"The deeper your audience is drawn into the act, the more successful your performance becomes, and the more incense you accumulate."
The Engineer pointed to the incense within the Black Water and said, "You and the Blood Woman were deceived by me because of the presence of that incense. It indicates you're being deceived, so the two of you were not deeply immersed in the act, naturally causing your incense to be sparse."
"Oh, the deeper the audience is drawn in, the more incense I get... Is this a technical skill?" Zhou Xuan said.
"It is a technical skill. A con artist plays with wit and skills, using only the brain and a silver tongue to fool the dead into coming alive, make the rich become poor, lead a fierce woman to die for love, or make a talented scholar drown himself... Without the skills, it's impossible."
The Engineer added, "That was the first point; now let's talk about the second point."
