The pinnacle of magic

The magician tried a few more times to talk calmly to Jessica, but the girl kept answering his questions in the wrong direction.Shi Rui saw that something was wrong with her situation, and quickly brought the topic to the direction of helping Jessica recover her health.Since the girl was unwilling to go to the hospital to check the wound, they finally decided to call a private doctor to come to the house, and if necessary, ask a nurse to look after Jessica here for a while.

"What do you think happened to her?"

After saying goodbye to Jessica, the magician couldn't wait to leave the dilapidated building.It wasn't until he got back to their car that he let out a deep breath and expressed the doubts in his heart.

Shi Rui pondered for a moment: "She doesn't want to leave, she should be waiting for her brother to come back."

"You mean someone took her brother away, so she didn't dare to tell the truth?" The magician immediately widened his eyes.

"No." Shi Rui shook his head, "Looking at Jessica's appearance, she should have asked someone to take her brother away voluntarily. Did you notice what she said at the end?" Freshman'...I think she may have begged for her brother to be taken at the expense of her right hand."

"How is this possible?!" The magician felt that this inference was a bit unbelievable.Is there really someone who would willingly have his hand amputated just to have his brother taken away?

"I think the key is probably the 'new life'." Shi Rui frowned, disgusted with the speculation in his heart, "According to Jessica, she thinks that the drug rehabilitation center can't save her brother. But if this continues, then Sooner or later, the boy would die of drugs. If someone had convinced her at this point that there was something he could do to help the boy, Jessica would probably have done it."

"Well, maybe what you said makes sense." The magician sighed, "But how can that man convince Jessica? Although Jessica looks a little naive, she is not a brainless person." The person? Do you think she was hypnotized?"

Shi Rui pursed his lips: "Give people hope when they are desperate, and the other party will choose to believe unconditionally. There is no need to deliberately persuade, the other party will try to convince himself first. Before Johnny had the operation, he had received A leaflet about 'All diseases can be cured with just shaking hands'. Even he, in the face of such a temptation, will inevitably be shaken for a moment. When people are on the verge of despair, they will try their best to catch the last A straw, even if you know in your heart that it is just a false idea."

"Damn it! What good will it do them? What will Jessica do in the future?"

"Maybe they just want to get your attention." Shi Rui suddenly found that the reason why he could completely guess what the other party was thinking was that he was very familiar with all this.

"Call my attention, so that I can talk to them about 'cooperation matters'?" The magician suddenly blushed, "Is it possible to cause irreparable harm to an innocent girl just because of this?"

Shi Rui couldn't help caressing the magician's cheek: "Clifford, it's a dark world. You don't need to understand their thoughts, you just need to stand in the sun and create miracles for the world."

The magician was taken aback.The expression on Shi Rui's face made him feel his heart constricted suddenly.Shi Rui stood in front of him, but it felt as if he had merged with the darkness.He immediately pressed the cool palm on his face.An incredible idea suddenly appeared in his mind, once Shi Rui withdrew his palm, he would disappear from sight.

"Rui." The magician stared into Shi Rui's eyes and said in a very serious tone, "No. Not only do I want to stand in the sun, but at least I want to illuminate you! How dare that bastard do something like this? He also brazenly asked me for an interview about "cooperation", I will definitely give him a good look!"

A magician's palm is always warm.Body temperature penetrates into the bottom of the heart along the surface of the skin.The lines on Shi Rui's face softened. "I'll go with you." He took a step closer and pressed his forehead against the magician's. "You're right. We should give him a good look."

The smell of sunlight came from the person next to him, and Shi Rui felt that he had never been so determined.

The surrounding darkness will be driven out by hand.

If there is this person by his side, can he stand in the sun too?

Gospel Hotel is not a time-honored restaurant.

In fact, the place is full of modern art's "desecration" of traditional religious views.Just on this short road from the door to the box, Shi Rui saw more than one obscene sculpture based on God or the Virgin.If this place hadn't adopted a membership system, it would have been sued by the believers long ago, right?

Several strangely dressed people passed by them holding glasses of wine.Whether it's the clothing or accessories on them, the workmanship is very sophisticated, but the straightforward sexual hints and manic feelings expressed make people palpitate.Shi Rui doubts that these people will immediately transform into social elites in suits and ties after leaving this restaurant.And this place is used to let them vent their emotions.

