Chapter 728: 《I Really Don't Know Magic》

Chen Qian really couldn't figure out what kind of tricks Luo Mo was trying to pull.

But after Luo Mo told Chen Qian some of his ideas, he actually became a bit interested.

"Huh, this format is actually quite interesting, and quite meaningful too," Chen Qian couldn't help but say.

In the end, he still couldn't resist Luo Mo's "seduction."

It's just the Spring Festival Gala, he's been on it for so many years, might as well go on it!

At this very moment, backstage at the Spring Festival Gala, it was Chen Qian's turn to go on stage.

Luo Mo was sitting in the audience, waiting for Chen Qian to call him up on stage to act as a lucky audience member.

It wasn't that he was going to be a plant for Chen Qian.

The CCTV host team was full of talent, and there were professional plants among them.

There was no need at all for an amateur like Luo Mo to go on stage.

He was just providing support, helping to carry out a so-called magic reveal!

Chen Qian, who was still quite handsome, wore black-rimmed Glasses and slowly walked onto the stage.

As soon as he appeared, the live comments went crazy.

"Holy crap! Haven't seen him in years!"

"I thought Chen Qian wasn't doing the Spring Festival Gala anymore!"

"Awesome, they actually invited him back!"

"They invited him the past few years, but he rejected them all."

"Magic still has to be watched with Chen Qian."

At first, everyone didn't think Chen Qian was indispensable.

But after he hadn't been on the Spring Festival Gala for many consecutive years, everyone gradually realized that magic really had to be watched with Chen Qian; everyone else was lacking something.

Amidst the applause of the live audience, Chen Qian sat down in front of a table on the stage.

This was a glass table, it was transparent.

It was just that it was currently covered with a layer of cloth, shielding everything underneath.

"Long time no see everyone, I am the magician Chen Qian!" he said, facing the camera first.

"On this joyous and festive New Year's Eve, I have decided to reveal the biggest secret of my life to everyone."

He looked straight into the camera, then held up a finger, and said very seriously: "Actually, I really don't know Magic!"

Once this sentence was out, the show's effect was there.

In the live comments, the audience began to interact.

"Heh, trying to trick me again!"

"Yes, yes, you're right."

"Do you think I'm stupid?"

"Laughing to death, still refusing to admit it!"

"Chen Qian's mouth is truly stubborn!"

"Got it, in Huaxia this is called Taoist Arts!"

"Wait, so you're a cultivator?"

Chen Qian seemed to have guessed everyone's reaction; he shrugged his shoulders on stage indifferently, interacting with everyone from afar.

After saying this, he solemnly said: "As everyone knows, for me to perform magic, the most important point is..."

"—It requires someone to provide support!"

Offstage, many in the live audience laughed.

Luo Mo laughed the loudest, making very exaggerated expressions and movements, and even slapped his thigh there.

The camera swept across the audience, then lingered on Luo Mo.

Chen Qian's voice came through: "Very well, then let's invite this audience member who is very deliberately trying to attract my attention to come on stage."

Luo Mo even looked left and right, as if to say: "I have to see who it is!"

Not until he realized the camera was pointed straight at him, and everyone was looking at him, did he slowly point to his own handsome face.

—"Best Actor."

After nailing the show's effect, Luo Mo had a bit of verbal back-and-forth with Chen Qian, and only then went on stage with a helpless look on his face.

His expression was very helpless, but his steps were very large, and he even jumped directly onto the stage, revealing his inner impatience.

"Hahaha! Saying one thing but doing another!"

"Does this count as Luo Mo's return to the Spring Festival Gala?"

"Laughing to death, the Chief Planner acting as a plant."

Once Luo Mo sat down next to Chen Qian, the name of the program began to appear.

—"I Really Don't Know Magic."

Performing guests: Chen Qian, Luo Mo.

The live comments started to boil over again.

"Holy crap! Luo Mo is openly acting as a plant?"

"Bold! Daring to write his name directly into the guests!"

"Chief Planner: I was careless!"

"Hahaha, this counts as a major Live Broadcast accident, right?"

Many viewers still thought this was just a regular magic performance.

At this moment, Chen Qian took out a brand-new deck of cards.

Playing cards, after all, are standard Props in magic tricks.

Chen Qian asked Luo Mo to draw any card from the deck and write his name on it.

Upon hearing this, Luo Mo frowned directly.

"Are you trying to trick me into giving you an autograph?"

——The pride of a big star.

In the live comments, there was an instant, overwhelming flood of: "Yes, yes, yes! That's right, that's right!"

