Chapter 729: A Shocking Magic Show

Luo Mo is actually going to perform a direct replay of Chen Qian's magic trick on the Spring Festival Gala stage!?

As soon as these words left his mouth, countless audience members were dumbfounded.

"Holy crap, is he going to debunk it live?"

"No way, would Chen Qian agree to this?"

"《Smashing the Stage》."

"Looks like Chen Qian really wants to retire!"

As mentioned before, Chen Qian had long been in a semi-retired state, too lazy to appear on large-scale galas, only occasionally recording short magic videos to post online when he had nothing better to do.

Hey, and don't even get me started, he earned quite a lot from it too.

But to do this on the Spring Festival Gala stage, in front of everyone, in front of a vast sea of viewers across the country, and to directly tear down the act—for a magician, that is very Deadly.

This is very likely to make everyone feel: "He doesn't seem that Ox after all."

Not only is the sense of mystery destroyed, but his career could even suffer a massive blow!

Of course, even more bewildered were his peers in the magic world.

Their favorite thing to do on a daily basis was to tear down Chen Qian's act together after the Spring Festival Gala ended, debunking his magic tricks to gain traffic and fame.

Good grief, he's blocked our path!

Is he going to walk our path and leave us with nowhere to go?

On stage, Chen Qian had originally been leaning back in his chair, performing a 【Tactical Lean Back】.

Upon hearing the word "replay," his body immediately leaned forward, and he even pretended not to hear clearly.

"What? What is it?" he couldn't help but ask.

Luo Mo ignored him and directly flashed a smile, revealing his entire row of white teeth.

"Watch! The! Replay!" he shouted.

Immediately after, Luo Mo pointed sharply at the screen.

——Laozi is going to use technology to defeat Magic!

In the screen, it was frozen on the frame where Chen Qian was holding a Heart 3.

The fingers of his other hand were about to flick the playing card.

Previously, with just such a casual flick, this Heart 3 had turned into a Plum Blossom K in an instant!

"Oh! Here it comes, here it comes!" Luo Mo egged him on from the side.

At this moment, the camera gave Chen Qian a close-up; he was seen crossing his arms over his chest, his lips tightly pursed, looking very insecure but deliberately suppressing it.

On the big screen, everything was shown in slow motion.

In this footage, which had been slowed down several times, Chen Qian flicked his finger, and at the moment of the flick, he shifted the Heart 3 to the back and displayed the Plum Blossom K that had been hidden behind it all along.

"Eh? You just stacked it in the back and then moved it to the front?" Luo Mo looked at him in surprise and said, "Is that all?"

Chen Qian sprang up from his chair, looking like he couldn't take it, as if he were undergoing torture.

"What do you mean 'is that all'! This is very difficult, okay!" Chen Qian shouted.

But in reality, the Drama effect was still explosive.

Although Luo Mo was laughing loudly, the audience was stunned.

"Holy crap, it really is just changing cards with hand speed?"

"Is his hand speed so fast that I can't see it?"

"So Ox! Even with it slowed down so many times, I still think it's fast!"

"Are you crazy, still saying you don't know Magic?"

Hilarious, Chen Qian, you old man, at your age, your mouth is still so stubborn!

Yes, yes, yes, we misjudged you; at first, we thought you used a Space Element Magic, but we didn't expect it to be an acceleration-based Wind Element Magic.

Eh? So you're actually a multi-class mage? Holy crap!

This feeling is hard to describe.

It really is that as long as the atmosphere is built well, the setup beforehand is sufficient, and the magic is performed in this simplest and crudest way, everyone will have a feeling—it feels even more terrifying after being exposed!

His card-switching hand speed exceeded the limits of my naked eye!

In this, there is actually a little bit of ingenuity in the program.

If the final reveal was that this magic relied on a Prop, then the audience's feeling would be: "That's it?"

"Hilarious, couldn't anyone do this?"

"It's just a Prop, after all."

But if it is based on his own heaven-defying technique, that is a shock on another level.

Once this hand speed exceeds common perception, people won't feel that this part of the Drama fell flat, but rather that it is even more outrageous.

For this 《I Really Don't Know Magic》 on the Spring Festival Gala, Luo Mo was inspired by a video of Liu Qian from Earth and created a revised version.

That video had an explosive effect.

"So cool!"

"So Ox!"

"Actually, that's not the point!"

Yes, some sharp-eyed netizens discovered that the difficulty wasn't just in the card switching.

He replaced the Plum Blossom K in the back with the Heart 3 in the front at a speed the naked eye couldn't capture; that was just one thing.

Have you thought about the other thing?

When did he take the Plum Blossom K out of the deck and stack it behind the Heart 3!?

——《Debunked, but not entirely debunked》.

