The Librarian: Quest for the Spear Page #3

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One can only imagine how powerful

all three are.

The Serpent Brotherhood.

Serpent Brotherhood?

What, did these guys play a lot

of Dungeons & Dragons?

They were a splinter group...

...back when the Library was

in Alexandria in ancient times.

They were scholars too, but they wished

to use the powers of the artifacts to rule.

They got their name from the serpent

that brought knowledge to Adam and Eve.

Disagreement led to hatred,

hatred led to a secret war.

They incited the riot that led

to the destruction of the first Library.

Well, then we better call the police.

Oh, yeah, call the police.

Tell them about the Spear of Destiny,

the golden goose, the lost Ark.

Enjoy your stay in the psych ward.

I understand Thorazine

comes in vanilla now.

Right.

Nobody can understand the mysteries of the

Library tradition unless they experience it.

You are the only one who can

bring the Spear piece back.

No. No, no.

There's gotta be somebody

more qualified.

Flynn, you are the only one for the task.

You are the only one on Earth

for the task.

Look at it this way...

...if you come back, you'll be a hero.

Well, that sounds very...

- If I come back?

- Things aren't as bad as they look.

When she says, if I come back,

I'm hearing I'm not coming back.

I don't wanna go if I can't come back.

They didn't take the book.

If you ever wanna hide something,

hide it in plain sight.

This book contains all the clues you'll need

to locate the other two pieces of the Spear.

The only thing that I know

for certain is that...

...the second piece is somewhere

in the Amazon jungle.

Well, good, that narrows it down

to about 3 million square miles.

Okay.

Time is money. Come on.

- Is this the Language of the Birds?

- Yes.

Mankind's universal language.

That is, before God decided that man

should speak many tongues...

...after the Tower of Babel.

This has been a dead language

for thousands of years.

There's nobody alive that

knows how to read it.

So you better get cracking.

Even with the Rosetta stone, it took

hundreds of Egyptologists 17 years...

...to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Well, you have considerably less time.

You know this is my first day,

and I don't even have a parking place.

You should have a parking place before

you get assigned to fight an evil conspiracy.

If the Serpent Brotherhood should ever

get their hands on the three pieces...

...trust me, it would be horrible.

But just remember one thing,

the most valuable object in the world...

...is not here in the Library.

It's right here.

The fate of the world is in my hands?

That is just so...

...sad.

Oh, God, help us all.

Excuse me. Can I help you, sir?

Your seat's back there.

Thanks.

- This way.

- Here, let me help you with that.

Oh, one more thing I forgot to tell you.

Trust no one.

And guard the book with your life.

Did anybody else...?

Nobody saw...?

The vowels are Akkadian, but the

consonants are both early Sumerian...

...and Indian and Hebrew.

The genders are Sanskrit,

the phonemes are Etruscan, with certain...

Certain semantic features of Vteli.

Sorry, I was just...

...thinking out loud.

It was sweet of you to let me watch from

the cockpit, but I think I should take my...

I was hoping to have the aisle seat.

One sec.

I'll come visit later. I promise.

Any time.

Believe it or not,

this is actually my first plane flight.

Let's stop for a moment and consider.

I am way out of your league. Way out.

If your league were to explode...

...I wouldn't hear the sound

for another three days.

So for everybody's sakes,

let's just enjoy a companionable silence.

I did it.

I did it. I just learned the...

I just learned the Language of the Birds.

Didn't even have a Rosetta stone.

I just did it in...

...seven hours and 26 minutes.

Sorry, sorry.

Go back to being radiant.

The golden ratio.

- The golden ratio...

- You're about to say the ratio of 1.618-1...

...has been proven to be the key to

everything in nature that we find beautiful...

...and that my face is the most perfect

example you've ever seen of that ratio.

How could you possibly know that?

Because every geek I've ever met

has tried to hand me that line.

I'd love for you to join us in the cabin,

see the sunrise over the Amazon.

Of course you would.

I would...

"Of course you would. "

"Of course you would. "

We're at 11,000 feet

and starting our descent.

Excuse me. We have a problem.

Are you the air marshal?

Yes, I am.

That's the Librarian?

Don't underestimate him.

Sorry. I just need to get past you.

I need to use the bathroom.

Hey.

Hey.

Again, not impressed.

- Who are you?

- Would love to talk...

...but really don't have the time.

- Who are you?

- The woman who's trying to save your life.

Get him! Get him!

What are you doing?

We're going out.

Don't tell me you're afraid of heights!

It's just that I know that the odds...

...of an untrained guy like me

surviving a jump from 11,000 feet...

...is 7-2 against.

What are your odds now?

He brilliantly lowers our expectations

and then jumps without a chute.

Remarkable!

Don't look down.

I think I'm gonna be sick.

Who in the hell are you?

Don't get your knickers in a twist, Carsen.

Judson told me to look out for you.

Well, Judson told me to trust no one.

Oh, yeah?

Well, I'm Nicole Noone.

No one.

Didn't they tell you to expect me?

No. Nobody told me anything.

I have no idea what I'm doing.

Really?

No, no calls. They'll use the signal

to triangulate our location.

Well, that's against the law.

They tried to kill you. You think they care

about breaking phone-tapping regulations?

They didn't just try to kill me.

They just wanted to inject me with sodium

pentothal so I'd tell them where I hid...

...the book.

- Who'd have thunk it?

You know, if you really wanna

hide something...

...you do it in plain sight.

How did you get that on the airplane?

Me, they confiscate my nose-hair clipper.

Where the hell are we?

I have no idea.

Well, you're the brains

of the operation. Figure it out.

Oh, you think I can't?

I could just climb that tree right there.

In a matter of seconds, I can

tell us exactly where we are.

Well, I'm not stopping you.

That tree.

Do you need a hand?

I'm fine.

You go get them, monkey boy.

Let's hear it, genius.

All right.

Okay.

Well...

That...

...is an extremely rare blue condor.

Found only within a 100-mile radius

of the Amazon's Purus tributary.

The only mountain tall enough

to have a snowcap...

...this time of year in that radius

is Mount Prto Velho.

We are at minus 5.2 degrees latitude

and minus 64.6 degrees longitude.

English?

We need to go 24.7 miles...

...that way.

Isn't this...?

So how'd you do that?

Just your basic geography,

biology, botany.

That, and I memorized the Earth.

You're kidding, right?

You need to get out more.

Yeah, people keep telling me that.

- You always travel with a machete?

- I'm well-prepared.

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