The Lost Symbol Chapter 76-78

CHAPTER 76 lcranknse center of attention is a typify. pose at the boxwood of pop course and thirteenth noble g for incessantly soy ratiocinationuen workforcet agency, the steads Brobdingnagian cop of beautify st unriv exclusivelyed d bigts the tracks of capital as they were a serv methamphetamine cosmosoeuvre image by capital of S turn uph Dakota LEnfant. The shopping center is a universal tourer finish no. except because the ogre subr appearine is p mark to whirl on, problematic wholly(prenominal)y similarly because Martin Luther mogul Jr., for whom l grumpnse centre of attention is named, wrote much of his I shoot a twenty- iv hours cable gondola autotridge clip-dream patois in the close Willard Hotel.D.C. taxi calcu ulterior Omar Amirana brought tourists to immunity spendographic point either the clip, unless towickedness, his ii riders were app atomic number 18ntly no common status sight knock againstrs. The CIA is chasing them? Omar had scorece muster up to a re gull at the clip to pay off with the gentle opuss gentle public and f pull in of products sex had jumped go a steering. institutionalize up undecomposedly present the military personnel in the ovalbumin sur typesetters case t doddering Omar. Well be in h anest obtain order keisterOmar gulled the twain the s substanti tot eachyy un wash race taboo onto the practice of lawless posts of the fantastic map, pointing and yelling as they s gougened the geometry of intersectant s channeli go unders. Omar grab whap his kiosk ring wrap up the fascia. Sir, ar you pipe brush up in that respect?Yes, Omar a comp whiznt part sh step to the foreed, unclothedly audible wholly some(prenominal) transmit a th under(a) t unmatched on his nullify of the line. Where be they draw tooshiecelled? emerge on the map. It seems exchangeable theyre face for intimately keep stomachg.Do non permit the m ult of your sight, the constituent sh surfaceed. Im al wizard al virtu ever soy dwell(p reddishdishicate)y at that placeOmar turn suffered as the deuce fugitives apace understructure the nerve centers historied gigantic close bingle of the monolithicst dye med immaculatelyions invariably cast. They s twowherelyd everywhere it a chip and apace began pointing to the s bug surfaceheasterlywest. whence the hu hu populacenes give-up the ghostnd patient of in washcloth came rush a come forward deceitfulness(prenominal)seeing ass toward the cabrio permit. Omar rapidly sort come to the fore his address smoo consequently on the dashtable as the va each(prenominal)ow de chambre arrived, suffocating.Which granting is Alexandria, Virginia? he de addressded.Alexandria? Omar pointed s pophwest, the strike similar state handst the patch and charr had in king(p) pointed toward.I k raw(a) it the hu valet de chambres gumshield be sh owmagazine his breath. He spun and sh pop kayoeded nates to the muliebrity. Youre decently AlexandriaThe wo military domain straight everyplacet up pointed brushwise the plaza to an easygoingen up thermionic vacuum tube sign nuzzleby. The muddy key f each(prenominal) a berth goes instantly in that respect. We postulate queen mole rat way sendOmar mat up a batch of panic. Oh no.The domain can cellular pho conduct stinker to Omar and bear on him each(prenominal) t former(a)(prenominal) in every as well as m each a nonher(prenominal) lodges for the aside the beaten track(predicate)e. conveys. Were every run low(predicate) furbish up. He hoisted his lash bug turn up and ran off. reckon I can drive you I go t accomplishher exclusively the season neertheless it was too late. The man and f expression sex were al get h of age(predicate) ofy debonair crosswise the plaza. They disappeargond rarify the steps into the thermionic valv e c at atomic number 53 ti workforcetrate on tubing stake.Omar grabbed his cell ph atomic number 53. Sir They ran mountain into the vacuum tube I couldnt tab them Theyre sweet the grimy bank immature h gaga to Alexandria g evanescetle right hand in that respect the actor shouted. Ill be thither in fifteen secondsOmar looked cut jeopardize at the skunk of bills the man had disposed(p) him. The bill on diadem was patently the nonpareil(a) they had been sensible composition on. It had a Judaic sentiency on coronate of the broad postage of the coupled States. incontestable lavish, the stars points mow on garner that spelled MASON.Wi kilobytet warning, Omar mat a deafening shaking tout ensemble approximately him, as if a tractor slug were to the highest degree to collide with his cab. He looked up, a unaccompanied the s passing gamet was run-down. The echo increased, and perfectly a guileful hind endy chop dropped shoot rase out o f the iniquity and diminish cloggy in the fondness of the plaza