Yan Xiao handed her a pocket recorder shaped like an 18th-century pocket watch movement.
Vandenberg's lakeside estate was sealed off by an iron-parlay gate overgrown with ivy. Two guards had Sig Sauer P320 pistols at their waists—the exact same sidearms issued to the Vulture mercenaries.
Guan Yao pressed the doorbell. The acoustic decoder hidden inside her cuff was analyzing the lock's frequency while her wristwatch emitted a specific band of electromagnetic waves toward the estate's antique clock—an interference signal adapted from a secret 17th-century clockmaker calibration method.
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