50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 570 Live Performance
At dinner time, Sun Hongying finally came home from get off work. She jumped and danced with joy when she saw the two of them.

Tong Jiajia had come back once last month, and she thought the two of them wouldn't come back for the New Year, but there was an unexpected surprise.

During the meal, Sun Zhiwei shifted the topic to Zhang Baosheng, and sure enough, the mother and daughter became excited, talking about qigong with great expertise.

Now, Sun Zhiwei was even more determined to take down that swindler Zhang Baosheng.

The next day, he returned to his unit to report for duty and then obtained all of Zhang Baosheng's information from Xu Yimin.

After reviewing the materials, he bluntly pointed out that this was a fraud.

Xu Yimin was still somewhat skeptical after hearing his assessment, since he had witnessed it with his own eyes.

"That can't be right. Institute 507 is a key national institution. How could they possibly hire a swindler?"

He didn't believe it at first, but after seeing the other person perform it in person time and time again, he had no choice but to believe it, since seeing is believing.

Sun Zhiwei smiled and said, "Boss, sometimes what you see with your own eyes may not be the truth."

"How about this, you won't believe me just because I'm saying this out of thin air. When is Zhang Baosheng's next performance? Let's all go then, and I'll expose him on the spot, okay?"

Hearing Sun Zhiwei's confident assertion that he could expose the other party's scam, Xu Yimin did not object.

"There are foreign guests who want to see his performance at the Beijing Hotel the day after tomorrow. They have offered him a very high appearance fee, so he will definitely go."

"An appearance fee? Isn't he now an employee of Institute 507? Is it now allowed for public officials to earn extra money in China?"

"He is special after all; special people deserve special treatment."

"Haha, boss, do you think this occasion the day after tomorrow is appropriate? There are foreign guests there. If he is exposed on the spot, will it have any negative impact?"

Xu Yimin hesitated for a moment before saying, "Okay, let me report this first and see what the higher-ups say."

Xu Yimin then made a phone call, and soon the feedback came back, approving Sun Zhiwei's on-site test.

Since the performance the day after tomorrow is a private event, a grassroots exchange, any problems won't be a big deal. The authorities can just step in and clean up the mess later.

Since that's the case, Sun Zhiwei and Xu Yimin agreed to go to the site together the day after tomorrow.

Sun Zhiwei also instructed him to call a few officers from the local police station to go over there together, so that if anything really happened, they could catch the person on the spot and prevent him from escaping in the chaos.

"That way, when we're done, we'll have something to say. We can say we discovered he was having problems a long time ago, we've been investigating, and today we just found a flaw in his story, so we came to arrest him immediately."

"Isn't this explanation perfect? ​​We allowed you to act recklessly in the first place because there was no evidence. We won't arrest people arbitrarily, which shows that our country respects the law."

"But once we have evidence, we arrest the person immediately to prevent him from having another chance to commit crimes. This demonstrates the efficiency and decisiveness of our officers, and we might even get some praise in the newspapers, wouldn't you say?"

"Oh, and remember to call the newspaper reporters over too."

Seeing that he looked like he was about to make a big scene, Xu Yimin was both amused and exasperated.

Sun Zhiwei could only guarantee him that he could catch the swindler red-handed.

This isn't just something he made up. Putting aside the fact that he has spatial vision, he can see through this swindler's methods clearly.

Even without the X-ray vision cheat, he had already received the program list for the performance the day after tomorrow. Zhang Baosheng was to perform three acts that day: bending a spoon, retrieving medicine through a bottle, and recognizing characters with his mind.

These three performances have been revealed in later exploration videos to be nothing more than illusions and magic tricks.

Those who don't understand find it amazing, but those who do can see through it at a glance.

This Zhang Baosheng isn't some real magic performance master; he's just an ordinary miner with a junior high school education.

He merely rode the wave of the 'qigong craze' and successfully gained fame by becoming the focus of public opinion.

The so-called research conducted at Institute 507 was nothing more than being studied by the scientists at Institute 507; it didn't mean that he himself had much knowledge or scientific literacy to study phenomena like superpowers.

It's already good enough if he can perform the magic trick completely, let alone with smooth movements and a natural expression.

He would need a long period of practice, and even a talent for performance, but he simply couldn't do that.

After discussing the matter with Xu Yimin that day, Sun Zhiwei went home.

During dinner, he asked Tong Jiajia and Sun Hongying to both take a day off the day after tomorrow and come with him to see 'Master Zhang Baosheng's' new performance in the small auditorium of the Beijing Hotel.

Tong Jiajia and her daughter were delighted to hear this. They greatly admired Master Zhang Baosheng and were eager to see him perform again.

The two of them didn't even bother to eat; they were already discussing what to wear the day after tomorrow.

Seeing their expressions, Sun Zhiwei became even angrier. That damned Zhang Baosheng, he'd teach him a lesson the day after tomorrow.

Time flies, and on the morning of the third day, Sun Zhiwei brought Tong Jiajia and Sun Hongying, who were dressed up in new clothes, to the auditorium of the Beijing Hotel.

He had the two of them sit with him in the front row, as he was about to expose Zhang Baosheng's tricks on the spot. Naturally, he wanted the two family members, who had been fooled by the swindler, to see clearly.

Soon after, all the visitors arrived, and Sun Zhiwei could see Zhang Baosheng in a small office next to the open space.

At this moment, he was still making final preparations for the performance. He had shooed everyone else out of the room and was tinkering with things by himself inside.

Through spatial vision, Sun Zhiwei saw with his own eyes how he placed various props in appropriate positions on his clothes.

Now, he's doing a last-minute, last-minute rehearsal.

Seeing his clumsy movements, Sun Zhiwei knew that he rarely practiced. Sun Zhiwei wanted to spit in his face. He couldn't even be a professional conman.

By this time, the small auditorium was already packed with people, many of whom had come specifically to see it.

The Beijing Hotel is not a place that ordinary people can enter. The fact that these people can squeeze in here shows that they all have some connections. This shows how far the qigong craze has spread.

Soon it was 10 o'clock, and Zhang Baosheng walked onto the stage surrounded by staff. He waved enthusiastically to the audience below.

The performance began soon after. The first act was retrieving medicine from a bottle. He was able to pour the pills out of the bottle through the bottle.

This trick is nothing special; you simply hide a pill in your hand, then hold up a sealed medicine bottle and shake it until the pill falls out of your hand.

From a distance, the performance really does look like pills being poured out of a sealed medicine bottle.

(End of this chapter)