The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons full plot
Summary of important plots
Mona Lisa Jacques Saunière is the leader of the Priory of Sion, so he knows the secret of the "keystone", that is, the keystone He can in turn reveal the location of the Holy Grail, and he holds documents that will shake the foundations of Christianity and the Catholic Church. The Master killed him in order to force him to reveal information that would lead to the destruction of other high-ranking members of the Priory of Sion.
The reason why Sophie Neveu broke off contact with her grandfather was that she originally wanted to give her grandfather a surprise visit during a school holiday, but she witnessed him participating in a pagan church at home in Normandy. Sexual Rituals (Holy Marriage, Hieros Gamos).
? Among the messages Saunière wrote on the ground with a steganographic pen before his death was "P.S: Go find Robert Langdon." This is why Bezu Fache suspected Langdon was the murderer. Fache wipes out the trip before Langdon arrives so that Langdon doesn't know the police suspect him. By chance, when the police faxed the message to Sophie Neveu's office, Sophie saw the complete content of the message. She immediately realized that the message was actually addressed to her, because her grandfather had called her "Princess Sophie" (P.S.) when she was a child. From this she also understood that Langdon was innocent. While they were at the Louvre, she secretly told Langdon this by asking him to call her private voicemail and listen to her messages there.
?The way "P.S." is written, to most people, is the abbreviation of the word "Post Script" which is very common in letters; however, to Sophie Neveu, This is the abbreviation of "Princess Sophie", the nickname given to her by her grandfather Saunière. This is also because Saunière knew that Sophie was a descendant of the French Merovingian dynasty, so he called her princess. Therefore, Bezu Fache was completely unaware of the true meaning of this abbreviation in Father Saunière's message, but Sophie Neveu clearly understood that the line "Go to Robert Langdon" was written by her grandfather to herself. 's last words. In addition, the key to the safe kept by Saunière is engraved with the abbreviation of the Priory of Sion, which is also P.S.
? The other three lines of Saunière's Blood Book, which appear to be prayers for the monks, actually hide some real clues by confusing the spelling order of the letters (see translocation word formation game). The first line is a set of Fibonacci numbers scrambled. The real contents of the second line "O, draconian devil!" and the third line "Oh, lame saint!" are "Leonardo da Vinci" (Leonardo da Vinci) and the English "The Mona Lisa" respectively. (Mona Lisa). The true meaning of these clues can lead to a second set of clues. On the glass outside the Mona Lisa, Saunière used the steganography pen of the Louvre Museum curator to write a message that could only be seen under ultraviolet light: "So dark the con of Man" (The Deception of Man) so dark). The second clue is another Leonardo da Vinci oil painting "Madonna of the Rocks" (Madonna of the Rocks) hanging nearby, hidden in the Louvre Museum; this work was later repainted and called The Virgin of the Rocks, hidden in the Louvre Museum. at the National Gallery, London). Saunière hid a key behind the painting and wrote an address on the key with the curator's steganographic pen.
? This key can open a safe at the Paris branch of the Zurich Depository Bank. Saunière's account numbers at the bank were those Fibonacci numbers in the correct order.
? The instructions Saunière told Silas at gunpoint were actually an elaborate hoax. He told Silas that the keystone was buried in the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris. It is precisely located on the ancient "Rose Line" (Rose Line). Before redefining the prime meridian to pass through the Greenwich Observatory, the zero degree longitude was defined as passing through Paris. The Rose meridian refers to this old prime meridian. Meridian) on the underside of an obelisk. In fact, the message under the obelisk simply contains a reference to the Bible's Book of Job: "Hitherto shalt thou go and no further" (see Job 38 in the Old Testament) :11) A quotation from a text. It was only when Silas read this that he realized he had been deceived.
? The keystone is actually a cryptex (a combination of the words cryptology and codex), which was invented by Leonardo da Vinci to transmit confidential information. It is a cylindrical device. The rotatable parts on it (let's call it the password wheel) must be combined in the correct order to open it. If you open it with force, the bottle of vinegar inside will burst, and the handle will contain The papyrus on which important messages are written is dissolved. The mahogany box containing the keystone contained clues to the correct sequence of combinations of the cipher wheels needed to open the keystone, written in backwards handwriting in the same manner as Leonardo da Vinci's diary. While escaping to England on Teabing's plane, Langdon solved the puzzle and discovered that the correct combination of the cipher wheel should be "S-O-F-I-A", which is how Sophie's name was written in ancient Greek, which also means "wisdom." " means.
? The keystone secret cylinder actually contains a smaller secret cylinder that contains the second puzzle of the cipher wheel combination. This puzzle says to find "a knight a pope interred" (note that the correct understanding of "a pope" in solving the puzzle should not be "a pope", but should mean "Alexander?" The ball on the tomb of "A. Sir Isaac Newton, there is a huge spherical sculpture on that tomb, but it is not what the riddle in the keystone is about. The riddle in the keystone really refers to the apple that led Newton to discover the law of gravity. The riddle believes that this apple "should be in the tomb" (however, this significant apple did not actually appear on Newton's tomb), so the code wheel combination of the second secret cylinder should be "A-P-P-L-E", Namely apples.
