Chapter 609: Magic (2-in-1)
Fontaine, Grand Hotel de Pod.
After finishing the interview, it was already noon when I walked here again, and Charlotte, who was about to treat them as a thank you for the interview, took Li Qiu and them into the restaurant.
The inside of the Debord Hotel is very spacious, with a large open space in the middle, and dining tables on both sides and behind the wall.
Looking up, you can see the second floor, and the same second floor can be seen down.
There is no ceiling in the middle of the second floor of this hotel.
"The billboard outside the door just now says that there seems to be a magic show, so it should be in the middle."
Paimon said guessingly, looking at the clearing in front of him.
"That's right, it's designed so that guests on both floors can see the art show from any table."
Charlotte, who was wearing monocles, nodded, indicating that Paimon Jr. had guessed well.
When the waiter in the restaurant saw a guest coming in, he greeted him and smiled:
"Welcome to Debord Hotel, please come here."
She guided Li Qiuzhi and the others to a table that was unused and sat down, presented the menu, and said again:
"It's the menu, a few guests can take a look, I'll just wait next to it, just wave to me when I order."
After saying that, the young waiter bowed and walked five or six meters away, as if standing in a position specially for the waiter to stand here and respond to customers at any time.
It is worthy of a high-end restaurant with artist performances, and the professionalism of the waiters is still good.
Knowing that it takes time for guests to choose a meal, arrange for the waiter to take the guests to sit down and then walk away, so as not to put pressure on the guests to choose slowly.
This is something that the guests are very happy with.
"If you want to eat, don't worry, be bold." Charlotte pulled out a chair and sat down, handing the menu to Paimon.
"Hehe, then I'm welcome!"
Paimon happily took the menu and looked at it expectantly.
"Confit duck leg, Fontaine fatty liver, harbor tripe, creamy mushroom soup, colorful macarons, all want to eat!"
Looking at the accompanying images on the menu, Paimon Jr. wanted to drool.
"If you want to eat, just order it all over again, there are four of us, so we shouldn't have to worry about wasting it, right?" Charlotte looked at Paimon with her cheeks cupped and a smile.
"Uh-huh." Paimon nodded and looked at Li Qiuzhi and Ying, "What about you guys?" ”
"Feel free, I think the ones I just ordered are enough." Ying sat with her legs together dignified.
Li Qiuzhi nodded, and his opinion was the same as Ying's.
Now that she has chosen her meal, Charlotte waves to the waiter to ask her to place an order, and then she just needs to wait for the food to be served.
It was at this time that several people heard the sound of a wall clock hanging on the wall like a bird.
Li Qiuzhi took a casual look and found that it was exactly twelve o'clock at noon.
Suddenly, the lights in the restaurant suddenly dimmed a lot, and just when everyone was puzzled, "Da! A snapping of fingers sounded.
Many of the guests in the restaurant subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound - in the middle of the hall!
Just because the lights suddenly dimmed a little, and everyone looked up at the lights for a moment, there were two more people in the originally empty hall.
A bright spotlight shone on the two of them.
Both of them wore black top hats and gray-blonde hair, and looked like brother and sister, but with a slight surprise.
Next to the boy, the girl with gray-blond hair was wearing a short black leather skirt with a dark neckline that showed off her snow-white chest, and pancakes, black silk stockings, and black boots.
There was a gray-brown cat tail behind her!
Is it of the same race as Diona's family? Li Qiuzhi looked at the cat's tail very realistically, and it didn't look like a fake.
Of course, he didn't use his mental power to perceive, after all, the two didn't know each other, so it would be a little rude to do so.
If you find out, you might be misguided.
"Hi, good afternoon, everyone, it's a pleasure to be here again at the Debord Hotel for a show, I'm Linny the Magician."
The boy, who was also dressed in black, took off his hat and saluted the guests in the restaurant.
"Hello everyone, I'm his assistant Lynette." The girl also took off her hat, and her voice was much calmer than that of the boy.