This is another kind of program routine.

Luo Mo looked at Chen Qian and couldn't help but say, "Sure enough, true speed is invisible."

"Huh, in that case, aren't many so-called cheating methods pretty much the same?" Luo Mo suddenly said.

With this sentence of his, the program actually reached its second stage.

——"I Really Don't Know Magic": Gamblers Deserve No Good End.

The Spring Festival Gala programs, after all, still need to have their own significance.

Do you think I came to debunk Chen Qian?

No, I came to tell you about the scams at the gambling table!

You must know that in Huaxia, New Year's Eve is also known as the national gambling night.

Small bets are for fun, big bets hurt the body.

This is a very important point.

Only hearing Chen Qian nod, he said, "Take the machine away from me. As for cheating, I will explain it myself; don't give me any replays!"

He struck a pose of having given up on himself.

Chen Qian directly took out a new deck of cards and spread them out on the table.

The new deck was arranged in order from A to K for each suit.

Only the Big Joker and Small Joker had been taken out.

Chen Qian said, "Spades A to K, Hearts A to K... look, this is a new deck, right?"

"Yes, it is arranged in the order of a new deck," Luo Mo said.

"Then, I am going to start shuffling. All viewers, watch carefully," Chen Qian said.

Then, he used various ways of shuffling, looking incredibly flashy.

"Shuffled so many times, it's messy now, right?" Chen Qian's eyelids under his Glasses lifted slightly, and he glanced at Luo Mo.

Luo Mo nodded and said, "This is definitely messy."

Chen Qian was seen spreading the cards out on the table.

"Spades A to K, Hearts A to K..."

The order of the entire deck was exactly the same as before!

In an instant, the viewers in front of televisions across the country felt their scalps go numb!

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!"

So, by performing some special shuffling methods and some special techniques, one can control the order of the cards?

"How is that done?" Luo Mo couldn't help but ask.

"Want to learn how to cheat? Is this something that can be taught?" Chen Qian said.

Luo Mo nodded on the surface, but thought to himself, "Laugh to death, how could cheating be as fast as me printing counterfeit money."

But as the Planner of this program, he certainly wouldn't say that out loud.

Chen Qian was seen holding the cards in his hand again and said, "Then I will tell the national audience another mode of cheating—【Branding】."

"This one, actually, is just secretly making a mark on the back of a card."

"Then, when dealing, once he sees this card is the one he wants."

"He can have a way not to deal it out," Chen Qian said.

Upon hearing this, Luo Mo cooperated by frowning and said, "Cards are all dealt in order. If this card appears on the very top, you definitely have to deal it out."

"No, no, no." Chen Qian raised a finger and shook it left and right.

He spread out the first card on the deck and said, "This is a Spade A, right?"

"Yes," Luo Mo nodded.

Then, Chen Qian covered the card and started dealing.

He dealt seven cards in one breath, then turned over the first card on the deck, and it was shockingly that Spade A!

The camera zoomed in at this moment, aiming directly at Chen Qian's hands.

Chen Qian said, "Watch closely, I'll flip the Spade A over directly this time so everyone can see it more clearly."

He continued to deal, his movements smooth as flowing water, without any stuttering.

Yet, every time his hand drew a card, it was actually the second card, not the one on the very top of the deck!

In other words, this Spade A was facing back-up before, and since the backs of all cards look the same, you wouldn't know it was still left in the deck; this dealer was always cutting out the second card in the deck!

"Look, with the Spade A face up, you can clearly see my movements are very natural, but I just didn't deal the Spade A."

"If I have it face down, and if the dealing speed is very fast... come, look again." Chen Qian dealt five more cards.

Then he flipped a card, and the one on top was still that Spade A!

In other words, when the marked card appears, as long as the dealer has this god-like technique, they can deal it to whoever they want!

Many viewers watching the Live Broadcast felt goosebumps rise again.

"Holy crap! How is that done!"

"Isn't that too terrifying?"

"No wonder you can't win at gambling!"

Of course, there were still netizens making memes in the bullet comments.

Isn't this talking about a cheater?

The netizens' comments were: "《Old Qian》."

At this moment, Chen Qian seemed to be able to predict everything and said, "If you encounter a professional cheater, oh my..."

His shuffling hand suddenly made a mistake, and the cards scattered all over the floor.

Did you think he made a mistake?

He was just telling you all—I am not a professional card sharp.

He gave a seemingly awkward smile and said, "Ahem, actually, the real experts are still among the common people."

Truth be told, as Chen Qian performed on stage, he was actually marveling in his heart at the various ingenious designs Luo Mo had created for this program.

As a top-tier magician, he knew that a good program requires excellent atmosphere building and excellent audience interaction.

The designs Luo Mo made for him in this regard were indeed excellent.

