The area around the TV station was the central business district of the city, with pedestrian streets all around and a constant flow of people.
"What kind of magic, you’re being so dismissive!" Su Xiaoou imdiately puffed up with anger. She raised an eyebrow and deliberately provoked, "Is it because you can’t figure it out either?"
"Peeking, Ti Misdirection, Psychological Suggestion, mathematical principles, fully automated process, semi-public Predication, and so whimsical ideas." Jiang Shu continued to focus on the people coming and going on the street, his pupils reflecting the colorful lights. His tone was casual but he explained Su Xiaoou’s ticulous arrangent using terms of Magic thoroughly.
He donned a half-face mask, as he dared not show his face in public since it had beco known in Lonely City.
"Eh?" Su Xiaoou was slightly taken aback, yet she still stubbornly asked, "No way, that answer is too general. You usually don’t test like this."
It seed that Su Xiaoou ca prepared this ti, intending to give Jiang Shu a hard ti.
Yet as Jiang Shu turned his attention back to the little girl beside him, he couldn’t help but find her naive, yet adorable.
What was she doing?
Challenging the greatest Magician in the world?
But having soone to discuss Magic with was also good, after all, how long had it been since he had studied Magic with another Magician?
For soone as obsessed with Magic as he was, this was undoubtedly a pain, the pain of not being able to share a passion.
"First of all, I don’t know how you got that paper money’s Sequence number, but if it were , just peeking would do," said Jiang Shu. "Actually, I was sitting there and managed to peek at the Sequence number, too. Let think... that was part of your design, wasn’t it?"
"Hmm?" Su Xiaoou blinked, feigning ignorance.
"The year and Sequence number on Feather Coin are printed on both sides of the paper money. You had Li Yuntang look at the year, and at the sa ti, you could see the last digits of the Sequence number," Jiang Shu explained lightly, "As long as you’re subtle, there’s no chance of being caught, and later you even deliberately had Li Yuntang fold it up, giving the audience an Suggestion—that you had no way of knowing the last Sequence digits, but in fact, you had already obtained them at that ti."
"Uh..." Su Xiaoou pursed her lips with an expression suggesting she’d been found out.
Indeed, that’s what she had done.
But it was quite easy to figure out, so Su Xiaoou didn’t feel much pressure.
After Li Yuntang folded the paper money into a square, Su Xiaoou definitely had no way of knowing the last Sequence digits.
A swap?
The square was continuously in Li Yuntang’s hands; that woman may have been clueless about Magic but she wasn’t a fool. How could sothing she held the entire ti be switched?
So, learning the last digits of the Sequence could only have happened before folding the bill. Following this thought, it was highly likely she had peeked.
"What else?" Su Xiaoou snorted lightly.
"Then, there’s the imaginary cup Magic trick," Jiang Shu smiled and continued, "I rehearsed it in my mind at the ti. It’s actually quite simple, using mathematical principles. I just don’t know if it was Kirie who taught you."
"Of course not, I discovered it by myself," Su Xiaoou replied sowhat defiantly.
"Okay, anyway, if Li Yuntang had initially chosen cup number two, she just had to pour an even number of tis to get back to cup number two. No matter what she picked, the result would be the sa; and if she picked cup one or three, pouring an odd number of tis would lead to cup number two," Jiang Shu said succinctly. This use of mathematical principle was quite clever, and sothing he was rather pleased about, "And Li Yuntang’s first dice roll was a five, an odd number, so she rolled again. The second was a three, which adds up to eight, an even number, so definitely cup number two. If it was still odd after the second roll, she would keep rolling until the total was even."
"Uh... yeah." Su Xiaoou nodded, that was her clever plan.
"Then, then..." Jiang Shu continued, he thought for a mont and praised, "Then cos the most brilliant part of the show, a point that I must comnd you for, it took a while to realize." Jiang Shu’s face showed a satisfied smile, "That text ssage—it looked like it was automatically split, but actually, you sent it in two parts, right? It’s just that the interval between the two ssages wasn’t long, so it only displayed the ti of the first ssage sent."
"Ah!?" Su Xiaoou’s secret was pointed out directly, and she imdiately beca sowhat frustrated, "Ah..."
But then again, of course, old Jiang would be slick; it would be strange if Jiang Shu couldn’t figure it out.
Jiang Shu just laughed again.
That ssage was divided into two parts, the first containing a hundred characters, giving the impression that it was a limit on word count, and the first hundred characters of the Prediction were always accurate—for example, the year 2087, or the final result for Li Yuntang being cup number two.
When sending the first text, Su Xiaoou had not yet seen the last Sequence digits, and the paper money was even still in the audience’s pocket; of course, she couldn’t have known the Sequence digits.
There was no problem in sending the first text at that point; these were predictable Predications. It was after she obtained the last Sequence digits that she secretly composed and sent the second ssage.
Because the end of the two ssages included "(1/2)" and "(2/2)" symbols, the audience naturally assud the ssage was auto-split into two parts. And the Magic effect was that Su Xiaoou had predicted the last digits of the paper money’s Sequence before it was even passed up.
If Jiang Shu wasn’t wrong, the content of the second ssage was all prepared in advance, and Su Xiaoou just needed to enter the last Sequence digits "3681" she had peeked at to send the ssage, which would take very little ti and not be noticed for any irregularity.
This was Ti Misdirection.
By arranging the Magic sequence in such a way that the cause and effect seed inverted in the audience’s mind, the "effect" happened before the "cause," which, of course, was extraordinary.
The average audience mber wouldn’t know if there was a character limit for ssages anyway, and even if they tested it themselves, they wouldn’t think it was a Magician’s fault but would assu it was because the watch model was different or because the software was different—never suspecting this aspect.
Very clever indeed.
"And as for the last part with the clothes, that was a ’non-public Prediction’, right?" Jiang Shu ntioned the final elent of the Magic.
"Ah? Non-public Prediction?" Su Xiaoou was confused, unsure of what that ant. She had ant to ask when Jiang Shu had ntioned it before, what is that?
"Oh, it seems I haven’t taught you that yet," Jiang Shu paused, rembered, and realized he had not taught her that Magic Principle.
Su Xiaoou: "???"
Is that how you’re supposed to teach?
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