The true identity of the "mentor" is actually Sir Leigh Teabing. He knew the identities of the leaders of the Priory of Sion and had their offices bugged. Remy is his assistant. It was Teabing who contacted Bishop Aringarosa with a fake French accent in order to hide his true identity and coax Aringarosa into funding the search for the Holy Grail. Teabing never intended to give the Holy Grail to Aringarosa, but simply wanted to use Opus Dei's determination to find the Holy Grail. However, he believed that the Priory of Sion would renege on its oath to reveal the secrets of the Holy Grail to the world at the appointed time, so he planned to steal the Grail documents and reveal them to the world himself. It was he who informed Silas that Langdon and Sophie Neveu were at his castle. He didn't take the keystone from Langdon and Sophie because he didn't want to reveal his identity to them. He originally planned to have Silas break into his home and get the keystone, but when the police tracked the GPS device on Langdon's stolen truck and heard Silas shooting and went to search Teabing's house, Teabing's The plan failed. Teabing took Neveu and Langdon to the Temple Church in London because he knew it was a dead end; he staged the hostage drama with Remy in order to obtain the keystone without revealing the true conspiracy. The phone call Silas received while in the limousine with Remy was actually from Teabing who was hiding in the back of the car.
In order to silence him, Teabing got rid of Remy by making him drink Cognac with peanut powder, because he knew that Remy had a fatal allergic reaction to peanuts. Teabing anonymously reported to the police that Silas was hiding at Opus Dei's London headquarters.
? During the showdown with Teabing in Westminster Abbey, before destroying the second secret cylinder in front of Teabing, Langdon secretly opened it and took out the inside something. As Teabing vainly begged Langdon to reveal the contents of the second cryptex and the secret location of the Holy Grail, the police arrived to arrest Teabing and take him away.
? Bishop Aringarosa and Silas believed that they were saving the church, not destroying it.
After discovering eavesdropping equipment in the stables of Teabing Castle, Bezu Fache understood that Neveu and Langdon were innocent.
? Outside Opus Dei's London headquarters, Silas, who was on the run from the police, accidentally shot Aringarosa. After realizing the terrible mistake he had been deceived into, Aringarosa asked Bezu Fache to hand over the coupon bonds in his briefcase to the families of the slain Priory of Sion leaders as a token of appreciation. A little compensation from my conscience. Silas died from the gunshot wound.
? The final message contained in the second keystone does not actually point to Rosslyn Chapel, despite the fact that the Holy Grail was once buried there beneath the Star of David in the floor (composing the Star of David). The two interlocking triangles represent the "sword edge" and the "meal cup", which are symbols of male and female).
? The tour guide at Roslin Chapel is Sophie's long-lost brother.
The guardian of Roslin Chapel is Sophie's long-lost grandmother, Jacques Saunière's wife.
? Although all four leaders of the Priory of Sion were killed, the secret was not lost, as there was an (unspecified) contingency plan that would ensure the survival of the order and its secrets .
? The true meaning of the last message is that the Holy Grail is buried beneath the Louvre's "inverted" glass pyramid (i.e., the "cup" that symbolizes women) in a small pyramid-shaped building directly below it (i.e. Symbolizing the male "sword edge", the relative position of the two pyramid-shaped buildings in the Louvre is somewhat similar to the relative way of the two triangles that make up the Star of David). It is somewhat ironic that Langdon and Sophie first came from Bei When Zul Fache escaped from his hands, he almost fell into the glass pyramid.
At the end of the novel, Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu fell in love, and they agreed to meet in Florence.
A devout believer in God - Leonardo Witler, an outstanding scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has devoted his life to proving the existence of God through scientific means. He and his adopted daughter, the mysterious and charming scientist Vittoria, conducted highly confidential experiments in the laboratory and successfully created an extremely powerful energy-"antimatter".
Before this major discovery was announced to the public, Leonardo was brutally murdered in the laboratory. One of his eyes was gouged out by the murderer, and a mysterious mark - "Illuminati" - was printed on his chest. ! What’s even more shocking is that the antimatter hidden underground disappeared. Robert Langdon, a symbology expert at Harvard University, was invited by the head of the European Organization for Nuclear Research to investigate this mysterious symbol. On the day he arrived, the missing antimatter was discovered somewhere beneath the Vatican City. Antimatter leaving the laboratory will explode due to lack of electricity after 24 hours. This day is the election day of the Catholic Pope. Catholic leaders from all over the world gather in the Vatican City. The antimatter hidden underground is like a time bomb. If it cannot be found in time, the entire Vatican City will be wiped out in an instant.
The situation is urgent, and Langdon and Vittoria embark on an adventurous journey to the Vatican...