Chapter 672

Fortunately, Hu Bayi reacted in time, snatched the shovel from him, and pushed him back.

He said sharply, "Are you crazy! Do you have any idea that doing this might very likely......"

Wang Kaixuan didn't let Hu Bayi continue, and instead said with full justification, "We can't wait any longer. The best thing to do right now is smash this coffin open right away and see what's inside!"

Professor Sun shook his head. At this point, they didn't blame Wang Kaixuan any further for his words and behavior.

After all, he was only worried about Teacher Yang, and everyone shared that worry.

As the team leader, Yang Lu was absolutely their stabilizing anchor.

Although most of their decisions relied on the guidance of that Mr. Zhang at the New Moon Restaurant, Zhang Lin wasn't at the New Moon Restaurant every moment of the day.

In many crises, they still had to rely on this leader of the Bandits to make the right call, so they could keep moving forward.

Just like when they encountered the desert army ants beneath the giant-eyed stone statue before.

Even setting all that aside, everything Yang Lu had shown along the way had earned their full respect, let alone the fact that his former status had long been held in high esteem.

Under such circumstances, whether out of personal feelings or because of their mission this time, no one wanted anything to happen to Yang Lu.

The hardest thing in this world is helplessness. Everyone knew perfectly well that no matter how worried they were, there was nothing they could do at this moment.

Right now, after being scolded by Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan had calmed down, but that didn't stop him from pacing in circles inside the tomb chamber.

He was also fully aware of how foolish his behavior just now had been, but precisely because he could do nothing, precisely because that inner self-loathing had welled up, he had suddenly lost his reason.

And so, on instinct, he had wanted to smash this coffin apart.

But what then? True, they had brought explosives, and were fully capable of a directional blast that would reduce the entire coffin to nothing.

Even setting aside the coffin's archaeological value, the mechanisms linked to it would also be blown apart along with it.

If the opening got blasted out, that would be fine, but if it didn't, then Yang Lu would be buried underneath for good.

They would be murderers, and the culprit would be Wang Kaixuan.

So they absolutely could not do that. Absolutely not.

At this moment, the people in the livestream could see it too — there was a reason Wang Kaixuan and Hu Bayi got along so well. It came from their complementary temperaments.

Hu Bayi could still maintain absolute calm at the critical moment.

That was, in a sense, like a chain holding Wang Kaixuan in check.

【Wuwuwu, Captain Yang, you absolutely cannot be in trouble.】

【She definitely won't be, absolutely not!】

Right now, the people in the livestream sent out all kinds of prayers and blessings, hoping this leader of the Bandits would be safe and sound.

The people inside the New Moon Restaurant were also on edge, but fortunately they still had Zhang Lin right before their eyes.

At this moment, they also hoped to get an answer from Zhang Lin as they had before. Although Zhang Lin had already said earlier that only Yang Lu herself knew exactly what would happen under this mechanism.

But now they could ask Zhang Lin a different question.

"Mr. Zhang, if the thirty-percent chance you mentioned earlier applied to the entire archaeological team, and now the other two mechanisms have already been completed, has that probability gone up?"

Zhang Lin thought for a moment. Hearing this, seeing the expressions on everyone's faces, he also felt bad letting them down.

He then nodded and said, "Actually, you don't need to worry. The current success rate can be multiplied by three, which means Captain Yang has a ninety-percent chance of success."

That sentence let everyone breathe a sigh of relief. No matter how much the livestream viewers prayed, none of it compared to one firm answer from Zhang Lin.

It had to be said, the person who raised this question was also very clever — in a sense, they had shifted the definition Zhang Lin had given the matter earlier.

Zhang Lin actually didn't want to say something like that right now, but he hadn't expected everyone to react so strongly upon seeing Yang Lu alone in danger.

This also made Zhang Lin overturn his previous thought.

That was, Yang Lu's prestige no longer needed to be raised any further, because it had already reached its peak.

Under such circumstances, letting everyone breathe easy was better than anything.

At this moment, something unusual suddenly appeared on the screen of the Second Archaeological Team's livestream.

Wang Kaixuan had said earlier that smashing the coffin open would rescue Yang Lu.

But everyone knew that when Yang Lu came back up, the coffin lid would open on its own, and then they could see their team leader again.

What shocked everyone was that now they didn't need to wait for the coffin lid to open again, because some unknown force from within caused the entire coffin to begin shaking violently.

…….