Chapter 108 Chapter 107

Thanks to the searchlights, Robert Langdon was able to sprint around the outer walls of the castle. As he ran around the city wall, he found that the courtyard below looked like a museum of ancient battlefields-there was a ballista, piles of stone shells, and many scary devices.During the day, only a few places in the castle are open to tourists, and the courtyard basically maintains its original appearance. Langdon looked across the courtyard to the center of the castle.The circular castle rose one hundred and seven feet into the sky, crowned by a bronze angel.The upper balcony was still lit by the lights of the house.Langdon wanted to shout, but knew he couldn't.He had to find a way in.

Langdon checked his watch. Evening, 11:12. Langdon sprinted into the courtyard below, clinging to the stone ramp on the inside of the city wall.After returning to the ground, he ran clockwise around the castle in the night.He passed three doorways, but each door was blocked.But how did Hei Boxing get in?Langdon ran on.He passed two more modern gates, but both were locked from the outside.Not here. He continued to run. Langdon had run nearly the entire length of the castle when he spotted a gravel driveway running directly across the courtyard in front of him.On the outer city wall at the end of the driveway, he saw the drawbridge gate leading to the outside of the castle.The other end of the driveway disappears into the castle and appears to lead to a tunnel - an entrance to the center of the castle.This is the channel!Langdon had seen the introduction about the passage of the castle. It was a wide slope that spiraled to the top of the castle. It was built to allow the generals to gallop down at high speed.Heixixing must have driven the car up!The door blocking the passage was pulled up, as if to guide Langdon.He felt a burst of joy in his heart, and hurriedly ran towards that passage.But when he came to the door, his excitement disappeared suddenly.

That passage turned out to be going down in a rotation. Not this way.This passage apparently leads to the dungeon, not to the top of the castle. Standing at the entrance of this dark tunnel that seemed to never reach the bottom, Langdon looked hesitantly at the balcony above.He was sure he saw movement there.Ok, deal! He had no choice but to rush into the tunnel. High in the castle, Black Star watched his prey closely, and slipped his hand over her arm, and he found her skin smooth as cream.The thought of getting inside her was intoxicating.In how many ways would he defile her?Heixixing felt that he was worthy of possessing this woman.He has done what Janus told him beautifully.She was his trophy, and when he had had enough of playing with her, Black Fiend dragged her off the couch and forced her to kneel on the ground.She will once again be his tool for venting.Final dedication.At the moment of orgasm, Black Fiend will slit her throat.

Great enjoyment, so people say. Afterwards, he would bask in the glory, basking in the Illuminati's victory from the balcony... a revenge plan that many had longed for for years. The tunnel was getting darker and darker, and Langdon was still walking down. After a full circle in the underground, the lights were cast in full.As the tunnel leveled out, Langdon slowed down.Hearing the echo of footsteps, Langdon realized he had entered a large room.In the darkness in front of him, he thought he saw a glimmer of light... a blurred light reflected by the glitter around him.He reached forward and felt a smooth surface, chromed metal trim and glass.It turned out to be a car.He groped on the car body to find the door, and then pulled the door open.

The dome lights in the car flickered.Langdon stepped back, recognizing the black van at a glance.Disgusted, he stared at the car for a moment, then hopped in and rummaged around, hoping to find a weapon to replace the pistol he had left in the fountain.He didn't find any weapons, but he did find Victoria's cell phone.That phone is cracked and can no longer be used.Seeing the phone, Langdon panicked.He prayed he was not too late. Langdon raised his hand to turn on the headlights, and the scene in the room suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, the light and shadow of the mother-in-law in the simple room.He guessed it had been used as a stable or an ammunition depot.This is also a dead end.

There is no exit.I turned in the wrong direction!Helpless, Langdon jumped out of the car and scanned the surrounding walls.There are neither passages nor gates here.He remembered the angel statue above the tunnel entrance and wondered if it was a coincidence.Won't!He also remembered what the killer had said by the fountain.She's at the Illuminati church...waiting for me to go back.There was no way Langdon had come to the wrong place at this moment.His heart was beating violently, and a kind of disappointment and hatred gradually climbed into his heart. At first sight of the blood on the floor, Langdon thought it was Victoria.However, looking at the stains, he realized that they were bloody footprints.The footsteps are wide, and the blood only appears on the left foot.This is the blood of the black evil star!Langdon followed the footprints into the corner of the room, his elongated figure growing darker and darker.

With every step he took, he became more and more bewildered.The blood-stained road seemed to lead straight into the corner, and then disappeared. Rounding the corner, Langdon couldn't believe his eyes.This granite floor is not square like other floors.He was looking at another sign.The floor was cut in the shape of a regular pentagram, with one point pointing towards the corner of the wall.A narrow crack cleverly concealed between the two overlapping walls became an entrance.Langdon made his way quietly, into a tunnel.In front of him was a remnant of a wooden partition that had been blocking the entrance of this tunnel before.

