MISTAKE 128
Chapter 128: The agency makes its move
For the next hour, Rico and Mia worked in tandem, trying every trick in their considerable arsenal to bypass the box's security. The tension in the vault was thick; every failed attempt pushed up the stress.
"Guys," Leo's voice came through their earpieces, "we've got movement. A car just pulled into the parking lot."
"Shit," Jack hissed. "How many?"
"Just one person. Looks like a cleaner."
Jack ran a hand through his hair. "Okay, we've still got time. Rico, Mia, where are we at?"
Mia looked up, frustration evident on her face. "We've bypassed the biometrics, but this voice recognition is killing us. It's like nothing I've ever seen before." "Wait a second," Rico said, his eyes lighting up." "What if we don't need to bypass it? What if
we could trick it instead?"
"What do you mean?" Jack asked.
Rico grinned. "Mia, pull up that voice modulation program you used on the Stephenson job. If we can get a sample of the right voice, we might be able to synthesize it."
Mia's eyes widened. "That... that might actually work. But we'd need to know whose voice it's looking for."
Jack thought for a moment, then pulled out his phone. He dialed a number, speaking quietly
Chapter 128. The agency makes its thave
when it connected. "Sir, we're at the box, but we're stuck on voice recognition. Any ideas. whose voice
it might be keyed to?"
He listened for a moment, then his face paled. "Are you sure? Alright, we'll try it."
he turned to the team. "It's
moment of
whispered. "As in,
one. Can you do
of his in
again. "Guys, the cleaner's inside the building. You've got maybe ten
up her tablet to the voice recognition panel. A slightly robotic but recognizable version of Anya's voice emanated from the device. "What do you mean? Password: Dad," the first sentence was pulled from the government archives of a cruise ship
heartstopping moment, nothing happened. Then, with a soft click,
swung open.
did it!"
Jack said, reaching into the box. "Now let's
box, feeling around. His
it?"
hand out, empty. "It's... There's nothing here. The box
fell
that security? There's got to
shook his head. "Nothing. Not a
cleaner's almost
cursed. "Alright, we're leaving.
entry point. As they slipped out into the night, they could hear the faint sound of a vacuum starting up inside. Once
said when the call connected, "we got into the box, but... it was empty. There was nothing there." He listened for a
up, he turned to the team. "Change of plans. We're
more questions than it had answered, and they all had a sinking feeling that
the curb, disappearing into the darkness. Behind them,
ordinary bank. This was bank operated by the
each member of the team was lost in thought, wondering
a dark van slammed into
machine, the Van withdrew and a row truck replaced it, and the entire crew was dragged away
early risers starting their day, unaware
of a major restructuring had been circulating for weeks, leaving agents and analysts alike on edge. Today, those rumors would come
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