Chapter 2691: The Fear of the Soul! Forever Impossible to Remove!

However, at present this kind of thing was entirely outside Zhang Lin's expectations. First of all, Wang Wang Canghai made one thing clear: Zhang Lin would absolutely never reveal his identity.

Even in private he would not tell Yang Lu Si that he was still alive, because although Yang Lu Si could handle everything in reality, that did not include the matter of him being Wang Wang Canghai.

And if his identity spread among the Second Archaeology Team, even if Yang Lu Si could eventually adjust her state, including Wang Wang Kaixuan and Hu Hu Bayi, none of them would say anything.

But what the former Wang family members would become, Wang Wang Canghai could still guess. As a member of the Wang family, even if he had only stayed in the Wang family for a single day, in his perception it would leave a very important place for Wang Wang Canghai.

Even that kind of fear came from the depths of the soul, forever unchangeable. This was exactly the result Wang Wang Canghai had wanted to see from the very beginning. At the same time, by exploiting such matters he had also completed many of his own plans. Without this instinctive fear, Wang Wang Canghai believed he could not have weathered these three hundred-plus years so smoothly.

But there was one point where Wang Wang Canghai had precisely erred: although the changes over these three hundred years were indeed due to the influence of the Wang family, fundamentally speaking, he had not pushed the Wang family up another step.

Perhaps later on he also realized that things could not continue this way, and he needed to change his method to deal with everything.

It could be said that at this stage the Wang family happened to be at a point of transformation. If this transformation succeeded, then Wang Wang Canghai could solve all subsequent problems once and for all. If it failed, Wang Wang Canghai still had a way out — he could simply go and establish a new Wang family.

But Wang Wang Canghai just happened to wander into the middle of it, ending up in a very awkward position. In other words, because of Zhang Lin's appearance, Wang Wang Canghai chose to stand in the middle; he could neither walk the road toward success, nor turn back because of failure.

He could only be blocked here, with no way to save himself by any means. This was the most helpless part of Wang Wang Canghai's heart at this moment.

But even so, Wang Wang Canghai had to accept his fate. Perhaps this was the terrifying thing about Zhang Lin. Wang Wang Canghai kept muttering to himself each time that if not for Zhang Lin's appearance, he could not have fallen into such a predicament — but what was the point of saying all this now?

All the outcomes were already destined. Fortunately, Wang Wang Canghai could still leave himself a measure of vigilance through intuition, or rather a clever response: when he reached the Second Archaeology Team, he would not choose to unleash a wholesale slaughter.

Zhang Lin's earlier subtle guidance had all been to influence this very matter, and Wang Wang Canghai also kept telling himself internally that if he truly burned his boats and fought to the death, that would play right into the other's hands.

Zhang Lin might very well be looking for a pretext to use such a method to force his hand. Wang Wang Canghai believed he absolutely would not fall for such a vile trap, so his choice was to deal with everything in a peaceful manner.

Even if he revealed his identity as the mysterious person, he believed Yang Lu Si would not openly clash with him, just as the result was the same when Wang Cang or Cold Wind reached the Second Archaeology Team. Although Cold Wind's earlier response had made Yang Lu Si full of vigilance, or in certain circumstances Yang Lu Si harbored a deep hatred for Wang family members.

Every time she saw a Wang family member she wanted to kill them on the spot. The most typical example was Gawa who had appeared earlier — he came to the Second Archaeology Team in a suicidal manner.

Then he used those extreme methods, hoping to gain a foothold in the Second Archaeology Team, even directly killing Yang Lu Si. The consequence he provoked would inevitably be death — this was indisputable.

Even if anyone else in this world opposed Zhang Lin in this manner, they would not meet a good end. In other words, although Gawa was targeting Yang Lu Si at the time, in reality Zhang Lin, who was above the New Moon Restaurant, had long taken in everything at a glance. In such circumstances, how could Zhang Lin possibly let the Wang family off?

Even if he let the Wang family off, he would not let Gawa himself off. This also meant that if Yang Lu Si had not killed Gawa at the time, Gawa's subsequent fate would very likely have been a living death.

Because what he would have to face was Zhang Lin's retaliation. Zhang Lin would not discuss those messy matters with him, nor would he show the slightest mercy. At the same time, he also believed that the best retaliation against a person was absolutely not merely putting them to death.