Chapter 2759: Gamble Everything! Ignore the Consequences!

He hoped Zhang Lin could think all of this through, and at the same time he was certain that within this window, Zhang Lin ought to give him some opportunity to do this thing.

If not a single chance were given him, then Zhang Lin would just be making things hard on himself; after all, when it comes to conditions, one must always hold some benefit in one's own hands.

If one wanted to snatch a bare lamb bare-handed, only someone like Wang Hu would fall for it; facts proved it was indeed so. No matter how pressed Mr. Wang was to act on expedience, he had to consider the matter from a macro perspective first, not just one man's vested interests and life or death.

Once one thought of the matter on a macro level, Mr. Wang's overall way of responding would also change. Put another way, if this matter concerned only Mr. Wang personally, then he would choose just as Xue Long did—whatever the other side said, he would accept it without question.

He would not raise any objection, nor would he have any other thoughts.

But reality gave Mr. Wang precious little room; in the end, what he had to do was lead the entire Wang family forward, not just himself alone.

Hearing these words, Zhang Lin's brow lifted. To tell the truth, Mr. Wang's choice this time truly startled him; Zhang Lin had never expected the man to have such earth-shattering boldness as to discuss these matters with him. Yet on second thought, it seemed reasonable enough.

After all, for a person the worst outcome is simply dying once; as for a fate worse than death, that depends entirely on the circumstances at the time.

Unless one is extraordinarily unlucky, such an encounter generally will not occur.

The most typical example here is Wang Canghai; his final outcome is likely to be a fate worse than death, but right now Wang Canghai simply does not care about any of that.

Or rather, by a certain definition, he does not believe such a thing will happen to him. Perhaps similar situations occurred before, but now Wang Canghai does not think so; he feels that after subduing Wang Hu he has seized a point from which to turn the tables.

He can use this point to accomplish many things that follow, rather than being constrained by others at every turn. Looking at Mr. Wang on the other hand, at this moment he too was forcibly suppressing the fear in his heart, because a moment ago he had spoken those words entirely on the momentum of the moment. If he were to think about this matter only from his own angle—

Mr. Wang would never in his life have had such courage. He kept telling himself inwardly that he was speaking up for everyone, not selfishly doing it just for himself—that was the fundamental point.

In truth, Mr. Wang could only comfort himself this way; the reason was none other than that, crucially, there was now no path of retreat left.

And Zhang Lin saw this point clearly too. It was the equivalent of a person's last desperate counterattack before death: he hoped to use such a method to secure more vested interests, rather than having everything constrained against himself.

Of course, although most matters here had to follow Zhang Lin's commands, in the final analysis, as long as he could obtain even a very small portion, Mr. Wang would already be more than content.