156. Chapter 156 Soul Seeing Art Recorded in Ancient Books
The viewing angle of the full-length mirror is limited. In order to ensure that as many viewers as possible can see the entire magic clearly, Le Youyou stands almost close to the mirror.
Except for the row of spectators directly in front, the other spectators could clearly see Le YouYou's back reflected in the mirror.
"When I was very young, I had a cat..."
After arranging Le YouYou, Li Mengnan stood next to the mirror, as if he had forgotten Le YouYou, and told the story to himself in front of the audience.
"That was a very good cat. Except that it couldn't catch mice, everything else was pretty good." As the audience chuckled, Li Mengnan also smiled, "But later, the cat died. It is said that
Because it ate a mouse, and that mouse ate rat poison... That should be the first mouse it caught as a cat, and I think this should be regarded as death in the line of duty."
"I cried very sadly at that time. After all, this cat was my first real little friend. Although I didn't understand the true meaning of death at that time, I knew that it would never lie on my chest and hit me again.
Hulu, you won’t suddenly jump up and chase your own tail all over the place.”
Li Mengnan spoke in a low tone, and the image of a clumsy and naughty domestic cat seemed to appear in front of the audience's eyes. Some girls who had pets at home even felt deeply and secretly wiped away tears.
"My grandpa told me that every life in this world has a soul. Death does not mean disappearance. My balls...are that cat. They just went to another place."
"So I asked grandpa, where did the egg go? Why can't I see it? Then grandpa took out a mirror and put it in front of me and said to me - look, the egg is right here.
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As the last word fell, Li Mengnan on the stage suddenly made an unexpected move - he stretched out his hand and pulled Le Youyou away from the mirror.
"ah--!"
Hundreds of girls in the audience screamed in unison, and the high-pitched and loud sound almost brought down the ceiling of the auditorium.
Le Youyou was pulled away by Li Mengnan, but the slightly generous and round back still remained in the mirror.
She stood there quietly and silently, as if completely unaware that her body was no longer in front of the mirror.
"Damn it! Did I read that right? Is what is in the mirror really a human soul?"
"This is unscientific! There is currently no evidence to prove the existence of a soul! What's more, even if there is a soul, how can it be reflected by just a mirror?"
"Are you stupid in studying? Don't you know that science is the biggest superstition? From a logical point of view, science cannot prove the existence of a soul, which means that science cannot prove the existence of a soul..."
"It's terrible! I don't dare to look in the mirror anymore, but how will I put on makeup in the future?"
"It's a shill! It must be a shill! And there's more than one, it must be two! That mirror is actually a piece of transparent glass. Two people wearing the same clothes are standing back to back. Anyway, they can't see their faces. Of course, they look like
I left my shadow in the mirror..."
"Isn't it possible? What I saw just now was just an ordinary mirror... Besides, the stage is so big and there is no lifting mechanism. If there is a stand-in, there is no way no one will see it!"
Human beings have a natural fear of unknown things, but at the same time, fear is like a catalyst that will infinitely amplify human curiosity.
After a brief period of chaos, the auditorium completely exploded. Everyone was discussing whether the magical scene in front of them was real or not. Almost everyone had their own unique point of view, debating on this, and even...
There were even a lot of people who were making such a noise that their faces were red and their ears were red.
Pei Junmeng almost popped his eyes out.
He was sitting in the first row. From the beginning of the magic show, his attention had been fixed on the sides and bottom of the mirror. He was not attracted by Li Mengnan's story like other audience members. It stands to reason that any slight disturbance on the stage would be unreasonable.
It was impossible to escape his eyes, but even he didn't know how the back figure in the mirror appeared.
Is it really glass?
This idea was immediately rejected by Pei Junmeng as soon as it came up.
There is just an ordinary full-length mirror on the stage, only as wide as one person, and the angle facing the stands can reach almost 130 to 150 degrees. If there is really a stand-in behind, someone might have discovered it long ago.
Damn it! What kind of magic is this? Why can’t I understand it at all?
Several judges were also so shocked by Li Mengnan's incredible performance that they broke into cold sweats. If he hadn't kept forcing himself to tell himself that it was just a magic trick, even Director Ke, who has the most steadfast materialistic worldview, would have almost believed that the human soul in the mirror was really there.
"Lao Ke, this magic... what do you think?"
Professor He didn't even know whether he should let Li Mengnan pass. The stage effect of this magic was so shocking. The auditorium with only a few hundred people was already in a state of chaos with him. If he turned around and really let him attend the welcome party
On a stage with nearly ten thousand people, it is really difficult to predict what will happen.
