《达芬奇的密码》节选(2)
O,Draconian devil! (哦,严酷的魔王!)
Oh,lame saint! (哦,跛脚的圣徒!)
Although Landon had not the slight idea of what it meant,he did understant Fache's instinct that the pentacle(五边形) had something to do with devil worship(信仰).
Oh,lame saint!
Sauniere had left a literal(字面的) referance to the devil. Equally as bizarre(古怪的) was the serious of numbers."Part of it looks like a numeric cipher(数字密码)."
"Yes,"Fache said.“Our cryptographers(解密人员) are already working on it. We believe these numbers may be the key to who killed him. Maybe a telephone exchange or some kind of social identification. Do the numbers have any symbolic meaning to you?"
Langdon looked again at the digits(数字), sensing it would take him hours to extract any symbolic meaning. If Sauniere had even intended any. To Langdon, the numbers looked totally random. He was accustomed to symbolic progressions that made some semblance(类似) of sense, but everything here--the pentacle(又来了), the text, the numbers--seemed disparate(迥然不同的) at the most fundamental level.