Chapter 2797: His Own Scout Squad! The Wonderful Use of the Wang Family!

But then again, if Mr. Wang had prepared in advance, Zhang Lin wouldn't have been able to catch the other's instinctive reaction at the first moment, and the effect would certainly have been greatly diminished.

Whether probing or testing someone in a roundabout way, you must always see the involuntary, instinctive reaction—that's what truly tells you something. That kind of instinct can never be faked, and that was exactly Zhang Lin's aim.

He didn't give much time to think; he wanted to catch the other off guard. So in an instant Zhang Lin asked directly: "Then do you think there are still people like Wang Hu inside the Wang family right now?"

Hearing this question, Mr. Wang's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately fell silent. On the other end of the phone, the corner of Zhang Lin's mouth curved upward—he knew his goal had been achieved.

He wanted Mr. Wang to feel that sense of crisis, and at the same time to make the other realize exactly what kind of situation they were in now.

He absolutely could not treat it lightly; otherwise it would be irresponsible not only to himself, but to the entire Wang family.

Now Zhang Lin actually wanted Mr. Wang to find some way to preserve the Wang family, rather than drag the Wang family into the grave with him. The reason Zhang Lin thought this way was that he was now absolutely certain of one thing.

Namely, that later he would select a group of trustworthy, usable people from within the Wang family to serve as something like a scout squad—perhaps a few dozen people, perhaps just over a hundred.

Split into several scattered small teams, they would later help him accomplish other things. This was a wake-up call Zhang Lin had received indirectly through the experience of the Second Archaeological Team and the First Archaeological Team's standoff at the gates of Tiangong, and everything else.

Zhang Lin felt these things were necessary to do, for a very simple reason: if he had only discussed this at the New Moon Restaurant, it probably wouldn't have much impact on the present situation.

But if later he encountered something similar, even if his commands didn't go awry, the archaeological team wouldn't receive the corresponding orders at the first moment, or some special situation would arise and cause the matter to go wrong.

If something like that happened now, the way Zhang Lin would solve the problem would still be extremely complicated. But if he had a few teams under him that could be dispatched at any time, then for Zhang Lin, solving these troubles would be twice as easy with half the effort.

Zhang Lin could fully rely on the flexibility and mobility of these small teams to prevent everything—including someone inside the archaeological team doing something foolish, just like that Sun Wu who had appeared before.

Sun Wu's appearance stunned everyone; none of them had expected such a hidden danger to appear within their own team. This was reality slapping them hard across the face. In the end the problem was naturally resolved, but the process—without saying it was full of twists—was absolutely complicated and dangerous enough.

If they had made even the slightest wrong choice, it could very well have meant everyone perishing together on the spot, and even when the dome was finally blown apart, there were corresponding deviations.

That path was certainly one Zhang Lin had assigned them, and they did make their choice. But if they had hesitated even a little, and the timing hadn't aligned, the substance of the problem would very likely have changed.

At that point, even Zhang Lin would have been powerless to turn things around. Seeing all this, Zhang Lin—as something of a perfectionist—understood that he needed to make preparations in advance, and use such preparations to make everyone aware of how they should choose going forward.

Some things absolutely could not be done as impulsively as before, so now he at least had to determine one thing in advance: just how many people like Wang Hu existed within the Wang family. This was what he hated most.

When later selecting Wang family members who could stay, he would definitely screen them very strictly. First of all, people like Wang Hu would be eliminated at the very first moment.

Even if he were demoted to an outer member of the Wang family, Zhang Lin still wouldn't feel at ease—after all, such a person is a pure ticking time bomb, liable to explode out of nowhere on any given day.

Zhang Lin had no desire to see such people disrupt his subsequent plans. Under this premise, Zhang Lin would certainly eliminate them decisively. But after all, he wasn't inside the family at present, so although he couldn't screen these people out himself, he now had to entrust this task to Mr. Wang.

And certainly not everyone in the Wang family was like Shen Qiong, nor was everyone like Wang Hu—many were a compromise in between, so they appeared utterly unremarkable, never revealing any deviation in normal times, only popping up at the critical moment.

When that time comes, how they would choose still needs someone to judge in advance. If Zhang Lin could spare the time right now, he would definitely go in person to where the Wang family was currently located and conduct a screening.

But in the end this is a false proposition, because Zhang Lin really couldn't be in two places at once. Even taking it a step further—if he had such thoughts or the time as a baseline, he wouldn't be stuck commanding everything from the New Moon Restaurant right now.

Just as Wang Canghai said, he wanted Zhang Lin to come down personally and have a go at him. But the reason Zhang Lin made this choice now was, on the one hand, that he truly didn't have that much time and energy; on the other hand, even though he had seen the Second Archaeological Team's crisis,

he also believed that with only Yang Lu leading the Second Archaeological Team, the rest of the people would be able to properly resolve all the crises, and he didn't need to appear in person at all. This was something Zhang Lin was absolutely certain of.

Put another way, Wang Canghai simply wasn't worthy of him taking action personally. Since he wasn't worthy, Zhang Lin certainly wouldn't give him so much as a straight look.

This was an outcome Wang Canghai hadn't anticipated from the start. Even when he heard Zhang Lin say these things with his own mouth, Wang Canghai still believed Zhang Lin was feeling guilty, which was why he was telling him all this. But precisely this very thought left certain things about Wang Canghai with nowhere to hide.

One must know that when Zhang Lin faced him, he had never shown any sign of guilt—or rather, the Ten Thousand Slave King hidden in the dark, who didn't know when he would revive or walk out from the Qingtong Sect, might give Zhang Lin some concern. But after all, that was something that would happen later, and it could only happen after the First Archaeological Team entered Tiangong.

So Zhang Lin didn't need to be on pins and needles at this moment, assuming everything was working against him. Furthermore, what Zhang Lin had been training himself to do for so long was precisely this kind of ability—he wouldn't let things that hadn't happened yet keep troubling him.

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