The pinnacle of magic

"ghost?"

"Alice Duis, one of the most famous psychics in the country. She claimed that at the age of 25, she bought an oil painting from a gallery. The ghost in the painting made her have nightmares for a day and a night, and she has since then had a soul and soul. The ability to communicate. She believes that the soul of a person who has just died will be attached to the favorite object in front of him. As long as you find that thing, you can find out the murderer by communicating with the ghost of the victim. Another special skill of her is Drive the ghost of her famous portrait into a long-distance perspective and read what is hidden in the perfectly sealed box. I have to say, except for the usual gibberish tricks of those psychics, her judgment is very sharp , is not a common ambiguous answer. At least I think it is difficult for ordinary people to see through her tricks out of fear of ghosts."

"So you want to find a way to defeat the 'ghost theory' head-on?" Shi Rui pondered for a moment, "In my country, there is a famous saying called 'respect ghosts and gods and stay away'."

"You also believe in the existence of spiritual bodies beyond human beings?" The magician raised his eyebrows, as if he was not satisfied with this answer.

"I respect ghosts not because they have power over living people." Shi Rui said with a smile, "There is also a very interesting story in my country about how a man named Wei Pang ate ghosts. .”

"Eat... ghosts?" The magician's eyes widened in surprise.

"That's right. This young man named Wei Pang likes archery and food very much. Every time he goes out, no matter what birds and beasts he encounters, even snakes, scorpions and earthworms, he will eat them all. One night, he went to a The owner just wanted to leave. The owner explained to him that it was because the neighbor had just died, and tonight happened to be the time for ghosts to wander, so he had to avoid it. After Wei Pang found out, he insisted on staying. The owner had to He took him to an empty room. In the middle of the night, a ball of fire suddenly hit him. Without fear, Wei Pang shot three arrows in a row, and the fire ball was paralyzed to the ground. He lowered his head to observe carefully, and found that It was a mass of meat with eyes on all sides, and the eyes were still shining. So he asked the servant to cook the meat. After a while, the meat in the pot was full of fragrance, and he ate half of it himself, and then Leave half of it as a gift to the master. This is the story of Wei Pang eating ghosts."

"Ha!" The magician touched his lips with his clenched fist, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Now I finally know why the Chinese are thought to eat everything! You...you don't even let ghosts go!" Pass!"

The magician's suddenly amplified voice caused the surrounding crowd to look sideways, but he didn't have the slightest intention to restrain himself. Instead, he glared at the people who looked back at him.

"And then? You won't divide ghosts into different flavors, will you?" He looked at Shi Rui excitedly.

"That's not true." Shi Rui shook his head, "I just want to tell you that ghosts and gods may not have power over living people. I fear them only because they are powerless against me, that's all."

"Rui, you are so right! Those ghosts are powerless against the living! Hahahaha! Let those psychics go to hell! If the dead can still have a substantial impact, the world will not be what it is now Hahahaha!" the magician laughed.

"Hi! This is a civilized place, if you want to be loud, please get out first!" A man in a black suit suddenly walked up to the magician.He has a burly figure, although his clothes are very decent, but Shi Rui can tell from his gait that his upbringing should not be very outstanding.His female companion stood there looking in this direction with a face full of resentment, she should be one of the people who had been blinded by the magician just now.

"What are you? I bought a ticket, and I can do whatever I like here!" Seemingly unhappy that the conversation was interrupted, the magician raised his chin provocatively at the man in the suit.

"you!"

From Shi Rui's point of view, the man in the suit with his face flushed red and his fists tightly clenched should have been extremely angry, but he didn't fight the magician so much to maintain his image in front of his female companion.

"Stinky glass." The man in the suit cursed angrily in a low voice after glancing at Shi Rui beside the magician.

"Keep your fucking mouth clean!" The magician was furious.

"Fuck your fart... ah!"

Before the man in the suit could finish cursing, the magician had already punched him hard in the stomach.The two immediately fought, and the man in the suit let out a high-pitched scream.Four security guards immediately ran in this direction.Shi Rui frowned, put one hand on one's shoulder and forcibly separated the two people who were already in a ball.

The chaos lasted about six or seven minutes.Under the unanimous identification of the surrounding crowd, the magician and Shi Rui who "provoked first" were "invited" out of the museum by four security guards.Until he stepped on the lawn outside the museum, the magician still did not forget to turn his head and make faces at the security guards behind him.

"What a waste, we haven't even seen the most expensive bottle yet." The magician sat down against a tall walnut tree, and gently patted the grass beside him, "Sit for a while? It is said that the pattern on the bottle It was drawn by the emperor himself!"

"The emperor just approved the pattern. Do you really want to see that?" Shi Rui sat on the ground beside the magician.The temperature under the shade of the tree was much more pleasant, which made him squint his eyes comfortably.

"It's just a pity not to watch it." The magician shrugged indifferently, "That bastard! If I had known that I would be kicked out for this, I should have punched his nose!"

"You have a chance." Shi Rui took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to the magician.

"Matthew Evans—the only person in the world who is not afraid of fire? This...you took it from that bastard?" The magician's eyes lit up immediately.

"I just offered you a choice." Shi Rui smiled.When he saw the man in the suit for the first time, he felt that the man looked familiar, so he stole a business card that the man put in the suit pocket and bulged the pocket.After looking at the business card, he finally confirmed that the man in the suit was the protagonist of a certain episode in a large number of program copies that the TV station handed over to the magician.

