Chapter 1068

Thor rushed over with lightning speed, stood by the door, and blocked Loki's attempt to pull the door open.

Loki stood outside the door, while smiling sweetly at Thor, pulled the door open with force, and said: "Dear brother, how have you been lately? I miss you a bit."

Thor pulled the door frame with the greatest strength, gritted his teeth, and said: "What trouble did you cause again?!"

"You really make me sad!" Loki covered his face with one hand, drooped his eyebrows and corners of his eyes, made a very sad expression, and then said: "Can't I come to find you for a chat without causing trouble? You know that in a few days it will be Christmas, this is a day for family reunion..."

"Who did you cheat again?! How much money did you cheat from people? When were you found at the door?" Thor asked like a string of pearls.

Loki pursed his lips, stared at Thor with sad eyes, and said: "Brother, in your eyes, am I a liar?"

"Yes." Thor answered without thinking. Loki's eye sockets gradually turned red, but Thor was completely unmoved. He pressed one hand tightly against the door frame, not letting Loki pull it open, and counted with his fingers with the other hand:

"In the past few weeks, I have received an average of more than 60 calls every day, all of which are complaints about your illegal sales, contract fraud, and simply cheating money!"

Thor's hand began to tremble a bit. He stretched out a finger, pointed at Loki's brow center, and said: "Do you know how much effort I spent to make these calls all go to me without missing one?!"

He gritted his teeth and said: "Do you know that if these calls had gone to the All-Father and the Queen, you should be lying on the bed unable to get up now! Even if Sif knew, you wouldn't want to raise your head for the next few hundred years!"

Loki stretched out an arm, raised it above his head, leaned against the door frame, and said: "Thank you very much, my respected royal brother, the great God King of Asgard, then do you mind adding one small, inconspicuous, non-threatening phone call from within the Nine Realms to the 60+ calls every day?"

Thor widened his eyes, looked at his smile, and said: "Who did you cheat again??? A phone call within the Nine Realms, my God, it wouldn't be Ancient..."

Thor looked back at the few people who were looking over here, and then said: "There are many people here, let's go back to Asgard and talk..."

Loki deliberately pursed his lips, raised both corners of his mouth high, and stared at him. Thor had a bad premonition. Sure enough, soon, the phone he placed on the table rang.

Thor didn't loosen his hand holding the door frame at all, signaled Peter with his eyes, Peter picked up the ringing phone and threw it toward Thor. Thor caught the phone, pressed the answer button, and Strange's voice came from the opposite side.

"Hello, Your Majesty Thor Odinson, this is Shi Difen Strange from the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Nine Realms. Now, I want to talk to you about your brother Loki stealing the Time Stone..."

Thor immediately widened his eyes and looked at Loki. Loki was holding a green gem and showing a brilliant smile at him.

"Wait a minute, Shi Difen!" Thor pressed the door frame tightly and then said: "Before you lent the gem to Loki, didn't you prepare some safety measures for him? I thought you were sure you wouldn't be stolen and swapped!"

"I prepared safety measures, but they were useless. Your brother is worthy of being the number one mage of the Nine Realms, an extremely excellent god." Strange answered very fluently: "Then, what do you think about the economic losses your brother brought to the Sanctum Sanctorum?"

"Wait! Shi Difen! Can the vocabulary 'theft' be discussed? Uh, Loki is the Prince of Asgard, and the Sanctum Sanctorum has contacted various forces in the Nine Realms. If this matter spreads out, for the reputation of Asgard, it is really a bit..."

Strange on the opposite side cleared his throat and said: "I have a second way of saying it here, which is a 'rental contract', but the terms regarding rent in the contract might be slightly harsh..."

"We will pay!" Thor gritted his teeth and said decisively: "As long as you don't mention Loki's name, you can name any price!"

After hanging up the phone, Loki shrugged and explained: "This is a trap, we fell for it."

Loki looked at the Eye of Agamotto in his hand and said: "When Shi Difen lent it to me, I did steal and swap it, but after experiencing multiple time travels, this thing is out of power."

"I can't use it now, but I still have to pay rent. I really didn't expect Shi Difen to be so despicable and shameless, being birds of a feather with Shiler!"

"Why on earth did you steal it?!!!" Thor shouted, raising his tone: "If you hadn't stolen and swapped it, wouldn't these things have happened?!"

He loosened his hand somewhat angrily and turned to enter the room. Loki, who was standing outside the door, shrugged his shoulders playfully and pulled open the glass door, wanting to walk in, but didn't notice at all the tiny black shadow flying toward him quickly from the distant sky.

"Bang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Stark looked at the hand armor that returned to his hand and Loki, who was hit on the back of the head by the hand armor part flying at high speed and fell directly to the ground, shook his head and said: "This is a typical item that the automatic retrieval system cannot identify—what a weak god."

Eddie leaned on the sofa, crossed his legs, took out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff, and said: "I thought of a great name for your battle suit—'Justice Execution', how about it?"

Loki lay on the ground, supported his body with his arms, but subsequently relaxed his strength, let himself lie back on the ground, and then said: "Tony Stark, if you don't come over to help me up within thirty seconds, just wait for me..."

"A threat with no force at all, right?" Shiler looked at Stark with a smile and said: "I'm already looking forward to tomorrow when Howard and Maria come to your room to find you, and just happen to see Loki lying on your bed..."

