The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 186 - 151: Fox, Have You Ever Lost?
Chapter 186: Chapter 151: Fox, Have You Ever Lost?”The restriction I impose is that, starting now, you cannot move another step,” Jiang Shu said, looking at the fox. His eyes still resembled black holes, seemingly capable of devouring all light, betraying no hint of emotion.

”Hmm? And what about the last multiple-choice question?” The fox measured Jiang Shu up with a playful gaze.

”The last multiple-choice question is... Are you sure there is a layer of mirror here, and they are really hiding behind it?” Jiang Shu asked with a smile, ”You don’t have to tell me your choice. Here’s a handgun, you can take it and shoot towards where you think people could be hiding. And here are three magazines, enough for you to confirm.”

”Of course, the restriction I proposed is quite unfavorable to you, so I have prepared a deck of poker cards for you.” Jiang Shu placed the deck in front of the fox, ”You’re familiar with this, aren’t you? You can use this deck to verify your guesses, any way you like. The only restriction is that you cannot move.”

”Oh?” The fox took the deck of poker cards, which was a very ordinary deck.

There was nothing special about it.

If one must say there was something special about it, it would be that the deck was very well worn-in, which made it suitable for performing magic or cardistry moves.

”Anything goes, huh?” The fox checked the deck of poker cards and finally confirmed that it was a normal deck, unaltered in any way.

”Correct,” Jiang Shu nodded in response.

”All right,” the fox looked towards the mirror, his wrist moved slightly as he casually flicked a poker card out.

The card spun through the air, heading straight towards the opposite wall of the conference hall.

If the card approached that wall and a reflection appeared on the surface, it would largely confirm his guess.

That’s what the fox thought.

All three people in the room watched the card intently, as if they were spinning along with it.

And then suddenly...

The poker card disappeared.

”Whoosh,” it vanished into thin air.

Fox: ”???”

Devil Wind: ”???”

Both turned to look at Jiang Shu simultaneously, their eyes through the mask holes filled with confusion and shock.

Person A: Small eyes, great bewilderment.

Jiang Shu was still smiling gently and then extended his hand again in an inviting gesture, ”Please, you still have fifty-two cards.”

”How did you... No, wait.” Upon witnessing such an irrational event, the fox plunged into deep self-doubt, frowning as he looked at Jiang Shu, ”Are you the ’Key Master’?!”

However, as if Jiang Shu knew he would say that, when the fox looked at him in shock and asked, he had already displayed his Character Card.

Mysterious Coefficient: 0.5.

Four simple words, with numbers and a colon, caused the fox to feel a sudden heart palpitation.

So, was this just a magic technique?

The fox’s brain started working rapidly, pondering the principle behind such a magic effect.

Disappearance.

One of the most basic effects in magic.

But to achieve such a simple and clean effect without the magician touching it...

And considering he had checked earlier, this was indeed just an ordinary deck of poker cards...

So, what was going on?

”Wait, did you say there are fifty-two left?” The fox suddenly paid attention to Jiang Shu’s earlier words.

Normally, a deck of poker cards is either fifty-four or fifty-two, depending on whether it includes the two Jokers. But according to Jiang Shu...

Fifty-three?

”Right, because the big Joker is with me,” Jiang Shu said with a smile, then pulled a poker card out of thin air, flipped it over, and showed it to the fox.

On the card’s face was a comical, red jester writhing its body—the JOKER card.

The fox did not respond. He just stared at the red JOKER card, intuition telling him that the magic trick Jiang Shu was using was related to this card.

Or perhaps...

Jiang Shu was simply stating the fact that he was the most significant presence among the poker cards?

The fox couldn’t quite grasp his thoughts, but he maintained his gentle smile, observing silently, like a sage who had everything under control.

No, try again.

The fox then flicked several more poker cards in succession, each one disappearing in mid-air halfway through the conference hall, as if it had never existed.

”Did you see it?” The fox turned his head, looking at Devil Wind.

He had not had a prosthetic eye fitted and might be unable to see certain details with only his natural eyes, whereas Devil Wind was equipped with the highest-grade prosthetic eye, which should be able to spot some flaws.

”It just disappeared suddenly.” Devil Wind simply shook his head; despite the high frame rate of his prosthetic eye, he still could not capture any flaws.

The poker card simply flew to a fixed distance and then vanished.

That was all.

A simple and clean magic effect that left no room for explanation.

”Impossible,” the fox instinctively refused to believe it, his playful mindset gone in an instant. As he entered deep thought, he kept flicking out poker cards from different angles, with different forces.

But without exception.

It was as if there were an invisible wall in the air, like a black hole, devouring any poker card that passed through.

”You...” The fox pressed a finger onto the poker cards. Now only half were left, and he still couldn’t discern anything. This sense of losing control was extremely unsettling to him.