The Abnormal Magician

Under Bai Ge's magnetic-field adjustments, his driving skills were pushed to their peak.

As he kept driving, the Chevrolet Bai Ge was driving was practically becoming a metal projectile in an electromagnetic rail, nearly turning into a maglev vehicle.

All the buildings and streetlights on both sides of the road were helping Bai Ge. The road was like a cannon barrel, allowing him to use magnetism without ever flipping over.

Bai Ge found the best shortcut and cut directly through a pedestrian street.

However, there were automatic bollards at both ends of the pedestrian street.

"Looking to die!"

"Raise the roadblock!"

To stop the Chevrolet, the automatic bollards at the intersection ahead rose directly from the road. A police car was parked sideways behind them, blocking the entire street.

The roadblocks were like several steel front teeth. If the Chevrolet crashed into them at full speed, both the car and its occupants would certainly be destroyed.

However, the Chevrolet did not slow down at all and charged straight toward them.

The roadblocks could be controlled remotely. Bai Ge directly downloaded the same control command and lightly tapped his laptop, causing the roadblocks to lower automatically.

The police behind them froze and hurriedly dodged to both sides.

The Chevrolet smashed into the police car parked across the road, sending it tumbling into the air.

Its rear end rose high. Because it was moving too fast, the entire car spun around, but it ultimately landed on all four wheels and continued forward steadily.

After another miraculous flip, the police could only watch helplessly as Bai Ge sped away.

"What happened? Who lowered the roadblocks?"

"The equipment changed the command automatically."

The police officer frowned. Recalling the green lights earlier, he immediately realized that the driver possessed highly advanced electronic and information technology.

"Shut down the control console! Use manual roadblocks!"

Soon, Bai Ge discovered police cars blocking the roads everywhere, using relatively primitive spike strips or manually raising the bollards.

The Chevrolet charged straight through, completely ignoring the roadblocks. He dodged the bollards and skimmed over the spike strips.

There came a series of bangs. The tires burst, sending sparks flying everywhere.

Yet the chassis remained stable. Even with its tires blown out, the car actually accelerated!

The police were desperate. This was the most ferocious driver they had ever seen.

"We're almost there!" Shao Yuan reminded him from the passenger seat.

By now, Bai Ge had taken control of all the surveillance cameras in the district and soon found the camera covering Bai Ye's location.

"Malak's Magic Theater?" Bai Ge could only find the camera at the intersection. He could not hack into the theater itself because it had no surveillance network connected to the outside.

"We can't drive there directly. We have to shake off the pursuers first, right?" Shao Yuan said.

Bai Ge nodded. Of course, he could not lead such a large group of police officers there.

He suddenly wrenched the steering wheel and cut into a nearby parking lot.

At that moment, Bai Ge discovered in the police system that he had been wanted.

Even the television station had sent vehicles to pursue him, and there was even a helicopter broadcasting the chase live.

Soon, he brought up a channel on the computer. It was a television station's live broadcast, tracking a yellow Chevrolet speeding through the streets late at night.

"America... what a pain..."

They had to report on everything. Even a street race warranted a helicopter filming it, broadcasting a live police-and-robber chase to the public.

Bai Ge shook his head and decisively hacked into the television station.

The studio was connected to the live scene and the broadcast was in full swing when it suddenly went black. Every instrument shut down.

"What happened?"

"A power outage?"

"Why did it have to happen now..."

The power to the entire television station building suddenly tripped. Bai Ge had taken control of every circuit breaker, plunging the station into darkness.

Not only that, but the street where the Chevrolet was driving also lost power. The streetlights and buildings on both sides all went dark.

"Beep, beep, beep, beep..."

Wherever the car drove, the lights there went out.

In the night, the road became extremely dark.

"Why are we going to the parking lot?" Shao Yuan asked.

At that moment, Bai Ge charged into the parking lot and headed straight for a garage.

The garage door was opening automatically, as if welcoming him.

From far away, the Chevrolet began to spin because its tires were already ruined. Sparks flew from beneath every sliding tire.

Trailing sparks and flashes of light, it charged into the garage.

"Get our things!"

After Bai Ge finished speaking, he got out of the car. The moment he stepped down, the cameras in the garage broke, as if crushed by some invisible force.

He casually closed the garage door. Shao Yuan also got out with their belongings and headed straight for the back door.

"Bai Ge, the door is locked!"

Police sirens blared outside. Shao Yuan was both excited and thrilled.

Bai Ge strode over and pushed open the locked door.

The two of them rushed out of the garage and sprinted into the distance, using the darkness caused by the massive blackout as cover.

Only after they had left did the police finally arrive and urgently surround the garage.

"Get that door open!"

Once the police forced open the garage door and saw the battered Chevrolet inside, one of them shouted, "Come out!"

