Chapter 1084: Father and Daughter (13)

Mobius didn't understand Loki's wording; he just looked at her with some worry and asked, "Do you think our Director will come back?"

After speaking, he pursed his lips, lowered his head, and said with a worried expression, "Before he left, he specifically instructed us to keep a close eye on that little girl and demanded that we get the answer he wanted after he returned. But we have already let her go. If the Director comes back and finds her missing, we are dead!"

After speaking, he covered his mouth with his hand, gritted his teeth, and said, "No, perhaps death is already the best result. In a place where time flow can be controlled, all your pain can be extended into eternity..."

Looking at the fearful expression on Mobius's face, Loki sighed and comforted him in a calm and powerful tone:

"Didn't you say he hasn't returned until now?"

"Indeed, in the past, he was always punctual. People with the ability to travel through time cannot afford not to be punctual." Mobius spread his hands and said, "Even if he was trapped, he could return to the past by backtracking time to escape. But this time, he is really late, which means there might be some things that made him not want to come back, or it might be that he can't come back, but the latter possibility is too small."

Loki shook her head, expressing a different view from him. She said: "You said it yourself, he can travel through timelines. Even if some things delayed his return, he could completely backtrack time to avoid trouble and arrive on time. For someone with the ability to travel through time and universes, being late can only be forced."

"Although I cannot tell you the truth, or rather, I don't know the whole truth either, some things have indeed happened in our universe. Not to mention you or your Director, even those great existences we cannot understand have difficulty traveling freely as before."

Mobius suddenly widened his eyes, staring at Loki, and asked full of hope: "So, the Director definitely won't be able to come back?"

"I can only say there is a high probability of that." Loki nodded, but then still said: "However, no one can guarantee anything to you. If your Director is as powerful as you say, then perhaps he will be able to return one day."

Mobius's complexion hadn't been very good from beginning to end. Obviously, during this period, everyone involved in this case had faced great pressure. Loki also saw this point and thought this might be a breakthrough in the conversation.

"I have answered your question, so shouldn't you also answer my confusion?" Loki said.

"Ask away..." Mobius seemed distracted.

"Regarding the other female Loki, that is, the little girl you let go... what is so special about her? What does your Director want to know from her?"

Mobius's expression stiffened. He glanced at Loki's expression and didn't see any other emotions in her demeanor, only faint confusion.

Thinking that he had already told her so much, there was no point in continuing to hide it. So, Mobius said: "Actually, he demanded that we torture that little girl, but he didn't tell us at all what he wanted to ask."

Seeing Loki's even more confused expression, Mobius sighed and said: "This is exactly the reason we didn't want to do it. It seems he just wanted to torture that little girl, not really wanting to get any important information from her. This is completely meaningless."

"However..." Mobius hesitated and said: "Before the Director left, Ravonna was the most valued by him and was considered a relatively high-ranking civil servant. She heard some rumors, but they were all hearsay and might not be true..."

"You can say it. What if there are some clues you didn't notice?" Loki encouraged Mobius to speak. Then, she tapped the table lightly with her fingertips and said: "You have to know, this matter must be solved. Either the Director comes back to solve you, or you solve the Director..."

"The Director you speak of is so powerful, but perhaps not without weaknesses. He values this little girl so much, maybe the key lies in her."

Mobius covered his face with both hands and said: "We are already mortal enemies with the Director. If he knows what we did, he won't let us go. Fine..."

"According to Ravonna, once, when the Director left our universe on a business trip, he received a prophecy. The general content was that a special female existence in our universe broke 'a wall'."

"... Ah???" Loki uttered a short syllable with some confusion. She didn't quite understand the whole thing Mobius said. Mobius himself also shook his head and said: "I also don't quite understand. But later, Ravonna and I speculated that the Director wanted to obtain this ability."

"'A wall', what is it?" Loki asked again.

"No one knows. But when the Director was drunk, he occasionally shouted a few times, roughly saying that we are all fake, everything is fake. No matter how many universes he rules or how great a leader he becomes, it's all fake. He wants to find reality and conquer reality, but he doesn't know where reality is..."

"Perhaps he feels that the barrier between fake and reality is called 'a wall', and he wants to find this person who can break the barrier, obtain this ability from her, and conquer reality."

"He thinks this person is that little girl?" Loki leaned forward slightly and asked.

Mobius nodded lightly and said thoughtfully: "That little girl is quite special. Oh, of course, before you came, she was considered special because among so many universes, only she was a female Loki."

Loki recalled and found it was indeed the case. In the scenes she saw when she ascended above the universe, among the countless stories related to her, the only one who could truly be called a female Loki seemed to be only one.

Of course, she turned into a female Loki only in the last few years and could only be considered a late bloomer. When this little girl was arrested, she should still have been a male, so at that time, only this little girl Loki was a female.

"Reality, fake, 'a wall'..." Loki muttered these words while narrowing her eyes. She felt she seemed to know something, but she couldn't grasp the key.

"But in fact, we haven't seen that little girl use any ability beyond Loki's." Mobius sighed lightly and said: "Actually, we all think that the so-called 'a wall' and the person who can break it are just drunken dreams of the Director."

"He caught the little Loki back, not for any ethereal ability, but maybe just to satisfy his own evil hobbies. That's why we united to betray him."

"After all, he can do such insane things. Who knows if the next unlucky one will be us?" Mobius seemed somewhat resentful and said: "We work for the Time Variance Authority, that's true, and we do firmly believe that we are maintaining the stability of the universe."

"If a time criminal really endangers the universe, then no matter how old he is or how cute he is, we will definitely judge him."

"But that little girl was completely innocent. She didn't commit a crime or make a mistake, yet she was taken away from her parents, never to be reunited with them, and even had to suffer terrible nightmares. This is simply... simply..."

Mobius searched his brain for a long time but couldn't find an adjective. Finally, he just muttered: "If such a tragedy really happened before my eyes, it would be better to kill me..."

"You are a kind person." Loki said: "You all are."

"Thank you..." Mobius seemed uninterested and said: "You are the first Loki to praise me. In the past, those Asgardian princes who came here wanted to swallow me alive..."

"However, this isn't really kindness, it's just my instinct that this kind of thing is simply too outrageous. She is still so young..."

Mobius sat there, looking somewhat frustrated. He shook his head and said: "Your daughter is the same. You guys should stay out of this disappearance. I don't want to see a tragedy happen again."

"I've already planned to go and persuade Ravonna to let you finish your 20 days of detention and leave quickly. No matter what, children are innocent. If the Director comes back, you won't be able to leave."

"Don't look at Ravonna acting very serious, but she is actually soft-hearted. If B-15 and I persuade her together, she might just let you go for the sake of the child. Why do you have to get involved?"

Seeing Loki's unchanging expression, Mobius sighed and continued:

"Perhaps you think we saved a little girl, but you don't know how many Lokis have been executed here."

"Not just Lokis. During the days the Director was here, many time criminals whose crimes weren't that heavy but who didn't cooperate with the investigation were also executed."

"But at that time, you guys had no choice, right?" Loki looked at him and said: "All the sins of death are on the Director's head, and your one thought of kindness at least saved one person."

Mobius lowered his head, sighed deeply, and said: "Perhaps, you already discovered when you came in that we never intended to continue living."

"We all know that the Director will return one day. When that time comes, what awaits us is something more terrible than death. We had already prepared that once we discovered the Director had returned, we would immediately blow everything up here, including ourselves..."

"But do you really want to die?" ===== CHAPTER 1085 =====

"But, do you really want to die?"