Extortion was a technical skill.
The second-in-command had close associates in the gang whom Sergeant didn't know about, was spreading rumors about the boss, and had more money in his bag than expected. Sergeant couldn't help but think twice.
But Sergeant couldn't act himself, or he wouldn't have sent Cannon over. It was just that this knife wasn't easy to borrow.
Lier was a firsthand witness. Getting him to work with the gang's second-in-command and nail the boss to the wall, giving him a gangland-style purge of the court, wouldn't be difficult at all.
Though it was a bit dishonorable to drag up old history and prove he'd been working with the company,
whether that was dishonorable was something only the living could argue about.
When money could settle things, who would gamble on anything else?
"But there's one more thing I don't understand."
"Go ahead."
V scratched her head. After hearing how Lier had made the money, her little mind was full of questions.
"Why didn't he realize the problem the first time?"
"He was taking the call on a phone, right? It's hard to hear anything wrong through a phone."
"Then why was he using a phone?"
Lier looked at V helplessly. Her big eyes were full of confusion, and she even tilted her head. There was an intense sort of beauty to it.
An infinite signal was sent out, then received by a device, modulated, and converted into an electrical signal. That signal was converted into text, audio, and images.
In the cyber age, the process of receiving and modulating signals was itself a potential channel for Hacking.
Of course, that took a high level of Hacker skill. But who could become a gang boss and still think they were always safe?
The cheapest way to protect