Twenty minutes later, Lin Ye arrived at the auditorium entrance of Jinghai University of Science and Technology.
When he arrived, there were already many people in the auditorium, and among them, he saw the guy who had played the guitar earlier and the male student who had performed with the broadsword.
Needless to say, they were all there for the rehearsal, just like him.
Besides them, there was a group of student association members wearing work badges on their chests.
At this moment, a tall girl with a high ponytail and glasses was holding a list and calling out names one by one.
“Zhou Yuxuan from Finance Class 3, are you here?”
As soon as the girl finished speaking, the male student who had been singing and playing the guitar on the sports field earlier raised his hand and walked up to her.
“Yes, I am.”
“You’re planning to perform a song and play, right?” the tall girl asked while looking at the form in her hand.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“What’s the song title?”
“The Rainy Season of Seventeen.”
“Then, would you mind playing a section? Because our rehearsal time is quite limited this time, we need to ensure the quality of the performance.”
“No problem.” As he spoke, Zhou Yuxuan picked up his guitar and found a stool nearby to sit down.
Before long, his melodious and youthful singing filled the auditorium.
After he finished playing, the tall girl’s expression immediately brightened, and the other people present applauded repeatedly.
“Thank you, Student Zhou. With your singing ability, you only need to come for one collective rehearsal. We will notify you then.”
“Okay, can I leave now?”
“Yes, you may.”
After Zhou Yuxuan left with his guitar, many girls in the audience were still whispering, evidently charmed by him.
At this point, the tall girl continued calling names.
“Sun Zheyuan from Finance Class 1.”
“Here!”
...
As she called out names, students who had signed up for the Freshman Party came onto the stage one after another.
While reporting their respective performances, they also didn't forget to give a small demonstration.
Lin Ye, watching these demonstrations from below the stage, suddenly felt a hint of relief.
“This school truly has hidden talents; everyone possesses extraordinary skills. If I had gone on stage with my previous level, I would most likely have been laughed at.”
“Also, I need to think about what magic trick to perform on stage. At the very least, it needs a name.”
After some thought, Lin Ye had an answer in his mind.
Just then, the tall girl from the school's Student Union Arts Department suddenly called out his name.
“Lin Ye from Civil Engineering Class 1.”
Hearing his name, Lin Ye responded loudly like the others and walked onto the stage.
“Lin Ye, I see on the registration form that you signed up for a magic trick, correct?”
The girl first glanced at the form in her hand, then looked at Lin Ye and asked.
“That’s right, it’s a magic trick,” Lin Ye nodded.
“It’s like this: because magic tricks are quite time-consuming, and we also have another student who signed up for a magic trick, we need to see both of your magic tricks and then choose the one with better stage effects.”
“You should be able to understand this, right?”
“Someone else also signed up for magic?” Lin Ye asked in surprise.
“Yes,” the tall girl said, then called out to the audience.
“Meng Qiqi from Business English Class 2, are you here?”
As soon as the girl finished speaking, a cold female voice came from the audience.
“Here.”
The next second, a coolly dressed, short-haired girl walked onto the stage.
“Student, this is her. She also signed up for a magic trick, just like you. Now we need to choose one between the two of you,” the tall girl said, sounding a bit embarrassed.
Lin Ye nodded upon hearing this.
“I understand.”
“What’s there to say? It’s definitely whoever is better between us. I’m certainly not going to let him have it,” the short-haired girl named Meng Qiqi said, her hands in her pockets, looking at Lin Ye with a haughty expression.
“Hey, dare to compete with me?”
“How do we compete?” Lin Ye asked curiously.
“Each of us performs a magic trick on the spot, and then the people present vote by raising their hands.”
“Okay,” Lin Ye nodded.
“Alright then, do you have any magic props with you?”
“I suppose so,” Lin Ye thought for a moment and replied. How could the system backpack not count as magic props?
“Who goes first?”
“You go first.”
“Then I won’t be polite.” With that, Meng Qiqi walked to the edge of the stage and began her magic performance in front of everyone present.
She first took out a handkerchief and shook it gently, and the handkerchief turned into a magic wand.
Then, she conjured a deck of cards out of thin air in her hand and performed a series of fancy card tricks.
Although these magic tricks were often seen on television, Meng Qiqi's skillful execution, coupled with the fact that she was only a university student, directly astonished the university students present, eliciting continuous gasps.
Finally, she concluded with a trick of transforming cards into money.
