"Shopkeeper Ma, name your price."
Perhaps fearing that Ma Ning would continue to feign ignorance, Yang Bolin decisively added:
"This old man wishes to purchase your telecommunication array."
Upon saying this, he sighed deeply in his heart:
With those words, the initiative is no longer in my hands from here on...
Within the Fire Camp, seeing the Chief Shopkeeper of the Purple Treasure Pavilion with a resigned expression, Lin Li, beside Ma Ning, was smiling broadly.
Indeed.
Earlier, whether it was Yang Bolin's attempt to end the conversation or Ma Ning interrupting him twice, it was actually both sides engaged in anticipating each other's moves and strategizing!
Or to put it differently:
This game of chess began when Gu Junming took out that Huawei phone—what Yang Bolin saw as a telecommunication array.
During this time, although their conversations were genuine, it was merely the first act of the play, the first round of a candid exchange:
