As Li Mengnan explained, he skillfully connected the iron rings one by one and displayed them. Liang Sanbo and the other three people could not help but exclaim loudly. If they had not known the secret, they would not be able to figure out why the iron rings were perfectly fine after inspection.
Rings can be magically connected together.
It turned out that from the beginning, I had fallen into the psychological misunderstanding carefully designed by the magician.
"One thing I can't figure out is whether the gap on the B ring is big or small. When doing the three-ring display and the four-ring display, isn't the magician afraid of being seen by the audience?"
Liang Sanbo actually had some talent for learning magic. He had already noticed the biggest flaw in this magic just after watching a performance.
Li Mengnan nodded approvingly and replied: "Your observation is very careful, but you have to pay attention to one thing. This is a stage magic rather than a close-up magic. Although there is a certain interaction with the audience, there is a certain distance between the magician and the audience after all."
The distance...and why do you think every iron ring has to be polished so brightly? The reason is to use glare to cover up the only flaw in this magic."
"Magicians are all terrible liars." Gao Dingtian concluded with emotion.
"But the audience is willing to be deceived." Li Mengnan said with a smile.
"And I have to pay you to cheat." Liang Sanbo curled his lips, threw the mineral water bottle to Li Mengnan, and said: "Now that I've finished the theory, let's talk about this bottle."
For a magician, theory is far more important than the magic itself, because only by thoroughly understanding various theories can you freely mix and match combinations to create new magic. If you only focus on the magic itself, you will only gradually degenerate yourself.
A third-rate performer with no innovation.
With this sentence alone, Li Mengnan has determined that Liang Sanbo cannot become a real magician even if he has some talent.
"As I said, most prop magic uses human psychological misunderstandings... Think about it, what methods can be used to achieve this magic effect?"
Li Mengnan smiled and pushed back the question unchanged. Although he did not think that Liang Sanbo and the other three could embark on the path of magic from now on, the answers he got after thinking were far more impressive than what he was told directly.
With the hints from the previous iron ring magic, Liang Sanbo and the other three people seemed to have found some ways, and racked their brains to crack the water bottle magic.
However, the inertia of thinking is difficult to change. Apart from opening a small hidden opening in the water bottle, they could not think of any other answer.
And obviously, this only answer is wrong.
"Magicians are different from magic performers. Magic performers will only keep repeating magic tricks performed by others, while magicians will continue to create and improve until a magic trick is almost perfect."
While talking, Li Mengnan took out a pair of scissors from the desk drawer and began to cut the mineral water bottle from the middle.
"If you want to prevent the audience from seeing through magic, the most important thing is to bypass human thinking. Just like this magic, even a layman like you can think of doing something on the mineral water bottle. If the magician still does it,
Isn’t that as stupid as a pig?”
When the bottle was cut almost halfway, Li Mengnan poured out the red bottle cap and threw it to Liang Sanbo, saying: "Here, take a closer look at this bottle cap."
As soon as he bought the bottle cap, Liang Sanbo discovered that there was something strange about this bottle cap. Not only was it slightly light in weight, it also felt a bit rough when he first got it. It did not have the smooth, waxy texture of ordinary plastic bottle caps.
When I took it in front of me and took a closer look, I realized that this bottle cap was actually a fake bottle cap carved by hand. The carving was so lifelike that at first glance it was almost indistinguishable from the real one.
Moreover, I don’t know what kind of material this fake bottle cap is made of. It is as soft as jelly, but extremely elastic. No matter what shape it is made into, it will recover instantly as long as you let go.
The three of them immediately understood that with such a fake bottle cap, no matter how small the bottle mouth is, it can be easily inserted into it, and it does not require any skills at all. Anyone can do it.
"Magic is not magic. You think you see everything, but in fact there is always one thing that is definitely fake."
Li Mengnan easily took back the bottle cap from the stunned Liang Sanbo.
This is a magic prop that he spent most of the day carefully carving. He cannot just throw it away without making a better replacement.
"I...is convinced."
The three animals didn't speak for a long time, and it took a long time for Liang Sanbo to reveal a wry smile on his face.
"Do you feel quite lost, like your dreams are shattered?"
Li Mengnan lit a cigarette again and glanced sideways at the three people in front of him. His face was as calm as clouds and wind, so elegant that it seemed as if it would shatter into the void at any time.
"It's true." Zhao Yingjun nodded unabashedly.
"Magic actually carries all kinds of beautiful dreams we had in childhood. When we find out that the dream is just a scam, no one will feel better psychologically."
Li Mengnan blew out a smoke ring, and the misty smoke magically formed a heart shape, which was then blown away by the wind blowing in from the window.
"So, magicians are the cruelest profession in the world, because in their world, there is only reality and no dreams... But magicians are also a noble profession. Although they have lost their dreams, they still persist.
To continue to weave dreams for thousands of people.”
"What you said is so profound that I can't understand it at all, but it seems to make sense." Liang Sanbo and the other three's eyes were full of admiration, as if they had gotten to know Li Mengnan all over again.
Li Mengnan smiled indifferently. No matter how unreliable the words were, as long as the moral high ground was occupied first, even if they were full of words, they would still be bluffing.
There are too many misunderstandings in human thinking.
…
In the next few days, apart from regular classes, almost all of Li Mengnan's free time was occupied by Liang Sanbo and his three animals.
However, some people's enthusiasm comes and goes quickly. Within two days, Liang Sanbo and Gao Dingtian began to find various excuses to avoid practicing.
Li Mengnan had long known that there would be such a result. As he said before, magician is an extremely cruel profession. All kinds of magical and gorgeous magic tricks in the eyes of the audience are just boring tasks that are repeated in the hands of magicians. There is no mystery at all.
Word.
And if you repeat it too much, you will never be able to get back the surprise and excitement you felt when you saw it for the first time.
However, what surprised Li Mengnan was that Zhao Yingjun, a fat otaku, had been persisting in various exercises. Although he did not have any talent in magic, his seriousness and persistence were very admirable.