Chapter 3358: His Own Scout Squad! The Clever 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 party'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 is what truly reveals the truth. Such an instinct can never be faked, and that is precisely Zhang Lin's aim.

He didn't give much time to think; he wanted to catch the other party 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 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 he had achieved his goal.

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

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

Now Zhang Lin actually wanted Mr. Wang to preserve the Wang family through some means, 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 — this unit might number a few dozen, or perhaps just over a hundred.

Divided into several scattered small teams, they would later help him accomplish other tasks. This idea came to Zhang Lin through the experience of this Archaeology Team Two, as well as Archaeology Team One's prolonged standoff at the gates of Tiangong and everything else — all of it served as a wake-up call.

Zhang Lin felt these things were necessary to do, and the reason was very simple: if he had only discussed these matters up at the New Moon Inn, it probably wouldn't have much impact on the present situation.

But if later he encountered a similar situation, even if his command didn't go awry, the archaeology team might not receive the corresponding orders at the first moment, or some special circumstance might arise causing the matter to go wrong.

If such a thing happened now, Zhang Lin's way of solving the problem would still be very complicated. But if he had a few teams under him that could be dispatched at any time, then for Zhang Lin, resolving 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 archaeology team doing something foolish, just like the 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 ranks. This was reality delivering a naked slap across their faces. Of course, the problem was ultimately 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 have meant everyone perishing together, and even when the dome was finally blown apart, corresponding deviations had occurred.

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

At that point, even Zhang Lin would have been powerless to turn things around. Seeing all this, Zhang Lin — 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 disliked most.

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

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 time bomb, liable to explode inexplicably on any given day.

Zhang Lin had no desire to see such people disrupt his subsequent plans. On this premise, Zhang Lin would certainly eliminate them decisively. But after all, he wasn't inside the family at present, and 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 critical moments.

When that time comes, how they would choose still needed 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 currently was and conduct a screening.

But ultimately this is a false proposition, because Zhang Lin truly couldn't be in two places at once. Even taking it a step further — if he had such an inclination or the time as a baseline, he wouldn't be stuck commanding everything from the New Moon Inn 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 one hand, that he genuinely didn't have that much time and energy, and on the other, that even though he had seen Archaeology Team Two's crisis,

he still believed that through his own — that is, Yang Lu leading Archaeology Team Two — the remaining people would be able to properly resolve all the crises, and he didn't need to step in 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 a second look.

This was also 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 way of thinking 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 Wan Slave King hidden in the shadows, 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 occur after Archaeology Team One entered Tiangong.

So Zhang Lin had no need to be so on edge at this moment, assuming everything was going against him. Furthermore, what Zhang Lin had been training himself to do over all this time was precisely this kind of ability — he wouldn't let things that hadn't happened yet keep tormenting him.

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