"Well..." Su Xiaoou blinked, still seemingly puzzled.
"For example, take the magic trick you just perford," Jiang Shu thought for a mont, feeling it was better to improve directly on Su Xiaoou’s magic, "If it were , while having Li Yuntang think of a na, I might say, ’Now we need a na, but we only need to say its initial letter. Just say any letter, and it would be best if he is soone you’re focused on, soone by your side.’"
Jiang Shu’s tone was light and airy as he spoke this sentence, except he emphasized the words "soone by your side."
"Eh?" Su Xiaoou froze upon hearing this, her brow furrowing as she carefully pondered Jiang Shu’s words.
"First, the first two sentences give Li Yuntang the illusion that the na to be used later isn’t that important, it’s just conveniently needed for the magic performance," Jiang Shu raised a finger, "Then cos a leading phrase, ’soone by your side,’ which is quite ambiguous. It could be soone she is close to, possibly soone sitting near her at the mont, or soone she is ’focused on.’ With the vocal guidance given earlier, she would think you are hinting at her to say my na."
"But in the eyes of the audience, it’s not the sa thing," Jiang Shu continued, "They would simply think you are asking Li Yuntang to casually think of a na of soone important to her and say it out loud."
He explained to Su Xiaoou, "This is the multilayered truth, the instructions received by Li Yuntang differ from what the audience below perceives."
"This way..." Su Xiaoou mused, as she seed to hold a different view, "But then, Li Yuntang wouldn’t be surprised by my prediction of ’JS,’ right? Only the rest of the audience would think I successfully predicted it, so wouldn’t that weaken the effect of the magic?"
"Indeed, this is a small drawback of the multilayered reality. The isolated audience mber might even find the other audience mbers’ shock strange, but what does it matter? As long as the vast majority of the audience is amazed, that’s enough," Jiang Shu continued his explanation, "Besides, this is just an example of an inducing phrase. After hearing it, Li Yuntang would only have two outcos. One, she understands your instruction and says ’JS,’ making your prediction almost 100% successful, and multilayered reality is achieved; two, she does not understand your instruction, and speaks a na of her own thinking—the multilayered reality fails, but isn’t that the sa situation as your performance just now? Anyway, that prediction... you guessed it right, didn’t you?"
At this point, Su Xiaoou finally understood Jiang Shu’s intention.
With the use of this technique, even in the worst case, she would face the sa situation as during her performance, having only to guess, but once Li Yuntang grasped her instructions, the prediction would be almost 100% successful, and appear incredibly magical from the audience’s perspective.
Although complicated, Su Xiaoou managed to untangle the relationships.
Needless to say, the experienced Jiang Shu’s thod was definitely more secure.
"What about the semi-public prediction?" Su Xiaoou cleared up the previous point and turned to the next one.
"As for predictions, they are actually a kind of magical effect, not really a magic principle, but they are often associated with the packaging content of the magic, so I’m discussing them together," Jiang Shu spoke as he led Su Xiaoou into a taxi terminal. He swiped a card with practiced ease and then walked toward the parking area with her. His travels were primarily by these driverless taxis.
He thought for a mont, then activated a Simulated Light Screen, maintaining it about half a ter in front of him and allowing it to move with his footsteps, which made it look like he was carrying a blackboard with him.
"Predictions are divided into public predictions and semi-public predictions," Jiang Shu wrote notes in the empty space before him with his finger, "Public predictions, as the na implies, an you publicly show a prediction before the performance starts. The content of the prediction is clearly disclosed to all the audience mbers—it is what will happen later. Such public predictions are often packaged as the magician’s Psychological Suggestion or hypnosis, aiming to convince the audience that they’ve been ’controlled’ by the magician."
"Uh-huh, and then?" Su Xiaoou nodded, looking at the writing that appeared on the virtual blackboard, sohow feeling a certain pressure from it.
"However, with this kind of public prediction, you must pay attention to one thing: your script design, process design, and performance ability must be very strong," Jiang Shu said seriously, "These three are indispensable. If any of them fails, the whole flow of the magic collapses. The audience might not find it magical and might think, ’After all, you could only make them choose a particular option.’ By making the prediction public, you must face a problem—the magician’s Prediction Ability may beco sothing taken for granted, and that is a big taboo."
He sighed, his words revealing a sense of resignation, "Just like the magic I perform now, I’ve always been deliberately avoiding such things. When I, as a person, am deified, all the magic I painstakingly design is taken for granted as Magic, and then the audience won’t find the ’magical effect’ to be magical at all."
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