The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician
Chapter 222 - 166 Magic Teaching and Night Raid on White Eagle!

Chapter 222: Chapter 166 Magic Teaching and Night Raid on White Eagle!

The white light shone on the desk, gathering small patches of brightness on its uneven surface, dazzling Su Xiaoou’s eyes.

She contemplated for a while and spoke with a heavy and firm tone, "The first magic trick... I don’t get it, I can’t understand it."

Jiang Shu: "..."

Though he had anticipated this, Su Xiaoou’s utterly unstruggling demeanor still made him inwardly critique her.

Where did you learn this completely passive attitude from?! At least try and give a wrong answer!

"Say something, even a wrong guess is fine," Jiang Shu tried to encourage her. "You can’t leave big questions unanswered, writing something down will at least get you sympathy points."

Ordinary people definitely wouldn’t understand the Baglas Effect, magic enthusiasts might be overwhelmed by it, but as someone aiming to become a professional magician in the future, shouldn’t you at least have something to say?

The sequence of cards, a replacement or something, there has to be a starting point right?

"Alright." Su Xiaoou nodded. "Effect-wise, this is also an ACAAN effect, but unlike the regular version, teacher, you have never touched that deck of cards."

Thinking back to everything she had seen from the front row seats, she confidently added, "I was always watching that glass cabinet, and I’m certain it was never switched out."

"Mm, indeed," Jiang Shu nodded in agreement, "I didn’t switch it, and with the distraction of the audience, not many would notice a switch. But would it not be foolish to attempt a switch with cameras set up by Sister Mei recording everything?"

"That’s what puzzles me," Su Xiaoou shook her head. "The usual ACAAN mostly involves card control or some kind of forceful psychological selection, but I can’t figure out how you did it."

"This..." Jiang Shu glanced at the glass cabinet on the desk, hesitated, then similarly shook his head with a smile, "This effect is called the Baglas Effect. You don’t need to know why it’s called that. You only need to know that it’s a variation of ACAAN, and the effect is..."

He thought for a moment, describing the Baglas Effect in simpler terms, "Any card appears in any position, and in the eyes of the audience, the magician never touches the playing cards."

"So it is..." Su Xiaoou blinked, her eyes filled with curiosity.

Being half a magician herself, she clearly understood what was truly impossible.

The Baglas Effect would even seem "impossible" to genuine magicians.

"I won’t tell you the answer," Jiang Shu shook his head. "This is an effect worth your effort to study, to come up with your own version of Baglas, which is a very interesting thing. If I told you my version, it would bias your understanding and limit your imagination."

For someone who loves magic, studying Baglas and developing your own version is an extremely fulfilling and rewarding thing—at least that’s what Jiang Shu believed.

And his version of Baglas was actually quite simple, besides some psychological tricks and scene-setting techniques he utilized. If speaking of the core principle, it’s just two words—’printing cards.’

First, the deck that appeared at the side of the glass cabinet was a blank prop card deck with special patterns he had thoroughly researched over several days.

And on the back of the cards were two kinds of thermochromic ink, one black and one red, which would melt to some degree when heated, with red requiring shorter heating time and black requiring longer.

The differences in temperature and time would lead to four distinct levels of melting, corresponding to hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades.

Above the high-hanging glass cabinet was a uniform heating device, allowing him to subtly control the temperature near the cabinet.

If an audience member chose a red card, like hearts or diamonds, he would complete this magic trick quickly; if a black card was chosen, it might only be revealed after another magic trick had been completed.

The differences in red and black were due to time gaps, temperatures determined the specific suits, and finer control over time, the angle of the glass cabinet, and the patterns on the poker cards determined the card values.

These were the factors completely under the magician’s control in this trick, allowing him to perform live ’card printing.’

Which meant that at that moment, every card inside the glass cabinet was the nine of diamonds.

After finishing the card printing process, since he couldn’t allow the assisting audience member to directly touch this deck, Jiang Shu used a mechanical arm to flip the cards, dissolving any suspicion from the third audience member of card swapping and elevating the magic effect to a higher level of "cleanliness."

After all, this deck of cards had in the truest sense never been touched by anyone from start to finish.

While the audience’s attention was captured by that nine of diamonds, he retrieved the remaining cards and then swapped them with a regular deck from his pocket.

Of course, the nine of diamonds from this deck had already been removed.

At this point, everyone assumed that the magic had concluded, so no one minded him handling the cards.

Then came the inspection phase.

Through the entire process, the glass cabinet and the cards were checked by the audience, so they naturally did not suspect anything.

The only flaw was that the deck of cards could not be checked at the beginning; it could be shuffled, but not observed.

But that point, as long as the magician himself didn’t mention it, was hardly a problem, was it?