"Haha, I dare say that guy is definitely another deceitful liar!" The gold-plated business card disappeared after being twirled twice between the magician's fingers. "Honey, let's expose him in public next time!" The magician said with a smile and put his arms around Shi Rui's shoulders.

"Clifford, I should have given you enough time to adapt to my gender. Next time, I don't want to hear similar joking titles. Also, I hate this kind of overly intimate gesture." Shi Rui He glanced coldly at the magician's palm on his shoulder.

The magician's expression froze slightly, then he swallowed as if making up his mind, and put his arms back neatly by his side. "Rui, this is not a joke." He looked straight into Shi Rui's eyes calmly, "Although I have never had such thoughts about a man before, I do want to pursue you."

……

When the magician's expression became less confident, Shi Rui exhaled slowly.It took almost all his strength to resist the urge to punch the magician. "I don't think I'm attractive enough to make a person change their sexuality."

"I didn't think of it at first." The magician pursed his lips, "But, please believe me, this is really a deliberate decision. Rui, can you tell me your answer? I just want to get a chance ...although I have little practical experience in this area, I can make up for it with my sincerity."

……

This is old Johnny's last request!

After Shi Rui repeated the importance of this entrustment to himself three times, he finally spit out a word through his teeth: "Get lost."

"Rui?" The magician stared blankly at the people around him, with a hint of disbelief in his eyes.

"Don't make me say it a second time!" Shi Rui lowered his gaze, and his clenched fists made a light cracking sound.

The magician's lips moved, but no sound came out.It's not that he hasn't considered the possibility of being rejected. In fact, when he confessed, he already found that it is not a good time.But he never thought that he would be so defeated!Although Shi Rui has long stated that he is not interested in men, he has always wishful thinking that he may be special.

"Rui, will you... quit this job?" the magician asked with difficulty after a moment.

Shi Rui: "..."

"You are the best assistant I have ever seen, and also the most... the most talented." The magician swallowed the word most attractive, and began to praise Shi Rui indiscriminately. The importance of the team.

"Anyway, I want you to stay. It's, without, selfish," he concluded.

This was the first time Shi Rui saw a look of pain in the magician's ice-blue eyes.He couldn't help sighing, dispelling the idea of ​​giving up the mission completely and saying sorry to old Johnny. "Clifford, I keep a clear distinction between work and private life."

"Thank you." A stiff smile appeared on the magician's face.

Although the magician remained quite calm until the breakup, Shi Rui could feel more and more grief from him.I thought that being open about my gender would help end the magician's embarrassing anticipation, but I didn't expect it to develop into what it is today.Shi Rui couldn't help but reflect on his original decision.

Should have been more careful.

But the problem is, now even he himself can't tell how far away he should keep!

A magician is like a magnet, the more you understand and the closer you are to him, the more attractive he will be.At some point, the magician even gives people an urge to break into his heart without hesitation.

What should we do next?

In the days that followed, the magician seemed to give up entirely.There are no extra calls during the day, and a proper distance is maintained at night.He no longer rushes to work day and night, but performs performances strictly according to the schedule, and even his appearance looks a little more calm.If it wasn't for Eric calling every day to remind Shi Rui how irritable and irritable his brother's temper became after returning to the room, Shi Rui almost thought that the magician had returned to his original state.

A serious confession is far more dangerous than a playboy's whim.Although Shi Rui is not sure how long this seriousness will last, but he knows that anyone is more likely to become depressed at this time.

He sat on the sofa with his eyebrows frowned, and pressed the switch of the TV remote control casually.

In the second round of "Peak Showdown", the magician will challenge Alice, the most famous psychic in the country.Duis.The brown-haired woman in her late forties has helped police solve several serious criminal crimes, which has made her famous.Not only can she hear the voices of the dead, she can also command the spirit of a fifteenth-century painter hidden in a self-portrait to provide her with information.In January's episode of Mystery Night, she showed off her telekinesis to TV viewers.

In that performance, the location crew randomly selected a passerby on the road and asked him to write a word on a piece of paper, and then the passerby put the note in a sealed box and gave it to the location crew to send to the show.Alice must use her psychic abilities to guess what the word actually is before the note arrives.She summoned the ghost in the portrait to possess her on the spot, and the answer that the ghost said was finally proved to be correct.

It will now be up to the magician to reproduce the process.

Shi Rui watched silently as the magician challenged his opponent face to face as usual.Then the performance officially kicked off.Magician didn't change the process much.After taking back the sealed iron box, the location personnel started to rush back, and the image was cut back to the studio.

"My ghost friend is a little different from ordinary ghosts. My friend prefers to use the phone to contact me instead of shaking the whole body." The magician's words made the audience burst into laughter.

He took out his cell phone and pressed a number.

"Maybe everyone is interested in listening to the ghost's voice?"

The magician dials the phone and waits for the tone to come from the live speakers.

Then, the phone was picked up.

"Hello, dear!" the magician greeted with a smile.

Shi Rui was very thankful that he turned the TV to mute in time after receiving that short message.The fact that the ghost is still watching the show is not easy to explain.

"Hello, Clifford."

He replied calmly, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.