Not surprisingly, she has a pair of cat ears on her head that match the color of her hair, and they are very cute and fluffy.
"When I saw the billboard outside saying there was a magic show, I guessed it was them!"
The sound of surprise from the guests came from upstairs.
Soon seeing these two magicians appear, both upstairs and downstairs were talking about it, and most of them were surprised to see their magic performances.
"Is it just the two of them who will perform the magic show at noon today, I can see that everyone is very surprised, could it be that they are very famous in Fontaine?"
Paimon looked at Charlotte and asked his doubts.
Charlotte, as a big reporter at Fontaine, naturally knows very well about these two of Fontaine's best magicians.
She smiled and explained to a few people:
"Lynny and Lynette are very good magicians, and every magic show makes the audience feel incredible, and every time they perform a new magic trick, they don't get tired at all.
"That's why they're one of the most famous magicians in Fontaine!"
"W-Is this so powerful?" Paimon hadn't seen a magic show yet, so he was interested.
Li Qiuzhi and Yingting Charlotte have great respect for these two young magicians, and they are also looking forward to seeing what powerful magic tricks they have.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is better to watch the magic show slowly and methodically.
"It's just that the order of ordering is in order, the dishes that come early are already ready, and those who come late still need to wait a little longer.
"And the guests who haven't served the food yet, obviously can't experience the fun of eating and watching while watching our performance."
"Then before the magic show officially starts, Lynette and I will bring you a cup of coffee, and I think watching the magic show while sipping coffee will have the same effect."
The boy named Linny puts his black top hat back on.
He suddenly folded his hands and rubbed them, and when he opened them again, he had an extra card in his hand with the image of a coffee cup printed on it.
"Oh? Is he going to take the coffee out of the cards? ”
Paimon said with some curiosity.
"Maybe, I don't know how he's going to make coffee." Charlotte replied in a low voice.
Ying looked at Charlotte, then at Paimon, and whispered as if she remembered something:
"Shhhhh
Hearing Ying's words, Paimon reacted and quickly covered his mouth.
"Okay, don't blink."
Li Qiuzhi saw the magician Linny over there, and reminded everyone to concentrate on the cards in his hand in words.
I saw him pinching the ear of the coffee cup pattern on the card with his fingers, and then he pinched the ear and pulled it out.
Everyone could clearly see the coffee cup pattern on the card, and it was really pulled by his hand!
Paimon's eyes widened, he didn't seem to have seen such a magical thing, the pattern printed on the card could be pulled by his hand, could his hand have some magical power?!
Compared to Paimon, who couldn't see the problem in a daze, Li Qiuzhi had a very good relationship between eyesight and hearing, even if he didn't perceive it with his mental power.
I also saw that there was something strange about that card.
There is really no problem with the right hand that is pinching the ear of the cup.
It's just that the hand holding the card has a transparent silk thread at the cuff that is thinner than a human hair, and it connects to the side of the card and slowly moves the pattern outward.
The principle is to make the card hollow, and the coffee cup pattern is actually a small card inside.
It's very thin, it can be pulled out very easily, and it doesn't wrinkle or anything.
The eyesight is only an ordinary level of people, and it is generally impossible to see it, and only people with better eyesight like him and Ying can see it at a glance.
It seems that he is not suitable to go to some magic show.
After all, as we all know, the magic of a magic show must be fake, if you really use some kind of supernatural power to achieve some kind of "real" magic.
People don't like it.
Watching a magic show is about magicians who don't use any extraordinary powers, and when everyone knows that it must be fake, they achieve extraordinary results.
That's how people feel incredible.
If people knew that you had a Vision and could control the fire element, and then told the audience that I could turn flames into the palms of my hands, it was obviously not a sense of expectation at all.
At this time, Li Qiuzhi is the same, because of his excellent vision and hearing, now watching the magician perform is like watching the magician fool people in a serious way.
Therefore, Li Qiuzhi felt that he was not suitable for watching magic performances, after all, he could see through the principle at a glance, and the sense of expectation was gone.
