Chapter 2463: To Die Is Fate! To Live Is Good Luck!

If they had even the slightest ability, they wouldn't be counting on Zhang Lin inside the Crescent Moon Restaurant to do all this analysis and explanation.

Even if Zhang Lin had the ability, the officials would still be too proud-faced to let a storyteller like Zhang Lin intervene in all this.

And the fact that they're now letting all this happen means these officials have openly admitted that no one among them is a match for Zhang Lin — that even all of them combined don't possess as much knowledge as Zhang Lin controls.

Under this premise, one could say the officials have lost all shame, yet they've very decisively thrown every problem to Zhang Lin.

Even if Zhang Lin has no such obligation and won't help the archaeology team solve every problem, he's still far better than the officials handling these inexplicable issues themselves.

And with the livestream cameras still rolling, any slip-up by the officials would draw the condemnation of millions, even tens of millions, of people — these burdens, the blame, the pressure of public opinion, the officials can't bear them.

This kind of evasion on their part hasn't gone uncriticized, but as time has passed, everyone has grown used to the officials dealing with the archaeology team's crises in this manner.

Perhaps in their view this is also a good thing — at least the officials aren't blindly giving orders when they don't understand the situation, which is a blessing amid the misfortune.

In the Second Archaeology Team, everyone's expression turned solemn upon seeing those four words; Zhang Lin turning off the livestream might have been precisely because he didn't want to see such solemn, tense emotions.

Staying vigilant in one's heart is right, but if one becomes so jumpy that everything looks like a threat, it certainly won't do them any good for what they have to do afterward.

But right now Zhang Lin has no choice — he must continue using this method to keep things going, which in a roundabout way counts as helping the archaeology team.

If everything were to collapse just because of those four words, Zhang Lin is certain that absolutely cannot happen; if it really were that way, Zhang Lin would save only Yang Lu and wouldn't care about anyone else's feelings.

Because in that situation, he would be utterly disappointed in everyone in the Second Archaeology Team except Yang Lu.

Fortunately, reality didn't play out as Zhang Lin imagined — especially Wang Kaixuan, whose solemn mood lasted only a few seconds before he broke into a wide grin.

He then said loudly: "Captain Yang, the rest of us have already strapped our lives to our belts. Anyway, if we make it out of this alive, that's luck; if we die, we won't complain."

Hearing this, Yang Lu strode forward, raised her hand, and slapped Wang Kaixuan right on the head — an action that left everyone dumbfounded.

But they quickly realized why Yang Lu had made this choice.

The reason was simple: Wang Kaixuan's words were far too defeatist!

Even if it only concerned himself and didn't drag others in, Yang Lu absolutely would not allow it.

Wang Kaixuan showed no unusual reaction — after being slapped, he just grinned even more shamelessly.

He continued: "Captain Yang, I know you're worried about us, but we don't want to be a burden either. I think that even if only one person in the end breaks the curse, for us that's still a success, isn't it? All of this is my own choice, nothing to do with anyone else."

This time it was Yang Lu who was stunned, and everyone else instinctively nodded as well.