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索非把密码盒揽在怀里,开始输入这几个字母,她内心充满了喜悦。"一个蕴含智慧的古词。"兰登与提彬在一旁看着,此时仿佛也停止了呼吸。

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"小心。"提彬敦促道:"一定要小心。"

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索菲输入了最后一个字母。"好了。"她低声地说,抬头望了望其他人:"我要把它打开了。""记住里面有醋瓶子。"兰登轻轻地说,既恐惧又喜悦:"你要小心才是。"

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索菲知道,如果密码盒与她年轻时打开的那些东西一样,那她只要紧紧抓住这圆筒的两头--而不必去管什么字母或号码,然后用力一拉,慢慢的朝相反方向施压。如果输入的数字或字母刚好与密码相符的话,那么圆柱体的一端就会自动滑开。就像打开相机镜头的盒盖,然后她就可以伸进手去,将卷起来的莎草纸写就的文件取出来。而这些文件,都绕着装醋的瓶子包了起来。不过,要是他们输入不正确的密码,索菲在圆石筒两端施加的外力会在里面形成一种推力,它就会向下作用到圆石筒,并对里面的醋玻璃瓶产生压力,如果用力推,最终就会把它损坏。

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"要轻轻的拉。"她对自己说。

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索菲以手心抱住圆柱体的两端时,提彬和兰登两人都挨了过来。索菲满怀着即将破译密码的喜悦,几乎忘记他们想要在里面找些什么。这就是郇山隐修会的拱心石吧。据提彬讲,它里面有一幅可以帮助我们找寻圣杯的地图,凭这张地图,就能找到抹大拉的玛利亚的坟墓,以及耶稣嫉妒在最后的晚餐上用过的珍贵器皿……还可以揭开无数不为人知的真相。

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索菲紧紧抓住圆石筒,再次检查所有的字母是否与指示器上显示的相同。然后她慢慢地一推。然而什么事情也没有发生。她稍微再用力,突然,那圆石筒就像设计精巧的望远镜一样"砰"的一声开了,圆筒重的一头还落在她的手中。兰登和提彬紧张得差点要跳起来。索菲将圆筒的盖子放在桌上,倾斜着圆筒,眯着眼睛看看里面有些什么,她的心急速的跳动起来。

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啊,有幅卷轴!

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索菲往里瞅着那张卷起来的纸中间的空隙,她发现它被包在圆柱形的物体上,她认为那可能是只醋瓶。不过,奇怪的是,那张包在醋瓶子上的的纸并非通常用的薄莎草纸,而是羊皮纸。那就怪了,她心想。醋可溶解不了羊皮纸啊。她又看了看那幅卷轴的空隙,意识到中间的东西根本不是什么醋瓶子,纯粹是其他东西。

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"怎么啦?"提彬问她:"快把那卷轴取出来呀。"

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索菲皱了皱眉,一把抓住那张卷起来的羊皮纸及被它包住的物品,将它们从圆筒里取出来。

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"那不是莎草纸,这么重!"提彬说道。

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"我知道,纸里面塞了些东西。"

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"那是啥?是醋瓶子吗?"

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"不是。"索菲把卷起来的羊皮纸摊开,露出了里面的东西。"是这个。"

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兰登看到羊皮纸包住的东西,心不由一沉。

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"上帝啊,你祖父是位多么了不起的建筑师!"提彬说着,倒在了座位上。

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兰登惊奇地睁大了眼睛。"我看索尼埃才不会把事情弄得这么简单呢。"

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桌上现在又多了一个密码盒,但比以前的那个更小,它用黑色玛瑙做就,一直放在前一个密码盒里。想来索尼埃肯定对二元论很感兴趣吧。两个密码盒。什么东西都成双的。

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双重含义。男人女人。黑中有白,白中有黑。兰登只觉得由象征性符号编织成的大网正向外撒了开去。白衍生了黑。

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每个男人都脱胎于女人。

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白色--女人。

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黑色--男人。

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兰登伸过手去,将那个更小的密码盒举起来。它除了比大的小了一半,而且颜色之外,其外形与前一个并无二致。他听到熟悉的潺潺声。很明显,他们以前听说过的醋瓶子就在这个更小的密码盒里。

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"好啦,罗伯特。"提彬一边说,一边把羊皮纸推给他。"你会很高兴听到的,至少方向我们是找对了。"兰登仔细打量羊皮纸。他又看到另一首用精美书法写就的四行诗,而且仍然采用了五步抑扬格。这首诗的含义非常模糊,不过他只需要读第一行,就知道提彬这次到英国来定会不虚此行。诗的第一行是这样的:在伦敦葬了一位教皇为他主持葬礼的骑士。

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诗的其余部分清楚地表明:要打开第二个密码盒,就必须去拜访位于这座城市某个地方的骑士坟墓。

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兰登激动地转身看着提彬:"你认为这首诗指的是什么骑土呢?"

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提彬咧嘴笑了笑。"总不会是最难猜的吧。可我知道,答案就在要找的坟墓里。"

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就在此时,在他们前方十五英里开外的地方,六辆警车沿着浸满雨水的街道,向比金山机场奔去。

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Langdon was impressed. Teabing had just finished writing out the entire twenty-two-letter Hebrewalphabet—alef-beit—from memory. Granted, he’d used Roman equivalents rather than Hebrewcharacters, but even so, he was now reading through them with flawless pronunciation.

