Chapter 96: Happy Water for the Couch Potato
"So this is the World you two live in?" Katniss curiously observed Mo Fei and Mindy's home, like a country bumpkin who had never seen the World.
"You haven't brought her to this World before?" Mo Fei asked Mindy.
Mindy shook her head: "No."
"Their living environment is strictly controlled. If she ran away, not only would her parents and relatives suffer, but also her nearby neighbors… many people would suffer. So even if I offered to take her family away from that hellish World, she wouldn't agree."
Mo Fei understood Mindy's implicit meaning: she could only take her family. As for taking her neighbors with her… that was impossible. If this World suddenly had many people of unknown origin, even a small slip-up would cause Mindy to bear unimaginable pressure. She couldn't take such a big risk for Katniss.
After all, when they first met, it was Mindy who saved Katniss with food, not Katniss who saved Mindy with food!
Mindy could offer compassion out of sympathy, but it was by no means limitless, and Katniss also had her own persistence.
However, Mo Fei seemed to remember that in the Hunger Games World, she had a plan to escape, but the man with whom she had a somewhat ambiguous relationship, in a fit of passion, wanted to resist the government, so he refused, and thus she gave up.
Why could she think of escaping then, but now that there was hope of escape, she gave up instead?
Was it that the original World didn't have a strict collective punishment system, or was she already pushed into a corner at that time and couldn't care about anything else?
"I also once offered to bring her to this World to see, but she reluctantly refused because she was afraid that once she came, she wouldn't want to go back."
The World where the Hunger Games is located has an unimaginably terrible environment. Katniss and her people usually don't even have enough to eat, and as a child, she faced the crisis of starvation many times.
They also had to face high-intensity labor. The people of District 12, where they lived, all had to go down into the mines to mine!
Just being alive was a fortunate thing, let alone human rights or anything else.
Fortunately, after Katniss grew up, she learned a powerful archery skill, which allowed her to frequently supplement her family's income by hunting, thus pulling her family out of the predicament of starvation.
"Katniss, right? What happened just now was my fault, I apologize to you." Mo Fei extended his hand with a smile: "Shall we be friends?"
Although the Hunger Games is just a dystopian World, without extraordinary technology or magical superpowers, it is still a World suitable for human survival and has considerable value. Not to mention anything else, when the Director of Family Planning attacked the Marvel Universe Earth, Mo Fei and Mindy hiding in the Hunger Games World wouldn't be afraid of anything!
After all, the Director of Family Planning is only a single-Universe level powerhouse; his tentacles cannot reach the multi-Universe, especially whether the Hunger Games World connected by Mindy's ability counts as part of the Marvel Universe's multi-Universe is still debatable!
Katniss is, of course, the best stepping stone for Mo Fei and Mindy to enter the Hunger Games World.
So Mo Fei decided to build a good relationship with her. Hmm, it's definitely not that his old habits resurfaced and he wanted to hook up with the elder cousin, at least not solely to hook up with her.
Katniss looked at Mo Fei's outstretched hand, hesitated for a moment, looked at Mindy, and finally chose to accept Mo Fei's hand of friendship: "My name is Katniss!"
"My name is Mo Fei!"
Katniss, suddenly arriving in a strange World, clearly became a bit reserved, but also full of curiosity.
She sat on the sofa, huddled in a corner like a quail, her eyes fixed on the TV screen showing a drama.
In the Hunger Games World, the televisions were old, and generally used by the government for speeches or something. Dramas and the like simply didn't exist. They were enslaved like slaves. Want to watch a drama? You wish!
Mo Fei, sitting on the other side of the sofa, noticed Katniss's occasional glances, looked at himself strangely, and finally his gaze rested on the happy water in his hand, and he smiled: "Want a can?"
"No, no need." Katniss quickly refused.
Ignoring Katniss's refusal, Mo Fei directly threw her a can of happy water for the couch potato.
Mindy was cooking in the kitchen. After bringing Katniss here, Mindy went back to check, and it seemed that the government over there hadn't paid too much attention to the gunshots in the forest. After a round of searching, they didn't make a big fuss, so she decided to let Katniss, who wanted to leave, have a simple meal.
"Thank you!" Katniss curiously took it, mimicked Mo Fei's way of opening the happy water, opened it, sniffed it, looked at Mo Fei hesitantly, and took a cautious sip.
As soon as she held that sip of happy water in her mouth, a strange taste emerged on Katniss's taste buds, making her frown involuntarily, and she wanted to find a place to spit it out.
"Don't spit on the floor!"
Katniss found the trash can and spit it out in one go.
"It's happy water, and you can't drink it either?" Mo Fei said helplessly.
"The taste is too strange!" Katniss wiped her mouth, her small face all wrinkled up, apparently she really couldn't get used to this happy water.
Mo Fei thought for a moment and said: "Maybe when you first drink it, the taste will feel a bit strange, but if you drink a few more sips, you will definitely like it."
"This World once had the richest person in the World, and now also ranks among the top three richest, Buffett, an old man in his seventies or eighties, drinks five cans of this happy water every day. If he doesn't drink it for a day, he feels uncomfortable all over!"
"Then his taste is really strange!" Katniss shook her head: "Even if I drink plain Water, rainwater, or animal blood, I wouldn't want to drink this!"
When Katniss's family was extremely poor, she had indeed drunk the fresh blood of a Beast raw, and the taste was much better than this cola.
As time passed, Mindy's meal was ready, and it was time to eat.
It was very rich.
Katniss, Mo Fei, and Mindy toasted each other.
"Another glass, cola is really delicious!" She happily handed the glass to Mindy.
The 'It Smells So Good' theorem, a philosophical theorem discovered and proposed by the famous Chinese philosopher Wang Jingze.
It means that when a person swears and vows never to do something, she will definitely exclaim "It smells so good!" due to some causal reason.
The discovery of this theorem provides an important basis for human research on causality and lays the foundation for human behavioral science. To this day, no human has been found to escape this theorem, and it has gradually become one of the four essential human traits.
The influence of the 'It Smells So Good' theorem is so great that when the wheels of fate undergo an unexpected yet reasonable change, people always spontaneously utter that supreme truth:
"It smells so good!"