Chapter 2791

Even Yang Lu was deliberately controlling herself, let alone these people—Zhang Lin was more certain of this than anyone. Since he could hold firm to his own views while his way of handling things remained completely unchanged, the matter became astonishingly simple.

Zhang Lin could use this very incident to make a great many moves, and once things went off course, the Kendingye Society would surely hear all manner of differing voices from various parties afterward.

He had long since prepared for all of this. In the final analysis, everything laid out in the open was still meant for Wang Canghai to see. As long as the other side figured out how to respond, and truly thought through what he ought to say to Zhang Lin afterward—

—then Zhang Lin could adjust his plan accordingly. Only now Zhang Lin himself hardly entertained such hope, because Wang Canghai had shown him in the most pragmatic way possible that even if it meant walking a dead-end road and charging straight at the Second Archaeology Team, he still refused to passively submit to Zhang Lin.

This was the mindset of a man who had stood in a position of power for a long time. Perhaps it was precisely that former lofty perch that had given him such an illusion, making him unable to set aside his pride and discuss these matters with Zhang Lin.

In truth, Wang Canghai believed that when he had previously gone to talk cooperation with Zhang Lin, he had already cast aside all his dignity, only for Zhang Lin to give him no chance at all and even mock him to his face.

Hence Wang Canghai kept telling himself this could not be blamed on him—it was Zhang Lin who had forced him into the situation he faced today. Were it not for Zhang Lin's existence, perhaps someone else by now would have long since taken control of the entire situation and found a compromise, a balance.

In Wang Canghai's view, what Zhang Lin cared about most was not the matter itself, but precisely the lives of these people. This was the point where the two clashed most sharply, and it could also be defined as a difference in values.

Wang Canghai understood one principle very clearly: one who accomplishes great things does not fuss over small matters. He not only thought this way, but had always acted in accordance with it. Only in the end, a variable appeared within all this—and the name of that variable was Zhang Lin.

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