Are You Crazy? You’re Telling Me This Is a Fugitive TV Show?

“Incredible, that magic trick is fantastic. An egg transforms into a flower in an instant. Amazing!”

“That face-changing performance just now was really impressive too.”

“Hang on, why is the legal education livestream showing this? Meanwhile, Big Brother’s own stream is still dark, not showing anything, but the audio is the same!”

“Could the performer on this stage be Big Brother himself? Really? He mentioned setting up a stage for a performance. Could this be it? The actual stage and show?”

“I’m ninety-nine percent sure it’s Big Brother. The program team wouldn’t broadcast this randomly. Plus, the audio in Big Brother’s dark livestream matches this. What is Big Brother planning?”

As the performance stage at Nansu Plaza was broadcast in the public legal education live room, viewers began to express their astonishment and curiosity. Many quickly pieced together the evidence and concluded that the performer must be Wang Yun.

“Hmm, is that Wang Yun performing on stage? He’s truly talented. If he entered the entertainment industry, he’d likely become a superstar. He’s got so many talents,” Liu Qingqing remarked in admiration.

“Being in showbiz would be a waste for him. Let’s keep watching. An exciting confrontation is coming up, and it’s uncertain who will emerge victorious,” Director Fang commented with a smile, anticipation evident on his face.

***

“Surprised now, aren’t you? Dear spectators, this is just the beginning,” Wang Yun commented from the stage, hearing the audience’s reactions and responding with a light smile. He smoothly maneuvered his hand, and suddenly, four or five eggs appeared.

“Alright, audience, who dares to catch these eggs?” He laughed and spun around, continuing to call out loudly.

“Over here, here!” someone from the crowd shouted, laughing.

“Okay, catch this.” Wang Yun tossed an egg into the air. In mid-flight, it miraculously transformed into a fresh flower.

“Wow!”

“That’s awesome! Big Brother, throw one to me”

“I want one too!”

The crowd around erupted in excitement, exclaiming and shouting loudly, each hoping to catch a transformed flower themselves.

“Haha, no rush, everyone, take it easy.” Wang Yun gave a slight smile, and with a flick of his hand, ‘eggs’ were tossed toward the audience members. Mid-air, they transformed into flowers.

“Cool!” exclaimed a young man who caught a flower, giving Wang Yun a thumbs up.

“Hey, handsome guy, over here, me, me, me!”

“Me too, me too!”

The crowd’s enthusiasm was ignited, voices rising and hands waving.

“Hey, aren’t you guys being a bit too eager?” Wang Yun looked at the audience, spreading his hands. “We have at least two to three hundred spectators here, right? Haha, but no worries, I’m about to shower you with gifts. Come on, staff.”

Standing on the stage with a smile, he extended his arms. Chen Wen and his wife, Hong Qianqian, were each holding a box on either side.

“Inside these boxes are 250 stinky eggs, for 250 people. Each egg has a unique number. These are magical eggs capable of transforming into flowers. But after you get your egg, hold still, don’t move or break it, because for the next part of the magic trick, I want everyone to join in. At the end, we’ll all turn the eggs into flowers together, okay?” Wang Yun’s voice boomed across the stage.

“Okay!” shouted the crowd in unison, their voices echoing through the venue. They were enthralled by Wang Yun’s magic, and he was swiftly taking command of the entire scene.

Seeing the enthusiastic response from below, he smiled subtly. His eyes swept across the crowd that had grown to more than three hundred and was still increasing. Given it was the city center, attracting thousands was no challenge.

He checked the time and resumed his magic performance. As a god-level magician, his array of tricks was effortless, each more astonishing than the last.

***

Meanwhile, near Nansu Plaza, Captain Hong Feng and six program officers swiftly arrived at the location.

Holding a communicator, he surveyed the surroundings and asked, “I’ve arrived. Has anything unusual been spotted near Nansu Square?”

“In Nansu Plaza, the situation inside is unclear, but outside, there’s a magic troupe performing,” reported the staff of the program team, where Wu Mingyu, Wu Yaoming, Wang Yue, and Jiang Youshan, the four team captains, were continually monitoring various locations, their expressions serious.

