Chapter 2869: Resolute Attitude! No One Can Stop Me From Becoming an Immortal!

At first Zhang Lin still thought this was Wang Canghai's habit, and that when he was sparring with someone, he would deliberately leave corresponding openings for his opponent on purpose.

But later, as Zhang Lin went deeper and deeper in targeting Wang Canghai, he discovered that this was not at all some deliberate opening left on purpose.

It was simply because Wang Canghai was far too arrogant; from the very start the other party had not taken him seriously, which was why mistakes kept cropping up again and again.

By the time the other party reacted, everything was already too late—Wang Canghai was completely in a passive position, which was also the part he found most helpless about.

Precisely because of this helplessness, Wang Canghai now had even less choice; whenever a problem arose that he could not solve, Wang Canghai would contact Zhang Lin at the very first moment.

Perhaps at first he could still endure this inner anxiety, hoping that the situation would change from before under the influence of the people he had sent out.

But as things developed, Wang Canghai knew he could no longer deliberately avoid this matter, even though talking directly with Zhang Lin would expose even more of his openings.

But in the final analysis, since all of this was already within Zhang Lin's plan, he had no way to make any proactive choices; therefore, rather than carrying on like this, he might as well expose himself completely before Zhang Lin's eyes.

Now Wang Canghai even hoped Zhang Lin would be a little more arrogant—that is, at the New Moon Restaurant he would lecture him at length and directly expose his existence to the world.

At that time, for Wang Canghai, although his surface survival space would grow narrower and narrower, in secret Wang Canghai could slip through many loopholes.

Because once people knew that immortality, in essence, truly existed, then the number of people he could use would increase.

Wang Canghai himself was not without thoughts of spreading this matter far and wide, but after all he did not have such a good medium to help him do it.

Xue Long, who had been doing all this rough and tiring work, had already betrayed him; going to livestream rooms to stir things up was also pointless. Even if he hired more shills to flood Zhang Lin's or the archaeological team's livestream rooms with corresponding hype—saying things like he was still alive and so on—these kinds of remarks would probably all be regarded as nonsense.

Perhaps at first, when Zhang Lin was avoiding Wang Canghai's topic, once this kind of hype got going, there might still be some hope.

But now, even if Wang Canghai registered an account just like Zhang Lin and started livestreaming, even if the popularity would pick up at first, what Wang Canghai found most helpless was—how could he prove that he was himself?

Such a thing simply could not stand. Based on this point, Wang Canghai had lost his best weapon, which was the bitter result brought about by Zhang Lin's step-by-step pressure combined with his own endless mistakes.

So now, facing Zhang Lin's contemptuous words, Wang Canghai could not directly attack the other party, but deliberately slowed the pace and told the other party that he was showing weakness without limit, as long as Zhang Lin would let him off the hook.

Zhang Lin gave a faint smile on his side, then said: "I don't know what you're thinking, but this matter has long since left no way out. Wang Canghai, you need to understand—it isn't that I want to put you to death, but that you yourself have driven yourself onto a dead end. Are you going to deny that?"

Hearing these words, Wang Canghai didn't even think, and immediately said: "I don't deny it, it is indeed so. But no one can stop me from becoming an immortal. Zhang Lin, I just don't get it—you want the Muchen Zhu only to lift their curse, it has no other use. If you also want to become an immortal, then we could perfectly well cooperate. But this reason doesn't hold, does it?"

The reason he said this was that from the very start Wang Canghai had already made efforts in this direction. After he realized Zhang Lin's strength, his first thought was not to fight Zhang Lin to the death, but to seize the opportunity to contact Zhang Lin and then bring up the idea of cooperation.

He hoped Zhang Lin would agree that, on the basis of a strong alliance, no one—whether officials or anyone who suddenly popped up—would be able to stop what the two of them wanted to do. Regarding tombs and these hidden matters, in the present world, no one understood them better than the two of them.

And when they stood on opposing sides, all sorts of situations would always arise, making subsequent matters increasingly awkward—Wang Canghai was not unaware of this.

Precisely because he was aware of it, he would show weakness time and time again. But what Zhang Lin had said before was not without basis either—he had given Wang Canghai chances, but the other party had never cherished them.

Zhang Lin certainly would not let the other party get these so-called chances again and again.

He did have a tolerant side, but as long as someone treated Zhang Lin's tolerance as weakness, Zhang Lin would absolutely give the other party the harshest lesson.

But all of this was also because the Gawa that Wang Canghai had sent kept targeting Yang Lu without end, and without hesitation opened fire on Yang Lu—this was the real reason that caused Zhang Lin to come with fury.

Just now, Zhang Lin had repeatedly emphasized to Wang Canghai that his patience absolutely had a limit; if the other party still clung to such thinking, then there was no point in talking further.

Some things were just like that from the start—as long as there was no way to continue talking, Zhang Lin would not deliberately use deception to first keep the other party steady; he had absolutely no need to do so.

For Zhang Lin, the current Wang Canghai was in the palm of his hand—as long as he wanted to put the other party to death, no accidents would occur. But Zhang Lin had to let Wang Canghai stay alive for now, because many subsequent answers required Wang Canghai to actively reveal them.

Even though Zhang Lin had previously told Wang Canghai that he might as well not ask about those things, and that relying on his current strength to find a way to uncover everything was more interesting.

But in the final analysis, some secrets only concerned the connection between Wang Canghai and the Wang behind him. Under this premise, no matter how much Zhang Lin dug in the cracks, these secrets would probably remain hidden forever—and that was the result Zhang Lin least wanted to see.

So he had to let Wang Canghai live for now. Without this premise, Zhang Lin might really have taken action himself, or when Wang Canghai came to find him last time, he would have directly killed the other party. At that time the other party had come with a strange, inexplicable confidence.

That was—he believed that daring to appear before Zhang Lin meant he wasn't afraid of Zhang Lin striking directly, and he was confident he could preserve his own life. It was precisely this inexplicable confidence that led Wang Canghai to commit a very serious mistake, though by coincidence he did temporarily preserve his life.

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