Status Updates From The Hidden Cipher: A Knight...

“Elena didn’t answer. Because she couldn’t. She just stared at the screens—the footage, the graphs, the body counts climbing with every refresh. Hour 60: Dead: 200,000 Hour 72: Dead: 250,000 Two hundred fifty thousand dead. One week after deployment. From a single canister. From one operative. From being three days too late.” P379. The Apocalypses hit New York!

“She finally lay down. Closed her eyes. Tried to sleep. But all she could see was the Vatican. The Archives. The Babel Codex waiting in its vault. One document. Hidden for centuries. Tomorrow night, she’d hold it in her hands. If they didn’t get caught first.” P234

“Liam brought her coffee at three. She barely looked up. The sunlight crawled across the room—gold to amber, amber to red. Dust drifted through the beams like ash. At six, Antoine brought dinner. She ate without tasting it, eyes fixed on the vellum.” Page 180
Elena deciphers fragment number 9. It brings the Plague of Babel 😬

Elena (Dr. Voss) is very close to finding Fragment Nine. She and her team are being hunted by Guimar, the leader of the Zealots. Liam is held hostage by the Guardians. Elena makes a pact with Guimar: if she saves Liam from the Guardians’ violence, she will give him the nine fragments, which have the potential to kill millions of people.

Is the six fragment describing COVID?😬

Pestis Sexta: Mors Lenta. “Sixth Plague. The Slow Death.” “What does it do?” “It’s easy to mistake for a common illness. But it leads to progressive respiratory failure, then complete lung collapse.” Page 94

The story reminds me of Indiana Jones. Dr Voss is searching for pieces of an ancient scroll that was torn into nine parts, each containing information about medieval plagues, not to be united. Now Dr Voss, Liam (a student who found where the scroll’s information was kept), and Antoine Rousseau are on the run from the Zealots, an evil group trying to get hold of all nine pieces.