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达芬奇密码|The Da Vinci Code

第93章|Chapter 92

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伦敦的天主事工会活动中心位于奥姆宫街5 号，它是一座外表朴素的砖房，从楼上可以俯瞰到肯辛顿花园的北大道。塞拉斯从未到过那里，然而当他以步代车向那栋房子走去时，他的心中逐渐有种越来强烈的前来寻求避难的感觉。尽管下着雨，雷米还是把车停在离房子不远的地方，让他下车，为的是使豪华轿车远离热闹的大街。塞拉斯并不介意走路。雨，正在洗刷着天地间的一切。

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塞拉斯听从了雷米的建议，他把枪擦拭干净，把它放进带栅条的炉篦里。他很高兴把它处理掉了，感觉轻松了许多。他的双腿因为一直被绑着，至今还有点疼，然而他曾经承受过的苦难远比这大得多。不过，他倒是在为被雷米绑在车子后面的提彬而感到惊奇。这个英国佬肯定要吃一番苦头了。

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"你打算怎么处置他呢？"早在开车到这里来时，塞拉斯就已经问过雷米。

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雷米耸耸肩："还是让教主做决定吧。"他以一种奇怪的果断语气说道。

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此刻，塞拉斯向天主事工会的房子走去。雨下得更大了，将他身上的长袍淋了个湿透，他前天留下的伤口，因为雨淋的缘故，此时像针一样刺痛了他的神经。他正准备将过去二十四小时的罪孽统统抛诸脑后，以便净化自己的灵魂。如今，他的使命已经完成。

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塞拉斯穿过小院，来到大门前。他发现门没有锁，却一点也不感到奇怪。当他从地毯上走过时，楼上的电子钟骤然响了起来。在这些居住者每天要花上大部分时间闭门祷告的大厅里，钟，是在寻常不过的摆设。塞拉斯听到头上的木板发出"吱吱呀呀"的声音。

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一位身披大氅的男人走下楼来。"有什么事需要我帮忙吗？"他的目光很和蔼，似乎毫不在意塞拉斯那令人吃惊的外表。

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"谢谢。我叫塞拉斯，是天主事工会的成员。"

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"你是美国人吗？"

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塞拉斯点点头："我来城里就呆一天。我可以在这里歇歇脚吗？"

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"那还用说，四楼有两间房子空着呢。要不要我去给你拿些面包与茶来？"

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"谢谢。"塞拉斯此时已经饿坏了。

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塞拉斯上楼挑了一个有窗户的房间，他脱下身上被雨淋湿的长袍，只穿着贴身的衣服，跪在地上祷告。他听到主人上了楼，将盘子放在门边。塞拉斯做完祷告，吃完东西，便躺下睡觉。

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三层楼以下，有人正打电话进来。接电话的，是刚才接待塞拉斯的天主事工会的那个人。

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"这里是伦敦警察局，"打电话的人说道："我们在寻找一名患了白化病的修道士。我们已经听说，他可能就在你们那里。你见过他没有？"

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天主事工会的人大吃一惊："他是在这里。他闯了什么祸吗？"

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"他真的在你们那里？"

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"是的，他正在楼上祷告呢。到底出什么事了？"

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"你别放他走。"那位警官下了命令："也不要跟任何人说。我马上就派人过来。"

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King’s College, established by King George IV in 1829, houses its Department of Theology andReligious Studies adjacent to Parliament on property granted by the Crown. King’s CollegeReligion Department boasts not only 150 years’ experience in teaching and research, but the 1982establishment of the Research Institute in Systematic Theology, which possesses one of the mostcomplete and electronically advanced religious research libraries in the world.

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Langdon still felt shaky as he and Sophie came in from the rain and entered the library. Theprimary research room was as Teabing had described it—a dramatic octagonal chamber dominatedby an enormous round table around which King Arthur and his knights might have beencomfortable were it not for the presence of twelve flat-screen computer workstations. On the farside of the room, a reference librarian was just pouring a pot of tea and settling in for her day ofwork.