But the director didn't seem to hear Professor He's question at all. He kept scratching his bald head, as if in a daze, and kept muttering to himself: "The art of seeing souls! It's actually the art of seeing souls! I didn't expect the ancient book.
The records in it are actually true. It’s amazing. How many things have been left behind by our ancestors that we modern people have thrown away..."
But the director has no other hobbies on weekdays. His biggest hobby is collecting various ancient books. He once saw such a story in an ancient book collected at the secondhand market:
There was a well-known good man who had no heirs, so he planned to donate all his property to the temple before his death. The principal of the family tried to persuade him to no avail, so he had evil thoughts and poisoned the good man's food.
The principal thought he had done a perfect job, but he was accidentally seen by a maid who was passing by. Normally, good people are very generous to the servants in the house. The maid wanted to avenge her master, but she knew that people were talking lightly, and the county government would not just rely on it.
Her one-sided words were enough to convict the principal.
One day, the maid went to the market to purchase household expenses and met a visiting monk who begged her for alms.
The wandering monk saw the gloomy look on her face and asked the reason. The maid told the truth. The monk said it was okay. On the day of burial, you can set up a bronze mirror in front of the coffin, and the murderer will be brought to justice.
On the day of the burial, the maid remembered the monk's advice and took a bronze mirror and placed it in front of the coffin. A figure appeared in the mirror, and her features were vaguely blurred. It was the good man himself. Then, with blood flowing from his seven orifices, he glared at the main room in the mourning hall. The main room was killed on the spot.
Scared to death.
But the director always thought that this was just a fictional story about gods and monsters like "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", and the so-called "soul-seeing technique" in the story was even more nonsense, but he didn't expect that he was lucky enough to see an actual example today.
Although the director is not very interested in traditional sleight of hand, it is enough to see with his own eyes the magical skills left by his ancestors and to know that they are still passed down among the people and have not disappeared into the long river of history and become a regrettable term.
It made him feel relieved.
Le Youyou on the stage felt waves of cold air passing over her neck, and her whole back felt wet and cold.
Because her back was always turned to the mirror, she could only see and hear the horrified expressions and screams of the audience, but she had no idea what was happening behind her - Li Mengnan's hands kept pressing her shoulders tightly, not caring at all.
Allow her to turn around or look back.
"Li Mengnan, what did they see?" Le Youyou could vaguely guess the scene in the mirror at this moment, but after all, she didn't see it with her own eyes, and she didn't dare to think about it.
"It's nothing, just the ones you usually see. They make too much fuss."
Li Mengnan's words are 100% logically correct. It's just Le Youyou's shadow in the mirror, which of course she can always see... but this time her view is a little different.
In fact, even if Le Youyou turns around at this moment, it will not affect the effect of the entire illusion. However, the feeling of being face to face with a shadow that is out of sync with itself is too scary. Out of the protection of Le Youyou, Li Mengnan does not allow her to turn around, lest she
It left a serious psychological shadow.
"Le Youyou, please turn around...ah, I'm sorry, I'm not talking about you, you better not move."
Li Mengnan snapped his fingers at the back of the figure in the mirror, and then seemed to remember something, and quickly held down Le Youyou himself who was about to move after hearing the words.
As soon as these words came out, the audience was shocked again.
It’s awesome enough to be able to leave a person’s image on a mirror, but you actually have to make the image in the mirror turn around? Oh my god, is this a joke?
For a long time, the back figure in the mirror remained motionless. Li Mengnan suddenly patted his forehead, smiled apologetically to the audience, and tapped his fingers on the mirror a few times as if knocking on a door.
Bang bang bang!
As if he really heard the sound, the back figure in the mirror trembled slightly, and then slowly turned around.
With a round body, slightly bulging cheeks, a high ponytail, and black-rimmed glasses that ruin the overall beauty, the figure in the mirror is exactly what Le Youyou looks like!
Compared with Le Youyou himself standing diagonally in front, he looks like twins standing side by side!
This time no one screamed anymore, but it seemed that countless violent heartbeats and heavy breathing could be faintly heard.
"No way! I need to check that mirror!"
Pei Jun was thinking so hard that his head almost exploded. How could this wretched soap man perform such a high-end magic? Even his own teacher could not achieve such a magical effect!
He must have been deceived somewhere! Yes, maybe the secret of the whole magic lies in that mirror! That was the only place he didn't check!
"Aren't you still willing to give up? Stop trying. With your level, you can't see through this magic at all."