However, there was no one in the car. By the time they realized this and tried to search for the people, Bai Ge and Shao Yuan were already far away.

"Did anyone capture his appearance?"

"No. The equipment across several blocks was interfered with. Everything was static. We can't tell yet whether it was a hacker attack or electromagnetic interference."

"No one got a clear look?"

"It happened too fast. I only saw a little. He had a computer beside the steering wheel, and that face... it looked like Doraemon..."

"What Doraemon? Are your eyes playing tricks on you?"

The police were furious. The driver had displayed astonishing technology while also hacking into their systems.

More importantly, he had gotten away! They had not even seen his face clearly.

Bai Ge did not care that he had sped through the streets late at night or even been wanted.

The car did not belong to him anyway. He had destroyed all the surveillance equipment, caused a massive blackout, and left without a trace.

In fact, Bai Ge could even paint his face on the spot.

The method was simple: using his imagination, he could seep paint and some adhesive material out through his face to cover it.

He did not have to worry about being unable to wash it off. When he wanted to return to normal, he only had to absorb the paint back into his imagination space through his face.

Earlier, to prevent anyone from seeing him, his entire face had been painted blue and white. He looked like the blue-and-white cat-faced Ding Dang.

When escaping the garage, he removed the makeup and returned to his own appearance.

"Bang!"

A performance was underway inside Malak's Magic Theater. Bai Ge directly pushed open the door behind the audience seats.

Aside from a few people who noticed him barging in, the other audience members were focused intently on the performance onstage.

Bai Ge quickly scanned the entire theater and shared the information with Ding Dang. He soon found Bai Ye.

"Fifth row, ninth seat from the left," Ding Dang said.

Seeing that his younger sister was engrossed in the performance, Bai Ge let out a sigh of relief. It seemed that there was no immediate danger.

"We seem to have overreacted. Although Bai Ye is close to the anomaly, she doesn't seem to be in danger," Shao Yuan said.

Bai Ge neither agreed nor disagreed. He took out his phone and looked at the anomaly map.

The red dot was very close to them, seemingly right onstage.

A magic performance was taking place onstage, with only one masked magician.

Bai Ge shifted his attention to the stage, and his expression immediately turned solemn.

The magician's performance was astonishing. He opened a flashlight and fixed it to the table.

A beam of light immediately stretched across the space in front of him.

He first waved his hand back and forth through the beam. He even played with shadow puppets, making various animal shadows appear on the curtain to the side.

As if to make everyone even more certain that there were no hidden wires in the beam, he walked from behind the beam to the front of it, then walked back again.

At that moment, the magician suddenly crouched down and then leaped up.

Thunderous applause erupted from below the stage. The magician had jumped onto the beam of light. The light cast by the flashlight was like a solid horizontal beam, supporting the magician's weight.

The magician smiled as he stepped on the light. As if walking across a tightrope, he took several steps along the direction of the beam.

"OMG!"

"Incredible!"

The audience was incredibly excited and applauded wildly.

However, the magic act was not over. Standing on the beam of light, he had his assistant push out a huge transparent glass tank filled with water.

The magician leaped and landed directly on the surface of the water. He then crouched down and washed his hands in the tank.

He stood up next and danced on the surface of the water. The surface seemed to be struck, sending ripples splashing outward.

After that, he had his assistant push out a carpet. There was nothing on it, but the assistant then set it on fire, and flames more than a foot high rose from it.

Finally, the magician gathered his strength on the surface of the water and jumped straight toward the burning carpet.

It was as if he had stepped on something in the flames, allowing him to make a second jump before finally landing on the ground.

He spread his arms and enjoyed the thunderous applause as countless people shouted for him.

Bai Ge looked puzzled and exchanged a glance with Shao Yuan.

Shao Yuan said, "Is this magic or an anomaly? Maybe there are hidden wires in the props?"

Bai Ge shook his head. "There's nothing there. He stepped on the beam of light, the surface of the water, and the flames. He really did step on them. When he jumped onto the flames, I clearly saw them being pressed down slightly."

Bai Ge's magnetic field could detect whether there were wires. Unless they were made of some special material, this definitely was not magic.

But since the anomaly map showed a red dot here, it was almost certainly a supernatural ability.

Shao Yuan trusted Bai Ge unconditionally and nodded. "Should we make a move?"

Bai Ge looked toward his sister and said, "No. Bai Ye is here. I'll get her out first..."

"I can accept a magician stepping on water and fire, but stepping on a beam of light... that's too unbelievable."

"At best, he can only levitate. If he can truly step on light, then he might be able to kick light away and disrupt vision and electromagnetic waves."

"It might even... allow light to exert force on him!"

"Seriously... using an anomaly to perform magic? What was he thinking?"

P.S.: Getting married is such a hassle. There's so much to deal with. If only I could have someone else get married in my place.