“A magic troupe performing?” Hong Feng’s eyes narrowed as he looked around, his gaze settling on a nearby magic troupe surrounded by a large crowd, and he headed straight there. The six program officers officers quickly followed.

Arriving at the back of the magic troupe, they observed the enthusiastic audience and the performers on stage, then shifted their attention to the surrounding area.

“Wang Yun is a lone wolf, without a gang. He only started preparing his revenge today, and I think he might still resort to stealing because it’s the quickest approach,” speculated one of the program officers.

Hong Feng nodded slightly, sweeping his gaze around without detecting anything out of the ordinary.

“Captain Wu Yaoming, when can the rest of the inspection team arrive?” Hong Feng asked through his communicator.

“They are already converging on Nansu Plaza,” replied Wu Yaoming.

After a moment of hesitation, Hong Feng said, “Have them inspect the Nansu Plaza Tower for any unusual occurrences. We have far more officers this time, and Captain Wu Yaoming, you know how to coordinate them. Let’s spread out and look for leads.”

“No problem,” Wu Yaoming acknowledged.

“Currently, our knowledge is too limited. We need more information. Wang Yun’s actions today are clearly intended to delay us,” stated Wu Mingyu.

Wang Yue nodded thoughtfully. “He’s the strategist, and we are the disruptors. We still hold a significant advantage. Our task now is to uncover his plot.”

“Let’s check other areas,” Hong Feng directed his team, and they moved on to explore different locations.

***

In the public legal education livestream, Shen Hao noticed Hong Feng on the screen. “Look, Captain Hong Feng has arrived on the scene, right next to the stage.”

“Captain Hong Feng hasn’t noticed Wang Yun yet,” added Liu Qingqing.

“Don’t just point to Hong Feng, anyone would have failed to notice. Who could have thought that a fugitive would be performing magic on stage and interacting with the audience? Plus, everyone perceives Wang Yun as a lone wolf, while setting up a magic troupe typically requires a team. Wang Yun now has a temporary small team, he’s effectively camouflaged. Besides, what crime could performing magic possibly constitute?” Director Fang interjected, his eyes sparkling with insight. The audience, reflecting on his words, nodded in agreement.

Who would have guessed that Wang Yun was behind the magic troupe? What criminal activities could a magic troupe engage in? These questions lingered in their minds.

***

“Who’s trying to target me, and why? Is it for money or something else? Since he didn’t report me, it must be for money, damn it.”

At that moment, a middle-aged man stepped out of a luxury car, his eyes scanning the surroundings rapidly, his expression filled with unease. Spotting a magic troupe not far away and checking the message on his phone, he headed straight toward it.

Upon reaching the edge of the crowd, he sent a text message: “I’m here.”

On stage, Wang Yun, who was performing, felt his phone vibrate. A slight smile played on his lips as his keen observational skills quickly located the middle-aged man in the crowd.

“Alright, alright, this magic act has ended. And now, for tonight’s grandest, most astonishing magic show, about to begin,” Wang Yun announced, his voice resonating across the audience. He then turned the microphone towards the crowd below, “Are you excited to see the next magic performance?”

“Yes!”

“You’re amazing, your magic skills are unbeatable!”

“We’re excited! Amazing!”

The audience below erupted in enthusiastic shouts.

“Great, great, but I can’t do this next act alone. Now, please welcome the sponsor of our magic troupe’s performance, my dear boss, President Shao. Come up on stage, President Shao, and stop looking at your phone.”

Wang Yun stood on stage, gesturing toward the middle-aged man, Shao Fengyun, the developer of Hu Mountain Residential Area. He was one of today’s two most important supporting characters and the first supporting character to take the stage.

“Huh?” Standing on the edge of the audience, Shao Fengyun’s face was a picture of discomfort as he stared at his phone. Startled by someone calling his name, he instantly turned his attention to the stage. What was happening?

