Spy Wars: Get the Predator equipment at the beginning

Lester on the other end of the phone thought for a moment and then said, "Wharton, since the alarm hasn't been triggered, I don't think there's any need to open the underground vault door. Are you and Kant hallucinating?"

"There are two keys to the underground vault. Both keys are needed to open the door. Even if you have the key, you can't open the vault door without knowing the password. The key I kept is still with me. I believe that no one in this world can open the vault door without the key and password!"

"If you're really worried, I'll rush over early tomorrow morning and we'll open the vault door and check it out together!"

After hearing what Lester said, Wharton had no choice but to give up: "Okay, I will wait for Mr. Lester tomorrow morning!"

The next morning, Lester drove to the bank building an hour early. When he and Wharton each inserted the key into the keyhole, Lester entered the password of the vault door, turned the dial and pushed open the vault door. The scene of the vault being empty scared everyone!

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Lester saw this scene and realized that something was wrong, and screamed almost losing his mind.

Finally, there was someone with a clear mind in the crowd: "I'll call the police station!"

At this moment, Lester came to his senses and shouted, "Wait!"

The security guard who was about to call the police stopped.

Lester looked at everyone with suspicion. He simply didn't believe that any thieves could steal all the money and gold in the underground vault so silently. This was definitely a gang crime!

And if it was a gang crime, it would be impossible to avoid the patrols of eight strong security guards every half an hour without committing violent destruction!

A terrible guess came into Lester's mind. He seriously suspected that the bank vault was stolen by these security guards!

"I'll call the police myself!"

Lester went to his office on the second floor, closed the door, and called his old friend, Inspector Smith, at the police station, explaining the situation in detail.

After listening to the call, Smith on the other end of the phone said in an extremely shocked and exaggerated tone: "Oh my God, I didn't expect such a terrible thing to happen! I will immediately take people to investigate the scene and open a case for investigation!"

"Thank you, Smith, but I hope you can keep this a secret for the time being. Right now, our bank only has the reserve funds stored in the safe in the work area, but they can only last for one or two days at most. If the news leaks out, the bank will definitely be hit by a crazy run by depositors, and the situation will be out of control!"

"I understand. I will issue a gag order to the police officers involved in the investigation of this case!"

Then Lester immediately called the vice president, savings manager, loan manager and other senior bank managers one by one, informing them to rush to the bank as quickly as possible.

Inspector General Smith of the Police Department arrived at the bank with the police and the bank executives almost at the same time. After Smith and the police started working, Lester brought the executives to the second-floor conference room to hold an emergency meeting!

After a heated debate, the executives came up with a solution in the shortest possible time.

The first thing to do is to report this matter by telegram to the head office on the other side of the ocean.

Secondly, the news must be strictly sealed. No one inside the bank is allowed to leak the news of the vault theft. Violators will be severely punished.

Third, we will operate as normal today, but we must tell the counter staff that if they encounter withdrawals, they should try to reduce their work efficiency and slow down the withdrawal speed for depositors.

Fourth, immediately contact other nearby banks with which you regularly do business, and borrow some funds from each bank to support you for a period of time!

Fifth, send someone to cooperate and communicate with the police station throughout the process, and urge them to solve the case as soon as possible and recover the stolen funds and gold!

After the executive meeting, Lester personally called a meeting with all the counter staff, asking them to slow down their work pace in the next few days, minimize the amount of daily withdrawals, and conceal the news of the vault theft.

But these bank employees were all as smart as ghosts. After listening to Lester's words and seeing a large number of police officers constantly investigating the scene in the passage leading to the vault and inside and outside the vault, and the security guards being called in for questioning one by one, even a fool would know what had happened.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Smith brought Sheriff Lin Feng to Lester's office.

"Smith, my friend, how is the investigation going?" Lester asked impatiently after making a cup of coffee for each of them.

Smith pointed to the Chinese detective beside him and said, "This is Sergeant Lin Feng, a graduate of Scotland Yard with extensive criminal investigation experience. Let Sergeant Lin tell you what we've discovered!"

Lin Feng, a Chinese detective in his thirties, said to Lester, "Mr. Lester, based on our investigation and questioning, we've only got a few clues. First of all, from the first iron gate leading into your bank's work area all the way to the door to the bank's underground vault, no part of this passage has been damaged!"

"I'm certain the thieves didn't use force to open these iron doors. It's very likely they had keys, or they might have used some espionage tactics. If the locks weren't particularly complex, a well-trained spy could have opened such iron doors with simple tools!"

"Secondly, some electronic components in the alarm system inside the underground vault door are damaged. This is the conclusion reached by our technical staff after testing. Therefore, even if the thieves use force to open the vault door, the alarm system will not be triggered!"

"Third, the underground vault door was not violently damaged. The thieves must have opened it with a key and password!"

"Fourth, the interior of the vault is intact and undamaged. This rules out the possibility that the thieves broke in from the outside by breaking through the wall or tunneling underground!"

"Fifth, we've discovered some footprints on the floor inside the vault through technical means. Some are fresh, some are old. The new footprints are blurry, so they might belong to the thief. Perhaps he was wearing shoe covers, so we can't analyze his height, weight, or other physical characteristics!"

"Based on these clues, I infer that the thief is most likely an insider stealing or collusion between insiders and outsiders!"

Lester himself was more inclined to believe that the security guards had collectively committed embezzlement, or perhaps it was really a collusion between insiders and outsiders as Lin Feng said.

He asked, "Captain Lin, isn't it possible that an outsider committed the crime?"

Lin Feng said, "We copied all the shoe prints on the floor of the vault and compared them with the footprints of your bank's internal staff. There is only one footprint that cannot be identified, and that is the more blurred footprint. It is about size 41 or 42. Because it is not clear, we can't accurately determine the size of the shoe print, but it is between these two sizes!"

"Assuming these blurred footprints belong to an outsider, how could an outsider empty the entire underground vault in one go?