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"Lovely morning," she said in a cheerful British accent, leaving the tea and walking over. "May Ihelp you?""Thank you, yes," Langdon replied. "My name is—""Robert Langdon." She gave a pleasant smile. "I know who you are."For an instant, he feared Fache had put him on English television as well, but the librarian’s smilesuggested otherwise. Langdon still had not gotten used to these moments of unexpected celebrity.

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Then again, if anyone on earth were going to recognize his face, it would be a librarian in aReligious Studies reference facility.

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"Pamela Gettum," the librarian said, offering her hand. She had a genial, erudite face and apleasingly fluid voice. The horn-rimmed glasses hanging around her neck were thick.

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"A pleasure," Langdon said. "This is my friend Sophie Neveu."The two women greeted one another, and Gettum turned immediately back to Langdon. "I didn’tknow you were coming.""Neither did we. If it’s not too much trouble, we could really use your help finding someinformation."Gettum shifted, looking uncertain. "Normally our services are by petition and appointment only,unless of course you’re the guest of someone at the college?"Langdon shook his head. "I’m afraid we’ve come unannounced. A friend of mine speaks veryhighly of you. Sir Leigh Teabing?" Langdon felt a pang of gloom as he said the name. "The BritishRoyal Historian."Gettum brightened now, laughing. "Heavens, yes. What a character. Fanatical! Every time hecomes in, it’s always the same search strings. Grail. Grail. Grail. I swear that man will die before hegives up on that quest." She winked. "Time and money afford one such lovely luxuries, wouldn’tyou say? A regular Don Quixote, that one.""Is there any chance you can help us?" Sophie asked. "It’s quite important."Gettum glanced around the deserted library and then winked at them both. "Well, I can’t very wellclaim I’m too busy, now can I? As long as you sign in, I can’t imagine anyone being too upset.

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What did you have in mind?""We’re trying to find a tomb in London."Gettum looked dubious. "We’ve got about twenty thousand of them. Can you be a little morespecific?""It’s the tomb of a knight. We don’t have a name.""A knight. That tightens the net substantially. Much less common.""We don’t have much information about the knight we’re looking for," Sophie said, "but this iswhat we know." She produced a slip of paper on which she had written only the first two lines ofthe poem.

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Hesitant to show the entire poem to an outsider, Langdon and Sophie had decided to share just thefirst two lines, those that identified the knight. Compartmentalized cryptography, Sophie had calledit. When an intelligence agency intercepted a code containing sensitive data, cryptographers eachworked on a discrete section of the code. This way, when they broke it, no single cryptographerpossessed the entire deciphered message.

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In this case, the precaution was probably excessive; even if this librarian saw the entire poem,identified the knight’s tomb, and knew what orb was missing, the information was useless withoutthe cryptex.

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Gettum sensed an urgency in the eyes of this famed American scholar, almost as if his finding thistomb quickly were a matter of critical importance. The green-eyed woman accompanying him alsoseemed anxious.

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Puzzled, Gettum put on her glasses and examined the paper they had just handed her.

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In London lies a knight a Pope interred.

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His labor’s fruit a Holy wrath incurred.

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She glanced at her guests. "What is this? Some kind of Harvard scavenger hunt?"Langdon’s laugh sounded forced. "Yeah, something like that."Gettum paused, feeling she was not getting the whole story. Nonetheless, she felt intrigued andfound herself pondering the verse carefully. "According to this rhyme, a knight did something thatincurred displeasure with God, and yet a Pope was kind enough to bury him in London."Langdon nodded. "Does it ring any bells?"Gettum moved toward one of the workstations. "Not offhand, but let’s see what we can pull up inthe database."Over the past two decades, King’s College Research Institute in Systematic Theology had usedoptical character recognition software in unison with linguistic translation devices to digitize andcatalog an enormous collection of texts—encyclopedias of religion, religious biographies, sacredscriptures in dozens of languages, histories, Vatican letters, diaries of clerics, anything at all thatqualified as writings on human spirituality. Because the massive collection was now in the form ofbits and bytes rather than physical pages, the data was infinitely more accessible.

