Chapter 2761: Wolf in Front, Tiger Behind! No One Has an Easy Choice!

Rather than continuing to walk forward blindly, this point is extremely important for Mr. Wang.

Two or three minutes passed, and Zhang Lin on the other end of the phone remained silent the whole time, which made Mr. Wang increasingly uneasy; but very soon Mr. Wang felt he had still won, and at the same time had grasped the last straw.

The reason was very simple: Zhang Lin had not hung up the phone. He had already adjusted his understanding very clearly before this—Zhang Lin was a man with no patience, and relatively speaking, for things he was one hundred percent certain about, the chances he gave people were very, very few.

In that case, if the conditions he raised were something Zhang Lin was unwilling to agree to or simply scoffed at, then he could perfectly well use the time node he had just proposed—ten seconds later, hang up the phone directly—rather than holding the phone in silence at this moment. These were two completely different concepts.

The more he thought along these lines, the greater Mr. Wang felt his hope grew, and at the same time he believed that as long as he held firm, Zhang Lin would eventually have to give in, acknowledge what he had raised, and grant him a relatively simple verbal promise. In truth, Mr. Wang felt quite aggrieved in his heart.

If it were under the premise that he was insatiably greedy and wanted far too much, then he would have no complaints at all if Zhang Lin now ignored him or dealt with him in some extreme way.

But what he wanted was not much—just such an easy promise. If even under these circumstances Zhang Lin was unwilling to bestow such a promise upon him, then any subsequent cooperation would seem extremely pointless.

But just as Mr. Wang was full of expectation, he suddenly heard the busy tone of a disconnected call. At that moment Mr. Wang's heart skipped a beat, and immediately the look of despair vanished from his eyes.

This was a result he had never anticipated. Mr. Wang had originally thought he was about to win, but he had not expected that at the most critical moment, Zhang Lin made him feel that kind of surprise once again.

At this moment his mind was racing, and he was also thinking back to how Zhang Lin had handled similar situations before. He thought to himself: could it be that the other party had always played by no ordinary rules?

In the end Mr. Wang arrived at an affirmative answer, and at the same time slapped his forehead, feeling some bitter regret. Given Zhang Lin's way of doing things, he could not possibly accept any form of threat.

On this premise, the words he had just spoken were clearly seeking death. If that were so, why had he still clung to the hope that the other party would agree to him? Mr. Wang shook his head helplessly, feeling that he had truly been far too naive.

Such a foolish idea had cut off nearly all of his future. This was not the outcome he had wanted to see, but he had no choice but to accept this answer.

Mr. Wang gazed at the vast sea before him and fell into deep thought. Just then his subordinate walked over again and asked hurriedly, "Mr. Wang, where should we head next?"

This was also very important to him; in other words, it was very important to every single one of his people. After all, now that things had reached this state, someone had to give them the corresponding order and tell them which way to go next.

Only then could the remaining members of the Wang family have a very clear answer. If even the person who gave orders was no longer there, or had lost his fighting spirit, then they would have lost all hope—and clearly this was not an outcome anyone wished to see.

All they wanted was a relatively decisive answer, or rather, as long as Mr. Wang was resolute enough, they would carry out his orders without hesitation; but the reverse was not necessarily true.

These people were simply hoping for a relatively resolute order, one that would no longer go back on its word. One had to know that the old Mr. Wang was absolutely not this kind of person.

But in the past week, including after the escape, Mr. Wang had kept hesitating constantly. No one knew what he was agonizing over, and no one was clear exactly what kind of person had issued the most direct threat against him.

If it were Zhang Lin from the Crescent Moon Restaurant, they felt that was not very realistic—after all, Zhang Lin still had plenty of his own matters to deal with. In other words, it was the mysterious person in their understanding.

But after thinking it over, these people felt this idea was not reliable either, because that mysterious person had ultimately not caused any impact on the Wang family.

Moreover, it was just one person at most. Even if he could indirectly turn one or two members of the Wang family, or a whole squad—such as Wang Hu's side—that would be nothing more than a coincidence. Besides, everyone in the Wang family knew perfectly well what kind of person Wang Hu was: his brain worked differently from others, and his way of thinking was unlike the rest.

On this premise, it was not strange that he had made his current choice, and this was the only explanation everyone gave for this betrayal. However, Mr. Wang seemed to care a great deal about this incident.

In fact, the only thing his trusted subordinates could not understand was this: even if Wang Hu had betrayed them, they could simply send another squad to Archaeological Team Two, and at most it would mean explaining things a little more to Zhang Lin.

They figured Zhang Lin would not press them aggressively over this, because in their minds Zhang Lin's image had long been fixed—especially after the stance he had shown at the Crescent Moon Restaurant, everyone understood it perfectly well.

Given that, they had the confidence to use this matter as a bargaining chip to discuss terms with Zhang Ming.

Little did they know they had ultimately failed to think through the利害 relations involved. If Zhang Lin were really that easy to deal with, Mr. Wang would not have had to worry so much over this matter. One had to know that from beginning to end, the situation Mr. Wang faced was riding a tiger and finding it hard to dismount—a dilemma with no good choice.

Now it was a wolf in front and a tiger behind. Behind him, Zhang Lin had been pressing him to move forward, and he had also used this method to betray Wang Canghai, while wanting to discuss terms with Zhang Lin. But Zhang Lin did not seem to have any such intention—not even giving him a single sweet date would do. This could not help but leave Mr. Wang in utter despair.

On the other side, watching Wang Canghai arrive at Archaeological Team Two, Mr. Wang had originally been convinced he could rest easy and sit back to watch the show, certain that all of this had nothing whatsoever to do with him.

Because even if Wang Canghai gained no benefit at Archaeological Team Two, his subsequent choice would still be to hurry to Archaeological Team One, rather than continuing to wrangle with him here. It was probably this very perception that caused all the偏差 and led Mr. Wang to instinctively misjudge.

Now things were completely different from what he had imagined. After Wang Canghai came out of Archaeological Team Two, Mr. Wang felt that, given the current progress, Wang Canghai's choice would definitely change.

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