The pinnacle of magic

"Dear--"

Shi Rui directly pressed the hang up button.The boy's deliberately sharp voice gave him the illusion that his mobile phone was the special line for the brothers.

The phone screen lights up again.

"Hi! Don't hang up the phone yet, I'm Eric."

"Did you write down my number?" What was displayed on the screen was not the magician's mobile number, Shi Rui guessed that it was the landline in the hotel.

"Even if my memory is not as good as Clifford's, it's not that difficult for me to remember a ten-digit number." The boy paused, and Shi Rui heard him swallow.

"You have something to do with me?"

"Uh... Let me tell you, you're really unrecognizable when you're wearing women's clothing!" The boy's voice was flattering.

"Then?"

"...can you do me a little favor?"

"Say."

"Clifford is going to send me to a full-time boarding school." The boy paused. "It's still the kind of school that only has boys. Can you tell him to get rid of this boring idea? That kind of place is like a military barracks." Same inhumanity, all the teachers are perverts or spinsters. I'd go nuts locked in there! I don't want to be a fag who only gets hard on men! Ah! I mean, gay Okay! No, no, that... I mean, my character is not suitable for boarding school at all, and the courses I studied before are completely different from those there. Yes, it can’t be connected at all! In this case, I can’t even I can't even get into a second-rate university. It's all about my future. Well, that's it! Can you talk to Clifford for me?"

"You think I can influence his decision?"

"Ha! A man will promise anything when he's infatuated. All you have to do is find a good time. For example, act like a baby in his arms, hehehehe..."

"..." Shi Rui pressed the hang up button again.

After more than ten seconds, the screen of the mobile phone turned on persistently again.

"Hi! I beg you, okay? I really can't enter that ghost place! Well... there will be a trial in two months, it's a very, very formal trial, and it is said that there will be a coach from the club to pick people .I gotta get ready. Locked up in this damn hotel I can't even do basic physical training! Racing has always been my dream, I'm not kidding! Why Clifford I can decide my future career at the age of [-], and I have to fucking listen to him and go to some goddamn university? Please! He’s not my mother! We’re only half blood, okay? Why should he decide my future for me? What's so great about him, isn't he just jumping up and down on stage like a clown and performing a few tricks? I dare say he can't understand any contract now! Every negotiation has to bring a secretary Go?" The boy became more and more excited as he spoke.

"Are you done?"

Shi Rui's cold voice made the boy flinch. "Big, probably? Are you going to help me?"

"I won't do anything for you. But..." Shi Rui narrowed his eyes, "I can show you a clear path."

"Hey?"

"Have you tried, to talk to Clifford yourself?"

"How could he listen to me?! If he couldn't kill me, I think he would have chopped me up and stuffed me in the exhaust pipe of the car! Clifford wouldn't talk to me!" the boy shouted.

"Do you know why you can't talk to him?"

Shi Rui's question made the boy pause for a few seconds. "...Because I'm younger than him?"

"Because you don't know him well enough. After spending so long with him, you still haven't discovered his weakness. I feel really sad for your IQ."

"What do you mean? What's Clifford's weakness?"

"Clifford is easy to persuade, if you find the right way. If you still don't get it, I'll make it clearer. You must, must, watch him carefully."

"Ah! Makes sense! God! Is this your secret to capturing his heart? Oh! I have a hunch that maybe you two will last forever! Haha, don't worry, I'm definitely on your side at family gatherings Over here! Mom doesn't care if Clifford is with a man or a woman! Sharp, you're amazing! Yes, I'll have to watch him well. Umm...you feel like begging him in a low voice, let me follow How about going to his place of work together? We won't alert him by doing this, will we?"

"You have to be careful, you have to be as natural as possible, don't become too abnormal all of a sudden. Try to change the way you get along a little bit. When he let go of his vigilance, you will be half successful."

"Hmm... ok. I'll try my best. But the competition is only two months away..."

"If you are an impulsive fool, then just pretend I didn't say what I said today." Shi Rui was about to withdraw.

"Ah, don't hang up yet!" The boy held back for a while, then said softly, "I understand. Thank you, Rui. If it works, I will take you to eat Chinese food next time." He hung up the phone for the first time.

Shi Rui couldn't help chuckling.Doesn't Eric know that there is no authentic Chinese food in this country?In order to avoid poisoning his taste buds, maybe he should find a chance to cook a meal for the two brothers?

His eyes widened slightly.

Shi Rui recalled his thoughts in disbelief.Could it be that there is some kind of spell on these brothers that makes people turn into old mothers, so that he wants to cook for them?Worst of all, even after revisiting it, he still thinks it's a good idea.

He stroked his forehead helplessly.

"Dear audience friends, I am Stephen. What we are going to see tonight is the first game of "Peak Rivalry". The world's top magician Clifford Wyshe will challenge the master of mind Jones in "The Miracle" last year. Great performance in "Night". Clifford, your last levitation in the center gymnasium was really impressive! I was also in charge of the live broadcast that time! But this time you are not going to perform miracles , but to break a miracle, does this feel very different to you?" The host asked with a smile.

"Actually, it's not that different. Let me be the first to say that I'm not a psychic, and the performance I'm doing is just conveying the possibility that—" the magician smiled confidently at the camera, " There are no superpowers in this world!"

Shi Rui sat in the auditorium, and the men in the stands showed his unparalleled sharpness.After a few conversations, he can be sure that the magician is a person who does not believe in supernatural powers, which may be one of the reasons why he took this show.Magicians attribute the impossible to special tricks, and take great pleasure in creating new miracles.He used "magic stick" more than once to describe those masters who perform supernatural powers everywhere.

