Chapter 320: The Name of the Magic Thief, Shocking the World!

What on earth is going on?

At this moment, both Professor Li and Xiao Chen had a huge question mark in their minds regarding this jade seal that had appeared out of thin air!

The next second, just as the two of them were attempting to walk closer to the display case to observe this national seal from a shorter distance, a harsh ringtone suddenly shattered the silence here!

"Ring, ring, ring!"

Hearing the sound, the two men's thoughts were instantly pulled back.

It was Professor Li's phone ringing.

"Hello?" Professor Li answered the phone while staring at the display case.

"Old Li, where are you right now?" The voice of Wang Yuanwu, the director of the Forbidden City, came from the other end of the line!

"I'm in the climate-controlled exhibition room, Director. I was just about to report something to you..."

Professor Li was interrupted by Wang Yuanwu halfway through his sentence: "You're in the exhibition room? Have you seen the Imperial Jade Seal in the core display case?"

On the other end of the phone, Wang Yuanwu was watching Chu Chen's livestream while speaking anxiously.

At this moment, dozens of staff members had already gathered beside him, busily and methodically sorting through the artifacts that had just returned.

"I see it, Director. This thing..."

Before he could finish, Wang Yuanwu interrupted him again: "Stay where you are and don't move. Director Zhao and I are coming over right now. You must keep a close watch on that item!"

Meanwhile, at Russell Square!

It had fallen into dead silence once again!

Absolute dead silence.

At this moment, when the livestream clip of the Imperial Jade Seal crossing ten thousand miles and appearing out of thin air on the Forbidden City display stand was clearly witnessed by everyone!

All the cheering, all the discussion, and all the skepticism vanished completely!

People tilted their heads, looking at the big screen, looking at the real and undeniable jade seal in the Forbidden City display case, their minds going blank.

This was a shock that transcended the capacity for understanding.

It was not a visual trick, not a close-up sleight of hand; this was a real-time transmission, crossing continents and oceans, moving an object from the underground of London to the halls of Beijing... a miracle!

"Uh..." someone emitted an unconscious syllable.

Immediately, like a collapsing dam, a tsunami-like wave of sound swept through again, but this time, it was filled with madness and incoherence!

"God! What did I just see?!"

"It... it really flew back?! It flew directly from London to Beijing?!"

"This isn't magic! This is sorcery! It's divine power!"

"The national seal of Huaxia, after being lost for hundreds of years, has actually returned to its homeland?! It's too incredible!"

At this moment, the livestream room was also completely insane.

The comments were no longer scrolling; they were completely frozen, overlapping, and exploding!

The platform's backend servers let out a groan of being overwhelmed, and warning lights flashed frantically.

【Am I fucking crazy or is the world crazy?!】

【Real-time transmission?! Teleportation?! Chu Chen, are you a god descended to earth?!】

【Official confirmation! The Forbidden City's official account posted! They confirmed the sudden appearance of the jade seal! They are conducting an emergency appraisal!】

【Tears! I'm crying! I'm really crying!】

【Witnessing history! No! We have transcended history!】

【The Yingguo guys must be dumbfounded! Burn it! Let's see you try to burn it now! (Crazy mockery)】

【Unprecedented! Unrepeatable! The ultimate miracle in the history of magic!】

【The fortune of Huaxia has returned! It is the will of Heaven!】

"Explosive! Explosive! Explosive!"

On social media platforms, all entries related to "Chu Chen," "Imperial Jade Seal," "Magic," and "Forbidden City" instantly landed in the top twenty of the trending list, all followed by a bright red "Explosive" tag.

Moments, WeChat groups, and major forums were almost simultaneously flooded with this earth-shattering news!

Video clips, livestream screenshots, and shock-value articles from various angles spread to every corner of the internet at the speed of a viral outbreak!

Skeptical voices existed, of course:

"It's definitely a publicity stunt!"

"How is that possible?"

"It must be a pre-recorded video, right?"