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A B G D H V Z Ch T Y K L M N S O P Tz Q R Sh Th"Alef, Beit, Gimel, Dalet, Hei, Vav, Zayin, Chet, Tet, Yud, Kaf, Lamed, Mem, Nun, Samech, Ayin,Pei, Tzadik, Kuf, Reish, Shin, and Tav." Teabing dramatically mopped his brow and plowed on. "Informal Hebrew spelling, the vowel sounds are not written. Therefore, when we write the wordBaphomet using the Hebrew alphabet, it will lose its three vowels in translation, leaving us—""Five letters," Sophie blurted.

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Teabing nodded and began writing again. "Okay, here is the proper spelling of Baphomet inHebrew letters. I’ll sketch in the missing vowels for clarity’s sake.

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B a P V o M e Th"Remember, of course," he added, "that Hebrew is normally written in the opposite direction, butwe can just as easily use Atbash this way. Next, all we have to do is create our substitution schemeby rewriting the entire alphabet in reverse order opposite the original alphabet.""There’s an easier way," Sophie said, taking the pen from Teabing. "It works for all reflectionalsubstitution ciphers, including the Atbash. A little trick I learned at the Royal Holloway." Sophiewrote the first half of the alphabet from left to right, and then, beneath it, wrote the second half,right to left. "Cryptanalysts call it the fold-over. Half as complicated. Twice as clean."ABGDHVZChTYKThShRQTzPOSNMLTeabing eyed her handiwork and chuckled. "Right you are. Glad to see those boys at the Hollowayare doing their job."Looking at Sophie’s substitution matrix, Langdon felt a rising thrill that he imagined must haverivaled the thrill felt by early scholars when they first used the Atbash Cipher to decrypt the nowfamous Mystery of Sheshach. For years, religious scholars had been baffled by biblical referencesto a city called Sheshach. The city did not appear on any map nor in any other documents, and yetit was mentioned repeatedly in the Book of Jeremiah—the king of Sheshach, the city of Sheshach,the people of Sheshach. Finally, a scholar applied the Atbash Cipher to the word, and his resultswere mind-numbing. The cipher revealed that Sheshach was in fact a code word for another verywell-known city. The decryption process was simple.

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Sheshach, in Hebrew, was spelled: Sh-Sh-K.

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Sh-Sh-K, when placed in the substitution matrix, became B-B-L.

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B-B-L, in Hebrew, spelled Babel.

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The mysterious city of Sheshach was revealed as the city of Babel, and a frenzy of biblicalexamination ensued. Within weeks, several more Atbash code words were uncovered in the OldTestament, unveiling myriad hidden meanings that scholars had no idea were there.

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"We’re getting close," Langdon whispered, unable to control his excitement.

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"Inches, Robert," Teabing said. He glanced over at Sophie and smiled. "You ready?"She nodded.

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"Okay, Baphomet in Hebrew without the vowels reads: B-P-V-M-Th. Now we simply apply yourAtbash substitution matrix to translate the letters into our five-letter password."Langdon’s heart pounded. B-P-V-M-Th. The sun was pouring through the windows now. He lookedat Sophie’s substitution matrix and slowly began to make the conversion. B is Sh... P is V...

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Teabing was grinning like a schoolboy at Christmas. "And the Atbash Cipher reveals..." Hestopped short. "Good God!" His face went white.

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Langdon’s head snapped up.

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"What’s wrong?" Sophie demanded.

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"You won’t believe this." Teabing glanced at Sophie. "Especially you.""What do you mean?" she said.

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"This is... ingenious," he whispered. "Utterly ingenious!" Teabing wrote again on the paper.

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"Drumroll, please. Here is your password." He showed them what he had written.

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Sh-V-P-Y-ASophie scowled. "What is it?"Langdon didn’t recognize it either.

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Teabing’s voice seemed to tremble with awe. "This, my friend, is actually an ancient word ofwisdom."Langdon read the letters again. An ancient word of wisdom frees this scroll. An instant later he gotit. He had newer seen this coming. "An ancient word of wisdom!"Teabing was laughing. "Quite literally!"Sophie looked at the word and then at the dial. Immediately she realized Langdon and Teabing hadfailed to see a serious glitch. "Hold on! This can’t be the password," she argued. "The cryptexdoesn’t have an Sh on the dial. It uses a traditional Roman alphabet.""Read the word," Langdon urged. "Keep in mind two things. In Hebrew, the symbol for the soundSh can also be pronounced as S, depending on the accent. Just as the letter P can be pronounced F."SVFYA? she thought, puzzled.

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"Genius!" Teabing added. "The letter Vav is often a placeholder for the vowel sound O!"Sophie again looked at the letters, attempting to sound them out.

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"S...o...f...y...a."She heard the sound of her voice, and could not believe what she had just said. "Sophia? Thisspells Sophia?"Langdon was nodding enthusiastically. "Yes! Sophia literally means wisdom in Greek. The root ofyour name, Sophie, is literally a ’word of wisdom.’ "Sophie suddenly missed her grandfather immensely. He encrypted the Priory keystone with myname. A knot caught in her throat. It all seemed so perfect. But as she turned her gaze to the fivelettered dials on the cryptex, she realized a problem still existed. "But wait... the word Sophia hassix letters."Teabing’s smile never faded. "Look at the poem again. Your grandfather wrote, ’An ancient wordof wisdom.’ ""Yes?"Teabing winked. "In ancient Greek, wisdom is spelled S-O-F-I-A."

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