quickly, when you just came in, the bank's security system automatically called the police, your wanted warrant is stored in the system, we can't disarm it, please follow me, you hold the oldest account in our bank, and there is a clause in it to ensure that customers leave the bank safely."
At night, the manager pushed open a door as he walked, and led William and the three of them to an escort car, Langdon looked at the escort car with a hesitant expression, it didn't want to get into the escort car, and finally got into the escort car at William's urging.
The escort car was stopped by the police when it drove out of the bank and asked for inspection, and finally the night manager was very clever enough to deal with the police questioning, and drove them out of Paris with William.
In the car, William looked at the wooden box in his hand, "The Holy Grail, the magic cup, the source of the power of the God of Light in the world"
"It's all," Sophie laughed at William's teasing.
Langdon looked at William and Sophie and teased the God of Light with a nonchalant expression, "Don't you believe in the God of Light?"
Sophie smiled and shook her head, "I don't believe in any divine power that falls from the sky, I only believe in people, sometimes people are very kind." ”
William nodded in agreement: "I have the same, I believe that there will be more good people than bad people, but I believe that only when I am strong can I protect the things and people I want to protect."
William opened the wooden box, and inside was a cipher canister, ha, it was very similar to the one Henry had left him, except that it was much smaller than the one he had at home.
Sophie took the cipher from William's hand and said, "Oh my God, this is the cipher tube, it was invented by Leonardo da Vinci,"
Sophie carefully looked at the cipher cylinder in her hand and said: "This is used to protect secrets, there is a glass bottle filled with vinegar inside, the note is rolled up in the glass bottle, if it is opened violently, the vinegar bottle inside will be broken, the vinegar will corrode the handwriting, and the words on it will disappear, 5 groups of 26 English letters, a total of 12 million possibilities, no one can know the secret inside him if he doesn't know the secret"
At this time, the escort car began to slow down and stop, and the door opened only to see the night shift manager pointing P226 at them and saying: "I have been guarding for 20 years, but I didn't expect to wait for three murderers, take them"
"Take what," said William
"Bump" The manager didn't say anything, he shot directly at the carriage of the escort car, the stray bullet almost hit him, and William had to walk over slowly and hand him the secret cylinder with his left hand, and put his right hand behind him, he was ready to take out Glock 17 from the storage space with his right hand to kill the manager when he took the cipher cylinder.
"Wait, show me the ring on your hand," the manager suddenly became excited.
William turned his left hand over, and the manager became excited after seeing the ring on William's hand, "What is your name, why is this ring on your hand"
William Devonhill
"That Devon Hill in England, what's your grandfather's name"
William hesitated, seeing that the manager was no longer pointing P226 at him, and said, "Henry Winster Devonhill"
The manager immediately became excited: "God, you didn't kill Sonier in this way"
William and Random Sophie both looked at this manager in surprise, and the three of them reflected at this time that this manager was also a member of the Xunshan Hermitage, otherwise he would not have put down his gun when he saw William's iris herdic ring.
The manager put down the gun and said to the three people, "Come down first"
After the three of them got out of the car, the manager said: "My name is André Vernay, I am the guardian of this cipher, I have been guarding it for 20 years, I didn't expect the Grand Elder of Sonnier to die, so he was killed by the Guild of Illumination."
When Langdon heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Isn't this organization banned?"
Andre said: "No, in fact, they were only banned by the Illuminati on the surface, but these guys, like us, were finally hidden, and they were hidden in the Illuminati Sect.
Secretly set up a committee to find the Holy Grail and our hermitage, over the years, many of our members have been assassinated by this Light Divine Guild, plus the Grand Elder of Saunier, we have now died 3 elders and one Grand Elder, and the hermitage has reached the 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 Hermitage Order, find the Holy Grail and protect him."
"But Sonnier was killed before I could tell me about the Holy Grail, and I don't know how to look for it now, André do you know anything about it?" asked William
"I'm sorry, William, I'm just a Guardian, I'm on a mission to protect this cipher, I don't know much else," Andre said apologetically.
"I know a person who has studied the Holy Grail very deeply, and his name is Thibin, an Englishman, who lives in France, and might be able to help him," Langdon said
William can't do anything right now, he knows very little about Europa's history, and if he can ask an expert, maybe he can really ask something.
William said, "Okay, let's go to him, Andre, what are you going to do?"
"Don't worry, I'll drive you straight to Zurich after I've sent you there, and they won't find me," Andre said.
After everyone got into the car, William and Andre sat in the cargo box of the escort car, Langdon and Sophie were driving in the cab, and the two didn't know what William and Andre said in the cargo box, William looked serious after getting out of the car.
Andre and William said that the hermit has now existed in name only, all 4 elders are dead, and the ordinary members have been so frightened by the guild that they have hidden their identities in the past ten years, and most of the members have lost contact after the death of the 4 elders.
The people in the monastic are all artists and scholars, and the organization is so scattered that it is easy for people to break down one by one.
Especially in the ten years after Henry's death, the guild has become more and more despicable and shameless, and the assassinations have been done, and Andre reminded William to be careful, the fact that he is the last elder of the hermit must not be spread, otherwise the guild people will definitely find him.
These people are not looking for the Holy Grail to destroy it, as they themselves say, but to blackmail the Holy See like the Knights Templar did 1,000 years ago, and these marginalized people in the Holy See are fighting for power.
In Paris, Fahi received a report from his subordinates that the Swiss bank had reported that one of their escort vehicles in Paris had been ejected from the bank without notice, and that the bank staff at the Swiss headquarters suspected that the car had been stolen.
The police officers didn't pay attention at first, but when they came out, they saw that Fahi's team was searching the nearby streets, and as soon as the two sides were combined, they immediately sensed that something was wrong and applied to the Swiss bank for a GPS location.
GPS positioning showed that the escort truck stopped at Fort Villette for ten minutes before boarding the highway to Switzerland, and the officers immediately suspected that Langdon might have gone to find the owner of Fort Villette, Ray Tibin.
Fahi was overjoyed when he heard the call, and hurriedly called his men to drive more than ten cars to Villetteburg