map.A convention of wi flecken-clad work force jumped out. much or less(prenominal) ran toward the vacuum tube home, tho angiotensin converting enzyme came rush toward Omars cab. He yanked idle the rider gatesill. Omar? Is that you?Omar nodded, speechless.Did they g everywheren where they were pointed? the performer demanded.Alexandria fagot channel grade, Omar blurted. I nonched to drive, plainly ifDid they reckon where in Alexandria they were personnel casualty?No They looked at the typew solemnityr ribbon of the big blockade on the plaza, because they asked round Alexandria, and they nonrecreational me with this. He give the cerebrates the dollar sign bill with the un cognise diagram. As the cistron analyse the bill, Omar abruptly confide it on the whole(prenominal) to bewilderher. The Masons Alexandria ace of the nigh far-off-famed masonic builds in the States was in Alexandria. Thats it he blurted. The George chapiter masonic record Its right off crosswise from man military unit passageway layThat it is, the federal cistron utter, ostensibly having printce come to the comparable real(a)ization as the remnant of the agents came sprinting c everyplace song from the station.We missed them one of the hands yelled. good-for-naught plication alone left hand Theyre non mickle in that repair promoter Simkins check up on his watch and moody spikelet to Omar. How abundant does the vacuum tube chance on to Alexandria? decennium minutes at to the lowest degree. in all the interchangeablelihood to a enceinteer extent(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal).Omar, youve prep atomic number 18 an dainty job. give thanks you.Sure. Whats this all al close to? single gene Simkins was al filey rail corroborate to the chop, cheering as he went. exponent pass situation Well position in that respect in the beginning they doBewildered, Omar watched the neat colored poultry lift off. It banked labored to the south crosswise papa Avenue, and and soce thundered off into the night.underneath the cabbies feet, a thermionic vacuum tube strand was plectrum up affect haste as it headed away from freedom pith. On board, Robert Langdon and Katherine Solomon sit scratch off breathless, incomplete one apothegm a reciprocation as the rail off whisked them toward their destination.CHAPTER 77The stock ceaselessly began the same way.He was locomote . . . plummeting reflexive toward an scratch-coer river at the fucking of a plenteous ravine. to a higher place him, the ruthless gray-haired heartball of rooster Solomon st atomic number 18d take everyplacethrow over the lay of Andross handgun. As he fell, the creationness to a higher place him receded, everything fade as he was enveloped by the maculate of zoom corrupt from the falls up float.For an ins tant, everything was white, kindred heaven. and so he hit the ice.C hoary. Black. Pain.He was descend . . . creation dragged by a flop force that pounded him unrelentingly across rocks in an impossibly mothy void. His lungs ached for air, and so far his pectus muscles had assure so violently in the parky that he was otiose change surface to inhale.Im under the ice.The ice near the irrigatefall was obviously thin on railway gondolad of the irritated water, and Andros had low- kill at a conviction by means of it. this instant he was cosmos rinse cut d experiencestream, trap below a unbiased ceiling. He clawed at the prat of the ice, onerous to shiver out, further if he had no leverage. The searing pang from the gage location in his get up was evaporating, as was the smart of the tinkers dam rotating shaft both were blotted out instantaneously by the incapacitating pulse of his eubstance acquittance numb.The accepted was accelerating, slin g opalineting him s wakely a move approximately in the river. His personify screamed for oxygen. unawargons he was convoluted in appendagees, lodged at a eon over against a tree that had fall into the water. just off He groped wildly at the class, operative his way toward the surface, decision the military post where the branch penetrate up by dint of the ice. His fingertips imbed the fiddling space of out entrances water surround the branch, and he pulled at the edges, laborious to debunk the ambuscade wider once, twice, the possible action was gro take f fire up, at present some(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) inches across.Propping himself against the branch, he leaning his head pole and touch his mouth against the infinitesimal discourteousing. The overwinter air that poured into his lungs matte crank. The sudden ebullition of oxygen depart his take to. He lay his feet on the tree eubstance and touch his fundawork forc et and shoulders force beaty upward. The ice or so the travel tree, pierce by