“Come on, everyone, let’s make a path for my boss, President Shao, to join us on stage,” Wang Yun, noticing Shao Fengyun’s gaze, slightly upturned the corners of his mouth and continued speaking loudly.

The audience around them obligingly cleared a path. Some even began to applaud.

Shao Fengyun, with his face shifting through a myriad of expressions, stared at Wang Yun on stage, feeling as heavy if his feet were filled with lead. After several seconds of hesitation and grinding his teeth, he made his way forward. With the leverage in the other party’s hands, he had no choice but to comply.

“Hehe, let’s welcome President Shao with a round of applause and get a stool for him.” Wang Yun’s smile broadened as he watched Shao approach. Chen Wen promptly brought over a stool and placed it nearby.

As Shao Fengyun stepped onto the stage, his gaze was locked on Wang Yun. Coming closer, he growled in a low voice, “What… what are you planning to do?”

“Just performing a magic show for everyone. Please, President Shao, relax and take a seat,” Wang Yun replied with a smile, gesturing for him to sit.

Shao Fengyun, still eyeing Wang Yun warily, finally sat down. The moment he did, handcuffs attached to the table snapped shut on his wrists and ankles. His face changed dramatically as he glared at Wang Yun and bellowed, “What in the world are you up to?”

“President Shao, what do I want to do? I want to bring benefits to our audience, don’t I?” Wang Yun retorted loudly into the microphone, eliciting a unanimous “Yes!” from the audience, who were completely unaware of any plot and thought it all part of the performance. This made Shao Fengyun’s face turn even pale.

“The upcoming magic trick will surpass all expectations and will also be a huge benefit for everyone. The name of the trick is ‘Robbing the Rich to Aid the Poor.’ Next, I will perform a ‘Magic Heist’ right here,” announced Wang Yun, snapping his fingers.

At that signal, a video began to play on the large screen behind the stage.

It was a room captured by surveillance, complete with a time display matching the current moment. In the video, there was a massive pile of cash, about two to three meters high.

“Everyone, check your watches. Does the time match what’s shown in the surveillance?” Wang Yun asked, smiling.

“Yes!” came the chorus of responses from the audience.

“Now, do you believe I can extract the money from this surveillance video?” Wang Yun asked, pointing to his left and right, “Do you believe it? Do you?”

“No way!”

“If you can really do that, I’ll eat my words right here.”

“Wishful thinking, isn’t it? Are you planning to pull out the cash and use it again?”

The audience bantered, skeptical of his claim.

“You don’t believe it, huh? Alright then, let me show you ‘Money Extraction Through the Air’!” Wang Yun laughed. “But what should I do with the money once I get it? Right, I’ll give it to the audience here. Let’s see who will be the luckiest among you.”

“Me, me, me!”

“Me!”

The crowd below responded, laughing and raising their hands.

“Since we’re distributing benefits, fairness is key. Now, those with stinky eggs, hold them up so I can see your numbers. From one to two hundred and fifty, raise them for a fair draw,” Wang Yun instructed, gesturing to the side.

Chen Wen brought over a large bucket filled with numerous ping pong balls.

“Each of these two hundred and fifty ping pong balls has a number. We’ll pick randomly. Whoever gets drawn will join me on stage, okay?” Wang Yun spoke with a grin, moving to the stage’s edge with the bucket. “For fairness, we’ll have an audience member draw the lots. And to avoid any suspicion of planted stooges, let’s have some kids do it, okay? Kids can’t be stooges, can they?” He spoke while smiling, “Come on, we need a few kids here.”

“Son, go on, get up there.”

“I want to do it, I want to do it!”

Several children eagerly climbed up, reaching into the bucket.

“Okay, take one each and hand it to me. We’re drawing twenty in total,” Wang Yun directed the children, gently patting their heads.

Several kids one by one selected ping pong balls from the bucket. Wang Yun then took these balls from their hands. In the moment of taking them, he performed a quick change.

“Now, for those I call out by number, please come on stage, your grand fortune awaits,” Wang Yun announced, holding up a ping pong ball, “Number twenty-five.”

