Chapter 1727 Poker Time

"This is a close-up magic." A flash of surprise flashed in Xia Li's eyes. Close-up magic is not so easy to perform, because it is too close to the audience and is very likely to be exposed. Therefore, the magician needs to have very superb skills and a subtle grasp of details.

Xia Li's favorite is actually close-up magic, because this is a type of magic that is highly interactive with the audience, and she enjoys the pleasure of deceiving people at close range.

Therefore, Xia Li watched more carefully.

The magician was still calm and said to the most luxurious person present: "Next, please draw a card, don't tell me what it is. After you read it, you can insert it into the deck in front of you at will."

The man did as the magician instructed. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, it was difficult for the magician to cheat, and he directly took the cards in his hand and started to shuffle and cut.

Not long after, the magician took out a card: "Did you just draw this card?"

Everyone burst into laughter: "No."

The magician looked disappointed, shuffled the cards again, and took out another card: "Is it this card?"

"No." Everyone started to laugh, and the magician's face seemed to be anxious.

Although everyone was laughing, in Xia Li's opinion, the magician looked anxious, but there was a kind of indifference in the depths of his eyes.

The third card, the magician still didn't draw, but no one laughed at the magician at this time, because the magician drew a spade 8 this time.

The magician had drawn twice before, the first time was the 8 of hearts, and the second time was the 8 of diamonds. They didn't pay attention before and just thought it was a coincidence. But the third time, he drew the 8 of spades, which was obviously wrong.

"Since none of these three are." The magician looked at the three 8s with disappointment, and finally sighed, and casually drew the last card from the deck: "Then it must be this card, right?"

8 of clubs.

When the person who had drawn the card before saw this 8 of clubs, surprise flashed in his eyes, because he had drawn the 8 of clubs before!

The magician performed a little trick, showed off his skills, and fooled everyone. Finally, it ended with the drumbeat of **. It was full of ups and downs, and everyone couldn't help but applaud.

When Xia Li saw this scene, she thought at first that it might be the pattern on the back of the card, such as the magician marked the number or something like that, but she looked carefully and couldn't find any clues.

What is going on? If the magician didn't use extraordinary power, how did he do it?

As a magician herself, Xia Li could vaguely guess that this might involve the changes in the number of suits, the exquisiteness of the technique, the mystery of the position, the ability to observe words and expressions, and the most important psychological hint.

But Xia Li didn't understand how the magician found it out yet. However, she did not intend to ask Angel. She was a magician who respected her profession and naturally knew how shameless it was to decipher magic. Instead of asking and getting a general "so that's it", it was better to slowly study it by herself.

The illusion did not stop. The magician went to several tables and performed magic at each table.

Including card mind reading, card divination, and card disappearance... and a series of magic skills that looked incredible but actually did not involve extraordinary powers.

The more Xia Li watched, the more excited and fascinated she became. She herself had actually discovered some tricks of card magic. The simple and yet dazzling technique amazed Xia Li.

She had previously thought, why would playing cards become the standard equipment of magicians? Now she fully understood that although the magician in the illusion only performed a few card magic tricks, the development of these magic tricks showed the unique card art and the profoundness of the whole picture.

Just by looking at this illusion, Xia Li couldn't wait to do card magic by herself. She didn't need others to teach her how to do card magic. With her intelligence, she could develop new magic by herself.

When the illusion ended, Xia Li was still immersed in the world of card magic, and it took a long time for her to come back to her senses.

Xia Li looked at Angel with a gleam in her eyes: "Although I haven't understood the secret of card magic yet, I now know why card magic exists. It is really magical!"

Angel smiled: "Card magic is magical, but it is just a trick of mortals. The deck of playing cards I made is not just for card magic."

Xia Li looked at the playing cards still floating around her and naturally understood this. Angel couldn't just give her an ordinary deck of playing cards. I think there is a deeper purpose.

Angel: "This iron box and the playing cards are a whole. When you open the iron box, you will enter a special illusion."

"Illusion?" Xia Li looked around in confusion. She didn't sense the existence of the illusion at all. Even Graya raised her eyebrows. Although she could sense the subtle fluctuations around her, she did not find any nodes of illusion.

"This is a special illusion. I named it Poker Time." Angle paused: "You can understand it as a stage that carries the illusion of playing cards."

"When you open this iron box, you will automatically enter Poker Time. After entering Poker Time, every playing card in the box will become a cornerstone of an illusion."

As Angle said, he casually took two cards from around Xia Li.

One is the black and white joker card, and the other is the club guard card. As Angel moved, the two cards burst out at the same time, the black and white joker jumped out of the card, and the club guard also jumped out of the card with a long sword.

The darkness came again, and before Charlie came to her senses, she felt a knife light in front of her.

Charlie dodged subconsciously, but was still brushed by a cold wind.

In the shiver, the light returned again. The guard and the clown returned to the card, and everything seemed to be calm, but the knife wound on Charlie's cheek and the blood beads that oozed out showed that things were not that simple.

Angel put the two cards back into the deck in front of Xia Li and whispered, "During the poker time, you can draw any cards and combine them. Different illusions will produce different effects."

"Healing, defense, attack, confusion, trap, summon... or simply create an illusion stage, you can do whatever you want."

"The deck just now is a game of night raid composed of two cards."

After Angel briefly explained the effect, Xia Li was stunned. This sounds very complicated, but inexplicably... exciting!

Don't think that Xia Li behaves very well in front of Graya and Angel, but this is only because of the difference in strength and status that makes her dare not act rashly. Everyone knows that the real Xia Li is actually a very naughty witch.

This poker time full of unknown challenges makes Xia Li's suppressed naughty heart begin to burn.

Moreover, these card combinations can not only be used for attack and defense, but different illusion combinations are also very useful for her magic performances.

Xia Li has figured out how to use poker time to play with... the audience. She even thought of a name for it, which is called Poker Killing Game!

Angel simply introduced the role of poker and stopped, without going into detail. Many things are better left to Xia Li to study by herself. Moreover, the way of playing that Angel studied may not be suitable for Xia Li.

Angel did not say anything more, and Xia Li did not ask again, because she was already immersed in the research.

Looking at Xia Li's study, it is known without Angel asking that Xia Li is very satisfied with this deck of cards.

While Xia Li was studying, Graya also praised: "This deck of cards is probably the most interesting alchemy work I have seen in these years. Once it is released, it is estimated that it will attract a lot of attention. Maybe, there will be many alchemists who will imitate it."

Angel did not comment. Many times, alchemy works are also selective. Poker cards are very suitable for Xia Li, but not necessarily for others.

"However, what interests me most is the story behind the playing cards. After all, the matter of the sleepless city is still an unresolved problem." Greya looked at Angel curiously, trying to ask for an answer.

However, Angel said nothing. It's not that he didn't say it, but he didn't know.

Who knows where the playing cards in the nightmare world came from. Just like the people in Pat Manor, why can they find the corresponding names in the nightmare world, Angel doesn't know.

Perhaps, when Jon was brought to this world by the Eyes from the Sky, some things had already begun to change.