Chapter 63 Open the door, please, it is the water meter inspector

Chapter 63: Open the Door, We’re Checking the Water Meter

Performing magic under the guise of a magic trick?

Looking at the staff member's puzzled expression, Lu Yu explained, "I'm not that petty. I wouldn't lose a hundred yuan and be unable to accept it, to the point of pulling strings just to investigate him. It's not that serious."

"The reason I asked you to investigate him is because earlier, I channeled true qi into my ears and eyes. Logically speaking, my observational and hearing abilities at that exact moment should have reached the limits of human capability."

"Yet even so, I didn't see the little ball move, nor did I hear the sound of it moving. That's not normal. Therefore, I secretly used my phone to record what just happened."

"Then, I played it back frame by frame. My phone is custom-made and shoots a full fifty frames per second. But even so, I found no trace of the ball moving."

Hearing this, the look in the staff member's eyes toward Lu Yu was filled with deep admiration.

"In other words, unless he can complete the transfer of the ball from one bowl to another within 0.02 seconds."

First open one bowl, then open the other bowl, then transfer the ball from one bowl to the other, and finally close both bowls while keeping their positions exactly the same as before.

Completing all of the above steps in less than 0.02 seconds is the only way to prevent Lu Yu's phone from capturing any valid information.

However, can an ordinary person achieve this?

Without cultivation, without spiritual treasures, without innate talent, relying solely on one's left and right hands, could anyone possess such hand speed? Lu Yu certainly didn't believe it!

Therefore, with a brief deduction, a conclusion was reached—this guy was performing genuine magic under the guise of a magic trick!

Did he not know that the Ministry of Magic explicitly prohibits the performance of magic in front of ordinary people? (Funny)

On the other side, the young man had happily returned home, taking out his phone and a calculator, joyfully tallying up how much money he had made today.

"Ten yuan!"

"Twenty!"

"Fifty!"

"One hundred!"

"One hundred eighty!"

"Two hundred sixty!"

"Three hundred fifty!"

"Hey, only four hundred twenty. If it weren't for running into that fool today who generously gave me a hundred in one go, I'd probably only have three hundred twenty. The audience these days is no good, too stingy. Next time, I'll change locations."

What the young man didn't know was that the recording function on his phone had been quietly activated without his notice long ago.

As for how it was turned on, it was simply too easy.

Android phones, as everyone knows, grant any mini-program a vast array of permissions.

Location permissions, camera permissions, recorder permissions, permissions for this, permissions for that.

As for why a tiny little program needed so many permissions, no comment!

If you didn't agree, it was simple enough—just don't use the mini-program.

As for the right to privacy? What was that?

In front of internet corporations, did privacy even exist?

And software that grasped the vast majority of mobile permissions wasn't just one or two; it was virtually all of them.

This was why many people claimed that when they mentioned cars in a chat, opening a certain web browser immediately resulted in pushed news articles about automobiles.

Was this big data?

No, this was stealing your privacy, monitoring your chat content, tracking your browsing history, recording your search history, and then pushing it to certain corporate entities.

What made it even more crucial was that the ones doing all this were ordinary companies!

As for whether these corporations had such rights, aside from the monitored and spied-upon ordinary citizens, who cared?

At this moment, the young man's muttering was being monitored by official personnel far away through this exact method. Furthermore, without the young man even knowing it, his browsing history from the past period and the traces he left on the internet recently also appeared before Lu Yu one by one.

Lu Yu observed very earnestly for a moment before drawing a conclusion: "Indeed, he is not normal. It is highly likely that he is an awakened supernatural being with an innate talent!"

"Six days ago, he suddenly searched for rainbows (colorful rainbows, one of the manifestations of spiritual energy appearing in reality) and patiently spent a full three hours reading related news."

"Five days ago, he directly searched for information regarding superpowers and supernatural beings."

"Four days ago, he began performing the Three Immortals Return to the Cave for the first time."

"Starting three days ago, he began frequently reviewing basic Daoist knowledge, even buying a set of the Daoist Canon online, and started following well-known Daoist priests through Douyin and Bilibili to browse and study related information."

At this point, Lu Yu put down the intelligence report in his hand: "What on earth are our intelligence operatives doing? How could someone this obvious not be placed on watch in advance?"

Hearing this, the staff member responsible for Lu Yu's safety hesitated to speak, stopped, and after lingering for a moment, said, "They probably can't keep up with the workload. After all, ever since the stars appeared in broad daylight, colorful rainbows have appeared all over the country almost every day, and there are all sorts of speculations among the populace regarding the truth behind these rainbows."

"The resurgence of spiritual energy is one of the most popular speculations among the public. Under these circumstances, the number of people buying Daoist canons and scriptures every day and following Daoist priests isn't just one or two, nor ten or twenty thousand, but starting in the millions."

How many intelligence agents would you need to thoroughly investigate tens or hundreds of thousands of people every day?

Hearing this, Lu Yu nodded earnestly: "You're right, I overthought it. If only there were an artificial intelligence—then we could design a program and let the AI handle it directly, the efficiency would definitely be much higher!"

A moment later, the young man heard a knock at the door.

Knock.

Knock.

Knock.

"Who is it?" the young man asked without lifting his head. He was busy, busy battling elementary school students in a game!

"Checking the water meter!"

"The water meter is outside the door, take a left, thank you!"

"Food delivery!"

"Delivery isn't safe, I didn't order anything. I've never ordered food delivery in my life, you must have the wrong person!"

"Express delivery!"

"Express delivery? Did I buy anything? Could someone be sending me a gift?"

With that, the young man got up to open the door while still playing his game. Clearly, his attention was still entirely focused on the game at that moment; otherwise, after going through the dialogue above, anyone else would have grown suspicious rather than just walking over to open the door.

"It's you? I wasn't tricking you! Besides, you tracked me all the way to my home just for a hundred yuan? Let me tell you, I'm a local here, and my uncles and aunts all have connections. If you don't leave right now, a single phone call from me will have you locked up in detention for a few days!"

"Zhao Yi, born in March 2000, graduated this year from a comprehensive university as a prestigious 985 graduate. After graduation, he took the national civil service exam, failed, and is currently preparing for next year's provincial civil service exam."

"Who on earth are you?"