But these voices were quickly drowned out by the tidal wave of excitement and the emergency announcement from the authorities (the Forbidden City).

Tech experts began to analyze the livestream footage frame by frame, trying to find flaws, but they discovered that the timestamps, lighting changes, and even the subtle movements in the background of both scenes were perfectly synchronized, with no traces of editing.

This incredible scene was striking the cognitive system of the entire world with absolute force!

On the stage at Russell Square, Chu Chen watched the boiling crowd and the livestream screen quietly.

At this moment, he still wore that faint, mysterious smile, as if everything he had just done was nothing more than brushing away a fallen leaf.

He raised his hand slightly, signaling for everyone to be quiet.

Before long, the wave of sound subsided.

Everyone looked at him with the gaze one would reserve for a deity, waiting for his explanation.

But Chu Chen did not explain; instead, he continued his magic!

Since Mike was familiar with the process, the subsequent performance was completed in one go!

"Mike, now I need you to cover the display case on your left with the Magic Carpet. Yes, that one!"

"Mike, now please cover the display case on your right with the Magic Carpet! That's right, well done!"

"Mike..."

Very quickly, under Chu Chen's direction, one lost national treasure after another flew back to Yanjing one after another, appearing in every corner of the Forbidden City!

The moment the last national treasure, the "Nine Tripod Cauldrons of Yu the Great," vanished without a trace, wave after wave of applause, like a volcano that had been suppressed for ten thousand years, finally erupted completely and without reservation!

This applause was no longer just for a brilliant magic trick, but for those cultural relics that had returned across time and space, for that sense of national glory regained, and for this young man who had created an impossible miracle!

The applause lasted for a long time, resounding through the sky of London.

At the same time, inside a speeding black sedan, the King and the Prime Minister were ashen-faced, like two stone statues weathered in an instant.

Watching the mountain-shaking, sea-roaring shouts of "Chu Chen! Chu Chen!" in the square, Charles grabbed the microphone and called Carlton: "Carlton, what are you doing? What is going on with those cultural relics?"

"I don't know either, Your Majesty! I clearly had already activated the Phoenix Protocol; at the time, I was right at the scene, and I watched with my own eyes as the fire burned them to nothing, but I don't know why..."

Carlton was also stunned!

He also did not know what had happened!

In fact, the cultural relics he burned were all 1:1 replicas created by Chu Chen using the system; the real cultural relics had been swapped out by him long before the performance!

The underground vault where Mike was currently located was actually right beneath the stage, not the real British Museum at all.

This underground vault was also built by Chu Chen using the system, and the purpose of building it was to better complete this sleight of hand!

As for those cultural relics that flew back, it was all planned in advance; he had first sent the cultural relics back to the country, then temporarily stored them in a truck provided by the system, and transported them back to the Forbidden City all at once.

Recently, the Forbidden City was renovating new exhibition halls, so a single truck would not attract anyone's attention at all.

Of course, transporting the cultural relics back to the Forbidden City was only the basic premise of the magic trick; making them reappear was the key.

The reappearance of the cultural relics required the use of the "Vanishing Rabbit" magic prop (a classic magic prop from Now You See Me, the vanishing warehouse).

When Chu Chen needed them to reappear, he just had to have the system provide the corresponding props; the principle was very simple.

With the help of the system, this was not difficult to achieve at all.

But in this world, not many people understood the principle of this magic trick, which was why it made people truly mistakenly believe that he had teleported the cultural relics to Yanjing!

No one in this world knew any magic; all magic tricks were sleight of hand!

It is still that saying: the moment you focus all your attention on the magician, the real magic is quietly unfolding somewhere else!

With a magic trick that could not be understood or replicated, Chu Chen not only took back the supreme treasures but also dealt a resounding slap in the face to that former "Empire on which the sun never sets" in front of the whole world.

And Chu Chen's name as a phantom thief is destined to spread throughout the world and become an immortal legend!