That was precisely why, if a Joy Fox died in a crowded place, there would often be a great many human corpses nearby, every one of them wearing a smile. It was exceedingly eerie.
Someone had once conducted a rather interesting experiment: they imprisoned a newly born Joy Fox and tortured it in different ways every day, wanting to see whether this would prevent any joy from erupting after the Joy Fox died.
The result was quite interesting. When the Joy Fox died, every living creature at the place where it was imprisoned laughed themselves to death.
It was actually extremely happy, having found pleasure amid suffering.
Simply put, it had been raised into an M-fox.
This result made many people realize that happiness was a highly subjective and personal emotion. Under normal circumstances, a Joy Fox's emotions would be absorbed by its body, making it difficult to sense its joy, anger, sorrow, or delight. Naturally, there was no way to determine whether it was happy.
Feng Wu's task now was to make this Joy Fox laugh on its own. The problem was that animals did not actually have smiling expressions. Many people thought animals were smiling, but that was merely a human misconception; some of it was also the result of domestication.
It was not that animals could not be happy, but that their happiness did not need to be expressed through an expression like laughter.
"Senior, do you have any ideas?" Feng Wu looked at Ou Zhizi and asked.
He had thought about it seriously, but his conclusion was that he had no solution. Even if the Joy Fox could understand his jokes, it would not laugh, so his methods held no meaning for it.
"Try a Maniacal Laughter Potion." Ou Zhizi thought for a moment, then took