Chen Qian also revealed a shocked expression, and only after a while did he say: "You've actually provided me with a new train of thought; production team, remember to give me this deck of cards after the Spring Festival Gala ends."

Luo Mo smiled, picked up the pen on the table, then casually drew a Spade K and signed his name on it.

For an earthly emperor of the entertainment industry like me, I should be drawing a K!

After signing it, Chen Qian had Luo Mo insert it into the deck.

Luo Mo did as he was told.

"Next, it is time to witness a miracle." These were the words Luo Mo had taught Chen Qian.

Then, after he snapped his fingers, the first card in the deck was flipped over, and it was indeed the Spade K that Luo Mo had signed!

It clearly should have been in the middle of the deck, yet it had suddenly moved to the very top!

The live comments started up again instantly.

"I just heard the sound of a spell being chanted!"

"Chen Qian, and you still say you don't know Magic!"

"Give it a rest, it's just a mere Space-type Level 2 Magic!"

"At our academy, this is the level of a Magic Apprentice."

"Can't you guys hear him chanting the spell?"

Luo Mo frowned and took the cards from Chen Qian's hand, then examined them carefully.

There was no problem with the entire deck of cards.

After shuffling, he inserted the Spade K back into the deck and said, as if being serious: "Do it again!"

This time, Chen Qian was too lazy to even say "witness a miracle," and simply snapped his fingers, and the card appeared on the very top.

This caused Luo Mo, who had become competitive, to stand up with a start.

"I am the Chief Planner!" he suddenly said.

On this stage, I am the leader, hey!

He frowned and beckoned, saying: "No, bring the machine up here for me!"

"What are you trying to do?" Chen Qian, who was sitting, looked up at Luo Mo with a bewildered expression.

"Nothing much, just getting a small tool." Luo Mo revealed a devilish smile.

"Look, you brought Props to perform your magic trick, right?" Luo Mo asked.

"Yeah, that's right."

"Then isn't it also quite fair for me to bring a small tool up here?"

"Fine, fine, fine." Chen Qian said dismissively.

Then, Luo Mo carried a large box up from below the stage.

This box looked like it still had some weight to it.

In the live comments, three words began to flood the screen.

——"《Small Prop》."

Chen Qian looked at Luo Mo and repeated a sentence he had said earlier, but the effect had become even funnier.

"What are you trying to do?"

In the live comments, everyone was repeating Chen Qian's just-now nonchalant words.

——"《Fine, fine, fine》."

Luo Mo did not answer; he opened the box directly and began to assemble it skillfully.

Watching this fluid, flowing set of movements from Luo Mo, Chen Qian couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

After assembling it, Luo Mo hoisted it up and said: "It's just a very common camera, that's all."

——"《Common》."

Who would have thought that a magic show would have a meme-generating ability that doesn't lose to a comedy sketch.

Chen Qian said: "Are the things in your house all this imposing?"

"Huh? It's clearly very old-fashioned."

"Aren't modern cameras all very lightweight? This one is very heavy, hey!"

Chen Qian was speechless and said: "Can you first tell me what you've used it to film in the past?"

"I can." Luo Mo said: "Please look at the big screen."

"Crack—Boom—" A bolt of Sunny Day lightning was produced right then and there.

This machine had captured every detail produced by the lightning.

It must be said that this Sunny Day lightning was just like Chen Qian's current mood.

"You want to use something that films lightning to film my hand?" Chen Qian asked.

"Not bad, right? I view you as a gift from nature." Luo Mo said.

"What is this even about!" Chen Qian acted as if facing a formidable enemy: "What on earth are you trying to do, what is this thing, what on earth are you trying to do!"

He gradually became incoherent.

In the live comments, a single sentence began to flood the screen.

"Use technology to defeat Magic!"

The audience is actually very interested.

Everyone likes watching magic, likes watching one miraculous scene after another.

But they are also very curious about the secrets behind magic.

Otherwise, those videos and content that reveal the secrets wouldn't be so popular.

However, compared to watching fellow magicians ruin Chen Qian's career, isn't it more satisfying to watch a showdown between technology and Magic?

So you're the one called Chen Qian?

I heard your hands are very fast!

Let's see if you're faster than lightning!

Some staff members began to go on stage and also started setting up other Props, such as some lighting and the like.

Chen Qian faced the camera speechlessly and smiled bitterly: "Today is New Year's Eve."

"I was sincerely invited by the General Director and the Chief Planner to participate in the Spring Festival Gala."

"I just performed a simple poker card magic trick in front of the Chief Planner."

"And he started setting up these things!" He gestured around the stage.

"What does this mean?"

"Is it necessary?"

