Chapter 350: Chapter 251: The Invincible Right Hand
Just as Long Yi had settled down, one by one, short Red Dragon Knights emerged from the other side.
"Haha, in order to welcome our distinguished guests, I, Brooks, will perform a juggling show for everyone. What do you think?"
Brooks was quite short. Even in an ordinary crowd, he wasn’t tall, and among these towering Dragon Knights, he appeared even smaller. As soon as he appeared, a few of the Red Dragon Empire knights present couldn’t help but laugh.
"Hehe, those who are laughing now are no strangers to me. Everyone knows that my family has been in the juggling business for generations. If you’re juggling, your hands and eyes have to be quick, otherwise, accidents can happen."
As he spoke, Brooks pulled out three slender throwing knives from who knows where, swung around without even looking, and one knife stuck right on a Red Dragon Knight’s belt buckle. Another swing, and half of someone’s mouthful of food was knocked off. Then, another swing, and a knife was heading straight for Long Yi!
The knife moved extremely fast, Brooks had even surreptitiously added a little extra force, all in the hope of making Long Yi look foolish. Actually, the throwing knife had a very thin thread attached to the back, ensuring it would stop and return to Brooks’s hand the instant it touched Long Yi’s skin. But Long Yi certainly did not know this. As soon as Long Yi instinctively dodged, Brooks would pull the knife back, throw out a few sarcastic comments, and his task would be complete.
Of course, Long Yi didn’t see all these details, but Wesley did. Wesley’s Observation Technique was already wide open, his eyes and ears were on every detail in sync with the Observation Dragon’s eyes and ears.
Just as the knife was about to hit Long Yi, he suddenly raised his hand. The thread behind the knife handle was blocked by Long Yi, and at the same time, he spun his hand and the thread got wrapped around his fingers, and the throwing knife fell into his hand.
"Isn’t that considered cheating in juggling?"
Long Yi held the thin thread, letting the knife hang below, and spoke to Brooks.
"Hahaha, of course not, because this thing has a special way of playing!"
Having said that, Brooks gave a shake of his hand and the two previous knives flew back into his grip.
"I’m quite interested to see this special way of playing."
Long Yi tossed the throwing knife in his hand back to Brooks. Brooks caught it without making any obvious moves, and managed to grip it perfectly.
"Watch closely."
Brooks’s one hand trembled continuously, with the three knives spinning at high speed in front of him, forming a knife array. His other hand was shuttling back and forth through the knife array. Everyone could see the knives dancing between his fingers but never touching them.
"In the old times, jugglers had it tough! So they had to think of some little tricks to make money. For example, placing a gold coin behind the knife array, and then anyone could try to catch it by only paying one copper coin. As long as you are not touched by the knife array, you get the gold coin. Guests of the White Dragon Empire, would you like to give it a try?"
As he spoke, Brooks held up a gold coin in one hand and placed it behind the knife array.
If you observe carefully, you can see that the knife array is made up of two parts, one part is the thread, and the other part is the throwing knife. The gold coin is behind the knife. The thread is less dangerous, but because it’s near the center, there’s less space and you can’t directly get the gold coin. The knife area looks larger and gives you direct contact with the gold coin, it seems to give more probability, but it’s more dangerous.
While the damage of these mere knives against Dragon Knights is limited, it’s quite embarrassing to get hit.
"I’ll give it a try!"
A Dragon Knight of the White Dragon Empire volunteered, reaching out to grab the coin, but Brooks dodged.
"One copper coin, thank you."
The White Dragon Empire Knight’s face turned red. He turned around for help, and Long Yi threw over a small bag filled with copper coins.
"Let’s make it clear first, in our Red Dragon Empire, the current record holder only used three copper coins to get the gold coin, how many do you think you need?"
Brooks said, reaching through the knife array to take a copper coin from the White Dragon Empire Knight’s hand and placed it with the gold coin.
Then, the Dragon Knight observed for a while, then, as if he had confirmed something, suddenly reached into the area with the thread. Almost at the same time, the three throwing knives entangled his wrist, and the sharp edges of the knives cut through his uniform sleeves.
"One chance gone!"
Brooks shook his hand a couple of times, the entangled thread was completely untangled and the knife array formed once again. Behind him, the Red Dragon Empire knights cheered. At this time, no matter the size of the prize, victory is the key.
This is just for fun!
The Dragon Knight’s face turned even redder, and he took out a second copper coin. Brooks once again reached through the knife array to take the coin.
This time, the Dragon Knight was more cautious, observing for a good while before suddenly reaching toward the area of the throwing knives.
"Hiss!"
With a sharp intake of breath, the Dragon Knight quickly withdrew his hand. A narrow wound in the center of his finger, blood gradually seeping out.
"Second chance gone."
"Good!!" The Red Dragon Knights applauded once again.
The Dragon Knight became angry and took out another copper coin!
"Third attempt!"
"Fourth attempt!"
"Fifth attempt!"
"Sixth attempt!"
Ten times in a row! The Dragon Knight tried ten times in total but never succeeded.