Linny, the magician over there, was still continuing his performance, and he continued to pinch the cup ear, and the moment he took it out, the coffee cup pattern immediately changed from the state of a piece of paper to a real coffee cup.
It immediately attracted a burst of exclamation from the audience.
Obviously, it's ridiculous enough that the printed pattern can move, and it can become real, which is really unthinkable.
Of course, Li Qiuzhi still sensed the magician's technique.
He just pasted the small card with the shape of the coffee cup in the palm of his hand, and then diverted the audience's attention and took a cup out of the cuff.
The cup isn't real, it's paper-based, foldable, tucked away in the sleeve, and popped out when needed.
The principle is quite simple.
At this time, the magician Linny first handed the coffee cup to his assistant Linette, and then rubbed a card out.
It was at this time that the magic assistant Linnie quickly replaced the fake cup with a real one.
Linny's card this time has a bunch of coffee beans printed on it.
He retrieved the cup, flipped it twice to show that there was no water in it, and then placed the card with the coffee beans on it on the rim.
Magician Linny shook the card, and the coffee bean pattern on it literally fell out and fell onto the coffee cup, and the next second it turned into a cup of hot coffee in public.
It's incredible.
Li Qiuzhi felt that the problem should be the magic assistant's changed cup, and everyone was paying attention to Linny's operation at that time.
Ignoring his assistant Lynette, the coffee cup she replaced looked empty, but it was probably just covered by a card that was about the same as the bottom of the cup.
When the paper of the coffee beans falls, the weight of the cup may change, and the card on the surface sinks, giving the impression that the coffee has suddenly appeared.
"So how can you let everyone drink it if you only have one cup?" Magician Linny smiled and took out a piece of black cloth and placed it on the rim of the cup, "Then let me make it a little more and divide it among everyone's cups." ”
"Pay attention to the cups on the table."
Magic assistant Lynette reminded.
The tables at the Debord Hotel are prepared in advance regardless of whether there is anyone sitting or not, and in addition to bowls and cutlery, there are indeed cups.
Li Qiuzhi and the others looked at the cups, and found that coffee slowly gushed out from the bottom of the cup, and finally slowly filled the entire white ceramic cup.
"This, is there a switch down there?"
Paimon picked up the cup in front of him in surprise, but he didn't notice any openings under the table to bring coffee up or something.
"I know that there must be some mechanism to do this, but I can't see it at all, so I'm curious!"
Charlotte also picked up the cup and touched the bottom of the cup, and then touched the table but found nothing.
Looking at that scene, you probably can't find the problem with just sight, and if you listen closely, you can indeed hear the sound of gears turning under the table.
If nothing else, it's true that the table is a problem, and many people should guess it, but no one would rudely break the table to see what mechanism was inside.
Of course, Li Qiuzhi still couldn't help but perceive it with his mental power, and found that there was a special design at the bottom of the cup, which could allow an iron pipe to stretch out from under the table top to bring the coffee up.
Then it doesn't flow back or leak out.
Because the position of the iron pipe is fixed, it can only be placed in advance, and if it is moved in advance, it will probably not succeed.
It's just that apparently the magic trick was relatively successful in the end, and everyone applauded the two magicians.
"Thanks, then let's start the official performance."
Magician Linny and assistant Lynette took off their top hats in thanks, then continued.
At this time, the dishes ordered by Li Qiuzhi and them also came up one after another, and the smell of meat wafted on the table, and several people began to eat while watching.
As time went by, about half an hour or so, the magic show ended, and Li Qiuzhi and the others also had a good meal.
After resting for a while, Charlotte, who had finished settling the accounts, took Li Qiu and prepared to continue to get acquainted with Fontaine.
Just walked out of the door of the Debord Hotel.
A few people saw the two magicians who had just brought a very amazing magic show to everyone, Linny and Lynette.
They were standing on the edge of the street outside, as if waiting for someone.
When they saw Li Qiu and them come out, the eyes of the two lit up slightly.
Change first, then change.
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(End of chapter)