A light appeared behind the partition. Langdon was now running.He climbed over the partition and ran towards the light.This passage soon led to another, larger room.The torches on the walls flickered here and there.Langdon enters an unpowered room in the castle...a place no tourist has ever been to.The room would have been eerie in daylight, and even more eerie by the light of the torches. dungeon. There are many small cells here, and the iron bars are mostly corroded.However, one of the large cells was intact, and Langdon was stunned to see what was on the floor.It was a black gown with a red sash.This is where the cardinal was imprisoned!There is an iron gate on the wall next to the cell.The iron door was ajar, and Langdon vaguely saw a tunnel behind it.He rushed over in a hurry, but stopped before reaching him.There was no blood in that tunnel.Seeing the words carved on the archway, Langdon understood what was going on.

Secret passages. Langdon was dumbfounded.He had heard of this tunnel many times, but never knew where the entrance was.This narrow secret passage connects Castel d'Angel with the Vatican and is three quarters of a mile long. During the time the Vatican was under siege, many popes fled here to safety... There are also a few popes who are not devout enough to secretly meet lovers, or supervise the torture of enemies.Inexplicably, both ends of the tunnel are said to be locked today, and the key is kept in a crypt somewhere in the Vatican. Langdon probably understood immediately how the Illuminati got in and out of the Vatican.He couldn't help wondering which insider would have betrayed the church and given the key.Is it Olivetti?Is it some Swiss guard?Whoever it is doesn't matter anymore.

The bloodstained road led to the opposite side of the prison, and Langdon walked towards it.Here, a rusty gate is covered with chains.The lock had been unlocked, the door was ajar, and inside was a steep spiral staircase.Here, too, a pentagram-shaped floor appears.Langdon stared at the floor with trepidation, wondering if Bernini had chiselled out the shape himself.Overhead, a stone cherub adorns this arch.That's it. Bloodstains appeared on the spiral staircase. Before heading upstairs, Langdon realized he needed to find a weapon, anything.He found a four-foot length of iron rod near one of the cells.One end of the iron rod has been cracked and is very sharp.Although the iron rod was surprisingly heavy, it was the most suitable weapon he could find.He hoped that the sudden attack on the injured Black Fiend would turn the advantage to his side.But most of all, he hoped he wasn't too late.

This spiral staircase is dilapidated and extremely curved.Langdon strained his ears for other noises as he walked up, but he heard nothing.As he climbed, the light of the prison faded away.He held onto the wall and walked into the darkness.He goes higher and higher.In the dark, he felt as if Galileo's soul was also going upstairs, and he hoped to share the beauty of heaven with other people who believed in science and religion at the same time. Langdon was still shocked by the Illuminati's hideout.The meeting room of the Illuminati is actually in a building under the jurisdiction of the Holy See.When the Vatican guards went out to search those crypts and the residences of famous scientists, members of the Illuminati were probably meeting here... right under the watchful eyes of the guards.This suddenly seemed very reasonable.As the master planner for the renovation of the castle, Bernini can come and go here as he pleases... unquestionably make changes according to his requirements.How many secret entrances did Bernini add?How many exquisite decorations are there to guide the way?The Church of the Illuminati, Langdon knew he would be there soon. The stairs became narrower and narrower, and Langdon felt that he was about to be surrounded by passages.The fabled ghost was whispering in the dark, but he kept going up.Seeing a horizontal light in front of him, he realized that a few more steps up would bring him to the corner of the stairs.It was in that place that the light of the torches diffused from under the front threshold.He walked up silently. Langdon didn't know where he was in the castle, but he knew he was almost at the top.He imagined the huge angel on the castle, and felt it was directly above his head. Angel guard me, he thought, grabbing the railing.After that, he stretched out his hand and gently pushed the door open. Victoria lay on the couch feeling her arms ached.When she woke up and found her hands tied behind her back, she thought she could relax first, and then slowly untie the ropes on her hands, but she ran out of time.The beast has returned.At this moment, he was bare-chested, showing his strong chest muscles and the scars left in the fight, and he was standing beside her, looking down at her.He narrowed his dark eyes and stared down at her body.Victoria realized he was imagining what he was about to do.Heixixing seemed to be teasing her, slowly untied the wet belt and threw it on the floor. Victoria felt a wave of loathing and terror.She closed her eyes.But when she opened her eyes again, Heixixing had already taken out a switchblade.He opened the knife with a "click" and put it directly on Victoria's face. Victoria saw her own fear reflected in the steel blade. Heixiexing flipped the pocket knife and slid the back of the knife across Victoria's belly.The cold metal made Victoria shudder.Heixixing stared at her contemptuously, and slid the knife down the waist of her panties. She took a breath.He slid the knife back and forth, slowly and dangerously... slowly under.Immediately afterwards, he leaned over and whispered to her, panting heavily. "This knife gouged out your father's eyeball." At that moment, Victoria felt that she could kill. Heixixing turned over the jackknife again, and picked up her khaki underwear to cut open.But he stopped abruptly and looked up at something.Someone actually entered this room. "Go away!" a deep voice shouted from the door. Victoria couldn't see who was speaking, but she recognized the voice.Robert!he is alive!Heixixing looked at him as if he had seen a ghost, and said, "Mr. Langdon, you must be protected by a guardian angel."