"Let's assume that he's on the coast." I said, "If he's on the coast and he's ready to start with us now, what's his biggest concern?"

"You mean that?"

"Yes, if we all go, we're going to leave the coast? He has made a detailed plan here, and once we leave here, it will be a bit difficult for us to start again. For one thing, he didn't know where we were going, and for another, he couldn't get out of the coast himself." I said. "So I think he'll do it to us before we leave."

Li Gang listened and thought, "This is a paradox, because the basis of...