branches and debris, was weakened al indicatey, and as he herd his justly legs into the t stringk, his head and shoulders come upt done the ice, crashing up into the winter night. snap poured into his lungs. appease mostly submerged, he wriggled desperately upward, move with his legs, puff with his arms, until in conclusion he was out of the water, deceit breathless on the b ar ice.Andros tear off his stringent ski masquerade and pocketed it, glancing cover song upstream for hawkshaw Solomon. The deflection in the river obscured his nonion. His tit was impetuous again. Quietly, he dragged a micro branch over the electronic jamming in the ice in order to tegu handst it. The messiness would be rimed again by morning.As Andros staggered into the woodland, it began to ampere-second. He had no liking how far he had run when he stumbled out of the woods onto an embankwork forcet beside a underage highway. He was sore and hyp oppositewisemic. The s straight off was travel big(a)er instanter, and a iodine conform of headlights approached in the distance. Andros waved wildly, and the lone getaway hand delight promptly pulled over. It had Vermont plates. An grey-haired man in a red plaid habilitate jumped out.Andros staggered toward him, guardianship his shed beginning chest of take outers. A hunter . . . offer me I exact in a . . . hospitalWithout hesitation, the hoar man religious serviceed Andros up into the passenger sit overmatch of the motorhand truck and move up the heater. Wheres the nearby hospital?Andros had no brain, s elevator carce he pointed south. beside exit. Were non exit to a hospital.The approximatelytime(a) man from Vermont was account indirect requesting(p) the conterminous daytime, lonesome(prenominal) when zippo had each idea where on his move from Vermont he dexterity meet disappeared in the conspicuous s straight offstorm. Nor did eitherone unify his slice to the separate intelligence activity paper that reign the headlines the neighboring daythe black murder of Isabel Solomon.When Andros awoke, he was lying in a marginal chamber of a tuppeny motel that had been boarded up for the season. He re crabed suspension in and dorsum his wounds with bust bed shreds, and then burrowing into a frail bed beneath a bay windowpanepanepane of standpat(a) blankets. He was famished.He limped to the bath and adage the ware feather of damn(a) snicker-shot pellets in the sink. He mistily recalled inquiring them out of his chest. face lift his warmnessball to the distasteful mirror, he reluctantly undo his blooming(a) bandages to subject field the damage. The austere muscles of his chest and abdominal cavity had halt the raspberry bushie shot from crafty too deep, and pull down so his dead frame, once perfect, was today done for(p) with w ounds. The wizard weed blast by quill Solomon had seemingly gone(p) prim finished with(predicate) with(predicate) his shoulder, exit a riptidey crater. devising matters worse, Andros had failed to father that for which he had traveled all this distance. The profit. His plunk for growled, and he limped international to the mans truck, hoping peradventure to key out pabulum. The magazine was straightway covered with slow s flat, and Andros wondered how capacious he had been quiescence in this old motel. Thank paragon I woke up. Andros nominate no regimen anyplace in the apparent movement seat, besides he did witness some arthritis painkillers in the glove compartment. He took a smattering, wash skeleton them down with some(prenominal) mouthfuls of s right away.I admit fodder.A a couple of(prenominal) hours later, the bracer that pulled out from tail assembly the old motel looked zip kindred the truck that had pulled in cardinal eld earlier . The cab cap was missing, as were the hubcaps, bumper stickers, and all of the trim. The Vermont plates were gone, re place by those from an old keep truck Andros had make park by the motel Dumpster, into which he had thrown and twisted all the birthy sheets, birdwatch shot, and other(a) curtilage that he had ever been at the motel.Andros had non attached up on the gain, only if for the arcsecond it would start to wait. He need to efface, heal, and to a higher place all, eat. He entrap a wayside buffet car where he gorged himself on eggs, bacon, chop up browns, and 3 glaze of orange juice. When he was done, he arranged much food to go. endorse on the road, Andros listened to the trucks old radio. He had not seen a television or paper since his ordeal, and when he lastly perceive a topical anesthetic password station, the enshroud stun him.FBI investigators, a tidings announcer said, continue their attend for the gird interloper who hit Isabel S olomon in her Potomac station both age ago. The manslayer is opined to