Chapter 602 - Market Economy (Before Dawn)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Disregarding the two suspicious characters, Zhao Yao contacted the Cat King of the North and commenced his ambitious catmint plan.

“F*ck, a chance at the lottery only appears in this catmint mission. Whoever gets in my way shall die!!”

Zhao Yao proposed his cat web publicity request to Cat King of the North. It was rejected straight away. The Cat King of the North had no time to do his own product advertisements, let alone other advertisements.

“Unless…” Cat King of the North proposed an unscrupulous deal. “You let Elizabeth keep me company for a night.”

“Sh*t.” Zhao Yao was furious. “You want to take advantage of my cat? Stop dreaming.”

Cat King of the North relented and said, “Then let Lizzie endorse my cat food, is that good?”

“Endorsement?” Zhao Yao communicated to Elizabeth, who was in the cafe, telepathically. He asked, “Elizabeth, do you want to endorse the Cat King of the North?”

Elizabeth immediately declined and said, “No way, he’s too obnoxious.”

Zhao Yao coaxed, “This is a good way to increase your popularity. On the cat web, there are lots of cat food advertisements by the Cat King of the North. If you become the official spokesperson, doesn’t that mean that they are your advertisements as well?”

Diana immediately persuaded, “That makes sense Elizabeth. Recently our live stream popularity has reached its peak. We are going to need more channels to advertise on.”

Elizabeth knitted her brows, feeling reluctant as she thought, “What if the Cat King of the North harasses me, what shall I do?”

“Don’t worry, I will protect you.” Zhao Yao said, “If he harasses you, I will castrate him. Yes, you can also help Dust Ball by endorsing her catmint. Hmm, we can also have a bundle sale with the supernatural cat food from Cat King of the North. I guarantee that you will be very popular.”

“Really?” Elizabeth opened her eyes, looked at Zhao Yao and said, “I can become the most popular live streamer?”

Mission: Elizabeth’s Ambition

Mission Objective: Let Elizabeth become Douyu’s most popular broadcaster with over millions of followers

Reward: 500 experience points

Mission Penalty: None

On seeing the appearance of a new mission, Zhao Yao accepted without hesitation. “Don’t worry Elizabeth, even if I need to spend a lot of money, I will make you the most popular broadcaster on Douyu.”

After thinking, Zhao Yao felt that Elizabeth’s live streaming platform was an even better channel. He immediately opened Douyu and found Elizabeth’s live streaming channel. He said with an expression of a local tycoon, “Elizabeth, when you live stream tonight, tell me. I will reward you with a hundred rockets.”

“Zhao Yao is generous!” Elizabeth opened her sapphire eyes, clasped her paws together and looked at innocently while she said, “Zhao Yao, I like you the most.”

Zhao Yao nodded his head with satisfaction and wrote down his plan on the computer:

Strike a deal with the Cat King of the North and advertise both catmint and Elizabeth on the cat web.

Boost the popularity of Elizabeth on the live streaming platform. At the same time, let Elizabeth publicize the catmint.

The main customers of the cat web are supercats. On the live streaming platform, besides supercat customers, there are also other ordinary people who are potential customers. The two publicity channels can complement each other.

If that is the case, some people may want to buy on Taobao and an online shop is required. However, most of the customers on the internet are likely not from Jianghai. It is of little use to the mission. The crux is still the local Jianghai supercats.

At this point, Zhao Yao immediately recorded his thoughts. “Publicity is done using both cat web and the live streaming platform.

Supply channels mean online shops and discussion with the cat kings of Jianghai. The online shops are of secondary importance. The most important channels are the cat kings selling catmint in Jianghai. They contribute the most to the completion of the mission.

Besides that, I have to deal with the competitor—the catmint from Big White cat.”

Zhao Yao summoned Bai Quan and assigned him the setup of the online stores. He created an online group with the four cat kings.

“I want to create a new set of regulations for Jianghai catmint. Who’s in favor? Who’s opposed?”

The four cat kings remained silent.

The Cat King of the North had just chatted with Zhao Yao and knew about his intention to sell catmint. So he replied first, “Not possible, do you know how many cats in Jianghai depend on this industry for a living? And now you intend to reset everything? It won’t be easy.”

The Cat King of the East, Milk, who was Uncle Ho’s supercat from the government, immediately said, “This will easily create conflict. It is better to follow market rules. Allow free market competition.”

The Cat King of the South, Li Li, said, “Zhao Yao, is Fish Ball at your place? I went to Xiaoyu’s place but I could not find him.”

The Cat King of the West did not respond, indicating his lack of interest.

The conversation did not last for too long before Uncle Ho called Zhao Yao and chided him. He had hoped that Zhao Yao would not create a fuss.

“Is this big news? I intend to share the world’s best catmint with the supercats in Jianghai! That won’t do?”

Uncle Ho rolled his eyes and said, “Zhao Yao, the amount of Jianghai supercats who depend on selling catmint for a living is too high. If you intend to compete fairly, we will not stop you. If you intend to dominate the market by using force, that will cause them to rebel. If Jianghai descends into chaos, you won’t be able to easily sell your catmint. Doesn’t sound that great, right?”

Zhao Yao nodded his head and thought that he had oversimplified everything. As of now, discussing with the cat kings and forcing them to sell his catmint was not a good solution.

“Okay, okay.” Zhao Yao replied, “I will not use pressure. As for the cat kings, I will approach them individually and promote my catmint.”

Zhao Yao thought, “With the superior quality of Dust Ball’s catmint if I lower the price a bit more, the cat kings will not be able to refuse to sell my catmint.”

“Then the only concern is Big White cat’s catmint.”

At this point, Roly Poly sent a message. “Zhao Yao, Lucifer is trembling.”

“Isn’t that normal?”

“No.” Roly Poly said perplexed, “I did not see him get injured. He just laid down on the ground and started shivering. He’s also drooling incessantly.”

“Huh?” Zhao Yao’s gaze froze. The catmint from Big White cat definitely had problems.

He immediately went into the toilet of a shopping mall and swallowed himself into the Extradimensional Belly. He arrived at the Cat Island via the Extradimensional Belly. Once again he was in front of the wooden house where Lucifer was imprisoned.

Before entering, he heard a series of meows.

Zhao Yao knitted his brows. He moved swiftly like the wind and extended his head to peep into the wooden house. Lucifer was on the ground and trembling incessantly, his mouth emitting meows of pleasure.

Zhao Yao immediately rushed in, looked at Lucifer and asked, “Hey, Lucifer, how are you?”

“Good… very pleasurable.” Lucifer looked at Zhao Yao and said, “All of a sudden, my whole body feels pleasurable. Ah, cannot stop!!”

Looking at the convulsing Lucifer, Zhao Yao’s expression changed. He immediately lifted Lucifer up.