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Settling into one of the workstations, Gettum eyed the slip of paper and began typing. "To begin,we’ll run a straight Boolean with a few obvious keywords and see what happens.""Thank you."Gettum typed in a few words:

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LONDON, KNIGHT, POPEAs she clicked the SEARCH button, she could feel the hum of the massive mainframe downstairsscanning data at a rate of 500 MB/sec. "I’m asking the system to show us any documents whosecomplete text contains all three of these keywords. We’ll get more hits than we want, but it’s a goodplace to start."The screen was already showing the first of the hits now.

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Painting the Pope. The Collected Portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds. London University Press.

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Gettum shook her head. "Obviously not what you’re looking for." She scrolled to the next hit.

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The London Writings of Alexander Pope by G. Wilson Knight.

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Again she shook her head.

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As the system churned on, the hits came up more quickly than usual. Dozens of texts appeared,many of them referencing the eighteenth-century British writer Alexander Pope, whosecounterreligious, mock-epic poetry apparently contained plenty of references to knights andLondon.

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Gettum shot a quick glance to the numeric field at the bottom of the screen. This computer, bycalculating the current number of hits and multiplying by the percentage of the database left tosearch, provided a rough guess of how much information would be found. This particular searchlooked like it was going to return an obscenely large amount of data.

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Estimated number of total hits: 2,692"We need to refine the parameters further," Gettum said, stopping the search. "Is this all theinformation you have regarding the tomb? There’s nothing else to go on?"Langdon glanced at Sophie Neveu, looking uncertain.

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This is no scavenger hunt, Gettum sensed. She had heard the whisperings of Robert Langdon’sexperience in Rome last year. This American had been granted access to the most secure library onearth—the Vatican Secret Archives. She wondered what kinds of secrets Langdon might havelearned inside and if his current desperate hunt for a mysterious London tomb might relate toinformation he had gained within the Vatican. Gettum had been a librarian long enough to knowthe most common reason people came to London to look for knights. The Grail.

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Gettum smiled and adjusted her glasses. "You are friends with Leigh Teabing, you are in England,and you are looking for a knight." She folded her hands. "I can only assume you are on a Grailquest."Langdon and Sophie exchanged startled looks.

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Gettum laughed. "My friends, this library is a base camp for Grail seekers. Leigh Teabing amongthem. I wish I had a shilling for every time I’d run searches for the Rose, Mary Magdalene,Sangreal, Merovingian, Priory of Sion, et cetera, et cetera. Everyone loves a conspiracy." She tookoff her glasses and eyed them. "I need more information."In the silence, Gettum sensed her guests’ desire for discretion was quickly being outweighed bytheir eagerness for a fast result.

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"Here," Sophie Neveu blurted. "This is everything we know." Borrowing a pen from Langdon, shewrote two more lines on the slip of paper and handed it to Gettum.

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You seek the orb that ought be on his tomb.

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It speaks of Rosy flesh and seeded womb.

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Gettum gave an inward smile. The GRAIL indeed, she thought, noting the references to the Rose andher seeded womb. "I can help you," she said, looking up from the slip of paper. "Might I ask wherethis verse came from? And why you are seeking an orb?""You might ask," Langdon said, with a friendly smile, "but it’s a long story and we have very littletime.""Sounds like a polite way of saying ’mind your own business.’ ""We would be forever in your debt, Pamela," Langdon said, "if you could find out who this knightis and where he is buried.""Very well," Gettum said, typing again. "I’ll play along. If this is a Grail-related issue, we shouldcross-reference against Grail keywords. I’ll add a proximity parameter and remove the titleweighting. That will limit our hits only to those instances of textual keywords that occur near aGrail-related word."Search for: KNIGHT, LONDON, POPE, TOMBWithin 100 word proximity of: GRAIL, ROSE, SANGREAL, CHALICE"How long will this take?" Sophie asked.

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"A few hundred terabytes with multiple cross-referencing fields?" Gettum’s eyes glimmered as sheclicked the SEARCH key. "A mere fifteen minutes."Langdon and Sophie said nothing, but Gettum sensed this sounded like an eternity to them.

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"Tea?" Gettum asked, standing and walking toward the pot she had made earlier. "Leigh alwaysloves my tea."

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