Chapter 235 Rescue Error

Victor's fingers tapped lightly on the water tank glass. "Using a specially designed vibration device to create a glass vibration effect, coupled with a carefully modulated distress sound effect—"

The magician gave a sly smile: "Even the audience sitting in the front row will be 100% convinced that the person in the water tank is struggling to survive."

Li Qihan nodded thoughtfully. "The voice of the person calling for help... I guess it was generated using AI speech synthesis technology based on pre-collected voiceprint features?"

"Absolutely!" Victor snapped his fingers, his entire body succumbing to a frenzy when discussing magic. "We use the latest neural network model, and with just a 30-second voice sample, we can perfectly replicate anyone's voice."

He turned and pointed to both sides of the stage. "At this time, our four 'rescuers' will rush onto the stage with demolition tools in hand, creating a thrilling rescue scene."

"Everyone's attention will be firmly drawn to the stage..." Victor's voice suddenly lowered, with a magician's unique sense of mystery,

"In fact, my partner had already quietly arrived at the last row of the audience through the underground passage."

Victor opened his arms and made an exaggerated appearance: "Amid the panicked screams of the audience——"

"Bang! He'll suddenly appear in the audience and give everyone a surprise they'll never forget!"

After listening to Victor's detailed explanation, Li Qihan's deep eyes flashed with admiration. "This is indeed a brilliantly conceived magic trick. If it hadn't been sabotaged, your deep-water cage performance would surely have become a global magic classic."

"Thank you." Victor forced a smile, but fatigue was evident in the corners of his eyes. "This is a brand new version I prepared specifically for the Dragon Country premiere. The underwater projection system alone took me three full months to debug."

He looked at the damaged props on the stage, his voice trailing off, "I just didn't expect... it would end this way."

Li Qihan keenly noticed the magician's clenched fists and slightly trembling fingers—that was an artist's most genuine reaction to the destruction of their hard work. He calmly handed him a bottle of water and said, "We will find the mastermind and bring you justice."

In the hallucination described by Xia Lili, Victor did not panic when he saw the water tank full of blood. Instead, he waited until he saw that Chi Hui did not appear in the back row of the audience, and then he became crazy and asked the staff to save people.

After understanding the entire magic process, Victor can now be ruled out as a suspect. Victor's reaction in Xia Lili's hallucination is normal.

Victor thought Chi Hui was familiar with his escape process and the show effect, and had successfully escaped. Under the guidance of the staff, he "changed his form". Everything that happened in the water tank was a holographic projection synthesized by AI.

He relies on a combination of high technology and magic that can fool the audience and himself.

Li Qihan rubbed his chin thoughtfully, his eyes scanning the glass water tank on the stage. "I still have a question—when those four staff members were smashing the glass with hammers, weren't they worried about actually breaking through the water tank?"

Victor shook his head slightly when he heard this, his face showing the confidence of a professional magician: "No need to worry at all."

He walked over to the water tank and tapped the glass with his fingertips. "First of all, their seemingly violent blows are actually professional moves that have been rigorously trained. The force is controlled just right."

"More importantly," Victor bent down and picked up a piece of glass shard to show Li Qihan, "we use specially customized multi-layer tempered glass. The middle part has been strengthened, and its impact resistance is more than three times that of the edge parts."

He gestured with his fingers on the glass cross-section, "Every time the staff dropped the hammer, they precisely controlled the center area where the glass is strongest."

“It allows the audience to hear the shocking crash sound without actually damaging the water tank structure.”

Li Qihan understood, walked out of the backstage and returned to the stage, his eyes first falling on Xia Lili.

At this moment, Xia Lili was still contemplating the details of the hallucination. From the moment Chi Hui, the unfortunate person, entered the water tank to the moment he was instructed to unlock the bracelets and anklets, no relevant clues were found...

Xia Lili concentrated her mind, and the hallucinations that had flooded into her mind flipped through one by one like slides, until this scene—

The water tank had turned red like a pool of blood. Four staff members were holding blasting hammers and smashing the glass of the water tank. After the water tank broke, one of the staff members did not avoid it in time like his colleagues, but was splashed in the face by blood, piranhas and glass.

Xia Lili carefully observed the position of the person in the illusion.

She found that the other three staff members were standing on both sides of the water tank, knocking on the four corners of the water tank.

The injured worker was standing in the middle of the water tank and using a demolition hammer to smash the glass in the middle of the tank.

"Captain Li! I've discovered something!"

Xia Lili pulled herself out of her thoughts and quickly looked for Li Qihan, only to find him standing right next to her.

Xia Lili told Li Qihan about the suspicious details in the switching scene.

Li Qihan's brows darkened after hearing this, and he immediately thought of Victor's answer just now!

The staff member who was injured in Xia Lili's hallucination was still "performing" after Victor ordered to rescue him!

Li Qihan frowned slightly: "Does the injured staff member have any obvious characteristics?"

Xia Lili shook her head helplessly: "They were all wearing baseball caps and masks, so I couldn't see their faces at all."

She tried to recall, "They were all about 175cm tall, wearing the same dark grey overalls. It was impossible to tell who was who."

Li Qihan's eyes darkened and he turned around and whispered a few words to Leng Xiaohe.

Leng Xiaohe nodded in understanding and quickly left the scene.

Seeing this, Xia Lili couldn't help but move closer and ask, "Captain Li, have you found any clues?"

Li Qihan's eyes were fixed on the glass of the water tank in the center of the stage. He lowered his voice and said, "Your guess is correct."

"The guy in the middle knocking on the glass...there's something wrong with his movements."

Li Qihan explained to Xia Lili, "The reason why tempered glass is stronger than ordinary glass is because it has a compressive stress layer on the surface and a tensile stress layer inside."

"This special stress structure greatly improves its impact resistance."

He continued, "But this structure also has a fatal weakness. Once it's partially damaged, the internal tensile stress will be released instantly, causing the entire piece of glass to shatter in an instant."

Li Qihan tapped the edge of the glass with his fingertips. "The corners of tempered glass are where stress is most concentrated. Even the slightest damage here can easily break through the compressive stress layer, triggering a chain reaction."

He turned to Xia Lili and said, "In your hallucination, the other three staff members accurately chose these weak points when dropping their hammers. This is a standard rescue method."