The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician
Chapter 211 - 161: Derivative Entry - Optical Invisibility Technique_3

Chapter 211: Chapter 161: Derivative Entry - Optical Invisibility Technique_3

Positioning simple optical lenses at specific locations, two pairs of lenses with different focal lengths could refract the light passing through their centers. This would not interfere with the normal visibility of the background, only the white mouse close to the lenses would become invisible.

This was the simplest form of optical invisibility, although the method had significant limitations. Whether in setting the distance and focal lengths of the lenses, or the angle and position of the audience seating, Jiang Shu conducted many experiments to ensure the mouse’s invisibility and to make sure the audience wouldn’t pay too much attention to it.

The principle of the invisibility cloak...

As Jiang Shu said, there was nothing much to say about this part of invisibility.

The invisibility through the semi-transparent glass door utilized a special type of glass, which Jiang Shu initially thought to be vertically oriented light-blocking glass (actually a misconception led by Kirie), only to realize after completion that it wasn’t the case. After much communication, they finally came to an understanding.

The glass surface consisted of numerous protrusions; when light hit the surface, it would scatter in different directions. In simple terms, objects were stretched horizontally, so horizontal background patterns and deliberately hung clothes could still be seen. But vertical objects like Jiang Shu could hardly be discerned through just a glass door.

Such materials were not necessarily made of glass; there were many made of card-like plastic materials, often used in everyday magic tricks, capable of making vertically oriented objects like cigarettes or pens disappear without changing the background.

Of course, the magic of invisibility performed in this way wasn’t concerned with the glass shattering – this was also the first layer of psychological gamesmanship between Jiang Shu and the audience.

As for the second layer, this was the layer with which Jiang Shu was more satisfied.

He understood early on that to elevate the magic to a truly unexplainable situation, relying solely on himself wasn’t enough; it required the audience’s cooperation.

This wasn’t about using shills, what Jiang Shu needed was their subconscious cooperation – only this kind of "shill" would be convincing.

Some prosthetic eyes possessed heat imaging capabilities, and he also guessed that these people would use this feature. The previous invisibilities were to let the four Tablet Spirits find the audience members using heat imaging, and then infiltrate their Prosthetic Eyes to obtain enough data.

After controlling the Light Ball to extinguish at the end, he took advantage of the darkness to leave the stage.

Indeed, Jiang Shu had already left the stage at this time, and the subsequent Floating of objects was actually performed using a large number of special threads. This segment of the performance was also completed by Su Xiaoou.

He had adjusted all the lights that came on for the second time so that these threads would not be noticeable against the backdrop of the curtains.

And the heat images in the audience’s prosthetic eyes were actually slightly delayed heat imaging videos generated in real-time by the four Tablet Spirits after they obtained the specific data of the heat imaging feature in each eye. With such data, it was quite simple for them to achieve this.

Everybody’s heat imaging saw the same undifferentiated image, and each person’s heat imaging video was unique.

In such a situation, no one would doubt the authenticity of the video.

Even if some did doubt, these videos composed of special color blocks were difficult to discern as true or false.

With all these maneuvers, naturally, no one would question the initial projection glass anymore – everyone was utterly convinced of Jiang Shu’s "Invisibility Technique".

Just as Jiang Shu said in an interview, stage magic tricks deceive not just the eyes, but also the heart.

Using everything at one’s disposal to perform deception on stage is also the charm of magic itself.

"Luckily, nothing went wrong on Su Xiaoou’s end, otherwise all the efforts would’ve been in vain," Jiang Shu muttered, considering this to be the most crucial task for Su Xiaoou.

Luckily, the guy had steady hands and a good attitude.

Now, let’s take a look at the Character Card.

Jiang Shu’s gaze immediately locked onto the latest Derivative Entry.

·Active·Deception·Optical Invisibility Technique: Optical Invisibility; possessing a small Light Control Ability.