America: Starting with the Last Liberty

To open the vault of Pacific Standard Bank, you first need the general manager's key card.

It would waste a lot of time if General Manager David Albert hid the key cards.

So before taking action, Rosen spoke with David Albert through Rupert Lawrence, which led to such a smooth start today.

However, it wasn't time to be happy until the evacuation was successful, so everyone suppressed their excitement and focused on their tasks.

Dennis stared at the monitor, Phil watched the hostages, while Rosen and Donnie tried to figure out how to open the vault.

Insert the general manager's key card into the vault's card slot; a password will also be required here.

If the password is entered incorrectly three times in a row, the vault will automatically sound an alarm, so the general manager's cooperation is also required here.

Rosen pretended not to know David Albert and pulled him to the vault door.

"Your name is David Albert? Why don't you play along?"

David Albert was the only hostage whose hands weren't tied, but he seemed to want to put on an act.

"You won't get away with this! I advise you to give up!"

It's clear that David Albert has a very strong desire to perform, perhaps wanting to demonstrate his courage in front of his employees.

But Rosen didn't want to cooperate with this guy because he and the others had agreed on a 15-minute time limit for the operation, with a maximum of 20 minutes.

David Albert is completely wasting time on this operation; every second wasted reduces everyone's gains.

So Rosen just smashed David Albert's head with a G18, stunning him, which wasn't in the script.

"I'm giving you 10 seconds to enter the password, or I'll kill you!"

David Albert finally realized that although he had reached an agreement with them, they had real weapons.

Trembling, he arrived at the vault door and entered the password, but he made a mistake once because he was too nervous.

This is the normal behavior. Before, David Albert was too calm, as if he wasn't afraid of Rosen and the others at all.

If the Los Angeles Police Department notices anything unusual afterward, it would be easy to trace it back to David Albert.

On the contrary, security chief Rupert Lawrence was very safe; he had simply made a spare key and accidentally lost it, making it difficult for the police to trace him.

However, that spare key did save Rosen and his team a lot of time and allowed the monitoring room to be taken into control immediately.

In the 12th minute, the vault was successfully opened.

The banks in America are quite different from those at Tokyo University.

Firstly, America's bank basically doesn't offer savings services, so there's not much cash in the vault.

But Rosen didn't mind and put all the green knives into the bag.

Then there's America Bank's highly developed safe deposit box business; those smaller banks actually make money from their safe deposit box business.

The safe was Phil and Dennis's main target.

Rosen and Donnie exchanged a glance, signaling that they could get started.

The reason why Donnie was taken in as a follower by Phil and Dennis, two formal members of the gang, was not only because they were Italian and could speak Italian, but also because he had an outstanding talent: lock picking.

There are about a hundred safes inside the vault, each a different size, like opening a blind box.

Donnie started directly with the largest safe. The first safe contained only a few business contracts, which may have been quite valuable, but were of no value to Rosen and his men.

However, Donnie received the goods from the second safe: a large bag filled with various jewelry and ornaments, which made him exclaim in surprise.

Hearing Donnie's voice from afar, Phil couldn't resist wanting to come over.

"Hey, did you find anything?"

Rosen immediately stopped Phil.

"Don't leave your posts! Rats, don't just stand there, keep working!"

After discovering the jewelry, Donnie was stunned for a while before he came to his senses and continued working after being scolded by Rosen.

Yes, although Rosen was the last to join the team, he quickly gained a voice within the team thanks to his outstanding professional skills.

Just like now, Rosen's single sentence made Phil withdraw his curiosity and return to his seat.

Donnie opened the safes at a rate of about one every 10 seconds.

This speed is already quite fast, but it will still take at least ten minutes to move more than 100 safes.

Rosen glanced at the time; 15 minutes had passed since they began their operation, and he was hesitating whether to extend the operation.

With time running out, Rosen began searching the bank for the location of the contraband.

It's impossible to keep contraband in the vault, otherwise David Albert would definitely have discovered it.

After thinking for a moment, Rosen finally managed to find a large bag of powdery substance in a locker in the security room.

"Found it!"

With such a large amount of work, handing it over to Neil would probably be another credit.

"Clown, Bison, there's a guy in front of the bank, he looks like he's delivering takeout."

The Joker is Rosen's code name, while the Buffalo is Phil's code name, and he wears a buffalo mask.

Delivery person?

Looking at the time, it is indeed lunchtime. I guess some bank staff ordered takeout in advance, and it just happened to be delivered at this time.

This is because not everyone had a mobile phone back then. The delivery guy clearly didn't have a mobile phone, otherwise he would definitely be making a phone call now.

"Rat, ignore everything else and keep opening the safe! Bison, let the delivery guy in. We can't let him wander around the doorway. We'll control him together!"

The "rat" refers to Donnie, who is wearing a rat mask.

Donnie nodded quickly, then continued to focus on opening the safe.

Rosen then roughly tied David Albert up with plastic ties and walked toward the bank entrance.

Phil was already ready to open the door.

The deliveryman at the door was very puzzled. He repeatedly checked that the address in his hand was correct, but there was only one bank nearby, so it was impossible for him to be wrong.

"Hey Bruno's Pizza delivery guy, I'm almost late, is anyone inside?"

In this era, many food delivery services have time limits. If the delivery person is late, the customer does not need to pay, meaning the delivery person has to pay for it themselves.

This is also recorded in the Spider-Man series. When Peter Parker was a pizza deliveryman, he caused delivery delays many times because he did good deeds.

The bank doors suddenly opened, and before the deliveryman could react, he was pulled inside.

Then, the cold barrel of a gun was pressed against his head, and the deliveryman instantly trembled like a leaf.

"Hey, it's just delivering takeout, is this really necessary?"

"Shut your mouth and you'll be fine, understand?"

"Understood! Understood!"

As soon as Lawson finished tying up the deliveryman, he picked up the pizza the deliveryman had brought and took a bite.

"Hmm, it tastes good! Bison, would you like to try some?"

The bison is too nervous to eat pizza.

Just as he was about to refuse, he heard Donnie exclaim in surprise.

"bullion!"