Chapter 2690: Absolute Calmness! Chanting the Buddha's Name with Deaf Ears!

She couldn't be sure if there were corresponding records in his long poem, but she simply didn't tell these people. Yang Lu felt this kind of thing didn't require Zhang Lin to give further commands up at the Crescent Moon Restaurant—it would only make her seem too incompetent.

Yang Lu wanted to use her own method, then quickly get the matter asked out, which also satisfied everyone's curiosity. At the same time, she was using this approach as an indirect way to probe whether Ake had any major problems.

The reason she had such a probe came, on one hand, from some groundwork Zhang Lin had laid earlier. Since the other party had already spoken to that extent—even without stating it outright—Yang Lu felt she should have been able to pick up on it, rather than naively assuming like a fool that Ake had no problems at all.

From Zhang Lin's subtext, Yang Lu had actually picked up the general situation: that he wasn't entirely sure either whether Ake truly had a problem.

But with people like them, once they know someone might have a problem, they would treat the nonexistent as existent. This wasn't paranoia, nor was it like Wang Canghai who trusted no one—it was simply that they had to be responsible for everyone inside the team.

Once a deviation appeared, what followed wouldn't just be their own trouble, but the entire team would run into corresponding trouble. Clearly, that wasn't the outcome Yang Lu wanted to see.

That's why she only now used questioning as her probe. But this questioning hadn't even begun, and Ake seemed not nervous at all, which greatly surprised Yang Lu.

But immediately after, she also secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, thinking Ake's ability to respond this way meant only two possibilities: either the other party's psychological quality was extremely good, able to conceal everything and not care in the slightest about this kind of situation,

or he had a clear conscience, his mind solely on his Buddha, silently chanting his Buddhist name within his heart. No matter what Yang Lu said, fundamentally it had nothing to do with him.

And right now Yang Lu leaned more toward the latter. In other words, she hoped Ake had no problems whatsoever, because once Ake had a problem, it likely wouldn't only implicate their own safety.

The key was that Ake's long poem could serve as a clinching role. This wasn't just Yang Lu's perception, but everyone's. Since perception had settled at this level, Yang Lu didn't want any deviation to appear. Some might think, if you don't want to disturb this balance, why choose to probe at all? Just let it be.

Anyway, in the end as long as Ake said some of the content from the long poem and explained the connections within it, that would be enough. Everything else seemed superfluous. Speaking from this point, the conversation comes back around—Yang Lu had to be responsible for managing the team, and that was the core point.

In other words, although they now had to break the curse, ultimately they couldn't treat everyone's safety lightly, nor treat safety as child's play. If they did, not only would the curse remain unbroken, but in the end they would all meet the fate of dying without a burial place.

And at this moment, apart from Ake, everyone looked at Yang Lu. Some had already guessed in their hearts what Yang Lu wanted to ask afterward. Right now, seemingly everything was in preparation,

but news from Archaeology Team One had come through, which meant Yang Lu wanted to take this opportunity to let Archaeology Team Two's interior stabilize in turn. Perhaps without the reminder from Archaeology Team One, Yang Lu wouldn't have made this choice.

But now everything had become a nailed-down fact. Yang Lu wanted to follow Archaeology Team One's example and proactively move forward now. For her, this was the most important decision at this moment.

And although Wang Kaixuan had raised doubts before, seeing Yang Lu's attitude so resolute, Wang Kaixuan also told himself in his heart not to think about those messy things anymore—just follow Yang Lu's orders, nothing else.

Moreover, Wang Kaixuan planned to keep holding this thought all the way. He just didn't know whether this journey would truly go smoothly, but thinking it over, since Archaeology Team Two had already gone through so many Perilous stages and had been able to turn danger into safety each time,

this time would relatively be no exception. Others had also seen some of the situation—all of it came from Zhang Lin, and they were muttering it in their hearts.

Since Zhang Lin had been inclined toward Archaeology Team Two all along, and before this had given Archaeology Team One very few instructions, it meant that on the road ahead Zhang Lin would also follow the same approach as before. This was beyond doubt.

Although most people thought this way, a few still felt uncertain in their hearts. Among them was Xue Long. Actually, Xue Long didn't distrust Zhang Lin—he just didn't know what other tricks Wang Canghai's side would pull.

The key was that Wang Canghai might arrive at Archaeology Team Two's side very soon. When that time came, what choice should be made?

There was no benchmark for any of this. And under these circumstances, even if Wang Canghai arrived here in the identity of the mysterious person, what choice would he make afterward? Zhang Lin definitely wouldn't let Yang Lu of Archaeology Team Two bring these people into direct conflict with Wang Canghai. Xue Long was very certain of this.

Because without Zhang Lin personally present, Wang Canghai could even do as he pleased within this team. Facing such a person, the best choice for Archaeology Team Two was to pretend not to see, act as if they didn't know, and handle everything with a peaceful attitude.

Otherwise it would be asking for trouble and adding trouble to what came after. But this also involved the situation with the Muchen Zhu. Right now Xue Long simply didn't know how to both appease Wang Canghai and protect the Muchen Zhu—how could a perfect compromise be found between the two? In his view, this was absolutely impossible.

He didn't know that Wang Canghai wanted the Muchen Zhu only to complete that ritual, and before that what he needed to do was find that instrument and obtain its method of use. That was the prerequisite for everything.

Without this prerequisite, even if he got the Muchen Zhu, it would be meaningless. And now Wang Canghai had already settled his mindset: after reaching Archaeology Team Two, he wouldn't immediately oppose Zhang Lin.

Actually, what Zhang Lin worried about most was the matter of abandoning the pursuit of immortality, because the hatred accumulated before had blinded his eyes, and he simply wouldn't consider other situations.

Under that premise, Zhang Lin was the most worried, because once Wang Canghai truly resorted to desperate measures, the danger Archaeology Team Two would face would absolutely multiply several times over. That wasn't the outcome Zhang Lin wanted to see.

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