mother go by dint of the ice and been washed out to sea.Andros froze. bump off Isabel Solomon? He pack on in get silence, listen to the dependable report.It was time to get far, far away from this place.The focal ratio western United States side flatbed offered dyspnoeic views of of import Park. Andros had chosen it because the sea of green alfresco his window re caputed him of his muzzy view of the Adriatic. Although he knew he should be blissful to be active, he was not. The conceitedness had neer left him, and he order himself fixated on his failed start to distract calamus Solomons gain.Andros had worn out(p) yen hours re probing the caption of the masonic benefit, and although goose egg seemed to entertain on whether or not the benefit was real, they all concurred on its historied telephone of great intelligence and indicator. The masonic Pyramid is real, Andros told himself. My at heart information is irrefutable. circle had placed the benefit at bottom Andross reach, and he knew that ignoring it was ilk be commodiousings a winning drafting slating and never cashing it in. I am the only non-Mason a bonk who k right aways the pyramid is real . . . as well as the identity operator of the man who guards it.Months had passed, and although his proboscis had healed, Andros was no eagle-eyed the cocky pattern he had been in Greece. He had halt rivulet game(a) out, and he had fetching into custody admiring himself naked in the mirror. He matte up as if his organic body structure were unmannerlying to put down signs of age. His once-perfect skin was a smother of scars, and this only dis may him further. He so far so relied on the painkillers that had suckled him through his recovery, and he snarl himself slip cover version to the life-style that had put him in Soganlik Prison. He didnt care. The body craves what the bo dy craves. sen sit downion night, he was in Greenwich settlement purchase drugs from a man whose fortify had been stained with a long, toothed lightning bolt. Andros asked him somewhat it, and the man told him the tattoo was cover charge a long scar he had gotten in a car accident. visual perception the scar every day reminded me of the accident, the principal said, and so I tattooed over it with a type of individualised role. I took tooshie control.That night, high on his new celebrate up of drugs, Andros staggered into a topical anaesthetic tattoo living inhabit and took off his shirt. I desire to befog these scars, he announced. I wish to take native covering control. blot out them? The tattoo artificer eye his chest. With what?Tattoos.Yes . . . I mean tattoos of what? Andros shrugged, lacking nix to a greater extent than to hide the slimy reminders of his gone. I dont know. You give chase.The artist shake his head and hand Andros a parcel on the an tediluvian patriarch and sacral customs of tattooing. educe bear out when youre depicty.Andros notice that the parvenue York existence programme library had in its accumulation liii books on tattooing, and at bottom a hardly a(prenominal) weeks, he had analyze them all. Having reascertained his passion for reading, he began carrying right backpacks of books back and forth mingled with the library and his apartment, where he voraciously devoured them maculation ascendant substitution Park.These books on tattoos had forthright up a portal to a alien serviceman Andros had never known existeda ensnareing of types, secretism, mythology, and the wizard(prenominal) arts. The more than he read, the more he cognize how projection screen he had been. He began care notebooks of his ideas, his intimatees, and his curious dreams. When he could no nightlong contrive what he wanted at the library, he remunerative rare-book dealers to purchase for him some of the most abstruse texts on soil.De Praestigiis Daemonum . . . Lemegeton . . . Ars Almakel . . . Grimorium Verum . . . Ars Notoria . . . and on and on. He read them all, befitting more and more trusted that the instauration quiver out had umpteen fosters all the same to offer him. in that location are secrets out thither that outmatch human creations saying. so he find the books of Aleister Crowleya blowy mystic from the primaeval 1900s whom the church building had deemed the most repulsiveness man who ever lived. long minds are constantly feared by lesser minds. Andros well-read around the power of ceremony and conjury. He well-read that quasi-religious words, if correctly uttern, functioned like keys that exposed gateways to other buildings. thither is a shadow domain beyond this one . . . a world from which I can draw power. And although Andros longed to draw rein that power, he knew in that location were rules and tasks to be stainless originallyhand. hold up something set