“Oh? It’s me, I got picked!” exclaimed a woman, seeing her number called, and loudly declared her excitement. She joyously made her way to the stage.

“Yes, that’s right, you, number thirty-six.”

“Number one-zero-eight.”

“Number fifty-five.”

…

Wang Yun continued calling out numbers, and quickly, all twenty ‘lucky audience members’ were selected.

“Alright, now that all our lucky audience members are here, you’ll each receive a bag to collect your fortune,” Wang Yun said, distributing several black bags with a smile. “Feel free to check inside the black bags and show everyone there’s nothing inside.”

The twenty chosen audience members, full of anticipation, took the bags and showed the empty insides to the crowd below.

“Now, ladies and gentlemen, prepare for the most astonishing scene you’ve ever witnessed, the birth of an incredible magic act. Telekinetic Money Extraction,” Wang Yun announced, rolling up his sleeves and approaching the screen.

“I’m about to begin extracting money. Do you believe I can make it happen?” Wang Yun asked the audience, repeating the question.

“We don’t believe it!” the audience shouted back in unison.

“Don’t believe it, huh? Well, let’s begin,” Wang Yun chuckled, showed his palms to the crowd, and then reached toward the video screen. As his hand entered, a hand appeared in the video.

“Wow!”

“Oooooh!”

“Is this even real?”

“Of course, magic isn’t real, but this looks so believable! How can there be no tricks?”

The audience erupted in amazement and disbelief.

“Okay, I’m starting the money extraction now,” Wang Yun declared, stretching his hand toward the video’s cash pile, which began to move. He pulled his arm back, and a thick stack of bills was visibly missing from the video.

“Wow!”

The audience gasped in amazement once again.

“Huh, where’s the money?” Wang Yun pulled out his hand, inspected his empty palm, and continued his flawless performance.

“Where did the money I just got go?” He continued his exaggerated performance, then added, “Oh, it must have gone to our audience as a gift. Miss, the money is now yours.”

Wang Yun pointed to a woman nearby, took the black bag from her hand, and opened it. The woman gasped, looking inside at the money in disbelief.

“Wow, it’s true! The money is really in my bag. I didn’t even see how you slipped it in,” she exclaimed, pulling out the cash, her face a mix of shock and delight.

“No way, how did he do that? I didn’t catch a single trick!”

“Unbelievable, incredible, this is magic!”

“Amazing!”

The audience at the front voiced their astonishment.

“Fifty thousand yuan, it’s really fifty thousand, and it seems like real money,” the woman continued shouting.

“Don’t be too excited yet. Next, we’re going to give a fortune to our second ‘lucky audience member,’” Wang Yun said, repeating the process, and a second audience member’s black bag now also contained fifty thousand yuan.

Meanwhile, Shao Fengyun, watching from the sidelines, was starting to seethe, his body trembling with agitation. He was utterly perplexed.

“What are you trying to do? What do you want from me?” Shao Fengyun, chained to the bench, couldn’t contain his anger and yelled loudly, shaking the chair vigorously.

“Mr. Shao, the magic act isn’t finished yet. Let’s continue distributing fortunes,” Wang Yun responded with a smile to Shao Fengyun’s outburst.

One second, two seconds, three seconds… Within a dozen seconds, all twenty audience members received their windfall of fifty thousand yuan each.

“This money is real! I work at a bank, and I can tell this is genuine cash,” exclaimed a young man on stage, holding up the money and shouting toward Wang Yun.

“Handsome, after distributing such gifts, could it be fake money?” Wang Yun smiled and responded to him.

“No way, is this actually real money?”

“Really, they are giving out blessings!”

“Wow, no way, is this for real? Twenty people getting fifty thousand each, that’s a million already!”

Shocked exclamations echoed from below the stage. The audience felt disbelief. How could it be possible to really give each lucky audience member fifty thousand yuan? That just seemed too unrealistic.

At this moment, Wang Yun addressed the twenty audience members on stage, “Everyone, this is what you deserve. Compared to what you’ve lost, what’s fifty thousand yuan?”

