With the experience of making the first telephone under their belts, everyone knew the process, and every step after assembling the components had become much easier.
The team worked together with ever greater skill and coordination, keeping the production line running efficiently.
In just twenty days, the second telephone was completed, fully assembled and functioning reliably. The landline phone was ready.
With both communication devices officially in place, they could finally schedule a long-distance call test across the wooded hills.
To accurately test the telephones' sound clarity and signal stability, Senku had deliberately planned an extra-long testing distance.
The two stood facing each other across the woods, one to the east and one to the west, at opposite ends of clearings over a hundred meters apart. Trees stood between them to simulate the conditions of future interregional communication as closely as possible.
A cold wind swept through the woods, rustling the branches and leaves. Everything around them was quiet.
Li Xiang stood before the eastern phone, leaning toward its horn-shaped mouthpiece. Her fingertips rested lightly against the casing as her clear, bright voice traveled through the receiver.
"Senku, can you hear me?"
Her voice echoed through the open hills, but the other end remained silent. There was no response at all.
Li Xiang frowned slightly, doubt stirring within her. Could something be wrong with the wiring? Why wasn't there any sound?
Just as she was about to step forward and inspect the phone's wiring, an earthshaking cheer suddenly erupted from the distant woods opposite her.
"Yes!!! It worked!!! The connection is completely clear!!!!"
The cheers surged with excitement, carrying everyone's pent-up joy after so many days of work and suddenly ringing out across the hills.
The deafening celebration came without warning, blasting straight through the earpiece and slamming into Li