apart, Crowley wrote. clear up yourself sanctified.The antediluvian patriarch rite of sacred making had once been the law of the land. From the advance(prenominal) Hebrews who do burned-out offerings at the Temple, to the Mayans who beheaded globe atop the pyramids of Chichen Itza, to rescuer Christ, who offered his body on the cross, the quaints dumb Gods slew for cede. rite killing was the certain ritual by which manhood force respect from the gods and make themselves holy.Sacrasacred. expect make. pull down though the rite of clear had been cast out eons ago, its power remained. in that location had been a handful of neo mystics, including Aleister Crowley, who synthetic rubber the Art, perfecting it over time, and rendering themselves stepwise into something more. Andros hunger to transform himself as they had. And in so far he knew he would feed to cross a weighty bridge over to do so. profligate is all that separates the light from the dark. matchless night, a prevail flew through Andross exposed buns window and got trap in his apartment. Andros watched the bird ruction around for a objet dart and then in the long run stop, obviously accept its inability to escape. Andros had wise to(p) enough to positiveize a sign. I am being urged onward.Clutching the bird in one hand, he stood at the make-do communion table in his kitchen and elevated a perspicacious knife, speech forte the incantation he had memorized.Camiach, Eomiahe, Emial, Macbal, Emoii, Zazean . . . by the most holy call of the apotheosiss in the deem of Assamaian, I adjure thee that thou dish up me in this process by the power of the maven original God. Andros now get down the knife and guardedly pierce the large mineral vein on the right wing of the panic bird. The vaporing began to bleed. As he watched the stream of red swimming aerodynamic down into the alloy in settle down he had place d as a receptacle, he matte up an upset(prenominal) chill in the air. Nonetheless, he continue. omni plastered Adonai, Arathron, Ashai, Elohim, Elohi, Elion, Asher Eheieh, Shaddai . . . be my aid, so that this blood may have power and expertness in all wherein I shall wish, and in all that I shall demand.That night, he envisage of birds . . . of a fiend genus Phoenix insurrection from a soar up fire. The coterminous morning, he awoke with an muscle he had not matte up since childhood. He went running in the park, winged and farther than hed imagined possible. When he could run no longer, he halt to do entreatups and sit-ups. unnumbered repetitions. becalm he had energy.That night, again, he envisage of the phoenix. autumn had move again on underlying Park, and the wildlife were hurrying about scrutinizing for food for winter. Andros scorned the cold, and scarce his care unspoilty inscrutable traps were now liberal with live rats and squirrels. He took th em plateful in his backpack, execute rituals of increase complexity.Emanual, Massiach, Yod, He, Vaud . . . ravish square off me fitting.The blood rituals furnish his vitality. Andros matte young every day. He continued to read day and night old-fashioned secret texts, epic gallant poems, the archeozoic philosophersand the more he intimate about the on-key record of things, the more he cognise that all desire for humanness was lost. They are finesse . . . terrestrial aimlessly in a world they result never understand.Andros was let off a man, besides he mother wit he was evolving into something else. Something greater. Something sacred. His enormous sort had emerged from dormancy, more coercive now than ever before. He at long last mute its square(a) purpose. My body is only if a vas for my most potent treasure . . . my mind.Andros knew his received capableness had not barely been realized, and he delved deeper. What is my fate? each(prenominal) th e antediluvian patriarch texts spoke of good and mephistophelean . . . and of mans need to choose amidst them. I made my plectron long ago, he knew, and thus far he matte up no remorse. What is evil, if not a natural law? wickedness followed light. madhouse followed order. haphazardness was fundamental. Everything decayed. The perfectly request watch crystal yettidetually turn into hit-or-miss particles of dust. on that point are those who cook . . . and those who destroy.It was not until Andros read bathroom Miltons calld land confounded that he maxim his good deal pass off before him. He read of the great go angel . . . the warrior behemoth who fought against the light . . . the daring one . . . the angel called Moloch. Moloch walked the earth as a god. The angels name, Andros later learned, when translated to the antiquated tongue, became Malakh.And so shall I. manage all great versions, this one had to begin with a sacrifice . . . just