Angels and Demons Page #3

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This way, please, Miss Vetra.

The situation has changed.

We received another threat

from the kidnapper.

The canister was stolen

from our lab around noon yesterday.

The intruder killed my research partner,

Silvano Bentivoglio,

and mutilated him

in order to bypass security.

We use retinal scanners.

They cut out his eye.

Is that your stolen canister,

Miss Vetra?

Where is that camera, number 86?

It's wireless. It, too, was stolen.

It could be anywhere

inside the Vatican walls.

That canister contains an extremely

combustible substance called antimatter.

We need to locate it immediately

or evacuate Vatican City.

I'm quite familiar

with incendiaries, Miss Vetra.

I've never heard of antimatter

being used as such.

Well, it's never been generated

in significant quantities before.

It's a way of studying the origins

of the universe,

to try to isolate what some people

call the "God particle."

But there are implications

for energy research...

"The God particle"?

Yeah,

what we call it isn't important.

It's what gives all matter mass.

The thing without which we could not exist.

You're talking about the moment of creation.

Yes. In a way, I am.

The antimatter is suspended there

in an airtight nanocomposite shell

with electromagnets in each end.

But if it were to fall out of suspension

and come in contact with matter,

say, the bottom of the canister,

the two opposing forces

would annihilate one another violently.

And what might cause it

to fall out of suspension?

The battery going dead.

- Which it will, just before midnight.

- What kind of annihilation?

- How violent?

- A cataclysmic event.

A blinding explosion equivalent

to about five kilotons.

Vatican City will be consumed by light.

Those are the exact words

the kidnapper used.

We will destroy your four pillars.

We will brand your preferiti

and sacrifice them on the altars of science,

then bring your church down upon you.

Vatican City will be consumed by light.

A shining star at the end

of the Path of Illumination.

It's the ancient Illuminati threat.

Destruction of Vatican City through light.

Four pillars,

there's your kidnapped cardinals.

You didn't tell me they were the preferiti,

the favorites to be named the next pope.

Play it again.

We will destroy your four pillars.

- We will brand your preferiti...

- Wait, stop it. Stop it.

"Brand" them.

That's another Illuminati legend.

This one says

that there are a set of five brands,

each one an ambigram.

The first four are the fundamental

elements of science.

Earth, air, fire and water.

The fifth, it's a mystery.

Maybe it's this.

He said they'd be killed publicly.

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