Nie Zhao applied to erect a signal tower here partly because, although they had a remote switchboard, its signal was too poor and could only support closed-circuit telephone lines, making it impossible to interface with the more commonly used brick phones and pagers of the present day.
Generally speaking, no one would bother eavesdropping in a place like this, because current wiretapping equipment could only manage location tracking and was incapable of cracking the contents of a call. Trying to assassinate Nie Zhao by wiretapping him here was quite simply out of the question.
Liang Lisheng suffered from gout, and with the path heading uphill, every step made him wince with pain, leading him to believe that Chen Rou was wasting her time.
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