Chapter 81 Chapter 79

Lieutenant Collet took a bottle of Perrier from the Teabing's fridge and strode back from the living room.Instead of joining Fache on the operation, he stayed at La Villette to oversee the PTS team already operating at the estate. The evidence they've found so far is of no use at all.They found a bullet in the floor, a piece of paper with symbols scrawled on it, and the words "Blade" and "Holy Grail"; and a blood-stained leather belt with nails, PTS He had told Collet that it had ties to the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei, which had recently caused a commotion because of media revelations about their mass recruitment of believers in Paris.

Collet sighed.Good luck making sense of all this jumble. Collet walked along the empty corridor and entered the spacious ballroom. The PTS Chief Prosecutor was busy in the hall dusting off fingerprints.He was a fat man in overalls. "Did you find anything?" Collet walked in and asked. The prosecutor shook his head. "I haven't found anything new. Everything else in this house is here." "What about the print on the sackcloth?" "Interpol is still busy with this. I'm sending everything I find to it." Collet gestured to the two sealed evidence bags on the table: "Then what's going on?"

The man shrugged: "It's a habit. Every time I see something weird, I always put it in a bag." Clay walked over.Weird thing? "This Englishman is really strange. You look at this." The prosecutor rummaged through the evidence bag, then picked out something, and handed it to Collet. Collet saw a picture of a Gothic cathedral door, a traditional, recessed arch divided into tiers that narrowed as they went up until they became tiny passages. Collet looked at the photo, turned around and asked him, "Do you find this strange?" "Turn over and have a look."

On the back of the photograph Collet saw symbols scrawled in English that depicted the church's long, empty nave as a pagan private tribute to a woman's womb.That's weird.He was surprised, however, by the sign describing the aisle of the church. "Be patient! He thinks the church door represents a woman's..." The prosecutor nodded, and said, "This symbol, forming a complete set of backward-sloping lip-dental grooves, is quite like a small but beautiful quincunx-shaped clitoris carved on the Above the gate." He sighed, "It seems to be beckoning you to go back to the church."

Collet picks up the second evidence bag.Through the plastic bag, he saw a large, glossy photograph that looked like an ancient document.The top heading looks like this: Dossier's Secret - No. 4lm249. "What's this?" Collet asked. "I don't know, he still has a lot of copies here, so I put one in the bag." Collet studied the document carefully. List of past elders and masters of the Priory of Mount Sion: Jean de Guisor 1188-1220 Marie de Saint Sinclair 1220-1266 Guillaume de Guissor 1266-1307 Edward de Barr 1307-1336 Jeanne de Barr 1336-1351 Jean de Saint Sinclair 1351—1366

Browns de Evreux 1366-1398 Nicholas Flemmer 1398-1418 René de Anjou 1418—1480 Yolande de Bar 1480—1483 Sandro Botticelli 1483-1510 Leonardo da Vinci 1510—1519 Cornetable de Bourbon 1519—1527 Ferdinand de Gonzac 1527—1575 Louis de Nevers 1575—1595 Robert Flood 1595-1637 J．Valentin Andrea 1637—1654 Robert Boyle 1654-1691 Isaac Newton 1691-1727 Charles Radcliffe 1727-1746 Charles DeLorean 1746—1780 Maximilian DeLorean 1780—1801 Charles Nodier 1801—1844 Victor Hugo 1844—1885 Claude Debussy 1885—1918 Jean Cocteau 1918—1963 The Priory of Mount Xion?Collet was puzzled. "Is the lieutenant there?" asked another agent, poking his head in from outside. "There's an emergency call for Captain Fache at the switchboard, but they can't find him, would you like to answer it?" Collet went back to the kitchen and picked up the phone.

The call turned out to be from André Vernet. The banker's elegant tone could not conceal the nervousness inside him. "I thought Captain Fache would call me, but I haven't heard anything from him yet." "The Captain is very busy," Collet replied, "what's the matter?" "I believe I can keep up with your progress tonight." For a while, Collet thought he heard the man's voice, but it was difficult for him to identify it. "Mr. Vernet, I am taking over the investigation in Paris. I am Lieutenant Collet." Vernet was silent on the other end of the phone for a long time before saying: "Lieutenant, I have a call to answer, please forgive me, I will call you later." After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone.Collet held the handset of the phone for a few seconds before remembering. "I recognized the voice!" The new discovery took his breath away.

He is the armored car driver. Wearing a counterfeit "Rolex" watch. Collet finally understood why the banker had hung up so quickly.Vernet must have also remembered the name of Lieutenant Collet—the police officer he had blatantly deceived earlier in the evening. Collet pondered the various meanings hidden in this strange change.Vernet got involved.He knew instinctively that he should give Fache a call, but emotionally, he knew this lucky change would help him steal the show.He immediately called Interpol and asked them to do everything they could to find any information about Savings Bank of Zurich and its president, Vernet.