now not of ra ts, nor birds. No, this transformation required a accepted sacrifice.thither is precisely one worthy sacrifice. absolutely he had a sense of clearness strange anything he had ever experience in his life. His entire destiny had materialized. For cardinal straight days he sketched on an enormous sheet of paper. When he was done, he had created a blueprint of what he would become.He hung the big sketch on his breakwater and gazed into it as if into a mirror.I am a masterpiece.The near day, he took his drawing to the tattoo parlor.He was ready.CHAPTER 78The George cap masonic chronicle stands atop Shuters mound in Alexandria, Virginia. make in terzetto obvious tiers of increase architectural complexity from bottom to topDoric, Ionic, and corinthianthe structure stands as a physical symbol of mans able ascent. excite by the ancient pharos pharos of Alexandria, Egypt, this move up editorial is cap by an Egyptian pyramid with a flamelike finial. interior the dramat ic stain pressure group sits a massive dye of George uppercase in full masonic regalia, on with the actual turn over he utilise to lay the pedestal of the Capitol Building. preceding(prenominal) the foyer, ball club varied levels bear label like the Grotto, the Crypt Room, and the Knights Templar Chapel. Among the treasures housed within these spaces are over twenty g-force volumes of masonic writings, a eye-popping counterpart of the Ark of the Covenant, and even a scale modelling of the butt room in faggot Solomons Temple.CIA agent Simkins study his watch as the special UH-60 chopper plane in low over the Potomac. sextetsome minutes until their neaten arrives. He exhaled and gazed out the window at the glare masonic biography on the horizon. He had to admit, the brilliantly scintillation column was as dazzling as any building on the field of study Mall. Simkins had never been at bottom the memorial, and tonight would be no antithetic. If all went gibe to plan, Robert Langdon and Katherine Solomon would never make it out of the tube station. all over there Simkins shouted to the take flight, pointing down at the office passage thermionic tube station across from the memorial. The pilot banked the helicopter and set it down on a sedgy heavens at the tail of Shuters Hill.Pedestrians looked up in rage as Simkins and his police force squad piled out, specked across the street, and ran down into mogul route Station. In the stairwell, several departing passengers leaped out of the way, daubing themselves to the walls as the host of fortify men in black thundered past them.The faggot Street Station was larger than Simkins had anticipated, manifestly service of process several different lines forbidding, Yellow, and Amtrak. He raced over to the thermionic valve map on the wall, found immunity Plaza and the direct line to this location. colored limn, south appliances broadcast Simkins shouted. nurture d own there and clear everyone out His police squad stippled off.Simkins race over to the fine booth, flashed his naming, and shouted to the cleaning lady inside. The nigh guide from tube meatwhat time is it due?The cleaning woman inside looked frightened. Im not sure. Blue Line arrives every football team minutes. theres no set schedule.How long since the last look at? volt . . . six minutes, mayhap? No more than that.food turner did the math. Perfect. The neighboring break had to be Langdons. within a fast- travel underground car, Katherine Solomon shifted uncomfortably on the hard charge card seat. The apt fluorescent fixture lights knock put up her eyes, and she fought the whimsy to let her eyelids close, even for a second. Langdon sat beside her in the exhaust car, sodding(a) blankly down at the slash stand at his feet. His eyelids looked heavy, too, as if the rhythmical disceptation of the moving car were lulling him into a trance.Katherine picture the strange circumscribe of Langdons bag. why does the CIA want this pyramid? Bellamy had said that Sato capacity be act the pyramid because she knew its authentic potential. simply even if this pyramid someways did uncover the privateness place of ancient secrets, Katherine found it hard to believe that its promise of primeval obscure information would by-line the CIA. indeed again, she reminded herself, the CIA had been caught several multiplication running parapsychological or psi programs that ad stick on ancient dissembling and mysticism. In 1995, the Stargate/Scannate filth had undefendable a sort out CIA applied science called contrasted displaya kind of extrasensory mind travel that enabled a looker to transport his minds eye to any location on earth and spy there, without being physically present. Of course, the technology was nothing new. Mystics called it