This was a mode he had not experienced before, and he found it quite fun.

Of course, after Chen Qian proved his innocence and verified that he was not a professional card sharp... he could start Dancing again.

He was heard saying: "Some dealers are able to know the position of every single card like the back of their hand."

After speaking, he began to shuffle the cards with one hand, cutting the deck several times.

Then, he flipped over the first card, and it was shockingly that Ace of Spades.

Immediately following that, he very casually cut another card from the deck.

"Ace of Hearts!"

Then, he switched the deck to his other hand, flicked it twice with his index finger, and flicked two more Aces out of the deck!

Many audience members were already so stunned they couldn't speak.

Quite a few gambling addicts began to fall into a state—bewilderment.

The family members of the gambling addicts began to lecture them: "See that? That is how your money disappears!"

The gambling addicts desperately wanted to open their mouths to defend themselves, but as the words reached their lips, they looked at Chen Qian on the television waving the four Aces in a showy manner, and they were suddenly unable to speak again.

Some still stubbornly insisted: "There must be something wrong with his cards; who knows, maybe they are all Aces!"

No sooner had the words left their mouths than they saw Chen Qian spread the cards out on the table again.

This deck of cards was normal; the only things missing from the deck were the four Aces!

In the bullet comments, the screen was suddenly flooded with: "《Professional Chen》!"

Damn it, and you still say you don't know how to cheat?

By this point in the program, the entertainment value had already been maxed out.

Next, there always had to be something of higher difficulty.

After all, as Chen Qian just said, many people who cheat know this kind of technique.

The following events were extremely similar to a performance from a certain year's Spring Festival Gala on Earth.

Chen Qian was seen shuffling the cards all over again, and while shuffling, he asked Luo Mo: "Among the suits, which one do you like the best?"

"Today is New Year's Eve, so let's pick a red one, Hearts," Luo Mo said directly.

"Alright." Chen Qian smiled, and then began a set of flashy shuffling techniques.

After shuffling, he said to Luo Mo and all the audience: "Now, please count down with me."

"Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven!" He placed cards on the table while counting down.

For every second he counted, he placed a set of cards on the table.

At first he only placed one, but the subsequent ones were stacks of cards.

After a short ten seconds ended, he had Luo Mo flip the cards in order.

As it turned out, the top card of every one of the ten piles he had divided the deck into was a Heart!

What was even more absurd was that the first pile was the Ace of Hearts, the second pile was the 2 of Hearts, and so on, all the way to the 10 of Hearts!

The bullet comments went absolutely crazy.

So he wasn't just able to cut out 4 Aces at will; he really could have whatever he wanted!

"Holy crap! I'm done for!"

"I'm kneeling, I'm truly kneeling!"

"This damn thing isn't just relying on a Prop!"

"Too terrifying!"

Luo Mo sat on the stage, clicking his tongue in wonder.

"Did you think it was over?" Chen Qian glanced at him, then repeated that line: "Next, is the moment to witness a miracle."

He began to have Luo Mo count the number of cards in each pile.

As it turned out, the first pile divided out had 1 card, the second pile had two cards, the third pile had three cards, and so on; when he counted to ten, the tenth pile divided out had ten cards!

It was too terrifying, all of this was too terrifying!

He could not only accurately grasp every Heart, but also sort them from 1 to 10.

What was even more absurd was that he could also precisely control where these cards were dealt.

In ten seconds, for a normal person, being able to deal the deck so precisely would be incomparably terrifying. Ordinary people simply couldn't throw cards onto the table so smoothly; in the first second, throw one card, in the second second, throw two cards at once, in the third second, throw three cards at once... and in the tenth second, throw ten cards at once!

Not to mention the rest of the operations!

My scalp is tingling, it is truly tingling!

If you play cards with a person like this, how could you possibly win against him?

Even if you won, that would just be the other party intentionally fishing, luring you into the trap!

This is all too terrifying; is it actually possible to do whatever one wants?

Just as the audience was watching in extreme shock, Luo Mo asked Chen Qian: "So, what is the theme of our program?"

"You are the Chief Planner, and you're asking me?" Chen Qian said in surprise: "Of course it's to prove that I don't know Magic!"

Luo Mo raised his hand to cover his face and said through gritted teeth: "It's to not gamble!"

After speaking, the two smiled, stood up, and bowed to the scene, and the program 《I Really Don't Know Magic》 ended there.

The strange thing is, still no one believes this point; no one thinks this is magic.

"I suspect what he just used was Time Element Magic; his flow of time must be different from ours. It looks like ten seconds, but in reality, it was Chen Qian frantically dealing the cards over ten minutes!"

——The magician Chen Qian, confirmed!

(End of this chapter)