Chapter 3354: Clever as You! Can You Be Brainwashed Too?!

He took a deep breath.

He immediately said, "Mr. Zhang, I know you may have already seen through it. That person once gave me a lot of things, including as recently as half a month ago. I even called him, hoping he would stop, and the Wang family would still be his!"

"You're also wondering why I betrayed him yet brought the entire Wang family with me. Perhaps you already have the answer. That's right, because I am more loyal to the Wang family I myself founded, not to that person. So I'm not going to dwell on it anymore."

Hearing this explanation, Zhang Lin subconsciously nodded.

The other party's answer couldn't be called perfect, but Zhang Lin felt it was barely passable. At least the man wasn't babbling nonsense about all sorts of irrelevant things, and for Zhang Lin that was already enough.

What Zhang Lin wanted to hear might not be these things, but under the current circumstances, many things are hit-or-miss. Perhaps Zhang Lin didn't ask these questions deliberately.

But Mr. Wang knew very well that if Zhang Lin asked certain questions in a very formal manner, then he didn't need to be nervous. On the contrary, what seemed like Zhang Lin's casual remark had actually long been calculated with all the pros and cons in mind.

Under this premise, one had to respond carefully. In other words, Mr. Wang realized that the reason Zhang Lin said this was probably deliberately digging a pit for him, to see if he would jump into it.

If he really jumped in, Zhang Lin had a way to deal with it. If he didn't jump in, then Zhang Lin might change his own choice. These were the outcomes he could think of.

Clearly this time he had gambled right. At least in the current situation, no matter what Zhang Lin said, Mr. Wang could find a countermeasure, rather than being completely in the dark and knowing nothing. Zhang Lin on the other end of the phone didn't respond for quite a while, yet Mr. Wang didn't get overly nervous because of it.

He even let out a sigh of relief, feeling that this answer of his should be fairly satisfactory to Zhang Lin. So soon Zhang Lin should ask the next question. Mr. Wang didn't know why, but the current Zhang Lin still had such leisure and refined taste.

But helplessly, he could only passively submit to all of this. In other words, no matter what Zhang Lin said, he only had the duty to cooperate and no right to argue. This was the outcome he had least wanted to see in the past, yet now he had no choice but to face such a fate. Perhaps heaven really had played a joke on him.

But now, thinking of all this, he could only smile faintly in the end, feeling that perhaps this was the best arrangement. At least the entire Wang family was still here; they hadn't become left with no choice, even to the point of dying without a burial place. Even if there were unstable factors within the Wang family now, so what?

Mr. Wang strongly told himself that these so-called instabilities would surely be suppressed as subsequent events unfolded.

Because essentially, the Wang family hadn't fallen apart. He had always thought this way. The things he did were also aimed at rapidly integrating the Wang family together, rather than letting it become like a pile of loose sand.

So although they had left the Wang family's headquarters, the mindset of every single person absolutely could not change. They were, after all, members of the Wang family. If everyone were like Wang Cen, believing that once the Wang family left the scope of the headquarters, then everyone represented a defection—

In other words, if every one of them had betrayed the Wang family, then Mr. Wang's current approach would seem laughable. At the same time, Mr. Wang also believed that one location didn't represent anything. In the final analysis, they were people.

The so-called saying that people thrive by moving and trees die by staying still—since that's the case, there was no need to agonize over those messy things anymore. Instead, one should follow one's heart in making the next choice. And once this kind of choice opened up the situation, then so-called wrong things would become right. This was the typical thinking of a ruthless overlord.

But although Mr. Wang's thinking was correct, the closer to the end, the smaller his courage became. This had a great impact on the overall situation. In the end, as that saying goes, fortunately Mr. Wang wasn't alone—there were people truly loyal to him. And accompanied by such loyalty, the choices he could make also increased.

So Mr. Wang could smoothly consolidate the resources in his hands, then deal with all the crises that would happen afterward. Only, these crises absolutely did not include Zhang Lin.

Facing Zhang Lin, the only thing he could do was submit to the other's arrangements, consolidate everything in his hands, and then quietly wait for the other's orders, just like the present situation.

So facing Zhang Lin's questioning words, he was not only not angry, but very pleased. He was glad that Zhang Lin could issue such an order. At the same time, once such an order existed, it meant his range of choices had expanded.

Another most important point was that he no longer needed to worry about the Wang family's future. Of course, if this person were not Zhang Lin but Wang Canghai, then regardless of what promises the other had given him before, Mr. Wang would absolutely not believe them. This wasn't him being petty, but came from a kind of instinct.

Because Wang Canghai's character had always been unreliable. In the past, Mr. Wang had already seen this point. Originally he thought that this so-called vicious streak of Wang Canghai was only directed at outsiders.

If it really were like this, then Mr. Wang felt it was entirely understandable. After all, they were the Wang family—as long as they satisfied the internal needs, that was enough. As for what outsiders thought, it had nothing whatsoever to do with the Wang family's internal affairs.

But in the end he knew he was too naive. Wang Canghai's insidiousness was not only directed at the outside; internally it was the same now. Just looking at this matter, if he had even the slightest bit of feeling for the Wang family, he definitely wouldn't have made such a choice.

Wang Canghai used this kind of horrifying method to satisfy his own selfish desires, whether it was toward Archaeological Team One or Archaeological Team Two.

At first Mr. Wang hadn't disobeyed Wang Canghai's orders, but the final result was that everyone the Wang family sent out was completely wiped out. At that time Mr. Wang accepted it.

He felt that losing some manpower in exchange for Wang Canghai's sobriety would be a relatively decent outcome for them. In the end, facts proved that the people he thought were lost amounted to nothing at all. And Mr. Wang suddenly realized Wang Canghai's truly terrifying side.

For decades he hadn't seen through this point; he could only blame his own stupidity. Even Zhang Lin, intentionally or unintentionally, was pondering this matter. According to Mr. Wang's intelligence, he shouldn't have been so foolish as to this extent.

So the next moment, Zhang Lin still maintained that casual tone, then slowly opened his mouth and asked, "Actually, with your intelligence, you shouldn't have been unable to discern the situation, nor should you have been brainwashed."

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