Chapter 2842: I've Never Seen Anyone So Eager to Seek Death!

At the very least, one should analyze the situation through the other party's own words. When the incident first began, Wang Wang Canghai could understand why Zhang Lin wasn't answering his calls — it might well have been one of Zhang Lin's strategies.

The idea was to use this method to push his mindset to that irrepressible point of imbalance, so that when Zhang Lin acted later, the results would be doubly effective.

This was also the reason he was now calling Zhang Lin. The phone rang many times, but Zhang Lin still hadn't picked up, until it hung up automatically.

It wasn't that Zhang Lin hadn't seen the call. On the contrary, the moment he saw the caller ID, the corner of his mouth curled into a smile.

In Zhang Lin's judgment, the current Wang Wang Canghai was already beyond saving.

So Zhang Lin had no reason and no mood to give him another chance. Now, every call he made meant, in practical terms, that Wang Wang Canghai's own time was dwindling along with it.

Zhang Lin's not answering the phone might already be the greatest chance he was giving the other man.

Zhang Lin Has Already understood everything now. This matched what Wang Wang Canghai had guessed before — apart from the century-old secret, Zhang Lin had also stated it outright to Wang Wang Canghai.

Since the other man still refused to tell him even when pressed repeatedly, he simply stopped asking what exactly was hidden within that hundred years.

He would just quietly wait for it all to surface on its own. Under those circumstances, Zhang Lin would reap the greatest benefit.

Perhaps this also satisfied Zhang Lin's own desire to explore and to know, and besides, he was peeling back layer after layer on top of the New Moon Restaurant, bringing all his readers along with him.

Searching for the answer along this line of thought would also yield better results — that was what Zhang Lin was thinking right now.

But Wang Wang Canghai had no idea of any of this. He still naively believed that the reason Zhang Lin spoke that way was simply that he had no other ideas; the other man was certain he would never expose those things, so he held out no hope at all.

And under such circumstances, Wang Wang Canghai became all the more convinced that this was the true advantage he held. Once that advantage was lost, he would have no way left to get a grip on Zhang Lin afterward.

Even now, Wang Wang Canghai still believed he could use this method to keep Zhang Lin at a loss. At the very least, this was the only advantage he thought he controlled.

As long as he possessed such an advantage, he could smoothly resolve all the trouble that followed — even though the odds were growing smaller and smaller.

But as long as it existed, Wang Wang Canghai certainly wouldn't give it up.

One had to admit, his thinking was laughably foolish. Even Zhang Lin hadn't expected that this Wang Wang Canghai, who had lived for over three hundred years, could be so childish.

The phone rang countless times. Wang Wang Canghai clearly had no intention of giving up. Zhang Lin finally shook his head helplessly and picked up the call.

"Wang Wang Canghai, I've never seen anyone so eager to die. Don't you understand that my not answering your calls is actually a good thing for you?"

Zhang Lin wasn't holding anything back anymore. He believed that, given the current situation, Wang Canghai should be able to judge that if he answered the phone, any slip on Wang Canghai's part would only make the present situation worse. Since that was the case, the other man should know what choice to make.

Who would have thought Wang Wang Canghai would still persist so stubbornly in making this call. As for the reason, it wasn't hard for Zhang Lin to guess — it was simply that Wang Wang Canghai had seen how dire the situation of the Second Archaeological Team was, and his people hadn't yet gone deep into the tomb together with the Second Archaeological Team.

The tomb's entrance had also been sealed off. Faced with all these circumstances, Wang Wang Canghai had panicked. He worried more than anyone that his path to immortality would come to nothing — but this was precisely what Zhang Lin despised most about Wang Wang Canghai.

Things had already reached this point, yet Wang Wang Canghai still hadn't shifted all his attention to the First Archaeological Team. He should have long understood that the Corpse-Repelling Pearl would never belong to him again.

Even if heaven itself stood on his side and somehow sent Su Nan into the tomb through some special means so that she could communicate with the Second Archaeological Team —

Could Wang Wang Canghai guarantee that Su Nan would complete the mission?

Furthermore, with the matter of Shen Qiong as a precedent, did Wang Wang Canghai feel not a single shred of alarm?

The usually clever Wang Wang Canghai was making blunder after blunder. Even Zhang Lin had initially found this opponent very interesting.

But now he even felt a deep-seated contempt for Wang Wang Canghai. This wasn't underestimating the enemy — it was simply the reality of the situation.

Wang Wang Canghai kept using such foolish methods to fight him, to the point that even Zhang Lin could hardly stand to watch. If Wang Wang Canghai weren't seeking his own death, Zhang Lin wouldn't even bother thinking about finishing off such a pathetically stupid person.

Because there was simply no need to waste his own time on it.

He only had to drop a hint to the authorities from the side, and they would help him resolve all the problems on that front. But right now, two archaeological teams were in danger, as was Yang Lu's own life.

And there was also the matter of the Corpse-Repelling Pearl, which Yang Lu valued more than anyone. Now this pearl concerned not only her own life —

— but also the curse upon every member of the Second Archaeological Team. So if Yang Lu truly handed the Corpse-Repelling Pearl over willingly —

— or if through some mishap the pearl were lost, she would likely blame herself for the rest of her life, and the curse on the Second Archaeological Team would never be lifted in this lifetime either.

If they had never found the Corpse-Repelling Pearl in the first place, one could still say it was beyond everyone's ability, and the blame couldn't be pinned on Yang Lu alone.

But now that the Corpse-Repelling Pearl was already in the Second Archaeological Team's hands, there was nothing left to agonize over.

If anything went wrong, it would be Yang Lu's responsibility alone. And she hadn't pushed that responsibility onto anyone else — she had voluntarily taken the Corpse-Repelling Pearl into her own hands, which showed Yang Lu's extraordinary resolve.

The others hadn't chosen to overstep. On one hand, they had a clear sense of their own limits; if any of them held the Corpse-Repelling Pearl, it would only give the Wang family an opening, and then they would truly become sinners for the ages. And now the situation was growing more and more critical.

So this was absolutely not the time to fight over credit. After all, everyone's goal was to press forward and lift the curse.

After Wang Wang Canghai steadied himself, he said directly: "Zhang Lin, no matter what grudge lies between us, since you care so much about Yang Lu, and you've already said as much as you have, you don't need to keep holding things back."

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