"Your Excellency Kaos is waiting for you in the box." The waiter stopped in front of a metal door inlaid with stained glass.Diagonal light from the room reflects the patterns on the glass onto the carpet.It was a pure white bat.

Only then did they know that the person who invited them was originally called Kaos.

Seeing that the waiter didn't intend to open the door for them, the magician frowned and closed the doorknob.The strong light shone on his face, making him squint his eyes.

There was only one man standing in the sixty-square-meter box.

The side of the box facing the door is full of floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and outside the window is a Roman-style courtyard.At this moment, the setting sun is shining on a bronze sculpture in the center of the courtyard.The golden spear in the demon's hand was shining brightly in the sun, and under his feet was an angel with obvious female features lying on his back.

A man in a white suit stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, as if admiring the scenery outside the window.

The magician strode forward. "Hi! I said..."

"You can call me Kaos." The man turned around.His facial features looked gentle and handsome, and there was an artist-like arrogance between his brows and eyes.His eyes stayed on Shi Rui for a moment, the corner of the man's mouth curled into a slight smile, and he stretched out his hand to the magician.Shi Rui noticed that his hands were wearing white gloves. "Glad you came, hope you enjoy the place."

The magician didn't reach out to shake his hand.He crossed his arms and stared at Kaos' face. "what do you want?"

"No no no, you misunderstood me." Kaos retracted his hand indifferently, "I just want to make friends with you. Clifford, why don't you sit down with your fiancée and we drink Shall we chat slowly over tea?"

"Sorry, I'm not used to calling people by their names when I meet them for the first time." The magician helped Shi Rui pull out a chair, and sat down by himself.

There is a set of Kung Fu tea set on the table.Shi Rui couldn't help being secretly surprised.The light green porcelain teapot on the rattan tray was of excellent texture and well maintained, and it was by no means a layman's hand.

Kaos deftly poured a small cup of tea for each of the three. "Shirley. Can I call you that? This is a new tea this year, please have a taste."

Neither Shi Rui nor the magician touched the teacup on the table.

"What do you want from me?" the magician repeated.

"Hehe, Mr. Wyish, what I want to talk to you about is a win-win cooperation."

"I'm not interested in working with someone like you." The magician cut off Kaos' words.

"Please hear me out first. Ever since I saw your performance on TV, I think we should be the same person."

What Kaos said made the magician couldn't help but let out a cold snort of disdain.

"Yes. You and I are both people with unique abilities!" Kaos' tone was a little excited, "Your strength is stronger than most people I have ever seen, and it is rare to have the spiritual system at the same time." And the ability of the control department. It’s like this, I have a small organization, and most of the people in it have some abilities that are different from ordinary people. I think you would be happy to meet some ‘similar’ people?”

What Kaos said made the magician a little speechless.If Kaos hadn't kept a serious face when he said this incredible remark, and not long ago he had sawed off a person's hand in order to attract his attention, he couldn't believe that this was the true meaning of this invitation. Purpose!

Fuck his superpowers!This Kaos is definitely out of his mind!

The magician hesitated for a moment between calling a mental hospital and calling the police, and finally said, "Is there something wrong with you? All I do on TV is magic tricks, not superpowers! I'm sorry for you Not at all interested in your 'kind'!"

"Mr. Wish, although you know that you are performing magic tricks, the audience doesn't know that, right?" Kaos suddenly showed a strange smile on his face, "They only believe what they've seen with their own eyes. After seeing what you are capable of, they will adore you like crazy and will do anything for you! I have a small tour in Europe next month and I am looking forward to having you as a guest there. Rest assured, Your identity is absolutely confidential, no one will know that the person standing on the stage is you. I don't know what Mr. Huaishe wants?"

A sudden chill ran up his spine.The magician suddenly felt that what he was facing was not a human being at all, but a man-eating beast!He had heard of people using magic tricks to defraud money, but no one had ever been bold enough to invite him to participate!

And judging from the performance of this Kaos, this is not a small fraud gang at all, but... but... but a well-organized...

Cult!

This sudden word made the magician startled and forgot to answer.

"I can answer you for Clifford." Shi Rui grabbed the magician's palm under the table, "Stay away from us. Otherwise, I will make you regret meeting today." His expression was extremely cold.

"Well, I'm not in a hurry to hear the answer. You can think about it again. After all, the remuneration for this performance is not low." Kaos said with a smile.

"I don't need to think about it!" The magician who reacted angrily stood up, took Shi Rui's hand and walked out of the box.