Chapter 1968: The Sole Hope in the Cracks! This Move Is Brilliant!

Wang Cen's disappearance can be taken as confirmation that the other party harbors ulterior motives and intends to use certain methods to carry out subsequent plans; even though Wu Tianzhen himself isn't overly worried about this matter.

But his intuition told him that fewer entanglements were better than more—if this Wang Cen truly went off to set up some kind of trap, it would inevitably bring them a certain amount of trouble down the line.

Having thought this through, Wu Tianzhen wanted to get to the bottom of it, but after taking only two steps toward confronting Su Nan, a hand suddenly landed on his shoulder.

Wu Tianzhen turned instinctively and saw it was Wu Ya.

At that moment Wu Ya shook her head at Wu Tianzhen. Wu Tianzhen was taken aback. As mentioned before, all decision-making authority for Archaeology Team One rested with Wu Tianzhen, and within that there were perhaps only two exceptions—Zhang Tianshi and Wu Ya.

As for Fatty, no matter what he said, Wu Tianzhen would simply use words to stop him from entertaining such naive plans, because Fatty himself wasn't the type to use his brain.

Or rather, he was unwilling to use his brain. If he actually did think things through, Fatty did have the IQ for it, but he deliberately avoided doing so.

The two of them had maintained this kind of relationship since their school days; Fatty himself had long grown used to it, and Wu Tianzhen didn't mind either.

The matter itself had already reached a delicate balance, and based on that balance, subsequent events didn't need to be handled by getting into an extreme confrontation with the other party.

Having figured this out, Wu Ya immediately stopped Wu Tianzhen. Since Wu Tianzhen had already made up his mind earlier, he naturally listened to Wu Ya at this point and promptly stepped back.

In the past, Su Nan would surely have mocked Wu Tianzhen for taking orders from an outsider at a moment like this—even though she knew this outsider held absolute authority, because she represented Zhang Lin.

But saying so now would, to some extent, sow discord between them. Yet in an instant Su Nan abandoned the idea, because she understood that what Wang Cen had instructed her was to remain inconspicuous.

At this moment, the barrage comments were full of all sorts of speculation.

【Where exactly did Wang Cen go? Could this kid have some other scheme?】

【Nonsense! I already sensed something was off when he played the peacemaker back then.】

【That's called armchair quarterbacking. Do you actually know what this Wang Cen is planning?】

【How could I possibly know? We'll find out once Mr. Zhang goes to the New Moon Hotel.】

【Same old saying—Mr. Zhang isn't a god. He can make deductions, but he can't be a hundred percent certain.】

【If you ask me, this Wang Cen definitely fell into the toilet when he went to the bathroom.】

【Exactly right, let's not overthink it.】

【Even if we're wrong, could Wu Tianzhen be wrong too?】

【Archaeology Team One can't afford to become like those jumpy Wang family people, so we have to stay extra vigilant right now.】

【In my view, Assistant Wu Ya did the right thing—no more arguments with the other side at this point.】

The barrage was full of all kinds of chatter, but no matter how these people speculated, it couldn't affect how things actually unfolded in reality. They could only run deductions based on whatever their own minds could come up with.

One thing said among them was absolutely correct—once Zhang Lin steps into the New Moon Hotel, all of this will have a corresponding answer.

Only that moment hadn't arrived yet. In fact, before Zhang Lin made his appearance, the livestream rooms for Archaeology Team One and Archaeology Team Two had developed a certain habit.

The barrage comments had thinned out considerably, because previously, no matter what happened, Zhang Lin would set a baseline, and everyone would think along that direction.

But now the situation was completely different—they had lost their anchor point. With no direction to be found, they could only guess wildly.

And once Zhang Lin made his appearance, the nature of all this would fundamentally change, so everyone was waiting for that moment to arrive.

On the other side, Mr. Wang, who was watching the livestream, fell into deep thought. He didn't contact Wang Wang Canghai again, because he understood that reaching out would be futile—the other party had now made up his mind completely and was determined to sacrifice all the Wang family members.

In order to accomplish certain things for himself. In fact, after considering this, Mr. Wang not only planned to flee, but also intended to take the true core figures of the Wang family with him.

Since they didn't know of Wang Wang Canghai's existence, no matter what they did afterward, it would all tilt in his favor. Under this premise, Mr. Wang could act without any scruples.

This was the grand premise of everything. As long as he adhered to this premise, Mr. Wang could not only save his own life but also reclaim his current position, so long as he had people supporting him.

It had to be said, Mr. Wang had indeed made an extremely bold decision. But if Zhang Lin truly learned of this, he would surely give Mr. Wang a thumbs-up for it—because in the cracks of survival, with danger about to arrive, what seemed like a foolish choice on Mr. Wang's part had actually saved his life.

At the very least, if he truly went through with it, the number of people Wang Wang Canghai could use afterward would be limited. Under such circumstances, Zhang Lin would always find a moment to wipe out most of those usable Wang Wang Canghai assets, and then finally target Wang Wang Canghai himself.

As for these remaining Wang family stragglers, based on the kind of personality Zhang Lin usually displayed, he wouldn't go after them directly. If the authorities wanted to deal with them, they'd have to figure it out themselves. After all, Zhang Lin was a storyteller, not an official envoy—he had no obligation to guide the authorities in eliminating these Wang family members.

After all, if these Wang family remnants, under Mr. Wang's leadership, all fled to another location and set up camp—