"Are you really a god?"
Marceau looked vigilantly at the orange cat squatting on the table.
She used to guess that this orange cat was the incarnation of a powerful spellcaster, but Marceau couldn't believe it.
"Does it have something to do with it? You just need to know that I can help you create a bully and an arcade machine?"
When facing the leader of the sewing gang, Qiao Xiu did not fudge any more, and chose a more honest way to talk to her.
This woman named Marceau has lived in this chaotic city since she was a child. It is incredible that she can learn magic. Joshua doesn't expect her to believe in an ethereal god like the elder lizard.
"Then what kind of gray fog are you really going to purify and save the residents of this city?" Marceau asked another question.
"The front is true, the back... You think the truth is the truth, right?"
Qiao Xiu actually has no interest in pretending to be a ghost. After the preaching is finished, if the passers-by onlookers don't want to believe it, Qiao Xiu will not hold others to continue the mission.
Believe it or not, you will still be happy in the end anyway, and Qiao Xiu is too lazy to argue with this woman.
"I believe that you are God, but if I believe in you, can you help me achieve anything?"
Marceau sat back on his sofa and lit another cigarette.
"Wish? Do you want to play the sequel to The King of Fighters, or a new arcade game? Like Metal Slug, Knights of the Round Table, Dinosaur Kombat, etc. As long as you make a wish, I can help you realize it in the short term."
Qiao Xiu controlled the orange cat and spread out his two small paws, as if "God has mercy on the world".
"Game." Marceau muttered the word and then she walked to the only window in her room, through which Marceau could see the condition of the arcade hall below.
The sound below is very noisy, and the shouts from those who play in front of the arcade are mixed with various sound effects such as "fuel consumption" in the arcade.
Honestly…
"I haven't seen the residents of this city so energetic for a long time." Marceau murmured softly, "The existence of the Laughter Elixir makes us live in a dream world, and the real world is a corpse. What people in the city do every day is to fall on the street or sleep in their own homes, waiting for the date to be released for the Laughter Elixir."
"After all, you are not so much a resident as a domestic animal kept by the city lords."
Qiao Xiu spoke without any mercy. This woman named Marceau was a human being that Qiao Xiu met in this city with a more "alive" feeling.
The second is the Black Tail and the Sewing Gang, because they know they have something to do and a territory to take care of, and they have to compete with other gangs in the city every day.
But most of the city's inhabitants are just corpses.
"Livestock? You've been mentioning the lord of this city." Marceau shook the cigarette butt in his hand. "From your words, it seems that the lord of the city is not a human being?"
"I'm not sure if your city lord is... that thing itself, or that thing's agent, but one thing is certain, you will live in this environment, there is a monster, your negative emotions are used as food, despair , sadness, laziness... these are its food." Joshua told Marceau the truth.
"Negative emotions." Marceau suddenly laughed after hearing the truth. "No wonder this city... is so suffocating."
When Joshua and Marceau were talking, an unexpected situation suddenly occurred in the arcade room below. Two strong men from the sewing gang hugged a thin young man and were about to throw them out of the arcade room.
"I still have Eagle Claw Coins on me! I really do! Please let me play one more game and I can definitely defeat Orochi!" The young man prayed to the two strong men of the Sewing Gang.
Joshua watched the scene below and was silent for a moment.
"Tell your men to let him go," Joshua said.
"How can I let go, let these useless wastes stay here to occupy a place?" Marceau has always been unable to tolerate these self-deprecating people.
The orange cat just squatted by the window and watched Marceau, Marceau sighed and had to wave to the two strong men from the sewing gang below, they let go of the young man, the young man kept saying thank you, and in a blink of an eye Back to the arcade again.
"The city's financial system... in a nutshell, where did the money in them come from?"
Joshua looked at the people gathered in the arcade hall below. If all the people in this city were drinking the mixture of laughter, Joshua didn't think the city could continue to develop normally.
"Rationing, it may be captive as you said. Every resident can receive some food and eagle claw coins in the city, and eagle claw coins can be exchanged for clothes and laughter pills from the city owner. Of course, laughter pills are very expensive." Marceau said.
"In this situation, I really want someone to sing a Katyusha." Why did Joshua feel a little familiar when listening to this system
"What?"
"Nothing... the same thing, don't you want to change the status quo?" Joshua said.
"Change... How to change? Let my men go to war with the inspection team? Everyone in the inspection team has been endowed with terrifying power, and ordinary people are not their opponents at all." Marceau said.
"There is no need to start a war. There is a huge void under the city. That void is the site of the Quest Club. What are they going to do with it... I think you also know that the key is that there is an original spar mineral vein under the void. ."
This is the information Qianmian obtained during the reconnaissance, and this is also the source of the city's original spar.
"You always use the money you earn. What can you only buy from the city owner with Eagle Claw Coins?" Qiao Xiu asked.
"Clothes and food, and some daily necessities."
When Marceau heard this, she gradually sat up straight, and she began to take these suggestions from Joshua seriously.
"You also heard the discussion between me and the lizard elder just now, I... You think so, I am the incarnation of the god of order, and my next plan is to establish an underground religion in this city, but I don't think this is the case. People in this city would be too busy to believe in a god, but I have this stuff."
Qiao Xiu has a small overlord original spar in his hand. The sewing gang has begun to sell this original spar, and its potential customers are gradually increasing.
"What are you trying to say?" Marceau asked.
"The city master controls the inhabitants of this city with a mixture of laughter. We can do the same thing, but we are in the name of a god. These believers will join us because of this original spar or playing arcades. They are in the After joining, I will be rewarded with eagle claws or directly in game currency, and let them work for me. The content of the work... There is a lot more than mining."
At this moment, Marceau seemed to see a "stupid human" smile on the orange cat's face.