Chapter 2641-2653 [The Magic That Was Cracked]
This thought flashed through his mind, and Vodka was actually shocked. He took a deep breath and suppressed these messy thoughts.
"Don't think too much. If you keep going like this, you'll really be paranoid... Think about it carefully. This woman's characteristics don't mean anything."
Vodka pushed up his sunglasses and gave a rational argument: "There are actually quite a few good-looking and talkative people. It's impossible that all of them are related to Uzo - for example, the guy on the stage also meets the requirements, but he has been fine until now. I must be overthinking."
He took a few deep breaths and finally suppressed some terrible speculations back into his heart.
…
It wasn't just some organization cadre who happened to pass by who felt terrified.
In the audience, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko looked at the female assistants who were stabbing the bird cage with spikes, and couldn't help but raise their hands to cover their eyes: "He, he can really escape."
"If you strictly follow the specific method, theoretically, of course it is possible." Jiang Xia seemed to remember something and sighed sadly:
"But after the last magic exhibition, I read a research report. The bigger the escape magic, the higher the chance of accidents - aging equipment, magician's fatigue and distraction, assistant's negligence and betrayal... It's difficult for humans to be as precise as machines. As long as any link goes wrong, it may bring disaster to those poor magicians on the stage."
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko looked at the huge bird cage on the stage that was pierced by countless spikes, their faces turned pale: "Then..."
Jiang Xia changed the subject: "But this magic should be okay - if the magician fails to escape, when the assistants swing the spikes and poke them, the feel will be obviously different from an empty cage. Now that they haven't stopped, it means the cage is empty."
“Is that so?” The two high school girls breathed a sigh of relief, “That’s great.”… They almost thought that this rare entertainment activity was going to turn into a murder scene.
Amidst the whispers, the assistants on the stage finally stopped their brutal stabbing.
They loosened the iron spikes in their hands, letting them stick to the cage, then bowed lightly to the audience and walked away with a smile.
There was only one assistant left on the stage. She snapped her fingers, creating a spark and directed the flame to the black cloth covering the birdcage.
The black cloth that had undergone special treatment burned like a flower, and gradually, the full picture of the birdcage was revealed - in the iron cage that was two people tall, there were crisscrossing spikes, but no human figure.
At this moment, a beam of bright light suddenly fell and hit the audience seats.
Xinghe Tongwu stood up from the beam of light. The young and handsome magician smiled and bowed to all directions - not only did he escape the iron cage, he also moved to the audience seats without anyone noticing.
"Wow!" The high school girls exclaimed in surprise: the magician is still alive, there is no need to look at a corpse!
"!!" Although they were also spectators, some people had completely different feelings - as the beam of light came on, Hashimoto Maya's eyes twitched violently and she lowered her head silently.
The light happened to hit him right next to him, just enough to cover him.
For an ordinary audience, this may be considered an honor and a surprise, but for members of the organization who once hid in the darkness and faced death once their identities were exposed... this sudden exposure was definitely a big shock.
But it was only a brief surprise. Soon, Hashimoto Maya slumped back into her seat like a dead fish.
"Isn't it just that Gao Liang is exposed to everyone's sight? As early as the moment I came back from the UK, I have been exposed enough as the 'hero who saved the plane'. What's missing is this little ray of light now?" Hashimoto Maya felt tired and at the same time couldn't help but recall the scene of his former boss, Mr. Ireland, looking at him not far away.
"Huh?" Jiang Xia seemed to have realized something and turned his head to look over here: For some reason, the production of iced black tea suddenly increased.
Of course, it was not just Jiang Xia and his friends who looked towards the light column as the sudden loud music sounded - in the front row, Vodka was also inevitably attracted by the noise and turned around to look.
The next moment, he almost spit out the tea he just sipped: "..." Hashimoto Maya? ! Why is this guy here!
A mere peripheral member, nothing to be afraid of. But the problem is that this guy's appearance definitely does not represent himself, but something more terrifying.
"No, I have to go!" Vodka put down the cup, no longer thinking about watching the show while working, "If I'm any later, it might be too late."
However, since he was here, he had to finish the task before leaving. Otherwise, if he abandoned the task and ran away, Brother Gin would order him to come back and finish this task... He didn't want to repeat the doctor interview task that seemed to never be completed a while ago.
Thinking of this, Vodka prayed in his heart, praying that the bastard magician who was obsessed with showing off would stop bowing and return to the stage. Only when the lights in the audience went out could he complete his task as soon as possible and run away.
Vodka's different state from other audience members attracted the attention of his neighbor.
The woman looked at him with a hint of curiosity. "You weren't surprised at all when he 'teleported' from the cage to the audience?"
Vodka came back to his senses and glanced at her: "..." What's so surprising about this? Didn't the magician take advantage of the chaos to change into women's clothes and slip out from the back of the cage and blend in when the group of female assistants were circling the cage?
Ever since he felt a chill on his back and had a bad feeling in his heart, Vodka has been in "anti-ouzo mode".
He was doubly alert and extremely sensitive to all kinds of dangerous weapons - so as soon as the group of flashy female assistants came on stage, he noticed that the assistant walking at the end was holding not one spike, but two overlapping ones.
This subtle anomaly made Vodka have countless guesses. He once suspected that this was a weapon used to kill the magician. At the same time, he assigned numbers to the assistants, wondering how many people would be involved in this murder.
However, after the assistants circled the cage a few times, the spikes in each person's hand returned to one. After a careful count, there was one more assistant.
Combined with the theme of escape magic, what is there to be confused about? Once you grasp this key, the following magic is easy to explain: the magician who mixed in with the assistants held a spike and pretended to poke the empty cage. When the assistants left the stage, he also followed them off the stage in women's clothes.
While the black cloth on the cage slowly burned, the magician changed back into his own clothes, took the opportunity to sneak into the audience seats in the dark, and then suddenly appeared in the beam of light.
(End of this chapter)
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