While his brain worked on the electronic locks he tackled the physical ones. The key he'd crafted from the X-rays taken two days earlier made that straightforward. Within fifteen minutes he had everything open. Now the problem was the alarm system. If he couldn't disable that, opening the door would bring security running, despite the police's exclusion zone. He probed the electronics, looking for a way to deactivate or spoof them.
Thirty minutes later he gave up. He could see no way. The systems were good, no loopholes or backdoors. Which meant he'd have to go in, work fast and take a chance. He reckoned it would take three minutes at a minimum for someone to get down there.
He hauled open the subvault door and ran inside. He could hear no alarms but knew they'd be ringing somewhere. Th
