Chapter 10: The Strange Boy
"Look closely at the cards in my hand. This deck is very messy. Now you draw a card, um, the 7 of clubs. Let's put this card in the middle. Now I snap my fingers, and the 7 of clubs jumps to the first card. What's even more amazing is that if you look at this deck of cards again, all of them have become 7 of clubs."
"Long and short cards, no technical content at all."
Chen Xin only watched it for ten seconds before deleting the video in disappointment.
She is a magic enthusiast and likes to watch magic shows on weekdays. There are also many magicians performing magic on the Internet, but most of the magicians only perform magic props.
These so-called magicians actually sell magic props.
“ The magic tricks in short videos are getting more and more boring now .”
After watching several simple magic tricks using magic props, Chen Xin was about to close the software when he accidentally clicked the scroll bar and a new short video popped up.
"Scare me!"
Chen Xin was frightened when he saw the mysterious man wearing a black mask appear on the screen.
In the video, a mysterious man in a black mask sits in front of a round glass table with a pot of cactus on it. Behind the man is a black wall cloth covered with clocks.
There are electronic clocks with digital displays, pointer-shaped wall clocks, and even chronograph clocks that display milliseconds.
All these clocks are set to the same time.
"With so many clocks, are you trying to prove that your video is not edited?"
Chen Xin became interested and looked at the title below: Classical Qimen Magic - Moving Technique.
"Are you still using the Qimen Magic Moving Company to pretend to be mysterious and attract people?"
Chen Xin muttered something, and saw the masked man in the video took out a piece of paper and pressed it on the cactus. Soon, the paper was pierced by the thorns of the cactus, and the thorns were exposed.
"What is he going to do? Prove that the cactus is real?"
The mysterious man took the paper down and began to knock on the glass with his hands. The table top made a crisp knocking sound, and from the angle of the video, the entire glass table top and the bottom of the table could be clearly seen.
"Knocking on the glass proves that the glass is real and intact." Chen Xin judged in his heart.
After the mysterious man finished knocking, he placed his hand on the spot where he had knocked previously, spread his palm upwards, and placed his entire arm on the table. With his left hand, he placed the small cactus pot on the palm of his right hand. Then, he picked up a fried chicken takeout box from the side and covered it with his left hand.
"They didn't even show the camera the box. It looks like the trick is in the box. There's something hidden in the box. When we open it, there will be more stuff on the cactus."
When Chen Xin saw that the mysterious man didn't even show the cardboard box, she instantly lost most of her interest. But since she had already seen this far, she might as well finish reading it so that she could write a comment to expose the truth later.
After the mysterious man closed the paper box, he drew something in the air with his left hand, which was similar to the way those Taoist priests perform rituals on TV.
When the last stroke was completed, the mysterious man's left hand suddenly slammed down on the cardboard box.
"ah!"
Seeing this scene, Chen Xin couldn't help but scream. There was a cactus under the paper box. If he slapped it with his palm, his palm would be covered with thorns.
After screaming, Chen Xin got goose bumps all over his body when he looked at the scenes in the video.
The cardboard box was flattened directly .
The man took the flattened cardboard box away, but it was still within the camera range, revealing the intact palm of his right hand. He then picked up the cardboard box with both hands and tore it into pieces.
After two seconds, the video ends.
"This... this is impossible, how did he do it!?"
Chen Xin's voice was trembling a little. This magic was completely different from what she had imagined.
There is a magic trick on the Internet where a glass is wrapped with paper and then the paper is flattened so that the glass disappears. This magic trick is actually very simple. When the paper wraps the cup, it is moved to the edge of the table. Then the hand holding the paper loosens a little, allowing the glass to fall under the table. Due to the hardness of the paper, it will maintain the original shape of the cup.
The principles of other similar magic tricks are the same.
But this video is different. First of all, the man’s entire arm is placed on the table. His palm and the cactus are in the center of the table. It is impossible for him to sneakily move to the edge of the table and fall down.
As for the possibility that there is a mechanism in the middle of the glass table and a crack would appear in the glass once the center position is pressed, it is impossible because the camera captured the bottom of the table and the cactus did not fall under the table.
"This is not magic. Magic tricks can't do this." Chen Xin kept repeating this sentence, and then said firmly: "It must be edited. Only editing can achieve this effect."
Thinking of this, Chen Xin clicked on the comments. Only then did she notice that when she just looked at them, there were only more than a hundred comments, but in a short while, there were already thousands of them.
The most liked comment: [I'm going crazy. I know everyone suspects that this is edited, just like me. For this reason, I deliberately slowed down the video frame by frame and found no trace of editing. The existence of those clocks makes me question my life. ]
[Unless these clocks can be paused and started with a button, and they are controlled by the remote control, the rotating pointers and digital stopwatches cannot be so accurate, and there will be errors.]
[How did they do this? Is there any magic master who can crack it? 】
[What are you trying to crack? Didn’t you see what the title says? It’s the art of moving things. This is magic, not a trick (dog head)]
[The teleportation trick is definitely fake, it’s just a gimmick in the video, but I really can’t see any flaws in this magic trick. The only thing that’s not rigorous is that we are not shown the inside of the cardboard box, but this has nothing to do with the magic effect. It’s the cactus that disappeared, not something extra .]
[I am confused. The glass table is transparent. The camera can see the table top and the bottom of the table. The clocks on the wall prove that it is not edited. Can anyone tell me how they did it?]
[You all are either crazy or numb. Am I the only one who follows the host of the video? ]
Seeing this, Chen Xin clicked on the homepage of the video owner.
Name: Qimen Boy
Introduction: The last descendant of Qimen in China.
There is only one work, and it is a new account.
"Magic is just magic, why bother with all those weird gimmicks? I hate people like that the most."
Muttering something, Chen Xin clicked on the follow button when he exited the homepage.
…
"Am I blasted?"
After uploading the video, Lin Ye went to the bathroom. When he came back, his phone kept ringing. Ten seconds later, his phone froze.
After turning on his phone again and opening the short video, Lin Ye finally knew why his phone was stuck.
The video he posted went viral.
In just ten minutes, there were thousands of likes, hundreds of comments, and the number of views reached one million.
Lin Ye was a little surprised. In fact, what he didn't know was that his data was simply amazing.
Leaving aside those who inflate the data, based on real data, the ratio of his views, likes, attention and comments is extremely high.
"The data has reached the standard so quickly. We can apply for the original alliance."
Simply posting a video does not earn money based on the number of views. Lin Ye had previously checked that he needed to join the platform's original long video incentive program. The conditions for applying to join were that he must first have a thousand followers and secondly, have posted at least one original long video. He had already met the requirements.
Opening the backend of the software, Lin Ye glanced at the thousands of private messages. The contents were varied. Some asked for decryption, some asked to be accepted as disciples, and some claimed to be from some MSN agency and wanted to sign him. They allowed him to name any contract fee.
After setting the message do not disturb, Lin Ye opened the official application page, submitted the original long video incentive plan, exited the software and went to a metal company.
Naturally he went to the metal company to buy silver. With the current price of silver, if he went to buy pure silver, the money he had wouldn't be able to buy more than 20 kilograms. He wanted to buy industrial silver, and he had just called to make an order. The other party's industrial silver could be sold in bulk.
When Lin Ye went out, he didn't know that the video he posted had already caused a stir on the short video platform.
