Chapter 2473: The Immortality Ritual Is Real! But the Process Is Fake!

The reason he asked this way had another purpose: as long as Zhang Lin nodded and admitted it, all his previous mistakes could be made up for.

If Zhang Lin had truly appeared in the present era, then many things would be impossible to explain.

Zhang Lin, relying on his extraordinary talent, had utterly crushed all the experience he had accumulated over three hundred years.

Regarding this point, Wang Canghai had been digesting it all along; he even wanted to accept it calmly, tried to calm himself down, but failed again and again.

Perhaps this kind of thing would be hard for anyone to accept, and Wang Canghai was now clinging to his last sliver of hope—if Zhang Lin admitted it, then everything would have an explanation.

At the same time, his mindset could quickly adjust; even if Zhang Lin deliberately lied to him precisely to keep his mentality collapsing.

But Wang Canghai believed he could discern certain things through the other's tone.

The next moment, Zhang Lin helplessly shook his head, sighed, and then said, "Think what you want. Anyway, just prepare to face your fate. Also, let me say one more thing."

"Wang Canghai, I know very well what methods you used after arriving at the Second Archaeology Team, but there's something I need to say upfront—if you only want to obtain the Wamu Dust Pearl to complete the immortality ritual, then this ritual objectively exists."

"But that was merely a hoax established back then. I'm not saying this to make you stop in time, only to make you understand that if you do that, you'll not only waste your last chance, but also make the Wan Nu King even angrier. Think about the specifics yourself."

After saying this, Zhang Lin directly hung up the phone, and the words he had spoken at the end were somewhat ambiguous, leaving Wang Canghai completely baffled.

From any angle, Zhang Lin had no obligation to tell him all this. Could it be that the other party was truly afraid?

But soon Wang Canghai shook his head to himself, feeling this was completely impossible. He had originally believed Zhang Lin had no nerves for fear—the ignorant are fearless.

This had caused him to keep struggling against himself, but as things developed, Wang Canghai also saw it clearly: it wasn't that Zhang Lin wasn't afraid, only that he himself couldn't create any fear in Zhang Lin.

All his so-called schemes were nothing but child's play to Zhang Lin.

At the very beginning, Wang Canghai was still unwilling to admit this. He forcibly tried to steer things in another direction, or rather tried to make all the people under him hold such thoughts, but the false is false, and the truth will eventually face everyone.

The people under him all chose to betray him. From a realistic standpoint, Wang Canghai no longer clung to that kind of thinking.

Under this premise, he felt he was stronger than before, so he concluded that what Zhang Lin had just said to him had nothing to do with fearing him.

It was just that Zhang Lin had seen something else. What created fear in Zhang Lin was not him himself—going to the Second Archaeology Team while simultaneously opening the altar and using the Wamu Dust Pearl to complete the immortality ritual.

Rather, it was what exactly would be triggered after this ritual. That result was certainly not immortality itself.

Now Wang Canghai was using this line of thinking to imagine what Zhang Lin had just said, but he had another thought as well.

It was that Zhang Lin was still digging a pit for him in advance. From any angle, Zhang Lin had no way to stop him in advance.

It seemed the other party also worried that after he went to the Second Archaeology Team, he would bring uncontrollable trouble to the Second Archaeology Team. In that case, if Zhang Lin instead framed the Wamu Dust Pearl as a dangerous thing, Wang Canghai might well shrink back.

Now Wang Canghai didn't know which guess to lean toward, but he wouldn't stop his steps; anyway, as things developed later on—

Zhang Lin's actions would once again tell him which guess was the most correct. Wang Canghai was more certain of this than anyone.

So for Wang Canghai, the current situation was also taking it one step at a time, but he was convinced that the state he was in was far stronger than Zhang Lin's.

Because he had no retreat. Since he didn't want to fall into an abyss, he had to fight to the bitter end. Conversely, the choices laid out before Zhang Lin were simply too many.

No matter how clever Zhang Lin was, or how much initiative he had, facing that kind of choice would more or less produce a state of indecision.

This was also one of the advantages Wang Canghai felt he controlled. Sometimes having that kind of choice is not necessarily a good thing.

But if Zhang Lin knew Wang Canghai's thoughts at this moment, he would certainly find them laughable, even feeling that the current Wang Canghai had become somewhat obsessed!

Because at any time, initiative is always the most important thing. Moreover, this was a life-and-death struggle between them. To put it bluntly, as long as Zhang Lin wanted to be more ruthless, he could take action right now and end Wang Canghai's life.

This was what was called initiative, and Wang Canghai seemed not to have understood this point for so long. But now Zhang Lin wouldn't force these things. Being entangled over useless things—compared to that, it was better for him to carefully think about the details to arrange next.

And at this moment, Wang Canghai shook his head. Whether reality was as he imagined or not, the two outcomes were laid out before him.

He had already chosen the Second Archaeology Team, so there was no point in being entangled over the First Archaeology Team's situation. If after going to the Second Archaeology Team he could truly change some things—

And then find an opportunity to continue interfering with the situation at the First Archaeology Team, perhaps he would then continue with his subsequent plans.

Otherwise, in that kind of crisis, Zhang Lin Has Already taken his life, and naturally he would have no chance to consider those things anymore.

Now Wang Canghai had not failed to suspect that what Zhang Lin had told him before was merely beating around the bush, shooting without a target.

In other words, although Zhang Lin said on the surface that he absolutely would not intervene in this matter, and was certain that Wang Canghai simply wasn't worth his personal intervention—

This might have been specifically to make Wang Canghai lower his guard, and then he would inexplicably appear at some point in time to coordinate with the Second Archaeology Team and take him out.

This was another thought in Wang Canghai's mind, but even if things truly happened this way, Wang Canghai couldn't resist much. He could only meet force with force and water with earth. If in the end Zhang Lin stood right before him, Wang Canghai might even heave a sigh of relief.

After all, what he would face in his final moments would no longer be the Wan Nu King, and his life itself was a deadly trap he had set for Zhang Lin.

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