Stark stood up with a "whoosh." Finally, Thor and Stark walked to Loki's side and helped him up. Loki elegantly brushed the dust off his shoulders, smoothed his black hair, and then said: "Thank you, Doctor, only you understand me."

After speaking, he came to Shiler's side and sat down. The sofa, the sofa ottoman, the single sofa next to it, and the chairs were all full of people. A group of people sat around the small coffee table, turned on the TV, and the sound of cereal commercials came from inside.

Eddie took the Nordic candy Thor brought before from behind the sofa, opened the gift box, and it had already been dismantled into pieces. All the candies containing chocolate ingredients had been eaten by Venom, but several people didn't mind. Shiler picked up one at random, peeled off the candy wrapper, put it into his mouth, and then said:

"Have you heard? This year's Christmas, Nick intends to hold a ball. After all, we have been very busy for the past few years and didn't have time to gather together."

Stark pinched a round candy with two fingers, frowned, looked left and right, as if a bit afraid to put this thing with unknown ingredients into his mouth. He clicked his tongue and then said:

"The balls held by these old guys are all the same, wearing old-fashioned formal wear, playing old-fashioned music, dancing old-fashioned dance steps. If you ask me, it's better to rent a yacht and everyone can have a blast together."

"Then, the headline of the news the next day would be, 'Stark Group joins hands with S. H. I. E. L. D. to be extravagant, where is the road for taxpayers?'" Eddie fed a candy to Venom who drilled out from his shoulder, drank a mouthful of beer, and said somewhat vaguely.

"If there are no beauties on a yacht in your plan, later, I will tell Miss Pepper that your medical expense expenditure needs to be increased by one more item." Shiler showed a friendly smile and continued: "At that time, you will need a Loki to prove that you are not powerless."

Stark turned his head to look at Loki suddenly. Loki showed a brilliant smile at him and said: "Paid service."

Stark let out a deep sigh, as if he really couldn't stand these few profiteers who could play along at any time.

"If you ask me, we should hold a competition." Thor ate a large bag of potato chips with a "crunch crunch" sound. He proposed: "Besides us few acquaintances, aren't there many kids who have received training for a period of time at Matt's place? And that group of mutants, bring them all over. It's time to test the bottom of these young heroes..."

Loki next to Thor hurriedly moved his chair to the side, as if wanting to pretend not to know him. He fiddled with the Eye of Agamotto in his hand and said: "I actually feel that this year's celebration activities should be led by Asgard to hold. After all, since Thor succeeded to the throne, the Nine Realms haven't held any large-scale activities yet."

"Rather than that, when do you plan to hold your coronation ceremony?" Shiler asked Loki. Loki pursed his mouth, cast his eyeballs to the side, and said:

"I don't have any coronation ceremony. Asgard doesn't have such a thing as a prince at all. You'd better ask when the God King's wedding is planned to be held?"

Thor looked at Loki's expression and said nothing, but subsequently, looked at Shiler again and said: "You'd better not be wanting to turn my wedding into a distribution site for member gifts..."

Shiler showed a smile and shook his head. Peter looked around at them and said: "If a ball is really held, who do you plan to find as your dance partner?"

Just as this question was finished, Venom immediately grinned and roared at Eddie: "Your first reaction just now was actually not me?! You're finished!!!"

"Hey, don't be like this. Although my ex-girlfriend is already married, I can always find another girlfriend, right?" Eddie spread his hands and said: "Instead of living with you, this parasite..."

"Apologize! Apologize quickly!!!"

"I should come with Sif." Thor peeled off a candy wrapper and said: "She hasn't been to Earth much. When she came to find me last time, she said she liked Earth's music. Perhaps, at Christmas, I should give her a music box..."

"Pepper probably won't have time to come." Stark shook his head, not noticing the dullness in his tone when he said this sentence: "Obadiah's body is not suitable for work, Howard just came back and doesn't know anything. Now it all depends on Pepper alone to support the entire Stark Group. She doesn't even have time for Christmas."

Thor patted Stark on the shoulder, as if everything was in silence. Loki shook his head and said: "I won't go either. Originally, dancing should be a ritual for you to pray to the gods, but in recent years, the development trend of human dance makes gods have no eyes to look at. I have no interest at all."

"Speedball needs a follow-up visit." Shiler leaned on the sofa and said: "He is different from you guys. He is in the golden period of recovery and can't be without someone watching. So, I'm afraid I won't have any time this Christmas either."

"Captain will definitely be very sad." Peter pursed his lips and said: "He likes everyone gathering together the most. This year, his old friends Bucky and Howard are all back. He should have been very happy."

Stark, who had drunk a few cans of beer, was already a bit drunk. He leaned on the back of the single sofa, looked up at the ceiling, and said vaguely:

"Kid, the world of adults is like this. There are many times of separation and few times of reunion. Being able to chat here for a whole morning like this is already very rare."

Accompanied by Stark's somewhat hoarse voice, the figures in front of the sofa gradually left. Soft orange sunlight plated a layer of gold on the balcony railing with rust.

Standing upstairs and looking down, the flow of people rushed in all directions, leaving only a series of footprints in the snow.

When the figures dispersed, the room became quiet again, leaving only the commercial sound constantly playing on the TV, and the wind of the flying shuttle whistling by, bringing the crisp sound of bells on the pine branches of the Christmas tree.