Chapter 3336

And at this moment he no longer worried about those messy things either; whatever came to mind, he said it, even if it meant offending Mr. Wang.

So the next instant, without the slightest hesitation, he said directly: "Mr. Wang, surely you're still worried about the situation ahead? In my view, this matter must be done first and reported afterward. No matter why that Mr. Zhang hung up the phone earlier, whether it was a coincidence or not, we have to seize the chance to show ourselves now!"

"If our people can step in to mediate and satisfy Archaeology Team One while defusing this conflict, then I believe Mr. Zhang—even if he really did hang up on purpose just now—will definitely give us another chance, given that we've done this."

That was what this trusted subordinate was thinking at the moment, and he said it without the slightest hesitation. Hearing this, Mr. Wang's eyes lit up on the spot; he never in his wildest dreams expected the other man to harbor such an idea, and at the same time he kept blaming himself for truly being a doddering old fool.

Because this was a very simple logic—sometimes acting first and reporting afterward only invites the displeasure of the mastermind behind the scenes. Right now everything was proceeding according to Zhang Lin's wishes, and it had always been that way before.

If at those critical junctures the Wang family suddenly appeared and did things under the banner of helping Zhang Lin, then clearly they would gain nothing at all and would only draw Zhang Lin's wrath, which would then spiral completely out of control.

The Wang family clearly had a chance, yet they would squander it into nothing—that was the root of the problem. And now, as Mr. Wang often said, sticking your neck out is one cut, pulling it in is another cut; the outcome seemed already fated. Given that, what was there still to worry about?

So Mr. Wang couldn't help feeling he had truly grown old, his mind slowed down. The other man's reaction was so fast that before he even realized how it all should unfold, his trusted subordinate had already laid a sound piece of logic right in front of him.

It wasn't that using this approach to do the thing was guaranteed to bring any return, but at least it would let Zhang Lin see the point—far better than staying silent.

Even if he thought there was still one last chance to do all this—if he didn't search for a point of infiltration in the cracks, just waiting with wide eyes for some so-called opportunity to arrive—

Then any chance would become a bubble. To put it most bluntly: all opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

What Mr. Wang was doing now was, in a roundabout way, preparing. And if one day Zhang Lin looked back at them, he would surely realize the efforts they had made, and also see the corresponding gains brought by the things they had done over and over.

As long as all of it benefited Archaeology Team One, Mr. Wang believed he could find one chance in the cracks and magnify it without limit—that would be the true salvation for the Wang family.

Freedom or whatever—at least through that method he could, in the true sense, wash the Wang family clean, rather than, as now, thinking of nothing else, single-mindedly dreaming of pies falling from the sky.

Actually, Mr. Wang felt he should have realized long ago how naive, laughable, and childish his original thinking was—because in this world there has never been any pie falling from the sky. Perhaps for Wang Hu, having what he thought was a chance encounter with Wang Canghai was the greatest gift of fate.

Unfortunately that was no pie, but a trap. Mr. Wang was no fool like Wang Hu; once he realized all this, he knew exactly what to do next.

At this moment Mr. Wang was extraordinarily resolute. The trusted subordinate himself had thought Mr. Wang wouldn't change his earlier decision; seeing that expression now, he knew he had bet correctly.

At this point he no longer cared about those worldly niceties, or rather deliberately cast aside those troublesome things. He felt that settling the matter at hand quickly was the most critical thing; everything else was utterly unimportant.

Having thought this through, he hurriedly said: "Mr. Wang, shall I give the order right now?"

Mr. Wang couldn't possibly attend to every little thing like this himself; issuing orders to those people was always done by his trusted subordinate on his behalf. He only needed to give one command, and naturally someone would handle it—that was one of Mr. Wang's advantages.

But anyone with eyes could see this was also one of his vulnerabilities. If the Wang family didn't have this ratio thing, presumably Mr. Wang wouldn't make this kind of choice before anything was certain—it was completely unrealistic. There was only one reason: no one could guarantee eternal loyalty.

But the Wang family happened to be an exception. Up to now the ratio could still be displayed. Under such circumstances, many people's ratios were fluctuating, but there was a small portion of them whose ratios remained perfectly stable, never changing at all.

As for those whose ratios were unstable, whatever choices they made couldn't affect the overall situation. Mr. Wang only needed to be sure of one thing: these people wouldn't now point the spear at the Wang family from within.

Because they might once have been given authority by him, but now the Wang family's target was too big—whoever gained leadership would become the target of all.

In that case, they had no need to keep agonizing over these things; getting out of here quickly was the right path. If Mr. Wang hadn't led everyone away from here at the start, they would still have had a certain burden in their hearts, and even the ratio couldn't possibly have fluctuated so violently.

But as subsequent events unfolded, even Mr. Wang took on the look of a man fleeing in panic, which caused the loyalty and faith in the hearts of quite a few remaining Wang family members to waver. This wavering mindset was actually the same as doubt—once it arose, it would not simply subside.

And there was one more crucial point: every single one of them harbored selfish motives. The reason Mr. Wang said more Wang family members would stay than his trusted subordinate expected was that he understood human nature better, and understood better the mechanism of this ratio the Wang family had established.

One could never make inferences with a hundred percent certainty based on this ratio—Mr. Wang was more certain of this than anyone. In fact, back when Wang Canghai first established the Yunsuanbu Sect, Mr. Wang had fallen into exactly this misconception.

When Wang Canghai told him what this Yunsuanbu Sect actually did, he was overjoyed, thinking he had grasped hold of something extraordinary.

Being able to project the changes of events fifty years into the future was by no means an easy thing—in plain terms, it was foreseeing the future.

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