His words caused a moment of pause among the twenty on stage.

“To the twenty of you on stage, do you really think you’re just lucky audience members? In reality, all of you bought apartments in the Hu Mountain Residential Area, didn’t you?” Wang Yun’s eyes twinkled as he looked at them, his voice loud and clear.

“Yes, you… how did you know?”

“I bought my apartment there.”

“So did I, I did to.!”

The twenty ‘lucky audience members’ responded loudly, their faces a picture of shock.

“Not just you. Among the audience, are there many others?” Wang Yun scanned the crowd in front of the stage and continued.

“Yes, I am, Chen Wen invited me.”

“Me too, I am part of the homeowners’ rights protection group. They even promised me two hundred yuan to play a role here.”

“Same here, me too!”

Dozens of voices from below the stage, eyes wide with astonishment, shouted out.

“Exactly, you are all victims of the unfinished Hu Mountain Residential Area project. And this man,” Wang Yun said, pointing at Shao Fengyun, his tone icy, “is the bankrupt developer who claimed financial crisis, yet has over a hundred million in cash hidden at his home, Shao Fengyun.”

“What are you going to do? What do you want from me? You bastard!”

As Wang Yun finished speaking, the crowd was still processing the revelation, but Shao Fengyun, shackled to a chair, reacted vehemently, shouting and seething with rage. His face was etched with horror. He was exposed, his secrets laid bare for all to see.

“Damn, the developer told us our complex was unfinished due to a financial crisis, claiming they were helpless. How could he have so much cash hidden in his house?”

“Was he the one who tricked us? Could he be the one who swindled us?”

“Damn it, that villain, did he really cheat us out of our money?”

In the next second, numerous audience members who had purchased homes in the Hu Mountain Residential Area burst out in anger, shouting their grievances. Suddenly, the atmosphere shifted dramatically.

“What’s going on? What in the world is happening?”

“Oh my goodness, what’s this all about?”

“What exactly is going on here?”

The remaining audience members were completely stunned. Was all of this real or fake? Was it a magic trick, or actual reality?

But the voices of dozens of angry people around them didn’t seem fake. They had also heard about the unfinished Hu Mountain Residential Area project. The angry and frightened expression on the face of the man known as President Shao didn’t look feigned at all. Everything seemed too real to be fake.

Could it actually be true?

Upon closer reflection, it was deeply unsettling.

“Everyone, please stay calm and collected. Today, the main purpose of our magic troupe’s performance is to seek justice for the homeowners of the Hu Mountain Residential Area. Next, I would like to invite my good friend Hong Feng to ensure fairness for all. Let’s call out for Hong Feng together, shall we? He will deliver justice to you,” Wang Yun observed the scene, a small smile playing on his lips.

He raised the microphone, calling out loudly, “Hong Feng!”

Holding the microphone towards the crowd, Wang Yun softly repeated, “Hong Feng!”

Despite being somewhat surprised by the name, all the audience members cooperatively echoed, “Hong Feng!”

Seeing the entire crowd responding, Wang Yun’s smile broadened. He had been controlling the whole performance from the beginning. Although the name Hong Feng was unexpected and familiar to them, they still followed. This was the power of control.

“Hong Feng!” Wang Yun called out again, amplifying his voice.

“Hong Feng!” shouted those who had bought homes in Hu Mountain Residential Area.

The rest of the audience, somewhat awestruck, also joined in.

“Hong Feng!”

“Hong Feng!”

The name Hong Feng reverberated across the skies of Nansu Plaza. And Wang Yun, slowly peeled off his exaggerated theatrical mask, revealing the third face he had recently exposed to the program inspection team.

Facing the program inspection team and Captain Hong Feng directly, this moment was explosive. Everything was explosive.

Yet, everything had only just begun. The performance was far from over; even more explosive developments were to follow.

Note. I made a mistake in the previous chapter it wasn’t a billion but hundreds of millions in the safe. If you’re reading this long after the chapters have been posted. The error was corrected. Also, please consider becoming a BadassMF member. It truly helps a lot.

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