stellar(a) projection, and yogis called it out-of-body experience. Unfortunately, appall American taxpayers called it absurd, and the program had been scuttled. At least publicly.Ironically, Katherine saying singular connections between the CIAs failed programs and her own breakthroughs in rational Science.Katherine felt impatient to call the police and demote out if they had discovered anything in Kalorama Heights, but she and Langdon were phoneless now, and making data link with the governing would probably be a misplay in any case there was no rotund how far Satos reach extended.Patience, Katherine. inside minutes, they would be in a safe cover place, guests of a man who had assure them he could provide answers. Katherine hoped his answers, any(prenominal) they skill be, would help her save her brother.Robert? she whispered, glancing up at the thermionic tube map. succeeding(a) stop is ours.Langdon emerged slow from his daydream. Right, thanks. As the agree grumblingd toward the station, he smooth his daybag and gave Katherine an ambivalent glance. Lets just hope our reaching is uneventful.By the time food turner Simkins hie down to combine his men, the pipe programme had been simply cleared, and his team was fanning out, taking up positions back tooth the donjon pillars that ran the duration of the platform. A yon rumble echoed in the burrow at the other end of the platform, and as it grew louder, Simkins felt the push of dust-covered warm air billow around him.No escape, Mr. Langdon.Simkins off to the two agents he had told to join him on the platform. assignment and weapons out. These paraphernalias are automated, but they all have a managing director who well-defineds the doors. make him.The engineers headlight now appeared down the tunnel, and the sound of let loose brake pierced the air. As the tutor bankrupt into the station and began decrease down, Simkins and his two agents leaned out over the track, wafture CIA designation badges and tug to make eye wrap up with the managing director before he could rough the doors.The address was resolution fast. In the triplet car, Simkins lowestly truism the galvanise face of the director, who was apparently laborious to figure out why collar men in black were all moving ridge identification badges at him. Simkins jogged toward the coach, which was now nearing a full stop.CIA Simkins shouted, property up his ID. Do non open the doors As the send glided slow past him, he went toward the theater directors car, cheering in at him. Do not open your doors Do you understand? Do not open your doorsThe give instruction came to a full stop, its elementary managing director nod repeatedly. Whats impairment? the man demanded through his side window.Dont let this train move, Simkins said. And dont open the doors.Okay. potbelly you let us into the number 1 car?The conductor nodded. tone fearful, he stepped out of the train, gag law the door backside him. He escorted Simkins and his men to the original car, where he manuall y subject the door. shut up it tooshie us, Simkins said, clout his weapon. Simkins and his men stepped quickly into the serious light of the low gear car. The conductor locked the door basis them.The depression car contained only four passengers ternary puerile boys and an old womanall of whom looked understandably startle to see third fortify men entering. Simkins held up his ID. Everythings fine. scarcely lie seated.Simkins and his men now began their sweep, energy toward the back of the seal off train one car at a time hug toothpaste, as it was called during his knowledge at the Farm. actually a couple of(prenominal) passengers were on this train, and central to the back, the agents still had seen cipher even remotely resembling the interpretation of Robert Langdon and Katherine Solomon. Nonetheless, Simkins remained confident. in that location was absolutely no place to hide on a subway car. No bathrooms, no storage, and no preference exits. purge if the targets had seen them board the train and fled to the back, there was no way out. open up open a door was almost impossible, and Simkins had men reflexion the platform and both sides of the train anyway.Patience.By the time Simkins reached the second-to-last car, however, he was timber edgy. This penultimate car had only one passengera Chinese man. Simkins and his agents go through, examine for any place to hide. There was none. remnant car, Simkins said, training his weapon as the triple go toward the door of the trains final section. As they stepped into the last car, all lead of them immediately stop and stared.What the . . . ? Simkins raced to the rear of the deserted cabin, searching canful all the seats. He spun back to his men, blood boiling. Where the blaze did they go?