120. Chapter 120 The History of the Li Family in Hebei Province
In less than a minute, Li Mengnan and Wu Ansu used shovels to cut two basin-sized holes in the wall.
This is also because Di Lingyun's mental strength is not strong enough. If Li Mengnan were to construct this wall, its hardness would be comparable to that of concrete, so it would not be possible to dig it open with just two broken shovels.
However, I have to say that although the hardness of this imaginary wall is really bad, its thickness is remarkable. Even after digging in almost half a meter deep, there is still no light.
"Okay, stop digging, bury this inside."
Li Mengnan stopped Wu Ansu, who was sweating from digging holes, and threw a heavy oil paper bag tied with five flowers to her.
"Is this... an explosive pack?"
Although Wu Ansu had never seen the actual object of this ancient explosive device, thanks to the overwhelming number of anti-Japanese TV dramas on Chinese TV, she recognized the true identity of the package Li Mengnan handed her at a glance.
Needless to say, this must also be a product of illusion.
However, Li Mengnan's explosive pack was obviously more rudimentary than the anti-Japanese artifacts of the past. It didn't even have a fuse, only a long paper twist trailing outside, like a square cannon.
"Isn't this thing of yours still made of black powder?"
"Of course!"
Wu Ansu just asked casually, but he didn't expect Li Mengnan to actually admit it shamelessly.
Wu Ansu almost spit out a mouthful of old blood. It was a shovel and a pack of explosives. The equipment was so crude that it was worse than the militia guerrillas seventy years ago. At this level, this guy still has the nerve to say how powerful he is.
Mage?
"Illusion is actually divided into two types: illusion and illusion."
Li Mengnan conjured up an identical explosive package out of thin air, stuffed it into the hole dug in the wall, shoveled soil inside with a shovel, and explained to Wu Ansu: "The human brain's ability to identify is actually very strong.
Yes, just like when we watch a 3D movie, no matter how realistic the picture and sound are, our subconscious mind, the so-called sixth sense, will judge that this is something that does not exist at all, thus protecting the brain from accepting wrong information from the outside world.
, resulting in corresponding damage.
Illusions like this that only mislead the five senses are illusions.
Just like the night you invited me to eat stew, the eye-gouging I performed for you and the flame of the lighter were all illusions.
The biggest feature of illusion is that you can do whatever you want, you can almost change anything you can imagine in your mind, and the consumption of mental energy is relatively low. Generally, the illusions used by our magicians in non-close-up interactive tricks fall into this category.
Illusion illusion.
But the biggest drawback of illusion is just like its name. It is just an illusion. Even if you can see it, you cannot touch it. It is an unreal illusion."
This was the first time Wu Ansu knew that there were so many details in illusion. He couldn't help but secretly marveled. While burying the explosive pack, he asked: "So, this wall is not an illusion?"
"That's right, if it's an illusion, it won't have any blocking effect at all. Anyone can pass through it directly." Li Mengnan patted the soil firmly, pulled the lead all the way to the service desk not far away, and continued:
"Illusion is a more complex illusion. In addition to deceiving the five senses like illusions, it also deceives human beings' sixth sense and subconscious mind.
However, the human sixth sense is not as easily deceived by appearances as the first five senses, because the sixth sense is a super-dimensional sense that can penetrate the internal structure of objects, like X-rays, and even has certain time dimension attributes.
Therefore, if you want to deceive the sixth sense, you need to have a sufficient analysis and understanding of the composition of illusions. When the things you imagine can successfully deceive other people's sixth sense, then your illusion is real in the other person's perception.
If it exists, this is the illusion of illusion."
"Illusion Technique was once called Phantom Killing Technique - as the name suggests, this is an illusion technique that can actually be used to kill people."
However, illusion construction also has a huge shortcoming. The more complex something is, the longer it takes to transform it. It doesn't matter if it is used to sneak attack the Yin people, but if it is a face-to-face duel, even the most powerful illusionist can only
Can transform some of the simplest things."
Speaking of this, Li Mengnan suddenly felt a little sad for no reason.
He still remembered that the old man in the family mentioned the glory of the family more than once. The Li family was once a famous magic family in Hebei Province. When the family was at its most prosperous, there were more than 600 direct members, and even a five-year-old child could play several tricks.
There are more than 20 magicians with decent illusion skills.
There was no such thing as a harmonious society at that time. Even in peacetime, there were still countless bandits and bandits. At that time, any wealthy family with some wealth could not afford to support more than ten or twenty thugs, and they wanted to show off their tendons to prove that they were not capable.
So annoying.
But the Li family in Ji Province has never needed these warriors to visit the home and protect the home, because the skills of any trained juggler are not inferior to ordinary martial arts masters, especially in the Li family's inner house where there are many institutions, every juggler's skills are
The strength will be amplified several times or even dozens of times.
Although the Li family has always kept a low profile and is not well-known in the world, most of the senior Jianghu people in Hebei Province know that the Li family is not easy to offend.
Jugglers are different from people in the martial arts world. If you offend a martial arts master, no matter whether the opponent openly challenges or secretly assassinates, at least there are traces to follow. But if a juggler wants to kill someone, there are all kinds of weird and unpredictable ways.
The blinding method can make you feel like you are dying. It will be even more tragic if you meet a high-level magician who has mastered the secrets of illusion. They will directly erase you from the consciousness level, not caring about your body at all, even if you have been there for decades.
The golden bell cover and the iron cloth shirt of the Thirteen Taibao practiced kung fu in vain.
If illusions were not more focused on individual talents than martial arts, and were not taught to people with foreign surnames, resulting in very few magicians who mastered illusions, the Li family of Ji Province would definitely have become the public enemies of the martial arts at that time, and might even be labeled as evil heretics.
The big hats of the class swarmed and attacked.
It is said that this is the so-called unspoken rule of the world. Although strong strength can gain the respect and awe of others, but too strong strength will be feared and hated by others.
There are so many rules in the world of martial arts. If you take it seriously, you will lose.
However, just as the emergence of firearms led to the decline of martial arts, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, as foreign powers used giant ships and cannons to blast open the country of China, traditional tricks were also impacted by more novel and practical technological products, such as movies, photography, and phonographs.
And so on, the sense of novelty is gradually lost in the hearts of the people who are opening their eyes to the world again, and it is gradually becoming uninterested.
At this point, jugglers are not even as good as those martial artists. Although martial arts have declined, those martial artists can still join the army or work as bodyguards for the rich to make a living with their extraordinary skills.
It is difficult to find your own niche in a special profession that is somewhat superstitious.
After all, there is no such thing as a psychiatrist.
From that time on, the huge Li family began to collapse. A large number of members of the family were forced to switch careers and work in factories in the Jinmen area to make a living. Only the main line of the Li family could barely sustain itself by relying on the fields left by their ancestors.
The inheritance of the mage.
Later, when the Japanese invaded China, the depleted Li family fled north to Mongolia Province. Like the local herdsmen, they lived a nomadic life of chasing water and grass. After decades of ups and downs, until his grandfather's generation was the only one left.
The last person.
If Li Mengnan had not been adopted, the lineage of ancient opera masters would have been lost like many traditional skills.
From a certain point of view, the trafficker who abducted Li Mengnan did a good thing and saved an intangible cultural heritage that was on the verge of being lost.