"There is a fundamental difference between me and them. I am entertaining people, and they are just making fools of people."

The magician once explained it to Shi Rui like this.Shi Rui agreed with him very much.Although it can't explain all the "supernatural powers", Shi Rui's special experience made him understand that through some special techniques, it is indeed possible to produce very incredible effects.And using these "miracles" to confuse the public can definitely win huge wealth that ordinary people can't imagine!

Even if these miraculous abilities really exist, they should be used to benefit the world and improve oneself, rather than being used to make sensational performances.Shi Rui has always held this belief.

Not far in front of him, the magician's half-brother sat in the first row of the auditorium.Although it seemed as if he was constantly looking left and right and completely unfocused on the upcoming performance on stage, his tightly pursed lips betrayed the same nervousness as all the audience present.Shi Rui couldn't help but smile.As he expected, no matter how unexpected the boy's request, the magician will eventually satisfy his sudden "curiosity" and let the boy participate in his daily work.

"So, the prop you are going to use to perform tonight is an ordinary one-dollar coin? I am a little curious, which one is stronger, the strength of the coin or the strength of the iron nail that Master Jones bent with his mind?" The host asked suspiciously.

"Maybe there is someone who can answer your question." The magician smiled, and made a gesture of invitation to the side of the stage, "Let's invite the world-famous iron folding master, Mr. Gray. Wood!"

A dark-skinned man of medium build stepped onto the stage under the spotlight.He was clad only in a sports vest and shorts, his olive-oiled muscles gleaming in the light.

"Ha! Before yesterday, I had never heard of the sport of folding iron. I believe many viewers don't know about it. Let me give a brief introduction first! This guy looks stronger than me, Kong Wu Mr. Gray Wood is the current Guinness world record holder for bending steel bars. He once bent 1 steel bars six inches long and three-eighths of an inch thick in one minute. Destroying steel, this It is common for him to do things that are almost impossible in the eyes of ordinary people. Gray, I heard that you plan to challenge the record you set again this year, right?"

"Yes." Gray said.Wood's voice was very deep, with a military-style rigidity, "I plan to continue to shorten the length of the steel bar this year, from six inches to five and a half inches. Folding iron is a very fascinating sport. It is simple and easy to do. Not only does it build strength and explosiveness, it’s also psychologically satisfying and satisfying. Imagine that the nail in your hand is the neck of some nagging boss, snapping it feels great.”

"Hahahaha! You really know how to joke, so folding iron can also help maintain social order, right?" the host joked.

"Yes." Gray nodded solemnly, "If everyone who is prone to crime is given a box of nails, I can guarantee that the police in this city will be able to make a big holiday from now on."

"Hahahaha, I think the mayor will like your suggestion. By the way, you just said that you want to shorten the length of the steel bar? So the length and the difficulty of bending it are related, right?"

"The relationship is quite large. The longer the length, the greater the torque, and the smaller the effort required to bend the steel bar. For an entry-level iron bender, it is necessary to bend the iron bar like a Kung Fu star on TV. A fairly simple thing to do, but much more difficult to bend a nail six inches long and a quarter of an inch in diameter."

"So, it is more difficult to bend this one dollar coin than to break a long iron nail used by Master Jones to perform?"

"The difference in difficulty between the two is about the same as if I fold the steel rod and you fold the same steel rod." Gray smiled and showed his white teeth to the host.The well-known talk show host "Matchstick" Stephen is famous for his bean sprouts figure, and the contrast with Gray is so strong that it makes people laugh.In fact, the audience erupted in laughter immediately after Gray said that.However, the master iron bender didn't seem to realize that he had said a bad joke, and continued with a serious face: "And the middle of the coin is the widest, and this shape makes it more difficult to bend it."

"Ha, I see! So can you please come and do a demonstration for us? Try these two things at the same time?"

"I don't need to experiment with coins, I know I can't do it. But this..." Gray picked up the long iron nail used by the mind master in the last performance on the table, and bent it more than Ninety degrees.

"Wow! That's awesome!"

"Ordinary people can reach this level after one or two months of training."

"Master Jones will be disappointed to hear that. But bending your hands to the end is different from mind power, and maybe mind power is more versatile. I mean, sometimes our hands may be busy with something else something." The host folded his arms and winked at the audience, as if conveying some kind of "special scene".There was a sudden burst of laughter in the audience. "Anyway, thank you for your clarification. Gray, would you please take a seat over there? No, no, the one in the middle, the one next to Clifford. We need to create a strong line between the two sides of the duel." A barrier to prevent them from harming each other with their thoughts, isn't it?"

"No, I can only perform magic tricks." The magician, who was sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed, interjected with a smile, "But I still want to thank you for being so considerate of my 'safety', even though it is unnecessary."

"It seems that our Miracle Angel is quite confident in himself. Now let's take a look at the other side of the duel. Please invite the master of mind and member of the World Council of Abilities—Master Jones!"

From one end of the stage stepped out an unremarkable middle-aged man.He was wearing a gray yoga suit and his thinning hair was brushed back carefully.Unlike ordinary people, his gaze seemed to be always focused on a certain point in midair, and even the expression on his face was a bit confused.

"I didn't come here to win a prize." Jones' voice was hoarse and low, and when he spoke, his eyes kept floating upward, "I just want to take a look, that one has nothing to do with me." know, but dare to claim that all the performances I have done are false."

The mind master suddenly stared at the magician with fierce eyes.