Immediately, applause erupted throughout the venue, and a proud expression appeared on her face, clearly very satisfied with her performance.
After she returned to Lin Ye’s side, she whispered, “It’s your turn.”
“Okay.” After Lin Ye nodded, he also walked to the edge of the stage, just like her.
Looking at the hundreds of people below, he suddenly smiled.
“Hello everyone, my name is Lin Ye. Actually, I don’t know magic, and I’m not a Magician.”
As soon as he said this, everyone present was stunned.
No one expected him to say something like that until he spoke the next sentence.
“Because I am a Mage, and all I know is magic.”
The crowd, who had just been bewildered, immediately burst into laughter upon hearing this sentence.
“You all probably don’t believe me, so I’ll show you my magic.”
“As everyone knows, as Mages, we need to carry many magic tools, and these magic tools are all stored in our magic pockets.”
“Our magic pockets can hold many things and can never be filled.”
As he spoke, he patted his pants pocket.
“By the way, everyone has their phones with them, right?”
The crowd below nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.
“Who can lend me their phone for an experiment?”
As soon as he finished speaking, a male student closer to the front voluntarily offered his phone.
“Okay, thank you, student. Now I will put his phone into my magic pocket.”
With that, Lin Ye put the male student’s phone into his pants pocket, but in reality, he secretly put it into the system backpack.
“The pocket is still a bit empty. Let’s have another one.”
Upon hearing this, someone else from below immediately offered another phone.
Lin Ye once again followed suit, sending this phone into the system space.
“Still empty. This time, let’s have two.”
Feeling a bit curious, the crowd immediately offered two more without a word.
At this point, they still didn’t find anything particularly miraculous about this magic trick.
Until Lin Ye put in the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth phone into his pocket...
He put more than 20 phones into his pants pocket in a row, yet his pocket didn't bulge even a little.
This result directly stunned the audience below, and even Meng Qiqi, who was on stage, looked dumbfounded.
The magic tricks she performed all used special magic props; there was no way she could do it empty-handed like Lin Ye.
She racked her brain but couldn’t figure out where Lin Ye had made those phones disappear to.
Just as she was perplexed, Lin Ye suddenly spoke again.
“Oh no, my magic pocket seems to have a bit of a problem. The exit of the magic pocket is connected to another place.”
“Don’t worry, everyone, I will definitely help you find your phones. I’ve already sensed it; the exit of the magic pocket is in the bag that Meng Qiqi is carrying.”
At these words, Meng Qiqi’s eyes widened instantly.
“How is that possible? When did those phones get into my bag?”
“My senses won’t be wrong. Those phones are in your bag. You’ll know if you let me search it,” Lin Ye said with a smile.
“Alright then, go ahead and search.” Meng Qiqi had an indifferent expression and directly handed her shoulder bag to Lin Ye.
Lin Ye, without ceremony, unzipped it, then reached his hand inside, pretending to search.
“Oh? Found it!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled out a phone from the bag.
Then came the second, the third, the fourth...
Soon, all the phones he had just put into his pants pocket were retrieved from Meng Qiqi’s bag.
Meng Qiqi, witnessing this scene with her own eyes, looked as if she had seen a ghost.
However, after Lin Ye returned all the phones to their owners, a girl anxiously said:
“My phone hasn’t been returned to me yet.”
Upon hearing this, Lin Ye immediately slapped his forehead.
“Oh no, there must have been a spacetime anomaly just now. Your phone might have been lost in the spacetime anomaly.”
Upon hearing this, the girl immediately became anxious.
“Then what should I do?”
“It’s alright, I have another magic spell that can help you retrieve your phone from the spacetime anomaly, but you need to come closer to me, and you also need to silently call out to your phone in your heart, and it will naturally return to your side.”
The girl, bluffed by Lin Ye, was stunned and immediately walked to the front of the stage, less than half a meter away from Lin Ye.
At this moment, everyone in the audience had their eyes fixed on Lin Ye and the girl. They were all very curious about how this magic trick would proceed and in what way the girl's phone would reappear.
Just then, Lin Ye suddenly let out a long breath.
“Alright, through your summons and my magic, your phone has successfully returned to your hand. Check if it’s in your pocket.”
As soon as he said this, the girl immediately reached for her pocket.
The next second, her expression immediately changed. In front of everyone present, she actually pulled out her own phone from her pocket.
“My phone really came back!”
In an instant, the entire venue erupted in an uproar.