"Is it necessary for watching a poker card magic trick?"

Luo Mo looked at him and smiled: "Truth must be able to withstand the test; by the same token, Magic is the same!"

"I already said I don't do Magic!" Chen Qian emphasized the name of this program again.

"Yes, yes, yes, you only know how to tell us to witness a miracle together." Luo Mo roasted his pretentious lines from earlier.

In the Spring Festival Gala Live Broadcast, the tools were set up very quickly.

Our team members are all skilled workers.

As for Luo Mo, ever since Creating Idols, he has always been a skilled worker at crashing the party.

Chen Qian sighed helplessly and said: "Alright then, let's try one first, okay?"

He faced the camera and performed a few sets of moves at random.

For example, fancy shuffling.

For example, card throwing.

For example, card springing.

His movements were too fast, so fast that they were dazzling.

Then, the screen began to switch to the footage shot by the "home-style machines."

This was to show the audience a slow-motion segment.

Passionate background music also started playing on stage.

During the slow-motion process, watching the slow movement of the cards, it was as if time and space were slowing down, just like watching some slow-motion shots in a movie.

Luo Mo was actually using some movie-making modes here to bring the audience a new experience and shock.

This form of slow-motion expression has an extremely strong visual impact.

Chen Qian's powerful ability to control the stage was manifested at this moment.

Luo Mo turned his head back, no longer looking at the big screen, and asked Chen Qian: "Was that just now magic?"

"That just now wasn't." Chen Qian said seriously: "Just a trick for showing off."

Honestly, it was indeed very cool.

It felt a bit like the feeling in the movie Now You See Me from Earth.

In this series of movies, every time a slow-motion shot appears, it makes people feel it's incredibly cool.

It is worth mentioning that the magic enthusiast Zhou Jielun also contributed his performance in the second installment.

Luo Mo glanced at Chen Qian; his eyes and expression revealed one piece of information: "He got to show off!"

He coughed and said: "Can we officially start now?"

"Yes." Chen Qian nodded, then began to rub his hands together.

"Next, is the moment to witness a miracle." He pointed at the camera.

That deck of cards was casually spread out by Chen Qian, and then he told Luo Mo to continue drawing.

Luo Mo drew a card at random and pulled out a K again, only this time it was a Plum Blossom K.

"Good, remember it, this card." Chen Qian said: "Come, put it wherever you like."

Then, he began to cover the cards and rubbed them a few times at random.

"Come, camera look here." Chen Qian even took the initiative to challenge Luo Mo's high-tech.

—"Initiative."

He said: "The card was randomly placed in the middle, so, the first card definitely isn't your card."

As he spoke, he slowly flipped over the top card of the deck.

The audience thought the first card had turned into the Plum Blossom K.

But who would have thought it wasn't at all; it was a 3 of Hearts.

Chen Qian's eyes behind his Glasses narrowed slightly.

Then, as if to save himself from the awkwardness, he said: "See, I told you the first card definitely wouldn't be your card."

Then, he raised his other hand and casually flicked this card with his finger.

Only to hear a 'Snap!'

The next moment, everyone could not believe the scene before their eyes!

In the blink of an eye, the 3 of Hearts turned into the Plum Blossom K that Luo Mo had drawn earlier!

This was just absurd!

Clearly, this 3 of Hearts was facing all the audience members so openly.

Yet he flicked the card, and the card changed instantly!

Everyone was unable to react, not knowing what exactly had happened!

It was as if there really were Magic, erasing the 3 of Hearts and replacing it with the Plum Blossom K in a split second!

Everyone couldn't help but recall that classic line of Chen Qian's from just a moment ago: "Now is the moment to witness a miracle."

All of a sudden, a chorus of "Wow—!" erupted from the audience.

Chen Qian had a very satisfied expression on his face, leaning his whole body back against the chair.

If it weren't for the Spring Festival Gala, he might have even crossed his legs.

"There is a great sound here at the venue; I wonder if you all heard it," he said to the audience watching the Live Broadcast.

It is easy to imagine that if the audience below were a circle of young people, and today were not the Spring Festival Gala, what would have erupted would likely be a chorus of "Holy shit," rather than this hesitant "Wo—wow—!"

Chen Qian looked full of himself, as if he really knew Magic.

Luo Mo, on the other hand, said calmly: "Come, let's watch the replay together!"

(PS: I have to go take wedding photos at 7:30 tomorrow morning, and I have to go to three different locations. I don't know what time I'll finish tomorrow, or what my energy levels will be like. If there is an update, it will be very late, and if I'm exhausted, I might take a day off. Just letting everyone know.)

(End of this chapter)