The first World Cultural Exhibition had come to an end. When Josiah returned to the Hearthstone Tavern from the Crystal Palace, night had already shrouded the entirety of Noland.
The first thing Josiah did when he returned to the Hearthstone Tavern was to open the 'Orange Cat Simulator' or 'Orange Cat's Invasion' program and play it.
Josiah controlled Orange Cat to jump from the dusty floor to a stone table.
There were many glass bottles on the table. From their shape, it seemed like they were used to contain some kind of potion.
Josiah controlled Orange Cat to turn one of the bottles with its paw. There was a label on the surface of the bottle.
"Joy Mixture Raw Materials."
Josiah read out the words on the label. Fortunately, the Grey Fog Continent also used the common language of the continent.
"Joy Mixture? Doesn't sound like anything good. "
Hiri moved a chair to sit beside Josiah and rubbed her eyes.
A cat's perspective was completely different from a human's, so the images on Josiah's Weave interface would cause discomfort to the human's eyes.
"There's no other description on it?"
Josiah controlled Orange Cat to jump from the stone table to the other side. This stone table happened to be next to the window.
The curtains covered the front window. Orange Cat used its paw to pull open a corner and saw the scenery outside.
"Is this a city?"
Hiri used the cat's vision to see the scenery outside. The scenery outside was a city shrouded in dark clouds.
The architecture of the city was similar to that of the Iron Nation. However, it was different from the Iron Nation's cities that were filled with vitality. This city was filled with desolation and deathly stillness.
There were still people walking on the streets, but most of them were dressed in rags and seemed to be in a hurry.
"I thought the Grey Fog would lock up all humans."
Hiri looked down at the streets. She even saw people dressed like law enforcement patrolling the streets.
"This is a cage, a huge cage."
The moment Josiah controlled Orange Cat to close the curtains, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open.
No … it should be said that he was knocked away!
The moment the door was knocked open, there was the sound of something being thrown onto the cabinet.
Orange Cat jumped straight to the highest point of the room, which was also the most inconspicuous place.
A muscular man grabbed a skinny figure and rushed into the room. Then, he slammed the skinny figure against a wooden cabinet filled with medicine.
The glass on the wooden cabinet shattered instantly, and the glass scattered on top of the thin figure.
Josiah controlled Orange Cat to stand on another intact wooden cabinet and watch the scene unfold. The man had two companions behind him.
"Heiwei! You'd better explain to me what you're selling me! "
The man took out a small glass bottle and placed it on the skinny figure's body.
"Of course it's the Happy Mixture …" The figure called Black Tail squeezed out these words from between his teeth.
"Happy Mixture?"
The man seemed to be angered by this answer. He opened the bottle and forced the liquid inside the glass bottle into Heiwei's mouth.
After doing all this, the man directly smashed the glass bottle on the ground. At the same time, he also 'smashed' Heiwei to the ground.
"This thing is just a pool of colored water! This is the first time you've deceived us, the Sewing Gang! If you do this again, I'll hang your head on my clothes! "
The man angrily kicked Heiwei's abdomen, then turned around and left the room.
"A bunch of survivors who have their brains overloaded by the mixture … they've developed a resistance to it … cough cough …"
After the group of people left, Heiwei struggled to get up from the ground. The moment he got up, an Orange Cat appeared in front of him.
"Damn it, I'm really unlucky today. My dinner has escaped from the cage!"
Heiwei stretched out his hand to grab the Orange Cat, but the Orange Cat nimbly jumped up, stepped on his back, and jumped onto the stone table.
"I have a lot of questions to ask you, Heiwei … Mr. or Miss?" Josiah said aloud.
"Damn it, a cat is actually talking? Did you drink too much potion and have hallucinations? Whatever … You little thing … "
Heiwei pulled out a dagger. Obviously, he was also in a state of rage.
But in the next second, the dagger in his hand was directly out of his control and floated in the air under the influence of magic.
"This is not your illusion. I'm really talking to you."
The Orange Cat squatted on the stone table and raised one of his front paws. Inscriptions of Order appeared on the tip of the Orange Cat's paw.
The dagger that was floating in the air instantly fell between Heiwei's legs. This scared him so much that he directly fell to the ground.
From Heiwei's surprised expression, apart from the fact that a cat could talk, he was more shocked by the magic used by the Orange Cat.
"You … What are you?" Heiwei's hand trembled as he pointed at the Orange Cat who was squatting on the stone table and looking down at him.
"As you can see, I'm a cat. A very unusual cat." Josiah did not want to be entangled in the identity of this Orange Cat. "Now, if you want to live, answer me a few questions."
"What questions?"
When Heiwei asked, his hand secretly touched the glass fragments behind him.
"Don't do useless things!"
Hiri saw through his actions first and directly controlled the Orange Cat to pile the scattered glass fragments on the ground with Inscriptions of Order on the other side.
"I won't do it again. And why does your voice sound so …"
Heiwei, who was seen through, immediately raised his hands.
"That's not important! Answer my first question. "Josiah once again took back control of the Orange Cat from Hiri's hands.
Josiah looked at it through the magic net interface. It had short flaxen hair and light green pupils. There were no other characteristics on its body that were not human. Due to the too much dirt on its face and the fact that it was slightly young, Josiah could not determine its gender.
"What is a Joy Mixture?" Josiah asked a very important term.
When Heiwei heard Josiah's question, a slightly surprised expression appeared on his face, followed by a sneer.
"Where did you come from, cat? You even have Joy … "
Before Heiwei's mocking words could leave its mouth, a sharp glass was pressed against its neck.
"Answer the important part," said Josiah.
"A … a drug that can make people feel happy and hallucinate. Every ten days … the lord will distribute it to the citizens in the city. Each person can only get one." Heiwei felt that the sharp glass was already pressed against its throat. It immediately told Josiah about the origin of this thing.
"One?" Josiah noticed the term it was describing.
"Yes … the lord distributes Joy Pills, but the effect of one pill can only last for half a day … You know, there are many people in the city who need more," it said.
"So you made an inferior one to sell?"
Josiah's words seemed to poke Heiwei's heart in a sensitive place.
"Inferior? I am the best pharmacist in this city, but those idiots from the Sewing Gang … ate too much! "
When it shouted this sentence, the glass on its neck fell to the ground.
The Orange Cat under Josiah's control also jumped from the stone table to the ground.
"So you rely on this mixture to make yourself happy?"
Josiah could basically confirm that the lord it was talking about was either the Grey Fog itself or the claws of the Grey Fog.
This kind of drug must have side effects, one of which was the withdrawal reaction. Without the continuous effect of the drug, the people here would be in a state of anxiety and despair.
It was indeed a good way to collect negative energy.
"What else can we do? The Joy Mixture blocks everyone's emotions … Only with this thing, this damn world will be a little more interesting. "
Heiwei said this sentence as if it was complaining, but it also seemed like it wanted to vent something.
"Block?" Josiah could see the dark Grey Fog surrounding Heiwei through the Orange Cat's vision.
The Grey Fog that eroded its consciousness had completely leaked out, which would also cause it to be in a low mood for a long time.
Josiah thought for a moment and pushed all the glass bottles on the stone table that had the label 'Joy Mixture Raw Material' on it to the bottom of the stone table.
"What are you doing! This is something that I traded my life for! No! "Heiwei saw the Orange Cat's actions had entered a state of frenzy.
However, the Orange Cat only raised its head and glanced at it, then used its little paw to push the last bottle of raw material to the ground.
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