The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician
Chapter 395 - 231 Deconstructing Resurrection Magic_2

Chapter 395: Chapter 231 Deconstructing Resurrection Magic_2

With a single flick of his hand, he felt as if he had grasped Jiang Shu’s thoughts. Looking at Jiang Shu with eyes full of confidence and anticipation, he said, "Is that so?"

"Uh..." Jiang Shu quickly glanced at the fox and nodded slightly, "That’s about right."

"Okay." The fox nodded in response, not pressing further. He believed that the story would unfold just as he had imagined.

And Jiang Shu could see the fox’s satisfaction, which he too found pleasing.

From a standpoint of maximizing human happiness, he hadn’t done anything wrong.

If possible, to bring Devil Wind back to life would surely delight the little fox, right?

Not just Devil Wind, but also Lu Yi, who had also become part of this magic trick.

Even if he was just a corpse.

Yes, Lu Yi was dead, unequivocally deceased.

The difficulty of the whole magic trick lay here—in the essence of normal magic, how to achieve a false resurrection.

After realizing that the approach of feigned death followed by resurrection was unfeasible, Jiang Shu naturally considered the opposite tactic: true death, false resurrection.

Well, if he took it a step further—a feigned death and feigned resurrection...

That would damn well be murder.

The core concept of true death but false resurrection also gave him ample scope for operation and preparation, the most obvious of which was plausibility.

In magic performances, plausibility is a crucial yet often overlooked point.

For sleight-of-hand magic such as various paper card tricks and Three Immortals Return to the Cave, the requirement for plausibility isn’t high; deceiving the audience’s senses is enough. However, in Spirit Magic and some stage magic tricks, plausibility plays a key role.

As is well known, a significant part of a magic performance relies on the flow of the process. A good flow can smoothly carry out misdirection, atmosphere enhancement, and concealment of the principle so that by the end of the magic trick, the atmosphere reaches a climax.

And a good flow indispensably relies on logical plausibility.

Many magic principles are simple-minded yet powerful, and while the effects seem fascinating, they often suffer from fatal flaws in certain procedures, which can easily draw the audience’s attention to logical gaps. Without good process packaging, the magic trick cannot be successfully completed.

Take the simplest example: in many magic tricks, magicians have the audience do many things, and the actions they take need to be justifiable and irreplaceable, otherwise, they would easily become skeptical. Some revealers, in their post-performance analysis, also focus on these illogical aspects.

And this sort of plausibility can even come down to a single word.

For instance, Jiang Shu once advised Su Xiaoou to use "entertaining" instead of "random" for this very reason.

Put in the context of this resurrection magic, it is easy to see that the term "plausibility" is pervasive, with almost every point possessing a strong credibility.

It was as if Jiang Shu actually held the power of resurrection.

This was a magic trick with a pre-arranged plot, but because of its inherent plausibility, it seemed like a spontaneous incident.

Koichi Kojima, Ooishi, the Director, and others appearing in this magic were all oblivious, and in their ignorance, they elevated both the deceitfulness and the spectacle of the magic to a pinnacle.

This was what truly astounded Jiang Shu himself about the magic—its overall structure was extremely impressive, and the details were also meticulously executed.

If there was one who appeared in this magic and knew the truth...

It was probably Xiao Yi.

It had been relentlessly setting the tempo, never stopping.

The main line of the magic trick was Koichi Kojima following him with a camera, and this main storyline was divided into three stages: the resurrection of a fly, a chicken, and finally a human.

This progressive disclosure was the simplest and most logical narrative technique.

First of all, the fly was definitely a living creature, and what Jiang Shu did was to exploit some characteristic of the fly—or rather, of insects.

The flies’ spiracles, their breathing ports, are located on their abdomen, and luring them to water arranged on the windowsill in advance could cause their abdomens to become waterlogged and suffocate, putting them into a "drowning false death" state.

After wiping the water dry, these flies would be as still as if they had been killed by fly-repellent fragrance, lying motionless on the windowsill.

