The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician
Chapter 155 - 138: Police Station Bombed

Chapter 155: Chapter 138: Police Station Bombed

The video paused at the exact moment the bullet left the revolver.

Jiang Shu cradled his head with both hands, his eyes facing the light screen, but he was not really watching.

He was thinking.

Thinking about how the magician called Fox managed to catch the bullet with his bare hands.

"Xiao Jia, verify the authenticity of these videos," Jiang Shu addressed Wolf, who was leisurely eating tacos while scrolling through a drama series beside him. "Could you forward these videos? It’s not an issue, right?"

"It’s no issue, no issue. When it comes to the Deception Group’s case files, you have the highest clearance." Wolf spoke and then, after some thought, added, "As for the other files... I guess you wouldn’t be interested in them. But if you need them, just let me know."

"Mm," Jiang Shu nodded and forwarded the videos to Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Ding to verify the authenticity again.

Moments later, Xiao Jia replied.

Alpha: As everyone knows, videos cannot be Photoshopped. So, this is real.

"Alright then," Jiang Shu took a deep breath, casually grabbed Xiao Ding, opened the notepad, and started jotting down random notes with his finger.

He wrote down "edited magic" and "video manipulation," but soon crossed those out, eliminating this possibility first.

The bullet had indeed been fired.

Then, he wrote "bullet" and added a question mark.

Five bullets, supposing four were tampered with, such as reducing the powder in the bullet and replacing the tip with rubber.

This would greatly reduce the bullet’s speed and lethality. If Fox had installed a prosthetic eye to enhance his reaction speed, he might really have been able to catch it.

Although Fox spun the revolver cylinder, which clearly was meant to show the audience that there was no trickery with the bullets and that he fired at random, the things a magician shows the audience...

They hardly held credibility.

Jiang Shu examined the frames of the five bullets captured by the high-speed camera. Although the actual bodies of the bullets were not visible in the five sets of frames, judging from the black lines formed by the bullet traces, each bullet’s initial speed and kinetic energy were consistent; he found no discrepancies.

The five bullets were identical. That meant, each of the four bullets fired at Fox could have killed him, each capable of leaving a hole the size of a bowl in his body.

He crossed out "bullet."

So, switch guns?

Under the watchful eyes of the public, Devil Wind’s shooting gesture also seemed clean; Jiang Shu couldn’t tell if there was a switch.

Unhit bullet?

At a distance of five meters, with the gun pointed directly at Fox, it would be rather embarrassing if it missed.

Moreover, there was a large crowd standing behind Fox. If it had missed, it might have been a random unlucky spectator who would end up dead.

Jiang Shu could not understand why the spectators were so bold, daring to stand behind Fox, seemingly unafraid of death.

Beta: In all martial arts, speed is unbreakable.

Gamma: With one bow of my head, the unfortunate one is him.

Crap, they’re going off-script.

So, could it be a type of black, fragile bullet that turned into powder the instant it made contact with Fox’s hand?

Well, that’s unlikely.

Jiang Shu scribbled on Xiao Ding, but each guess was swiftly denied.

Suddenly, Xiao Ding vibrated slightly.

Hmm?

He focused his gaze; had it discovered some detail?

Ding: Itchy~

Jiang Shu: "..."

"How’s it going? Is this Deception trick too tricky to understand?" Wolf noticed Jiang Shu’s prolonged silence.

"A bit, but I also have a question," Jiang Shu turned his head toward Wolf. "In capturing the Deception Group, is it not necessary to understand their tricks?"

"You’re right, but since we haven’t caught them, I was thinking, maybe we could figure out something from their performance videos." Wolf walked to one corner of the office and brewed himself a cup of coffee. Casually he asked, "Want one?"

"No, thanks. I’m not used to it," Jiang Shu shook his head, his head aching from thinking about the problem. "Tell me, is it possible for a person to catch a bullet?"

Wolf, holding his coffee, came over, dismantled the magazine from his gun, took out a bullet, and placed it next to Jiang Shu, "Try catching it."

"...I meant a bullet fired from a gun." Jiang Shu replied, exasperated, realizing that Wolf was developing bad habits.

"Not likely. Even with the best prosthetic eye combined with the best prosthetics, perhaps it’s possible. No one knows how strong the hidden technological capabilities of the Three Major Groups are," Wolf explained. "Realistically, you should know, after a bullet leaves the barrel, it still has a spinning force. Iron hands can’t even catch it, let alone consider the reaction speed and movement speed of human hands; you’d be shot before even seeing the bullet’s path."

"What if you placed your hand in the path of the bullet in advance?"

"By normal thinking, that’s called getting shot, not catching a bullet," Wolf said with a serious face.

Jiang Shu nodded gravely, then looked towards Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Ding, "Can a person catch a bullet?"

Eldest brother Alpha seriously responded through a barrage of messages: Lonely City has no laws stating you can’t do it; where there is no prohibition, there is permission.

Jiang Shu: "..."

Nothing but nonsense.

Alpha: The information we currently hold is still too scarce. This bare-handed bullet catching, you have your own methods to accomplish it, but it’s likely not the same method used by Fox.

"Indeed." Jiang Shu nodded, looking toward the other intelligent ones.

Xiao Yi was checking the surveillance footage from that time, Xiao Bing was modeling and analyzing the entire movement of the bullet, while Xiao Ding focused its investigation on the crowd present at the scene.