There was indeed a real fly-repellent fragrance by the windowsill, and afterwards, it could even be verified to be lethal to flies, releasing a gas that was harmless to humans but fatal to flies, killing them in a short time.

At this moment, the flies in a state of asphyxiation cleverly avoided this calamity.

The revival stage involved the use of fine salt in Jiang Shu’s hand; salt can absorb water and has the ability to stimulate the sensory cells of flies, so they appeared as if they had been resurrected.

Also, it was because Kojima and Ooishi left in a hurry, if they had stayed a little longer, they would have seen the flies in the air die again due to the fly-repellent fragrance. If this secondary death of flies had been captured on camera, it could have made the first stage of the magic trick even more perfect.

The second stage, the resurrection of the chicken, essentially used the method once employed by the Magician Marini, only slightly modified to better fit the setting of this magic performance.

The third stage, reviving Lu Yi, drew inspiration from a story Jiang Shu had heard in the past.

In the early nineteenth century, Galvani connected a corpse to a mysterious force under the watchful eye of the public; the corpse suddenly opened its eyes and sat up, the whole process akin to a miracle.

The people at the time could not fathom it, but the principle was quite simple—place the electrodes at the corpse’s brain and under the jaw, and upon electrification, the corpse would open its eyes. With one electrode on the tailbone of the corpse, it could successfully sit up.

The human body is filled with a network of nerves akin to electrical wires, and any movement is completed by the brain transmitting electrical signals to the muscle.

According to Jiang Shu’s plan, with Lonely City’s level of technology, it should have been sufficient to create a device that could replace the brain to emit electrical signals to control the corpse. However, reality proved that he was thinking too simply; even Su Xiaoou couldn’t figure out the device in such a short amount of time.

Without a choice, he had to replicate the actions of his predecessors, causing the corpse to perform actions such as sitting up.

And the metal grid where the body was stored was actually a natural setting for the Big Transformation; a slight adjustment of the internal structure could easily complete the substitution of the body and the mechanical Lu Yi.

Hmm, the second appearance was actually the mechanical version of Lu Yi, like Tang, a mechanical being.

However, their time was not as pressing as imagined. In fact, they had more than a week of preparation time because Lu Yi’s body could be preserved in the morgue for a week.

But Su Xiaoou was just too formidable; seduced by the prospect of a grand feast, she completed the task within two days.

So, if it had to be said that there was a sole confidant in this magic trick, it would have to be the body of Lu Yi. He had discussed with Jiang Shu while he was still alive and agreed to the magic performance and the creation of the mechanical Lu Yi.

After all, the performance involved contact with Lu Yi’s body, and Jiang Shu completely respected his own opinion.

And the birth of the mechanical Lu Yi inadvertently elevated the connotation of this Resurrection Magic. For Lu Yi himself, death was death, an irreversible demise from the current medical perspective; but to the world, the emergence of the mechanical Lu Yi perfectly filled his absence. To the people around Lu Yi, it was as if he had truly been resurrected.

Therefore, Jiang Shu also helped the mechanical Lu Yi change his name to distinguish him from the real Lu Yi.

Under the influence of Devil Wind’s tricks, Lu Yi successfully settled on the name...

Lu Yi Thirteen.

Yes, like the famous cognac Louis XIII.

The key was that Lu Yi Thirteen really liked the name, and Jiang Shu had no way to stop someone from deciding their own name, so he just gave Devil Wind a thorough scolding.

"Here, here." A car stopped next to Jiang Shu and the fox, and they also heard a voice calling from the driver’s seat.

The driver was none other than Lu Yi Thirteen, wearing sunglasses, and Jiang Shu and the fox got into the car.

Lu Yi Thirteen, due to the special nature of being a mechanical being, was also unsuitable for appearing in public any longer. He had to stay with Jiang Shu and the others until Tang’s affair was resolved.

Sitting in the back seat, Jiang Shu also pulled up some pictures, displaying a variety of 3D human body models.

So what’s next...

What kind of body should they design for dear student Tang?

It seemed that the person sitting next to him in the back seat of the car and the three sprites all had the same thought, revealing a sinister smile.

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